The Leadership Exchange
Discussions on Real-World Leadership for professionals. We explore several topics about leadership and getting the best from your team to deliver amazing results while creating a great environment for them.
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Episodes
29 episodes
S3E3 - Beyond People-Pleasing: Recalibrating Your Understanding of Servant Leadership
Lupe Munoz and Steve McKeon tackle common misconceptions about servant leadership and provide practical insights for avoiding leadership pitfalls while genuinely serving your team.• Servant leadership is often confused with people-pleas...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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34:47
S3E2 - Unlocking Potential: Transform Your Team and Organization. Our continued discussion with Ernesto Gomez.
Organizational transformation requires seeing companies as living organisms rather than machines, with leaders who prioritize empowering teams rather than having all the answers themselves. • Psychological safety creates an environ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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24:22
S3E1 - Unlocking Organizational Potential with Ernesto Gomez
Ernesto Gomez, author of "Regrowth: How Organizations Can Overcome Stalling by Unlocking their People's Potential," shares how viewing organizations as living organisms rather than machines creates the conditions for people and teams to achieve...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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29:04
S2E11 - Recap of Season 2 and a Discussion on Leadership Reflection for Continuous Improvement
Join us as we revisit our season-two episodes and guests. Plus, we explain and demonstrate how to use reflection, as a leader, to professionally improve. Do you have the right mindset to improve how you lead? Listen in and find out!
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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24:45
S2E10 - Discussion with Twanda "Tia" Young about lessons from her book, Dare to Lead Different...Chew on This: 16 Bites for Bold Leaders.
Join us with Twanda "Tia" Young, BG (Ret.), US Army. We have an excellent discussion with Tia regarding some valuable leadership lessons she has to share with our listeners. Twanda Young now serves as the CEO of LT3 Leadership Solut...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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42:17
S2E9 - Balancing Technology and People: The Key to Sustainable Change With Ron Crabtree Part 2
Ready to transform how you approach transformation itself? This episode is your essential guide. The world of leadership and organizational change is complex, but Ron Crabtree has distilled decades of experience into a remarkably simple ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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28:45
S2E8 - Culture Isn't Accidental: Strategic Leadership for the Digital Age with Ron Crabtree Part 1
Ready to evolve your leadership approach for today's complex challenges? Listen now and discover how to create an environment where your team can thrive amid constant change.Leadership is evolving at breakneck speed, and Ron Crabtree bri...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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36:10
S2E7 - Situational Leadership: A Discussion with Ben Blaney on Adapting Your Style for Success.
Leadership isn't one-size-fits-all—it's a dynamic skill that must adapt to each unique situation. Ben Blaney brings decades of international experience to our conversation about what truly makes leadership effective across different contexts.
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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46:46
S2E6 - From Power Rangers to Executive: Unexpected Leadership Journeys. A Discussion with Lidia Peterson
Lydia Peterson, Executive Director for Environmental Health and Safety at V2X, shares her extraordinary leadership journey from Power Rangers auditions to managing 300-person teams in Kuwait, revealing how relational capacity transforms leaders...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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37:55
S2E5 - Continued Discussion on Lencioni's 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
In this episode we continue our discussion from our previous episode where we started the discussion on the excellent book, by Patrick Lencioni, titled, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable.We review the <...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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22:19
S2E4 - Avoiding Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team
In this episode we review the key points from Patrick Lencioni's book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. We discuss some of the traps new leaders can fall into when trying to be Servant Leaders. We review Lencioni's pyram...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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17:29
S2E3 - Leadership of High-Performance Work Teams with Mike Sweeney
Join us in an engaging discussion, with Mike Sweeney, on Leading High Performance Work Teams. Mike is an executive coach, a team development expert, and a learning & development nerd. He is an organizational psychologist by degree a...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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44:51
S2E2 - Discussion with Alex Aranda on Leader Routines in Support of the People System
Join us and our guest Alex Aranda, an HR and Operational Excellence Professional, in our discussion on what leader routines/habits are needed to create and sustain a positive work culture. Our dialogue includes actionable steps by leaders that ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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32:16
S2E1 - Intro to The Importance of Leadership Standard Work to Sustaining Improvement and a Positive Culture
Why is Leadership Standard Work critical to sustaining improvement and a positive culture? What is Leadership Standard Work? We kick off season 2 of our podcast with a focus on three important systems that leaders need to have strong Leadership...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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27:58
S1E15 - The Criticality of Training in High Performance Work Teams
We share thoughts on the importance of quality training within a High-Performance Work Team. Why is it important and what are the aspects of "Quality Training". We pull back the curtains on key elements of instructing and some of the tra...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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34:30
S1E14 - A Discussion With Kyle Goodbred On The Challenges and Perspective of a Young Leader
Our guest for this Episode is Kyle Goodbred, one of our podcast listeners. Kyle provides an excellent perspective on the challenges that young leaders encounter in the world and gives some excellent advice to other developing leaders. K...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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37:50
S1E13 - Why Healthy Conflict is Crucial to a Great Team.
We discuss how important it is to have a team that understands that conflict is healthy and necessary with great teams. We define what type of conflict is good conflict and which is not good conflict. We also touch base on some ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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30:38
S1E12 - A Discussion With Gary Beaudette About High Performance Work Teams
Join us on our continued discussion on High Performance Work Teams. For this episode, we bring a great guest to join us, Gary Beaudette. We talk about some of the mistakes leaders make when working towards buildi...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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35:08
S1E11 - Intro to High Performance Work Teams. What must a Leader do to Create the right Conditions.
Listen in on our introduction to High Performance Work Teams! What are they? why would you want one and how does the leader play a role for this type of team? This episode is where we begin to move our focus from you, the leader...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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30:21
S1E10 - A discussion with Alan Leibowitz on Ethics and Leadership.
Our first guest, Alan Leibowitz, adds to our conversation on Ethics and Leadership. Join us as we discuss the ethical challenges new leaders can face in leading teams and what you can do to help guide you to Doing the...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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42:14
S1E9 - Leading with Intent-Based Focus Vs. Task-Based Focus
We discuss how Leading with Intent in mind can gain your team's commitment and empower them to be autonomous and provide the environment for them to become a Self-Directed Work Team. How Intend-Based Leade...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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24:48
S1E8 - The Importance of Coaching in the Workplace
In this episode Steve and Lupe discuss the importance of coaching as a leader. What is coaching? How is it different than providing feedback? What is needed to be an effective coach?
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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22:51
S1E7 - Situational Leadership and the Keys to Great Delegation
Join us in our discussion on Situational Leadership and the four styles that are part of Ken Blanchard's Situational Leadership Model. We also provide the four keys to being great at Delegating. We share our expe...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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32:46
S1E6 - The Importance of Trust and How to Build Trust as a Leader (Part-2)
We continue to expand on the topic of Building Trust as a Leader. In this episode we really break apart the four key elements and provide actionable examples that you can do to begin building trust within your team.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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35:57
S1E5 - The Importance of Trust And How to Build Trust as a Leader
In this first of two episodes, we set our four most important aspects of building trust as a leader. We talk about Accountability, Transparency, Integrity and Generosity/Kindness Towards Others. We share our perspectives on these behavio...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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32:04