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Leman Tech Leadership Podcast

Aleksandra Lemańska

Leman Tech Leadership PodcastWelcome to the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, your ultimate guide to developing exceptional tech leadership skills. Whether you"re a seasoned tech leader or just stepping into a managerial role, this podcast is designed to provide you with actionable insights and best practices to create a thriving work environment that people won"t want to leave. Learn how to do it with host Aleksandra Lemańska, CQ Technology Leadership Mentor & Speaker. Founder @LemanSkills,

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#201 | It’s Not About One Big Boundary. It’s About a...

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2026/10/06

▶︎ #201 | It’s Not About One Big Boundary. It’s About a Few Small Habits.In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska follows up on the always-on leader episode with the question a lot of listeners asked afterward: okay, but what do I actually do every day so I don’t end up there in the first place? This is the prevention episode, not the crisis response, and she’s upfront that it isn’t one big boundary that fixes exhaustion, it’s a handful of small, repeatable

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59:43

#200 | From Pro Basketball to a 4,000-Venue Startup:...

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2026/10/01

▶︎ #200 | From Pro Basketball to a 4,000-Venue Startup: Resilience, Shameless Pivots, and Betting on A-Players w/ Fryderyk Szydłowski (@ Embargo)In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex sits down with Fryderyk Szydlowski, Co-founder of Embargo, the loyalty and CRM platform now used by close to 4,000 cafes, restaurants, and bakeries across the UK, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, and the US. Freddie’s path runs from a professional basketball career in Poland’s top division, through

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16:51

#199 | The Leadership Skills That Actually Matter in...

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2026/09/29

▶︎ #199 | The Leadership Skills That Actually Matter in Q4 2026In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska skips the generic "top 10 leadership skills" list {the kind that could have been written in 2015} and names what’s actually changed heading into the rest of 2026: teams getting smaller relative to output because of AI tooling, decisions moving faster, and a widening gap between leaders who can personally verify the work and leaders who can’t.She walks through the

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54:08

#198 | From Actor to AI Strategist: Red Flags, Real...

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2026/09/24

▶︎ #198 | From Actor to AI Strategist: Red Flags, Real Feedback, and Leading Like Your Favorite Teacher w/ Sean Dagony-Clark (@Your Tech Ally)In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex welcomes Sean Dagony-Clark: a self-described "high-tech problem solver with a high human focus" whose path runs through acting, design, and 14 years in education {including running academic technology at Riverdale Country School} before landing at coding bootcamps Flatiron School and Iron Circle

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15:06

#197 | How to Speed Up Without Your Team Falling Apart

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2026/09/22

#197 | How to Speed Up Without Your Team Falling ApartIn this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska starts from a sentence a founder said to her recently: "I know we need to move faster, but I’m scared that if I push even more, the whole thing falls apart." Alex pushes back on the idea that this fear is a personal weakness, and on the false choice hiding underneath it, that the only options are slow and safe or fast and fragile.She uses the Wheel of Conflict to show why

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53:01

#196 | You Are Your Own Worst Enemy: Self-Worth,...

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2026/09/17

▶︎ #196 | You Are Your Own Worst Enemy: Self-Worth, Boundaries, and the Real State of Women in Tech (Part 2) w/ Aleksandra ŁośIn this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex sits back down with Aleksandra for part two of their conversation. If you haven't listened to part one yet (episode #188, where Ola shares her story as a serial entrepreneur now building her fourth startup), pause here and start there, then come back. This episode picks up exactly where that one left off.This time the

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15:22

#195 | Your Team Just Got a Digital Twin of You. So...

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2026/09/15

#195 | Your Team Just Got a Digital Twin of You. So What Are You Actually For Now?In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska tackles a conversation that’s been sitting with her since a recent talk with a founder she mentors in Poland, someone building AI-native tools that let a leader’s "digital twin" answer questions for their team around the clock. Her first reaction was relief on behalf of every exhausted leader she knows. Her second reaction is the one this

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62:26

#194 | Why Co-Founding with Your Brother, Detaching...

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2026/09/10

▶︎ #194 | Why Co-Founding with Your Brother, Detaching from Your Product, and Staying in the Code Makes You a Better Leader w/ Piotr Karwatka @Open MercatoIn this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra sits down with Piotr Karwatka, Co-Founder of Open Mercato, a 100% AI-engineered open-source framework for building enterprise CRM and ERP applications. Piotr has spent 26 years in technology, starting with freeware desktop software he built with his brother Tomasz as teenagers

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20:04

#193 | You Put Psychological Safety in a Slide Deck....

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2026/09/08

▶︎ #193 | You Put Psychological Safety in a Slide Deck. Your Team Still Doesn’t Feel It.In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska takes on a phrase most tech leaders have grown allergic to: psychological safety. She names the pattern first, because it’s the one that starts almost every mentoring conversation on this subject: a leader declares: "Come to me with mistakes, come to me with bad news," everyone nods, and six months later that same leader is blindsided

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64:50

#192 | From Corporate Beast to a Founder: On Lifelong...

