In the informative and fascinating podcast Ben Limmer, new Chief Executive Officer at the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART),...
CEO professional development
CEO Nat Ford on Hitting the Ground Running As a New CEO
You’ve got to bring incredible passion to survive and thrive at the 24/7 job of heading a public transportation authority. If you don’t, there’s a...
Leadership Lessons From a Highly Successful CEO
Not long into my first in-depth conversation with Curtis Stitt, I realized that I was in the company of an uncommonly thoughtful CEO who was a...
Six Hats that Extraordinary Transit CEOs Wear
As part of my transit and nonprofit CEO coaching work over the past several years, I’ve developed six “hats” that – in my experience – really...
IEDC President & CEO Jeff Finkle on Learning From Mistakes
The last article posted at this blog, “So Tell Us About Your Failures,” makes the point that all CEOs fail at one time or another, but truly...
Two Extraordinary CEOs Still Traveling the Continuous Leadership Improvement Road
Over the quarter-century I’ve been working with public and nonprofit chief executive officers, I’ve noticed that the ones who...
What’s In Your CEO Professional Growth Portfolio?
The great majority of the public transportation CEOs I’ve worked with over the years have been conscientious self-improvers – devouring articles and...
Extraordinary CEOs Michael Anderson and Christopher Fox Talk About Their Own Professional Development
Don’t trust your approach to learning just because it’s worked for you in the past. Be willing to get out of the familiar, tried and true learning...