Humanergy Leadership Podcast
Impactful leadership development.
For 25 years, Humanergy has helped leaders cut through the noise and take real action. This podcast delivers straight-talking insights, practical tools, and expert strategies you can actually use—right away. Whether it’s a deep-dive conversation with an experienced coach or a quick, powerful tip from the field, every episode is designed to help you lead with clarity and impact. Practical, proven, and built for real-world leadership.
Episodes
241 episodes
Ep 248 When You Promote Your Best Employee and It Backfires: The Coaching Table
Three high-performing individual contributors got promoted to lead roles. All three are now miserable. The manager who promoted them is asking what to do. In this episode, Humanergy coaches John Barrett and Quay Eady work through exactly that s...
Ep 247 "Why" Is Not a Neutral Question
When leaders ask "why," they often get defensiveness instead of dialogue, even when that's not what they intended. In this episode, David Wheatley explores why the word "why" tends to put people on the front foot and shares a simple language sh...
How to Respond to Angry Customers on Social Media Ep 246
Most organizations prepare for system changes with FAQs and talking points. When Honor Credit Union switched its core banking platform overnight, 110,000 members woke up to something unfamiliar, and some of them were not happy about it....
Ep. 245: Delegation That Actually Develops People
Delegation is one of the most talked-about leadership skills, and one of the most poorly executed. In this free workshop session, Humanergy coach Lance Satterthwaite gets into the real reasons leaders avoid delegating or do it badly, and offers...
Ep 244: How Do You Get Senior Leaders to Stay Strategic? (First, Change the Question)
C-suite leaders often know their teams should be thinking strategically, and yet under pressure, those same teams keep dropping back to the tactical level. In this episode, David Wheatley, Dr. Rick Eigenbrod, and Dr. Judy Brown unpack why that ...
Ep 243: Coaching a Leader Stuck Between a Chaotic Boss and a Frustrated Team
In this episode of The Coaching Table on the Humanergy Leadership Podcast, coaches David Wheatley and Lance Satterthwaite work through a real scenario from a leader caught between a reactive C-suite and a frustrated team. Our scenarios are eith...
Ep242: Grit, Power, and Strength: Leadership Lessons from Lisa Davis
Lisa Davis spent four decades as a technology executive, often the only woman in the room. In this conversation with David Wheatley, she shares three of the nine core leadership principles from her new book, The Only Woman in the Room:...
Ep241: Roundabouts and Stop Signs: A Framework for Letting Your Team Move
Most organizational bottlenecks aren't caused by bad people or unclear strategy. They're caused by systems that require everything to stop before anything can move forward.In this episode, David Wheatley draws on the surprisingly rich co...
Ep240: How Leaders Actually Use AI: The Four Choices That Shape Every Decision
AI doesn't make leaders more thoughtful. It amplifies the choices they're already making.In this workshop recording, Mimi from Humanergy walks through the Four Choices framework (destructive, passive, productive, transformative) and appl...
Ep239: Building Trust: A New CEO & a Hostile Culture - The Coaching Table 1
What would you do in your first 100 days as CEO, if morale is low, trust is thin, and the team didn’t choose you?In this first episode of The Coaching Table, brought to you by the Humanergy Leadership Podcast (HLP), Humanergy coaches Ji...
Ep238: Alignment: Get it and Keep it (Free Workshop)
Most teams believe they’re aligned. But alignment rarely breaks overnight. It drifts.Priorities shift. Roles become unclear. Communication breaks down. Before long, teams are working hard but not necessarily moving in the same direction....
Ep237: AI and Your Personal Board of Directors
Throughout the session, AI is framed as a thinking partner and perspective-expander, not a decision maker. Human judgment, values, and responsibility remain central.AI is changing fast. Humans aren’t.In this episode, we explore ho...
Ep236 Beyond the Algorithm: What Leaders Bring That AI Cannot
AI can process data and optimize outcomes, but it can’t provide purpose, empathy, or moral judgment.In this episode, Humanergy coach David Wheatley explores why the rise of AI elevates the role of human leadership. The conversation focus...
Ep235: Teams and the Value of Structure, Why Design Shapes Performance
What if your team’s “people problems” are actually design problems?In this episode, David Wheatley is joined by Dr. Judy Brown and Dr. Rick Eigenbrod to explore a leadership question that doesn’t get asked enough, how much of team per...
Ep234 The Four Choices Every Leader Makes
Leadership isn’t about titles or authority. It’s about the choices you make every day and how those choices influence the people around you.In this episode, David Wheatley shares a simple but powerful framework built on two continuums, c...
Ep233 How to Give Feedback People Can Actually Use
Feedback shapes performance, trust, and culture, yet many leaders struggle to give it in ways that truly help people grow. In this workshop excerpt, Humanergy Coach Corey Fernandez breaks down what effective feedback looks like, why it matters,...
Ep232 Stay off the Field
In this short episode, David Wheatley revisits the classic “quarterback to coach” transition. Many leaders are promoted for being great doers, then struggle to step back and let others take the field. David shares a memorable story from manufac...
Ep231: From Ally to Changemaker with Megan Fuciarelli
Tired of polarized talk at work? Megan Fuciarelli maps a clear path forward. She and David unpack the Metamorphustice continuum, practical ways to move beyond allyship, and how leaders use curiosity, empathy, and direct communication to build t...
Ep230: From Problem Solver to Leader: How to Stop Doing and Start Developing Your Team
In this short episode, Humanergy’s David Wheatley shares a powerful story about an engineering leader who learned to shift from solving problems himself to building a team that could solve them.Discover how one simple v...
Ep229 Building a Coaching Muscle (GROWTH) - First Friday
In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful yet underused leadership tools—coaching. Humanergy coach, Nikki Patterson, shows how to shift from solving every problem yourself to helping others grow their own capability and confid...
Ep228: Ally Leadership with Stephanie Chung
David Wheatley talks with Stephanie Chung about her new book "Ally Leadership: How to lead people who are not like you" . Among the tips are:Ask - Establish an environmentListen - Assure alignment Learn - Rall...
Ep227: TrueSuccess Blueprint - Living Mindfully & Scaling Smart: The Foundations of Sustainable Leadership
In the final episode of Humanergy’s TrueSuccess Blueprint anniversary series, host Mimi Mitrius talks with co-founders John Barrett and David Wheatley about what it really takes to sustain success over decades. The...
Ep226: If your culture could talk with Tom Krause
David Wheatley interviews Dr. Thomas Kraus about his book
Ep225: TrueSuccess Blueprint - Thriving Teams and World-Class Ideas: Building a Culture of Growth and Innovation
What does it take to build a thriving professional network and create leadership tools that stand the test of time?In this episode of the True Success Blueprint podcast, host Mimi Mitrius talks with Humanergy co-founders John Ba...
Ep224: Elements of Human Transformation (First Friday)
What does it really take for leadership training to stick? In this episode of the Humanergy Leadership Podcast, Jim Marshall explores the deeper dynamics of personal and professional growth - what works, what doesn’t, and why. Drawing ...