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Leadership Recalibrated™
by Lori Lalonde
A Leadership Series from Her Executive Ascent Inc. Leadership Recalibrated™ is a new lens on leadership for the modern era. It challenges outdated leadership advice and explores how women are uniquely positioned to lead in environments shaped by complexity, power dynamics, and artificial intelligence. Forget the recycled “be confident, lean in” playbook. This show gets tactical about what actually works. Each episode explores how leaders are recalibrating around three critical capabilities: Executive Judgment - Making clear, strategic decisions in complex environments. Strategic Influence - Navigating power, visibility, and decision pathways inside organizations. AI Leadership - Shaping how artificial intelligence informs strategy, governance, and leadership. Hosted by Lori Lalonde, founder of Her Executive Ascent Inc., the show features conversations with women who have learne
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The Frontier of Chaos: Why The Most Uncomfortable Role Is Usually The Right One
Margaret Leibovic had offers from GitHub and several established companies. Every one of them was in a management role. She turned them all down for the smallest company on the table, in an individual contributor seat. In this episode of Leadership Recalibrated™, I sat down with Margaret, who...
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Joyful Vitality: Why Healthy Was Never Supposed to Feel Like a Chore
Content note: This episode includes discussion of calorie counting, restrictive eating, weight & body image, and weight loss medication. Please listen with care. Healthy was supposed to make you feel better. For a lot of women, it became one more thing to get right. One more list, one more…
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Think Like The Bad Guy: How to Find the Holes in Your AI Product Before Someone Else Does
Ask a product team how their AI feature could be attacked, and the pause that follows tells you a lot. Petra Mifka's workshops start there. She gives the team a budget of 500 euros and a new job: you're the attacker now, so how do you break your own product? In her experience, once people see how...
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The Story Builder: Why What's Missing Matters More Than What You're Saying
The fastest way to get overlooked? Tell only half your story. In this episode of Leadership Recalibrated, I sit down with Niki McKinnell, a marketing executive who has spent two decades walking into companies that were operating reactively and building something proactive out of it. She calls...
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The Rubber Band Only Stretches So Far: Why Misaligned Leaders Burn Out Their Teams
Someone on your team is excellent at their job. So you promote them. That is how it works, and almost nobody questions it. Then things start to fracture. Deadlines get tighter. Processes multiply. People stop feeling included in decisions they used to be part of. Six months later you have a...
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Leadership vs. Stewardship: Why the Way We Measure Leaders Is Failing the People They Lead
We have been measuring leadership wrong for decades. Headcount managed. Teams grown. Revenue expanded. These are the numbers that build careers, pad resumes, and get leaders promoted. And almost none of them tell you whether the people underneath those leaders are actually thriving. Shirah Huff…
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Not Technical Enough, Not Strategic Enough: Dinah Davis on Building Code Like a Girl
Dinah Davis spent eight years at BlackBerry, first as a software developer, then leading the team that built cryptographic protocols nobody had built before. She has a master's degree in cryptography and the patents to prove it. None of that stopped her from being told, at different points in her...
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The Menopause Mindshift: Reclaiming Your Power When Everything Feels Like It Is Falling Apart
Most women navigate menopause the same way they were taught to navigate everything else — quietly, alone, and without complaining. Our mothers did not talk about it. Our grandmothers did not talk about it. And so when the symptoms arrived, we pushed through, wore the mask, and told ourselves it…
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Inclusion Starts With I: How Women Can Shape The AI Era Before It Shapes Them
Most of the technology shaping our world right now was not built with women in mind. The algorithms deciding who gets hired, who gets promoted, and whose ideas get amplified were built largely without us, trained largely without us, and are now being deployed at a scale that is moving faster than...
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AI Is Not A Strategy: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI Adoption and What to Do Instead
Every leadership team is talking about AI right now. The slide decks are full of it. The board presentations reference it. The press releases announce it. And on the ground, the people actually responsible for building and delivering are quietly panicking because nobody gave them the time, the...
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Bold Women, Sustainable Futures: Rewriting the Rules of Leadership for a Changing World
Sustainability is not just about the environment. It never was. At the heart of every climate policy, every economic model, every sustainability report is a deeper question — whose voice is centered, whose leadership is legitimized, and whose values are prioritized. And right now, in 2026, the...
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Nothing's Written Down and No One's Talking: Why Most Business Transformations Are Set Up to Fail
Most business transformations fail. Not because the strategy was wrong. Not because the budget ran out. Because nobody wrote anything down and nobody was talking to each other. That is not a dramatic oversimplification. That is what Jessica Caresse White walks into every single time. In this...
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The Hiring Gaps Nobody Wants to Talk About: Women, Work, and What Needs to Change
The hiring process is sending signals to women long before the first interview. In the job posting. In whether the salary is listed or conspicuously absent. In how flexibility is framed or not mentioned at all. Women are reading every one of those signals and making decisions based on what they...
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Stop Surviving The Room: How High-Achieving Women Reclaim Their Voice, Their Time, and Their Power
You have been in the room. You have done the work. You have delivered the results. And somehow you still walk out of meetings feeling like you left something on the table. That is not a you problem. That is what happens when high-achieving women are handed a leadership playbook that was never...
