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Living Leadership: Growing Our Capacity to Lead | Gonzaga University Podcast NetworkS3E3 - Are Leaders Born or Built?Hosted by Dr. Jeff Borden with guests Dr. Paul D. Borden, Molly Ayers, and Adam Gierlach.
2024-01-1359 min
The Lit Up Life with Debbie HeiserS4E16 – Lead Your Life with Guest Adam Gierlach on Developing Servant LeadshipAdam Gierlach is a leadership coach, a student of servant-leadership, and a former Division-I men's college basketball coach. As a leadership coach, Adam helps leaders become servant-leaders, and increase the capacity of individuals to lead. Adam operates his own leadership coaching practice, Adam Gierlach Coaching, while also serving as a leadership coach for the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, and the coaching company Ama La Vida. Adam has a heart for leaders and a passion to help others lead well! Listen in as we talk about how his life unfolded and why he does his important w...
2022-04-1925 min
Love In BasketballLove In Basketball Programming UpdateAdam is here today with a programming update.We had taken some time away from producing episodes of the podcast in April and May. We used this time for restoration, recording conversations with guests, and improving the podcast. A couple big life transitions took place for Adam during this time as well, and some time away from the podcast helped to give him a bit more space.While we returned in June with three profound conversations, some of those transitions are still taking place for Adam. And it’s made producing episodes in a way that provides a...
2021-07-2203 minLove In Basketball18. Chris Acker - San Diego StateThis episode is a conversation with Chris Acker. I found this to be a conversation filled with partnership. Coach Acker explores what it looks like for him to walk alongside, and partner with the student-athletes he serves to support the achievement of their goals, a collective effort, and build community, rather than imposing coach-led goals that resulted in the diminishment of others previously in his career. Along the way, he explores cultivating an awareness of others’ needs, listening well vs. listening poorly, and why the best ability might be availability.Chris Acker is an Assistant Men’s Basketball Coac...
2021-07-011h 08Love In Basketball17. R-Jay Barsh - Boise StateThis episode is a conversation with R-Jay Barsh. I found this to be a conversation filled with generous silence. Coach Barsh explores his journey of listening to his own heart and own mind through silence and challenge, to ground and center in his gifts rather than chasing the perceptions of others. Along the way he highlights the power of feedback loops, laying your arrogance down, and empathetic listening.R-Jay Barsh is an Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Boise State University. Coach Barsh has been an assistant coach for the Broncos for 2 seasons, and Boise State is coming of...
2021-06-2456 minLove In Basketball16. Robert Lucero - Westlake High School (TX)This episode is a conversation with Robert Lucero. I found this to be a conversation filled with empathy. Coach Lucero explores some of the ways he routinely takes the perspectives of those he serves, both his staff and his student-athletes, while reflecting on how ego, an inward mindset, and maybe lack of empathy might have resulted in a bit more diminishment of others previously in his career. Along the way, he highlights honest and loving communication, building community or giving others a place to belong, and serving first.Robert Lucero is the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at We...
2021-06-171h 14Love In Basketball15. Rick Croy - California BaptistThis episode is a conversation with Rick Croy. I found this to be a conversation filled with healing, and exploring the healing potential of servant-leadership for ourselves and others. Coach Croy explores his recognition of the opportunity to help make whole those with whom he comes into contact, using healing in leadership as a force for transformation and integration. Along the way, he highlights creating an environment that allows for others to share, listening without trying to fix, and shifting focus from the career and professional hunt towards greater service to others.Rick Croy is the Head Men’s...
2021-04-081h 07Love In Basketball14. Josh Prock - Eastern New MexicoThis episode is a conversation with Josh Prock. I found this to be a conversation filled with courage, that shows up as open and honest communication. Coach Prock explores his journey of opening up to feedback from others as a way of moving towards greater service to others. Along the way, he highlights the power of mutual trust and feedback, and listening first as a pathway to serving first.Josh Prock is the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Eastern New Mexico University. Coach Prock enters his 8th season as head coach of the Greyhounds. His tenure at Ea...
2021-04-011h 09Love In Basketball13. On Emotional Intelligence & Servant-LeadershipThis episode is a solo episode, exploring the connection of Emotional Intelligence and Servant-Leadership.In this episode, we break down some popular misconceptions of emotional intelligence, move towards deeper understandings of the term, and explore how fostering greater emotional intelligence might allow us to more greatly fulfill the Best Test of Servant-Leadership.Robert Greenleaf’s Best Test of Servant-Leadership asks: “Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit, or a...
