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by Julia Felton
This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist, who provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team? In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to learn
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- 6 days ago28 min
The Environment You Create Impacts The Candour In Your Business
Host Julia Felton argues that silence on leadership teams is often a rational response to the environment leaders create, not a lack of courage, and that psychological safety is built continuously through everyday interactions. Citing Kurt Lewin’s idea that behaviour is a function of the person and their environment, she describes Amy Edmondson’s hospital findings that better teams report more errors because admitting mistakes is survivable, warning that “clean” error logs may signal suppression. Using horse-based examples and Nokia’s 2005–2010 smartphone decline research, she shows how fear and misaligned pressure distort information flow and decision-making. Julia highlights four environmental design factors: leaders’ first three-second reaction to bad news, what happens to information after it’s raised, reward structures that discourage experimentation, and what happened to the last truth-teller. She closes with a “Cafe moment” story illustrating how shared frameworks change conditions and enable feedback.00:46 Why Leaders Miss Bad News02:03 Rethinking Psychological Safety03:05 Leadership Quote And Environment05:38 How Reactions Shape Silence07:34 Behavior And Environment Research08:47 Amy Edmondson Error Reporting11:26 Horses Tell The Truth12:53 Horse Lessons For Teams15:46 Nokia Fear And Failure18:51 Four Environment Components22:14 Cultural Zones And Modes23:41 Steve Cafe Moment Story25:16 Weekly Challenge Reflection26:17 Wrap Up And Next StepsConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- 1 weeks ago34 min
Learning From Failure: How Psychological Safety Helps us Build Innovative Teams
On the Impactful Teamwork podcast, host Julia Felton interviews Rachel Franco, founder of Fail Smarter, about why teamwork and learning from failure are competitive advantages.Franco shares how her Fortune 500 innovation enablement work and a Northwestern capstone on barriers to learning from failure led her to focus on helping leaders and teams overcome fear of failure so they can innovate.The conversation emphasises psychological safety—making it safe to speak up with ideas, concerns, and mistakes—through leader role-modelling, thoughtful responses, and measurement using Amy Edmondson’s Fearless Organization Scan.Franco cites data linking high psychological safety to lower turnover and higher engagement, productivity, learning agility, and skill application, and notes Google’s Project Aristotle finding it is the top factor in team effectiveness.They discuss practical blockers like lack of time, incentives, cross-team communication, weak user-centered thinking, rushed postmortems, and poor follow-through on ideas, plus experiential learning via the “failure toy” workshop and Fail Smarter’s quiz.00:45 Meet Rachel Franco01:27 Why Fail Smarter04:59 Fear of Failure Culture06:43 Psychological Safety Basics09:00 Measuring Safety and Incentives12:31 Stats That Prove It17:06 AI Era Needs Experimentation18:58 Why Projects Fail21:05 Everyone Can Innovate23:39 Ideas Need Follow Through26:20 Failure Toy Workshop29:34 Accountability and Smart Risk31:03 Where to Find RachelYou can connect with Rachel at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/Connect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- 2 weeks ago20 min
Your Leadership Team Is Not Under-Led. It Is Over-Ranked.
