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Hosted by Jay Lucas · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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Heavy Hitters is hosted by Jay Lucas, a 30-year executive recruiter and business owner with deep expertise in the heavy equipment sector. Each episode features candid conversations with top business leaders, unpacking the mindsets, traits, and strategies that lead to individual and organizational success. Jay’s unique blend of executive search experience and hands-on business ownership gives him a rare vantage point to help leaders level up.
Jay Lucas hosts Heavy Hitters - Built to Last: Strategic Insights from the Trenches of Big Industry, a business show with 12 episodes published.
What separates the companies that survive from the ones that dominate their markets? According to Andrew Ryan, it isn't bigger budgets or bigger brands. It's the willingness to see opportunities that everyone else overlo
How do you rebrand one of the most respected names in heavy equipment without losing the trust of a generation of customers? For Simon Wilson and the Hitachi team, the answer wasn't a quick fix. It was a two-year journey
Money matters. Everyone knows that. But after a certain point, it's not what keeps good people around. In this episode, host Jay Lucas talks with his partner Wade Massey, a recruiter who has interviewed thousands of cand
What if your service department became your most profitable asset? How much revenue is lost to non-billable work? And what if 210% growth came down to tracking every hour? In this episode of Heavy Hitters, host Jay Lucas
What does it take to untangle a decades-long joint venture, build a dealer network from scratch, and re-establish a global brand’s independent presence in North America, all in under two years? In this episode of Heavy H
Taking over as CEO is never easy. But imagine walking into a public company that’s been struggling in a tough global market for years. The backlog is massive, supply chains are a mess, and the team hasn’t seen a bonus in
Heavy Hitters - Ep. 5Why do nearly 50 percent of equipment dealerships disappear every 20 years? And what separates the ones that survive from those that struggle to keep up? In this episode of Heavy Hitters, host Jay Lu
What if your dealership’s biggest hidden opportunity isn’t new software or marketing, but the technician already on your team who wants more than just the next repair order? In a tight labor market, shops keep hiring but
What does it really take to scale a dealership organization without breaking the people, culture, or customer trust that made it successful in the first place? In this episode of Heavy Hitters, Jay Lucas sits down with E
Heavy Hitters - Ep. 2 What if the biggest barrier to sustainable growth in heavy equipment isn't market conditions, tariffs, or competition, but ignoring the 10–20% of customers who drive 80%+ of your business? Too many
What if the real reason companies struggle to grow isn’t their product, their market, or even their strategy, but how they think about people? Too often, organizations chase revenue and results without stopping to ask a
Heavy Hitters is hosted by Jay Lucas, a 30-year executive recruiter and business owner with deep expertise in the heavy equipment sector. Each episode features candid conversations with top business leaders, unpacking th
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Heavy Hitters - Built to Last: Strategic Insights from the Trenches of Big Industry is hosted by Jay Lucas. The show is categorised under business and has published 12 episodes.
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