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Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Leaders aren’t born; they’re made. Many leaders reach points in their careers where what worked yesterday doesn’t work today. This Monday show helps leaders thrive at these key inflection points. Independently produced weekly since 2011, Dr. Dave Stachowiak shares insights from a decade of leading a global leadership academy, plus more than 15 years of leadership at Dale Carnegie. Bestselling authors, proven leaders, expert thinkers, and deep conversation have attracted 50 million downloads and over

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22:32

How to Get Better at Listening, with Bill Mayo

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2026/03/05

Academy alum Bill Mayo joins Dave to share how he improved his listening skills — both at work and at home.Applications to the Coaching for Leaders Academy will be open March 13th – March 20th. To receive an early invitation or to apply, visit the Coaching for Leaders Academy page.

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39:25

772: How to Measure Your Meeting’s Success, with...

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2026/03/02

Rebecca Hinds: Your Best Meeting Ever Rebecca Hinds is a leading expert on organizational behavior and the future of work. She founded and led the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean, where she partners with leading experts to help organizations transform their work with AI. She is the author of Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done (Amazon, Bookshop)*. Considering the amount of time we all spend in meetings, it’s odd that most

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38:56

769: How to Connect Better with Remote Colleagues,...

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2026/02/09

Charles Duhigg: SupercommunicatorsCharles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. He is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and other publications and is the author of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection (Amazon, Bookshop)*. A lot of us grew up in a world where most of our relationships started in

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39:57

768: Evolving from Business Partner to Value Creator,...

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2026/02/02

JP Elliott: Future of HRJP Elliott has decades of experience as a Talent and HR executive at companies like DICK’S Sporting Goods, McAfee, and Lenovo. He’s seen the challenges HR professionals face in growing their careers and increasing their impact. He is the host of the Future of HR podcast and on a mission to help HR professionals increase their business impact and accelerate their careers. Leadership looks a little different if you head up a support role: human resources, IT, marketing,

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36:34

765: How to See What’s Holding You Back, with Marty...

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2026/01/12

Marty Dubin: BlindspottingMartin Dubin is a clinical psychologist, serial entrepreneur, business coach, and adviser to C-suite executives and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. He has founded several companies, including a multimillion-dollar health-care company where he also served as CEO. He is the author of Blindspotting: How to See What’s Holding You Back as a Leader (Amazon, Bookshop)*. Whenever I ask leaders, “What’s getting in the way of you moving forward?” the most common answer I hear is,

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30:53

764: Stop Solving Your Team’s Problems, with...

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2026/01/05

Elizabeth Lotardo: Stop Solving Your Team’s Problems for Them Elizabeth Lotardo is a consultant, writer, and online instructor who helps organizations drive emotional engagement. Elizabeth writes for Harvard Business Review, is a Top Voice on LinkedIn, and the author of Leading Yourself: Find More Joy, Meaning, and Opportunities in the Job You Already Have. She’s also the author of the Harvard Business Review article, Stop Solving Your Team’s Problems for Them. Jumping in to solve problems feels

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34:11

658R: How to Help Change Happen Faster, with Frances...

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2025/12/22

Frances Frei: Move Fast & Fix ThingsFrances Frei is a professor at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders create the context for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in strategy, operations, and culture. She regularly works with companies embarking on large-scale change and organizational transformation, including embracing diversity and inclusion as a lever for improved performance. In 2017, Frances served as Uber’s first senior vice

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39:09

763: Leading with Poise When the Stakes are High,...

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2025/12/15

Eileen Collins: Through the Glass Ceiling to the StarsColonel Eileen M. Collins, USAF (retired), earned a place in history as the first American woman to pilot, and later to command, a space mission. She flew on the space shuttle four times, twice as commander – including the 2005 “return to flight” mission after the tragic Columbia accident. She is the subject of the documentary movie Spacewoman and author of the book Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to

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25:29

Listener Survey Results

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2025/12/04

Dave shares the results of the 2025 listener survey and previews what’s next for Coaching for Leaders. If you’re not already getting the weekly update and wish to receive Dave’s forthcoming FocusFive messages, join the free membership for access.

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35:07

761: Notice Disruption and Innovate Through It, with...

