Leading in Change

Most organizations are treating AI like a technology rollout. Buy the tools, get access, train the team, move on. But the leaders having the most success right now aren't the ones who moved fastest on tools. They're the ones who recognized what AI actually surfaces: a leadership design problem. Old decision-making structures that are too slow. Information that's too siloed. Teams that haven't been...

Job security and career security are not the same thing — and understanding the difference matters more right now than it has in decades. In this first installment of a three-part Leading in AI series, Adrian Owen Jones sits down with Devin Lemoine to talk about what it actually takes to build career security in a fast-changing environment. They break down three things that determine your staying...

Most managers think they're giving feedback. Their employees disagree. Recent Gallup research found that only 1 in 5 employees say they receive meaningful feedback on a weekly basis. Yet employees who receive meaningful feedback are three times more engaged than those who don't. So what's going wrong? In this episode, Adrian and Melissa explore why feedback is one of the most important, and often...

You already know you should delegate more. The problem is actually doing it. In this episode, Gloria McConnell and Adrian Owen Jones get honest about why delegation is so hard and why the reasons you think you can't delegate are the very reasons you should. In this episode, we walk through what good delegation actually looks like in practice: from how to describe a task clearly enough that someone...

Most leaders know what they need to do. They just haven't started yet. In the very first episode of Leading in Change, Melissa Thompson and Adrian Owen Jones talk about the first pancake — and why it's one of the most important metaphors in leadership. The first pancake is always a little rough. The griddle isn't hot enough, the batter isn't quite right, the timing is off. But you have to make it...

Welcome to Leading in Change. There are a lot of leadership podcasts out there. Most of them talk about leadership at a comfortable altitude — the ideal version, where everything goes according to plan. This is not that podcast. Leading in Change is about leadership in the messy middle. When your best employee quits and you don't know why. When you've been promoted and the people you used to work...