"Recalculating Route..." with Joel Junker

<p>Joel Junker was always told that leaders get results, and that leaders are measured based on the results that they get. But, after decades of building an identity around results — Army officer, Notre Dame grad, and a 27-year career helping military leaders transition into business, he realized it all came with a cost that he didn&#39;t fully see until life stopped cooperating with his plan.</p><p><br></p><p>In this conversation, Joel traces the slow erosion of a control-driven leadership model and the unexpected forces that accelerated it: a Gonzaga master&#39;s program that quietly rewired how he thought about people, his wife&#39;s breast cancer diagnosis, a climb up Mount Adams, and a Jesuit priest who spent 25 years in Soviet prisons and came out talking about surrender. The result isn&#39;t a story about slowing down. It&#39;s about finally leading in a way that&#39;s actually sustainable — and, it turns out, more joyful.</p>