Don’t Let Strategy Happen to You, with Mark Cross of FocusCFO
Some owners have every decision running through their desk, and the work they do best gets whatever time is left. Mark Cross of FocusCFO explains how to get that time back.
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Why change is still hard, with Manika Gupta of GE Aerospace
In this episode Manika Gupta has led change at GE for a decade, through divestitures, a breakup, and a new way of running the business, and she still relearns how hard it is every week. She joins Aaron Lee to talk about the early-career program that rotated her every four months, what she learned from
Intent versus experience: What 360 degree feedback can teach us
Everyone on your team already knows what it's like to work for you. In this episode Everyone on your team already knows what it’s like to work for you. So do your peers. You’re the only one still guessing. In this episode, we take on the gap between what a leader intends and what the
Leadership Is a Learned Skill: The STEM Connect Trainers on Seattle, Sessions, and the Hallway
Every fall, the calendar fills with conferences. In this episode Every fall, the calendar fills with conferences. Most hand you a badge, a schedule, and a room full of strangers. Ahead of STEM Connect 2026 in Seattle, Aaron Lee sits down with four of the trainers preparing to lead sessions there: Jim Lee, Hope Yin,
From Rigid to Real: An Engineer's Decade-Long Lesson in Feedback and Leading People with Derek Stake
Derek Stake, VP of Operations and Engineering at The Cleveland Vibrator Company, joins the Leaders Rising Podcast to talk about moving from managing process to leading people. In this episode Derek Stake came up as an engineer, and for years he ran his teams the way he ran a production line: manage the variation, follow
Below the Waterline: What Leaders Don’t Know About Their People
Tim Dittloff, a USCG-licensed merchant mariner and leadership coach, on what leaders miss when they only coexist with their teams, and why the crew that can’t talk on the water can’t talk in the building.
Training in 2026: Everyone Wants Growth, No One Has Time
Training Magazine says 2026 is leadership development’s moment. Almost nobody is starting. Why it’s a system problem, not a willpower problem, and the one honest conversation that gets you unstuck.
Why Culture Drifts (And What Leaders Can’t See When It Does)
Culture rarely collapses. It drifts, one pressured moment at a time, and the leader setting the pace is usually the last to see it. From the Rising launch episode with Jeff Lovell, Becky Rivest, and Mike Pumphrey.
Why Most Leader Development Programs Don’t Work (And What Does)
A high-potential leader attends a training, comes back energized, and then nothing changes. Why most programs stop at the surface, and the four-part rhythm (B-SPOKE) that moved the numbers.
Culture Is a Practice: How Micro-Moments Shape Performance
Most leaders try to fix culture in the big moments. It’s built in the small ones: the micro-moments where behavior meets values under pressure.