Welcome to Confessions of a Vistage Chair, a podcast by Talent Harbor, where we have real, behind-the-scenes conversations with Vistage Chairs. They share honest stories and practical insights on leadership growth, peer advisory groups, and what actually happens in Vistage meetings.
Chris Quinn’s path to Vistage Chair is anything but conventional. He went from shaving his surfer hair at Officer Candidate School to commanding infantry platoons in the Middle East, serving as aide-de-camp to a two-star general, and eventually becoming president of a public biotech company, all before his wife sat him down and told him he was flat-out unemployable.
In this episode, Chris gets real about what the Marine Corps actually teaches you about leadership that no MBA ever could, why empathy and sympathy are not the same thing, and what it means to run a Vistage group the way a great coach runs a team.
Listen here:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e8-youre-unemployable-chris-quinns-midlife-pivot-that/id1872757018?i=1000762602542
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6PiJP6BFzCWrAcDKzP0s46
YouTube: https://youtu.be/s3D87TGZI8U