Leadership & Success with Coach BZ

Coach BZ (Bob Fabien Zinga)
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Welcome to the Leadership and Success Podcast with your host, Coach “BZ”! Your Blueprint for Leadership Excellence and Lasting Success. ✨If you’re ready to develop into a stronger, more effective leader! ✨If you’re striving to reach new heights of success — this podcast is for you. As my mentor, Dr. John C. Maxwell, says: “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” Each episode is designed to inspire and equip you with practical insights that can positively impact the trajectory of your life and leadership journey. Get ready to grow, lead, and succeed — starting today.

  1. 4d ago ·  Video

    S5:E172 (VIDEO)🎙️LIVE with Ms. Tam Lawrence

    S5:E172🎙️LIVE with Ms. Tam Lawrence Reclaiming the Screen: Leadership, Media Ownership & the Courage to Build 📺📰🎙️🚀 Leadership & Success Podcast, Season 5, Episode 172   Mark your calendars! 📅 Wednesday, August 19, 2026 ⏰ 6:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA ⏰ 8:00 AM CT — Madison, WI ⏰ 9:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C. 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]   I’m excited to welcome Ms. Tam Lawrence to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5: Episode 172 for a conversation about what it means to stop waiting for permission—and start building.   Tam is a publicist, journalist, publisher, brand architect, strategic communications executive, author, broadcaster, entrepreneur, playwright, and civic-media innovator whose career spans more than two decades.   She is the Founder and CEO of PIQSTAR INC., PBC, a Wisconsin Public Benefit Corporation focused on civic-media infrastructure, and the force behind Exposure Plus TV. Her journey has crossed the stage, newsroom, statehouse, public relations, publishing, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and media ownership.   But what makes Tam's story especially compelling to me is the evolution behind those accomplishments: She learned how to tell stories. She helped others tell their stories. She published stories. She built platforms to distribute stories. And now she's working to help communities and journalists own the infrastructure that carries their stories forward. That is leadership. 💯   📚 What You Will Learn… ✨ The Courage to Build: Why leaders must sometimes stop asking, “Where can I find an opportunity?” and start asking, “What can I build?” ✨ Betting on Yourself: What decades of entrepreneurship have taught Tam about reinvention, resilience, asking for help, and moving forward when success is anything but guaranteed. ✨ Turning Pain into Purpose: How adversity can inform leadership, advocacy, service, and purpose without becoming the entirety of your identity. ✨ Reclaiming the Screen: Why Tam believes independent journalists and communities need more than social-media accounts—they need greater ownership of their platforms, audiences, intellectual property, archives, and stories. ✨ The Future of Civic Journalism: How PIQSTAR's vision for branded newsrooms and community-centered journalism could help address local “Media Black Outs” and create new pathways for independent journalists. ✨ Leadership in the AI Era: What happens to trust, authenticity, journalism, and human storytelling as AI transforms how information is produced and distributed. 📚 TWO BOOKS. TWO DECADES OF PR EXPERIENCE. We'll also explore lessons from Tam's two books. 📘 A Strategic Guide for Business Owners in Public Relations Campaigns: The Pouring Out of Two Decades of Experience Public & Media Relations 📕 Mastering the Art of News: Creating Newsworthy Stories for Entrepreneurs: Make Reporters Yearn for an Exclusive   💬 Join the Conversation! ✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments! ✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? ✨ 💬 Got questions about leadership, entrepreneurship, public relations, media ownership, journalism, storytelling, resilience, or building your own platform? Post them below—we'll answer them LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn: ✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode? ✨ ➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week? ✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, entrepreneur, journalist, creator, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾 Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ   #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #TamLawrence

