The Pause Before You Lead
Leadership today asks a lot of people.
Leaders make decisions with incomplete information, navigate competing priorities, support others through change, and respond to challenges that rarely have simple answers.
In the midst of all that, it's easy to keep moving without creating space to think.
Hosted by Heather Haigh and Alicia Saint, The Pause Before You Lead is a podcast for leaders navigating growth, complexity, and uncertainty. Each week, Heather and Alicia explore the conversations, assumptions, patterns, and tensions that influence how leaders think, decide, communicate, and lead.
Drawing on decades of leadership experience and more than ten years coaching, consulting, and partnering with leaders and teams, they bring thoughtful dialogue, practical wisdom, and powerful questions to the real challenges leaders face every day.
Whether you're leading a team, an organization, or your own next chapter, these conversations will invite you to pause, reflect, and see something you may not have noticed before.
New episodes released weekly.
The Pause Before You Lead
Latest Episodes
What Do Our Team Values Look Like in Action?
Our team values are written down. Would someone watching us work know what they are?In this episode of The Pause Before You Lead, Heather and Alicia explore the connection between states values and everyday behaviour. A personal...
What Do You Mean by That?
We use words like trust, respect, innovation, accountability, and collaboration to describe how we want to work together. But do those words mean the same thing to everyone on the team?In this episode of The Pause Before You Lead
What If I'm Wrong?
What if the question you most resist is the one worth sitting with?In this episode of The Pause Before You Lead, Heather shares why “What if I’m wrong?” once sparked such a strong reaction in her, while Alicia explores the diver...