The Practically Perfect Leader Podcast

This week I'm picking up right where episode 243 left off. If you already know Insights Discovery is way more than a personality profile, but you're still asking "okay, now what do we actually do with it?" — this episode is for you.

I walk through how I help individuals, teams, and whole organizations find their real starting point with Insights, and why the tool itself isn't where you begin — ...

I've talked about Insights Discovery on this podcast many, many times — it's core to everything I do. But if you've only ever gone through that first intro workshop and gotten your color energy profile, I want you to know: that's just the beginning.

In this episode, I'm walking you through the full Insights Discovery toolkit — all the programs, profiles, and workshops that exist beyond that fir...

This is it — the final episode in our Human Skills series, and it's the one that answers the question underneath all the others: so what? What actually changes when you build these skills?

In this episode, I walk through the ripple effect of human-centered leadership across five levels: starting with you, then the person in front of you, your team, your organization, and finally, the greater good. Be...

For the last six episodes, I've been asking you to look inward — self-awareness, mind management, curiosity, compassion, courage, trust. This week I'm flipping the lens outward. Reading the room is the skill that puts all of those inner skills to the test, because it's the moment you're face to face with someone who...

Trust isn't a personality trait - it's a skill!

In this episode, I'm breaking down what trust actually is, why vagueness is one of the fastest ways to erode it, and how Brené Brown's BRAVING framework and FranklinCovey's 13 Behaviors of High Trust can help you build it back.

I also talk about the piece we don't discuss enough: trust in yourself, and why it has to come before you can really build trust with anyone else.

This is the ...

I'm back with the fifth installment of the Human Skills series, and this time I'm pairing two skills that really work hand in hand: vulnerability and courage.

I break down what each one actually means, why they matter so much for building trust on your team, and the common barriers that keep so man...

We're four episodes into our Human Skills series.  In this episode - I'm tackling two skills at once because they're so deeply connected: empathy and compassion.

Empathy gets written off as touchy-feely, but it's actually the foundation of psychological safety, trust, and real connection with your team. Compassion takes it a step further - it's empathy plus action. I walk you through w...

This is the third episode in the series about the Human Skills series, and this week I'm digging into curiosity - one of the most powerful (and most underused) leadership skills there is.

I share why our brains default to certainty over curiosity, what that costs us with our teams, and two real stories that show exactly how a single curious question can change the outcome of a conflict or a conversation. I also break down how curio...

We're continuing our series, The Human Skills, and this week we're digging into skill number two: mind management.

Here's the core idea - your thoughts aren't facts, they're a lens. And that lens shapes everything: your feelings, your actions, and ultimately your results. I walk you through The Model (circumstance → thought → feeling → action → result) with a real leadership example,...

Over the next eight episodes, we're diving into The Human Skills, the abilities that separate good leaders from truly great ones. Not soft skills - but human skills. And we're starting at the root of it all: self-awareness.

I call it the pixie dust of leadership because it's where everything else b...