Courage, Composure, and Character: Leading at the Highest Level with Dr. Irma Becerra
Leadership today is not for the faint of heart.
The pace of change is accelerating. Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries. Public scrutiny is more intense than ever. Leaders are navigating uncertainty, complexity, and competing stakeholder expectations all at once.
In this week's episode of the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, Laurie Baedke sits down with Dr. Irma Becerra, Presiden...
Your Team Experiences Leadership Before They Experience Culture
Leadership can feel frustrating because so much sits outside your control.
You may not control staffing shortages, organizational priorities, reimbursement changes, budgets, or shifting market realities.
But leaders often underestimate something they do control:
The environment their team experiences every day.
Gallup research consistently points to managers as the primary driver...
Where Self-Awareness Actually Comes From
Many leaders assume self-awareness develops naturally with experience.
It doesn’t.
As Stephen Covey famously observed, “Some people have twenty years of experience, while others have one year of experience repeated twenty times.”
Experience can reinforce patterns just as easily as it refines them. In some cases, years of success make blind spots more difficult to identify because...
