Leadership Huddle with Geoff Welch

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.

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A Case for Caring with Daniel Ponickly

April 1, 2026 • 52 mins
What does it take to lead an organization where creativity, community, and logistics collide every week?In this conversation, I sat down with Daniel Ponickly, Executive Director of the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, whose background spans professional dance, film, arts education, and nonprofit leadership, a unique mix that shapes how he thinks about leadership.We talked about how he moved to Alaska during a global pandemic, what lea...
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Are you rehearsing your misery?

March 29, 2026 • 22 mins
When my brain gets the best of me in the middle of the night I use two simple techniques to short circuit the chaos:1. I count to 100 in French2. I list the 50 states in alphabetical orderBut this isn’t really about sleeping better. It’s about paying attention to what we rehearse.Because the byproduct of this exercise is that, while my conversational French is absolutely trash, I know my numbers cold.And while I would struggle to f...
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Say Less, Get More with Fotini Iconomopoulos

March 25, 2026 • 54 mins
When Fotini Iconomopoulos was growing up, she earned the nickname “the negotiator” and she’s been turning high-stakes conversations into high-impact outcomes ever since.In this episode, I sit down with negotiation expert, author, and speaker Fotini Iconomopoulos to unpack what real negotiation looks like in everyday leadership, not power suits and table-pounding, but clarity, empathy, and trust.Fotini shares why negotiation isn’t a...
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You don’t have to have all the answers

March 22, 2026 • 15 mins
Dear Leader: you don’t have to have all the answers.I know that deep down you already know this. I know you know that NO ONE has ALL the answers.But it just feels so good to be the one who solves for X.And yet, how much better is it to give your people the chance to find X?I used to worry that I wouldn’t have the answer a coaching client needed on a given call. This will be the call where they say, “Thanks for nothing. You didn’t g...
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The Pause That Changes Everything with Stephen Flanagan

March 18, 2026 • 56 mins
When Stephen Flanagan was 21, he wasn’t reading just leadership books, he was running a $6M restaurant. And that pressure-cooker taught him something most leaders miss: habits beat hype.In this episode of Leadership Huddle, Stephen Flanagan, Founder of Seeks Consulting, breaks down how mid-level managers become “execution-ready” leaders by translating strategy into simple daily actions.We talk about why deleting distractions isn’t ...
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What the hell is wrong with you?

March 15, 2026 • 12 mins
25 years ago I found myself across the desk from my boss expecting our usual weekly chat about how things were going around the print shop I worked in.The first words out of his mouth were not at all what I had expected…“What the hell is wrong with you?”His delivery might have been out of line, but it also may have been genius because I instantly knew exactly how my performance of late was substandard.It was like that moment at the...
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We can do hard things with Cheyenna Kuplack

March 11, 2026 • 48 mins
What if the people quietly shaping your community are also carrying the most practical leadership wisdom? In this episode, I sit down with Cheyenna Kuplack, the Communications Manager at Doyon, Limited to unpack what real leadership looks like behind the scenes.Cheyenna and I talk about leading while still feeling nervous, why “we can do hard things” is more than a phrase, and how great leaders balance compassion with accounta...
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The meeting after the meeting is your fault

March 8, 2026 • 17 mins
There may be no tradition more widely embraced by busy professionals than the meeting after the meeting.We barely had time for the meeting, but we absolutely made time to find quiet hallways or text threads to talk about all the things we didn’t actually understand or accomplish during the meeting.And it’s your fault.Okay, maybe not every single time. But I’m betting you are an accidental co-conspirator often enough.One of the bigg...
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Mastering the Inner Game with Collin Henderson

March 5, 2026 • 42 mins
When Collin Henderson was chasing wins as a Division-I athlete, he didn’t realize the real opponent was in his own head…and mastering that game would change everything.In this conversation, I sit down with author, speaker, and performance coach Collin Henderson to unpack the hidden mental patterns that shape performance, leadership, and culture. Collin shares how performance anxiety, perfectionism, and tying self-worth to outcomes ...
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Your people should be telling you NO

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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Letting Go So Your Team Can Win with Tasha Pineda

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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The two words that instantly deliver outsized results

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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What 75 Years on the River Teaches You About Leadership with Wade Binkley

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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This will change every difficult conversation for the better

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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The Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room with Frank Ziede

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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You can’t offer clarity you don’t have

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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How to Lead with Purpose and Presence with Erika Smith

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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Visionary Leadership in Uncertain Times with Leah Boltz

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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The real reason I can't stop thinking about John Wick

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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How to Stop Overthinking and Start Connecting with Sara Berry

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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