Leadership Legion

Ahoy! We're the Leadership Legion Podcast. Our goal is to create a legion of nerds like us who want to become better leaders in our communities, in our organizations, and with ourselves. We do this by examining the words and actions of our favorite characters in nerddom, and understanding the lessons that they reveal to us with their stories. Our hosts, Adam and Travis, are consummate nerds who love to engage on this challenging and incredibly rewarding topic of leadership and do their best to apply these lessons to their lives. Dig in with us as we recount the stories of these characters and analyze different scenarios in which leadership applies.

Episodes

009 - Ripley

Ellen Ripley: Futuristic Freighter Pilot in Space. Where no one can hear you scream...except Ripley, she hears the Alien's screams as she kicks its xenomorph tail up and down the cosmos. What can we learn from this tough as nails "astronaut" (I...

July 14, 2021 • Season 1 • Episode 9 • 1:22:20

008 - Commander Shepard

Are you a Paragon or a Renegade? Adam and Travis are joined by Adam’s colleague Kate, also known as Calligraphie from Protagonist, to discuss the show’s first leader from a video game: Commander Shepard, the player character of the

May 12, 2021 • 1:24:41

007 - Alice

Alice in Wonderland! A classic story about a little girl who gets lost down a rabbit hole into a magical world called Wonderland. A tale of curiosity, of exploration, and imagination. Adam and Travis go down the rabbit hole and learn some in...

April 07, 2021 • 1:09:17

006 - Leonidas

Leonidas, hero of Sparta, the quintessential king’s king. His legendary stand at Thermopylae against the invading Persians under Xerxes is artfully depicted in the movie 300. Leonidas’ leadership is impressive, not only in the buildup to the...

March 10, 2021 • Season 1 • Episode 6 • 1:36:35

005 - Aragorn

Aragorn, son of Arathorn, heir of Isildur, and future King of Gondor. The man, the myth, the legend of the Tolkien-verse. He is a hero among heroes of fantasy. One of the most undisputedly popular and near perfect leaders of fiction. Indeed,...

February 24, 2021 • Season 1 • Episode 5 • 1:32:32

004 - Civil War (Iron Man vs Captain America)

What happens when two famous leaders go head to head, and how do their leadership choices make sense (or not) in the context of their circumstances? Adam and Travis bring their expertise from the previous two episodes to bear in a discussion...

February 10, 2021 • 1:40:41

001 - Captain Jean-Luc Picard

“Make it so.”Adam and Travis introduce a new podcast series about leadership lessons from icons of nerd and geek culture. To kick it off: Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Universally (pun intended) considered...

January 11, 2021 • 1:24:13

003 - Steve Rogers (Captain America)

“I can do this all day.”Simultaneously simple and complicated, Steve Rogers won the role of Captain America (and the hearts of Marvel fans everywhere) because of who he is. Steve Rogers believes in service above self and never backing d...

January 11, 2021 • 1:16:09

002 - Tony Stark (Iron Man)

“The truth is...I am Iron Man.”Adam and Travis examine the leadership qualities of Tony Stark in Marvel’s Iron Man Trilogy (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Iron Man 3). Arrogant, quick to judge, but very smart, Tony frequently acts off the cu...

January 11, 2021 • 1:18:19