Off the Rak
Off the Rak
Podcast Description
Walt Rakowich's passion to help shape a generation of leaders who lead with honesty, humility and heart inspired him to launch Off the Rak: Conversations on Transformative Leadership. Featuring rich and raw conversations with notable leaders across different industries, Off the Rak inspires curious leaders to embrace challenges, seize opportunities and become positive influences in their world.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers themes related to leadership, purpose, and personal development. Specific topics include the significance of gratitude in leadership, the intersection of purpose and passion, and interviews with industry leaders who provide actionable insights. For example, past episodes include discussions with best-selling authors and former CEOs who share their experiences and philosophies on leading effectively in today's world.
Walt Rakowich’s passion to help shape a generation of leaders who lead with honesty, humility and heart inspired him to launch Off the Rak: Conversations on Transformative Leadership. Featuring rich and raw conversations with notable leaders across different industries, Off the Rak inspires curious leaders to embrace challenges, seize opportunities and become positive influences in their world.
About 60 – 80,000 thoughts go through a leader's mind each day — how do you break through the noise to what really matters? Keynote speaker, executive coach, and best-selling author Brad Deutser has tackled this question by bridging culture and performance. When we bring our best selves to work, we do our best work, and leaders who create workplaces with organizational clarity and the security of belonging can deliver results. Tune in as Brad returns to Off the Rak to share his frameworks for prioritizing human-centered leadership and disrupting the chaos.
About the Guest
Brad Deutser is the founder and CEO of Deutser, a speaker, executive coach, and the bestselling author Belonging Rules and Leading Clarity. Brad’s clients and coaching take him to amazing places – in athletics, aviation, education, entertainment, energy, finance, healthcare, non-profit – with incredibly thoughtful leaders around the world. He takes on the most high-level challenges forging through them with creativity and grace to design and bring to life the most original solutions. Brad has been called on to define and transition the culture at the NFL’s Houston Texans as well as supporting the transformation of the University of Arizona football program, while serving as a leadership and performance coach to the players as well as executives across the world. He serves as the architect of the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at University of Houston, the three-time recognized #1 entrepreneurial program in the US. The University of Texas selected his approach to navigate complex social and cultural issues. And countless leaders have brought the Deutser team in to navigate generational transitions and conflicts within families and complex companies, to facilitate cultural integration post-merger/acquisition, and to support the health, wellbeing and safety of tens of thousands of employees across too many businesses to name.
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