Dominate Your Day is a leadership podcast for executives, emerging leaders, and difference makers who are ready to stop performing and start leading from identity—while driving results without burning out.
Host Dana Williams—leadership strategist, Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach, and creator of the Authentic Imprint™ framework—helps listeners understand their wiring, align their energy, and build sustainable influence. Through weekly solo episodes, live coaching, and interviews with leaders who have transformed from the inside out, Dana uses her Authentic Imprint™ framework—integrating strengths, core values, mission, Emotional Recognition—to address real-world leadership challenges.
Listeners walk away with practical tools to live in their strengths, dominate their day, and transform their life from the inside out.
How Worst-Case Thinking Can Reveal Opportunities with Dr. Nardia Haigh - Episode 364
In this episode of Dominate Your Day, I'm joined by Dr. Nardia Haigh, a professor, strategist, thought leader, and author who has spent nearly 20 years studying and practicing scenario planning.
We talk about why so many leaders get stuck when making decisions in uncertain times and how scenario planning can help you move from trying to predict the future to preparing for multiple possibilities. Dr. Haigh shares how this powerful framework can be used not only in the boardroom, but also in our careers, businesses, and personal lives. We explore why looking at the worst-case scenario can actually uncover opportunities, challenge our assumptions, and leave us feeling more prepared and confident about what may come next.
Top 3 Takeaways
1. Scenario planning is not about predicting the future. Scenario planning isn't about guessing what will happen. It's about considering multiple ways the future could unfold so you can build strategies that help you remain resilient.
2. The worst-case scenario can reveal opportunities. Looking directly at what could go wrong can uncover blind spots, potential responses, and opportunities you may never have considered otherwise.
3. Thinking ahead creates confidence. When you've already considered different possibilities and thought through how you might respond, you're less likely to simply react when uncertainty arrives. You can enter the future with options already in mind.
Episode Minutes:
Minute 15:00 - How the worst-case scenario can reveal an opportunity
Minute 24:00 - Scenario planning builds confidence, not certainty
Minute 33:00 - Why it's worth facing the uncomfortable scenario
Links + Resources from This Episode:
Get a copy of Dr. Nardia Haigh's book, Facing Uncertainty
Download a free copy of her book's introduction on her website
Take the free 3-minute Authentic Imprint™ Assessment (https://danawilliamsco.scoreapp.com/)
Get a copy of Dana's book, The Internal Revolution: Lead Authentically and Build Your Personal Brand from Within
Learn more about The Strengths Journal
6 Oct 2026
The Playbook You're Waiting for Doesn't Exist – Episode 363
AI is changing the way organizations work, and leaders are being asked to figure out what it means for their teams, their businesses, and their future often before anyone actually knows the answer.
In this episode, I share lessons from a recent leadership panel I moderated with Linda Rutherford, Dr. Marc Nivet, and Emily Crawford about what it really looks like to lead through uncertainty and change. The key isn't becoming the expert or waiting until you feel ready. It's learning how to take the next honest step, develop the expertise around you, stay connected to your team's capacity, and build the playbook as you go.
Top 3 Takeaways 1. You don't need the whole playbook. When you're leading through something new, waiting for certainty can keep you stuck. Leadership often means taking the next step and building the path as you go.
2. You don't have to be the expert develop one on your team. Your job isn't to master every new technology. Know your strengths, identify the people on your team who are curious and capable, and give them room to develop the expertise.
3. Pay attention to capacity, not just output. Ask your team, "What's getting in the way of you doing your best work?" That simple question can uncover obstacles and capacity issues before they become bigger problems.
Episode Minutes:
Minute 1: Looking For A Non-existent Playbook
Minute 3: You don't Have To Be The Expert
Minute 4: Leading Through A Period When The Bar Keeps Changing
Links + Resources from This Episode:
Watch the Accelerating Leadership Wellbeing Panel on Youtube or listen on Spotify or Apple
Take the free 3-minute Authentic Imprint™ Assessment
Get a copy of Dana's book, The Internal Revolution: Lead Authentically and Build Your Personal Brand from Within
Learn more about The Strengths Journal
29 Sept 2026
How to Navigate Change in a Distracted Workplace with Linda Rutherford, Dr. Marc Nivet, and Emily Crawford – Episode 362
Change is happening faster than ever from AI and digital transformation to increasingly distracted and stretched teams. But effective leadership through change isn't always about doing more. Sometimes, it requires changing how you see your role.
This special episode was recorded at the live Accelerating Leadership Wellbeing Panel, which took place on August 25, 2026, hosted by Bank of Texas. I was joined by three remarkable leaders who have navigated change at scale:
Linda Rutherford — Former Chief Administration Officer and current Executive Advisor at Southwest Airlines, with 33 years of experience leading through change.
Dr. Marc Nivet — Executive Vice President at UT Southwestern Medical Center, bringing three decades of leadership experience in academic medicine.
Emily Crawford — A leader in change management and AI transformation at Credera, helping major organizations navigate what's next.
Together, we explored what it really takes to lead through change when your people and you are already stretched thin.
Top 3 Takeaways
1. Capacity matters as much as capability. Leaders can't effectively lead change when they're running on empty.
2. Leadership starts from within. How you see your role shapes how you lead through uncertainty.
3. Doing more isn't always the answer. Sometimes the most powerful leadership move is to shift how you show up.
Episode Minutes:
Minute 17: Leading through uncertainty as a vessel, not a hero
Minute 37: Why AI must be tied to objectives, not treated as a checkbox
Minute 48: Communication during change and why silence is risky
Minute 60: Grace, good-enough leadership, and asking what blocks best work
Links + Resources from This Episode:
Take the free 3-minute Authentic Imprint™ Assessment (https://danawilliamsco.scoreapp.com/)
Get a copy of Dana's book, The Internal Revolution: Lead Authentically and Build Your Personal Brand from Within
Learn more about The Strengths Journal
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