Uncommon Impact
Uncommon Impact is a leadership podcast hosted by Nathan Whitaker—speaker, author, and Super Bowl–winning former NFL executive.
The show features thoughtful conversations with leaders from sports, education, business, and media, exploring how teams are built, how values are tested, and how leaders create lasting impact.
Each episode focuses on leadership, culture, decision-making under pressure, and living with purpose.
Uncommon Impact
Latest Episodes
Jim McKenzie: Leading Change, Casting Vision & Inspiring Hope
How do you lead people through change without losing them along the way?Jim McKenzie spent 24 years in education, including more than two decades in leadership, before stepping away from a job he loved without knowing exactly wha...
Nathan Whitaker: Own Your Role
What’s the difference between accepting your role and owning it?Nathan shares the unusual story behind The Soul of a Team—a book that began with a rejected 60,000-word manuscript and had to be completely reinvented—and then expl...
Andy Janning: Great Stories Aren't Safe
What makes a story worth telling — and a life worth living?Andy Janning has spent decades helping organizations and leaders tell better stories. But his own story has increasingly pushed him toward work that is anything but safe.I...
Chris Archer: More Than the Player
Former MLB All-Star Chris Archer spent 17 years in professional baseball, including 10 seasons in the major leagues. Today, as a Special Assistant with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he's using those experiences to help develop the next generation of...
Nathan Whitaker: Success vs. Significance: What Are We Really Chasing?
What does it really mean to make an uncommon impact?Years ago, Tony Dungy’s college football coach Cal Stoll told him, “Success is uncommon.” That idea eventually helped inspire our book Uncommon—and, years later, the nam...