Hosted by Jeff Pelliccio · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 31 episodes
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Real conversations. Real leaders. Insights you can use. Highly Adaptive is where executives and change makers come to hear what's actually working—not what's being sold. Hosts Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie bring together operators, advisors, and industry leaders for candid 30-minute conversations that deliver actionable takeaways, not theoretical fluff. Every episode tackles what matters to leaders navigating change: AI strategy, digital transformation, growth tactics, team development, and the decisions that shape organizations. The approach is agnostic—no platform pushing, no vendor allegiance—just multi-perspective truth that helps you cut through noise and lead with confidence. Whether
Jeff Pelliccio hosts Highly Adaptive, a business show with 31 episodes published.
You've been told to remove friction. Speed everything up. Cut the steps. Automate the approvals. Make the whole thing frictionless. But what if the friction you're racing to delete is the exact thing keeping your busines
Every leader has lived the moment. Someone you thought was happy walks into your office on a Tuesday and tells you they're leaving. Your first thought is the same as everyone else's. What was the offer? If you've ever do
Summary You said yes again. To the client. To the new service line. To the second business you swore you could run alongside the first. It felt like ambition at the time. Six months later, the P&L tells a different story
Summary Before the pandemic, about 5% of paid workdays happened at home. Today it's roughly 25%. Remote and hybrid aren't experiments anymore. They're the operating model. So why does it still feel like most companies ar
Summary Your team is smart. Experienced. Capable. And they still won't make a decision without you. That's not a hiring problem. It's a culture problem — and it almost always starts at the top. In this episode, Jeff Pell
Summary You've identified the problem. Your departments are fraying. The silos are real. The revenue impact is measurable. Now what? In Part 2 of The Fabric, Not the Thread, Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie continue the
Summary You've sat in that meeting. The one where someone says "culture is everything"...right before cutting the program that proved it. This week, Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie sit down with DeLibra Wesley , founde
Summary You've felt the friction before. The meeting where marketing is celebrating lead volume and sales can't convert a single one. The initiative that stalled because three departments had three different scripts. The
Summary What's actually separating the organizations that are thriving right now from the ones that feel stuck? Most leaders point to technology, talent, or timing. Ericka Hyson makes the case that the real variable is c
Summary You've done the RFP. You've narrowed the field. You've sat through the presentations. And somehow, you still aren't sure who to choose. That's not a process failure. That's a signal that the process stopped too s
Summary You've read the leadership books. You've taken the courses. But nobody hands you a manual for the version of yourself that had no idea what they were doing...and was terrified for anyone to find out. In this epis
Summary You've felt it — that moment when a competitor launches something new and your whole team shifts into chase mode. Meetings get called. Tools get purchased. Playbooks get copied. And three months later, nothing st
Summary In this episode of Highly Adaptive , Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie are joined by Travis McGrew at Tracker , to break down a leadership reality most people experience but rarely name: clarity often comes after
Summary In this episode of Highly Adaptive , Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie are joined by Keith Weightman from Bullhorn to unpack what personal branding actually looks like when it’s done with intent—not gimmicks. Kei
Summary In this episode of Highly Adaptive , Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie are joined by Mark Hummel , founder of Toro Insights , to tackle a problem most staffing leaders feel every day—but rarely name: you’re colle
Summary In this episode of Highly Adaptive , Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie are joined by Mark Winter of WinSource Group to deliver a reset sales leaders need heading into 2026: clarity comes before decisions. Because
Summary In this season one retrospective episode of Highly Adaptive , Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie go behind the scenes on what they learned from launching the show—fourteen episodes, seven guests, and a surprising
Summary In this episode of Highly Adaptive , Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie get practical about something most leaders treat as seasonal—but the best companies treat as strategic: recognition. They unpack why gratitud
Summary How many staffing leaders are actually satisfied with their tech stack—not just tolerating it, but genuinely getting what they were promised? In this episode of Highly Adaptive , Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie
Summary In this refreshingly honest episode of Highly Adaptive , Jeff Pelliccio and Erin MacKenzie strip away the polish and get real about their AI journeys. Opening with Jeff's admission that his AI tools might know hi
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