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Episode 50: Lead As a Resource, Not With Your Title: Rosa Medina-Cristobal on Rebuilding DART's Workforce
Episode 50: Lead as a Resource, Not With Your Title: Rosa Medina-Cristobal on Rebuilding DART's Workforce
"Instead of asking what your employees are doing wrong, ask what tools, support, or resources they're...
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Blessed Are the Flexible: Building a Culture of Adaptability Across a Workforce You Don't Employ with Doran Barnes
Episode 49: Blessed Are the Flexible: Building a Culture of Adaptability Across a Workforce You Don't Employ with Doran Barnes
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be broken." ~Doran Barnes
What does it...
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Access to Opportunity: How Charles Frazier Is Rebuilding Transit by Going to the People Doing the Work
Episode 48: Access to Opportunity: How Charles Frazier Is Rebuilding Transit by Going to the People Doing the Work
"Go to the people that are doing the work.” ~Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier took the city bus to...
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Why Leadership Patterns Repeat Themselves: Breaking the Cycle with Recursive Leadership Theory
Episode 47: Why Leadership Patterns Repeat Themselves: Breaking the Cycle with Recursive Leadership Theory
"The system will keep reproducing itself until somebody inside it decides to reproduce something better."...
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Pause, Listen, and Lead: The Psychology of People-First Leadership with Shakira Naraine
Episode 46: Pause, Listen, and Lead: The Psychology of People-First Leadership with Shakira Naraine
"Catch people doing something right every day." ~Shakira Naraine
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Every leader knows the pull to...
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The Problem Solver: How Tiffany J. Gunter Rebuilt Trust and Redefined Transit for an Entire Region
Episode 45: The Problem Solver: How Tiffany Gunter Rebuilt Trust and Redefined Transit for an Entire Region
“I made one promise walking into those garages. Whatever you bring me, we're going to fix it and fix it for...
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It's Not About You: Building a Brain Trust That Leads from 40,000 Feet with Dawn Distler
Episode 44: It's Not About You: Building a Brain Trust That Leads from 40,000 Feet with Dawn Distler
“Leadership is never about you." ~Dawn Distler
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Could your organization run well without you in...
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The CLIMB to People-First Leadership: Building Future Leaders to Innovate, and Serve with Derik Calhoun
Episode 43: The CLIMB to People-First Leadership: Building Future Leaders to Innovate, and Serve with Derik Calhoun
"Systems move organizations, people move systems.” ~Derik Calhoun
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What happens...
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Episode 42: Are You Ready? How Leaders Build Pipelines, Trust, and the Conditions for Their People to Thrive with Yvonne Lopez-Diaz
Episode 42: Are You Ready? How Leaders Build Pipelines, Trust, and the Conditions for Their People to Thrive with Yvonne Lopez-Diaz
"The people strategy IS the business strategy." ~Yvonne Lopez-Diaz
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Episode 41: The Power of Storytelling: How to Lead with Narrative to Build Trust, Mobilize Change, and Grow a People-Forward Business with Nikki Frenney
Episode 41: The Power of Storytelling: How to Lead with Narrative to Build Trust, Mobilize Change, and Grow a People-Forward Business with Nikki Frenney
"Anyone can lead if people trust them and like them. It has...
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What AI Can't Replace in a Great Leader
Episode 40: What AI Can't Replace in a Great Leader
"AI can think faster, write better, and analyze more than you. So the question isn't how do you keep up with it, it’s how do you level up what you bring to the...
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The Messy Middle: Why Your Growth Is Hiding in the Hard Parts
Episode 39: The Messy Middle: Why Your Growth Is Hiding in the Hard Parts
"Growth always comes out of the messy middle. Not the planning stage. Not the retreat. Not after you've figured it out. In the mess. Through...
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