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.

✅ Full Episode – First Tuesday of Every Month
🔥 Sparks – power-packed excerpts to share and ignite action.

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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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Contributors

Host

Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D.

Dr. Janyne Peek Emsick is an executive coach, organizational sociologist, and change leadership expert with over 30 years of experience coaching leaders across seven continents. She has worked with the Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, government agencies, and mission-driven organizations, equipping executives with the insight, resilience, and strategy to lead with confidence.

Master Interviewer of Executive Stories

Janyne’s deeply insightful interviews uncover the pivotal moments that define authentic leadership. Her ability to draw out hidden wisdom makes Your Authentic Executive a uniquely powerful podcast, delivering practical and profound lessons.

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Guests

Guest

Lindsey Rai Kortan

Lindsey Rai Kortan is the CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Omaha, where she leads an organization that stands with families fighting for their children's lives — in the cancer ward, the ICU, and the hardest moments they will ever face. What makes Lindsey rare is that she has lived the territory she leads through: while running her organization, she privately navigated domestic violence, her husband's addiction and overdose, her mother's death, and single parenting two young sons — all at once, during COVID. She is, in every sense of the word, a study in resilience.