HeyJaredThe Visionary Chronicles
I spent 20 years in executive roles at Oakley, adidas, TaylorMade, and K-Swiss — then built and sold my own brand to a VC firm.
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The Road to Visionary Leadership Series | Strategic Foresight & Vision Planning | Chronicle 2 of 8 | CHRONICLE 246 (opens the original)
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EPISODE 246 | SERIES | The Road to Visionary Leadership | A Step-by-Step Guide | CHRONICLE 2 | Strategic Foresight and Vision Planning | July 2026 Kodak invented the digital camera and declined it. Foresight is not prediction — it is preparation. Here is step two. Episode Description: This is Chronicle 2 of The Road to Visionary Leadership — an eight-part step-by-step guide from Bryan Smeltzer, drawn from his bestselling book The Visionary Leader and three decades of executive leadership at Oakl
The Road to Visionary Leadership Series | The Mindset Shift Every Visionary Leader Makes | Chronicle 1 of 8 | CHRONICLE 245 (opens the original)
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SERIES CHRONICLE 1 OF 8 | The Road to Visionary Leadership | The Visionary Chronicles Podcast | July 2026 Episode Description: This is Chronicle 1 of The Road to Visionary Leadership — an eight-part step-by-step guide from Bryan Smeltzer, drawn from his bestselling book The Visionary Leader and three decades of executive leadership at Oakley, adidas, TaylorMade, and K-Swiss. In this opening module Bryan breaks down the five disciplines that build a Visionary mindset: separating the laws of your
HUMAN + AI LEADERSHIP | How Visionary Leaders Balance Machine Intelligence with Human Judgment | CHRONICLE 244 (opens the original)
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Machine or human? It is a false choice — and the leaders who accept the framing have already lost. CHRONICLE 244 | The Visionary Chronicles Podcast | The Visionary Leader | June 2026 Takeaways: The four things AI cannot do — and why they are what leadership has always been about How to draw the judgment line using reversibility and stakes — and why irreversible stays human The fluency trap — why confident AI output is the real risk, and the three habits that defeat it The human premium — why tas
Abraham Lincoln | The Visionary Leader Who Preserved the Soul of a Nation Through Unwavering Commitment | CHRONICLE 243 (opens the original)
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN | The Visionary Leader Who Preserved the Soul of a Nation Through Unwavering Commitment | EPISODE 243 He failed more publicly than most leaders ever will — then led a fractured nation through its darkest hour and never wavered. In this premium episode of The Visionary Chronicles, Bryan Smeltzer profiles Abraham Lincoln as the ultimate study in Visionary commitment — drawn from Chapter 7 of his bestselling book The Visionary Leader. Bryan breaks down how Lincoln's commitment was f
How Visionary Leaders Decode the Future | Insight Separates Visionaries from Managers | THE INSIGHT | The Visionary Leader | CHRONICLE 242 (opens the original)
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How Visionary Leaders Decode the Future | Insight Separates Visionaries from Managers | EPISODE 242 CHRONICLE 242 The Visionary Chronicles Podcast BOOK RELEASE! The Visionary Leader, The Success Principles of The World’s Greatest Visionaries Welcome back to The Visionary Chronicles, the podcast that explores what sets true visionaries apart from everyday leaders. Before we dive into today's episode, I'm excited to share that my new book, The Visionary Leader, The Success Principles of The World’
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