What If Your Biggest Leadership Gap Is Relationships? A Discussion with Dr. Posey.

Send us Fan MailMost leadership advice tells you to move faster, think bigger, and push harder. We’re taking a different road: the one where character, humility, and relationships decide whether your team actually follows you when it counts. I’m Tim Lansford, and I sit down with Dr. Posey, a seasoned pastor and mentor who’s led people through conflict, change, and the kind of real-life pressure you can’t solve with a spreadsheet.We talk about how leaders are formed, from his early pre-med years to decades in ministry, and why hands-on work matters. Mission trips, nonprofit build projects, and even tearing down a house became unexpected training grounds for practical skills, safe tool use, and confidence. If you’re in construction leadership, real estate leadership, or business management, you’ll recognize the same pattern: people grow when we let them learn in the field, not just in theory.Then we get blunt about what leaders need to unlearn. Dr. Posey shares the lesson he learned late: focusing on the “business” side while underinvesting in relationships costs you trust and momentum. We dig into mentoring, motivation, the Five Love Languages as a leadership tool, and the discipline of honest self-evaluation, including getting feedback from others. We also close with rapid-fire questions, dad jokes, and a quick look at his national parks journey.If you want practical leadership development with real stories and clear takeaways, listen now, subscribe, share it with a leader on your team, and leave a review.