• Season finale: three key leadership themes
    May 19 2025

    This finale of Season 1 prompts hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison to tie together three central themes woven through all of Your Leadership Podcast so far: how great leaders rely on moral and ethical frameworks, how leaders (and followers) understand and build on context, and the key role that team-first perspectives play in organizations with thriving leaders.


    Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo

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    22 mins
  • How leaders inspire
    May 5 2025

    Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison dig into themes in a new book by Columbia University Business School professor Adam Galinsky, titled "Inspire: the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others." They work from a recent Harvard Business Review article from Professor Galinsky that summarizes its key points: inspiring leaders distinguish themselves by playing three key roles: visionary, exemplar, and mentor. The conversation finds some surprising connections between Professor Galinsky's findings and the themes of "Your Leadership Podcast."

    The book: Adam Galinsky, "Inspire: the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others."

    Adam Galinsky at the Harvard Business Review.


    Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo.

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    29 mins
  • Leadership in context: new and existing organizations
    Apr 21 2025

    Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison tackle a key element of leadership in context. What's expected of a leader who steps into that role in an organization or community that already has an established history and culture? How does that differ from tackling leadership when starting fresh, building and leading from the ground up?

    The case study for the conversation: religion and religious practices, both old and new.


    Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo

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    23 mins
  • Leadership and followership
    Apr 7 2025

    Hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim dig into and pull apart followership, an all-important complement to leadership. They jump off from a recent report by Gallup, Inc. titled, "Global Leadership Report: What Followers Want." The conversation takes on not only what followers want, but also when they want it, and how, and what that means for leaders.

    Download the Gallup report here.

    For more research on followership and what that means for leaders, take a page from Robert E. Kelley's 1992 book "The Power of Followership."

    Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo.


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    23 mins
  • Boards, board roles, and leadership
    Mar 24 2025

    Service on a board of directors or advisors is often treatedas a “leadership” role, whether in a nonprofit or corporate setting. When and how might that be true? When and how do board roles and leadership roles differ? Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison talk through this critical set of questions for aspiring leaders.


    Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo

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    26 mins
  • Leading as “doing or delegating”
    Mar 10 2025

    Hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim dig into “doing or delegating,” key moments in the life of an organization or community when individuals step forward to meet needs of the moment. Sometimes, that means taking on tasks themselves. Sometimes, it means delegating responsibilities to others. When and why should leaders make one choice rather than the other?


    Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo

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    27 mins
  • Leading as deciding
    Feb 24 2025

    Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison zoom in on one key quality of leadership: decision-making. How do leaders develop the capacity for sound decision-making , including both subject matter expertise and "street savvy," or judgment? Why is decision-making such a critical - and sometimes underappreciated - element of leadership?


    Writers mentioned in this episode:

    Phil Knight, "Shoe Dog"

    Tom Kolditz, "In Extremis Leadership"

    Malcolm Gladwell, "Blink"


    Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo

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    28 mins
  • Digging into leadership ethics
    Feb 10 2025

    Hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim dig into the complicated intersections among leading, leadership, and ethics. What does it mean to be an ethical leader? How do ethical frameworks affect leaders? What does ethical leadership look like in the day to day of leading in organizations?

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    25 mins