John Dentico, Ed. D.. AIMP

Most leadership conversations start in the wrong place. They blame the workforce. They blame the generation. They prescribe new traits, new styles, new personality frameworks — and nothing changes.

Dr. John Dentico starts where the problem actually lives: inside the organization.

John is the founder of LeadSimm LLC and Throttle Up Leadership, a leadership consultant, workforce strategist, and host of the Throttle Up Leadership Podcast: 172 episodes, with 33 Five Star ratings, ranked #3 on Matchmaker.fm, with practitioners across every sector doing the work that matters. His diagnostic framework identifies the three structural failures driving the workforce crisis: values alignment, personal agency, and growth trajectory. Fix those three things and you don't have a retention problem. Ignore them and no amount of perks, ping-pong tables, or AI-powered HR tools will save you.

His thesis is direct: Gen Z didn't create the dysfunction. They exposed it. They are the canary in the coal mine — and the canary has left the building.

John is the author of Throttle Up: How to Accelerate the Impact of 21st Century Leadership and Throttle Up from the Field, Volume 1: Canaries in the Coal Mine — The Workforce Crisis Gen Z Is Exposing, a practitioner-grounded field report built on three major data sources: Gallup, DDI, and the Edelman Trust Barometer, and 18 expert podcast interviews. He is the creator of two proprietary methodologies: the TSWG Strategic Thinking Method, which surfaces the strategic data conventional planning misses, and the LeadSimm Leadership Impact Simulation, a multi-episode tabletop simulation that stress-tests leadership decisions against real-world complexity.

With 30 years of experience spanning national security, intelligence, healthcare, and the private sector including: co-authoring the National Strategy to Combat Identity Theft for the U.S. Department of Justice, serving as a special consultant at Johns Hopkins University, and guest instructor at the FBI Academy. John brings a rare combination of strategic rigor and practitioner credibility.

His tagline says it simply: Meaning is the New Money™.

He seeks guests willing to go past the talking points — experts and practitioners with hard-won insight into what it actually takes to build organizations where people choose to stay, grow, and contribute. If you have something real to say about leadership, workforce, talent, strategy, or the human side of organizational life, John wants that conversation.