The episode argues that teamwork is a key competitive advantage and that many organisational problems—failed change initiatives, low engagement, and poor collaboration—reflect outdated leadership models. Drawing from June Gunter’s book "Chaos to Clarity" and the host’s training with horses, it introduces the diamond model of shared leadership based on herd dynamics: the lead mare provides direction from the front, the lead stallion protects and unifies from behind, and sentinels lead from the middle with awareness, advocacy, and integration of newcomers. The host recounts executives observing wild horses at Return to Freedom and seeing the diamond formation in action during uncertainty. The episode emphasises roles over ranks, the capabilities of attention, direction, energy, and congruence, and invites listeners to assign diamond roles to tackle a current team challenge. 00:00 126 - Chaos to Clarity 00:33 The Diamond Model 01:02 Shared Leadership 02:54 Three Positions of Leadership 04:20 The Lead Mare 05:08 The Lead Stallion 06:27 The Sentinels 07:56 Return to Freedom 11:05 Followship 13:43 The Business Case 14:35 This Week's Challenge 15:20 Closing ReflectionsConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- 3 weeks ago41 min
Your Best Engineer Is Not Your Next Leader with Craig Bromage
Host Julia Felton welcomes Craig Bromage, Head of Infrastructure and Platforms at National Highways and creator of The Everyday Leader, to discuss teamwork and leadership. Craig reflects on nine years in the RAF, noting promotions often tied to courses, time served, and poor management with little HR correction, and contrasts this with civilian leadership development. They explore how technical experts are frequently promoted into management without the right skills, creating bottlenecks and divided focus, and argue for rewarding technical excellence without forcing people leadership. Craig’s leadership philosophy centres on “everyday” leadership, psychological safety, honest feedback, and being paid for outcomes not outputs, including the value of reflection and time away for clarity. They discuss AI adoption pitfalls such as sloppy, unchecked outputs, the need for human sanity checks and guardrails, and how AI may reshape jobs. The episode closes on authenticity, vulnerability, and congruence as trust builders, with insights from Julia’s horse-based leadership work. 01:26 RAF Leadership Lessons 04:19 Promotion Pitfalls 09:43 Everyday Leader Mindset 13:43 SMART Clarity Story 16:44 Outcomes Reflection 18:25 AI Adoption Risks 30:50 Remote Work Relationships 34:47 Horses Authentic Leadership 39:14 Closing Takeaways You can connect with Craig and read more about The Everyday Leader at https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-bromage-0721192/Connect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Aug 17, 202629 min
Your Leadership Team Is Not Misaligned. It Is Far Too Agreeable
This episode argues leadership teams are often not misaligned but overly “agreeing,” confusing verbal consent with true alignment, which is behavioural, accountable, and must hold under pressure. It explains how meetings can produce nodding and positivity yet no change in the following weeks, because silence is treated as consent, seniority distorts discussion, offsite decisions don’t survive real-world conditions, and agreement avoids hard trade-offs. Citing Gallup mid-2026 data (49% know what’s expected; 31% US engagement; 20% global engagement in 2025) and ILM research attributing 86% of business failure to silos and poor collaboration, it links clarity and alignment to engagement and cross-functional unity. It connects AI adoption to leadership clarity (KPMG: 7% measurable AI ROI) and uses horse-herd alignment and a “Cafe moment” case to illustrate shared language and feedback. It closes with three tests: independent priorities list, fortnight calendar change, and a dissent audit.00:49 Agreement Isn’t Alignment01:14 Why Nothing Changes After Meetings02:33 Defining Alignment Under Pressure05:26 The Data Behind Misalignment09:10 Four Signs You’re Only Agreeing13:35 Tolerable Culture Warning14:46 AI Rollouts Expose Alignment Gaps18:21 Horse Herds and True Alignment20:33 Energy Beats Words in Leadership22:50 Cafe Moment Shared Language24:56 Three Tests to Build Alignment27:29 Wrap Up and Call to ActionConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Aug 10, 202635 min
Servant Leadership: The Strategy That Builds Businesses Worth Buying with David Guttman
