Leading Through Connection
Leading Through Connection
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Discover the art of leadership through authentic human connection. Each episode unpacks powerful strategies for building trust, fostering psychological safety, and inspiring teams through empathy and emotional intelligence. Join us as we explore how today's most effective leaders create meaningful relationships that drive both personal growth and organizational success. Leadership isn't just about decisions and direction—it's about the connections we create along the way.
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Explores key leadership topics such as emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and team dynamics, with specific episodes highlighting strategies for managing time, building trust, and authentic storytelling in business.
Discover the art of leadership through authentic human connection. Each episode unpacks powerful strategies for building trust, fostering psychological safety, and inspiring teams through empathy and emotional intelligence. Join us as we explore how today’s most effective leaders create meaningful relationships that drive both personal growth and organizational success. Leadership isn’t just about decisions and direction—it’s about the connections we create along the way.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with James Davies about how to evolve your style when your team, culture, or market changes.
James Davies is the Chief Executive Officer of Kinetic Data, a Minneapolis-based software company focused on empowering organizations to deliver unified digital experiences across complex technology ecosystems. With over a decade at Kinetic, James has helped evolve the company from its workflow roots into a leader in digital experience platforms serving both enterprise and government sectors. Before assuming the CEO role, James served in multiple operational and leadership capacities, shaping the company’s growth strategy, culture, and partner ecosystem. Under his leadership, Kinetic Data reorganized around four key pillars—Growth, Product, Success, and Operations—creating an agile, scalable structure designed to drive collaboration and efficiency. James is known for his transparent and people-first leadership style, often communicating directly with employees through his “Friday Thoughts” updates—open reflections on company direction, lessons learned, and team progress. His approach blends operational discipline with an emphasis on empowerment and trust, traits that have earned him recognition for cultivating both performance and authenticity inside growing tech organizations An advocate for sustainable growth and innovation, James is passionate about bridging the gap between legacy systems and modern experiences—particularly within government and large-scale enterprises. He also champions the “low-code revolution,” believing that empowering small teams to build and adapt workflows quickly is key to organizational agility. A graduate of James Madison University, James credits his alma mater with shaping his collaborative, team-first mindset. Outside of work, he’s known for drawing leadership parallels to his love of restoring classic Toyota Land Cruisers—symbols, to him, of durability, reliability, and purpose-driven engineering.
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