Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter
The Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter offers concise, actionable leadership strategies for healthcare professionals. Delivered weekly, each issue features a short video, motivational insights, and expert resources, empowering you to enhance your leadership skills efficiently and effectively.
The Leadership Work of Repair: Navigating Missteps, Misunderstandings, and Misinterpretations.
In leadership, we often celebrate alignment, chemistry, and shared vision. We highlight the partnerships that “just work.” But what’s far less discussed, and far more instructive, is what happens when they don’t.
In a recent episode of The Curiosity Shop, two thought leaders that I admir...
Apr 01, 2026
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Rethinking Resilience: What Leaders Get Wrong About Burnout with author Paula Davis
Burnout continues to rise across high-demand professions, especially in healthcare, law, and other performance-driven environments. Yet many leadership approaches still treat it as an individual issue.
In this episode of The Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, Laurie Baedke sits down with Paula Dav...
Mar 30, 2026
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Failure Isn't the Problem. Wasted Failure Is.
Most leaders say they value learning.
Few have a system for it.
Especially when it comes to failure.
We:→ minimize it→ move past it→ or quietly carry it
But we rarely use it well.
And that’s the gap.
Failure isn’t what limits leadership performance.
Unprocessed failure is.
This week’...
Mar 25, 2026
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No One is Coming to Save You: Reinventing a Medical Career with Dr. Naomi Lawrence-Reid
There is a moment many high-performing professionals quietly encounter.
On paper, everything looks right. The credentials. The title. The trajectory. The years of disciplined effort have delivered exactly what was promised.
And yet, something feels off.
For many physicians and healthcare le...
Mar 23, 2026
Why Working Longer Isn't the Answer: The Leadership Performance Lever Most People Overlook.
High-performing leaders often share the same instinct when demands increase: work longer hours.
More meetings. More email. More late nights.
But the research is clear. This approach eventually backfires.
Time is finite.Energy is renewable.
In their well-known Harvard Business Revie...
Mar 18, 2026
Supporting Scientist Mothers: Leadership, Community, and Thriving in STEM
Across healthcare and academic medicine, many leaders are navigating two demanding worlds simultaneously: the pursuit of scientific excellence and the realities of modern parenthood.
For women in research and academic medicine, this intersection often creates a quiet but powerful tension. Insti...
Mar 16, 2026
Leadership Lessons on Courage, Reflection, and Service
Leadership often asks more of us than skill alone can provide.
It asks for steadiness when outcomes are uncertain. It asks for courage when the path is unclear. It asks for humility when we would rather appear confident than admit we are still learning. And it asks for reflection in a world tha...
Mar 15, 2026
The Discipline of Self-Awareness Why Humility, Not Ego, Sustains Leadership Performance.
You don’t have to be loud to have an ego.
Even the most thoughtful, analytical, and measured leaders can quietly protect their assumptions, defend their decisions, or resist feedback.
Ego isn’t about personality.It’s about posture.
And humility is the discipline that keeps it in check.
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Mar 11, 2026
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Calm Is A Competitive Advantage: Leading Wisely In A World That Won’t Slow Down.
The pace of change isn’t just accelerating. It’s compounding.
I'm frequently hearing a common theme in coaching sessions:
“It feels like the ground is shifting faster than I can recalibrate.”
My organizational clients are saying the same thing.
Workforce shifts.AI disruption.Margin pressure.Cu...
Mar 04, 2026
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healthcareleadership
humility
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
mentorship
performance
success
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Strong Leaders Don’t Outgrow Mentors, They Curate Them.
Perhaps you’ve noticed a trend in this month’s newsletters. By this point in the conversation, one thing should be clear:
Mentorship is not a phase.It’s a practice.
It’s not something you “complete” early in your career and then leave behind once you’ve accumulated enough experience or c...
Feb 25, 2026
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emergingleadership
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healthcare
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Mentor Early, Mentor Often: The Compounding Advantage Leaders Overlook
Most leaders don’t resist mentorship because they doubt its value.
They resist it because they think it’s something you do later.
Later, when they’re more experienced.Later, when they’re more confident.Later, when they’ve “earned” the right to ask for someone’s time.
That belief quietl...
Feb 18, 2026
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Mentorship vs. Sponsorship: If You Don’t Know the Difference, You’re Limiting Growth.
Mentorship and sponsorship are often used interchangeably.
They shouldn’t be.
While both are essential to leadership development and career progression, they serve very different purposes. And when leaders misunderstand or collapse the distinction, growth stalls in ways that are often invi...
Feb 11, 2026
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