{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"General Jay Silveria | Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit","description":"From the U.S. Air Force to higher education, General Jay Silveria\u2019s leadership career has been as wide-ranging as they come. After leading pilots into combat and going viral for the anti-racist speech he made while Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy, Silveria now serves as the Executive Director of Texas A&M University\u2019s Bush School of Government & Public Service. The thread beneath all his experiences is that he\u2019s a true servant leader \u2014 one who invests time in getting to know his people as a mission imperative. He and Maril discuss why innovation starts with leaders, and a \u201cbottom-up\u201d approach to fostering innovation rarely gets the job done; why it\u2019s so critical to de-brief and review not just after things go wrong, but after they succeed as well; and why a leader\u2019s responsibility is to looking ahead, imagining contingencies and planning for what could go wrong. ABOUT LET GO & LEAD Let Go & Lead is a leadership community created by Maril MacDonald, founder and CEO of Gagen MacDonald. Maril brings together provocateurs, pioneers, thought leaders and those leading the conversation around culture, transformation and change. Over the course of the past 14 years, Let Go & Lead has existed in many forms, from video interviews to resource guides to its current iteration as a podcast. At its core, it remains a place where people can access a diversity of perspectives on interdisciplinary approaches to leadership. Maril is also working on a book incorporating these insights gathered over the past several years from global leaders and change makers. Maril has interviewed over 140 leaders \u2014 from business to academia and nonprofits to the arts \u2014 through the years. In each conversation, from personal anecdotes to ground-breaking scientific analysis, she has probed the lessons learned in leadership. From these conversations, the Let Go & Lead framework has emerged. It is both a personal and organizational resource that aims to serve the individual leader or leadership at scale. ABOUT GAGEN MACDONALD At Gagen MacDonald, we are dedicated to helping organizations navigate the human struggle of change. We are a people-focused consulting firm and our passion is improving the employee experience \u2014 for everyone. For more than 25 years, we have been working with companies to create clarity from chaos by uniting employees across all levels around a single vision so they can achieve results and realize their future. We have been a pioneer in bringing humanity to strategy execution, leading in areas such as organizational communication, culture, leadership, and employee engagement. Our Vision is to lift all humanity by transforming the companies that transform the world. \u202f  Full episodes also available on:\u202f \u202f\u202f Apple Podcasts:\u202fhttps:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/let-go-lead-with-maril-macdonald\/id1454869525\u202f \u202f\u202f Spotify:\u202fhttps:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5Gaf7JXOckZMtkpsMtnjAj?si=WZjZkvfLTX2T4eaeB1PO2A\u202f \u202f \u2014\u202f \u202f Gagen MacDonald is a woman-owned, human-focused transformation consulting firm and trusted partner to the C-suite. We specialize in internal communications, employee engagement, culture change and leadership development. Learn more at\u202fhttp:\/\/www.gagenmacdonald.com. ","author_name":"Let Go & Lead with Maril MacDonald","author_url":"https:\/\/www.letgoandlead.com","html":"