  2. 4d ago

    S5:E172🎙️LIVE with Ms. Tam Lawrence

    S5:E172🎙️LIVE with Ms. Tam Lawrence Reclaiming the Screen: Leadership, Media Ownership & the Courage to Build 📺📰🎙️🚀 Leadership & Success Podcast, Season 5, Episode 172   Mark your calendars! 📅 Wednesday, August 19, 2026 ⏰ 6:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA ⏰ 8:00 AM CT — Madison, WI ⏰ 9:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C. 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]   I’m excited to welcome Ms. Tam Lawrence to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5: Episode 172 for a conversation about what it means to stop waiting for permission—and start building.   Tam is a publicist, journalist, publisher, brand architect, strategic communications executive, author, broadcaster, entrepreneur, playwright, and civic-media innovator whose career spans more than two decades.   She is the Founder and CEO of PIQSTAR INC., PBC, a Wisconsin Public Benefit Corporation focused on civic-media infrastructure, and the force behind Exposure Plus TV. Her journey has crossed the stage, newsroom, statehouse, public relations, publishing, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and media ownership.   But what makes Tam's story especially compelling to me is the evolution behind those accomplishments: She learned how to tell stories. She helped others tell their stories. She published stories. She built platforms to distribute stories. And now she's working to help communities and journalists own the infrastructure that carries their stories forward. That is leadership. 💯   📚 What You Will Learn… ✨ The Courage to Build: Why leaders must sometimes stop asking, “Where can I find an opportunity?” and start asking, “What can I build?” ✨ Betting on Yourself: What decades of entrepreneurship have taught Tam about reinvention, resilience, asking for help, and moving forward when success is anything but guaranteed. ✨ Turning Pain into Purpose: How adversity can inform leadership, advocacy, service, and purpose without becoming the entirety of your identity. ✨ Reclaiming the Screen: Why Tam believes independent journalists and communities need more than social-media accounts—they need greater ownership of their platforms, audiences, intellectual property, archives, and stories. ✨ The Future of Civic Journalism: How PIQSTAR's vision for branded newsrooms and community-centered journalism could help address local “Media Black Outs” and create new pathways for independent journalists. ✨ Leadership in the AI Era: What happens to trust, authenticity, journalism, and human storytelling as AI transforms how information is produced and distributed. 📚 TWO BOOKS. TWO DECADES OF PR EXPERIENCE. We'll also explore lessons from Tam's two books. 📘 A Strategic Guide for Business Owners in Public Relations Campaigns: The Pouring Out of Two Decades of Experience Public & Media Relations 📕 Mastering the Art of News: Creating Newsworthy Stories for Entrepreneurs: Make Reporters Yearn for an Exclusive   💬 Join the Conversation! ✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments! ✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? ✨ 💬 Got questions about leadership, entrepreneurship, public relations, media ownership, journalism, storytelling, resilience, or building your own platform? Post them below—we'll answer them LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn: ✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode? ✨ ➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week? ✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, entrepreneur, journalist, creator, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾 Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ   #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #TamLawrence

  3. 5d ago ·  Video

    S5:E171 (VIDEO)🎙️ LIVE with Coach Jen Brown

    S5:E171🎙️ LIVE with Coach Jen Brown Be the Ripple: Lead Yourself, Lead Others & Lead the Mission 🌊✨ From Autopilot to Intentional Leadership: Building Trust, Capacity & a Life of Purpose   Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ 🎙️ Season 5, Episode 171   Mark your calendars! 📅 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 ⏰ 3:00 PM PT — San Francisco, CA ⏰ 6:00 PM ET — Wilmington, NC 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]   🌟 Meet My Guest: Coach Jen Brown What happens when 23 years of American diplomacy, global leadership, crisis management, coaching, faith, and service converge into one powerful leadership philosophy? Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Mission. 🧭   I’m excited to welcome my friend Coach Jen Brown to the Leadership & Success Podcast! Jen is the founder of Journey of Grace Coaching, a leadership coach, speaker, trainer, author, podcast co-host, and former U.S. Foreign Service Officer who spent 23 years serving our nation around the world. 🇺🇸🌎   Her diplomatic career included assignments in Ecuador, Honduras, Venezuela, Turkmenistan, Colombia, and Washington, D.C. She led multicultural teams, managed complex programs, advised senior leaders, and led through real-world crises—including operations following Ecuador’s devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake.   Today, Jen helps leaders move from reactive autopilot to intentional leadership—developing the self-awareness, communication, trust, decision-making, and leadership capacity necessary to build stronger people, teams, and organizations.   She also co-hosts the Ripple Effect Leadership Podcast with retired U.S. Ambassador Hugo F. Rodriguez Jr., exploring a principle at the heart of Tuesday’s conversation: 🌊 Leadership creates ripples. And we’re going deeper.   Jen is the author of Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey and its Companion Journal, which bring together scripture, reflection, coaching, faith, intentionality, and the courage to do the inner work that makes outward leadership possible. Her mantra captures it beautifully: “Live and lead out loud to be the ripple.” 🌊✨     🎯 What You Will Learn… ✨ Why leadership starts with YOU. Before we can effectively lead others or accomplish the mission, we must first learn to lead ourselves. ✨ Why stillness, reflection, faith, grace, and self-awareness aren't separate from leadership—they can help make better leadership possible.   📚 SPECIAL BOOK SEGMENT: Coming Home to Me We’ll also explore Jen’s deeply personal: 📘 Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey and 📓 Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey Companion Journal   💬 Join the Conversation! ✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments! ✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? ✨ 💬 Got a leadership, coaching, transition, or networking question for Jen? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE! ✨ 🌊 Who created a positive ripple in your leadership journey? Tag them and tell us how they influenced you. ⸻ 👇 Your Turn: ✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode? ✨ ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week? ✨ ➡️ Are you leading on autopilot or intentionally right now? ✨ ➡️ What ripple are you creating through the people you lead? ✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, leader, coach, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾   Leadership doesn't stop with us. The way we lead ourselves affects how we lead others. The way we lead others affects how they lead. And those choices ripple outward into our teams, organizations, families, communities, and missions.   🌊 Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Mission. 🌊 BE THE RIPPLE! See you LIVE! 🎙️❤️🙏🏾   #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #JenBrown

