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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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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Mentorship Is Not a Nice-to-Have. It’s a Performance Strategy.
Mentorship is often talked about as a generous act. A “good leader” behavior. Something nice to do when you have time.
That framing sells it short.
Mentorship isn’t a soft extra layered on top of “real work.” It is real work. And when done well, it’s a powerful performance strategy; for ...
Feb 04, 2026
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Why the Future Belongs to Human-Centered Leaders
Think back to a leader who truly left a mark on you.
Chances are, it wasn’t their credentials or efficiency you remember. It was likely how they made you feel. Seen. Supported. Valued.
After more than two decades of working alongside leaders in medicine, business, and beyond, I can tel...
Jan 13, 2026
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Leading into 2026: The Power of Reflection for Growth and Renewal
For some, these days between Christmas and the New Year bring a rare pause, a quiet stretch of time to rest, reset, and look back. For others, it’s another week of answering the call, caring for patients, leading teams, keeping essential systems moving.
Wherever this week finds you, reflectio...
Dec 30, 2025
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