The Well-led Podcast
Where professionalism meets imperfection. The Well-led Podcast invites leaders to explore the space where the need to get results meets the reality of managing people. Discover how to demonstrate care, support, and grace for your team–because the workplace needs human leaders. https://www.one23ltd.com Formerly the comfy chairs podcast.
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September 29, 2026 • 56 mins
What does it take to create an environment where people can thrive?
We close the quarter by connecting authenticity, creativity, and safety to the conditions people need to perform. Our guest, Scott Harvey draws on his experience in law enforcement and hostage negotiation to share his thoughts on rapport, clear feedback, and the conversations leaders sometimes avoid. He also shares his CALM framework: control emotions, ask good ...
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September 22, 2026 • 12 mins
What does it take to make work safer for people? In this lesson for effectiveness, Kate Johnson closes the month’s discussion of safety with three lessons drawn from conversations with Stephanie Lemek, Dr. Benjamin Ritter, and Jessica Donahue. She considers physical, financial, and psychological safety, then offers a practical method leaders can use: name what a job or assignment requires, and make the employee’s availa...
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September 15, 2026 • 60 mins
Safety is not simply a workplace benefit. It is a pre-existing condition that makes authenticity, creativity, critical thinking, and strong performance possible. In this episode, Kate Johnson talks with Jessica Donahue, founder of Adjunct Leadership Consulting, about what physical, financial, and psychological safety look like at work—and why all three are under pressure.
Drawing on Jessica’s experience as a trauma-inf...
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September 9, 2026 • 17 mins
What makes it possible for someone to admit a mistake at work?
In this Other Voices episode of The Well-Led Podcast, Stephanie Lemek and Dr. Benjamin Ritter explore how psychological safety shapes the employee experience. Stephanie explains why leaders create safety by acknowledging their own mistakes, uncertainty, and imperfection. Benjamin considers the relationship between a supportive environment and the responsibility each pe...
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September 1, 2026 • 11 mins
What does workplace safety mean beyond preventing physical harm?
In this episode of The Well-Led Podcast, Kate Johnson examines safety as a leadership skill—and as the condition that allows authenticity and creativity to flourish at work. We explore three forms of safety that human leaders must consider: physical safety, financial safety, and psychological safety. Kate connects each one to a practical leadership respon...
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August 25, 2026 • 13 mins
The Well-led Podcast is on a break! Enjoy this replay as a means of refreshing and staying grounded in the work of human leadership.
Clarity is one of the most practical leadership skills because it turns ideas into action. In this episode, Kate Johnson explores why clarity is the starting point for supporting employees and enabling performance. She explains how leaders create clarity in three key areas—purpose, communicati...
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August 18, 2026 • 11 mins
Leadership creativity is more than generating novel ideas. It is the thought work behind effective choice-making. In this Lesson for Effectiveness, Kate Johnson shares three practical activities leaders can use to strengthen creativity, examine problems from different perspectives, anticipate challenges, and make better-informed decisions.
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August 11, 2026 • 28 mins
Creativity is often misunderstood as artistic talent or spontaneous inspiration, but effective leaders know it is something much more practical. Creativity is the ability to imagine new possibilities, solve problems, adapt to uncertainty, and create environments where innovation can flourish. In this episode, Kate Johnson is joined by Glory Lichon, Melissa Norcross, and Kristen Pavle and Dave Gorum of Play Into Being to explore wha...
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August 4, 2026 • 11 mins
What does creativity have to do with leadership? More than you might think.
When many people hear the word creativity, they picture artists, musicians, or designers. In reality, and in leadership, creativity is something much broader and much more essential. Rather than artistic talent, leadership creativity is an expression of critical thinking: the ability to generate ideas, recognize the right ideas, and create the conditions w...
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July 28, 2026 • 11 mins
Authentic leadership is not about revealing every emotion or lowering expectations. It is about accepting your humanity while remaining accountable for results.