  4. 5d ago

    S5:E171🎙️ LIVE with Coach Jen Brown

    S5:E171🎙️ LIVE with Coach Jen Brown Be the Ripple: Lead Yourself, Lead Others & Lead the Mission 🌊✨ From Autopilot to Intentional Leadership: Building Trust, Capacity & a Life of Purpose   Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ 🎙️ Season 5, Episode 171   Mark your calendars! 📅 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 ⏰ 3:00 PM PT — San Francisco, CA ⏰ 6:00 PM ET — Wilmington, NC 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]   🌟 Meet My Guest: Coach Jen Brown What happens when 23 years of American diplomacy, global leadership, crisis management, coaching, faith, and service converge into one powerful leadership philosophy? Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Mission. 🧭   I’m excited to welcome my friend Coach Jen Brown to the Leadership & Success Podcast! Jen is the founder of Journey of Grace Coaching, a leadership coach, speaker, trainer, author, podcast co-host, and former U.S. Foreign Service Officer who spent 23 years serving our nation around the world. 🇺🇸🌎   Her diplomatic career included assignments in Ecuador, Honduras, Venezuela, Turkmenistan, Colombia, and Washington, D.C. She led multicultural teams, managed complex programs, advised senior leaders, and led through real-world crises—including operations following Ecuador’s devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake.   Today, Jen helps leaders move from reactive autopilot to intentional leadership—developing the self-awareness, communication, trust, decision-making, and leadership capacity necessary to build stronger people, teams, and organizations.   She also co-hosts the Ripple Effect Leadership Podcast with retired U.S. Ambassador Hugo F. Rodriguez Jr., exploring a principle at the heart of Tuesday’s conversation: 🌊 Leadership creates ripples. And we’re going deeper.   Jen is the author of Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey and its Companion Journal, which bring together scripture, reflection, coaching, faith, intentionality, and the courage to do the inner work that makes outward leadership possible. Her mantra captures it beautifully: “Live and lead out loud to be the ripple.” 🌊✨     🎯 What You Will Learn… ✨ Why leadership starts with YOU. Before we can effectively lead others or accomplish the mission, we must first learn to lead ourselves. ✨ Why stillness, reflection, faith, grace, and self-awareness aren't separate from leadership—they can help make better leadership possible.   📚 SPECIAL BOOK SEGMENT: Coming Home to Me We’ll also explore Jen’s deeply personal: 📘 Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey and 📓 Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey Companion Journal   💬 Join the Conversation! ✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments! ✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? ✨ 💬 Got a leadership, coaching, transition, or networking question for Jen? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE! ✨ 🌊 Who created a positive ripple in your leadership journey? Tag them and tell us how they influenced you. ⸻ 👇 Your Turn: ✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode? ✨ ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week? ✨ ➡️ Are you leading on autopilot or intentionally right now? ✨ ➡️ What ripple are you creating through the people you lead? ✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, leader, coach, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾   Leadership doesn't stop with us. The way we lead ourselves affects how we lead others. The way we lead others affects how they lead. And those choices ripple outward into our teams, organizations, families, communities, and missions.   🌊 Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Mission. 🌊 BE THE RIPPLE! See you LIVE! 🎙️❤️🙏🏾   #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #JenBrown

