S5:E150🎙️ Live with Shakita Trigg

S5:E151 🎙️ LIVE with CDR Arthur Billingsley, USN (Ret.)

S5:E151🎙️ LIVE with CDR Arthur Billingsley, USN (Ret.) Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ | Season 5, Episode 152 Truth, Technology, and Leadership: Making Better Decisions in an Age of Complexity Some leaders build technology. Some leaders build organizations. Some leaders build people. Commander Arthur Billingsley, USN (Ret.) has spent a lifetime doing all three. Join me for an inspiring conversation with Arthur Billingsley—retired U.S. Navy Commander, engineer, executive, educator, entrepreneur, pilot, author, and Founder & President of COGNOSCERE LLC. With more than 35 years of leadership spanning military service, defense acquisition, enterprise technology, AI governance, and higher education, Arthur is helping shape how leaders make better decisions in an increasingly complex world. Together, we’ll explore the intersection of leadership, artificial intelligence, history, and decision-making—and why truth, critical thinking, and integrity remain indispensable in the age of AI. 📅 Mark Your Calendars! Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ Season 5 | Episode 152 🎙️ LIVE with CDR Arthur Billingsley, USN (Ret.) 📅 Friday, July 10, 2026 ⏰ 12:00 PM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 3:00 PM ET (Jacksonville, FL) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion] ⸻ 💡 What You Will Learn ✅ Leadership lessons from a distinguished Navy Commander, technology executive, and educator ✅ Why better leadership begins with better decision-making ✅ How AI is transforming leadership—and why human judgment still matters ✅ The importance of Decision Stewardship and explainable AI in today’s organizations ✅ Leadership insights from Arthur’s books: * American Myths, American Realities: From Reckoning to Reconstruction * Letter To My Children: The Journey Prism Manual ✅ Why understanding history helps leaders navigate today’s most complex challenges ✅ How leaders can pursue truth with courage, humility, and integrity—even when conversations become uncomfortable ✅ Practical advice for military officers, cybersecurity professionals, engineers, and emerging leaders preparing to lead in an AI-powered future ⸻ 📚 About My Guest Arthur Billingsley is a retired U.S. Navy Commander, former Engineering Duty Officer, technology executive, professor, FAA-certified pilot, author, and founder of COGNOSCERE LLC. Throughout his remarkable career, he has led major Department of Defense technology initiatives, taught engineering and computer science, advised executive leaders, and developed innovative frameworks for AI governance, decision intelligence, and strategic leadership. His work challenges leaders to think beyond technology—and focus on building organizations capable of making trustworthy, explainable, and mission-driven decisions. ⸻ 💬 Join the Conversation! 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country in the comments! 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? 💬 Have a leadership, AI, history, or cybersecurity question for Arthur? Post it below—we’ll answer as many as we can LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn ➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode? ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week? ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, cybersecurity professional, or teammate who would benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾 #Leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #Podcast #USNavy #Veterans #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Cybersecurity #DecisionIntelligence #DecisionStewardship #InformationWarfare #MilitaryLeadership #EmergingLeaders #ProfessionalDevelopment #History #NationalSecurity #CriticalThinking #ArthurBillingsley #COGNOSCERE #TruthTechnologyLeadership

S5:E150🎙️ Live with Shakita Trigg

S5:E150🎙️ Live with Shakita Trigg 🚀 Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ | Season 5, Episode 150 🎙️ LIVE From Fortune 100 to AI Leadership: Building Intelligent Infrastructure That Scales I’m excited to welcome Shakita Trigg to the Leadership & Success Podcast! Shakita has spent more than two decades leading technology transformation inside some of the world’s most respected companies—including UPS, FedEx, and Amazon—where she managed $2.3 billion in technology operations across 34 countries, led a $1.4 billion acquisition integration, and built systems that generated measurable business impact. Today, as Founder & CEO of Aligned Strategy Partners, she helps organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution by building AI-ready organizations with governance, clarity, and intelligent infrastructure. She is also the #1 Amazon bestselling author of Mindvelocity: The Mind Behind the Millions, The Brain Behind the Billions and a contributing author to AI in the Field: The Builders Blueprint, where she introduces her powerful concept of the Strategy-to-Execution Gap and explains why AI doesn’t replace leaders—it exposes them. Whether you’re leading Sailors, cybersecurity teams, startups, or Fortune 500 organizations, this conversation will challenge how you think about leadership in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Mark your calendars: Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ S5:E150 🎙️ Live with Shakita Trigg 📅 Date: Friday, July 10, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10:30 AM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 12:30 PM CT (Nashville, TN) | 1:30 PM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion] 💡 What You Will Learn ✅ Why strategy must come before software in every successful AI initiative ✅ How to close the strategy-to-execution gap that quietly costs organizations time, money, and momentum ✅ The Mindvelocity™ Framework: See It. Score It. Scale It. Sustain It. ✅ Why “Don’t Automate Pretty Garbage” is more than a memorable phrase—it’s a leadership philosophy ✅ How AI is reshaping leadership, governance, and decision-making across every industry ✅ Lessons learned from leading technology transformations at UPS, FedEx, and Amazon ✅ How small and mid-sized businesses can apply Fortune 100 operational discipline to scale with confidence ✅ Why the future belongs to leaders who build intelligent infrastructure, not just adopt AI tools 💬 Join the Conversation! 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country in the comments! 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? 💬 Have a leadership, AI, cybersecurity, or career question for Shakita or me? Post it below—we’ll answer as many as we can LIVE during the show! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn: ➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode? ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week? ➡️ Tag a colleague, entrepreneur, junior officer, cybersecurity professional, or teammate who would benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾 #Leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DigitalTransformation #BusinessStrategy #Innovation #Cybersecurity #ExecutiveLeadership #WomenInTech #WomenInLeadership #Entrepreneurship #Fortune100 #Mindvelocity #RoadmapIQ #LeadershipAndSuccessPodcast #CoachBZ #MilitaryLeadership #InformationWarfare #LifelongLearning

