E113 - Asking Empowering Questions featuring Carol Boston

Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front is humbled to have been named #5 in the Top 20 for Best Canadian Leadership-themed podcasts for 2025.

Have you ever noticed how a single well-crafted question can completely transform a conversation? In this eye-opening episode, business development and leadership coach Carol Boston reveals the transformative power of empowering questions and how they can revolutionize your leadership approach.

For emerging leaders, mastering empowering questions creates psychological safety, fosters innovation, and helps team members feel genuinely heard and valued. Questions like "How would the leader I want to become handle this situation?" or "What one thing could I say differently so this person feels heard?" can transform your leadership effectiveness overnight.

Carol shares her journey from tennis pro to sales expert to leadership coach, highlighting pivotal moments where trusting someone else's vision for her became life-changing. Along the way, she discovered the remarkable impact that empowering questions can have on breaking through limitations and opening doors to possibilities we can't see when trapped in our own perspective.

Carol’s Episode Links:

1. https://www.facebook.com/carol.boston.37

2. https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecarolboston/

3. https://www.instagram.com/thecarolboston/

4. www.carolboston.com

Carol’s Recommended Book/Movie/Podcast List:

Books:

1. The Last Arrow by Raphael McManus

2. Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden

3. Napoleon Hills Master Course

Movies:

1. Rudy

2. Hope Floats

3. The Blind Side

4. The Grinch

Podcast: The Kelly Roach Show

Leadership Without Passion Limits the Depth of Your Vision.

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Cite this episode

Kardynal, S., E113 - Asking empowering questions featuring carol boston. Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front. 2025.