How a CEO Built Leadership Capacity + Created a Ripple Effect in His Entire Team | Byron Cannon

You’re exceptional at your job. That isn’t the problem. The skills, the experience, the judgement, you’ve spent years building those and they aren’t going anywhere.

The question is whether you’ve still got the capacity to use them. Enough in the tank for the project that matters. Something left for the people at home afterwards. The momentum to get where you told everyone you were going.

And the wave is coming either way. A bigger year, a harder quarter, a team asking more of you than it did last time. Capability isn’t what keeps you upright when it lands.

Byron Cannon has the capability. He is the CEO of LDK Seniors’ Living, a business about to triple in size, and a year ago he worked out capability wasn’t what he was running out of. Andrew and Byron walk through how they built Byron's leadership capacity to sustain his performance and how this rippled onto his leadership team.

Byron didn’t do anything you couldn’t do. He just did it before he had to.

00:00 Why senior leaders really get pushed out

07:12 The hotel room phone call: “I can see burnout on the horizon”

11:02 Inside Byron’s full physical and psychological assessment

13:41 Dr Tom Buckley on what the data showed

20:20 Love, decency and kindness: the mission to change retirement living

26:33 Larry the gnome and how LDK builds its culture

29:46 The mindset shift: treating leadership capacity as strategy