Lead the People

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . One of Coco Brown’s team members is a Juilliard-trained concert violinist who also runs operations at Athena Alliance. She knows his heart is in the music, and she’s fine being his base camp. That mindset shapes how Coco thinks about careers today. No one is managing your career for you anymore, and once you reach director level, the...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Waldo Waldman flew 65 combat missions with claustrophobia strapped in beside him, and he walked away from exactly one flight: a jet ferry run from Spain to the US. No target, no team waiting on him, nobody counting on the outcome. That single sortie taught him where fear ends and responsibility begins. Matt Poepsel sits down with Lt....

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Dave Garrison’s factory client was sure workers were leaving for General Electric because the pay was better. So Dave had them run small group sessions and ask what was really going on. People were finding out on Wednesday or Thursday how many hours of Saturday overtime they owed, after they had already promised their kids a ball gam...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Jay Abbasi was 40 pounds overweight, his marriage was falling apart, and he was working himself into the ground for a promotion in finance. It took the sudden death of his father to make him ask the question that now drives his work: do I have to sacrifice joy and happiness for achievement? Years later, Jay has an answer, and it come...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Cutting middle managers to save money is the trend everyone's calling unbossing. Jordana Cole calls it a mistake dressed up as a strategy. As President and Principal Consultant at Ignited , she's watched organizations de-layer their way into a leadership gap, then wonder why their change initiatives quietly die. Matt Poepsel presses...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . AI transformation isn’t just a technology problem; it’s a management problem. Executives want faster adoption, employees are wondering what AI means for their jobs, and managers are stuck in the middle trying to turn all that uncertainty into something their teams can actually work with. Matt Poepsel sits down with Joel Pipher , who...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Travis Kalanick built Uber on a promise of democratic freedom, everyone gets to feel like a rockstar, not just people who can afford a limo. Denise Lee Yohn tells Matt Poepsel what came next: a tech-bro internal culture so far removed from that promise that customers eventually deleted the app in protest. "We're not going to believe...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Most leadership models still treat change like a project: a start, an end, and a return to normal in between. Jackie Insinger, CEO and Founder of Spark Brilliance, argues that premise is exactly what's breaking down. There's no dry land left to land on, which means the old idea of "managing" change through to completion isn't just ou...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Most leaders can point to their P&L and show you exactly where the money moves. Ask them to point to their people on that same page, and the room goes quiet. For Tracie Sponenberg, who spent nine years as Chief People Officer at The Granite Group, a wholesale distributor with 700+ employees across six states, that silence is the...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Most leaders treat uncertainty like a storm to wait out. Meridith Elliott Powell has spent two decades proving that's the wrong instinct. As CEO of MotionFirst , author of a benchmark study spanning more than 800 CEOs, and Hall of Fame speaker with the National Speakers Association, she argues the businesses that come out ahead aren'...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Most executive teams don't fail because someone drops the ball. They fail quietly, over months, while every function runs fine on its own and nobody can name what's actually wrong. For Adam Weber, executive coach at Adam Weber Coaching and co-founder of Helm, that quiet failure has a name and a shape, and it's measurable. In this epi...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Steve Farber has been arguing that love is a legitimate business discipline for over two decades, and people still flinch at the word. Companies print "we love our customers" on buttons and banners without breaking a sweat. Backing it up with policy, budget, and follow-through is where most of them quietly give up. His new book, The...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Most change management still assumes there's a gap between disruptions—a chance to catch your breath before the next transformation lands. Lata Hamilton's clients don't get that gap anymore. Change has stopped being an event and started being the weather. In this episode, Matt Poepsel sits down with Lata Hamilton , founder and CEO of...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Culture isn't a slogan on a values slide; it's the daily discipline of listening to the people the org chart forgets. Most companies assume culture change means demolition, blow it up, start over, transform into something new. But Kevin Oakes, founder and chief strategy officer of i4cp and author of the Amazon bestseller Culture Reno...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Culture shows up in the small moments, and few moments are smaller, or more revealing, than a meeting. Most managers treat meetings as a scheduling problem to survive rather than a leadership opportunity to design. But for Jess Britt , leadership coach and meeting design expert, the real cost of a badly run meeting isn't wasted time;...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Most leadership advice treats the person and the professional as two separate jobs. Dr. Marline C. Duroseau's career says otherwise. She started in payroll at twenty-one, worked her way up to CFO of a 1,500-person healthcare organization, then walked away from finance to lead HR and leadership development at Brandon Hall Group, all w...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Most leadership development follows the same logic: bring people together, fill them with good content, and trust that something will stick. It doesn't. Within two weeks, research shows we've forgotten 90% of what we learned, not because the content was wrong, but because the format was never built for the way adults actually work. M...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp . Your biggest leadership challenge may not be your workload, your team, or the pace of change. It may be that somewhere along the way, you stopped asking questions.  Charles Lee , Founder and CEO of Ideation and author of Design Your Good Life: The Framework for Discovering Your Purpose, Actualizing Your Vision, and Amplifying Your Im...

AI is changing what it means to be valuable at work. The tasks that once defined expertise are increasingly being automated, forcing leaders and employees alike to confront a harder question: What happens when the machine becomes better than we ever were? Lance Neuhauser , CEO of The Predictive Index and a longtime leader of companies navigating disruption and transformation, sheds light on one of...

What if burnout isn’t a warning sign that something is wrong with your job, but a signal that something is misaligned in how you’re living? Most leaders are conditioned to see exhaustion as a time management problem. But burnout often has less to do with productivity and more to do with the gap between how we live and what our bodies can sustainably handle. Elizabeth Rosenberg , founder of The Goo...

Trust doesn't break all at once. It erodes quietly, through gaps in communication, unanswered questions, and decisions that arrive without context. By the time leaders notice it's gone, the damage is already running through the numbers. In this episode, Yolanda K. Davis , an HR executive, Gallup-certified strengths coach, and author of The Trust Advantage , makes the case that organizations treat...

Storytelling isn't a performance trick or a "nice-to-have" for leaders who like to talk. It's the fastest way to move a team, align a room, and make people care about work that might otherwise feel abstract. Most managers reach for dashboards, memos, and productivity systems when alignment breaks down. But for Johanna Walker, public speaking and storytelling coach and founder of Women Who Speak, t...

Your title tells people where you sit. Your mastery tells them why you matter. Most managers spend years chasing the next promotion, only to wake up realizing the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall. Julian Lighton , Business Coach at Moo Pie Coaching Inc., former McKinsey partner, four-time Chief Strategy Officer, and one of Silicon Valley's most sought-after executive coaches, has spent 30...

Culture isn’t a poster on the wall; it’s the daily, unglamorous discipline of showing up with intention. Most businesses assume demanding results mean sacrificing relationships. But for Justin Ricklefs , founder and CEO of Guild Collective and author of the new book Give a Damn: The Catalyst for Caring Companies , the real threat to any great company isn't leniency. It's the slow, systemic drift t...

Most businesses assume staying profitable means staying on mission. But for Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup and author of the new book Incorruptible , the real threat to any great company isn't a bad quarter, it's the slow, systemic loss of the thing that made it worth building in the first place. In this episode, Matt Poepsel sits down with Eric to dig into why good companies go bad, why t...