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Good leaders don't have to know everything.But they do need to recognize when their experience isn't the whole picture.I...
10/12/2026

Good leaders don't have to know everything.

But they do need to recognize when their experience isn't the whole picture.

In the latest episode of Thriving in Intersectionality, Dr. Lola Adeyemo speaks with leadership advisor and executive coach Mike Lynch about career transitions, culture, identity, and what he's had to unlearn about leadership.

One of the biggest lessons?
Being willing to say “Help me understand” can be just as important as having the answer.

🎙️ EP 147: Better Leadership Begins with Better Questions with Mike Lynch

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

How someone communicates doesn't fully measure what they know.An accent doesn't tell you how intelligent someone is.A pa...
10/05/2026

How someone communicates doesn't fully measure what they know.

An accent doesn't tell you how intelligent someone is.
A pause doesn't tell you their capability.
Speaking less in a meeting doesn't tell you the depth of their expertise.

In the latest Thriving in Intersectionality conversation, executive communication coach Douglas Brewer and Dr. Lola Adeyemo explore what happens when capable professionals can't always communicate the full version of themselves in a particular language.

And they turn the question around too:
Are we doing enough as listeners to recognize competence when it sounds different from what we're accustomed to?

🎙️ EP 146: When Your Language Doesn't Show Everything You Know with Douglas Brewer https://thrivinginintersectionality.buzzsprout.com

Your starting point is not your destination.Dr. Desiree Williams became a mother as a teenager.She remembers people sayi...
09/28/2026

Your starting point is not your destination.

Dr. Desiree Williams became a mother as a teenager.
She remembers people saying:
“She was so smart. Now look at her.”

But she refused to let one chapter determine the rest of her story.

Her journey would take her through hospitality, frontline healthcare roles, leadership, returning to college, earning her doctorate, teaching, and leading healthcare operations.

Her reminder in our latest conversation:
“Don't confuse your starting point with your destination.”

Your current circumstances matter.
The decisions you've already made matter.
But neither has to become the ceiling for what happens next.

🎙️ EP 145: The People Who Change Our Path with Dr. Desiree Williams https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614991/episodes/19872652

We talk about career journeys, leadership, communication, culture, the people who influence us—and the people we're influencing along the way.

Listen to Thriving in Intersectionality wherever you get your podcasts.

09/24/2026

Are we hiring for the talent we need—or simply repeating the hiring practices we’ve always used?

In this episode of Workplaces That Work, I’m joined by talent acquisition leader Debbie Douglas-Henry for a timely conversation about the future of hiring.

We talk about candidate experience, groupthink and bias in interviews, transferable skills, interviewer training, and how AI is changing recruiting—without removing the need for human judgment and connection.

If you hire people, manage hiring managers, or influence talent strategy, there are some important questions in this conversation to take back to your organization.

What happens when you've achieved the things you were working toward…and start asking whether they're still what you wan...
09/20/2026

What happens when you've achieved the things you were working toward…and start asking whether they're still what you want?

Trisha Daho became a partner at a Big Four firm, built businesses, and led large teams.
Then a simple question from her now-husband changed the way she began thinking about her career:

“Do you really love this that much?”

Our conversation went far beyond entrepreneurship.
We talked about being an outsider, class and unconscious bias, hiding behind productivity, changing direction at 39, leadership, moving to France, becoming an immigrant herself—and giving ourselves permission to define success differently in different seasons.

One thing I especially appreciated about this conversation: choosing doesn't always mean leaving.

For one person, choosing may mean building something new. For another, it may mean staying exactly where they are.

The question is whether the choice is actually yours.

🎙️ EP 144: What Happens When You Stop Proving and Start Choosing with Trisha Daho

Listen to Thriving in Intersectionality right here or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614991/episodes/19835126

You don't have to lead like everyone else in the room to get results.Kathy Miller entered manufacturing at 17 and went o...
09/14/2026

You don't have to lead like everyone else in the room to get results.

