Lead With Influence
Lead with Influence is about influencing positive change — in yourself, your relationships, and your leadership. Hosted by executive coach Matt Norman, each episode distills insights from decades of experience helping people communicate with impact, lead with humility, and build trust across differences. These short, thoughtful reflections will help you grow in self-awareness, develop emotional intelligence, and show up more powerfully in your work and life.
Lead With Influence
Emotive Deflective Cooperative Championship Leadership
What does championship-level leadership actually look like in real life, under real pressure?
In this episode, Matt Norman breaks down a post-game interview that says far more about leadership than football. After Indiana’s historic win over Ohio State, quarterback Fernando Mendoza’s raw, unscripted reactions reveal three qualities that consistently show up in the strongest leaders.
Matt explores why being emotive in how you describe success, deflective with credit, and deeply cooperative in how you frame teamwork creates trust, alignment, and resilience. These aren’t personality traits or motivational slogans. They’re signals that a team is unified, process-driven, and capable of performing when it matters most.
Whether you’re leading a company, a team, or a community, this episode offers a simple but demanding blueprint for what national-champion leadership really looks like — and how to cultivate it where you are.