Your Preshift

Ryan Bond

Showing up human and leading with heart. Leadership is tough—especially on the frontlines of restaurants, retail, and fast-paced industries where the pressure is high, and the stakes are real. Your Preshift is your five to ten minute boost of insight, encouragement, and challenge to help you show up as a more human, more intentional leader. Whether you’re managing a team or leading yourself, this podcast equips you with actionable ideas to lead in truly human way. Tune in, open your heart, and lead better—one shift at a time.

  1. 1 NGÀY TRƯỚC

    Rewind: Why We Still Reach for the Wrench

    We're rewinding a classic for the AI era: In this kickoff to the Lead Like a Gardener series, we explore why so many leaders default to pressure, control, and quick fixes, especially in fast-paced environments. Drawing on the contrast between mechanic-style leadership and gardener-style leadership, this episode unpacks how true growth doesn’t come from tightening bolts, but from tending to the soil people grow in. If you’ve ever felt like you're the only one driving results, or like you’re stuck being the fixer instead of the leader, this conversation is for you. Because even in an AI-first world, you still get to choose how you lead.

    14 phút

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    Leading Work You've Never Done - AI Series

    "I lead you because I’ve done your job." For decades, this has been the ultimate safety net for frontline leaders. But in the era of AI, that safety net is disappearing. In this episode, Ryan explores a massive shift in leadership identity where functional authority is no longer the leadership currency. Drawing on insights from a recent LinkedIn discussion with leaders like Tonya Witherspoon and Alex Formey, Ryan investigates what happens when we start managing digital "interns" and overseeing complex workflows we have never personally executed which makes the "what" and "how" less important than the "why" and "who".

    13 phút

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    The AI Great Divide: Are You a Creator or a Symptom-Solver

    In the age of AI, Ryan argues that frontline leadership is splitting into two distinct classes. On one side is the Receiver, the leader who treats new tech as a set of instructions to follow, often using AI to solve symptoms while ignoring the real problems. On the other is the Creator, who uses the tools in their pocket to hunt down root causes and redesign the system itself. In this episode, Ryan's differentiates each type of leader and dives into why nearly 45% of AI initiatives fail due to frontline exclusion and how you can take the reins of your own leadership. We’ll discuss how to stop waiting for corporate permission and start using the organization in your pocket to move from merely managing the business to leading it. Reference Links New Study from PwC, MI Finds Frontline Leaders Play a Key Role in Manufacturing AI AdoptionOrganizational Learning - Single and Double Loop

    15 phút

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    AI and Frontline Leadership - Series Kickoff - From Doer to Director

    Ryan kicks off a new series on AI and frontline leadership, starting from a place a lot of people can relate to, he was late to take it seriously. What once felt like fantasy is now showing up in real ways across everyday work. In this episode, he breaks down what AI actually is, how it’s shifting from a tool to something that can act alongside you, and why that changes what it means to be valuable at work. The focus is on a simple but uncomfortable shift, moving from being the one who gets the work done to the one who leads how the work gets done. It’s a practical starting point for frontline leaders trying to stay human and relevant as everything around them starts to change.

    13 phút

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    Why Your Best People Are Getting Average Results

    Why do talented leaders end up with average results? This episode looks at how systems, not people, usually cause the slide, rigid rules, busy work that doesn’t use your brain, and losing your say in how things run. It also gets into the shift happening right now with technology, where holding onto the old work can actually keep you stuck. The challenge is simple: step out of the “machine work” and get back to the part of leadership only a human can do.

    15 phút

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    Hitting the number, missing the work

    A seasoned restaurant leader shares a story from early in his career, when the pressure to hit numbers led him to game the system, not out of defiance, but because he didn’t actually understand what he was being asked to do. This episode unpacks how easily leaders can fall into the same trap, asking for results without creating understanding. When numbers become the focus, behavior starts bending to protect the metric instead of improving the work. Teams work harder, but not always better. Short-term fixes start to chip away at long-term performance. Drawing on ideas like “line of sight,” systems thinking, and the reality of pressure on the frontline, this episode challenges leaders to slow down and really understand what’s driving their numbers before reacting. The shift is simple, but not easy: stop leading the number, and start leading the work behind it. Because when you help people understand the work, the numbers usually follow.

    14 phút

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    The Number Isn’t the Problem

    In this episode of Your Preshift, Ryan challenges a common leadership habit, chasing numbers as if they’re the problem. Using the metaphor of trying to hold an inner tube underwater, he shows why pushing metrics only creates new issues somewhere else. The real shift is learning to see numbers as signals and symptoms, not causes. Every metric is the result of human behavior shaped by the environment leaders create. Through simple root cause thinking and the “5 Whys,” this episode helps leaders move from reacting to numbers to understanding what’s actually driving them, so they can lead behavior instead of chasing outcomes.

    13 phút

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    Better for Your Time Here

    In this Preshift, we talk about a simple question for every leader and organization: are people actually better off for having worked with you? This one is also a small tribute to Bob Chapman, whose work in Everybody Matters shaped how many of us think about leadership and human dignity at work. Bob believed the way we lead impacts the way people live, and that shows up most clearly in the day-to-day moments between a frontline leader and their team. We get into what that looks like in real life. Not in big ideas, but in everyday leadership choices: how you train someone on their first shift, whether you take time to listen, whether people feel like they belong or like they’re just filling a spot. The episode closes with a simple reflection, imagine your 85th birthday and all the people you’ve led over the years showing up. What would you hope they say about working with you? That answer is being shaped right now, one shift at a time.

    14 phút
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Showing up human and leading with heart. Leadership is tough—especially on the frontlines of restaurants, retail, and fast-paced industries where the pressure is high, and the stakes are real. Your Preshift is your five to ten minute boost of insight, encouragement, and challenge to help you show up as a more human, more intentional leader. Whether you’re managing a team or leading yourself, this podcast equips you with actionable ideas to lead in truly human way. Tune in, open your heart, and lead better—one shift at a time.

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  • Nhà sáng tạo
    Ryan Bond
  • Năm hoạt động
    2025 - 2026
  • Tập
    61
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    Sạch
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    © Copyright 2026 Ryan Bond
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