Leveraging Leadership
Leadership is messy. Most advice isn't built for the reality of competing priorities, difficult stakeholders, limited time, and imperfect information.
Leveraging Leadership is a practical leadership podcast for Chiefs of Staff, executives, founders, and senior operators who want to lead more effectively and navigate complexity with confidence.
Hosted by Emily Sander, former Chief of Staff and executive advisor, each episode delivers real-world lessons, practical frameworks, and candid conversations with leaders across business and beyond.
Topics include executive communication, leadership presence, decision-making, delegation, organizational influence, operating rhythms, team effectiveness, and the often-unspoken challenges leaders face behind the scenes.
If you're looking for thoughtful conversations, practical takeaways, and leadership advice you can actually use on Monday morning, you're in the right place.
Leveraging Leadership
Latest Episodes
Why Big Ideas Die Inside Good Organizations
Terry Young, author of Possibility Sciences: A Discipline for Turning Bold Ideas Into Reality, joins me to talk about why bold ideas so often die before they ever make it into the real world.We get into what Terry calls the “Possibility...
How PE-Backed Companies Turn Strategy Into Results
Private equity firms invest with a value creation plan. But the strategy on the slide deck only matters if the company can actually execute it.Brea Page, founder of Keep75 and a former Google Chief of Staff and strategy leader, joins me...
Executive Presence Is Range, Not a Persona
Executive presence isn't a checklist of confident behaviors, and it isn't a persona you put on when you reach the C-suite.Jacque McCormack, co-founder of JetStream Advisors and an executive coach with more than 15 years of experience wo...
From Safe Bets to Breakthroughs: Building a Balanced Innovation Portfolio
Noel Sobelman explains innovation portfolio management and how companies can bridge the gap between strategy and execution. He shares a medical device company example where shifting from safe, incremental projects to a more balanced mix led to ...
Freedom from Mental Captivity: Insights on Mediation and Workplace Communication
Stan Lewis, a former OSHA investigator and mediator, explains how most workplace whistleblower cases come down to communication issues and how managers can prevent problems by listening early. He shares practical mediation tips, like letting pe...