2021-03-2527 minLove In Basketball12. Shan Ray Ferch, Ph.D. - Professor of Leadership & Forgiveness Studies, Gonzaga UniversityThis episode is a conversation with Shann Ray Ferch. I found this to be a conversation filled with kindness and healing. Dr. Ferch explores balancing love and power in healthy ways, countering inappropriate ambition and power drive, and more healthy ways of relating to and being with one another in basketball, and in our families and communities.Dr. Shann Ferch is a Professor of Leadership & Forgiveness Studies with the internationally renowned PhD program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. Dr. Ferch has served as a visiting scholar in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, is the editor of...
2021-03-111h 08Love In Basketball11. Brent Scott - Virginia CommonwealthThis episode is a conversation with Brent Scott. I found this to be a conversation filled with gratitude. Coach Scott expresses immense gratitude for the individuals who served him along his path, and highlights his journey of helping others move forward as a way of honoring those who served him. Along the way, he highlights the role of setbacks in beginning the inner journey of servant-leadership, the power of the “softer side,” and using one’s gifts to help others believe in themselves.Brent Scott is an Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Virginia Commonwealth University, otherwise known as VCU...
2021-03-041h 12Love In Basketball10. Frank Allocco, Sr. - Univ. of San Francisco AthleticsThis episode is a conversation with Frank Allocco, Sr. I found this to be a conversation filled with wisdom. Coach Allocco highlights that self-knowledge often allows us to cultivate larger purpose in work and life, that helps move towards greater definitions of success and service to others. He also explores cultivating a shared vision, and the power of elevating and valuing others as a reflection of their inherent importance.Frank Allocco Sr. is the Executive Senior Athletic Director for External Relations at the University of San Francisco. Coach Allocco is perhaps more well-known for his high school basketball...
2021-02-251h 16Love In Basketball9. Carlin Hartman - OklahomaThis episode is a conversation with Carlin Hartman. I found this to be a conversation filled with sincerity and genuineness. Coach Hartman highlights the power of acknowledging mistakes, slowing down and developing patience, and pursuing relationship in an enduring way, by taking a genuine interest in others through their stages of life.Carlin Hartman is an Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at the University of Oklahoma. Coach Hartman is recognized as a top 3 assistant coach in the Big 12 by his peers, the Sooners have reached the NCAA Tournament the last two seasons, and Oklahoma is currently ranked as th...
2021-02-1150 minLove In Basketball8. Charli Turner Thorne - Arizona StateThis episode is a conversation with Charli Turner Thorne. I found this to be a conversation filled with strength and care. Coach Turner Thorne explores the traps of a results-orientation, how this may block servant-leadership, and some of what she calls a lost perspective that led her to take a sabbatical in the middle of her tenure at ASU, and discover greater purpose in her work and life. She also highlights the differences between accountability and shame, blame, and judgment, and the power of a joyful spirit and self-compassion.Charli Turner Thorne is the Head Women’s Basketball Co...
2021-02-0440 minLove In Basketball7. Ten Characteristics of a Servant-LeaderThis episode is a solo episode, exploring Ten Characteristics of a Servant-Leader, a list developed by Larry Spears. Larry Spears is the servant-leadership scholar at Gonzaga University, and President & CEO of the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership.In this episode, we dive into these ten characteristics, and identify how what we’ve heard from our guests so far connect to these characteristics of servant-leadership. Hopefully this provides some further context, a different lens as to how the insights and actions of our guests embody a servant-leader way of being in the world. I hope you leave today’s episo...
2021-01-2817 minLove In Basketball6. Charles Ament - Langham Creek High School (TX)This episode is a conversation with Charles Ament. I found this to be a conversation filled with genuine reflection. Coach Ament wrestles with servant-leadership as continual growth and struggle, that it is something we are always in training to become, and probes for deeper understandings throughout our conversation. He also highlights that service to others is often an outgrowth of developing greater purpose, the power of humility and vulnerability in relationships, and the power of asking great questions, questions that provide an opportunity for others to learn more about themselves.Charles Ament is the Head Men’s Ba...
