Ep. 10 – Ships Survive Explosions Above the Waterline with Ian MacGregor

Ian MacGregor is the Founder and CEO of Skratch Labs, an active lifestyle nutrition company based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Ian MacGregor is a two-time National Champion cyclist and a former team captain. He is trained as a mechanical engineer and is currently working towards his MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Taking lessons from sport and putting them into practice in business, Ian has built Skratch Labs, which was ranked as one of the best places to work in 2020 by Outside Magazine.

A believer in Conscious Leadership and the power of teams, Ian is coachable and a lover of feedback. Ian has a unique angle on leadership through his definition of rational hedonism, which he describes as the intersection of theory and real world practice. This duality is a recurring theme when it comes to Ian’s principles on leadership, as he is a firm believer that opposing ideas can be useful and skilled leaders are able to pull value from better understanding each side. Ian truly embodies what it means to lead with curiosity.

“Everything at Skratch is aimed at getting better. As an organization, we don’t always have all the answers, but we listen and we act. We do so through our mistakes and also from the feedback we get from our customers and one another.”

Ian MacGregor

Founder & CEO - Skratch Labs

In this episode Ian MacGregor and nate discuss

Investing in your team in the long term and giving it enough time to flourish.
Creating a clear vision through core values that can be used to define how to act.
Balancing the values of encouraging individuality and understanding how actions impact those around you.
Challenging the norms in the world of business. Bringing the value of coaching, and feedback from sports into business.
Listening to understand better. Growing through letting go of the attachment to be right.
Performance time vs learning time. How leaders can give permission for workers to be in learning mode more often.
Check out Skratch Labs and connect with Ian MacGregor on LinkedIn.
See what Nate Leslie (CEC) is up to and connect on LinkedIn.

Command and Control Leadership is Dead. We interview leaders, entrepreneurs, and Certified Executive Coaches challenging old paradigms and fostering cutting edge leadership. The brain behaves very differently when ‘encouraged to think’ rather than ‘told to listen’. Hosted by Nate Leslie – Certified Executive Coach (M.Ed., ACC, CEC) and former professional athlete. You can also find all episodes at Nate Leslie – Certified Executive Coach.

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