Accelerate Your Performance
Accelerate Your Performance is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Pilcher, Managing Director of Studer Education and author of Hardwiring Excellence in Education. Every week, Janet highlights tactical and actionable strategies that leaders in educational organizations can hardwire to meet successful student, service, and people outcomes. Listen now, and you’ll see why it’s ranked by ListenNotes in the top 5% of podcasts worldwide.
As she introduces a variety of pivotal leadership practices from the 9 Pillars of Leadership Excellence, Janet underscores the importance of seamlessly integrating each practice to deliver positive and impactful results. For each leadership practice she introduces, Janet provides a solid foundation and then collaborates with coaching experts to dig deeper and demonstrate its practical application. Janet also interviews leaders and partners who excel at the tactics to hear about their implementation journeys, hurdles they’ve faced, and their notable achievements. To bring it all together, she offers a broader perspective on leadership, interviewing guests about a diverse array of topics on their paths to achieving organizational excellence.
Follow for weekly insights and actionable strategies to accelerate your performance and become your best at work!
Accelerate Your Performance
9 Pillars of Leadership Excellence: An Operating System for Results
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Join Dr. Janet Pilcher, Founder and President of Studer Education, as she reflects on four decades in education leadership and shares why this moment calls for greater focus, consistency, and action.
In this episode, Dr. Pilcher explains the 9 Pillars of Leadership Excellence—a practical leadership operating system designed to help organizations move from intention to results.
Listen to hear how leaders can:
- Establish consistent leadership behaviors and routines that build trust and alignment.
- Focus on what matters most to drive engagement, performance, and improvement.
- Create people-first systems that sustain excellence over time.
This episode sets the foundation for a deeper exploration of the 9 Pillars and invites leaders to reflect on where they are, where they want to go, and the next step they can take to lead their organizations to the next level.
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