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Twice a month Dave Freund, MACNY’s Chief Leadership Officer brings you interviews with leaders from Central New York and across the country. Once a month Dave will be joined by Marisa Norcross MACNY’s Chief Operating Officer to discuss Life, Learning & Leadership.
Episodes

Feb 28, 2018
Feb 28, 2018
25 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “From Success To Significance.”
In this week’s email, David completes his thoughts on John Maxwell’s Five Levels of Leadership with Level 5, The Pinnacle. David shared that Pinnacle leaders understand the highest goal of leadership is to develop leaders, not gain followers. In this podcast, Marisa and David discuss tips for a Level 5 Leader. They took this opportunity also to discuss perhaps the greatest coach that ever lived, John Wooden. A true Level 5 leader.
Here is a link to John Maxwell’s The Five Levels of leadership https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004QZ9P7O&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_3JrCAbWVYPE2X
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’s weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Feb 21, 2018
Feb 21, 2018
24 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “Breaking Free to Greater Success.”
In this week’s email, David continued his thoughts on John Maxwell’s Five Levels of Leadership and introduced us to "Level 4, People Development". David shared that People Development is the only way to sustain growth in our organizations. In this podcast, Marisa and David discuss tips for a Level 4 Leader and what we need to do to grow through level 4 and into level 5.
Here is a link to John Maxwell’s The Five Levels of leadership https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004QZ9P7O&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_3JrCAbWVYPE2X
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’s weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018
25 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “Hitting Your Stride.”
In this week’s email, David referenced Peter Drucker quote “There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they don’t.“ As a level 3 leader we have hit our stride and begun to produce results. In this podcast Marisa and David discuss what we need to do to grow through level 3 and into level 4.
Here is a link to John Maxwell’s The Five Levels of leadership https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004QZ9P7O&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_3JrCAbWVYPE2X
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’s weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Feb 7, 2018
Feb 7, 2018
27 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “Listen, Observe and Prepare for What’s Next.”
In this week’s email, David continues with his thoughts on John Maxwell’s the Five Levels of Leadership. In the podcast, Marisa and David discuss the second level of leadership, Permission. They discuss the upside and downsides of permission leadership. David also shares tips on moving up to level 3, Production. This podcast is the second of a five-part series.
Here is a link to John Maxwell’s The Five Levels of leadership https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004QZ9P7O&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_3JrCAbWVYPE2X
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’s weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Jan 31, 2018
Jan 31, 2018
29 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “Take Your Leadership to the Next Level.”
In this week’s email, David introduces us to John Maxwell’s the Five Levels of Leadership. In the podcast, Marisa and David discuss the first level of leadership, Position. They discuss the upside and downsides of positional leadership. David also shares tips on moving up to level 2, Permission. This podcast is the first of a five-part series.
Here is a link to John Maxwell’s The Five Levels of leadership https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?sin=B004QZ9P7O&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_3JrCAbWVYPE2X
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’s weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Jan 24, 2018
Jan 24, 2018
29 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “ The Half-truth of Employee Engagement.”
In this week’s email, David shares his thoughts on what he feels is a half-truth being told about improving employee engagement. In his podcast, Marisa and David discuss they various ways employees and their leaders can use personal growth to drive employee engagement. With less than a third of our employee engaged in their jobs we have a lot of opportunity ahead of us.
In the podcast David referenced Heather and Paul Christie’s Evolve to Win podcast # ET02.
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’s weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Jan 17, 2018
Jan 17, 2018
28 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “When Things Go Wrong.”
In this week’s email, David shared how his plans for the week between Christmas and New Year just didn’t play out as planned. In the week’s podcast Marisa and David review his week and discus how we can deal with life when things go wrong. This is a podcast we all can relate to.
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’s weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018
27 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode, Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “ Start Smarter.”
In this week’s email, David shared a SMARTER way to develop our goals. Building on the SMART goals concept, Marisa and David discuss goals that are Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Risky, Time-Keyed, Exciting and Relevant. Their conversation explains what is meant by 'Risky' and how we can make our goals Exciting. This podcast is a great addition to your 2018 goal setting process.
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’ weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Jan 3, 2018
Jan 3, 2018
24 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “ One More Thing Before We Start.”
In this week’s email, David shared more details about how Frankl understood the meaning and purpose in his life. David and Marisa discuss how we can begin to search for the meaning and purpose in our own life. This is a critical step before we get into setting our goals for 2018.
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’ weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Music courtesy of David Au

Dec 27, 2017
Dec 27, 2017
30 min
Marisa Norcross and David Freund continue their discussions on Leadership and Professional Development.
In this week’s episode. Marisa and David discuss David’s weekly email titled “ Are You Ready”.
In this week’s email, David reminds us that there are only 363 shopping days until Christmas 2018! David also shared three points from a recent training on Intentional Living. 1) Your Life Can Be a Great Story, 2) Why Good Intentions Aren’t Enough, and 3) Start Small, But Believe Big. In this podcast, Marisa and David discuss these three points in detail and remind all of us that our Life Can Be a Great story!
From all of us at the Next Page podcast, Happy New Year!
Contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
Contact David at dfreund@macny.org
Follow David on Twitter @davidmfreund
To sign up for David’s weekly email contact Marisa at mnorcross@macny.org