Kathy Miller entered manufacturing at 17 and went on to lead billions of dollars in global operations across automotive, aerospace and industrial manufacturing.

Along the way, she learned something that now sits at the center of her leadership philosophy:
Results matter.
But so do the humans responsible for producing them.

In this week's Thriving in Intersectionality, Dr Lola Adeyemo talks with Kathy about the experiences behind her leadership journey—from growing up as the oldest daughter with three brothers and building a career in male-dominated environments to motherhood, global leadership, positive psychology and eventually “Kathy 2.0.”

They also talk about resilience, representation, knowing when to pause, and the unexpected career opportunities that can prepare us for what's next.

One of our favorite lines from Kathy:
“Bring your authentic self to it, and let results be your calling card.”

🎙️ EP 143: Leading for Results Without Losing the Humans with Kathy Miller

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or click here https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614991/episodes/19800280

What if a nonlinear career isn't a lack of direction—but a growing toolkit?Kim Peirano's career has moved through art, h...
09/06/2026

What if a nonlinear career isn't a lack of direction—but a growing toolkit?

Kim Peirano's career has moved through art, healthcare, entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership and organizational psychology.

And every chapter added another lens.

In this week's Thriving in Intersectionality, Kim and Dr. Lola Adeyemo talk about what we carry forward when our careers change—and how Kim's own experiences eventually shaped her work around destructive leadership, neurodivergence, invisible illness and workplace culture.

One of the ideas that stayed with us:

Your previous experiences don't disappear when you change direction. You carry them into whatever comes next.

🎙️ EP 142: The Value of a Nonlinear Career with Kim Peirano
Listen wherever you get your podcasts. or here https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614991/episodes/19759899

09/03/2026

Workplaces That Work | Beyond Recognition: Cultures of Real Appreciation

What if some of your strongest leadership capabilities were developed long before you ever had a leadership title?In thi...
08/31/2026

What if some of your strongest leadership capabilities were developed long before you ever had a leadership title?

In this conversation with host Dr. Lola Adeyemo and Joaquin Martinez, they talked about the experiences that shaped how he leads today.

-Supporting family taught him how to support and develop people.
-Having limited resources required creativity and resourcefulness.
-Navigating unfamiliar environments developed resilience.
-And leading across cultures taught him the importance of humility, listening and relationships.

This conversation reminds us that leadership development doesn't begin when someone becomes a leader.

People arrive at work carrying skills, experiences and perspectives that organizations don't always know how to recognize—or develop.

🎙️ Listen to the latest episode of Thriving in Intersectionality, and hear a deep conversation that explores first-generation leadership, relationships, global leadership, and what happens when we learn to recognize the strengths we've been carrying all along.

EP 141: The Strengths We Bring — First-Generation Leadership with Joaquin Martinez
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts or click here to visit the podcast page:

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What does it actually take to build a workplace where people can thrive?We talk a lot about belonging, well-being, engag...
08/24/2026

What does it actually take to build a workplace where people can thrive?

We talk a lot about belonging, well-being, engagement, retention, and performance as separate organizational priorities. But perhaps they're more connected than we think.

On the latest episode of Thriving in Intersectionality, Dr. Lola Adeyemo speaks with Dr. Melissa Durham, Associate Dean of Organizational Success and Well-being at USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Melissa's perspective has been shaped across very different roles—as a clinician, educator, organizational leader, mother, and someone who has personally experienced burnout.

Together, they explore what those experiences have taught her about building systems that support people: listening before assuming, balancing compassion with accountability, creating sustainable structures, and recognizing that belonging and well-being can be part of how organizations succeed.

🎙️ EP 140: Belonging, Well-Being & the Systems That Help People Thrive with Dr. Melissa Durham.

Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614991/episodes/19686349

đź’¬ What is one condition you've seen make a meaningful difference in people's ability to thrive at work?

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