How a Cooking Show Exposed the Secret to Modern Leadership Success

The Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader: Make a Greater Impact by Creating a High Performance Team while Avoiding Stress and Overwhelm

Are you unknowingly using a leadership style that’s demotivating your team—even when you think you’re being helpful?

In today’s episode, we explore how your default leadership approach might be limiting your team’s potential. If you're an NGO leader trying to shift out of emergency mode and into long-term, impactful leadership, this episode will help you understand the often overlooked balance between control and autonomy—and why it matters more than ever. And I demonstrate it through my latest favorite cooking show.

In this episode you'll discover:

• Learn the difference between directive and people-centered leadership styles and when to use each one effectively
• Discover how a cooking competition (yes, really) perfectly illustrates the consequences of poor leadership balance
• Gain actionable insight on how to lead with clarity, confidence, and calm—without micromanaging or disappearing

Tune in now to learn how to balance your leadership style and finally unlock your team’s full potential as a modern NGO leader.

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What Is Your Leadership Style? Free Quiz:

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This podcast empowers international development and humanitarian NGO UN leaders to achieve high performance teams, fostering diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing, overcoming burnout and overwhelm, while maximizing impact and productivity.