Kimball Gallagher, celebrated, innovative concert pianist, explores how he leads both with music and through music. This episode of Your Leadership Podcast features Kimball's role as founder and leader of 88 International, an NGO that collaborates with public and private partners around the globe to help youth build large-scale music programs.

With co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison, Kimball offers listeners an extraordinary blend of artistic vision and ground-level social transformation, paying forward leadership skills and capacity through music composition, performance, and more.

Read about Kimball Gallagher here.

Read about 88 International here.

88 International was recognized in CNN's "5 Good Things" podcast.

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Production notes:

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered byCommander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize ourinterviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

Tara VanDerveer, the second-winningest college basketball coach in history, joins Your Leadership Podcast, recounting how she learned to lead, how she is still learning today, and how she practices leadership lessons.

Her stories help us explore a key theme of Season 2 of Your Leadership Podcast: how does a leader go about creating and maintaining an environment where colleagues - students - players - partners can succeed, individually and collectively?

Throughout Your Leadership Podcast, co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim gather answers to that question using the concept of "curatorial" leadership. Leaders can "curate" conditions for success. Through her lifelong learning, in the gym and elsewhere, Coach VanDerveer curated environments where her players and teams could thrive.

Read about Tara VanDerveer at the official website of Stanford University, where she led her teams to three NCAA championships.

Read more about Tara VanDerveer at her Wikipedia page, including her coaching Team USA to an Olympic gold medal in 1996.

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About us:

Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

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Production notes:

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

What we have here is success in communicating, adapting a famous movie quotation and carrying forward our first key theme of the season: success and succession for leaders.

This episode pivots to the second of our key themes, what we are calling "curatorial" leadership. We borrow the idea of leaders "curating" an organizational context from the world of art and artifacts, in museums, archives, galleries, and other collections.

One key to curation for leaders (and also for art curators) is thoughtful and effective communication, to multiple audiences, both inside and outside the group. Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison did into what that means, adding nuance and context and by way of example, a reference or two to successful coaching in professional sports.

Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

Production notes:

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

In this second episode focused on succession planning as a leadership theme, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison dig into connections between leadership succession and leadership - and organizational - success.

Connecting concepts with practices, the conversation weaves in case studies of organizations and companies where succession planning has gone well - and where leadership transitions have gone poorly.

We add to that mix some key observations about special cases: challenges of managing leadership transitions in small businesses, especially family businesses, and in startups.

Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

Production notes:

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

We begin this season's tour of leadership themes with this interview with the incredible Dr. Xiaoyan Huang. The theme: succession and success.

Dr. Huang is a remarkable and accomplished professional both as a cardiologist and leader in clinical care in Portland, Oregon and as a volunteer leader in her community and across the US. Read about her record and career here, on LinkedIn.

Co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim invited Dr. Huang to draw on all elements of her experience, so that she could draw out a range of leadership lessons with value both to those managing and participating in leadership "pipelines." As always, and as Your Leadership Podcast has emphasized from its beginning, context matters. In this conversation, that beginning leads to a surprising and important conclusion.

Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

Production notes:

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

We kick off Season 2 with this introduction to three key leadership themes that will occupy the season as a whole:

• succession and succession planning as critical leadership competencies;
• what we refer to as "curatorial" leadership - the idea that leaders are often "curators" of the people, values, and purposes of their organizations and groups; and
• differences and similarities between leadership in online and virtual contexts and leadership in face-to-face and other analog settings.

Inevitably, Generative AI enters the leadership picture. What do we make of the possibility of "robot" leaders?

Co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim devote this episode to preliminary tours of each of those topics. There are deeper dives to come, together with some incredible guests.

Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

Your Leadership Podcast returns for Season 2. In this preview, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison highlight key leadership themes anchoring the coming weeks' episodes.

We have a fresh theme to pair with compelling conversations and usable takeaways for leaders and aspiring leaders alike.

Catch up on Season 1 via this series of short essays on LinkedIn.

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

This finale of Season 1 prompts hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison to tie together three central themes woven through all of Your Leadership Podcast so far: how great leaders rely on moral and ethical frameworks, how leaders (and followers) understand and build on context, and the key role that team-first perspectives play in organizations with thriving leaders.

Producer and engineer: Commander Buffalo