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America Back to Work: Joe LaDuke, Dion Leadership
How to Diagnose and Develop Leadership Agility
This week on America Back to Work, host Arnette Heintze welcomes Joe LaDuke, Vice President of Coaching and Consulting Services at Dion Leadership, to discuss the crucial topic of leadership agility. Joe shares his journey into leadership agility, influenced by his over 20 years of martial arts training, where he was introduced to the concept of adaptability.
Joe defines leadership agility as the ability to make decisions and move the business forward amidst uncertainty and change. He emphasizes the importance of flexibility, adaptability, and mindfulness for leaders and highlights the impact of leadership agility on organizational culture.
Key Takeaways:
- The ability to adapt, make decisions, and move forward in uncertain and changing environments is crucial for leadership agility.
- Traditional leadership often operates in siloed structures, while agile leadership prioritizes adaptability, empowerment, and people-centric approaches.
- A significant focus on mindset and self-awareness is crucial for agile leaders to navigate complex business landscapes effectively.
- Technology can enhance agility when leveraged through adaptive leadership, allowing for exploration in uncharted waters.
- Leaders should adopt a mindset of curiosity and possibility, viewing mistakes as learning opportunities to thrive in tumultuous
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S2Verify is one of the leading, privately held, pre-employment background screening companies in the United States.
Arnette Heintze is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at S2Verify. Before establishing S2Verify, Arnette spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
He served more than 20 years in the United States Secret Service as a special agent and senior executive where he planned, designed, and implemented security strategies to protect U.S. Presidents, world leaders, events of national significance, and our nation’s most sensitive assets, including financial infrastructure.
After retiring from the Secret Service, Arnette focused on building growth and performance of innovative start-ups and SMBs. In 2004, he established Hillard Heintze, a globally recognized strategic security risk management and investigations firm. In 2009, along with Bill Whitford and Jim Zimbardi, Arnette established S2Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.