Leadership Quotient

About Leadership Quotient

Leadership Quotient, powered by The Crucible, explores the people side of private equity—how operating partners, portfolio executives, and advisors build, align, and scale leadership teams. Each episode offers candid conversations from across the PE ecosystem on the strategies, challenges, and decisions that drive value creation.

Publisher

The Crucible

Category

business · business · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Aug 2025

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 60 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Leadership in Investor-Backed Companies

   In this episode of Leadership Quotient, Lindsay Guzowski, CEO of The Crucible, speaks with Seth Garber, CEO of Pest Daily, about what it takes to lead through growth and investment. Drawing on his experience building and exiting businesses across multiple industries, Seth shares how adaptability, pattern recognition, and a willingness to keep learning shaped his approach to leadership. He and Lindsay discuss why successful founders can struggle after taking on outside investment, the balance ...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Building the Leaders of Tomorrow: Confidence, Resilience, and the Courage to Lead

   In this episode of Leadership Quotient, Lindsay Guzowski, CEO of The Crucible, speaks with Sarah Jakle, founder of DemocraShe, about developing the next generation of leaders and why leadership development may need to begin much earlier than we think. Sarah shares how DemocraShe works with young women to build the confidence, resilience, and practical tools required to navigate self-doubt, failure, disagreement, and high-pressure situations. She and Lindsay explore the difference between genu...

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Beyond the Paycheck: Leadership, Retention, and Investing in the Whole Person

   In this episode of Leadership Quotient, Lindsay Guzowski, CEO of The Crucible, speaks with Larry and Cheri Salazar of NestSTEPS about the connection between leadership, employee well-being, and retention. Larry and Cheri share why they built NestSTEPS to turn homeownership into an employee benefit and how investing in employees beyond the workplace can strengthen loyalty, productivity, and financial well-being. The conversation explores why leaders need to see employees as whole people, what ...

Inside a recent episode

More Women at the Top: Leadership, Performance, and the Power of Listening

Published 17 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We haven't measured it in terms of anything else, but we think that's a proxy. So women manage in a more diverse manner than average. Women promote women. Women run more sustainable companies. Those are some of the specific measurements that Hypesia has been able to determine on an ongoing basis. And this is where what we're doing is quite different from what's been done before because there are many studies, right? But studies are by definition a point in time. Right. And they're also a data set that changes and is chosen. Right? You choose your data set. And the companies that we chose three years ago, I mean, launched aren't the same companies we have today. […]

Who has been a guest on Leadership Quotient

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• Alex Garcia-Ingrisano
• Cassandra Shea
• Robert Garcia Checchia
• Andrew Henry
• Mike Magliochetti

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5.0 / 5

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