Episode 65 - The Paradox of Power featuring Laura Jansen
In this episode, you’ll hear from Laura Jansen, Learning & Development Director of Reticle Ventures Canada Incorporate and independent Teaming Facilitator, who will help emerging leaders explore how Power & Rank dynamics are linked to building an environment where teams can thrive. She will connect how power & rank plays into creating a teaming environment where all team members can contribute, feel a sense of belonging, and speak freely. Laura will provide insights and advice for leaders in how they can own their powers, in order to share them in a way that empowers their team.
Episode 64: Putting Fear Into Perspective featuring Richard Blank
In this episode, you’ll hear from Richard Blank, CEO for Costa Rica’s Call Centre, who will talk about his experiences with fear in the workplace. Richard will use his personal and professional examples to talk about how emerging leaders can live with their fear, use it to create strong and powerful teams. Lastly, Richard will give practical advice to leaders so they can use their fear to help themselves and their teams thrive.
Episode 62: Doing the Right Thing Isn't Always the Easiest Thing featuring Ryan van Haren
Leaders are flawed people who experience the same gambit of personal and professional pressures that all team members go through.
And quite often, leaders will ask their team members to stand up for what’s right at all costs. Leaders often extol the virtues of being a consummate professional, all of us striving towards being inclusive, open, and empathetic, with the highest level of integrity.
But how often do leaders practice what they preach?
In this episode, you’ll hear from Ryan van Haren, an Aviation Coach, Consultant and Corporate Pilot, who will talk about his leadership experiences, explaining the reality of how hard it can be to do the right thing in the face of many oppositions.
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front is humbled to have been listed as #8 for the Top 20 Best Canadian Leadership-themed podcasts in 2022.
Special Episode: Revisiting "Gutsy Leadership featuring Marisa Santoro"
To continue celebrating one whole year of Trench Leadership, we are re-releasing our very first episode: Gutsy Leadership featuring Marisa Santoro.
It’s never easy being the new person to a team, and this is made all the more challenging when you are expected to lead that team.
In this episode, Simon chats with Marisa Santoro about how to overcome the nervous new leader jitters, and know how to be a gutsy leader.
Episode 61: Celebrating One Year featuring Trench Leadership - A Podcast From the Front
Can you believe it!?! Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front is ONE YEAR OLD!!!! And while this anniversary day has quietly gone by, that doesn’t mean it went unnoticed. And so, over the next few weeks, we’ll be showcasing the many milestones that Trench Leadership has achieved during the last year.
This week’s episode is a blend of the top ten most listened to episodes, based on downloads and listens, highlighting just a few of the many outstanding conversations that have happened.
Episode 60: Show Up as Your Whole Self featuring Luis Baez
It’s easy to lose sight of ourselves, especially when we become formal leaders because we all have an image of what we expect our ‘perfect’ leader to look and sound like.
And when we are trying to be the very best leader possible, we tend to try and mimic these characteristics. But here’s the thing, as we create our own leadership persona, we run the danger of losing ourselves in the process.
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Luis Baez, a Global Sales Enablement Leader and author, who will impress upon us the importance of not losing ourselves. Luis will share is his personal story and use his life experiences to help us ensure that we can recognize ourselves and be our truest, most authentic selves.
Episode 59: Personal Growth Leads to Professional Growth featuring Maureen Ross Gemme
In this episode, you’ll hear from Maureen Ross Gemme, a Leadership Trainer and Coach who runs Emerge Leadership Academy. Maureen will talk about how emerging leaders can learn to see when it may be time to make a pivot, as well as offering advice and examples of methods that might help emerging leaders with their personal and professional journey. Maureen will offer her insight into how and when she saw the need to make pivots in her personal and professional life.
Episode 58: The 7 Mistakes That New Managers Make featuring Dr. Janet Polach (LCol, US Marines, Retired)
In this episode, you’ll hear from Dr. Liz DuBois, an executive coach and high conflict divorce coach, who will have a conversation about gender gaps, how to recognize them, and how emerging leaders can ensure they are part of the solution to creating universally equal workplaces.
Episode 57: Leading with Awareness featuring Dale Allen and Trevor Stevenson
In this episode, you’ll hear from Dale & Trev, a married coaching duo who will offer their definitions of what it means to be a truly conscious leader. They’ll also talk about how they live into these values. Lastly, we’ll hear how emerging leaders can be authentically conscious as they lead from the trenches.
