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Activating Greatness: A Leadership Podcast
Welcome to Activating Greatness — the show where we dig into what it really takes to lead with purpose, inspire performance, and create lasting impact. I’m your host, Alec McChesney, and every episode, we sit down with extraordinary leaders, thinkers, and changemakers who are unlocking potential in themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Here, we talk about the real stuff — leadership that drives culture, strategy that creates momentum, and the mindset that turns good intentions into game-changing results. Because greatness isn’t a title — it’s a choice. It’s something you activate every single day. Thank you for listening, for showing up, and for being part of a community of leaders who refuse to settle for “good enough.
Activating Greatness: A Leadership Podcast
Latest Episodes
Engagement Isn’t Broken—Work Is: Patrick Manigault on Building Human-Centered Organizations
In this episode of Activating Greatness, Alec McChesney sits down with executive coach and author Patrick Manigault to challenge how we think about engagement, leadership, and the modern workplace. Patrick explains why engagement isn’t...
It's Not Selling, It's Connecting: Steve Thompson on Leading Billion-Dollar Projects and the Humans Behind Them
In this episode of Activating Greatness, Alec McChesney sits down with Steve Thompson, a senior construction and program leader who has spent decades delivering complex capital projects at Intel and GlobalFoundries. Steve breaks down what actua...
People Deserve Great Leaders: Tom Wilson on Servant Leadership in Life Sciences
In this episode of the Activating Greatness podcast, host Alec McChesney of Velocity Advisory Group sits down with Tom Wilson, Chief Commercial Officer at AmbioPharm, one of the world's leading peptide CDMOs. With 35 years in life sciences — fr...
The Change Agent's Playbook: Melissa Pepper on Transformational Leadership, Stakeholder Buy-In, and Making Change Stick
In this episode of Activating Greatness, Alec McChesney sits down with Melissa Pepper, founder of Lead(h)er and former Chief Strategy Officer at Russell Construction, to explore what it really means to be a transformational change leader. Melis...
The Business Told us To: Krista Robinson on Scaling HR at The Weitz Company
In this episode of Activating Greatness, Alec McChesney sits down with Krista Robinson, VP of HR at The Weitz Company, to explore what it really means to bet on yourself as a leader. Krista shares how she stepped into a stretch HR leadership ro...
