Growth Edge Leadership Podcast

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I'm joined by Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, FACS, for an important conversation, exploring the complexities of mental health and medicine. Dr. Cunningham is a retired professional tennis athlete, an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, the Section Chief of Endocrine Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Immediate Pa...

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a conversation with Dr. Toni Lam, Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, about the topic of coachability and its role in career advancement.   We examine:   - readiness for feedback   - unexpected coaching opportunities   - the role of reflection   - the importance of adaptability   Listen in!   Toni Lam LinkedIn - https://www.lin...

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, I sit down with Dr. Joyce DeLeo to examine the importance of coachability as we navigate career transitions and ascend in executive leadership, and the way that a lack of coachability can be a career derailer.   We discuss: Examples of high self-awareness, humility, and coachability Avoiding career derailers   Leveraging reflection for...

Jillian Bybee, MD, FAAP   In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a conversation with Dr. Jillian Bybee. Dr. Bybee is a physician, medical educator, coach, speaker, podcaster, writer, and advocate for healthcare wellbeing and fulfillment.     During our conversation, we discuss:   - the role of reflection in coachability and self-coaching,   - the importance of fit in...

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a fantastic conversation with Kevin Wilde, author of the book Coachability: The Leadership Superpower. Kevin is an Executive Leadership Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. He retired in 2015 from a 34 year corporate career in leadership and talent development at General Electric and General Mill...

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, I discuss the topic of coachability with Dr. Cara King. Dr. King is the Section Head of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (MIGS) and Medical Gynecology and the Program Director of the MIGS Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. She also serves as the Director of Innovation for Cleveland Clinic's Women's Health Institute and is a Vice...

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down with a long-time friend and colleague, Blake Lawrence. Blake had a stellar college football career, playing linebacker for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and after an early retirement due to concussions, he pursued his entrepreneurial passions. He founded and successfully exited his first company, a social media agency, and is the CEO of...

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, we explore the topic of coachability in entrepreneurs.     Entrepreneurs are often perceived as uncoachable; perhaps because they're highly visionary, independent, driven, and resolute in their conviction that an idea has viability. To survive the start up journey and build a product or company requires confidence, courage, wise counsel...

In this week's episode, we explore 12 attributes of highly coachable leaders, five barriers to coachabilities, and times when we need to double down on practicing or assessing our own coachability.

In this week's episode, we explore the business case for coachability, and what outcomes are produced when individuals are highly coachable.     Like most anything that's worthwhile in life, being a coachable leader doesn't come naturally or easily or comfortably. But, the positive impact that's achieved by coachable leaders is worth the effort.   When we think about coachability, I think it's nat...

Happy New Year and welcome to Season Nine of the Growth Edge Leadership podcast. In this amazing season, we're going to flip the coin - explore the outcomes and impact of highly coachable leaders. What does it really mean to be coachable?   What are the desirable outcomes of coachability?   What are the attributes of coachable leaders, and how do we adopt them?   This week's episode defines coacha...

Welcome back to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast. This season is all about mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching, and coincides with the release of my most recent book; Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance. I am so delighted to hear the positive feedback from so many of you about the impact of this topic and these episodes, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the...

Welcome back to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast. This season is all about mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching, and coincides with the release of my most recent book; Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance. I am so delighted to hear the positive feedback from so many of you about the impact of this topic and these episodes, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the...

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, we discuss how sponsorship is vital to advancing individuals and supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within our organizations. While mentorship is important for development, sponsorship is where advancement occurs, hence it is important for male leaders, and critical for female leaders! THANK YOU for listening in! If you're...

Welcome back to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast. This season is all about mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching, and coincides with the release of my most recent book; Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance. I am so delighted to hear the positive feedback from so many of you about the impact of this topic and these episodes, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the...

This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching. And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.   Links below. This week, we're discussing the diff...

This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching. And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.   Links below. This week, we're discussing the busi...

This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching. And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, Mentor Coach Lead to Peak Professional Performance, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.   Links below. This week, we're defining the three...

Welcome to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast!  This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching. And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.   Links below. Mentor Coach Lead book -...

Welcome to season eight of the Growth Edge leadership podcast!  This season is focused on the important topics of mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching. And, it corresponds to a major milestone for me - - the publication of my third book, AVAILABLE NOW through my publisher, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and available for pre-order on Amazon.   Links below. Mentor Coach Lead book -...

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I welcome a protege and rock star, Emily Sheboy-Scarcello, MPH, FACHE to join me for a fun conversation about being a rock star emerging leader, the burden of youth, and the power of representation to inspire and engage the next generation.   Listen in!     Emily Sheboy-Scarcello LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-scarcello-mph-fache...

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, I sit down with Dr. Amer Kaissi, Professor of Healthcare Administration at Trinity University to discuss his newest book, Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego High-Drive Leadership. The book, and our conversation, are packed with empirical research and applicable practices for leaders to apply to nurture greater self-awareness and performan...

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down with Dr. Michele Halyard, Professor of Radiation Oncology and Dean of the Mayo Clinic's Arizona campus. An accomplished academic physician and physician executive with a passion for coaching, we dig into the differences between mentoring and coaching, providing formative feedback, the roles and attributes of effective coaches and co...

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I invite former guest, Dr. Kelly Cawcutt back to share her lessons learned after spending the past two and a half years leveling up in leadership and making contributions in new rooms during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares two key leadership learnings about managing through crisis, a call to action about leveraging and sustaining disruptive...

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I welcome a colleague and former student to discuss her research on gender microaggressions in pharmacy. As a leader in the clinical discipline, she discovered a paucity of research to explore and equip herself with an understanding of the topic and its impact or to identify interventions to solve for it. We discuss her findings and hear pract...