Disruption Lab
Disruption isn’t coming—it’s already here. Whether you’re leading a team, raising a family, or chasing a dream, curveballs are part of life. Disruption Lab helps you turn them into breakthroughs.
Hosted by Patrick Leddin and inspired by his book Disrupt Everything and Win (with James Patterson), each episode brings bold ideas and real stories to help you thrive in a fast-changing world.
Disruption is powerful—but so are you.
Disruption Lab
Disrupt the Way You Show Up with Ashley Herd
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The way people behave at work does not stay at work.
The way we are treated by our boss, our colleagues, and the people we lead changes how we show up everywhere else. It shapes our mood, our confidence, and the way we interact with the people we care about most. In other words, behavior at work creates ripple effects far beyond the office.
In this episode of Disruption Lab, Patrick Leddin sits down with Ashley Herd, former Head of HR for McKinsey & Company and the founder of Manager Method. Ashley has spent her career helping organizations rethink how managers lead and how workplaces shape the people inside them.
Ashley shares insights from her work and her book The Manager Method, explaining why management is one of the most underestimated forces shaping culture, performance, and people's daily experience at work. She also discusses how small shifts in leadership behavior can disrupt unhealthy patterns and create environments where people perform better and live better.
This conversation explores a simple but powerful idea: when leaders change how they treat people at work, they change how those people show up everywhere else in life.