S4:E129 (VIDEO)🎙️LIVE with SMSGT Jeff Willie, Ed.D., USAF (Ret.)🇺🇸

S4:E129🎙️LIVE with SMSGT Jeff Willie, Ed.D., USAF (Ret.)🇺🇸

Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ

Season 4:Episode 129 — LIVE with SMSGT Jeff Willie, Ed.D., USAF (Ret.) 🇺🇸

 

“Inspire until I expire.”

 

“Serving and adding value to people—people are my business.”

 

“Leadership is service to mankind—service to a calling larger than the person.”

 

Some leaders talk about service.

Others live it for a lifetime.

 

Join me for a powerful, values-driven conversation with Senior Master Sergeant Jeff Willie, Ed.D., USAF (Ret.) — a transformational servant leader whose journey from deep poverty in East Texas to senior enlisted leadership, professor, executive coach, and global mentor is nothing short of extraordinary.

 

📅 Thursday, December 18, 2025

⏰ 10:30 AM PT (San Francisco)

⏰ 12:30 PM CT (Dallas)

⏰ 1:30 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)

📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion

 

🔗 Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwillie02/

 

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👤 INTRODUCING MY GUEST

 

SMSGT Jeff Willie, Ed.D., USAF (Ret.) is:

•A 25+ year Air Force Senior Enlisted Leader

•Former First Sergeant & Superintendent of the largest DoD Joint Service Honor Guard

•Doctor of Educational Leadership

•CEO, Jeff Willie Leadership

•Maxwell Leadership Executive Program Leader

•Professor, mentor, author, and lifelong advocate for servant leadership

 

His life motto says it all:

“Inspire Until I Expire.”

 

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🎯 What You Will Learn

 

✔️ How servant leadership is built through humility, discipline, and consistency

✔️ Why your circumstances do not define your destiny

✔️ Lessons senior enlisted leaders wish they were taught earlier

✔️ How to transition from rank-based leadership to influence-based leadership

✔️ Why leadership is — and always will be — about people

 

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💬 Join the Conversation!

 

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country 👇

🙏🏽 What is one thing you’re grateful for today?

💬 Got leadership, transition, or growth questions for Jeff?

Post them below — we’ll answer them LIVE!

 

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👇 Your Turn After the Episode:

 

➡️ What are your three takeaways?

➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying immediately?

➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, educator, or teammate who would benefit from this conversation ❤️🙏🏾

 

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