In this finale for Season 2 of Your Leadership Podcast, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Michael Madison take stock of the season's interviews and guests:

What did we hear that confirmed our intuitions?

What did we hear that surprised or challenged us?

And most important, what do we take away and recommend to our listeners?

Your Leadership Podcast is about actionable insights. We've tied Season 2 together with a bow to make it useful ... to you.

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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.

Sean Casey, a retired American professional baseball player, is known as “The Mayor” for his personable demeanor both on and off the field. He was selected as an All-Star, played in the World Series, and finished a decade-long career as a .300 hitter – a sign of his talent and his consistency. Since retiring from the field, Sean has continued in baseball as a media personality. And he has put time and effort into community service.

In this conversation with co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim, Sean digs into his past and present experiences to explain how he acquired, practiced, and paid forward the discipline and commitment that leadership meant for him, and still means today, in all aspects of his life and career.

Sean Casey on X: @TheMayorsOffice

SeanCasey on Instagram: @themayorsofficemlb

Sean Casey’s keynoting

Sean Casey’s volunteering and service: “Casey’s Clubhouse”

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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.

Dr Sarabajaya Kumar practices what she teaches, as a professor of leadership and the non-profit sector at University College London (and Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), and as a disabled woman with heritage from the Global Majority. Sarabajaya is a volunteer leader and activist in the UK, Director of Impatience Ltd, working to increase funding for under-supported causes and advance social and environmental justice and disability equity. She is also a Steering Group member of Centenary Action, Senior Independent Trustee of the National Council for Voluntary Organizations (NCVO), and an experienced Trustee for non-profit sector organizations.

Sarabajaya brings a deeply personal perspective to her conversation about a life in service and a commitment to ethical leadership, with co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison.

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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.

Bridget McCormack is the President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution, or AAA, a global leader in providing alternative dispute resolution services. Before that, she was Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and a professor and dean at the law school at the University of Michigan.

In this candid conversation with co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim, Bridget shares stories of learning leadership by doing. She explains how her methods forbuilding culture and purpose at the AAA both borrow from and differ from her experiences in her previous roles, with different blends of carrots and sticks, and collaboration and direction.

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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.

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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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 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.