On the Impactful Teamwork podcast, Julia Felton interviews David Guttman, a three-time Inc. 500 entrepreneur with multiple eight- and nine-figure exits, about servant leadership and building high-performing teams. Guttman shares how a misdiagnosis of terminal cancer at 24 prompted him to shift from achievement-obsession to putting coworkers first, arguing leaders serve their people and that caring can’t be faked. They discuss authenticity, trust, assuming positive intent, and the ripple effect of leadership on employees’ lives, plus the importance of hiring for humility and curiosity and firing quickly when culture fit is wrong. Guttman outlines practical scaling practices: bottoms-up budgeting and forecasting, financial literacy for all employees, quarterly board meetings, broad equity ownership, transparent all-hands updates, and internal/external core values reinforced through peer-given awards. He also offers his “Anti-MBA” course and community access.00:45 Meet Dave Guttman01:57 Cancer Wake Up Call03:24 Servant Leadership Basics07:10 Relationships Build Loyalty08:56 Hire Right Fire Fast12:00 Humility Curiosity Gen Z14:53 Assume Positive Intent17:24 Radical Transparency Trust19:37 Scaling to Exit Playbook22:13 Equity Budgets Core Values28:03 Decision Making Culture32:13 Servant Leader Accountability33:53 Anti MBA Offer35:24 Final Challenge OutroYou can connect and learn more about Dave's work here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drguttman/Connect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Aug 3, 202641 min
Leading Through Care and Presence: Horse Wisdom with Kelly Wendorf
Host Julia Felton welcomes Kelly Wendorf, founder of Equus and author of "Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living," to discuss how horses and nature inform leadership and teamwork. Wendorf shares her journey from equestrian ambitions to coaching and equine-facilitated leadership, emphasizing experiential learning and presence. They explore modern disruption as a catalyst for evolution using nature’s adaptive cycle (new beginnings, growth, consolidation, letting go) and the “messy middle” of change, plus the metaphor of a flying lead change for collective pivots amid climate change, AI, war, and unrest. Wendorf outlines five principles from horse culture—safety, connection, peace, freedom, and joy—led through care and presence rather than dominance, and defines “rewilding” as dismantling constraining social constructs to return to an innate, creative self. She invites listeners to engage via equusinspired.com, virtual courses, newsletters, and ranch retreats in Santa Fe.00:00 Teamwork Advantage00:50 Meet Kelly Wendorf01:58 Calling And Origins05:01 Coaching With Horses06:47 Service And Adaptability10:08 Presence Over Engagement11:58 Adaptive Cycle Explained14:34 Flying Lead Change Metaphor19:22 Horse Culture Principles22:20 Care Over Dominance23:14 Darwin and Power With24:49 Trauma Shifted Leadership26:30 Care Is Not Soft27:36 Regenerative Business Model29:57 Courage to Change31:26 Messy Middle Cycle35:26 Rewilding Leaders Defined38:25 Book and Next Steps39:41 Final Invitation and OutroConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Jul 27, 202634 min
AI And Organisational Culture: Why It Amplifies Whatever You Already Are
The episode argues teamwork is a key competitive advantage amid record-low global engagement (20%) and falling manager engagement (30% to 22%), noting managers drive 70% of team engagement variance and disengagement costs an estimated $10 trillion annually.It warns leaders that AI won’t fix culture but will amplify it, making intentional culture design urgent. Drawing on Peter Matthies and the Conscious Business Institute, it outlines four culture levels:Level 1 output culture (mechanistic, results-only, people as resources; AI accelerates volume and can fuel exhaustion)Level 2 intentional culture (purpose and discernment guide AI as collaborator but trust and wellbeing may still lag)Level 3 human-centric culture (people at the center, psychological safety, honest feedback)Level 4 higher-purpose culture (massive transformational purpose enabling creativity and shared leadership, modeled by horse herds).It closes with actions: make culture explicit, let teams define “rules,” and connect culture to purpose, plus an audit call-to-action.00:00 Why Teamwork Wins00:46 Engagement Crisis02:27 AI Amplifies Culture03:44 Four Culture Levels06:19 Level One Output10:29 Level Two Intention13:37 Level Three Human Centric16:19 Horses Reveal Truth19:32 Level Four Higher Purpose23:06 Leading Across Levels25:47 Three Culture Shifts29:22 Purpose Driven Turnaround31:29 Final Questions Next Steps32:46 Closing ThanksConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
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This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist, who provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team? In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to learn
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