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Honest conversations on leadership, emotional strength, and human connection in a chaotic world. Hosted by LaTonya Wilkins—award-winning executive coach and author of Leading Below the Surface—this podcast explores inclusive leadership, psychological safety, and personal growth.
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On the Other Side — Identity, Cancer, and Grounded Leadership with Shaylee Robanske (opens the original)
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What happens when the life you've carefully built gets interrupted by a diagnosis you never saw coming? In this episode of Leading Below the Surface, LaTonya Wilkins talks with Shaylee Robanske, an Operations Division Manager for the City of Portland and a past Coaching Below the Surface™ participant, about receiving an unexpected breast cancer diagnosis with no family history and no symptoms, and how she led herself through six months of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. They get into how a
Episode 72: Human Connection at Work Is Broken. Here's What Actually Works (opens the original)
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What if the highest-ROI program in your organization isn't a new tool or a new hire, but a mentoring program built on psychological safety? LaTonya Wilkins talks with Artimisha Curl, Head of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Belonging at El Camino Health, about the mentoring pilot they built from the ground up, why most programs fail before they start, what happens when mentors and mentees stop being separated, and why leaders learned as much as the people they mentored. 🎥 Prefer to watch? This epi
Stop Marketing Harder. Become a Better Coach — and Connector. (opens the original)
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What if becoming a better coach and connector, not just a better marketer, is the real path to sustainable growth? In this solo episode of Leading Below the Surface, LaTonya Wilkins gets honest about why so many coaches and leaders are stuck doing all the right activities and still not breaking through. She unpacks the difference between surface-level networking and below-the-surface connection, why the people who seem to "get ahead" often crash out, and what it actually means to differentiate y
EP 70: Is Organizational Coaching Actually Working? AI, Capacity & the Truth About Coaching in Organizations (opens the original)
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Why do companies hire a coach instead of fixing the real problem? In this episode of Leading Below the Surface, LaTonya Wilkins sits down with Katherine Lord, MSW, LSW, Director of Organizational Member Experience at ICF Coaching in Organizations for a candid conversation about what coaching actually does and doesn't do, why “ROI” is the wrong lens for measuring its impact, and how organizations sometimes use coaching to avoid holding up the mirror to themselves. From the “barge in a canal” theo
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