All Episodes

Ep 253 Succession Planning Simplified

Ep 252: Why Being the Expert Isn't Enough Anymore

Ep 251: Leadership Books Worth Reading This Summer (2026)

Ep 250: How AI Erodes Trust on Teams

Ep 249: What to Say When You Need to Hold Someone Accountable

Ep 248: When You Promote Your Best Employee and It Backfires: The Coaching Table

Ep 247: "Why" Is Not a Neutral Question

Ep 246: How to Respond to Angry Customers on Social Media

Ep. 245: Delegation That Actually Develops People

Ep 244: How Do You Get Senior Leaders to Stay Strategic? (First, Change the Question)

Ep 243: Coaching a Leader Stuck Between a Chaotic Boss and a Frustrated Team

Ep242: Grit, Power, and Strength: Leadership Lessons from Lisa Davis

Ep241: Roundabouts and Stop Signs: A Framework for Letting Your Team Move

Ep240: How Leaders Actually Use AI: The Four Choices That Shape Every Decision

Ep239: Building Trust: A New CEO & a Hostile Culture - The Coaching Table 1

Ep238: Alignment: Get it and Keep it (Free Workshop)

Ep237: AI and Your Personal Board of Directors

Ep236 Beyond the Algorithm: What Leaders Bring That AI Cannot

Ep235: Teams and the Value of Structure, Why Design Shapes Performance

Ep234 The Four Choices Every Leader Makes

Ep233 How to Give Feedback People Can Actually Use

Ep232 Stay off the Field

Ep231: From Ally to Changemaker with Megan Fuciarelli

Ep230: From Problem Solver to Leader: How to Stop Doing and Start Developing Your Team

Ep229 Building a Coaching Muscle (GROWTH) - First Friday

Ep228: Ally Leadership with Stephanie Chung

Ep227: TrueSuccess Blueprint - Living Mindfully & Scaling Smart: The Foundations of Sustainable Leadership

Ep226: If your culture could talk with Tom Krause

Ep225: TrueSuccess Blueprint - Thriving Teams and World-Class Ideas: Building a Culture of Growth and Innovation

Ep224: Elements of Human Transformation (First Friday)

Ep223: TrueSuccess Blueprint - Delighting and Growing a Healthy Client Base: The Secrets to Long-Term Success

Ep222: Leading Through Turbulence

Ep221: TrueSuccess Blueprint - Creating Greater Good & Financial Freedom: Leading with Purpose and Sustainability

Ep220: Accountability in Action - First Friday

Ep219: Introducing the TrueSuccess Blueprint: The 8 Goals That Guide Humanergy’s Growth

Ep218: Summer Reading List

Ep217: The Leadership Pyramid

Ep216: Helping my people with their backpack (First Friday)

Ep215: What Great Teams Do great Issue #13 The team disagrees with the organizational direction

Ep214: Being a leader during crisis - and learning how to deliver a baby

Ep213:What Great Teams Do Great Issue # 12 - A team member has low morale

Ep212: What is the letter that only you can write?

Ep211: Managing your 'backpack' and your Personal Board of Directors (First Friday)

Ep210: Introducing Quay Eady, Humanergy Coach

Ep209: Family Business Best Practices - Erin Tolefree, Baldwin Richardson Foods

Ep208: Using AI to help take a load from our busyness backpack (First Friday)

Ep207: What Great Teams Do Great Issue #11 - How to help the leader with accountability

Ep206: What Great Teams Do Great Issue #10 - Our team meetings aren't productive

Ep205: Prioritization (First Friday)

Ep204: My backpack is overflowing - doing more with less (First Friday)

Ep203: Managing your 'backpack' through a role transition (First Friday)

Ep202: Simple structures for one-on-one meetings with direct reports

Ep201: Powerful Questions (First Friday)

Ep200: The Humanergy Leadership Podcast

Ep199: Sharissa Sebastian Deppen - Introverted Female Leaders

Ep198: Don't Feed The Elephants with Sarah Noll Wilson

Ep197: Leading with empathy (First Friday)

Ep196: Who Looks After The Leader?

