Dr. Brandon Kozar - Corporate Psychologist, Leadership Strategies, and the Ripple Effect

Staying Conscious with Meg & Aly

Happy New Year!! We are so excited to bring you our first guest of 2020 on New Year's Day! Dr. Brandon Kozar is a licensed clinical psychologist, who defines himself as a hybrid physiologist as he now primarily functions as a corporate physiologist, is the director of the Leadership Coaching & Development Program and the You Matter Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and still provides executive coaching and clinical psychotherapy in his own practice as well. In this episode, we discuss how he works with teams, leaders, and physicians to help them set up the environmental conditions to set them up for success. We discuss his analogy of how being the best widget maker doesn't give you the tools to lead and manage all the other widget makers , so that's where he comes in to provide leadership strategies and skills to become a better leader. He prides himself on providing content that allows others to walk away from his talks or sessions with tangible actions and how his work with leaders creates a ripple effect and allows so many others to benefit from these practical tools. Dr. Kozar tells us about his experience of being in the back of a cop car as a teenager and how that moment changed the trajectory of his life. We discuss mindset and how important it is to create habits that allow you to respond to struggle and adversity in a way that pushes you to grow. "It doesn't matter what happens to you, it matters how you respond." We end the discussion chatting about our favorite topic - relationships! Make sure you listen to the end, because he shares with us the best relationship advice he has ever received. We absolutely loved this episode and cannot wait for you to listen!