HeyJaredBeyond Leadership - Adopting a Coaching Mindset
Beyond Leadership: Adopting A Coaching Mindset is a leadership podcast about how real decisions are made.Instead of interviews about careers, success stories, or advice, each episode focuses on one specific moment when a leader faced a difficult situation — a constraint, a…
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#11 - Choosing an Unusual Career Path Across Three Countries (opens the original)
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In this episode, I sit down with Peter Volquards Ekstrøm - a seasoned managing director with a finance background and a career built inside owner-managed companies across Scandinavia and Europe. Peter recently made a bold life decision: leaving behind a long-established network in Aarhus to relocate to Malmö and take on a role in Germany, all in pursuit of something more meaningful - both personally and professionally. What struck me most in our conversation was how clearly Peter understands his
#10 - How Did Two Engineering Teams Deliver an 18-Month Project in Just 10 Months? (opens the original)
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#09 - The First Time I Fired Someone Senior (opens the original)
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In this episode, I sit down with Martin Clausen, co-CEO of legal tech startup HyperContracts and former general counsel at Maersk and MHI Vestas, to explore one of the most uncomfortable moments in leadership: letting someone go. Martin shares a candid story from early in his career when he had to dismiss a seasoned colleague who refused to accept his leadership. We dig into what he wished he had done differently, how empathy can delay hard decisions, and why the rest of the team's reaction almo
#08 - Letting Managers Fail So Leadership Can Actually Develop (opens the original)
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My guest today is Jens Birk - attorney, MBA, and former director at a large Danish IT company - and this conversation got real fast. Jens walks us through the moment he stepped into a role overseeing 100 employees and seven business lines, and made a deliberate choice to let go of control. Not because it felt comfortable, but because he recognized that holding on would make him the bottleneck - and quietly stunt the growth of everyone around him. We talk about what it actually looks like to dele
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