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The High Performance Herd
Welcome to The High-Performance Herd, where CEOs and founders learn to multiply impact without multiplying hours. I'm David Quick—I've been in the CEO seat three times and coached over 1,500 leaders through the messy reality of scaling teams and building high-performing cultures. This podcast features peer conversations with business leaders navigating real challenges: being the bottleneck where everything runs through you, managing disconnected leadership teams, working unsustainable hours, or…
Episodes
- The High Performance Herd
SE01 E35 Institutional Inertia Is the Real Competitor | Daniel Furbush
Business leaders, founders and safety professionals will find a powerful founder story here, where military discipline, resilience and bold entrepreneurship…
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SE01 E35 Stop Chasing Targets and Start Building Belief | Daniil Kurilov
Every great brand begins with a leader who believes it can be done, and Daniil Kurilov, CEO at Noblewood USA, proves that belief and a clear plan can build a…
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SE01 E34 Radical Candor Is the Missing Piece in Leadership | Sean Farrell
Leaders who refuse to get comfortable build teams that keep growing. Sean Farrell, CEO of Quality Data Systems, shows you how to do it. This episode covers…
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SE01 E33 Extreme Ownership Builds Unstoppable Teams | Jonathan Brooks
From a personal need for trailer rentals to a nationwide logistics powerhouse, John Brooks, CEO of Warehouse on Wheels, built an empire on trust, extreme…
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SE01E32 One CEO Rebuilt Culture After Cutting Her Biggest Client | Melissa Niebes
Melissa Niebes turned Federal Package, now FP Labs, from a hidden industry secret into a thriving skincare and personal care manufacturing powerhouse, proving…
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SE01E31 Empowerment Vs Expectation: The CEO Balance That Works | Nathan Sanders
From furniture warehouses to power plant floors, one leader kept asking the same dangerous question: what if we stopped assigning blame and started fixing…
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SE01E30 Culture Beats Money: Why Top Talent Comes Back | Reza Mirza
High performing teams beat bigger budgets, and Reza Mirza of Icelandic Glacial proves it. He grew a five million dollar water brand from a Culver City…
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SE01E29 Disrupted Cardiovascular Innovation & Got Acquired for $585 Million | Ramin Mousavi
Ramin Mousavi, President and CEO of CathWorks, did not build just a medical technology company. He built a cardiovascular innovation movement so unstoppable…
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SE01E28 A Players Quitting to 16% Growth in a Down Market | Brandon Ansley
From football fields to boardrooms, Brandon Ansley, CEO of Carter and Clark, turned a culture in crisis into a company doubling revenue and tripling EBITDA in…
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SE01E27 Culture Is More Important Than Talent For Franchise Leaders | Ray Titus
Ray Titus, CEO of United Franchise Group, has spent decades proving that franchise growth starts with people, culture and relentless execution. His philosophy…
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SE01E26 Private Equity Leadership Demands Faster Decisions & Stronger Culture | David Hewitt
He walked into Shanghai at 26 with zero playbook, zero brand recognition, zero safety net and turned a failing startup into the foundation of one of the most…
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SE01E25 The Reason Innovation Fails : People Fear Challenging The Status Quo | Danny Schnaars
Danny Schnaars did not simply inherit a business. He inherited a standard, and at AmeriGlobe LLC, he is quietly rewriting what a 30 year manufacturing company…
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SE01E24 AI Makes Fleet Utilization the Key to Trucking Efficiency | Marc El Khoury
AI and fleet utilization are reshaping modern trucking. Marc El Khoury, Co Founder and CEO of aifleet, explores how artificial intelligence can help trucking…
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SE01E23 The Operating System That Scales Home Service Companies | James Freeman
James Freeman stepped into PJ Fitzpatrick at the peak of a global pandemic with zero hesitation and a single audacious conviction: belief, not budget, is what…
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SE01E22 Smarter Clinical Trials Create Better Outcomes for Every Patient | Jill Pellegrino
From solving equations to solving one of healthcare's toughest problems, Jill Pellegrino, CEO of AutoCruitment, reveals how a lifelong love of mathematics…
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SE01E21 AI Is Redefining Air Freight for the Next Generation of Logistics | Chris Condon
He started on a forklift. He rose through Fortune 100 logistics. He turned around a failing freight company, rebranded it, sold it into a $900M Maersk deal…
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SE01E20 The Financial Discipline Every Creative Business Must Master | David Clifton
David Clifton walked into CIP Retail two years ago expecting to close a 50 year old retail design and manufacturing business for good. What he built from the…