S5E149🎙️ LIVE with Elisabeth Hendrickson

S5E149🎙️ LIVE with Elisabeth Hendrickson Leadership & Success with Coach BZ | Season 5, Episode 149 Building Better Systems, Better Teams, and Better Leaders 📅 Thursday, July 9, 2026 ⏰ 10:00 AM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 1:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion I’m excited to welcome Elisabeth Hendrickson to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ! Elisabeth is a technology executive, engineering leader, author, speaker, and founder of Curious Duck Digital Laboratory. With more than 30 years of experience in software engineering, quality, and organizational leadership, she has served as VP of R&D, VP of Engineering, and advisor to technology leaders building high-performing teams and sustainable engineering cultures. Many in the technology community know Elisabeth as the author of the influential Explore It!, a landmark book on exploratory testing that continues to shape how software professionals think about quality and risk. She is also the co-author of the upcoming book Signals & Levers: Systems Thinking Tools to Unblock Software Delivery, which explores how leaders can identify the right signals, improve decision-making, and build organizations that deliver value predictably. Whether you lead sailors, software engineers, cybersecurity teams, or enterprise organizations, Elisabeth’s leadership philosophy reminds us that technology is powered by people—and great systems enable great people to do their best work. 💡 What You Will Learn ✅ Why great leaders focus on systems instead of simply solving symptoms ✅ How to build engineering cultures rooted in trust, learning, and continuous improvement ✅ The difference between measuring activity and measuring meaningful progress ✅ Leadership lessons from Explore It! that apply far beyond software testing ✅ How systems thinking helps executives make better decisions in today’s AI-driven world ✅ Practical ways to improve collaboration, feedback loops, and organizational resilience ✅ Why better systems ultimately create better teams—and better leaders As a cybersecurity executive and Information Warfare Commander in the U.S. Navy, I’m especially excited to explore how Elisabeth’s ideas on systems thinking apply not only to software engineering but also to cybersecurity, military leadership, and mission success. 💬 Join the Conversation! 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country in the comments! 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? 💬 Have a question for Elisabeth? Post your leadership, engineering, quality, AI, or systems-thinking questions below—we’ll answer as many as we can LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn ➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode? ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’ll apply this week? ➡️ Tag a colleague, engineering leader, cybersecurity professional, junior officer, or teammate who would benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾 #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #Leadership #EngineeringLeadership #SystemsThinking #SoftwareEngineering #TechnologyLeadership #Cybersecurity #Agile #DevOps #QualityEngineering #SoftwareTesting #AI #ContinuousImprovement #LeadershipDevelopment #MilitaryLeadership #InformationWarfare #PeopleFirst #CuriousDuck #ExploreIt #SignalsAndLevers