Ep195: Non-Profit Collaboration and Merger

Ep194: Family business best practices - Brazeway

Ep193: What Great Teams Do Great Issues #9 - Team in conflict

Ep192: How to talk different viewpoints at work (First Friday) with Bill Doherty (Braver Angels)

Ep191: What Great Teams Do Great Issues #8 - dealing with a 'superstar'

Ep190: Openness to Feedback - First Friday

Ep189: What Great Teams Do Great Issue #7 - Team is risk averse

Ep188: Bernie Mullin, Reimagining America's Dream

Ep187: WGTDG Issue #5 A new team struggling to get up to speed

EP186: WGTDG Issue #6 - A team struggling with addressing conflict

Ep185: A jazz band at a leadership conference

Ep184: Handing over the keys

Ep183: WGTDG Issue #4 - The team lacks energy and imagination

Ep182: WGTDG Issues #3 A team struggling to communicate

Ep181: Family Business Best Practice - Caster Concepts

Ep180: WGTDG Issues #2 Everyone is busy putting out fires

Ep179: High and low trust cultures

Ep178: WGTDG Issues #1 People on my team are frustrated

Ep177: Family Business Best Practices - Dee Cramer

Ep176: Lighten your backpack

Ep175: Transformative Discussion Part 2 (First Friday)

Ep174: The CEO & Organizational Structure

Ep173: Be curious, not judgmental - Searching for intent

Ep172: Family Business Best Practices - Cadillac Products

Ep171: Cone in a box

Ep170: Transformative Discussions (Part 1) - First Friday

Ep169: Creating Space

Ep168: Family Business Best Practices - Imperial Beverage

Ep167: Behavioral expectations of the team

Ep166: Making Decisions (First Friday)

Ep165: A personal board of directors

Ep164: Preparing to leave - the right glidepath

Ep163: Family Business Best Practices - Bergquist

Ep162: The Outdoor Leader with Jeannette Stawski

Ep161: Stakeholder Mapping (First Friday)

Ep160: Show your work

Ep159: Family Business Best Practices - Gallagher Uniform

Ep158: Working with Remote Teams (First Friday)

Ep157: Use vs Utilize - a 24th anniversary gift from Humanergy

Ep156: Preparing to leave (Ending well)

Ep155: Family Business Best Practices with Agroliquid

Ep154: Introduction and insight with new Humanergist, Jim Marshall

Ep153: Race & Power in the context of What Great Teams Do Great (First Friday)

Ep152: Murmerations

Ep151: The Sweet Spot of Collaboration (First Friday)

Ep150: How to listen to the Humanergy Leadership Podcast

Ep149: Intuition is just sub-conscious pattern

Ep148: A meditation on Notice, Stop, Think & Choose

Ep147: The Eisenhower Matrix

Ep146: The Centered Leader

Ep145: Making Meetings Work (First Friday)

Ep144: Are you doing the work you should be doing?

Ep143: Leadership & Aikido

Ep142: FACET a tool for behavior change

Ep141: Mission, vision & values

Ep140: The buzzard and the busy

Ep139: Nemawashi

Ep138: Eat the frog

Ep137: Learning from our choices

Ep136: Managing Interuptions

Ep135: Staying on the Green-Path, even when under pressure (First Friday)

Ep134: Leader Transition

Ep133: Mutual Understanding - ICUC

Ep132: Man City or Wigan Athletic? Who are you leading?

Ep131: The cost of inefficiency (time derailers)

Ep130: Why you might consider an MBA (retro edition)

Ep129: Letting Go

Ep128: Being micromanaged

Ep127: Think like a college coach

Ep126: Emotional Intelligence & What Great Teams Do Great

Ep125: The Work of Edgar Schein with Margie Hagene

Ep124: AI and Leading Change

Ep123: Green Path Choices (First Friday)

Ep122: Inklings

Ep121: When is my voice loud vs. helpful?

Ep120: Ready to be rescued?

Ep119: Understanding the feedback process

Ep118: The Team Set-up (First Friday)

Ep117: Altitude Chart

Ep116: Humanergy High Performance Organizational Survey

Ep115: Results not activity - a story

Ep114: Accountability

Ep113: Should they stay or should they go now (First Friday)

Ep112: Strategic Time

Ep111: The Power of Trend Lines

Ep110: Burnout and the Inner Hero

Ep109: More feed, less sandwich (First Friday)

Ep108: The Challenge of the "Get Stuff Done" folks in your organization

Ep107: Mid Career Women Leaders

Ep106: Calibration & CIMA (First Friday)

Ep105: Green Path Routines

Ep104: Resistance to Change

Ep103: Performance Reviews, let's not do them (First Friday Work Session)

Ep102: Dashboards

Ep101: Darja Gutnick of Bunch

Ep100: Anniversary Recap

Ep99: Making meetings work

Ep98: I get knocked down, but I get up again - Building resilience (First Friday)

Ep97: Safe Venting Spaces

Ep96: What it means to be a mentor

Ep95: The Leadership Listener (First Friday)

Ep94: Three Envelopes Story and why it is wrong!

