Leave No Doubt.
In how you prepare. How you lead. And how you show up for others.
Leadership gets personal. We make decisions that affect people's livelihoods. We have difficult conversations. We take chances, make mistakes, and figure out how to move forward. Those experiences shape the leader we become. I didn't follow a traditional path to leadership, and I want to pass along some of the lessons I've learned on this journey to you.
I created LND Mindset to share what I've learned from my experience as a military bomb technician — where I spent time as both an operator and an instructor — and now, leading a business through fifteenfold growth as a CEO in government contracting.
Here, you'll find honest reflections on leadership, practical business and M&A tools, and leadership training currently in development. The goal is to give you something useful to put to work — with your team, in your business, and in your own life.
Understanding risk. Making the call.
As a military bomb technician, I learned to identify threats, question assumptions, and put safeguards in place before taking action. As a CEO, I've applied that discipline to different risks: acquisitions, investments, growth decisions, operational challenges, and the consequences those decisions carry for people.
The stakes and circumstances differ, but both demand preparation, clear judgment, and an understanding of what can go wrong — and what you can do about it. That perspective shapes LND Mindset: helping leaders identify, manage, and mitigate risk, recognize when more information is needed, and make the call when certainty isn't available.
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Articles
Honest reflections on leadership, culture, risk, M&A, and the personal side of leading.
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Structured programs for new leaders, executives, and teams — curriculum in development.
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Practical downloadable tools for readiness, valuation, working capital, and exit prep.
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Don't Kill What You Just Bought
There’s a line that floats around deal rooms: “Let them keep their horses.”
One Big Deal…Or a Handful of Small Ones?
M&A is kinda sexy. It can be exciting, challenging, rewarding, and risky.
Who Do You Want to Win?
These are my two boys. A weekend trip to Seattle for Monday Night Football triggered a leadership thought.
A few personal ones
Some of the posts that matter most to me aren't about deals or frameworks. They're about how this work feels when you're in it.
Leadership Success and The ADD Brain
Leading as a “functionally disorganized executive” — work in bursts, build a team around your gaps, and stop chasing the tidy CEO in your head.
What Fear Steals
Fear wins by making us wait. Holding back takes something from everyone.
An Old Blue Neon
After the bomb squad — a mid-level job and a borrowed baby-blue Dodge Neon. Struggle refines you.
From the bomb squad to the boardroom.
I'm Josh Herren — military veteran, former Air Force bomb technician (operator and instructor), and President and CEO of Yulista Holding. LND Mindset is where I share the lessons from that path.