The Threshold

Episode 5: What an ultramarathon taught me about leadership There's a moment in any hard piece of work when the conditions you trained for stop being the conditions you're in. The plan was sound. The preparation was real. And the day, when it actually arrives, asks something different from you than the work you'd been doing to get ready for it. In this episode of The Threshold, Amanda tells the st...

Episode 4: The voice in your head at 4am Most senior leaders have had a morning like this. You wake before the alarm. The voice is already running. It builds a case, sometimes a reasonable sounding one, for why you should pull back, hand something off, step away from the work you've been leading. By the time the sun is up, you've nearly made a decision that would have changed the trajectory of you...

Episode 1: The doorway nobody talks about Most senior leaders have had a moment like this. In this first episode of The Threshold, Amanda introduces the concept that's at the heart of the show. The doorway moment. The space between who you were as a leader, and who the role is now asking you to be. She tells the story of a senior leader at her own threshold, and explores what's actually happening...

There's something most of us learn early. The way to handle anything is to work harder at it. It built our careers, earned us the seats we now hold, and at a certain point, it stops working. We hit something that doesn't yield. We push harder. Nothing changes. So we add more. More preparation, more hours, more effort. And we get more tired, less effective, and more stuck. In this episode, Amanda e...

Most senior leaders are performing some version of themselves at work. Not all the time. Not in every conversation. But often enough that it has become the way they move through their days. A leadership voice. A leadership face. A leadership way of holding themselves in a room. Most of the time, they don't even notice they're doing it. Until one day, somewhere quiet, they feel the cost of carrying...

The Threshold is a new podcast for leaders when more is being asked. Of them. Of their team. Of their work. The space between who you were as a leader, and who the role is asking you to be. Hosted by Amanda Ramplin, founder of EOS Coaching and a former senior leader at ANZ, the show explores the inner work of leadership at the moments that matter. The conversations that don't tend to happen out lo...