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DAN JAHN

Dan Jahn · Free · Live on Zoom · Once a month

The Leadership Collective.

Once a month I open the doors to anyone who wants to lead better — no cost, no pitch, no recording to buy later. We meet live on Zoom for one hour on the second Saturday, and the room is yours.

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Next session · 11:00 AM Eastern · One hour

01The Invitation

An hour a month, on me.

Once a month I open the doors to anyone who wants to lead better — no cost, no pitch, no recording to buy later. We meet live on Zoom for one hour on the second Saturday, and the room is yours.

It's part teaching, part open conversation. I bring one idea worth an hour of your attention, then we work through the real situations people are carrying into the call. You leave with something you can use on Monday.

02What to Expect

Show up as you are. Leave with something.

One idea, taught well

Each session opens with a short, practical teaching drawn from the Iconic Leadership Matrix — a single trait or principle you can put to work immediately.

Open, honest Q&A

Bring the situation you're actually wrestling with. The most valuable part of every call is the live conversation — real problems, worked through in the open.

A room of peers

Executives, founders, and emerging leaders from different industries and countries, all thinking hard about the same craft. You learn as much from the room as from me.

Second Saturday of every month · 11:00 AM Eastern · One hour · Free

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03The Archive

Couldn't make it live? Catch up here.

Recordings from past sessions — the teaching from each month, ready when you are.

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    June 13, 2026

    Restraint: Choosing Usefulness Over the Spotlight

    Dan examines restraint as the discipline that separates iconic leaders from merely ambitious ones — the willingness to be useful rather than recognized, the way George Marshall and Tim Cook were. He asks where you might still be holding onto authority because it once needed you, and argues that the quietest, least visible contribution is often the one that builds lasting momentum.

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    May 9, 2026

    The Quiet Kingdom: A Living Model of Iconic Leadership

    Unable to find many iconic leaders on today's world stage, Dan offers one unlikely model: Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom where phones stay silent to protect the peace and the loudest sound is children playing. A meditation on leadership that protects harmony and values over noise and ego.

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    April 25, 2026

    Making the Numbers Mean Something: Turning Information Into Understanding

    Dan shares a project that collates the planet's overwhelming data into legible comparisons, and uses it to reflect on perspective and footprint. The leadership thread: information alone changes nothing — turning it into something people can absorb and feel is what moves them.

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    April 18, 2026

    When Trust Breaks: The Failure Leaders Get Wrong Most

    Dan calls broken trust the place leaders fail most consistently, and most often from fear. Building on weeks about transition and conflict, he examines what happens once trust is broken, and why repairing it — not dominating through it — is the real work of leadership.

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    April 11, 2026

    Leading Through Transition: When the Old Is Gone and the New Isn't Formed

    Dan looks at leadership in a moment of intense transition, technological and societal, when the old structures are fading and the new ones aren't yet formed. He argues the human capacities — empathy, curiosity, responsibility — are exactly what make a leader iconic when everything is mid-change.

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    March 28, 2026

    Leading Through Resistance: Why Building Something Better Invites Pushback

    Dan reframes iconic leadership as a practice anyone can build, then turns to resistance — the pushback that meets every meaningful leader, from Buddha to Steve Jobs. The lesson: resistance isn't a sign you're wrong, it's what shows up the moment you try to build something better.

04Free · Once a Month · All Are Welcome

The next hour together is Jul 11.

No cost, no pitch — just an hour of real leadership conversation. Bring the thing you're working through and join us live.

Second Saturday of every month · 11 AM Eastern