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.
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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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culture
curiosity
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healthcareleadership
humility
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
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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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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
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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
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culture
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leadership
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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
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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
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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
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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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growth
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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
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culture
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leadership
performance
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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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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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