Off the Rak

What does it take to build high-trust organizations and cultures through your leadership? The former chairman of JetBlue Airways and professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Joel C. Peter…

Exploring what collaboration and positive influence look like in the workplace with a former P&G executive!

Can collaboration and disruption unite to positively influence a workplace and grow the bott…

"Some occupational categories might disappear, but many more will simply evolve, requiring new sets of skills over time and providing new opportunities for workers."

Named by Fortune as one of the “50…

You’ll influence approximately 80,000 people in your lifetime, according to this bestselling author, leadership speaker and coach.

World-renowned keynote speaker and bestselling author Tommy Spaulding…

Bestselling author of “Love Is Just Damn Good Business,” “The Radical Leap,” and “Greater Than Yourself” and founder of The Extreme Leadership Institute Steve Farber talks leadership, empathy,and inf…

In this look back from season 2, Off the Rak sits down with the CEOs of Denver Scholarship Foundation and Colorado UpLift to explore what makes their partnership tick, how they’re teaching servant le…

Off the Rak welcomes Cheryl Bachelder, restaurant industry executive and former CEO of Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. She’s the author of “Dare to Serve,” and a passionate advocate of servant leade…

Garry Gilliam played football for the Nittany Lions, the Seahawks and the 49ers before putting his Penn State degree to work by launching The Bridge Eco-Village, a purpose-driven organization that tr…

As lead solo pilot for the legendary Blue Angels flight team, John “Gucci” Foley mastered the art of flying at an elite level — flying among the top 0.01% of US military pilots and earning recognitio…

Clarity is a process that helps make sense of the chaos, change, the ambiguity that we’re leading from. 

We’re joined today by Brad Deutser, the founder and CEO of Deutser, an award-winning management…

Finding and recruiting talent is an art. Mollie Plotkin founded her namesake keynote speaker and entertainment booking agency in Philadelphia in 2005 within a day of discovering a gap in the market. …

On radar, mentors, and accountability with the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership

Cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, Sally Helgesen is the bestselling autho…

“My life’s purpose has been to improve the lives of others.” Bob McDonald spoke those words after being nominated to become the 8th U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Bob’s career exemplifies servic…

Filmmaker Elliot V. Kotek first came to our attention by being the writer and director of “The Hidden Power of Purpose,” a moving documentary that affirms living with purpose can improve your health …

For the last few years Off the Rak podcast interviews have ended with the same question: What in life are you most grateful for?

The answers have been so revealing, encouraging, inspiring, and thought…

Walt Rakowich's passion to help shape a generation of leaders who lead with honesty, humility and heart inspired him to launch Off the Rak: Conversations on Transformative Leadership. Featuring rich …