Lead With Influence
Lead with Influence is about influencing positive change — in yourself, your relationships, and your leadership. Hosted by executive coach Matt Norman, each episode distills insights from decades of experience helping people communicate with impact, lead with humility, and build trust across differences. These short, thoughtful reflections will help you grow in self-awareness, develop emotional intelligence, and show up more powerfully in your work and life.
Lead With Influence
Latest Episodes
The Art of the Non-Anxious Yes
Most of us have at least one commitment on the calendar that we agreed to out of guilt. Matt Norman has one too, and in this episode it becomes the starting point for a bigger question: how do you decide what deserves your yes?The conver...
The Ultimate Motivation Killer: Stripping Autonomy
Ever have a colleague who just won't do what you ask, no matter how many times you ask it? Turns out it's rarely about attitude. It's about autonomy.In this episode, we dig into Matt's latest article on the psychology of autonomy at work...
The Power of Specificity: How to Make a Meaningful Deposit
Dan Aykroyd could have posted a generic happy birthday message to Steve Martin. Instead, he wrote something that clearly took real thought, and it changed everything about how the message landed.In this episode, we dig into Matt Norman’s...
How to Get Your Way Without Imposing Your Will
Most of us think we’re arguing about values. We’re not.In this episode, we unpack Matt Norman’s article “How to Get Your Way Without Imposing Your Will” and the pattern he’s seen across decades of coaching leaders: it’s rarely the opinio...
The Speed of Quality Interactions
Matt used to run daily around a lake near his house. One day he saw a man rowing a boat, and by the following week, he was using it himself. That chance encounter turned into a decades-long friendship with a man named Peter, one Matt still lean...