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Legends on Legends: John Baigent and Brandon Vail

April 20, 2023

This episode we welcome John Baigent and Brandon Vail to our Legends on Legends Series.

John Baigent is the director of Bowman Associates and joins us from Auckland, New Zealand. John has spent over twenty years of his career in senior and general management roles and is a faculty member with me at Influential U. He’s combined his accounting background, experience as a financial advisor, and how education with Influential U to create a unique skill set that allows a significant competitive advantage with and for his clients.


Brandon Vail is the Chief Technology Officer with Convention Data Services. Brandon has over twenty years experience in managing tech products for both growth stage and large companies. He’s focused on building tech products people love and helping companies scale. Brandon is one of our long-time participants and first participated in our programs with Fundamentals of Transaction Program 4.


This episode we are continuing our “Legends on Legends'' series. At Influential U, we have a group that is held in our highest regard and admiration- this group is our Esteemed Alumni. Esteemed Alumni are those who have completed our four-year curriculum in transactional competence. The most ambitious of our Esteemed Alumni, our green berrets, if you will… study in a program known as Legends. Our Legends are often top performers in their fields and have experienced a level of satisfaction that only comes from years of deliberate practice and study. This program is led in fellowship with co-founders Kirkland Tibbels and John Patterson and this initiative includes a wide range of strategies to advance and expand their own application of Transactional Competence and pave the path in the study of Transactional Leadership.


Over the course of the next few months, we’ll have special episodes of the Influential U Podcast. I’ll be introducing our two guests and then getting out of the way so that you may experience the expertise and communication between two of our participants. If you listen closely, I believe that you’ll hear a level of Transactional Leadership that is quite novel in day to day conversation.