Leaders Rising Podcast
Leaders Rising Podcast
Podcast Description
Real conversations on leadership, culture, and multiplying impact.
Join our team and guests as we explore what it takes to lead well, build healthy teams, and create lasting organizational change—one episode at a time.
We equip growing companies to create bigger futures and build thriving cultures by developing leaders worth following.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes such as building liberating cultures, leadership self-awareness, and the transformation of organizational dynamics. Episodes cover diverse topics like the evolution of compliance to culture in banking, leadership transformation through vulnerability, and the importance of intentional people systems. For instance, a recent episode with Dr. Tom Nebel delves into the importance of self-awareness in leadership and how it leads to liberating cultures, while another episode discusses the journey of transforming a conservative bank into a people-first organization.
Real conversations on leadership, culture, and multiplying impact.
Join our team and guests as we explore what it takes to lead well, build healthy teams, and create lasting organizational change—one episode at a time.
We equip growing companies to create bigger futures and build thriving cultures by developing leaders worth following.
Year one was slow. There were empty seats at the leadership table, a culture that needed rebuilding, and no clear map for how to get from where things were to where they needed to go. What came out of those years was not a perfect plan. It was a system, built gradually, through clarity about people, through honest assessment of gaps, and through a commitment to developing leaders on purpose rather than by accident.
In this episode, recorded live during the Rising book launch event, Aaron Lee shares the story of stepping into a leadership role with more problems than answers, and what it actually took to build something that worked. Tom Nebel follows with a look at the tensions that don’t disappear even when your systems are healthy: leaders who never asked for the role they’re now carrying, the balance between support and challenge, and what genuine accountability looks like when it comes from the top.
This episode closes out our three-part series from the Rising launch event, and it may be the most personal conversation of the three.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- What it looks like to build a people system from scratch, without a roadmap
- The growth pathway every leader travels, and how to develop people through it intentionally
- Why organizations don’t rise because of heroic leaders, they rise because of intentional systems
- The tension between being supportive and being demanding, and why both matter
- What honest humility looks like from the front of the room, and why it changes everything
Rising is a book for organizations that are growing but quietly losing clarity along the way. Written by Jeff Lovell and Aaron Lee of Leaders Rising Network, it makes the case that most growth problems are clarity problems, and that the path forward is building an intentional people system, not pushing harder.
Show Outline
- 6:24 – Building a System of Clarity and Infrastructure
- 8:50 – Developing Leaders and Overcoming Overwhelm
- 12:56 – World-Class Leadership and Organizational Success
- 14:28 – Tensions in Leadership and Organizational Health
- 19:07 – Balancing Support and Challenge in Leadership
- 24:27 – The Role of Intentional Systems in Leadership
- 25:02 – The Impact of Leadership on Organizational Success
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