Ep93: Development Decision Continuum

Ep92: Leadership is about choice (First Friday)

Ep91: Motivation

Ep90: Asking better questions

Ep89: Ctrl-Alt-Del

Ep88: Fire - a poem about the space between the logs

Ep87: Delegation - First Friday

Ep86: Succession Planning in Two Names

Ep85: What should we be graduating?

Ep84: Chris De Santis - Why I Find You Irritating At Work

Ep83: Continuous Improvement (First Friday)

Ep82: CIMA

Ep81: Meet me in Detroit

Ep80: How to reduce misunderstandings (First Friday)

Ep79: The airplane and the mountain

Ep78: Three Revolutions

Ep77: Virtual teams and a Hot Wheels car wash!

Ep76: Working women today

Ep75: Direction vs Destination

Ep74: How to do what is best for the organization (First Friday)

Ep73: The Authority Matrix

Ep72: Stakeholder Mapping

Ep71: The conversations we can't have and the power of having them

Ep70: How do I help my people get work done (First Friday)

Ep69: Letting go of certainty

Ep68: The Little Things

Ep67: Breaking the old ways of thinking

Ep66: Keeping focus on what is important (First Friday)

Ep65: How Men Can Become Effective Allies

Ep64: The Power of Story

Ep:63 - The CEO 5

Ep62: The value of networks for leaders

Ep61: How to get your people working together (First Friday)

Ep60: Finding spaces

Ep59: Building Trust & Credibility (First Friday)

Ep58: The Slippery Slope

Ep57: Notice, Stop, Think & Choose

Ep56: The Stages of Adventure

Ep55: Stay Interviews

Ep54: Corrie Rozell and how leaders need to 'manage' their speed

Ep53: Chutes & Ladders

Ep52: Moo! Leadership lessons from the (literal) field

Ep51: Millican's Rule

Ep50: Delegate to yourself last

Ep49: Feedback - less sandwich, more feed

Ep48: Being aware of other people's stories and history

Ep47: Establishing clear expectations for each role in a post-covid world with Honor Credit Union's Chief People Office, Katie Berry

Ep46: The Balance Chair

Ep45: Jon Rennie - Lead like a Nuclear Submariner

Ep44: Dr Priscilla Archangel - LeaderVantage - 7 essential steps to peak leadership

Ep43: Jeanette Stawski - CEO of the Association for Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE)

Ep42: Commander Von Gray - Being a LGBTQ+ Leader

Ep41: Jennifer Bedford - Onboarding interns in a virtual and tech world

EP40: Wanda Townsend - Helping female leaders find their voice

Ep39: Sharna Fabiano - Lead & Follow, lessons from the Tango

Ep38 - Cooperative Organizations and Pregnant CEO's with Liz Winninger

Ep37: Why most training doesn't work

Ep36: Reinventing Masculinity - Ed Frauenheim

Ep35: Keith Hollis, Skipper of the Ruby May about leading our trans-Atlantic sailing trip

Ep34: Entrepreneurial leadership with Aric Faber

Ep33: Starting a leadership book club with Heather Luciani

Ep32: A short holiday greeting

Ep31: Auditions rather than interviews with John Barrett

Ep30: Cmdr. Von Gray - Royal New Zealand Navy

Ep29: Dr Nakia Baylis - Chapter 9 - Equity, diversity and What Great Teams Do Great

Ep28: Firefighter Zen - Hersch Wilson

Ep27: Martin Walker - Police to Priest

Ep26: Don Barnes Leading with 130 remote locations

Ep25: Priscilla Archangel - Leading EDI work from inside and outside an organization

Ep24: How NOT to weaponize the leadership choices you make!

Ep23: Scott McFarland on the leadership transition from quarterback to coach

Ep22: John Clark, CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on leading in government and the non-profit world

Ep21: Cheri DeClercq and why you might want to consider an Executive MBA

Ep20: Part 2 of Leading law enforcement and Black Lives Matter

Ep19: Leading in Law Enforcement during COVID & BLM (Part 1)

Ep18: Margie Hagene - Humble Inquiry: creating an environment for learning and critical thinking

Ep17: Virtual team building with Lance Satterthwaite

Ep16: Facilitating large zoom work sessions with Corey Fernandez

Ep15: Carlos Rangel - Leading diversity efforts in the asset-management industry

Ep14:Thor Flosason - Online learning

Ep13: Shabnam Chaudhri - Policing as a woman of color

Ep12: Judy Brown - Resiliance - "I Get knocked down, but I get up again"

Ep11: Leadership Reading List

Ep10: Leadership is about choices - are you slacktive?

Ep9: Bronston Clough - Transitioning from the military

Ep8: Judy Brown - Leadership & Poetry