Your Leadership Podcast

You Mon Tsang leads as an entrepreneur. Today, he is the CEO of ChurnZero, an AI-powered software platform for customer success – his fifth startup overall. 

This interview with You Mon covers his path from “employee”to “leader,” anchoring his journey in his “lead dog” identity.  Your Leadership Podcast consistently emphasizesleading and leadership in context, and You Mon’s private sector experience and success captures that sensib...

Ken Inadomi has been a leader in both private sector and nonprofit organizations, and he has spent decades honing his vision and practice through reflection in a journal, now published in book form.

This interview with Ken includes both the sweep of his leadership experience and vision and also concrete examples and illustrations from the different stages of his leadership career. The product is a usable template for a life in lead...

Andrew Frishman is the co-Executive Director of BigPicture Learning, a nonprofit organization that is at the forefront of innovation in education, building a network of schools that put students rather than standardization at the center of learning.

This interview with Andrew features a wide ranging tour of leadership practices that Andrew and Big Picture follow, from servant leadership to leading without formal authority, building ...

Your Leadership Podcast returns for Season 3 with this introduction that surveys key themes and topics to come.

Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim⁠ and ⁠Mike Madison kick off this two-handed episode by picking up where Season 2 left off - there is no one-size fits all leadership strategy; there is only context - and detailing some critical elements of that observation as prompts for this season's interviews:

How should leadership strate...

Your Leadership Podcast returns for Season 3!

In this brief intro, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison preview episodes and guests to come.

We will highlight overlaps and intersections among key leadership challenges and transforming technologies and practices: Generative AI in the workplace, in the home, and in all the places, spaces, and groups that define contemporary life. Creating and building as leadership goals contras...

In this finale for Season 2 of Your Leadership Podcast, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Michael Madison take stock of the season's interviews and guests:

What did we hear that confirmed our intuitions?

What did we hear that surprised or challenged us?

And most important, what do we take away and recommend to our listeners?

Your Leadership Podcast is about actionable insights. We've tied Season 2 together with a bow to make it...

Sean Casey, a retired American professional baseball player, is known as “The Mayor” for his personable demeanor both on and off the field. He was selected as an All-Star, played in the World Series, and finished a decade-long career as a .300 hitter – a sign of his talent and his consistency.  Since retiring from the field, Sean has continued in baseball as a media personality.  And he has put time and effort into community servic...

Dr Sarabajaya Kumar practices what she teaches, as a professor of leadership and the non-profit sector at University College London (and Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), and as a disabled woman with heritage from the Global Majority.  Sarabajaya is a volunteer leader and activist in the UK, Director of Impatience Ltd, working to increase funding for under-supported causes and advance social and environmental just...

Bridget McCormack is the President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution, or AAA, a global leader in providing alternative dispute resolution services. Before that, she was Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and a professor and dean at the law school at the University of Michigan.

In this candid conversation with co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim, Bridget shares...

Kimball Gallagher, celebrated, innovative concert pianist, explores how he leads both with music and through music. This episode of Your Leadership Podcast features Kimball's role as founder and leader of 88 International, an NGO that collaborates with public and private partners around the globe to help youth build large-scale music programs. 

With co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison, Kimball offers listeners an extraord...

Tara VanDerveer, the second-winningest college basketball coach in history, joins Your Leadership Podcast, recounting how she learned to lead, how she is still learning today, and how she practices leadership lessons.

Her stories help us explore a key theme of Season 2 of Your Leadership Podcast: how does a leader go about creating and maintaining an environment where colleagues - students - players - partners can succeed, individua...

What we have here is success in communicating, adapting a famous movie quotation and carrying forward our first key theme of the season: success and succession for leaders.

This episode pivots to the second of our key themes, what we are calling "curatorial" leadership. We borrow the idea of leaders "curating" an organizational context from the world of art and artifacts, in museums, archives, galleries, and othe...

In this second episode focused on succession planning as a leadership theme, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison dig into connections between leadership succession and leadership - and organizational - success.

Connecting concepts with practices, the conversation weaves in case studies of organizations and companies where succession planning has gone well - and where leadership transitions have gone poorly.

We add to that mix ...

We begin this season's tour of leadership themes with this interview with the incredible Dr. Xiaoyan Huang. The theme: succession and success.

Dr. Huang is a remarkable and accomplished professional both as a cardiologist and leader in clinical care in Portland, Oregon and as a volunteer leader in her community and across the US. Read about her record and career here, on LinkedIn.

Co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim invi...

We kick off Season 2 with this introduction to three key leadership themes that will occupy the season as a whole:

• succession and succession planning as critical leadership competencies;
• what we refer to as "curatorial" leadership - the idea that leaders are often "curators" of the people, values, and purposes of their organizations and groups; and
• differences and similarities between leadership in online and...

Your Leadership Podcast returns for Season 2. In this preview, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison highlight key leadership themes anchoring the coming weeks' episodes.

We have a fresh theme to pair with compelling conversations and usable takeaways for leaders and aspiring leaders alike.

Catch up on Season 1 via this series of short essays on LinkedIn.

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

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Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison dig into themes in a new book by Columbia University Business School professor Adam Galinsky, titled "Inspire: the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others." They work from a recent Harvard Business Review article from Professor Galinsky that summarizes its key points: inspiring leaders distinguish themselves by playing three key roles: visionary, exemplar, and mentor. The conv...

Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison tackle a key element of leadership in context. What's expected of a leader who steps into that role in an organization or community that already has an established history and culture? How does that differ from tackling leadership when starting fresh, building and leading from the ground up?

The case study for the conversation: religion and religious practices, both old and new.

Producer...