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2025/12/01

Steve Blank: Blind to DisruptionSteve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford and co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement and the curriculums for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps and Hacking for Defense and Diplomacy, he’s changed how startups are built, how entrepreneurship is taught, how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate. Steve is the author of The Four Steps

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39:37

760: The Kind of Curiosity Leaders Often Miss, with...

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2025/11/24

Shannon Minifie: Box of CrayonsShannon Minifie is the CEO of Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps unleash the power of curiosity to create connected and engaged company cultures. They are the organization behind the bestselling book The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier. Shannon and her team recently released a report along with the Harris Poll titled Navigating a Fractured Workplace: How Relational Curiosity increases engagement, trust, and productivity. Of course,

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759: The Way to Build Collective Power, with Ruchika...

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2025/11/17

Ruchika T. Malhotra: UncompeteRuchika T. Malhotra is the founder of Candour, a global inclusion strategy firm that has worked with some of the world’s biggest organizations. She’s been recognized multiple times by Thinkers50 and co-wrote one of Harvard Business Review’s top 100 most-read articles in history: Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome. She is the author of Inclusion on Purpose, MIT Press’s top-selling book of 2022 and now her newest book, Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to

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39:52

757: The Key Elements of a Powerful Personal Brand,...

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2025/11/03

Goldie Chan: Personal Branding for IntrovertsGoldie Chan is the founder of Warm Robots, a social media strategy and creative agency, and she is herself a creative, keynote speaker, author, and cancer survivor. She was named the “Oprah of LinkedIn” by Huffington Post, and her creative video channel won LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Media. She is the author of Personal Branding for Introverts (Amazon, Bookshop)*. Many of us aspire to have a powerful personal brand, but it’s not always clear where to

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31:41

754: Five Steps to Solve a Problem, with Monica Chartier

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2025/10/18

Monica Chartier: Coaching for Leaders FellowMonica Chartier is a group product manager in the technology industry. Her work has centered on supporting a global product experience, getting a million visitors a day. In addition to her e-commerce and technical experience, she indexes heavily on coach-like leadership with her team and also inside our community as one of our Coaching for Leaders Fellows. In this conversation, Monica and I explore a need inside the Coaching for Leaders membership

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39:45

753: The Key Norm of a High Performing Team, with...

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2025/10/13

Vanessa Druskat: The Emotionally Intelligent Team Vanessa Druskat is an associate professor at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. She advises leaders and teams at over a dozen Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies and wrote the best-selling Harvard Business Review article (with S. Wolff) on emotionally intelligent teams that has been chosen many times for inclusion in HBR’s most valued articles. She is the author of The Emotionally

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750: Six Questions Every Leader Should Ask...

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2025/09/22

Margaret Andrews: Manage Yourself to Lead OthersMargaret Andrews is a seasoned executive, academic leader, speaker, and instructor. Her course MYLO (Manage Yourself to Lead Others) has become the most popular professional development program at Harvard. She is the author of Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding (Amazon, Bookshop)*. Virtually every book, course, and program on leadership begins with self-understanding. That’s no accident; it’s because

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21:20

Making Space to Move Forward, with Tracey Gardner

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2025/09/11

Dave speaks with Tracey Gardner, an alum of the Coaching for Leaders Academy, on the critical nature of making space in order to adapt to change.Apply to the Coaching for Leaders Academy by Friday, September 12th.

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747: How to Get Out of a Rut, with Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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2025/09/01

Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Tiny ExperimentsAnne-Laure Le Cunff is an award-winning neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and writer. She is the founder of Ness Labs and author of its widely read newsletter, a researcher at the ADHD Research Lab, and an advisor for the Applied Neuroscience Association. She is the author of Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World*. We all get into a rut sometimes. Once we notice we’re in one, our tendency is to work really hard to get out of it. In this

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Stop What’s Holding You Back, with Anna Bellini

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2025/08/27

Dave speaks with Anna Bellini, an alum of the Coaching for Leaders Academy, on how to stop a behavior in order to move forward.Applications to the Coaching for Leaders Academy will open the first week of September. Visit the Academy page to request an early invitation.

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20:43

Building Team Visibility, with Mel Rivera

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2025/08/21

Dave speaks with Mel Rivera, an alum of the Coaching for Leaders Academy, on how she built visibility for her team.Applications to the Coaching for Leaders Academy will open the first week of September. Visit the Academy page to request an early invitation.

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