The Impact Multiplier CEO | Leadership and CEO Evolution for Scaling Businesses

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As a founder or CEO scaling your business, what do you do when the next big leap isn't happening fast enough? Most CEOs respond by making time for strategy, improving strategic execution, hiring stronger leaders, or working even harder. Eventually you hit a business plateau, because the real constraint isn't strategy or systems. It’s Leadership Leverage – your ability to make bolder decisions, break the CEO bottleneck, build executive team ownership, and create a scaling culture. And leverage grows when a CEO makes a defining move – an irreversible decision that changes who they must become to lead the next version of the business. That's what this show explores. The Defining Move is a podcast about CEO leadership for scaling businesses, and the CEO transformation that drives the next level of growth. Unlike other CEO leadership shows, we don’t discuss past successes. We watch what happens when elite leaders face high-stakes challenges. In every episode, Richard Medcalf hands one of the world's most accomplished leaders a fictional defining move, already made, that changes the trajectory of their business. You’ll learn from how they think and how they lead when the stakes rise. And you’ll discover the hidden sources of leadership leverage that take them to their next level, and will take you to yours. Richard Medcalf, founder of Xquadrant, CEO coach, and author of Making TIME For Strategy and The 10X Reckoning, has advised founders and CEOs of scaling businesses for over 20 years – from disruptive scale-ups to billion-dollar corporations – on CEO leadership, CEO transformation, and executive team development. The show helps founders and CEOs strengthen their CEO leadership, accelerate CEO evolution, and build businesses that can scale without becoming dependent on the founder. Episodes explore founder & CEO leadership, CEO transformation, CEO accountability, executive team ownership, vision execution, strategic execution, strategic leadership, strategic d