The Leadership Growth Podcast

Timely, relevant leadership topics to help you grow your ability to lead effectively.

New episodes every other Tuesday since January 30, 2024.

Contributors

Co-host

Daniel Stewart

Daniel J. Stewart is a sought-after talent management and leadership development consultant and coach with proven experience advising senior leaders, leading change, and designing leadership-rich organizations. He leads Stewart Leadership’s extensive consulting practice, business development, and international partnerships.

Over the past twenty years, he has been an internal and external organizational development executive and consultant, delivering talent and team development solutions, executive leadership coaching, group facilitation, change management, organizational design, and strategic planning for hundreds of organizations around the world.

He is the co-author of the award-winning book LEAD NOW! A Personal Leadership Coaching Guide for Results-Driven Leaders, which was awarded First Place by the National Indie Excellence Book Award for the best leadership book published over the last five years.

Co-host

Peter Stewart

Peter K. Stewart, Ph.D., is an experienced business psychologist specializing in leadership consulting, coaching, and training.

With his unique blend of insightful psychological and business perspectives, Peter has helped hundreds of individuals in diverse settings and professional positions achieve success in their personal growth and leadership development. Clients have frequently commented on the ease and speed with which Peter is able to thoroughly grasp the individual and organizational challenges that individuals are facing. He helps them conceptualize and understand their role in complex organizational systems through clear, practical, and common-sense direction with a clear plan for action.

Peter’s unique background combined with a pragmatic, skills-focused application makes him ideal to partner with organizations and individuals to bring sustained improvement through talent management and leadership development strategies.

Guests

Guest

André van Hall

After losing his sight in 2011, André van Hall learned first-hand what it meant to face adversity and reinvent himself. After a career in hospitality, he pivoted to become an author, speaker, and self-styled Curiosity Instigator.

Guest

Bala Muthiah

Bala Muthiah is the Director of Engineering for Lyft where he leads teams that power real-time decision systems for millions of users.

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Christian “Boo” Boucousis

Christian “Boo” Boucousis is an author, keynote speaker, and CEO of Afterburner, an organization dedicated to building flawless leaders by applying principles and systems fighter pilots use to perform to their exacting standards.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-boo-boucousis/

Guest appearance on:

Iterative Leadership in the Digital Age

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Dr. Gena Hoxha

Gena is the Chief People Officer and Chief AI Officer at Ignitium, a provider of world-class Account-Based Marketing (ABM) programs for enterprise organizations. She holds a PhD in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University and seeks to help leaders pursue AI integration with foresight, not fear.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gena-hoxha/

Guest appearance on:

Leading in the Age of AI

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Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier

Dr. Pelletier — also known as MH — is a leadership psychologist, executive coach, and senior leader with over twenty years of experience across the corporate, insurance, and governance sectors. Her award-winning book, The Resilience Plan, was named a “Top Five Book to Read” by both Inc. Magazine and Forbes.

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Dr. Reece Akhtar

Dr. Akhtar is the CEO of Deeper Signals, an end-to-end Soft Skills Intelligence platform designed to help organizations make smarter and fairer talent decisions. He is a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes and co-author of the book, The Future of Recruitment: Using the New Science of Talent Analytics to Get Your Hiring Right.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/reeceakhtar/

Guest appearance on:

How to Use AI in Hiring Leaders

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Dr. Ron Dufresne

Dr. Dufrense is a Professor of Management and Director of the Leadership, Ethics and Organizational Sustainability Program at St. Joseph’s University. He focuses on leadership and ethics with a particular emphasis on the role of character in leadership.

Guest appearance on:

Habit Building for Leaders

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Lisa Skeffington

Lisa is a multi-award winning psychotherapist, executive coach, and author with over 25 years in private practice.

Guest appearance on:

Creating Mentally and Emotionally Strong Leaders

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Melissa Reeve

Melissa is the creator of the Hyperadaptive Model and author of Hyperadaptive: Rewiring the Enterprise to Become AI-Native. She spent 25 years as an executive and Agile thought leader, which led to pioneering work in Agile marketing and her role as the first VP of Marketing at Scaled Agile. She also co-founded the Agile Marketing Alliance.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissamreeve/

Guest appearance on:

How to Become an AI-Native Organization

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Ross Blankenship, PhD

Ross Blankenship is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author who works with CEOs and senior leadership teams on the human side of leadership. In his forthcoming book, Friction: Uncover the Power of Leading Through Tension, Ross and his co-author, Maggie Sass, explore how leaders can lead through friction for better decisions, stronger relationships, and healthier performance.

Guest

Tiffany Harvey

Tiffany is a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths® coach and client partner to Gallup. She led the CliftonStrengths program at Southwest Airlines for five years and now works as a Human Resources Manager at HOAM Ventures.

Guest appearance on:

Leveraging Strengths Amid Constant Change