Leaders Lens – Robyn Benincasa

This podcast episode of ‘The Leader’s Lens’ features Kurt Reinhart, Vice President of Learning Development, interviewing Robyn Benincasa, a world champion adventure racer, San Diego firefighter, and Keynote Speaker. Robyn shares her experiences and insights on building world-class teams, leadership, and personal growth. She discusses her book ‘How Winning Works’ and her nonprofit Project Athena, which helps survivors achieve adventurous dreams. Robyn emphasizes the importance of teamwork, resilience, and having a higher purpose. She explains her ‘TEAMWORK’ acronym for effective leadership and team building. The conversation covers topics such as purpose, standards, discipline, failure, coaching, and success.

Notes

Robyn shares about her nonprofit Project Athena, founded in 2008, which takes survivors on adventurous dreams as part of their recovery. She explains how they organize four big annual ultra-endurance adventures, training participants from start to finish. She describes how Project Athena helps participants transform their self-image emphasizing the life-changing nature of these adventures.

Robyn shares her experience with world-class adventure racing teams and introduces her ‘TEAMWORK’ acronym for effective team dynamics. She emphasizes the importance of mutual support, adaptable leadership, and collective strength. She provides her perspectives on key concepts such as purpose, standards, discipline, and failure. She emphasizes the importance of having a higher purpose, setting high standards, maintaining balanced discipline, and viewing failure as a learning opportunity.

Robyn advises listeners to set big goals that can’t be accomplished alone and to build teams to achieve these goals. She emphasizes the joy and success that come from accomplishing something significant with a team.