Pocket Sized Pep Talks

Disrupt-Adjust-Evolve-Change

Episode Summary

Change is all around us, and you either adjust and evolve, or you run the risk of being left behind. Rob sits down with A+E's President of Global Content Licensing & International Media Group, Steve MacDonald, and if you want a front row seat to change, pull up a chair and take a look at the media business. Steve has been driving his team at A+E through incredible disruption and evolution, and he’s here to tell you how he does it.

Episode Notes

In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you'll learn:

• How Steve leads a team that has so many different personalities, and cultures.
• How Steve not only works in a business that is constantly evolving, but his best advice on how to lead during these kind of times.  
• The many forms his leadership can take, from talking to his leadership team, addressing clients, or speaking at a town hall events where his entire department is present.
• A few common process moves he makes when taking a leadership role.
• Hi rise from “traditional linear TV” as he calls it, to  joining A+E with the not so simple task of finding ways to monetize A+E’s valuable library of content in the US and around the world. 
• Steve's particular BRAND of leadership.
• How Steve coordinates everyone’s efforts to work together as a cohesive unit.
• Having started right before COVID, the positive changes that resulted from such a difficult time for all of us.   
• As a true Road Warrior, Steve's thoughts about the never-ending challenge of balancing work life and home life.  
• A key mentor in Steve's life, and an amazing lesson he learned from that mentor.