  5. 5d ago ·  Video

    S5:E170 (VIDEO)🎙️ LIVE with Kathy Eastwood

    S5:E170🎙️ LIVE with Kathy Eastwood The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance Express. Engage. Execute. ❤️   What separates leaders with good intentions from leaders who consistently create trust, engagement, and high performance? Join me for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, S5:E170 🎙️ LIVE with leadership strategist, executive advisor, keynote speaker, CEO, and bestselling author Kathy Eastwood!   📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026 ⏰ 12:30 PM PT — Silicon Valley / San Francisco, CA ⏰ 3:30 PM ET — Wall Street / New York, NY 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion] 🎙️ The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance — Express, Engage & Execute with Kathy Eastwood   🌟 Meet My Guest Kathy Eastwood has spent decades experiencing leadership from nearly every angle—as an executive, strategist, technologist, Chief of Staff, people leader, entrepreneur, executive advisor, coach, and board member. Her career has included leadership roles across organizations including Ernst & Young, Reuters, Mercury Interactive, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and high-growth companies. Today, as CEO of E Equals Why, Kathy helps executives and organizations strengthen leadership, build trust, improve execution, and create environments where people and performance thrive together. She is also the author of the bestselling book The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance—a practical framework for closing one of leadership's most persistent gaps: The gap between what leaders intend and what their people actually experience. Her message strongly resonates with my own leadership philosophy: ❤️ Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS. Because sustainable results are achieved through our people—not at their expense.   📘 What You Will Learn… Kathy's E3 Leadership Code provides a memorable leadership rhythm: ✨ EXPRESS — Create clarity around vision, purpose, priorities, and the WHY. ✨ ENGAGE — Build trust, connection, shared accountability, and stakeholder buy-in. ✨ EXECUTE — Turn strategy into action through discipline, ownership, rhythm, accountability, and follow-through. ✨ EMOTIONAL QUALITIES — Lead with awareness, authenticity, courage, curiosity, empathy, vulnerability, and humanity.   We'll explore why even experienced leaders can “drift” under pressure, how to recognize when our impact no longer matches our intentions, and why self-awareness becomes even more important when deadlines, uncertainty, and competing priorities intensify. We'll also unpack Kathy's ABCs of Leadership: Awareness, Balance, Connection, Disciplines, Experience, and Followership—and discuss why leadership isn't simply something we know. Leadership is something we practice.   🤖 And we'll look toward the future: As AI and automation make execution faster and increasingly powerful, will distinctly human leadership become even MORE valuable? I believe the answer is YES!   💬 Join the Conversation! 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments! 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? 💬 Got a question about leadership, trust, emotional intelligence, high-performing teams, organizational culture, or the E3 Leadership Code for Kathy? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode? ➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week? ➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, executive, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾   Great leadership isn't simply about getting results. It is about creating the clarity, trust, connection, and discipline that enable people to achieve extraordinary results together. EXPRESS the vision. ENGAGE the people. EXECUTE with discipline. Lead with HEART. ❤️ See you LIVE! 🎙️🔥   #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #KathyEastwood #E3LeadershipCode #Leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveLeadership #HighPerformance

