Leadership Huddle with Geoff Welch

Leadership Huddle with Geoff Welch

Leadership Huddle is a resource for developmental leaders who value communicating clearly, helping others smash limiting beliefs, and drawing the best work from themselves and those they lead. Covering topics related to personal and developmental leadership, self-management, delegation, and healthy mindsets, Geoff Welch uses each episode to help leaders like you enrich their people and build winning teams.

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November 19, 2025 56 mins
Donnie Hayes thought was going to be a dentist, but his friends knew better.Instead Donnie went on to become a Parks Director, now the Director of Parks and Recreation for Missouri City, Texas, and his whole world changed for the better.In this conversation we explore what leadership looks like when joy and service are at its core. Donnie shares how a single criticism from his childhood shaped his belief that every person dese...
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I want to tell you a short story about something I do every single morning.I like to take hot showers as soon as I wake up, but doing so pumps a lot of moisture into the air. So I need to run the fan in my bathroom for a while to pull that wet air out of the house. Especially at -30.But the fan in my bathroom is connected to one of the lights in my bathroom, so if I turn off that light, I turn off the fan.A normal person would just...
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It started with a cabin in Fairbanks and ended with a corporate boardroom in Houston—but the story in between could fill a book. And some of it actually did.In this episode, I talk with Megan Baldino, now Vice President of Operations Communications at CenterPoint Energy, about her journey from journalist to corporate leader, and how taking bold leaps shaped her life. From paddling the Yukon River for three months to leading na...
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November 9, 2025 17 mins
I think comparison gets a bad rap. And I think it’s because we’re thinking about comparison all wrong.The problem most of us have with comparison isn’t really about comparison at all. Without comparison we literally can’t know what better looks like. Our problem with comparison lies in what we compare ourselves to. And why.We’ve convinced ourselves that, “comparison is the thief of joy,” but in reality comparing ours...
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How in the world was Bill Schnabel supposed to know that  when he first arrived in Fairbanks with a truck, a dog, and no plan, he would be teaching a class at University of Alaska Fairbanks within 24 hours?As Dean of the UAF College of Engineering and Mines, Bill brings a performer’s energy to leadership, blending humility, humor, and humanity in every interaction. In this conversation, we explore how he connects performa...
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November 2, 2025 16 mins
So there I am. Minding my own business. Just listening to the new White Reaper album. Bothering absolutely no one. And then it happened…The end of the song “Blink” hits me with the lyric, “the truth was bad, but the lie was worse,” and I had to sit down and write about it.And because I’m feeling generous today, I’m going to hit you with TWO ways this simple lyric relates to leadership.The cover up is worse than the crimeWe’ve seen ...
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This episode almost didn’t happen.Technology conspired against me, but the show must go on, so I pressed some buttons, turned some dials, and figured it out.Stephen J Kohler  is the author of The Leadership Anthem and founder of Audira Labs, where he helps leaders unlock their potential through the lens of music. In our conversation, we explored how curiosity fuels both great bands and great organizations, why listening is the...
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October 26, 2025 12 mins
I don’t know why I didn’t see this sooner.I record my podcast using a Shure SM7B microphone.The Shure SM7B is an incredibly popular microphone for podcasters and I think most people use it because most people use it.It looks like a professional broadcast microphone, it sounds great, and, oh by the way, you’re going to see one (or more) in almost every video clip from a podcast.Most people aren’t going to do the homework to figure o...
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What happens when a team of software engineers quit their jobs to start a business together without a clue they will have to pivot almost immediately?When Chris Rouw and his colleagues left stable jobs to launch Far Reach, they didn’t have a perfect business model. And within a few months of taking the leap into the world of entrepreneurship, they had to shift gears and take their business in an unexpected direction.In this convers...
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October 19, 2025 14 mins
No one told him to do it, but it was such a brilliant expression of leadership.One of my favorite things to see on a baseball field is not something you’d ever expect.If I gave you 162 guesses, I’m absolutely certain you’d never guess it.It’s not a grand slam. It’s not a triple. It’s not a bunt to an undefended part of the infield that results in a double.It’s not a triple play or a no hitter.It’s when one batter makes an out, but ...
