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SightShift with Chris McAlister
Too many leaders lead for validation, not impact. And too many organizations are relying on overpriced seminars, gimmicky retreats, and leadership fads to develop their leaders. Are you ready to implement a transformational process to develop impact leaders who develop other leaders? www.SightShift.com
Episodes
- SightShift with Chris McAlister
Lunch with Chris: Cultures Are Caught, Not Taught
Culture isn't something you finish — it's a direction you hold every day. Chris McAlister, live every Wednesday at noon Eastern. Chris has spent over a decade…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterMy AI Agent Booked Me a Speaking Gig I Never Applied For
Dr. Chris McAlister's AI agent found an AI summit he had never heard of, submitted him to speak, wrote his talk title, and got him accepted. All he had to do…
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Lunch with Chris: The Elizabeth Holmes Stare Is in Your Building Too
Elizabeth Holmes is back in the news and a documentary clip has gone viral. That stare. Chris has seen it before — not just from Theranos, but from board rooms…
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Lunch with Chris: Greatness Is Holding the Door | 7 Humilities That Make You Great
Most leaders picture greatness as kicking the door down. Others hide as a wallflower so they never risk being invalidated. Neither one is greatness. Greatness…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterAI Outperforms 97% of Your Team. Not Because It's Smarter
AI will do better work than 97% of the people on your team. Not because it is smarter. Because it is not afraid. Fear is what keeps most leaders out of the 3%…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterAI Is Replacing Managers. What Jack Dorsey’s Block Got Wrong
AI will not rescue your company. It will not ruin it either. It is going to reveal it, and the first thing it reveals is what a leader thinks a manager is for…
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Lunch with Chris: Your Shortcut Is False Control | 3 Truths from the In-Between
You're in a limbo moment — the in-between where the old hasn't ended and the new hasn't started. And without realizing it, you're about to pull for a shortcut…
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Lunch with Chris: Life Doesn’t Owe You This | Breaking the Leadership Trap in a Limbo Moment
The arrangement you made with life was never signed. You did the work, built the discipline, pushed harder than most — and still found yourself in a…
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Lunch with Chris: The One Move Leaders Miss Inside Every Limbo Moment
You're in a circumstance you didn't choose and can't control. The moment you hit it, a mental mechanism kicks in — and the story your mind tells you out of…
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Lunch with Chris: What the Limbo Moment Is Actually Teaching You
You're not done and you're not starting. Nothing's over, but nothing new has begun. That's the limbo moment — and the mistake you make inside it sets the…
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Lunch with Chris: Your Mind Has a Filter — Most Leaders Never Know It’s There
Most leaders never think about their own thinking. They're reacting under pressure — driven by a mental filter they've never examined. The ones who see the…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterAI Never Forgets. But It Can’t Forgive. That’s Your Job as a Leader
AI will remember every mistake your team ever makes. It will never forgive one. In that gap sits the whole future of leadership, and the third pillar of The 3%…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterAI Is Killing the Career Path. 3 Things to Tell Your Team
The career path you were sold is on life support. AI is taking the entry level reps that used to build judgment, and the leaders caught in the middle are the…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterAI Will Make Most Leaders Dumber. Wisdom Is the 3% It Can’t Replace
AI will not make you a better leader. For most people it will make them dumber, by quietly taking over the one thing that made them worth following in the…
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Lunch with Chris: The 3% AI Can’t Replace
You can replace your human assistant with AI. What you can’t replace is the human who knows where to draw the line. Chris opens with his own swap — and a book…
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Lunch with Chris: AI Rescue Is Not a Plan
Your AI won't rescue you. It reveals you. Chris opens with a personal note, real stories of AI-obsessed bosses, and the question that defines your career…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterIf AI Can Do Your Work, What Are You For as a Leader?
If AI can do your work, what are you actually for? That is the question every knowledge worker is starting to feel, and this episode on AI and leadership sits…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterAI Is Not a Rescue Plan | Lunch with Chris
You pulled into the garage. You paused: should I be doing this? When AI can out-converse 97% of humans, the question it raises isn't about productivity. It's…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterYour AI Prompts Are an X-Ray | Lunch with Chris
If your team had to guess which messages came from you and which came from AI — would they know? Every prompt you write is an X-ray. Here's what yours is…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWhat 1,000 Leaders Revealed: 87% Hide Under Pressure | Lunch with Chris
We measured how over 1,000 leaders show up under pressure — and across 37 companies, one pattern kept repeating. At the C-suite level, 87% default to hiding…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterAI Doesn't Fix Bad Leadership. It Amplifies It.
