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A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

By: John Rouda: technical leader author speaker educator
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The ultimate podcast for aspiring leaders in the creative or technology fields. John Rouda discusses leadership topics, interviews some of the greatest minds today and teaches you practical leadership tips, techniques, tricks and hacks to improve motivation, negotiation, and other much needed skills for leaders today.2025 - ageekleader.com Career Success Economics Management Management & Leadership
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  • AGL 474: Louis Carter
    Jun 19 2026
    About Louise

    Louis Carter is the founder and CEO of Most Loved Workplace® and Best Practice Institute. He’s an organizational psychologist who helps leaders understand what actually makes people love where they work — and how that shows up in performance, reputation, and results. Louis created the Love of Workplace Index™ and SPARK™ framework, which use real employee sentiment and behavioral data to measure trust, respect, and emotional connection at work. His research powers the annual Most Loved Workplaces® rankings featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. Beyond research, Louis builds and advises AI-enabled platforms that translate culture into real-world signals used by leaders, candidates, and modern search and AI systems. He’s the author of In Great Company and a frequent voice on leadership, culture, and the future of work.

    Today We Talked About
    • Background
    • Most Loved Workplace
    • Volunteering together
    • Culture
    • Equality – know everyone’s name
    • SPARK
    • Love of Workplace Index
    • Courage and Bravery
    • No Brainer Hire
    • In Great Company
    • Fear is a learned behavior
    • Ask for what you want 100% of the time
    • Let go of what you think you know…
    • Mistakes leaders make
      • What you feed, becomes your culture…. acountability
    • Rules
    • Team vs. Family
    • Ray Williams – Springfield Clinic story
    • Doing the right thing
    • Problems are on your shoulders…make peace with that.
    • VISAPAGE
    Connect with Louise
    • Company
    • Books
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
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    41 mins
  • AGL 473: Dustin Domerese
    Jun 12 2026
    About Dustin

    Dustin Domerese is a thought leader and technology innovator within the Microsoft ecosystem. He delivers his vast technical experience in the CRM, ERP, and Software Development industries to business leaders, end-users, and technical leaders throughout the community. Working for Barclays, EMC2, HP, and Microsoft before his founding of multiple companies has provided a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise.

    Dustin is a consultant for over three hundred companies across various industries; he is a senior software developer and public speaker. As an entrepreneur, he has founded multiple technology companies in different sectors. As a technology innovator Dustin has trained and worked with hundreds of partners in the Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce ecosystems. His company, Dynamic Consultants Group, has been a finalist in the Microsoft partner channel awards for empowering the Microsoft partner community and advises their clients on all things digital transformation and technology.

    Dustin has been a speaker worldwide, presenting many technology-focused sessions with Microsoft. As his hobby, Dustin is an accomplished musician, outdoor enthusiast, and a mostly terrible golfer.

    Today We Talked About
    • Background
    • Digital Transformation Processes and Mistakes
    • Growth Companies
    • Rescue Companies
    • Software selection process
    • Failure to Launch…
    • Clear Requirements
    • Live in a 90 day world
    Connect with Dustin
    • LinkedIn
    • Website
    • Book

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    28 mins
  • AGL 472: Ryan Vet
    Jun 5 2026
    About Ryan

    Ryan Vet is a USA Today bestselling author, generational futurist, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of experience at the intersection of leadership, technology, and organizational change.

    He began his entrepreneurial journey as a teenager, legally forming his first company at the courthouse alongside his father. That moment set the tone for everything that followed. Ryan has always believed that building something real requires doing it right, and that commitment to disciplined execution has defined his career.

    Over the next two decades, Ryan built and scaled businesses across industries, leading organizations from pre-revenue through large-scale operations. He served as President of a company that reached a valuation of over $750 million. He has navigated successful ventures and failed ones, and he is candid about both — because the failures are as instructive as the wins, often more so.

    Ryan’s operating experience gave him an unusual vantage point: he managed multi-generational teams at scale, in real time, under real pressure. He watched the fractures that form when different generational values collide in hiring, communication, technology adoption, and organizational culture. And he watched those fractures cost companies in ways that never appeared on the P&L.

    It was in those environments that Ryan developed the frameworks that now anchor his work. The Velocity Gap describes the distance between how fast organizations change and how fast the people inside them can adapt. The Generational Pendulum explains how each generation’s characteristics are a direct response to the generation that raised them. The Generational Prism provides a practical model for leaders who must communicate and lead effectively across fundamentally different value systems. Not in theory, but on Monday morning.

    Ryan had been writing, researching, and speaking alongside his operating career for years. After a successful exit from a startup in 2021, he devoted his full energy to this work, driven by the conviction that the highest-leverage contribution he could make was not another company, but the synthesis of twenty years of practitioner experience offered to the leaders who need it most.

    Today, Ryan speaks to corporate leadership teams, HR and L&D organizations, healthcare systems, financial services firms, associations, and universities across 45+ states and four continents. He is a USA Today bestselling author and has been featured in Forbes, ABC, and NBC. He writes the Collide newsletter on generational leadership and the future of work.

    Ryan continues to manage a portfolio of companies including real estate investment, hospitality, and software ventures. He holds limited partner positions in venture capital funds and is an active angel investor, maintaining his practitioner’s edge not as a credential, but as a discipline.

    His work as a generational futurist and keynote speaker is grounded in a simple conviction: the organizations that will lead the next decade are not the ones with the best strategy. They are the ones that figure out how to get five generations of people to work toward the same thing.

    Today We Talked About
    • Background
    • AI for future workforce
    • What is “Not” going to change because of AI
    • Cognative Errosion
      • spell check
      • GPS
      • what’s next ?
    • Removing friction from life
    • 7 factors that make the generational pendilum swing slower
    • Echo chambers
    • Benefits of tech
    • Boundaries
    • History
    Connect with Ryan
    • LinkedIn
    • Website
    • Books
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    37 mins
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