Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter
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 Wade, DHA, FACHE, FACMPE, FACHDM, CEO of OrthoSC, offers a grounded perspective on what it takes to ...
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 commitment to excellence.
But more often than we admit, it’s something else entirely.
It’s self-talk t...
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 matters most.
In the first two newsletters in this series, we explored what psychological safety is...