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SE01E19 Legacy Manufacturers Win When Customer Experience Becomes Their Real Priority | Brett Nelson
From sorting nuts and bolts on a factory floor at age four to commanding a 100 million dollar retail empire, Brett Nelson, CEO of The Peggs Company, proves…
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SE01 E18 Trust and Integrity beat strategy when scaling high-growth teams | Ryan Getz
In this episode, Ryan Getz shares his leadership journey, the lessons learned from scaling a growing organization, and the principles behind building…
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SE01 E17 Building a Billion-Dollar Luxury Brand Starts With Rejecting Product Limits | Tanya Golešić
From a town of 4,500 people in Ontario to the CEO chair of Mackage, one of luxury fashion's most electrifying transformation stories, Tanya Golesic proves that…
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SE01 E16 Software Growth Stalls When Leaders Ignore This Critical Hiring Signal | with Justin Newell
From learning what leadership truly means by watching his father succeed, to building a software empire across an entire continent, Justin Newell, CEO of…
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SE01 E15 Strong Workplace Cultures Are Built by Leaders Who Show Up During Crisis | with John Oswald
From a single mother's household with four kids doing laundry at age 10, to leading a defence manufacturing powerhouse trusted with bringing US troops safely…
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SE01 E14 Most Leaders Fail Because They Confuse Remote Work With Accountability | with Rich Brady
From the rubble of a Pentagon under attack on 9/11 to commanding 4,000 Marines across 67 locations, Rich Brady, President and CEO of the Society of Defense…
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SE01 E13 Custom Furniture Brands Fail When They Chase Retail Growth | with Jeremy Barker
Bankrupt twice, sleeping in his truck, $762 paychecks as a firefighter - Jeremy Barker, Founder and CEO of Murphy Door Inc., turned a 9x11 theater room project…
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SE01 E12: Real Challenge In Pharma : 24/7 Operations That Never Stop | Cheryl Patnick
Most companies are scaling fast and quietly building a broken culture that top talent will eventually run from. Cheryl Patnick, Chief Administrative Officer of…
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SE01 E011 Success comes from fixing problems earlier than competitors | with Joseph Snodgrass
The uncomfortable reality of leadership, broken scaling systems, and the hidden truth about building high performance teams—what nobody tells you about…
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SE01 E10 Staying Comfortable Is the Fastest Way to Kill Momentum | with Joe Myers
The outdated leadership playbook in logistics is quietly destroying companies — and most leaders are too deep in the weeds to see it. Joe Myers, President and…
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SE01 E09 Lead, delegate, and build something that outlives your role | with Jeremiah Weekley
The uncomfortable reality of leadership, broken hiring systems, and the hidden truth about scaling a business without losing your soul is something nobody…
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SE01 E08 Strong Teams Are Built When Leaders Refuse To Panic | with Abdol Moabery
The broken system of corporate leadership was exposed during COVID and most CEOs failed the test. Abdol Moabery did not. While giants were laying off thousands…
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SE01 E07 Success comes from belief, risk, and relentless focus | with Lindsay Gorrill
What does it take to go from accountant to building multiple gold mines across the world? In this episode, we sit down with Lindsay Gorrill, CEO of Star Gold…
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SE01 E05 The Culture Formula That Turns Small Businesses Into Winners | with Matt Vetter
The construction industry is filled with outdated leadership models, broken growth strategies, and the uncomfortable reality that most companies scale chaos…
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SE01 E05 Leadership And Collaboration In Project Management | with Michael Giaramita
In this conversation, Michael Giaramita shares his journey of building high-performance teams through his company, Group PMX. He discusses the challenges faced…
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SE01 E04 Growth Without Control Will Break Your Company | with Christy Kovac
Navigating an ESOP transition to firing the wrong leader and rebuilding alignment from the ground up, Christy Kovac, President and CEO of Sheridan…
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SE01 E03 Most Engineers Are Terrible Leaders & Why It’s Killing Teams | with Mike Falk
In this conversation, David Quick and Mike Falk discuss Mike's journey from serving in the Navy to founding Falk PLI, a company that innovates in the steel…
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SE01 E02 Growth Without Retention Is Failure in Disguise | with Justin Cramer
In this conversation, Justin Cramer shares his journey into leadership and entrepreneurship, detailing the founding and growth of ProShip, a leading high-speed…
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SE01 E01 Candor over diplomacy is key in leadership | with Matt Aston
In this episode of The High Performance Herd, host David Quick sits down with Matt Aston, CEO of GPRS, to unpack what it truly takes to build and scale a…