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Unleashing Leaders podcast empowers leaders with stories and strategies to tackle tough challenges. Host Lee Scott shares practical steps to strengthen teams, clarify vision, and engage people.
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Holding Constructive Accountability Conversations to Delegate and Elevate Your Team with Gina Cotner | Ep 61 (opens the original)
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In this conversation, Lee sits down with Gina Cotner, founder and CEO of Athena Executive Services. They dig into the conversation almost every leader avoids: telling someone their delegated work isn't landing. If you've ever put off that talk, or had it blow up in your face, this one's for you. Gina traces her approach back to two unlikely classrooms. The first was a middle school production of The Wizard of Oz. The second was the back of a rowing shell, where Gina spent her teenage years as a
Replay: Elevating the Human Experience with Practical Self-Care and Ethical AI with Stacie Baird (opens the original)
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Stacie Baird, Chief People Officer at Community Medical Services, offers insights on the intersection of self-care, resilience, and ethical AI to elevate the human experience. She shares her professional journey to discovering her leadership purpose in addressing the opioid epidemic. She also shares the power of adversity in our personal lives to unlock our super powers and focus our contributions where it matter most. Get practical tips for how you can self-regulate or co-regulate anytime, anyw
Ep 60: Speaking Truth to Power: How to Elevate Unpopular Risks to Upper Management with Payson Hall (opens the original)
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In this conversation, Lee sits down with Payson Hall, founding member and consulting project manager at Catalysis Group. Payson was one of Lee's earliest mentors. Together they unpack a skill most leaders avoid: delivering bad news before it becomes a crisis. Payson traces the lesson to a Ranger sergeant in a Georgia swamp who refused to let him fake confidence with a map and a fat gloved finger. The fix became a career long habit Payson calls the pine needle test. Name your uncertainty precisel
Ep 59: Prioritizing Conflicting Task Requests with Skye Connors and Emily LaPorta (opens the original)
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In this conversation, Lee sits down with two of Unleashing Leaders' top change agents, Skye Connors and Emily LaPorta, to tackle a problem every high performer eventually hits: too many priorities, not enough hours. Skye and Emily built UL's internal SOP for handling conflicting task requests and walk through how it works, from the physical warning signs of overload to the tiebreakers that step in when two tasks conflict. Feeling overloaded usually means you're trusted with more, not that you're
Ep 58: Longevity and Leadership - Optimizing Your Health for the Peak Years of Your Career with Dr. Sandra Kaufmann (opens the original)
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In this conversation, Lee Scott and Dr. Sandra Kaufmann explore the science of longevity and its direct connection to leadership performance. Here's a hard truth: a dead leader is not a great leader. Neither is one who hits the peak of their wisdom right as their body starts to fail. Sandy is a physician, author, and transitional medical director for Envision Healthcare. She has spent years investigating why we age at the cellular level and, more importantly, what we can do about it. Sandy walks
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