Navigating Leadership Shake-Ups and Rising to Challenges with Daniel Gizinski

Mission Critical: Defense Recruiting

Get ready to dive into leadership shake-ups and dealing with unprecedented 'Oh Crap' moments head-on with this week's special guest, Daniel Gizinski, Chief Strategy Officer at ComTech. In this episode, Dan shares insights into his deep family roots and early career choices, including a strategic move to gain independent experience and how his impactful work with major players like General Electric and Sierra Nevada has shaped his vision for enhancing global connectivity. As ComTech navigates a leadership transition, Dan unpacks the importance of transparency, shared vision, and team cohesion during times of significant change, and reveals the secret to creating elite teams.

You'll discover strategies for alleviating uncertainty and overwhelm during business transitions, how advancements in technology are driving innovation and breaking the mold in the industry, and tips on attracting all-star talent. So, if you're keen to create a thriving culture where everyone pulls together, rises to challenges, and feels valued and incentivized, this is the episode for you! Key points throughout include:

• Growing up with family generational connections in the satellite industry
• Forging your own path and independent success
• Driven by challenge and finding purpose in solving problems
• The essential traits of effective leadership
• Clarity in transition: The value of shared vision and transparency in leadership
• The unimaginable disruption taking place in the satellite industry
• Recruiting all-star talent and overcoming salary band constraints
• Fair incentives: Ensuring equitable recognition for team efforts
• Rising to the challenge and leading teams on short notice
• Navigating ‘Oh Crap’ unexpected yasks with adaptability
• Balancing success in career and family

"One of the things that I love is solving hard problems. And the thing that gets me out of bed every day is the opportunity to go look at something that is a problem that somebody else has given up on, where I feel like I can do something different and push it across the line." – Daniel Gizinski.

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Get connected with Daniel Gizinski:https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielgizinski/

Get connected with your host Katherine Jerald:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinejerald/

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