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A Leadership Best Practice Worth Stealing
One of the unexpected joys of executive coaching is that I'm constantly learning from my clients.
Recently, I began working with a new client, a leader in academic medicine.
Following one of our early coaching conversations, he reached out to share several intentional leadership acti...
Jul 29, 2026
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Why Leadership Growth Always Feels Uncomfortable
Nearly every meaningful opportunity in your career begins at what I call your growth edge.
That is the philosophy behind the name of both this newsletter and my podcast. Leadership growth rarely happens where we feel most competent or comfortable. It happens at the edge of our current ...
Jul 22, 2026
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Ignorance Isn't Bliss. It's a Leadership Liability.
Eight years ago today, I recorded the very first episode of the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast. At the time, I couldn't have imagined the conversations, friendships, learning, and opportunities that would come from simply pressing "record."
Over the past eight years, we've welcomed extraordin...
Jul 21, 2026
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Leadership Beyond the Bell Curve: Why Mentorship Alone Isn't Enough
Mentorship has become one of the most celebrated ideas in leadership development.
What if we've overcorrected?
We encourage emerging leaders to find mentors. We build mentoring programs. We celebrate mentorship success stories. And we should.
Yet we spend remarkably little time tal...
Jul 08, 2026
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Hard is Normal: Stop Interpretting Difficulty as Dysfunction
At some point, every leader encounters a season where things feel harder than expected.
The team is struggling. Resources are constrained. The decisions seem more complex than they used to be. Progress is slower than you hoped. The path forward feels less obvious than it once did.
In...
Jun 24, 2026
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The Leadership Blind Spot: How Insecurity Shapes Your Impact
Most leaders think of insecurity as a confidence problem.
In reality, insecurity is often far more subtle and far more consequential. It rarely appears as obvious self-doubt. Instead, it reveals itself through behaviors: the need to stay involved, the reluctance to delegate, the impulse to mo...
Jun 22, 2026
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Why Hope Matters More Than Ever in Leadership
One of the realities of leadership is that there are seasons when answers are scarce and uncertainty is abundant.
Those moments test more than strategy.
They test a leader's ability to create confidence, clarity, and forward momentum when circumstances remain unsettled.
In a recent...
Jun 10, 2026
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Better Than Yesterday, Not as Good as Tomorrow: Leading with Hope in Healthcare
Healthcare leaders are carrying an extraordinary burden right now.
Between workforce shortages, financial pressures, payer challenges, regulatory complexity, and the relentless pace of change, many professionals find themselves operating with little margin and even less certainty.
In this epi...
Jun 08, 2026
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The Leadership Shift Most Promotions Don't Prepare You For
Most professionals spend years learning how to become exceptional individual contributors.
Then they get promoted, and discover that many of the behaviors that created their success are no longer the behaviors their new role requires.
The analyst becomes the manager.
The physician beco...
Jun 03, 2026
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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 ...
May 20, 2026
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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
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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
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