The Project Success Podcast
The Conversation With Clint Padgett
A Leading Communication Podcast for Business and Team Success
Team Execution
Team Empowerment
Team Accountability
The key to business and team success finds its roots deep in conversation.
Clint Padgett serves as the President and CEO of Project Success. With more than 30 years in project management, he has developed his expertise by assisting Fortune 100 companies in improving their operations. To learn how to manage projects, teams, and results effectively, listen to Clint Padgett on the Conversation podcast, where he engages with business leaders, best-selling authors, and academics conducting innovative research that encourages professional and business growth.
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Did you realize the key to business and team success finds its roots deep in conversation? Join Clint Padgett, who’s built his career helping Fortune 100 companies optimize their businesses, as he interviews leaders who encourage employees to learn, challenge, and grow. If you want to effectively manage people and optimize results, this is the podcast for you. The Conversation with Clinton M. Padgett from Forbes Books.
In this episode, Clint sits down with Ryan Hawk, host of The Learning Leader Show and author of “The Price of Becoming” and “Welcome to Management,” to discuss one of the biggest challenges in leadership: making the transition from top performer to effective leader.
Ryan shares practical lessons on self-awareness, curiosity, mentorship, feedback, and intentional leadership, drawing from hundreds of conversations with world-class leaders and his own experience leading teams. If you’ve recently stepped into management, or aspire to, this conversation offers a roadmap for becoming the kind of leader people want to follow.
This is the first part of a two-part conversation.
Topics Covered:
- Why leadership begins with leading yourself
- The difficult transition from individual contributor to manager
- Building greater self-awareness through honest feedback
- Why every leader needs “truth tellers” in their life
- How to receive criticism without becoming defensive
- Developing curiosity as a leadership superpower
- The difference between managing people and genuinely caring about them
- Creating meaningful relationships with your team
- Why thoughtfulness and intentionality drive sustained excellence
- Learning from both successes and failures through after-action reviews
- Finding mentors and writing cold outreach emails that actually get responses
- The difference between a mentor and a coach
Links:
- Ryan’s website – https://learningleader.com/
- Ryan’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanhawk12/
- Ryan’s book, “The Price of Becoming” – https://amzn.to/4piQs3k
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