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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 ep...
Jun 01, 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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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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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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Leading with Authenticity: The Strength in Vulnerability
When we think of a leader, we don’t often picture someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
Historically, vulnerability has been seen as a weakness in traditional leadership. However, in today’s diverse work environment, where teams are made up of individuals from varied backgrounds an...
May 20, 2025
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