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The AI Double Standard: Why Women Get Punished for Playing the Game Everyone Said to Play
Everyone's telling women to use AI. Learn it, embrace it, or get left behind. So women do. And then they get penalized for it. In this episode, I dig into the research and I came with receipts. Most importantly, I share some positive stats we don't hear about. If you are a first-time manager…
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Beyond the Quick Fix: Joana Castro on Food Therapy and Reclaiming Your Health
We've all been handed the same playbook — eat less, move more, push through. And most of us have followed it faithfully while still feeling exhausted, disconnected from our bodies, and no closer to actually feeling well. Joana Castro has a different theory about why that is. And the answer isn't...
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The Power of Three: How Radical Generosity Builds the Career and Network You Actually Want
Most of us were taught to solve problems alone. To carry the weight of our careers on our own shoulders. To wait until we had the perfect answer before raising our hand or reaching out. But what if that instinct is exactly what's keeping you stuck? In this episode of Leadership Recalibrated, I…
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From Operator to Architect: How Women CEOs Scale Without Becoming the Bottleneck
You built the business from the ground up — and for a long time, being at the center of everything worked. But somewhere between steady revenue and real scale, that same drive starts working against you. Decisions stack up, the team stalls, and the operation gets messy. Sound familiar? In this...
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Empowerment Before Engagement: What Growth-Stage Companies Get Wrong About Their People
Most companies build Employee Engagement teams when what they need first is an Empowerment team. Yvonne helps growth-stage companies tackle scaling challenges—and one of the biggest gaps she sees is companies trying to fix engagement without first creating empowerment. In this episode, we explore...
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The Hidden Cost of Living In Your Head: How Mental Clutter Is Stealing Your Time
What if the reason you're overwhelmed isn't a lack of effort, but a broken system? In this episode, Shirah Huff, creator of The Kinetic Method™, shares how what started as a personal survival tool — protecting her time with her family while still chasing career ambitions — evolved into a…
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Energy in Motion: How Ancient Frameworks Are Reshaping the Modern Workplace
What happens when a high-achieving, award-winning corporate professional hits a wall she never saw coming? In this episode, I sit down with Julie Lafleur — former corporate full-timer turned wellness practitioner — to unpack the hidden cost of people-pleasing, chronic overperformance, and the...
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What Leaders Need to Hear Right Now: The Community Has Spoken And It's Time to Listen
I asked my LinkedIn community: "What is one concrete thing you wish leaders would do right now to better support their people?" The responses were honest and powerful. Then, at a networking event, I heard a C-suite executive say that to sponsor a woman, she needs to see a commitment to 80-100…
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Slow Down to Speed Up: Leading with Curiosity in a Culture of Urgency
Slow down to speed up. It sounds like a paradox but it's how better decisions get made. Cass Cooper, known as the "Chaos Whisperer", helps leaders interpret chaos instead of reacting to it. And it starts with slowing down enough to ask the right questions. In this episode, we explore how…
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From Burnout to Balance: A Microsoft Director’s Six-Month Reset
Your team is watching everything you do. When you message them on vacation. When you skip lunch for another meeting. When you don't take time off. Rekha Narang, Senior Director at Microsoft, learned this the hard way after burnout forced her to take a six-month leave. In this episode, we talk…
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Leading Humans, Not Just Projects: EQ for Engineering Minds
In this episode, Nikki Maginn shares a powerful and unexpected career journey from nuclear engineer to project manager and emotional intelligence educator. Drawing from her experience inside highly technical, male-dominated environments, Nikki unpacks why emotional intelligence is not a “soft...
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Purpose-Driven Business: What Building ACE & Co. Taught Antoinette Ellis About Women's Careers
Antoinette Ellis saw a gap: Women were entering STEM fields, but they weren't staying. And traditional recruitment wasn't solving the problem. So she founded ACE & Co not just to place candidates, but to prepare women for what they'll face in tech and help companies build cultures where women can...
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When Leaving Corporate Is Survival: Finding Purpose Through Healing
Amy Pons left corporate to escape toxicity. What she found on the other side changed everything. Through healing and recovery, she discovered her life's purpose as an energy coach and healer. Now she helps others navigate their own healing journey through Unlock the Magic. This episode explores…
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Menopause and Leadership: The Transition No One Prepares You For
Brain fog in meetings. Anxiety before big presentations. Sleep so disrupted you can barely function. And no one's talking about it. Menopause coach Lisa Boate joins me to break down what's actually happening during perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, and why these transitions hit women…
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Strategic Career Moves: Knowing When To Stay vs When To Go
Linda Fernandes Joseph knows career strategy. She's helped countless professionals navigate moves, negotiate offers, and position themselves for advancement. In this episode, we talk about what actually makes a career move strategic (hint: it's not just a better title), how to negotiate salary…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A Leadership Series from Her Executive Ascent Inc.
Leadership Recalibrated™ is a new lens on leadership for the modern era. It challenges outdated leadership advice and explores how women are uniquely positioned to lead in environments shaped by complexity, power dynamics, and artificial intelligence.
Forget the recycled “be confident, lean in” playbook. This show gets tactical about what actually works. Each episode explores how leaders are recalibrating around three critical capabilities:
Executive Judgment - Making clear, strategic decisions in complex environments.
Strategic Influence - Navigating power, visibility, and decision pathways inside organizations.
AI Leadership - Shaping how artificial intelligence informs strategy, governance, and leadership.
Hosted by Lori Lalonde, founder of Her Executive Ascent Inc., the show features conversations with women who have learne
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A Leadership Series from Her Executive Ascent Inc. Leadership Recalibrated™ is a new lens on leadership for the modern era. It challenges outdated leadership advice and explores how women are uniquely positioned to lead in environments shaped by complexity, power dynamics, and artificial...
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