Welcome to On The Journey, Season One, Episode One. This is the first episode of the podcast and I couldn't have thought about a better first guest than James Dwyer. James is the Regional Vice President - Strategic Accounts Team South at Alteryx. And that's where James and I met and ever since then we develop our relationship and kept in touch with each other. James is not only a great person, but also a fantastic leader that has a very interesting leadership development journey, and he shares it all during the podcast. He talks about how he started performing the role of a leader even before getting the title and how important that is to start deploying leadership even before you get the title before you "become" and get a team. He also talks about his personal 12 month development plan into leadership that he put together very intentionally with his multidisciplinary set of mentors and how that helped him in his journey into leadership, I think is one of the most interesting parts of the episode. He talks about the traits of the people that he hires and how he interviews for those traits. And finally, one of the last kind of hints that I'll leave you today, is his Leadership Progression framework and how he thinks about leadership progression from Me, to Us to Letting Go and Transferring. And he talks about each one of those stages. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed interviewing James and you take a couple of things that you can go and implement today. Welcome to On The Journey.