Do you ever feel like your team can’t move forward without you — that every decision, question, or problem somehow ends up back on your plate?

If you’re constantly answering questions, solving problems, and feeling more like a manager than a leader, you may be unintentionally holding your team back. This episode explores how shifting from “having all the answers” to empowering others can free up your time, build trust, and create a team that thinks — and acts — independently.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• A simple mindset shift that transforms dependency into ownership and initiative.
• Why managing instead of leading creates stress — and how to reverse it.
• A powerful, step-by-step conversation tool you can start using today to help your team solve their own problems with confidence.

Press play now to discover how empowering instead of managing can lighten your load, strengthen your team, and make you a more effective, inspiring leader.

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What Is Your Leadership Style? Free Quiz:

Want to know how to lead better? It starts by understanding your leadership style. To

find out yours, take my free quiz “What Is Your Leadership Style” - you’ll immediately find out your default style, how it may be impacting your team and a few practical ways to become an even better leader. Just click on the link fill out your quiz and click submit.

This podcast empowers international development and humanitarian NGO UN leaders to achieve high performance teams, fostering diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing, overcoming burnout and overwhelm, while maximizing impact and productivity.

Do you ever end your day exhausted, inbox overflowing, and still feel like you’ve barely made progress on what really matters?

If that sounds familiar, you might be suffering from High Performance Syndrome — a hidden trap that affects nearly every NGO leader. It’s what keeps you busy but not productive, constantly “on” for your team, chasing perfection, and running on a treadmill that leads to burnout instead of real impact. In this episode, you’ll learn why this mindset is so common in the humanitarian and development sector — and how to break free from it so you can finally lead with focus and ease.

Here’s what you’ll gain from tuning in:

• The ability to recognize the subtle beliefs and habits that drive overwork and dependency in your team.
• Practical mindset shifts that free up your time and energy for what truly creates impact.
• A simple process to reframe “I have to be available all the time” into a healthier, more effective way of leading.

Hit play now to uncover how letting go of High Performance Syndrome can help you work less, lead better, and create the impact you’ve always aimed for.

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What Is Your Leadership Style? Free Quiz:

Want to know how to lead better? It starts by understanding your leadership style. To find out yours, take my free quiz “What Is Your Leadership Style” - you’ll immediately find out your default style, how it may be impacting your team and a few practical ways to become an even better leader. Just click on the link fill out your quiz and click submit.

This podcast empowers international development and humanitarian NGO UN leaders to achieve high performance teams, fostering diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing, overcoming burnout and overwhelm, while maximizing impact and productivity.

Will you finish your current leadership role having achieved the impact you set out to create — or will you leave wondering what actually changed?

If you often end days buried in email and back-to-back meetings, feeling drained but unsure whether anything you did really mattered, this episode is for you. It compares two leader types — one who thrives and achieves lasting impact, and one who burns out while getting short-term results — and shows why aligning daily actions (not just ambitions) and shifting your mindset are the missing links between busy work and meaningful leadership.

Listen to learn how to:

• Spot the everyday habits that steal your time and keep you misaligned with your leadership impact.
• Use a simple alignment check (like a daily compass) to make small choices that add up to big, lasting results.
• Reframe the beliefs that drive reactive behavior so you can act like the future leader you want to become — energized, focused, and fulfilled.

Tap play to discover the practical alignment habits and mindset shifts that will help you turn busy weeks into measurable leadership impact.

WATCH ON YOUTUBE

What Is Your Leadership Style? Free Quiz:

Want to know how to lead better? It starts by understanding your leadership style. To find out yours, take my free quiz “What Is Your Leadership Style” - you’ll immediately find out your default style, how it may be impacting your team and a few practical ways to become an even better leader. Just click on the link fill out your quiz and click submit.

This podcast empowers international development and humanitarian NGO UN leaders to achieve high performance teams, fostering diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing, overcoming burnout and overwhelm, while maximizing impact and productivity.