  6. 5d ago

    S5:E170🎙️ LIVE with Kathy Eastwood

    S5:E170🎙️ LIVE with Kathy Eastwood The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance Express. Engage. Execute. ❤️   What separates leaders with good intentions from leaders who consistently create trust, engagement, and high performance? Join me for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, S5:E170 🎙️ LIVE with leadership strategist, executive advisor, keynote speaker, CEO, and bestselling author Kathy Eastwood!   📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026 ⏰ 12:30 PM PT — Silicon Valley / San Francisco, CA ⏰ 3:30 PM ET — Wall Street / New York, NY 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion] 🎙️ The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance — Express, Engage & Execute with Kathy Eastwood   🌟 Meet My Guest Kathy Eastwood has spent decades experiencing leadership from nearly every angle—as an executive, strategist, technologist, Chief of Staff, people leader, entrepreneur, executive advisor, coach, and board member. Her career has included leadership roles across organizations including Ernst & Young, Reuters, Mercury Interactive, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and high-growth companies. Today, as CEO of E Equals Why, Kathy helps executives and organizations strengthen leadership, build trust, improve execution, and create environments where people and performance thrive together. She is also the author of the bestselling book The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance—a practical framework for closing one of leadership's most persistent gaps: The gap between what leaders intend and what their people actually experience. Her message strongly resonates with my own leadership philosophy: ❤️ Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS. Because sustainable results are achieved through our people—not at their expense.   📘 What You Will Learn… Kathy's E3 Leadership Code provides a memorable leadership rhythm: ✨ EXPRESS — Create clarity around vision, purpose, priorities, and the WHY. ✨ ENGAGE — Build trust, connection, shared accountability, and stakeholder buy-in. ✨ EXECUTE — Turn strategy into action through discipline, ownership, rhythm, accountability, and follow-through. ✨ EMOTIONAL QUALITIES — Lead with awareness, authenticity, courage, curiosity, empathy, vulnerability, and humanity.   We'll explore why even experienced leaders can “drift” under pressure, how to recognize when our impact no longer matches our intentions, and why self-awareness becomes even more important when deadlines, uncertainty, and competing priorities intensify. We'll also unpack Kathy's ABCs of Leadership: Awareness, Balance, Connection, Disciplines, Experience, and Followership—and discuss why leadership isn't simply something we know. Leadership is something we practice.   🤖 And we'll look toward the future: As AI and automation make execution faster and increasingly powerful, will distinctly human leadership become even MORE valuable? I believe the answer is YES!   💬 Join the Conversation! 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments! 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? 💬 Got a question about leadership, trust, emotional intelligence, high-performing teams, organizational culture, or the E3 Leadership Code for Kathy? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode? ➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week? ➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, executive, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾   Great leadership isn't simply about getting results. It is about creating the clarity, trust, connection, and discipline that enable people to achieve extraordinary results together. EXPRESS the vision. ENGAGE the people. EXECUTE with discipline. Lead with HEART. ❤️ See you LIVE! 🎙️🔥   #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #KathyEastwood #E3LeadershipCode #Leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveLeadership #HighPerformance

  7. 5d ago ·  Video

    S5:E169 (VIDEO)🎙️ LIVE with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC 🇺🇸🦅⚔️

    S5:E169🎙️ LIVE with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC 🇺🇸🦅⚔️ Ethics Wins Wars: Leadership, Trust & Adaptation in the Information Age   What happens to our values when everything becomes hard? And what if ethics isn't simply about doing the right thing—but is actually a source of trust, speed, cohesion, and operational effectiveness?   Join me for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ for a fascinating conversation with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC—Marine officer, combat veteran, commander, strategist, educator, author, and leading advocate for treating ethics as an essential component of warfighting.   📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026 ⏰ 8:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA ⏰ 11:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C. 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]   🌟 Meet My Guest Colonel Katolin has served our nation for more than two decades, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and leadership assignments spanning communications, cyber, information operations, education, planning, and command. He commanded Marine Wing Communications Squadron 28, where his Marines developed the Marine Corps' first Information Maneuver SOP. He also helped initiate and co-author MCDP 8, Information, and his career has taken him from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines to the Deputy Commandant for Information, MARFORCYBER, Marine Corps Information Command, and back to the 1st Marine Division.   Dennis is also a third-degree black belt instructor trainer in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program and an accomplished scholar. He holds a PhD from Virginia Tech and graduate degrees from the National War College, Marine Corps University, and National University.   His newest book, Strategic Culture, Military Adaptation, and the Information Environment: A Comparative Study, examines how the United States, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom have adapted to an information environment increasingly blurring the boundaries among military operations, political authority, technology, and society.   But perhaps his most provocative argument is captured in three words: ETHICS WINS WARS. Dennis argues that ethics isn't separate from combat effectiveness. Ethics → Reliability → Trust → Cooperation → Cohesion → Combat Power. When trust increases, friction decreases. Leaders can delegate. Teams can exercise initiative. Decisions accelerate. Organizations become more resilient. That principle applies on the battlefield—and in the boardroom.   🎯 What You Will Learn ✨ Why ethics can be an operational advantage, not merely a constraint on behavior. ✨ How trust and cohesion create speed and enable decentralized leadership. ✨ What Dennis calls “moral culmination”—and why leaders should prepare people for physical, mental, AND moral pressure. ✨ Why America's military needs more than values statements and ethics classes—and Dennis's case for an actual ethics doctrine. ✨ What combat in Iraq and Afghanistan taught him about leadership, character, loss, and moral preparation. ✨ Why human judgment, character, trust, and ethical leadership may become even MORE important in the age of artificial intelligence.   💬 Join the Conversation! 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments! 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? 💬 Got a question about leadership, ethics, trust, AI, strategic culture, information warfare, or the future of conflict for COL Katolin? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn: ✨ What are your three takeaways from this episode? ✨ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week? ✨ Does your organization have an ethical decision-making framework—or simply a values statement on the wall? ✨ Tag a colleague, junior officer, emerging leader, veteran, cybersecurity professional, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾   Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS.   #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #EthicsWinsWars