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2026/09/03

▶︎ #192 | From Corporate Beast to a Founder: On Lifelong Learning, System Thinking, and Leading with Good Intentions w/ Paulina Kotowska @LejdiSapiens / @InceptiIn this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra sits down with Paulina Kotowska, a transformation specialist, accredited EMCC coach and mentor, and Co-Founder of Incepti, a business agility consultancy she runs alongside her own personal brand LejdiSapiens. With nearly 30 years of professional experience spanning pharma,

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20:12

#191 | Face It Till You Make It: The Real Reason You...

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2026/09/01

▶︎ #191 | Face It Till You Make It: The Real Reason You Keep Giving UpIn this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska opens the final quarter of the year with a subject she's lived through personally and professionally, and hears from leaders and founders on a near-daily basis: giving up.Alex names the pattern she keeps running into in conversation after conversation: people who feel like failures, like imposters, like they simply can't stick to a habit or deliver what

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46:08

#190 | Curiosity in the Age of AI Humility, Digital...

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2026/08/27

▶︎ #190 | Curiosity in the Age of AI: Humility, Digital Twins, and Why the Smartest Person in the Room Stops Learning w/ Ashutosh Garg (Co-Founder & CEO, @Eightfold AI & @Viven, ex-@Google, ex-@IBM)In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex welcomes Ashutosh Garg: Co-Founder and CEO of Eightfold AI and Viven, a third-time founder (after Bloomreach and Eightfold) who spent his early career as a research scientist at IBM and Google before building a career predicting where

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14:32

#189 | How to Lead Engineers Who Don't Want Your...

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2026/08/25

▶︎ #189 | How to Lead Engineers Who Don't Want Your Career Path?In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska takes on a question more leaders are quietly wrestling with: how do you lead engineers who don't want your career path?The episode opens with a story from one of Alex's mentees, a director who built a strong promotion case for one of her best engineers, only to have him turn it down. Not for money, not for timing, but because he didn't want more people

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63:39

#188 | From Renting Lambos for Crypto to...

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2026/08/20

▶︎ #188 | From Renting Lambos for Crypto to Deterministic AI Agents: Self-Worth, Startups, and Finding the Right Co-Founder w/ Aleksandra Łoś (Founder @Relayn) In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex sits down with Aleksandra Łoś. Her path runs from management consulting in Paris and London, through a string of ventures (a sports-matching app, a startup renting luxury assets for cryptocurrency, rebuilding the original Bitcoin whitepaper for the Bitcoin Association, and TrueMe, an

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19:54

#187 | The Always-On Leader: You Can't Contract...

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2026/08/18

▶︎ #187 | The Always-On Leader: You Can't Contract Boundaries You Don't PracticeIn this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska tackles a conversation she's had for years, in corporate hallways, mentoring sessions, and now with leaders across the globe: being always on.The episode opens with a moment from one of Alex's own mentoring sessions: a VP of Engineering spent forty minutes describing the ground rules he'd built to protect his team's focus time, then answered a

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46:22

#186 | Imposter Syndrome, the Funding Gap, and...

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2026/08/13

▶︎ #186 | Imposter Syndrome, the Funding Gap, and Building the STEMinist Summit w/ AJ Lauer (Founder @Thriving Ibis Leadership Solutions) {Part 2}In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex reunites with Dr. AJ Lauer, founder of Thriving Ibis Leadership Solutions and author of "My Monster Mungo: A Story About Imposter Syndrome," for part two of their conversation. Since they last spoke, AJ broke her ankle, spent two months out of commission, and used the forced pause to realign her

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21:25

#185 | The Loneliness of the Leader Who Do You...

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2026/08/11

▶︎ #185 | The Loneliness of the Leader: Who Do You Actually Talk To Now?In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska addresses a subject she's lived through herself and hears constantly in mentoring conversations: the loneliness of the leader.Alex opens with a story from a mentoring session: a leader who realized she hadn't had an honest, unfiltered work conversation in months, not because of a rough patch, but because everyone below her filters what they say, and

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56:22

#184 | Signal vs. Noise: How to Lead with Simplicity,...

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2026/08/06

▶︎ #184 | Signal vs. Noise: How to Lead with Simplicity, Vulnerability, and Radical Clarity w/ Keith Zubchevich (@ex-Cisco, @Conviva)In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra sits down with Keith Zubchevich, CEO of Conviva, the company that invented video quality measurement and helped launch 12 of the 15 largest streaming apps in the world. Keith brings 35 years in technology to the conversation, having started as a market analyst and built a career defined by one constant

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16:51

#183 | Return to Office Isn't a Policy Problem. It's...

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2026/08/04

▶︎ #183 | Return to Office Isn't a Policy Problem. It's a Values Conflict You're Being Asked to Enforce.In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska goes deep on a subject she's been asked about constantly: how to lead your team through a change, like a return-to-office mandate, especially when you're not fully on board with it yourself.The spark for the episode was a question from a manager during a change management workshop: "How do I communicate this with

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61:31

#182 | Clear Is Kind: Why Most Leaders Avoid the...

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2026/07/30

▶︎ #182 | Clear Is Kind: Why Most Leaders Avoid the Conversations That Actually Matter w/ Peter Murphy @Pocket PrepIn this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra sits down with Peter Murphy, CEO and Co-Founder of Pocket Prep, a company built to help people pass notoriously difficult certification exams. Peter's path started in aerospace manufacturing at Lockheed Martin, where he was handed leadership responsibility in his first week on the job with zero preparation for it. After

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