Episode 56: Gender Expectations in Leadership – A Conversation with Dr. Liz DuBois
In this episode, you’ll hear from Dr. Liz DuBois, an executive coach and high conflict divorce coach, who will have a conversation about gender gaps, how to recognize them, and how emerging leaders can ensure they are part of the solution to creating universally equal workplaces.
Episode 55: The Stigma of Concussions featuring Kalley Armstrong and Brendan Hynes
In this episode, you’ll hear from Kalley Armstrong, a PhD Student and a former hockey player for Harvard University and Brendan Hynes , a Canadian Army veteran, concussion advocate and entrepreneur, who will talk about their concussion stories, the stigma that comes with concussions, and how we can all help raise awareness of concussion safety and knowledge.
Episode 54: Grow Your Grit featuring Colonel David Fivecoat, US Army, Retired
Sometimes leading is about putting your head down and just.getting.it.done.
It sucks, it’s not easy, but sometimes leaders need to dig deep and get it done.
We’ve all heard the term, grit. And we’ve all heard how we need grit to help us dig deep. But how can we use grit?
In this episode, you’ll hear from David Fivecoat, an executive coach, author, entrepreneur, and US Army veteran who will talk about his experiences with grit and how emerging leaders can use grit to get.it.done.
Episode 53: Shit Happens: Learning From Mistakes featuring Fred Rutman
In this episode, you’ll hear from Fred Rutman, a former professor who is now unwillingly retired, and who has died, literally, dozens of times. Fred will be your reminder that shit happens and that it can always be worse. Fred will talk about his leadership journey and how his personal life experiences have shaped how he chooses to lead.
Episode 52: Staff Matters – Employee Focus is the Path to Success featuring Bonnie Low-Kramen
Your Staff Matter. They are important. Your staff are the sole reason you will succeed.
So how can you, as the new and amazing emerging leader that you are, ensure they feel like they matter? How can you lead everyone along the path to success?
In this episode, you’ll hear from Bonnie Low-Kramen, a TEDx speaker, author, and former celebrity assistant who will use her years of experience aiding leaders as they try to remain on their path to success. Bonnie will offer her insight into how Staff Matters and how focussing on your team members brings everyone along the path to success.
Episode 51: How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone featuring Nicolene Elhadad
In this episode, you’ll hear from Nicolene Elhadad, a business and franchise strategist, who will describe her journey of living outside her comfort zone and how this unsettling feeling gave her power and insight to achieve her goals in a healthy manner.
Episode 50: The Science Behind Emerging Leaders featuring Annalise Schamuhn
In order for leaders to understand what defines an emerging leader, we have to understand the basic concepts of how emerging leaders come to this point in their leadership journey.
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Annalise Schamuhn, an executive coach and leadership consultant, where we will discuss the official definition of what an emerging leader is, and compare this definition to our own. We’ll offer our own leadership experiences from the perspective of Canadian Armed Forces Officers and Senior Non-Commissioned Members. Lastly, we’ll offer advice, inspiration, and practical tools for emerging leaders to put in their leadership toolbox.
Bonus Episode: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Strength-Based Assessment Tools featuring Andrew Grunewald
In this episode, you’ll hear from Andrew Grunewald, an Executive Coach & Leadership Facilitator who will share his experiences and expertise on the assessment tools that are available to us. Andrew will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the assessment tools, providing an over-arching perspective.
Episode 49: The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Assessment Tool featuring Nicole Noel
In this episode, you’ll hear from Nicole Noel, author of The ENFP Success Guide and aspiring MBTI coach. Nicole will provide an overview of the MBTI, explaining its strengths and weaknesses, and its ability to create personal cognitive awareness.
Episode 48: The DISC Leadership Assessment Tool featuring Jennifer Bilger
In this episode, you’ll hear from Jennifer Bilger, an Author, Speaker, Certified Behavioural Consultant and Coach, who will talk about the DISC assessment tool and how we can influence our behaviours to be the best leaders we want to be.
Episode 47: Your DNA is Your Leadership Roadmap featuring Annie Bush
How often have you heard that your DNA tells your story? In this leadership assessment tool mini-series, we’ll talk about how your genetic code can complement your favourite strengths-based leadership assessment tool.
From an emerging leadership perspective, knowing your DNA provides and insight into how and why we might perceive, process, and execute challenges and opportunities.
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Annie Bush, a (Certified Brain Health Coach and Holistic Longevity Strategist), who will offer some insights into how our genetic make-up can help us be the strongest leaders we want to be.