Leadership Huddle with Geoff Welch
Leadership Huddle is a resource for developmental leaders who value communicating clearly, helping others smash limiting beliefs, and drawing the best work from themselves and those they lead. Covering topics related to personal and developmental leadership, self-management, delegation, and healthy mindsets, Geoff Welch uses each episode to help leaders like you enrich their people and build winning teams.
Episodes
March 1, 2026 • 14 mins
The face you're going to make when you read the next sentence is the face everyone makes when they read the next sentence.You will know clarity is high on your team when people start telling you “NO.”I get it. As leaders we aren’t always hoping and praying to hear our people tell us “no,” but we should be.Here’s why:When clarity is high, everyone is so sure of what the team is trying to accomplish – and how their efforts contribute...
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February 25, 2026 • 54 mins
Tasha Pineda’s path kept putting her at tables where decisions shape real lives.In this conversation, Tasha and I talk about leadership in the moments that actually matter: when things are messy, uncertain, and human. From growing up around foster care systems to leading through earthquakes, pandemics, and now statewide grantmaking strategy, her story is about learning to influence without needing to be “right,” and creating e...
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February 22, 2026 • 11 mins
My wife and I genuinely like each other.So, obviously, our relationship is perfect and there are never any tense or complicated moments between us.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHALike any couple, we overreact and underreact and misunderstand and miss-speak and forget we are on the same team.But we figured something out that makes being consistently copacetic more likely: everything just works better between us when we thank each other for the ...
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February 18, 2026 • 50 mins
It’s rare for a 43-year old to have had only one employer. And rarer still for that employer be the same employer his father and grandfather had.In this episode, I sit down with Wade Binkley, President of Riverboat Discovery, to explore what it really means to lead a legacy business in Alaska. We talk about growing up inside a family operation, carrying 75 years of reputation on every departure from the dock, and running a company ...
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February 15, 2026 • 16 mins
Have you ever had to have a difficult conversation with someone on your team?Maybe they screwed something up, or were behaving poorly. Maybe you had to deliver some news they weren’t likely to enjoy.I know a few people who genuinely relish diving into a challenging conversation, but most of the people I know would wish them all away if they could.Here’s the thing: I can’t make difficult conversations go away, but I do know the secr...
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February 11, 2026 • 56 mins
When you start off as a professional hip hop dancer, you naturally expect to become one of the most thoughtful facilitators in corporate America. Right?Well, in this episode, I sit down with Frank Ziede, founder of Common Ground Consulting, to talk about his wild evolution, explore what truly great facilitation looks like, and why most “mandatory training” feels like bamboo under the fingernails.Frank brings a rare blend of perform...
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February 8, 2026 • 13 mins
In my 5 Secrets of Impossibly Effective Teams workshops we do an exercise in which participant leaders write a “movie synopsis” for the projects their team is involved in.The goal is to accurately describe the project in the shortest, simplest language so it can be easily understood by anyone on the team.Team members will still need Puzzle Box Clarity about the detail and minutiae, but this synopsis is a way of encapsulating what D...
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February 4, 2026 • 52 mins
I don’t think I’ve ever had someone tell me that a major inflection point in their career was the desire to wear slacks to work.But here we are.In this conversation, I sit down with Erika Smith, Chief Operating Officer at Credit Union 1, to explore the unlikely, adventurous arc of her leadership journey. From small-town barista to executive, from detours to Australia to “mad scientist mode,” and from overthinker to someone who...
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January 28, 2026 • 54 mins
Leah Boltz was never going to accept that her daughter wouldn’t be able to play at the neighborhood park. So she led a charge that resulted in more than 25 accessible parks across her city. Leah Boltz, is the Principal for Marketing, Business Development & Community Outreach at Bettisworth North, and in this conversation we talk about how one inaccessible park turned into a citywide movement, how a terrifying TEDx talk bec...
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January 25, 2026 • 8 mins
I’m sure someone has sorted out how many people John Wick kills across his cinematic run, but I fear I can’t count that high.I know the violence in these movies is severe and ever present, but I think about John Wick every single day when I dive into my work around leadership and building teams that produce outsized results.After all, John Wick might be the poster child for producing outsized results.During the opening sequence of ...
