Leveraging Leadership

About Leveraging Leadership

Leadership is messy. Most advice isn't built for the reality of competing priorities, difficult stakeholders, limited time, and imperfect information. Leveraging Leadership is a practical leadership podcast for Chiefs of Staff, executives, founders, and senior operators who want to lead more effectively and navigate complexity with confidence. Hosted by Emily Sander, former Chief of Staff and executive advisor, each episode delivers real-world lessons, practical frameworks, and candid conversations with leaders across business and beyond. Topics include executive communication, leadership presence, decision-making, delegation, organizational influence, operating rhythms, team effectiveness, and the often-unspoken challenges leaders face behind the scenes. If you're looking for thoughtful conversations, practical takeaways, and leadership advice you can actually use on Monday morning, you're in the right place.

Publisher

Emily Sander

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 May 2023

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

141 of 332 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Big Ideas Die Inside Good Organizations

   Author Terry Young discusses the "Possibility Gap" and how organizations can overcome systemic barriers to bring bold ideas to life in this interview.

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   How PE-Backed Companies Turn Strategy Into Results

   Host [Host Name] interviews Brea Page, founder of Keep75 and former Google Chief of Staff, on how PE-backed companies execute strategy into operating rhythms and build early-warning systems.

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   14 Sept 2026

   Executive Presence Is Range, Not a Persona

   Executive presence isn't a checklist of confident behaviors, and it isn't a persona you put on when you reach the C-suite. Jacque McCormack, co-founder of JetStream Advisors and an executive coach with more than 15 years of experience working with leaders and executive teams, joins me to unpack what executive presence actually looks like in practice: how people experience you, how you flex between authority and approachability, and how you stay grounded enough to respond intentionally when t...

Inside a recent episode

Why Big Ideas Die Inside Good Organizations

Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Maybe the next big moonshot, the next big idea is in Emily's Notebook. But it just hasn't found the structure, the incentives, the systems to make it flourish. And so if we can build a system that allows us to democratize moonshot thinking, we've opened up the world to more people helping us crack some of our most complex challenges. So it's kind of less about the brave, heroic leader, and it's more about how do we create an environment where people Ambition and moonshots and creative thinking are just the natural results of those combinations of things being there together. It's just kind of setting the stage or whatever, the soil, fertile soil. […]

Who has been a guest on Leveraging Leadership

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Terry Young
• Brea Page
• Andrea Cilliers
• Keosha Lucas
• Maren Perry

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

126,377

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

27 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

86

Social presence

94

YouTube

82

Engagement

77

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