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.
Self-Awareness is a Performance Variable
Most leaders invest heavily in skill development.
Far fewer invest in understanding the instrument delivering those skills.
That gap becomes more visible with every level of leadership.
You can be technically strong, decisive, and highly productive and still create friction in ways t...
May 13, 2026
decisionmaking
leadership
performance
promotability
selfawareness
trust
Aligned, Not Alike. The New Standard for High-Performing Teams.
There’s an invisible pressure many leaders carry:
I need to be good at everything.
Strategic. Relational. Operational. Visionary. Decisive. Empathetic.
Well-rounded.
But that standard is not just unrealistic. It is ineffective.
The most impactful leaders are not well-rounded.
They ...
May 06, 2026
adaptability
alignment
change
collaboration
diversity
leadership
performance
reflection
selfawareness
strengthsbasedleadership
teamwork
uncertainty
Lifelong Learning in Leadership: Staying Relevant in a Changing World with Andrew Wade
Some leaders build organizations that depend on them.
Others build organizations that move without them.
That distinction is not about talent. It is about how leadership is developed, practiced, and scaled over time.
In this week’s conversation on the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, Andrew ...
May 04, 2026
changemanagement
culture
curiosity
decisionmaking
healthcareleadership
humility
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
successionplanning
High Standards, Harsh Voice: When Excellence Turns Against You
There’s a conversation happening in every leader’s mind.
It’s constant. It’s fast. And often, it’s far more critical than anything you would ever say out loud to your team.
For high-achieving professionals, this internal dialogue is often framed as discipline, accountability, or a commit...
Apr 29, 2026
accountability
achievement
advancement
burnout
credibility
criticism
excellence
leadership
leadershipperformance
perfectionism
reflection
resilience
selfawareness
selfcompassion
selfcriticism
selftalk
stress
wellbeing
Psychological Safety Starts With You
Psychological safety is often discussed as a team dynamic, a cultural aspiration, or an organizational goal.
And it is all of those things.
But at its core, psychological safety is a leadership behavior, modeled, reinforced, and sustained through how leaders show up, especially when it m...
Apr 22, 2026
coachability
coaching
culture
curiosity
feedback
growthmindset
healthcareleadership
humility
leadershipbehaviors
leadershipdevelopment
learning
psychologicalsafety
selfawareness
trust
vulnerability
Where Strategy Meets Humanity: Aligning Culture, Ownership, and Leadership with Nicole Jones-Gerbino.
Strategy is rarely the problem.
Most leaders know how to set direction, define priorities, and articulate a vision. Yet even the most thoughtful strategies can stall once they meet the reality of people, pressure, and competing demands.
Execution is where leadership is tested.
In this week'...
Apr 20, 2026
accountability
adaptability
adversity
chaos
clarity
culture
empathy
engagement
execution
healthcareleadership
influence
leadership
ownership
performance
resilience
retention
strategy
uncertainty
Leading Through Tension: How Psychological Safety is Built
Psychological safety is not built in moments of ease. It is revealed, and reinforced, in moments of tension.
The week before last, I arrived a little early to a rural critical access hospital in the Midwest for a quarterly leadership development session.
As I walked into the room, the grou...
Apr 15, 2026
conflict
culture
healthcareleadership
leadership
performance
physicianleadership
psychologicalsafety
tension
trust
vulnerability
The Unspoken Side of Grief: What We Get Wrong, and How to Show Up Better.
Grief is one of the few experiences in life that is both universal and inevitable. And yet, for something we will all encounter, either personally or through those we care about, it remains widely misunderstood.
In this week’s episode of the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, I sat down with Dr. J...
Apr 13, 2026
compassion
emotionalintelligence
empathy
executivepresence
grief
healthcareleadership
humancenteredleadership
leadership
loss
physicianleadership
support
Psychological Safety Is Not Soft. It's Structural.
We talk often in healthcare about systems, strategy, and performance. But one of the most powerful drivers of all three is often misunderstood, or overlooked entirely.
At a recent hospital board retreat in the South, I closed a Saturday keynote on leadership. As the session wrapped, a surg...
Apr 08, 2026
conflict
culture
healthcareleadership
leadership
performance
physicianleadership
psychologicalsafety
tension
trust
vulnerability
Networking Isn't a Career Tactic. It's a Leadership Skill.
Most high-performing professionals don’t struggle with competence.
They struggle with connection.
Not because they lack relational ability, but because networking has been framed incorrectly, as something transactional, time-consuming, or self-promotional.
So they opt out.
They focus on exe...
Apr 06, 2026
advice
connections
growth
healthcareleadership
leadership
mentorship
networking
physicianleadership
professionalnetworking
sponsorship
success
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
accountability
growth
growthmindset
healthcareleadership
humility
leadershipdevelopment
selfawareness
trust
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
burnout
culture
engagement
healthcareleadership
leadership
performance
physicianleadership
stress
stressmanagement
wellbeing
