Out of the Comfort Zone

About Out of the Comfort Zone

There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way. For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone?

Publisher

Wanda Wallace

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Apr 2015

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 590 episodes have a transcript.

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   21 Oct 2026

   Remote Versus In-Person: What Works and Why with Natalia Emanuel

   Send us Fan Mail Remote work was a revelation in how well we could function out of the office. Now leaders are finding in-person creates the culture and provides better development opportunities. So what’s the best path forward: Make being in the office mandatory or continue a hybrid arrangement? The answer lies in a large data analysis. Tune in for answers and best practices. Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington received their PhDs in economics at Harvard, and both completed postdocs at Princ...

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   14 Oct 2026

   What Happens When Your Comfort Zone Disappears with Mark Berridge

   Send us Fan Mail Things go wrong, plans don’t work out, you don’t get the opportunity you were seeking. But what if the rug is literally pulled out from underneath you. It’s not a set-back it’s a major catastrophe. Your comfort zone is gone! And your usual tactics to “bounce back” don’t apply. Now what? If you want inspiration and a framework, listen to this conversation. Mark Berridge spent 25 years as a corporate leader across Asia-Pacific. He served as Chief Negotiator for Rio Tinto’...

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   7 Oct 2026

   Leading through a Crisis with Eric McNulty

   Send us Fan Mail Things go wrong – some of those are small in impact, some are huge. Many are outside of your control. Most require a shift in what you do and how you lead. How ready are you to lead when things go wrong? What can we learn from leaders who have successfully, and unsuccessfully, led through a difficult time? Listen in for insight and practical ideas on how to develop your own capability to lead in a crisis. Eric J. McNulty is a Harvard-affiliated writer, speaker and educator wi...

Inside a recent episode

Doing Good While Doing Well with Marcia Dawood

Published 15 Nov 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And there's just always something that you can do there. And then also just thinking about, well, how does this fit into my overall investment strategy, my overall money strategy? Because you really can't start to think about how am I going to make investments and how am I going to be an angel investor, how am I going to invest in these startup companies until you start to think about, well, wait a minute, what's my relationship to money? How do I feel about risk and reward? And those are some of the things that I walk through in my workbook that goes along with the book more about like relationship to money, talking your family about money, all those things. […]

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• Gina Jardine
• Martin Brooks
• Robert Glazer
• Michael Morris
• Scott Anthony

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