2021-01-141h 25Love In Basketball5. Benjamin Sanders - Long Island NetsThis episode is a conversation with Benjamin Sanders. I found this to be a conversation filled with openness. Coach Sanders’ experience at the collegiate and professional levels have exposed him to many different forms of leadership. Our conversations so far have mostly centered around an individual servant-leader. And in this conversation, we hear Coach Sanders’ perspective of having also received more diminishing forms of leadership, from ego-driven leaders. He highlights that we help others to be servant-leaders by being servant-leaders ourselves, and that his shift from an inward focus and self-preservation to servant-leadership came in part from the empowerment and...
2021-01-071h 25Love In Basketball4. Gus Argenal - Cal State FullertonThis episode is a conversation with Gus Argenal. I found this to be a conversation filled with vulnerability. Those who know Coach Argenal tend to associate him with energy and spirit, and in this conversation he illuminated where that spirit comes from. He highlights that it comes from not a place of false positivity but from a depth of self-regard and self-knowledge, where he learned about himself doing tough times, that brought greater clarity to his purpose of serving others. He also explores more creative ways of learning about others, the power of listening, and returning with humility to...
2020-12-311h 09Love In Basketball3. Jason Burton - Texas A&M-Commerce WBBThis episode is a conversation with Jason Burton. I found this to be a conversation filled with grace and strength. Jason Burton and his program underwent true heartbreak in his first season as head coach at Texas A&M-Commerce, with two student-athletes, Aubree Butts and Devin Oliver being killed in a car accident. Coach Burton shares his story of heartbreak and loss in moving towards greater ways of serving and being with each other. Along the way, he explores what it means to invest in people, combining support and challenge, and the power of a hug.Jason Burton...
2020-12-171h 17Love In Basketball2. Willis Wilson - Texas A&M-Corpus ChristiThis episode is a conversation with Willis Wilson. I found this to be an inspiring dialogue, filled with powerful insights on the power of activating moments, the difference between a basketball coach and a leader who coaches basketball, and empathy, understanding, and forgiveness.Willis Wilson is the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, where he’s entering his 10th season as head coach of the Islanders. His tenure at Corpus Christi features 3, 20-win seasons, and 4 postseason appearances. Coach Wilson was also previously the head coach at Rice University in Houston, TX. He served as the...
2020-12-101h 20Love In Basketball1. What Is Servant-Leadership?Welcome to the very first episode of the Love In Basketball podcast! In this solo episode, I seek to provide a foundation for what servant-leadership is, what it entails, and why it's important.I cover some of the myths of servant-leadership, Robert Greenleaf's foundational definition for the servant-leader and his Best Test, in addition to the human development models and larger shifts in consciousness and awareness of servant-leadership. I also cover a variety of examples and research for why it's important to concern ourselves with servant-leadership. Service to others first truly makes great work, creating the results...
2020-12-0323 minLove In BasketballLove In Basketball Podcast TrailerThe Love In Basketball podcast seeks to gain a fuller understanding of this vision for leadership that holds people and results together. Some episodes will be solo episodes, with host and Leadership Coach, Adam Gierlach, exploring the academic frameworks, concepts, and theories of servant-leadership. And some episodes will be conversations with servant-leader practitioners throughout the world of basketball, learning what it looks like to do this form of leadership out in the world.Servant-leadership is often described as a developmental process, something we may never fully arrive at, that we are always in-training to become. I invite...
2020-11-1202 min
The Industrious Radio ShowNavigating Crisis with Adam Gierlach: How to Adjust Your Mindset When Faced with ChallengeWhat happens when our normal reality is taken away from us? How do we deal with the challenges presented by the pandemic? On this episode of Industrious Radio we've invited Adam Gierlach to share how we can use this crisis to strengthen our mind and deepen our resolve. It's our first remote podcast, so you can also watch the show on our facebook page. Big thanks to our sponsor Head 2 Toe Spine and Sports who is still open and helping keep people out of pain.
2020-04-0327 min
The Industrious Radio ShowIndustrious Radio: That Entrepreneur Life Episode with Adam GierlachJoin the crew to hear how Adam went from Division One Basketball coach to Certified Leadership and Personal Development Coach. He shares how he found a deeper purpose and bigger vision for his life that ultimately resulted in him making the entrepreneur leap.
2019-03-2740 min