Your Authentic Executive Podcast
Authentic Leadership. Profound Stories. Proven Lessons.
Your Authentic Executive is where executives go on the record — the pivotal moments, the hard-won lessons, the vignettes that shaped who they are as leaders. Not polished success stories. The real ones. New full episodes drop the first Tuesday of every month.
About SPARKs Between full episodes, SPARKs deliver power-packed excerpts built to ignite action. Drop a SPARK into your next team meeting, play it, and use the Action4Traction™ and Talk4Traction™ prompts to open real leadership conversations and drive next steps. SPARKs drop Tuesdays 2, 3, and 4.
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About Your Host: Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D.
For 35+ years, Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D. has helped Fortune 150 companies, award-winning privately owned organizations, the public sector, global nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations on six continents. All engage Janyne for a specific reason: when the hardest things go unspoken, she names them — and does it in a way that opens the door rather than closes it. Ph.D. in transformational leadership | Harvard Law Executive Education | NeuroLeadership Institute | Founder, 5R Edge™. Pronounced jah-neen'.
Together, we've got this.
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Latest Episodes
Favorites Replay: It's Not Going to Be That Bad - Train Your Body to Lead Under Stress with Robert Vause
Heart racing. Short of breath. Trying to calm down and feeling it slip away like sand. Robert Vause got tired of walking into hard rooms that way. So he took up freediving. In this Favorites Replay, Robert shares what holding his br...
How an Elementary School Principal Made Silos Impossible
You have run the offsite. The values are on the wall. You still have silos. Dan Schmidt did not train his way out of that problem. He designed his way out. North Star Elementary opened in 2022 with six learning studios, a two-story...
The Neuroscience & Business Outcomes of Gratitude & Forgiveness with Jeffrey Snell, Ph.D.
Gratitude and forgiveness sound like soft topics. In the brain, they're two of the hardest-working tools a leader has.In this episode, neuropsychologist Dr. Jeff Snell and Janyne sit with the brain science of both — and why a team's ener...
Leading When Your Life is On Fire with Lindsey Rai Kortan
"More than education, more than experience, more than training — resilience determines who succeeds and who fails." Diane Coutu's 25-year-old definition opens this conversation, and Lindsey Rai Kortan lives it.Lindsey leads Ronald McDona...
My Conversation with the Man My Dad Hired Over 50 Years Ago
Bob Gerst spent weeks building one report. His managing partner kept three pages and threw the rest in the wastebasket. What Bob learned in that moment — from the man who hired him — shaped the next 50 years.That man was my Dad, Jim Peek...
