APEX Performance
Apex Performance Podcast with Dr. Anthony Simmons explores how authentic relationships drive leadership, team performance, and organizational success. A retired U.S. Navy Captain and strategic leadership expert, Dr. Simmons shares practical insights on leadership development, team building, change management, and talent growth. Each episode delivers actionable strategies to help executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders build high-performing teams and achieve lasting professional success.
Episodes
18 episodes
Growth Mindset: Walking with the Mind
What separates leaders who continue to grow from those who get stuck in their ways? The willingness to keep learning.In this episode of Apex Performance, Dr. Anthony Simmons explores the power of a growth mindset and why intellectual cur...
Being Intentional: Deliberate Human Reasoning
Are you leading intentionally, or simply reacting to the next problem that lands in front of you?In this episode of Apex Performance, Dr. Anthony Simmons explores intentional leadership, the discipline of getting “to the left of the prob...
Career Championing: Preparation & Opportunity
Is working hard and performing well enough to move your career forward?In this episode of Apex Performance, Dr. Anthony Simmons challenges the idea that talent and hard work alone determine career success. Instead, he explores the powerf...
Human Excellence - D-Evolution to Enduring Success
Why do some people achieve success only to lose momentum, while others continue growing, adapting, and excelling?In this episode of Apex Performance, Dr. Anthony Simmons introduces his Five Dimensions of Enduring Success: Desire, Determi...
Coaching Across Cultures: Global Relationships
In this episode of Apex Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons explores what it takes to successfully coach, lead, and build relationships across cultures.Drawing from more than three decades of global leadership and Navy experience, D...
Organizational Culture: Purposeful Excellence
Why do some organizations consistently outperform others, even when they have access to the same talent, technology, and resources?The answer isn't strategy alone. It's culture.In this episode of APEX Performance Podcast, execut...
Communication Yields Trust: Let’s Talk!
Trust doesn't happen by chance—it begins with communication.In this episode of the Apex Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons explores why effective communication is one of the most essential leadership skills for building trust, str...
Coaching Organization: Leadership-coaching approach
What separates organizations that consistently grow from those that struggle with turnover, burnout, and disengaged teams?In this episode of the APEX Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons explains why leadership coaching is no longer...
Leading in Pressurized Environments: On-scene Leader
What separates leaders who thrive under pressure from those who crumble when everything is on the line?In this powerful episode of the APEX Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons explores what it truly means to lead in high-pressure en...
Self-Transcendent Leadership: SERVANT-Ship
What if the highest form of leadership isn't about leading at all, but about serving?In this powerful episode of the Apex Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons introduces his groundbreaking concept of Servantship. This leadership phil...
Upside-down Leadership
What happens when people occupy leadership positions but lack the mindset, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness required to truly lead?In this thought-provoking episode of Apex Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons introduces th...
The Leadership DNA Nobody Talks About
Are great leaders born, or are they developed over time?In this thought-provoking episode of APEX Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons explores one of the most debated questions in leadership: the difference between leaders and manag...
Change Management is about Trust through Communication
In this episode of Apex Performance, Dr. Anthony Simmons explores one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: navigating change while maintaining trust, alignment, and organizational performance. Drawing from his experience as a Navy l...
Confluence of Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence
In this episode of APEX Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons explores the critical intersection between artificial intelligence and human intelligence, revealing why emotional intelligence, trust, communication, and authentic relationships ...
The Truth About Team Building: Why Most Teams Fail (And How to Fix It)
What if the reason your team isn’t performing… has nothing to do with talent?In this episode, Dr. Anthony Simmons breaks down the real formula behind high-performing teams and why most leaders get it wrong. It’s not about t...
Coaching Love - Connecting Through Authentic Relationships!
What if the real key to leadership, performance, and lasting success isn’t strategy, but connection?In this episode, Dr. Anthony Simmons breaks down the powerful concept of “coaching love” and how authentic relationships built on t...
Command at Sea
What does it truly mean to lead when the pressure is real, the stakes are high, and people are counting on you? In this powerful episode of the APEX Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons shares hard-earned leadership lessons from...
Apex Performance Starts with Relationships
In the inaugural episode of the Apex Performance Podcast, Dr. Anthony Simmons shares a powerful leadership insight: lasting success begins with authentic relationships.Drawing from 28 years as a U.S. Navy Captain, global leadership exper...