Your Leadership Podcast

Jacob Rooksby was the youngest law dean in the U.S. when he was appointed in 2018 to lead the Gonzaga University School of Law. Eight years later, his leadership journey is taking him to a new role, as dean of the University of Richmond School of Law. Our conversation with Jacob covered many of the ways in which higher education offers distinctive leadership challenges and opportunities. Jacob als...

You Mon Tsang leads as an entrepreneur. Today, he is the CEO of ChurnZero , an AI-powered software platform for customer success – his fifth startup overall.  This interview with You Mon covers his path from “employee”to “leader,” anchoring his journey in his “lead dog” identity.  Your Leadership Podcast consistently emphasizesleading and leadership in context, and You Mon’s private sector experie...

Ken Inadomi has been a leader in both private sector and nonprofit organizations, and he has spent decades honing his vision and practice through reflection in a journal, now published in book form. This interview with Ken includes both the sweep of his leadership experience and vision and also concrete examples and illustrations from the different stages of his leadership career. The product is a...

Andrew Frishman is the co-Executive Director of BigPicture Learning , a nonprofit organization that is at the forefront of innovation in education, building a network of schools that put students rather than standardization at the center of learning. This interview with Andrew features a wide ranging tour of leadership practices that Andrew and Big Picture follow, from servant leadership to leadin...

Your Leadership Podcast returns for Season 3 with this introduction that surveys key themes and topics to come. Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim⁠ and ⁠Mike Madison kick off this two-handed episode by picking up where Season 2 left off - there is no one-size fits all leadership strategy; there is only context - and detailing some critical elements of that observation as prompts for this season's interv...

Your Leadership Podcast returns for Season 3! In this brief intro, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison preview episodes and guests to come. We will highlight overlaps and intersections among key leadership challenges and transforming technologies and practices: Generative AI in the workplace, in the home, and in all the places, spaces, and groups that define contemporary life. Creating and b...

In this finale for Season 2 of Your Leadership Podcast, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Michael Madison take stock of the season's interviews and guests: What did we hear that confirmed our intuitions? What did we hear that surprised or challenged us? And most important, what do we take away and recommend to our listeners? Your Leadership Podcast is about actionable insights. We've tied Seaso...

Sean Casey , a retired American professional baseball player, is known as “The Mayor” for his personable demeanor both on and off the field. He was selected as an All-Star, played in the World Series, and finished a decade-long career as a .300 hitter – a sign of his talent and his consistency.  Since retiring from the field, Sean has continued in baseball as a media personality.  And he has put t...

Dr Sarabajaya Kumar practices what she teaches, as a professor of leadership and the non-profit sector at University College London (and Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), and as a disabled woman with heritage from the Global Majority.  Sarabajaya is a volunteer leader and activist in the UK, Director of Impatience Ltd , working to increase funding for under-supported causes and a...

Bridget McCormack is the President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution, or AAA , a global leader in providing alternative dispute resolution services. Before that, she was Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court , and a professor and dean at the law school at the University of Michigan . In this candid conversation with co-hosts Mike Madi...

Kimball Gallagher , celebrated, innovative concert pianist, explores how he leads both with music and through music. This episode of Your Leadership Podcast features Kimball's role as founder and leader of 88 International , an NGO that collaborates with public and private partners around the globe to help youth build large-scale music programs.  With co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison...

Tara VanDerveer, the second-winningest college basketball coach in history, joins Your Leadership Podcast, recounting how she learned to lead, how she is still learning today, and how she practices leadership lessons. Her stories help us explore a key theme of Season 2 of Your Leadership Podcast: how does a leader go about creating and maintaining an environment where colleagues - students - playe...

What we have here is success in communicating, adapting a famous movie quotation and carrying forward our first key theme of the season: success and succession for leaders. This episode pivots to the second of our key themes, what we are calling "curatorial" leadership. We borrow the idea of leaders "curating" an organizational context from the world of art and artifacts, in mu...

In this second episode focused on succession planning as a leadership theme, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison dig into connections between leadership succession and leadership - and organizational - success . Connecting concepts with practices, the conversation weaves in case studies of organizations and companies where succession planning has gone well - and where leadership transitions...

We begin this season's tour of leadership themes with this interview with the incredible Dr. Xiaoyan Huang. The theme: succession and success. Dr. Huang is a remarkable and accomplished professional both as a cardiologist and leader in clinical care in Portland, Oregon and as a volunteer leader in her community and across the US. Read about her record and career here, on LinkedIn. Co-hosts Mik...

We kick off Season 2 with this introduction to three key leadership themes that will occupy the season as a whole: succession and succession planning as critical leadership competencies; what we refer to as "curatorial" leadership - the idea that leaders are often "curators" of the people, values, and purposes of their organizations and groups; and differences and similarities...

Your Leadership Podcast returns for Season 2. In this preview, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison highlight key leadership themes anchoring the coming weeks' episodes. We have a fresh theme to pair with compelling conversations and usable takeaways for leaders and aspiring leaders alike. Catch up on Season 1 via this series of short essays on LinkedIn . Your Leadership Podcast is produced a...

This finale of Season 1 prompts hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison to tie together three central themes woven through all of Your Leadership Podcast so far: how great leaders rely on moral and ethical frameworks, how leaders (and followers) understand and build on context, and the key role that team-first perspectives play in organizations with thriving leaders. Producer and engineer: Commande...

Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison dig into themes in a new book by Columbia University Business School professor Adam Galinsky, titled "Inspire: the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others." They work from a recent Harvard Business Review article from Professor Galinsky that summarizes its key points: inspiring leaders distinguish themselves by playing three key roles: vision...

Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison tackle a key element of leadership in context. What's expected of a leader who steps into that role in an organization or community that already has an established history and culture? How does that differ from tackling leadership when starting fresh, building and leading from the ground up? The case study for the conversation: religion and religious prac...

Hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim dig into and pull apart followership, an all-important complement to leadership. They jump off from a recent report by Gallup, Inc. titled, "Global Leadership Report: What Followers Want." The conversation takes on not only what followers want, but also when they want it, and how, and what that means for leaders. Download the Gallup report here. For...

Service on a board of directors or advisors is often treated as a “leadership” role, whether in a nonprofit or corporate setting. When and how might that be true?  When and how do board roles and leadership roles differ?  Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison talk through this critical set of questions for aspiring leaders. Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo

Hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim dig into “doing or delegating,” key moments in the life of an organization or community when individuals step forward to meet needs of the moment.  Sometimes, that means taking on tasks themselves.  Sometimes, it means delegating responsibilities to others.  When and why should leaders make one choice rather than the other? Producer and engineer: Commander Bu...

Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison zoom in on one key quality of leadership: decision-making. How do leaders develop the capacity for sound decision-making , including both subject matter expertise and "street savvy," or judgment? Why is decision-making such a critical - and sometimes underappreciated - element of leadership? Writers mentioned in this episode: Phil Knight, "Shoe...

Hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim dig into the complicated intersections among leading, leadership, and ethics. What does it mean to be an ethical leader? How do ethical frameworks affect leaders? What does ethical leadership look like in the day to day of leading in organizations?