Lead Different Podcast
Exceptional leaders lead teams that are Engaged, Empowered, and Energized! This podcast is designed to inspire and educate our listeners on leadership principles and practices that go beyond the conventional, encouraging a mindset of curiosity, self-awareness, and positive impact.

"Lead Different!"
The "Lead Different!" Podcast is a weekly show hosted by Dan Dominguez, the CEO and Founder of WHY NOT Leadership. Every week, we interview "WHY NOT" leaders from around the world or a friend of WHY NOT Leadership about the impact that leading different has had on their personal and professional lives. This podcast is based on being open to innovative and unconventional leadership styles. It is designed to inspire and educate our listeners on leadership principles and practices that go beyond the conventional, encouraging a mindset of curiosity, self-awareness, and positive impact. Join us live every week as we feature special guests who are experts in their field. Get to know your WHY a little bit deeper and learn something new along the way, because, WHY NOT? We can't wait to see you next week!!
Dan Dominguez
CEO and Founder - WHY NOT Leadership
www.whynotleadership.com
Episodes
Friday Aug 09, 2024
"Lead Different!" Podcast (EPS. 21) - Ed Smith
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Ed Smith is a healthcare executive with diverse functional experience in companies ranging in size from startup to Fortune 100. He is recognized for delivering exceptional value to health system pharmacy, developing new markets for innovative products, creating competitive advantage through strategic alliances, and managing complex operations. Well-equipped to navigate today's healthcare market challenges with expertise in providers, payers, and partnerships.
Friday Aug 02, 2024
"Lead Different!" Podcast 20. Paul McCarthy
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Founder, CEO, Compassionate Disrupter & Igniter: Paul Mac Leadership • Best Selling Author of The F.I.R.E.D. LeaderTM • Speaker on Disruptive Leadership • Compassionate Disrupter • Organizational Toxicity Guide How do you want to be introduced? Paul McCarthy is a seasoned leadership expert with 25 years of experience, having held multiple executive roles. Despite being fired from four positions for embodying and advocating for the very leadership qualities he was hired for, Paul remains a vocal critic of the current leadership system. Paul believes that organizations need leaders who exhibit "disruptive and rebellious" qualities to navigate ongoing disruptions successfully. By recruiting and training leaders in these "counterintuitive" qualities, organizations can retain future leaders longer and foster growth in leadership and organizational cultures. Paul's approach involves an evidence-based, experiential, and experimental methodology, meeting organizations at various stages of their leadership journey: awareness, awakening, addressing issues, embracing new methods, and embodying effective leadership.
Friday Jul 26, 2024
"Lead Different!" Podcast 19. Dr. Nia D Thomas
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Dr. Nia D Thomas, Director of Thoughts and Ideas @ Knowing Self Knowing Others. Dr. Nia is an expert leader who talksthe talk and walks the walk. She is an academically awarded thought leader in self-aware leadership and practicesself-aware leadership every single day in her role as a Director in a Children’s Charity.Dr. Nia is a frequent blog writer, a passionate podcast host of The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast and the author ofTHE SELF-AWARENESS SUPERHIGHWAY book. She is on a mission to develop self-aware leaders to create kinder, morerespectful and creative working relationships through reflection, recognition and regulation.Dr. Nia has spent 25 years working in the public sector across local government, the NHS, civil service, and in the last fewyears, charitable sector in Wales and England. Nia describes her role as a charity director as ‘what’ she does and‘self-aware leadership’ as ‘how’ she does it.
Friday Jul 19, 2024
"Lead Different!" Podcast (EPS. 18) - Raeanne Lacatena
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Friday Jul 19, 2024
"Lead Different!" Podcast (EPS. 18) - Raeanne Lacatena
Friday Jul 12, 2024
17 "Lead Different!" Podcast Tyler Buffett
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Tyler Buffett is currently the operations manager for Buffett’s Candies, the largest and best-known candy manufacturer in New Mexico. He is the third generation of Buffett’s in the business and brings his experience as a former professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds organization and as a 4-year letterman on the baseball team at Oklahoma State where he led them to the College World Series where their team’s run to Omaha, they set a record for pitching which culminated in back to back shutouts, someone which had never been done before and has not been done since. Over the 10 years of playing baseball at a high level, Tyler learned many lessons about profiting from failure and finding Better Ways to improve and get better every day. Tyler is also the co-founder of the Direction Company, a company that has put together a modernized course based on the book, the Law of Success by Napoleon Hill. The company is dedicated to helping people find their own direction in life and equipping them with the necessary tools to help them achieve their own version of success.
Friday Jul 05, 2024
"Lead Different!" Podcast (EPS. 16) -Eileen McDargh
Friday Jul 05, 2024
Friday Jul 05, 2024
Eileen McDargh, the Chief Energy Officer of The Resiliency Group and McDargh Communications. With a rich background as an internationally recognized speaker, facilitator, and leader guide. She has authored 8 books and has continually been ranked in the top 3rd of the world’s Communication Professionals by Global Gurus International, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication and sales training.
Eileen teaches organizations like Cisco, Novartis, Oracle, and Procter & Gamble ways of building resilient leadership teams and workplaces. Along with her work as an organizational resiliency consultant, Eileen speaks and writes about resiliency.
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
"Lead Different!" Podcast (EPS. 15) - Lynnaire Johnston
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Lynnaire Johnston comes from a broadcasting background and for many years was a feature writer and magazine and publications editor. As well, she had a two-decade history as a copywriter, focusing on websites and online content. Now she specializes solely on LinkedIn and uses skills acquired as a news writer and copywriter to write unique and compelling multi-format content.
Lynnaire Johnston is an internationally recognised LinkedIn expert who ranks in the top 20 worldwide. She has written two books on the subject and is in frequent demand for podcasts and interviews. On her Link∙Ability YouTube channel she shares tips, tricks and ideas for making best use of the world's best business social media platform. She covers the best practices in her webinars to help you achieve your LinkedIn marketing objectives.
Monday Jun 24, 2024
"Lead Different!" Podcast (EPS. 14) - Dr. Holly White
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Dr. Holly White, Ph.D., is a cognitive psychologist and the Founder Of Outside The Box Consulting She specializes in attention deficits, ADHD, creative cognition, neurodiversity, and educational design. Dr. White has written and spoken widely on creativity in adults with ADHD and is the author of several empirical studies on the topic. Dr. White also maintains an active research collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Holly White is an independent research scientist, consultant, and author who specializes in ADHD, creative cognition, and neurodiversity.