David Spickard shares how being a just leader means creating an environment for people to thrive.

• 0:00 Episode starts
• 0:44 Personal check-in
• 1:26 Jes talks about feeling suffocated recently
• 2:37 Jes out of her funk by watching ultra marathoners
• 2:54 Rob starts personal check-in
• 3:30 Rob talks about intermittent fasting as a way of self-care
• 4:13 Discipline in fasting leading to healthy discipline in other ares
• 5:01 Establish theme of shaking up the routine
• 6:38 Introduce guest David Spickard
• 7:20 Introduce Just Leadership Project
• 8:09 Personal check-in with David
• 8:29 David learning about being healthy and finding pace and resting
• 9:32 Youngest daughter having college at home
• 10:23 David’s kids having to learn resilience and patience
• 11:17 Jes introduces the concepts of gaps in leadership
• 11:35 What are the gaps you are identifying today in leadership? How did you come to those conclusions?
• 11:50 David talks about his role and Jobs for Life
• 12:54 Seeing how significant people are engaged in work affecting leadership
• 13:04 87% of employees are disengaged with work
• 13:42 70% of people who leave their jobs are because of their bosses
• 14:08 A lot of leaders are good at building business, but not their people
• 14:47Being a just leader means creating an environment for people to thrive
• 16:13 How are you going about day-to-day practically building just leaders?
• 16:26 Coach CEOs and leadership teams how to build company culture and thinking about impact through the platforms in place
• 16:40 First way he coaches is through self-created Thrive Assessment
• 17:04 T - Trust - How much trust do you have in your people? How much trust do they have in you?
• 17:10 H - Health - Are you physically and emotionally healthy? Are your people physically and emotionally healthy?
• 17:16 R - Relationships - How well do you all relate to one another? How deeply do you feel connected to one another?
• 17:26 I - Impact - How much do you feel your work has a greater impact in the world?
• 17:31 V - Value - Do you feel valued? Do your people feel valued?
• 17:24 E - Engagement - How much do your people feel like they are using their gifts, talents, and abilities? Do they feel like they have an opportunity to grow and build a career at your place of business?
• 18:02 Assessment uncovers the unspoken culture in every place of business
• 18:39 Second way David coaches is through small group of CEOs and business leaders who meet in a cohort around just leadership
• 20:17 Encourages people like himself to get into justice and experience fullness
• 21:13 Acknowledges that people with power, wealth, and influence often aren’t at the grassroots tables
• 23:04 If you were to archetype a world class leader, what are those qualities?
• 23:32 Ongoing process that is endless to become more just
• 24:02 David breaks down Proverbs about when the righteous, the city rejoices
• 25:52 Qualities of the righteous: they see the whole playing field in themselves, in others, and in their whole communities; they build cultural competency; they give power away; they take bold and corougeous action
• 27:55 We can talk about justice all we want, but if doesn’t lead us to action that creates to change
• 29:06 Jes brings up charity versus justice
• 30:21 Sadaki? stewarding everything for peace and justice
• 30:57 Those who are in leadership and in power stewarding everything they have and the outcome is others being able to rejoice
• 31:26 David introduces the concept of “empty power”
• 32:40 Transformative relinquishing of power
• 33:30 Being a just leader should impact every area of life
• 34:54 The idea of being just may be in...