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January 21, 2026 • 46 mins
Sara Berry knew that the corporate world wasn’t meeting all of her creative needs, but she didn’t know what to do about it.And then the dots connected and she discovered her super power.Sara is the owner of Out of Office Studio and her background in corporate learning gives her a unique vantage point. She’s lived on both sides of the “I know I should… but ugh, do I have to?” dilemma faced by people trying to leverage video to build...
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January 18, 2026 • 4 mins
The next time you wake up at 3AM convinced of impending doom, I want you to ask yourself a question.What if I’m wrong? It’s fascinating to me how many smart people I know (and work with) who will ask this question non-stop about every strategy and tactic they deploy.They say, “I think I should go left…but what if I’m wrong?”They say, “I think the market is shifting and we need to adapt now…but what if I’m wrong?”They say, “I t...
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January 14, 2026 • 56 mins
I was sure this interview was going to be awkward…In this episode, I sit down with workplace performance expert, speaker, and author of “Good Awkward,” Henna Pryor to unpack why discomfort, uncertainty, and “butterflies” are not obstacles to growth, but signals that you’re doing something that matters. We talk about why awkwardness isn’t a personality trait, how leaders accidentally create the conditions they say they don’t wa...
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January 11, 2026 • 21 mins
A few months ago I needed to thaw a roast and it was the exact moment my relationship with AI started breaking down.Not knowing the best way to thaw this roast or how long it would take, I asked ChatGPT for some help. I gave it the size of the roast, the temp of my freezer, the temp of my refrigerator, and the day/time I needed the roast to be ready to go in the oven.It cited a number of sources to support its recommendation, ...
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January 7, 2026 • 55 mins
Dan White is a firm believer that the single biggest accelerant, and the biggest tax, for leaders is trust.In this conversation with former UAF Chancellor Dr. Dan White, we dig into what trust really looks like in practice. Not as a lofty ideal, but as a daily discipline. Dan shares how self-trust becomes the foundation for every other level of trust, why leaders can’t talk their way out of situations they behaved their way in...
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January 4, 2026 • 14 mins
When my daughter texted Nicole and I to say she had gotten a 98% on her final presentation, we were ecstatic.But before we could respond we were met with a flurry of follow up texts squarely focused on the remaining 2%.Which was ridiculous, but also incredibly familiar.Leaders of all stripes fall into a similar trap. We forget to celebrate the 98% and find ourselves fixated on the 2%.It’s not that looking for opportunities to impro...
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December 28, 2025 • 14 mins
This is my 52nd episode of 2025.I showed up every Sunday. I showed up on the Sundays when I knew exactly what I wanted to say.And I showed up on the Sundays when I wasn’t quite sure what to say.Because showing up isn’t about being perfect or having it all figured out, it’s about contributing.Your people don’t need you to have all the answers or get it right every single time. But they absolutely need you to show up.They n...
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December 24, 2025 • 42 mins
Ummm, tomorrow is Christmas. Perhaps you’re listening to this while you are finishing up your Christmas shopping, but it’s more likely you’re hearing this just after the holiday because why wouldn’t you be listening to Christmas music while you finish your shopping?In this Leadership Huddle remix episode I’m sharing clips from 5 interviews from earlier this year. Maybe you heard them months ago and this will spark a fresh insight, ...
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December 21, 2025 • 6 mins
I just got back from a trip to 1995.Through the power of my magic snowblower, and a fully charged set of Airpods, I spent an hour listening to some of my alternative rock favorites from the early 90’s while clearing copious amounts of frozen precipitation from my driveway.Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana… They were all present and accounted for.And as these anthems of my youth carried me 30 years ...
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December 17, 2025 • 50 mins
What if your greatest leadership power isn’t in having all the answers, but in asking better questions?In this conversation with Erica Kemp, Vice President of Branch Administration at Global Credit Union, we explore how intentional presence, trust, and curiosity create powerful leadership cultures, especially across dispersed teams. Erica shares how she balances courage with care, empowers experimentation within safe guardrails, an...
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