S5:148🎙️ LIVE with Kathryn Chitwood

S5:148🎙️ LIVE with Kathryn Chitwood Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ – Season 5, Episode 148 Building Systems That Heal: Leadership, Innovation, and Making Smiles Happen Mark your calendars! I’m excited to welcome Kathryn Chitwood—systems architect, entrepreneur, and Founder of the Making Smiles Happen Foundation—for what promises to be a fascinating conversation about leadership, innovation, and the courage to challenge the status quo. 📅 Wednesday, July 8, 2026 ⏰ 11:00 AM PT (San Francisco, CA / Usk, WA) | 2:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion Kathryn’s leadership journey is anything but conventional. She began her career as a beauty professional and educator before reinventing herself as a nonprofit founder and systems thinker. Inspired by her family’s personal healthcare experience, she founded the Making Smiles Happen Foundation, an organization exploring innovative ways to connect hospitality, technology, and philanthropy to expand access to life-changing oral healthcare. Her work invites an important leadership question: What if our greatest opportunities aren’t found by working harder within broken systems—but by reimagining the systems themselves? Whether you’re leading sailors, cybersecurity teams, startups, nonprofits, or global enterprises, this conversation will challenge you to think differently about innovation, purpose, and service. 💡 What You Will Learn… ✅ How personal adversity can become the foundation for purpose-driven leadership ✅ Why great leaders solve systems—not just symptoms ✅ The power of systems thinking in solving complex organizational challenges ✅ Lessons learned from building a nonprofit from the ground up ✅ How technology, transparency, and trust can strengthen mission-driven organizations ✅ Leadership principles for turning bold ideas into meaningful action ✅ Why innovation often begins with asking better questions ✅ Practical advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, military leaders, and technology professionals seeking to create lasting impact As a cybersecurity executive and Information Warfare Commander in the U.S. Navy, I’ve learned that leadership isn’t simply about managing today’s operations—it’s about designing better systems for tomorrow. I’m looking forward to exploring Kathryn’s unique perspective on leadership, service, innovation, and building organizations that strive to improve people’s lives. ⸻ 💬 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 leadership or networking questions for Kathryn? Post them below—we’ll answer them LIVE! ⸻ 👇 Your Turn: ➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode? ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week? ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, entrepreneur, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾 #Leadership #LeadershipAndSuccessWithCoachBZ #Podcast #Innovation #SystemsThinking #ServantLeadership #Entrepreneurship #TechnologyForGood #Cybersecurity #MilitaryLeadership #HealthcareInnovation #NonprofitLeadership #MakingSmilesHappen #PurposeDrivenLeadership #WomenInLeadership #Mentorship #InformationWarfare #LeadWithPurpose

S5:E147🎙️🇺🇸 America 250 | America’s Aspirational Creed Renewed

S5:E147🎙️🇺🇸 America 250 | America’s Aspirational Creed Renewed LIVE on Independence Day! Leadership & Success with Coach BZ, Season 5, Episode 147 🇺🇸 America 250 | America’s Aspirational Creed Renewed: Leadership Lessons from the Declaration of Independence As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, how do we honor our nation’s extraordinary achievements while honestly confronting the times we have fallen short of our highest ideals? This special Independence Day episode is based on my latest article: 🔗 “🇺🇸 America 250 | America’s Aspirational Creed Renewed: Leadership Lessons from the Declaration of Independence” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/america-250-americas-aspirational-creed-renewed-from-bob-fabien-bz–p222c/ We’ll explore why true patriotism requires both celebration and truth-telling, and why America’s founding ideals still matter today. 💡 What You Will Learn: ✅ Why the Declaration of Independence remains America’s aspirational creed. ✅ Why July 4 and Juneteenth are complementary chapters of one national story. ✅ Six timeless leadership lessons from America’s founding and ongoing pursuit of a more perfect Union. ✅ Why great leaders tell the truth early and confront uncomfortable realities. ✅ How to separate enduring principles from imperfect messengers. ✅ Why institutions matter more than inspiring rhetoric alone. ✅ The importance of honoring service before consensus catches up. ✅ How leaders can widen the circle of belonging and practice disciplined hope. ✅ What America’s next 250 years demand from each of us as citizens, leaders, and servants. As an immigrant, naturalized American citizen, cybersecurity executive, and U.S. Navy commander, this episode is deeply personal to me. I believe America’s greatness lies not in perfection, but in our capacity for self-correction, renewal, and recommitment to our highest ideals. “Patriotism is not diminished by honesty; it is strengthened by it.” 📅 Date: Saturday, July 4, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5:00 PM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 8:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country in the comments! 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today? 💬 Got a leadership question for Coach BZ? Type it below, and I’ll answer it LIVE during the show! ❤️ Tag someone who would benefit from this conversation on leadership, patriotism, and America’s unfinished work. After the episode, I’d love to hear from you: 👉 What are your three biggest takeaways? 👉 What insights have you learned—or been reminded of—that you will put into practice this week? Let’s celebrate America’s 250th birthday with gratitude, honesty, and renewed resolve to build a more perfect Union. #America250 #July4th #IndependenceDay #Juneteenth #Leadership #ServantLeadership #MilitaryLeadership #CivicLeadership #Democracy #Patriotism #USNavy #HistoryMatters #BlackHistory #FrederickDouglass #MLK #LeadershipAndSuccessWithCoachBZ