Jennifer webster: What a Quiet CEO Knows About Leading Loudly Through Change
Jennifer Webster, CEO of DispatchHealth, runs a company that delivers hospital-level care inside people’s homes. She leads a distributed workforce across multiple markets, steers through a healthcare system that changes the rules every year, and shows up with confidence at every town hall. She is also, in her own words, an off-the-charts introvert.
That tension is where the wisdom lives.
The Quadrant Most Leaders Are Afraid To Enter: A Conversation With Stephen Shedletzky
Stephen Shedletzky helps leaders suck less. One way of doing that is helping people create spaces where it is safe and worth it to speak up. Find out more here.
When Hard Things Become Your Best Teacher: What an ALS Diagnosis Taught This Leader About Resilience
Here's what most leaders don't realize until they're facing it: the crisis you're unprepared for doesn't ask permission. It just arrives. David Betts learned this on December 1st. What's remarkable isn't his response to an ALS diagnosis—it's what he said immediately after: "I think I've been preparing for this fight."
The Words You Choose Will Define Your Leadership: A Conversation With Margaret Aitken
Learn how authentic storytelling shapes leadership. Margaret Hagerty on why your words matter more than your strategy—and how to communicate during change.
What Horses Know About Leading (That You're Missing): An Interview with Marycay Durrant
Sometimes leading requires softening, and we can learn this skill through horses. Particularly Mares. Join Marycay Durrant and I as we talk about how to show up as a leader here.
Valorie Kondos Field and Sam Peszek on Walking With Your Team
Valorie Kondos Field and Sam Peszek join Foster Mobley on the Step Wise podcast to talk about grit, leading, and performing at your best.
Roberta Tinch: What a CEO by 34 Learned About Presence, Pace, and Leading People
Roberta Tinch became a hospital CEO at 34. Here's what she learned about delegation, slowing down, and why compassionate leadership isn't soft, it's smart.
What Real Leadership Actually Costs, According to a Four-Star General Spider Marks
James A. Marks, AKA “Spider”, former Commanding General of the US Army Intelligence Center, member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame, Founder of The Marks Collaborative, and so much more. I am thrilled to have had this fascinating two-part conversation with him.
What the CIA Taught Mike Mears About Building Leaders From the Inside Out
Mike Mears served as Senior Vice President at GE Investments and was the CIA’s Chief of Human Capital, where he started the agency’s leadership academy. Beyond that, Mike has managed businesses of all sizes and is an accomplished author who recently published a book,Certainty: How Great Bosses Can Change Minds and Drive Innovation. He embraces every role with authenticity, curiosity, and a desire to learn. And we’ve only scratched the surface.
Julie Kennedy Oehlert on Why Love Might Be the Most Underrated Leadership Skill
Julie Kennedy Oehlert went from ER nurse to healthcare executive by leading with one thing most leaders never talk about: love. Not the soft kind. The kind that actually builds teams.
What About The Matches: How Good Leaders Listen Today
So, what about the matches? As stewards for our organizations and the people within them, we need to listen to voices that may be different from ours and who offer new and novel insights as we move forward.