AI doesn't make you a better leader. It makes you a louder version of the leader you already are. In this episode, Chris and Mark walk through the framework at…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterThe Data Nobody Has | Lunch with Chris
Most companies have data on revenue, retention, and engagement. Almost none have data on what their leaders actually do under pressure. SightShift® does —…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWhy You Want Your Competitors Using AI
In episode 2 of the 3% Shift series, Chris and Mark go deeper than the identity gap they named in episode 1, into what happens when the most powerful…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterNew Series: 3% Shift | The AI Conversation Nobody Is Having Correctly
Everyone is talking about AI. Almost no one is talking about it correctly. In this kickoff to a new SightShift series, Chris and Mark argue that the AI…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterThe Nine Stops Every Real Breakthrough Has to Hit
In the final episode of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris and Mark walk through the Culture Impact Script: the nine-stop framework SightShift uses to…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterOutsourcing Your Thinking Is Not a Plan | Lunch with Chris
Your AI tool outperforms 97% of people. Alice knows that — and she's running every decision through the model. Here's why that's exactly backwards, and what…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWhy Your Best People Are "Resisting"
In this episode of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris and Mark double-click on the second pillar of the SightShift culture model, Right Change, using the…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterBurpees Are Not a Plan | Lunch with Chris
If you're the leader who pushes harder when the team feels heavy, doubles intensity when the metrics stall, and confuses urgency for transformation — there's a…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWhy Most "Open Dialogue" Is Actually Manipulation
Most leaders say they want open dialogue. What they actually want is conformity. Chris and Mark open the Conflict pillar of the culture model and reframe…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWhy Your Team Resists Change
Most leaders treat resistance as a threat. The healthy ones treat it as data. In this episode, Chris and Mark double-click on the Change pillar of the culture…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterCalm Is Not a Plan | Lunch with Chris
Most leadership calm wears off the moment the hard conversation arrives. If you've been using morning rituals and mindfulness to feel steadier and nothing is…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterHype Is Not a Plan | Lunch with Chris
Most leadership hype wears off by the next Monday. If you've been chasing speakers, retreats, and motivation to move your team and nothing is sticking — here's…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWhat a $500K Retreat Can't Fix (But Truth Can) | Lunch with Chris
Every retreat has a porcupine-through-the-shower-ceiling moment. What doesn't is a leader willing to go first with the truth. This is the Company Retreat…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWe Ate Our Own Product Live | Lunch with Chris
We've been calling out dumb theater in everyone else's company for three weeks. This week, Chris turned the camera on himself. Chris read his own IFQ™ results…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterLunch with Chris: Is Your Leadership Training Just Dumb Theater?
What if the meetings, trainings, and retreats at your company are just... performative theater? In this episode, Chris breaks down three moments from Amazon…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterYour Team's Complaints Are Data. Here's How to Read Them.
Your team is telling you what they need. You're solving the wrong problem. In this episode of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris McAlister and Mark…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterLunch with Chris: Why Smart Leaders Keep Investing in Dumb Theater
Why do smart leaders keep investing in retreats, team-building, and leadership development that doesn't actually change anything? In the very first Lunch with…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterYour Team Doesn't Need a Slogan. They Need This.
Your team doesn't need another slogan. They need a leader who knows how to communicate vision that actually lands. In this episode, Chris and Mark break down…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterThe Anatomy of a Breakthrough (What Sports Movies Get Right About Leadership)
In this episode of the SightShift Podcast, Chris and Brett unpack the anatomy of a breakthrough, using iconic sports films like Rocky IV, Miracle, Remember the…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterThe Silent Killer of Strong Cultures
Chris and Mark unpack one of the most dangerous—and overlooked—forces in leadership and culture: drift. The slow, quiet erosion that happens when leaders stop…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterThis Is What Breaks Teams | Make Culture Your Edge
Conflict isn’t the enemy of culture. Unaddressed conflict is. In this episode of the SightShift Podcast, Chris and Mark go deeper into one of the most…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWhy SightShift Finally Told the Full Story
In this episode, Chris sits down with Mark Stanifer for one of the most important conversations in SightShift’s history. What started years ago as a leadership…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | Dave Vance | Story #10
In this episode, Dave Vance shares how a leader at the top of his game can still be drowning on the inside. Dave spent decades in pastoral ministry, leading a…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | Derek Janney | Story #9
In this episode, Derek Janney shares what happens when the “dream scenario” still leaves you asking who you are. After building a successful roofing company…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterChris McAlister Opens Up: Coming Out With the Truth Behind SightShift
Every leader has a part of their story they don’t tell. This is Chris’s. In this raw conversation with Daniel Juday, Chris shares the untold origin of…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | Salla Alajoki | Story #8
Chris sits down with Salla Alajoki, Senior Manager at Vaisala, whose journey with Figure That Shift Out started in Finland with a podcast and grew into a…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterThe Shift Every Lawyer Needs
What happens when a criminal defense attorney starts asking deeper questions about meaning? In this episode of the C-Suite Series, Chris sits down with Matthew…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | Jared Porpiglia | Story #7
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterHow Raymond Traendly Rebuilt His Firm from the Inside Out
In this episode of the C-Suite Series, Chris sits down with Raymond A. Traendly, Managing Partner at TK Law (formerly CPLS, P.A.), one of Central Florida’s…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | Kenworth Reeves | Story #6
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation—moments when leaders figured it out…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | Mike Clouse | Story #5
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out…
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#10Years10Stories | Ryan Magada | Story #4
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation—moments when leaders figured it out…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | David Sherry | Story #3
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | Tim McLeroy | Story #2
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterThe FreshPro Story: Friendship. Failure. Growth
From a 250-square-foot office with one desk and a shared bathroom to becoming one of the top watermelon shippers in the U.S., this is the story of FreshPro and…
SightShift with Chris McAlister#10Years10Stories | Reagan Pugh | Story #1
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterFinishing Well at the Top: John Carter’s Story
On his last day in the office, John Carter, President & COO of Nationwide Financial, shares the lessons of a 40-year career in financial services. Under his…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterFrom HR to Finance: Building Culture That Lasts
At Miles-McClellan Construction, rapid growth and market uncertainty put leadership under pressure. Instead of just tightening budgets or systems, they chose…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterWhy Confusion Isn’t the Enemy of Culture
When communication breaks down, confusion creeps in, and culture suffers. But it doesn’t have to. In Episode 4 of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris and…
SightShift with Chris McAlisterHow Leaders Can Turn Tension into Culture Strength
Every leader faces moments of tension: pushback in a meeting, resistance to change, conflict on the team. In Episode 3 of our Make Culture Your Edge series…