In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour welcomes longtime healthcare executive Michael Korpiel for a conversation on values-based leadership in today’s hospital environment.

Michael shares insights from a career spanning public, private, academic, and faith-based health systems, including his experience as an interim CEO and how that season reshaped his leadership approach. The discussion explores the power of permission in leadership, the difference between long-term planning and decisive execution, and how servant leadership creates sustainable operational results.

They examine what it means to lead a service-driven organization under financial and workforce pressure, why culture is never an HR initiative but a CEO responsibility, and how mission and values must move beyond statements on the wall to daily operational decisions. Michael also discusses the importance of leader visibility, physician engagement, continuous improvement, and building an organization you would trust with your own family’s care.

The episode closes with practical reflections for the next generation of healthcare leaders on anchoring to values, building trust across all levels of the organization, and leading with both clarity and humility in a high-pressure industry.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a 5-star review on your streaming platform. Mike encourages you to reach out to him at Mike@harbourresources.com to share your thoughts on this episode and suggest topics you would like him to cover in the future.

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour welcomes Anney Perrine, Partner and Senior VP of Growth at Palm Health, for the Elite Leader Series

The conversation explores how Palm builds leadership capacity and culture through director self-development, cross-department accessibility, leadership training, frequent check-ins around personal values, and shared frameworks like the five dysfunctions of a team. Annie also outlines Palm’s focus on “caring and collaboration,” reinforced through five North Star metrics and day-to-day behaviors that support member retention.

They discuss employee retention strategies, including treating employees as individuals, building community across diverse teams, celebrating wins at individual, team, and organizational levels, and hiring for values fit using a temperament and character assessment emphasizing cooperativeness and reward dependence. Annie closes by emphasizing meaning and purpose as central to sustainable performance, employee engagement, and the future of organizational culture.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a 5-star review on your streaming platform. Mike encourages you to reach out to him through Mike@harbourresources.com to share your thoughts on this episode & to share some topics you would like him to cover in the future.

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour discusses why culture is a performance strategy and highlights a gap between employees who value strong culture and leaders who actively protect it.

Drawing from research and ideas referenced in his book, ‘Quit Losing Talent,’ Mike walks through 8 “silent” culture killers that often become normalized. For each culture killer, he outlines how it shows up in organizations, the cost to trust, engagement, decision speed, and retention, and the leadership shifts needed.

Mike closes by challenging leaders to identify which of these issues they’ve normalized and invites listeners to share the episode and discuss it with their executive teams.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a 5-star review on your streaming platform. Mike encourages you to reach out to him through Mike@harbourresources.com to share your thoughts on this episode & to share some topics you would like him to cover in the future.