In this episode, you'll learn why grace is a leadership discipline rather than leniency, how psychological safety supports learning instead of comfort, why accountability and grace strengthen one another, and three practical habits that help leaders create cultures w...
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July 21, 2026 • 58 mins
What does it actually mean to be an authentic leader?
In this conversation, we explore why authenticity is much more than "just being yourself." Kate Johnson and Melissa Norcross examine humility as the foundation of authentic leadership, discussing self-awareness, trust, purpose, psychological safety, and the importance of recognizing both strengths and limitations. Along the way, they challenge common misconceptions about authe...
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July 14, 2026 • 18 mins
What does it really mean to be authentic at work? In this Other Voices episode, two contributors share very different experiences of authenticity, masking, self-expression, and organizational fit. Their stories explore why authenticity can become easier with experience, how workplace culture shapes our ability to show up fully, and why being multifaceted is not the same as being inauthentic.
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July 7, 2026 • 12 mins
Leadership doesn't require perfection. It requires humanity.
In this opening episode of the "Choosing Grace" series, Kate Johnson explores why authenticity is not simply a personality trait but a practical leadership skill. By embracing humility, integrity, and liberty, leaders become better equipped to build trust, navigate mistakes, remove barriers, and create workplaces where both people and results can thrive.
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June 30, 2026 • 48 mins
How do leaders produce results that last?
In this quarterly conversation, Kate Johnson reflects on the leadership lessons from the past three months—clarity, accountability, and feedback—and explains how they work together to create employee certainty. Joined by Glory Lichon, the discussion explores why support is more than encouragement; it is the daily practice of reducing uncertainty so people can do their best w...
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June 23, 2026 • 15 mins
Feedback is one of the most important ways leaders provide support—but only when it is grounded in clarity, delivered with care, and followed by meaningful action.
In this Lesson for Effectiveness episode of The Well-led Podcast, Kate Johnson summarizes the key leadership lessons from a month focused on feedback. Learn how to shift feedback from a moment of correction into an ongoing practice of support by adopting better mi...
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June 16, 2026 • 45 mins
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Feedback is not a one-time event, a required correction, or a gift someone should simply accept. Done well, feedback is an ongoing conversation that helps people understand the story of their work—the impact they are having, the progress they are making, and the support available to help them continue growing.
In this episode of The Well-led Podcast, Kate Johnson welcomes Kim Rohrer, owner of Patchwork P...
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June 10, 2026 • 22 mins
Feedback is one of the most practical tools leaders have for helping people grow, but many of us still hesitate to give it or ask for it. In this Other Voices episode of The Well-led Podcast, guests Mary Tettenhorst and Frank Sawyer explore why feedback can feel uncomfortable, how trust changes the conversation, and why effective feedback requires care, clarity, courage, and a willingness to learn.
Through their reflections, the...
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June 4, 2026 • 13 mins
Feedback is one of the core skills leaders use to provide support, but it only works when it is connected to clarity and accountability. In this episode, Kate Johnson explores why feedback matters, what makes feedback effective, and how leaders can prepare, deliver, and follow up on feedback in a way that is specific, credible, and kind. Listeners will learn how feedback completes the performance circuit that begins with expectatio...
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May 28, 2026 • 19 mins
Accountability is often misunderstood as punishment, correction, or control. In this episode of The Well-led Podcast, Kate Johnson reframes accountability as a leadership practice rooted in clarity, trust, communication, and shared understanding. You’ll learn how leaders create accountability before performance problems ever appear by setting expectations that make work visible, understandable, and achievable. Through practic...
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May 19, 2026 • 13 mins
As this season of The Well-led Podcast moves deeper into clarity, accountability, and feedback, it feels important to revisit the episode that started the whole framework: vulnerability.
Revisit this episode to consider why vulnerability is a foundational leadership skill and how leading well begins with self-leadership, self-awareness, and the courage to be human. You’ll learn what vulnerability actually means in a leaders...
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