On a superficial level, these videos are a series of interviews.  However, to gain the full benefit of the content, I encourage you to look deep within each interviewer’s words for the depth of knowledge they bring to crisis leadership.

The videos are not sequential, so you can freely jump between each one.

Each video page focuses on just one interviewee.  If you know any of them, their video page may be a good place to start.

A biographical snapshot accompanies each interview, including a photo of the leader, relevant job and location information, a quote that I attribute to them, and for most of them, their contact information.

If you like what they have to say, consider reaching out to share with them how you benefited from their stories.

At the beginning of each interview, I offer some background on the person, and I offer my opinion as to why I believe they’re a crisis leader.

Every person answered the same five questions, their answers recorded.

1. What is a Crisis Leader?
2. Please share an example when you relied on your crisis leadership?
3. What do you know now that you wish you knew then?
4. What advice would you give someone who wants to improve their crisis leadership?
5. Who is a crisis leader that influenced your career? 

No back-and-forth banter, either, just them answering the above questions.

The interview’s authenticity is critical, so nothing in the person’s response was changed, including the transcription.  Grammar Nazis, consider yourselves warned.

To immerse yourself in each person’s stories, look at their picture, read their brief bio, and then hear their words as if they were sitting across the table from you.

These interviews capture so much more than stories. They pack actionable lessons learned over a career of crisis leadership that we can all use.

At the end of each interview, I extract out the Key Takeaways that can guide your next steps.

That’s why the ultimate value of these interviews lies with you, the reader.

How will you apply what you hear to add to your leadership legacy?

As I listened to each of these interviewees, two persistent thoughts ran through my head:

1. I wish I had access to their leadership wisdom when I was younger.
2. Am I doing enough to share these enduring lessons so that they will be accessible and memorable for future generations?

We are all new at our craft initially, so this project intends to help fill the knowledge gap for emerging leaders.

And the selfless service, the enduring lessons, and the legacy of leadership in the following videos are certainly worth remembering.

In the speed of life, the memorable experiences we seek are often buried under distracting memes, half-witted bumper-sticker logic, and savvy marketing hucksters promising leadership mastery, etc.

Bright, shiny, and omnipresent one minute … relegated to the dustbin of history the next minute.

My mission with this interview project is to improve those outcomes. Leaving a worthwhile legacy is worth more than money, a trinket, or a title.

A legacy is the highest form of remembrance because it has the potential to connect our emotions, our brain, and our capability to improve at something.

In a world starving for capable leaders, a legacy of leadership provides us the blueprint to build great things for ourselves and for those we serve.

Let’s begin.