Growth Edge Leadership Podcast
A leadership podcast sharing insights from peak performers and top leaders on stepping outside of your comfort zone, overcoming adversity, and growing personally and professionally in order to achieve success.
Episodes
In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I'm joined by Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, FACS, for an important conversation, exploring the complexities of mental health and medicine. Dr. Cunningham is a retired professional tennis athlete, an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, the Section Chief of Endocrine Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Immediate Past President of the Association for...
In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a conversation with Dr. Toni Lam, Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, about the topic of coachability and its role in career advancement.
We examine:
- readiness for feedback
- unexpected coaching opportunities
- the role of refle...
In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, I sit down with Dr. Joyce DeLeo to examine the importance of coachability as we navigate career transitions and ascend in executive leadership, and the way that a lack of coachability can be a career derailer.
We discuss:
- Examples of high self-awareness, humility, and coachability
- Avoiding career derailers
- Leveraging re...
Jillian Bybee, MD, FAAP
In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a conversation with Dr. Jillian Bybee. Dr. Bybee is a physician, medical educator, coach, speaker, podcaster, writer, and advocate for healthcare wellbeing and fulfillment.
During our conversation, we discuss:
- the role of reflection in coachabili...
In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a fantastic conversation with Kevin Wilde, author of the book Coachability: The Leadership Superpower. Kevin is an Executive Leadership Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. He retired in 2015 from a 34 year corporate career in leadership and talent development at General Electric and General Mills.
We discuss:
In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, I discuss the topic of coachability with Dr. Cara King.
Dr. King is the Section Head of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (MIGS) and Medical Gynecology and the Program Director of the MIGS Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. She also serves as the Director of Innovation for Cleveland Clinic's Women's Health Institute and is a Vice President of the Academy for Surgic...
In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down with a long-time friend and colleague, Blake Lawrence. Blake had a stellar college football career, playing linebacker for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and after an early retirement due to concussions, he pursued his entrepreneurial passions. He founded and successfully exited his first company, a social media agency, and is the CEO of a second venture, opendorse, the l...
In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, we explore the topic of coachability in entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs are often perceived as uncoachable; perhaps because they're highly visionary, independent, driven, and resolute in their conviction that an idea has viability. To survive the start up journey and build a product or company requires confidence, courage, wise...
In this week's episode, we explore 12 attributes of highly coachable leaders, five barriers to coachabilities, and times when we need to double down on practicing or assessing our own coachability.
In this week's episode, we explore the business case for coachability, and what outcomes are produced when individuals are highly coachable.
Like most anything that's worthwhile in life, being a coachable leader doesn't come naturally or easily or comfortably. But, the positive impact that's achieved by coachable leaders is worth the effort.
When we think about coachability, I think ...
Happy New Year and welcome to Season Nine of the Growth Edge Leadership podcast. In this amazing season, we're going to flip the coin - explore the outcomes and impact of highly coachable leaders.
What does it really mean to be coachable?
What are the desirable outcomes of coachability?
What are the attributes of coachable leaders, and how do ...
Welcome back to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast. This season is all about mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching, and coincides with the release of my most recent book; Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance. I am so delighted to hear the positive feedback from so many of you about the impact of this topic and these episodes, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the number of you who have already pur...
Welcome back to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast. This season is all about mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching, and coincides with the release of my most recent book; Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance. I am so delighted to hear the positive feedback from so many of you about the impact of this topic and these episodes, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the number of you who have already pur...
In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, we discuss how sponsorship is vital to advancing individuals and supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within our organizations. While mentorship is important for development, sponsorship is where advancement occurs, hence it is important for male leaders, and critical for female leaders!
THANK YOU for listening in! If you're a long time listener, or brand new ...
Welcome back to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast. This season is all about mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching, and coincides with the release of my most recent book; Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance. I am so delighted to hear the positive feedback from so many of you about the impact of this topic and these episodes, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the number of you who have already pur...
This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching.
And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.
Links below.
This week, we're discussing ...
This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching.
And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.
Links below.
This week, we're discussing ...
This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching.
And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.
Links below.
This week, we're defining th...
Welcome to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast!
This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching.
And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.
Links below.
Welcome to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast!
This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching.
And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.
Links below.
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