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This series, hosted by Daniel Carter and Todd Curzon, supports newly promoted VPs and Directors in high-growth tech and related industries navigating their transition to strategic leadership roles. It features practical leadership transition frameworks, executive presence development, and tactics to influence across organizations without authority. Designed for leaders in mid-market to Fortune 500 companies aiming to meet the demands of expanded responsibilities beyond working harder.
Assured Leadership hosts The Velocity Executive, a business show with 21 episodes published.
This episode explores why Gen Z is less responsive to title-first leadership and how that shift is forcing managers to earn credibility through transparency, fairness, and clear reasoning. The hosts break down which auth
Newly promoted leaders often have the title before they have the trust, and this conversation explores why credibility is earned through clarity, consistency, and visible judgment. It also breaks down the small, repeatab
This episode unpacks how packed calendars can mask a deeper leadership problem: avoiding the hard work of setting direction, making trade-offs, and creating strategic coherence. It also explores why day-to-day urgency fe
This episode explores the discernment premium in AI leadership: why judgment, restraint, and standards matter more than speed for its own sake. The hosts also unpack false readiness, fragmented AI adoption, and how senio
Executives are using AI weekly, but frontline adoption is lagging far behind. In this episode, Daniel Carter and Todd Curzon unpack why that gap is not just a technology problem—it’s a leadership accountability problem.T
This episode breaks down why newly promoted directors get trapped in cleanup, approvals, and status-chasing instead of true leadership. The hosts introduce a simple way to spot shadow tasks, explain the difference betwee
Executives may celebrate AI adoption, but managers often experience the reality as extra review, unclear decision rights, and more work piled onto already full teams. The episode argues that the real barrier to ROI is or
Todd Curzon explores how AI is shifting from a tool to digital labor, forcing a collapse between the traditional roles of HR and IT. Learn how to manage a Unified Talent Pool using the new executive metric of Tokconomics
This episode breaks down why AI initiatives often stall when leaders focus on models and vendors instead of the harder work of workflows, trust, governance, and role clarity. The hosts explain how adoption, not novelty,
You were promoted because you were excellent. But the very mastery that got you here can become a liability at VP level.In this episode of The Velocity Executive, we unpack the competence penalty: why strong individual p
Leaders debate how AI agents are moving from assistants to embedded team members, with logins, permissions, and accountability forcing a rethink of the org chart. The episode explores how managers become agent bosses and
Daniel and Todd unpack why most AI pilots stall as flashy productivity tools, and why the real breakthrough comes when leaders redesign how work moves across systems, handoffs, and decision points.They explore the unglam
Discover practical leadership tools like empathy mapping, the SBI feedback model, and the Accountability Dial that empower new executives to foster trust, deliver impactful feedback, and drive ownership in their teams. T
Discover why true leadership success extends past the myth of quick wins and how new executives can build lasting impact through strategic relationship building and cultural insight. Learn practical frameworks to navigat
This episode, hosted by Daniel Carter and Todd Curzon, addresses the critical challenges new VPs face in their first 6-18 months, focusing on shifting from a manager mindset to strategic leadership. Topics include managi
In this episode, Daniel and Todd explore why striving for a flawless quarter can stifle learning and leadership development. They share insights on fostering psychological safety, reframing failures as experiments, and u
This episode exposes the costly trap of sticking to failing strategies—and the science behind it. Discover Annie Duke’s research on escalation of commitment, learn how to spot 'zombie execution,' and pick up practical fr
Newly promoted VPs face a daunting shift: what made them successful in technical roles won’t suffice at the strategic level. In this episode, Todd and Daniel break down the essential mindset, skill, and relationship chan
This episode explores the latest research on how executive reflection, strategic planning, and goal-setting drive high performance in tech organizations. Dive deep into actionable frameworks and evidence-backed tactics t
Most tech executives see December as downtime or a last-minute sprint, but the most successful VPs make quiet, strategic moves that give them a huge Q1 advantage. Todd and Daniel share the exact playbook top leaders use
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The Velocity Executive is hosted by Assured Leadership. The show is categorised under business (technology) and has published 21 episodes.
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