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I couldn’t believe I failed to ask him the most important question on my list.In this episode of Leadership Huddle, Scott McCrea, President and CEO of Explore Fairbanks, joins me to talk about humor, humility, and leading an organization that tells a community’s story, but I completely forgot to ask him about being a 3-time winner of the Chatanika Outhouse Races.Thankfully we covered a lot of other good ground. A lifelong Alaskan w...
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October 12, 2025 10 mins
I need to clear up some confusion.The goal is not to make more mistakes. That goal is to make more interesting mistakes.Because making the same mistakes over and over again is also known as “incompetence.”Making mistakes can be a valuable pathway to growth, but growth implies that those mistakes teach us something so that we can move on to the next, more interesting mistakes.An example:When running the bases in an important game, Y...
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I was two minutes into this interview when I knew it had completely gone off the rails.I want to introduce you to Steve Pratt.Steve’s response to my opening question, “what makes you weird,” was so good that I basically scrapped the rest of my questions and just enjoyed the ride.From producing offbeat kids’ shows to co-founding Pacific Content—the world’s first branded podcast agency—Steve has made a life out of leaning into the un...
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I was on the verge of a long night of peaceful sleep when this realization yanked me from my slumber and refused to let go of me.Every Major League Baseball player works on the fundamentals of baseball every day.They hit, they throw, and they catch. Before every single game.They are the best of the best. The top 1% of the top 1%.And every day they work on the basics.I find this fascinating because you would think the most elite pla...
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This conversation is so full of leadership gold.You wouldn’t believe how much didn’t make it into the final cut.Today I’m joined by Meadow Riedel, External Affairs Manager for Kinross Alaska, whose 25+ year communications career has intersected with some of Alaska’s most vital industries. From leading crisis response during the 2018 Anchorage earthquake to fostering trust-based partnerships in mining, Meadow shares candid insi...
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September 28, 2025 15 mins
“You’re the first person to say ‘please’ today.”It was after 6PM and the guy behind the meat counter at my local grocery store hadn’t heard the word “please” yet during his nearly completed shift.“That’s a rough streak,” I replied.“I mean, I can’t say ‘no’ if they don’t say ‘please’, but, you know…”I translated his incomplete sentence to mean, “it’s still nice to hear, even if it is my job to provide a service.”We exchanged a few p...
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Amanda Langhorst didn’t just find her career. She built a career around helping others find theirs.In this conversation, I talk with Amanda Langhorst, Program Director of the Applied Management program and Instructor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Business and Security Management. We talk about the power of self-advocacy, why listening is the most underrated management skill, and how purpose and impact can tr...
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September 21, 2025 15 mins
What she said was so backwards.And yet I couldn’t believe I had never heard it before.I was walking through Costco on a particularly rainy Saturday morning when I heard a worker conclude an interaction with a customer by saying, “enjoy the rain!”The person was being wholly genuine and my attention was immediately captured because I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use that phrase before.The idea that a rainy day is something to b...
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When Nicole Welch first began her career in HR, she never imagined she’d one day be representing healthcare before legislators, leading in an organization with nearly 2,000 employees, or serving as Chief Human Resources Officer of Foundation Health Partners, an independent health system that didn’t yet exist.In this conversation, Nicole – who also happens to be my wife – opens up about her journey from “accidental leader” to execut...
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September 14, 2025 15 mins
I was at an event recently and ran into a former leadership student I hadn’t seen in ages.I was really excited to cross paths and I asked them how they were doing after all this time.They laughed, told me they were well, and said they feel like they “see me” all the time because they get these messages.It’s a worthy reminder that the people around you are paying attention, even if you don’t realize it.They know what you say and the...
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