Leadership and Teamwork in a Crisis

In this episode of Le Podcast, I’m joined by Jeremy Brown, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Traveldoo (Expedia Group). It’s an emotional conversation about leadership and teamwork during a year that hit the travel industry hard.Jeremy shares what it means to lead when you can’t control the context, how the pandemic forced deep changes in ways of working, and why leadership is both about direction and being human. We also explore how to move from meeting-heavy coordination to more asynchronous collaboration, how to make remote discussions more inclusive, and why continuous recognition beats big award ceremonies.In the conversation we cover:leading through an extreme business shockthe difference between leaders and managersleadership as vision, explanation, and humanityshifting from office-first to written, asynchronous workreducing status meetings with workflows and lightweight ritualsmaking remote collaboration more inclusivewhat energizes and drains leadersthe role of personality profiles (CliftonStrengthsFinder)feedback, recognition, and culture-building in hard timesenvironment and relationships as accelerators of growthCheck the companion blog post for the transcript and more!