  8. 5d ago

    S5:E169🎙️ LIVE with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC 🇺🇸🦅⚔️

    S5:E169🎙️ LIVE with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC 🇺🇸🦅⚔️ Ethics Wins Wars: Leadership, Trust & Adaptation in the Information Age   What happens to our values when everything becomes hard? And what if ethics isn't simply about doing the right thing—but is actually a source of trust, speed, cohesion, and operational effectiveness?   Join me for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ for a fascinating conversation with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC—Marine officer, combat veteran, commander, strategist, educator, author, and leading advocate for treating ethics as an essential component of warfighting.   📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026 ⏰ 8:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA ⏰ 11:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C. 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]   🌟 Meet My Guest Colonel Katolin has served our nation for more than two decades, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and leadership assignments spanning communications, cyber, information operations, education, planning, and command. He commanded Marine Wing Communications Squadron 28, where his Marines developed the Marine Corps' first Information Maneuver SOP. He also helped initiate and co-author MCDP 8, Information, and his career has taken him from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines to the Deputy Commandant for Information, MARFORCYBER, Marine Corps Information Command, and back to the 1st Marine Division.   Dennis is also a third-degree black belt instructor trainer in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program and an accomplished scholar. He holds a PhD from Virginia Tech and graduate degrees from the National War College, Marine Corps University, and National University.   His newest book, Strategic Culture, Military Adaptation, and the Information Environment: A Comparative Study, examines how the United States, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom have adapted to an information environment increasingly blurring the boundaries among military operations, political authority, technology, and society.   But perhaps his most provocative argument is captured in three words: ETHICS WINS WARS. Dennis argues that ethics isn't separate from combat effectiveness. Ethics → Reliability → Trust → Cooperation → Cohesion → Combat Power. When trust increases, friction decreases. Leaders can delegate. Teams can exercise initiative. Decisions accelerate. Organizations become more resilient. That principle applies on the battlefield—and in the boardroom.   🎯 What You Will Learn ✨ Why ethics can be an operational advantage, not merely a constraint on behavior. ✨ How trust and cohesion create speed and enable decentralized leadership. ✨ What Dennis calls “moral culmination”—and why leaders should prepare people for physical, mental, AND moral pressure. ✨ Why America's military needs more than values statements and ethics classes—and Dennis's case for an actual ethics doctrine. ✨ What combat in Iraq and Afghanistan taught him about leadership, character, loss, and moral preparation. ✨ Why human judgment, character, trust, and ethical leadership may become even MORE important in the age of artificial intelligence.   💬 Join the Conversation! 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments! 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? 💬 Got a question about leadership, ethics, trust, AI, strategic culture, information warfare, or the future of conflict for COL Katolin? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn: ✨ What are your three takeaways from this episode? ✨ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week? ✨ Does your organization have an ethical decision-making framework—or simply a values statement on the wall? ✨ Tag a colleague, junior officer, emerging leader, veteran, cybersecurity professional, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾   Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS.   #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #EthicsWinsWars

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Welcome to the Leadership and Success Podcast with your host, Coach “BZ”! Your Blueprint for Leadership Excellence and Lasting Success. ✨If you’re ready to develop into a stronger, more effective leader! ✨If you’re striving to reach new heights of success — this podcast is for you. As my mentor, Dr. John C. Maxwell, says: “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” Each episode is designed to inspire and equip you with practical insights that can positively impact the trajectory of your life and leadership journey. Get ready to grow, lead, and succeed — starting today.

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    Coach BZ (Bob Fabien Zinga)
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    2021 - 2026
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