323- Brad Richardson on Empathetic IT Leadership and Building Team Trust

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Brad Richardson Brad Richardson is a consultant, speaker, and community builder with a diverse background that includes a career as an IT director and a touring musician. He is passionate about improving mid-management practices and creating more empathetic workplaces. Brad is working on initiatives like ‘The Silent Revolution’ and ‘The Corporate Interface’ to help businesses apply innovative principles across their organizations and improve employee experiences. Brad Richardson on Empathetic IT Leadership and Building Team Trust How can IT leaders create more empathetic and effective workplaces? In this episode, Brad Richardson- consultant, speaker, and community builder with a diverse background that includes a career as an IT director and a touring musician- shares his unique perspective on leadership that emphasizes empathy, transparency, and employee development. Brad discusses his “Silent Revolution” initiative to improve mid-management, the importance of advocating for technical needs, and how his experiences as a touring musician have shaped his approach to IT leadership.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to today's episode of Dissecting Popular IT NERds.
0:05.9	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Brad Richardson, an IT director in the
0:10.4	Renewable Energy Space.
0:12.1	Welcome to the show, Brad.
0:14.0	Thanks, Doug.
0:14.7	I'm really grateful to be here.
0:16.9	Yeah.
0:17.5	So really great having you on the show.
0:19.8	I'm going to dive right into this and just go right. You're doing a lot of work. If you go look at your LinkedIn profile and some of the things you're putting up on LinkedIn and stuff, you're really focused on some, I call it some big stuff. You know, the silent revolution, as you call it, and some other things related to that,
0:39.2	they feel like really important things that you're trying to push forward and bring to light,
0:44.6	you know, some important information and some important thoughts and stuff like that.
0:47.8	Can you tell us a little bit about that?
0:49.4	Yeah, I'd be glad to.
0:50.9	Silent Revolution is really my focus on management, but mid-management and the talent
0:58.9	pool a lot of companies have at that level.
1:01.7	It's actually springboarding off of a lot of other great work that's out there.
1:05.7	A lot of us feed from, right?
1:07.2	Rather, it's Simon Sennick or Adam Grant or a lot of great material that we're taking in
1:12.2	and that I know a lot of people in companies are, you know, they're getting ideas from,
1:18.8	but then having a hard time implementing or seeing, you know, change or effect in their, in the
1:23.9	companies. And so, Silent Revolution is part of an initiative on my part to build a community,
1:32.3	to be able to help people to practically apply a lot of these great managerial and company philosophies
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