E72 – Building Your Resilience featuring Dawn White
Today we explore building resilience in ourselves and our teams. We are joined by Dawn Whyte, an air traffic controller and aviation career coach. She has spent the past three decades helping leaders in aviation and the broader business world to work on cultivating genuine connection in their teams, and she joins the show to talk about resilience.
In this conversation we explore the link between vulnerability and resilience, what Dawn has learnt from her own journey, and how growing as a leader is a journey, not a destination.
E71 - Positional Leadership and the Scarf Doctrine featuring Anna Marenick
How can we use positional leadership techniques to become better leaders for our people?
Anna Marenick is the vice president of people, culture and belonging at Nova Scotia Health.
She has also taught classes on strategic communications at the Nova Scotia Community College as well as teaching strategic human resource management at SMU NBA program.
In today’s conversation we look at how the choices we make as leaders influence the people around us, advice to emerging leaders, and how to not become the boss that people can’t stand.
E70 - Bullying in the Workplace featuring Bonnie Low-Kramen
Workplace bullying is a real thing, so how can we as leaders create safe spaces where everyone can feel welcome? Find out how from today’s guest, Bonnie Low-Kramen. She is a TEDx speaker, teacher, and founder and CEO of Be the Ultimate Assistant, a curated training solution for corporate leaders and assistants creating synchronous and thriving work environments. Bonnie is also the author of the forthcoming book, Staff Matters.
Bonus Episode: Home Ownership and Ourboro Leading the Way featuring Alex Kjorven
Is it possible to make money and make a change in society?
Today’s guest Alex Kjorven, Chief Product Officer at ourboro, has dedicated her career to working with businesses and organizations that are using business tools to solve social and environmental challenges. Alex is a social entrepreneur lecturer at the University of Toronto and a seasoned manager in the profit and non-profit spaces.
Episode 69 - Leadership Fails Can be Our Leadership Wins Part Two
Welcome to the second half of our conversation with the five leaders as we unpack more stories around failure, dealing with imposter syndrome, working with introverts, extroverts and ambiverts, servant leadership, and so much more. In this very rich conversation, we also discuss some final thoughts about dropping the mask and helping each other to be our most authentic selves.
Episode 68: Leadership Failures Can be Our Leadership Wins Part One
This conversation has been split into two parts.
In this first half, our guests reflect on their first-time leadership roles and they candidly open up about the mistakes they made. We also talk about asking your team the question “What do you need to succeed?”, how to move away from the traditional ‘authoritarian’ mindset, setting mental health boundaries, and the difference between stopping vs quitting.
E67 - The Three F's featuring Renée Safrata
Renée Safrata, Founder and CEO of Vivo Team Development, joins the show to share the integral leadership tools that are rarely used properly by the most experienced leaders. Over the past 30+ years Renée has worked with thousands of companies and executives throughout North America and Europe, helping them to connect, adopt new behaviours, and become confident members of highly functioning teams.
Episode 63 - Coaching for Leaders featuring John Robertson, Eh!
Passio Fidelis, or, passionate faithfulness. The ability to be true to yourself and your goals as you lead.
This phrase is the guiding principle that our guest uses as he coaches leaders from the trenches, helping them be the most effective and robust leaders possible
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from John Robertson, a fellow Canadian, Ottawa resident, and (Founder and President of FORTLOG Services), who will offer advice and practical tools to help emerging leaders be their best coaches, ensuring we can all be passionately faithful to, and for, our teams.
Episode 66: Emotions and Leadership featuring Jo Wheatley, Emotions Coach
Today’s guest, Jo Wheatley, a global award-winning Emotions Coach and Co-Founder of In Good Company, shares how emotions are not detrimental to your leadership abilities. Jo coaches CEOs – and those on a CEO pathway – who are seeking alignment of their emotions to their outer achievements. She is also the co-host of the No 1 UK Careers podcast 'The Coaching Crowd' and author of ‘Deciding to Coach’.
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.