339. Ask More, Tell Less: How Curiosity Creates Leadership Clarity with Dusty Holcomb
Most leaders think they’re fixing a performance problem when they’re actually managing a clarity problem. Dusty Holcomb, CEO and founder of...
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The Leadership Project with Mick Spiers is a podcast dedicated to advancing thought on inspirational leadership in a modern world. We cover key issues and controversial topics that are neede...
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338. The Leadership Ecosystem: Creating the Conditions for People to Grow with Mick Spiers
Most leadership advice assumes people are fixed and organizations are machines. We don’t buy that. People change, teams adapt, and every int...
337. Leading Without Losing Yourself: Authenticity in a Disruptive World with Frans Campher
If you’ve ever felt pressure to “look like a leader” instead of actually leading, this conversation will land. I sit down with executive coa...
336. The Science of Super Teams: What High-Performing Teams Do Differently with Dr. Ron Friedman
A team full of smart, capable people can still feel slow, stressed, and stuck and the reason usually isn’t effort. It’s the system. Dr. Ron...
335. The Best Ideas Don’t Always Win: Why Clarity and Connection Matter with Antoinette Roze
The clearest idea usually wins, even when it isn’t the smartest one and that reality quietly shapes careers, meetings, and entire strategies...
334. Leadership Begins Before You Enter the Room with Mick Spiers
You can have the right strategy and still walk into a room and lose it with one comment. You can mean well and still “fill the space” so com...
333. The Power of Storytelling: Building Trust, Influence, and Leadership with Robert Kennedy III
You can have the right strategy, the right numbers, and the cleanest slide deck in the world and still fail to move anyone. That gap is not...
332. The Mental Game of High Performance: Turning Ambition into Execution with Dre Baldwin
Day one is exciting. Day two still feels fresh. Day three is when the “new car smell” is gone and the work gets real, and that’s where most...
331. Leading from the Center: Mastering the Five Stances of Leadership with Brad Semmens
The fastest way to derail a team is to lead on autopilot. Walk into a meeting, speak first, “set direction,” and watch everyone quietly alig...
330. The Leader's Playlist: Using Music and Neuroscience to Transform Leadership with Susan Drumm
That thought you can’t stop replaying isn’t just annoying. It quietly shapes how you walk into meetings, how you speak under pressure, and h...
329. Leadership is Sense-Making: Helping People Adapt, Care, and Connect with Mick Spiers
Two people can face the same change and walk away with totally different stories: one feels opportunity, the other feels threat. That gap is...
328. Leading Through Change with Huw Thomas
Most change initiatives don’t fail because the plan is flawed. They fail because leaders confuse communication with conversation and then wo...
327. Great Leaders Care: Developing Safe, Resilient and Successful Teams with Graeme Cowan
What if the leadership skill your team needs most is not sharper strategy or faster execution, but a leader who genuinely cares and knows wh...
326: Leadership Shifts: Embracing Change in Business with Mike Krupit
The leadership style that got you promoted can quietly become the thing that holds you back. When you move from building great work to leadi...
325. Leadership Is Cultivation: Creating the Conditions for Greatness with Mick Spiers
What if the real job of a leader isn’t to get people to do what you want, but to create the conditions where people can do their best work?...
324. Brave Together: Leading Through Curiosity and Co-Creation with Chris Deaver
If your leadership strategy still depends on being the smartest person in the room, AI is about to make that a painful game to play. We sit...
323. Neurodiversity at Work: Unlocking Hidden Strengths with Wainwright Yu
What if the person you’re frustrated with at work isn’t lazy, careless, or “not leadership material,” but simply stuck in an environment tha...
322. Communication as a Verb: Building Trust and Culture with Alejandra Ramirez
If you have ever walked out of a town hall thinking “we were crystal clear” only to hear your team say “we still don’t get it,” you’re not d...
321. Beyond Strategy: Why Leadership Is A Human Challenge with Mick Spiers
The hardest leadership problems rarely announce themselves as “leadership problems.” They show up as weight you carry in silence, conversati...
320. The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Leadership Lessons with Marc A. Pitman
That quiet voice saying “I’m not good enough” shows up for almost every leader, even the ones who look the most confident from the outside....