Show Up as a Leader helps you lead authentically, break barriers, and make a positive impact, no matter your role. Dr. Rosie Ward leverages experience, stories, books, ideas, and insights to help further our understanding of ourselves.
What turns a hospitality executive into one of the most admired CEOs in Minnesota? 🏨
Rosie sits down with Richard Dobransky, President and CEO of Morrissey Hospitality, to unpack how his leadership evolved through crisis, growth, and hard-earned perspective. From bringing empathy into performance conversations to rethinking hiring practices that filter out great talent, Richard shares why better business starts with deeper humanity. He also reveals why being just 1% better each day can create extraordinary momentum over time.
Whether you lead a team, shape culture, or simply want to create a more human workplace, this episode will challenge you to listen closer, lead humbler, and build with people in mind.
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Key Takeaways:
- People-first leadership strengthens culture, trust, and performance.
- Performance issues often begin outside the workplace.
- Hiring needs human judgment, not just algorithms.
- Frontline insights reveal what metrics often miss.
- Great leaders pursue progress, not perfection.
