Lead & Follow
Lead & Follow offers a candid discussion of teamwork, collaboration, and professional development. Host Sharna Fabiano talks with educators, consultants, and professionals to explore the relational dance between leadership and followership, and how to become excellent in both roles.
Episodes
72 episodes
Season 4 Preview + excerpt of my book
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the need to get away from digital life and back to in person life, and as beautiful as it is to connect online with folks everywhere, it’s also really important to be in both the same time and the same pla...
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15:54
Followership: Past, Present & Future – Ron Riggio
Dr. Ron Riggio has a uniquely broad and deep perspective on the evolution of followership research over the past two decades. He is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and former Director of the Kravis Lead...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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39:30
Destructive Leadership in the 2024 US Election - Alain de Sales
Dr. Alain de Sales currently teaches at the Queensland University of Technology’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) in Brisbane, Australia. In this episode, he describes a recent educational project he coordinated for a group of MBA alumni, ana...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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45:58
Leading & Following in Community Settings - Eric Kaufman
Leadership Educator and Scholar Eric Kaufman shares his observations of leading and following dynamics in a variety of community and volunteer settings, from civic organizations like Kiwanis Clubs to parent-teacher organizations to church gover...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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35:44
Leading & Following in Improvised Music – Jane Bentley
Dr. Jane Bentley is a percussionist and drum circle facilitator based in Glasgow, Scotland, specializing in rhythm, improvisation, group dynamics and communication skills. She completed a Ph.D on drum circle improvisation and facilitation, high...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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32:06
The 4 Tiers of Followership - Eric McDermott
Eric McDermott shares a framework he developed through his decades of professional experience called the 4 Tiers of Followership (or the 4 Tiers of Help). By day, Eric is an equity partner at a financial services firm with m...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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41:46
Followership at the Strategic Level – Paul McGachey
Paul McGachey shares his theoretical research on Ira Chaleff's Courageous Follower model plus lots of terrific examples from his own professional work demonstrating what it takes to follow courageously at the higher levels of an organization, w...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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40:34
Quick Tips: Focus Your Email
Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Focus your email.I recently received an auto-responder email message from a colleague that read, and I’m not kidding about this, QUOTE “I’m out of the office this week, and your messa...
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4:12
Leading, Following, and Polarity Thinking - Lindsay Burr
Lindsay Burr shares the tools of Polarity ThinkingTM as a way to understand, identify, and refine leadership and followership dynamics in any group or organization. Lindsay is CEO of the Yarbrough Group and based in Washington, DC. Her career h...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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38:34
Quick Tips: Visual Focus
Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Visual focus. In most Western contexts, eye contact signals to the other person that you are paying attention to them. A lack of eye contact can signal the opposite: disconnectio...
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3:34
Quick Tips: Take Turns
Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Take turns. One summer I attended a large afternoon bbq, and a person I’d just met walked over and asked me about my work. Perfectly normal, right? But then he interrupted me bef...
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4:05
Connected Social Conversations – Dan Istrate
Actor/Director Dan Istrate shares his thoughts on presence, connection, and social leading and following. Dan grew up in Romania and has lived for the past 25 years in the United States. He’s had thousands of both painful and hilarious ex...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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39:53
Power & Influence of Global Followership - Yulia Tolstikov-Mast
Yulia Tolstikov-Mast, Ph.D. shares the concept of a global follower and especially of global followership as a force of power that can and does influence the far-reaching decisions of global leaders. Yulia is a global leadership and follo...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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34:17
Followers Navigating Ethical Dilemmas - Kyle Payne
Dr. Kyle Payne, a strategic talent development leader based in Chicago, describes his recent study exploring how professional engineers navigate ethical dilemmas. Kyle has fifteen years of experience driving process improvement and ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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39:39
Season 3 Preview - Sharna Fabiano
Hi Everyone, this is Sharna. I’ve spent the beginning of the year in a resting phase with the podcast, letting the new season slowly take shape in my mind. New episodes are coming soon, in early March, and I’m hoping this little preview will gi...
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8:04
Three Compelling Ideas for 2024 - Sharna Fabiano
In this short, end-of year episode, host Sharna Fabiano reflects on season 2 and shares three compelling lead and follow ideas to try out in your own life and work in 2024. Please send feedback on Season 2 along with suggestions for Seaso...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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16:22
Toxic Followership and Definitions of Power - Wendy M. Edmonds
Dr. Wendy M. Edmonds is Interim Chair of the Management, Marketing, and Public Administration Department in the College of Business at a Historically Black University, and Co-Chair of the Global Followership Conference 2024. Her research ...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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41:07
Leadership & Followership in the British Army – Langley Sharp
Langley Sharp is the former head of the Centre for Army Leadership, responsible for championing leadership excellence across the British Army. After graduating from Sandhurst two decades ago, his career in the Parachute Regiment, which in...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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42:32
Smart Followership for Talent Development - David Elser
David Elser, author of Doing the Chores, shares his concept of smart followership through personal stories of growing up on a small family farm in northwest Ohio. David is a learning and development professional based in...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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27:04
Followership-Centric Organizations - David Scott
David Scott is a PhD Researcher at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is exploring Followership Salience as a factor of Leadership in Organisations, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Business at Leeds Trinity University.&nb...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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37:43
Natural Followership - Christian Monö
Christian Monö is a Speaker, Author and Sweden’s first and only followership expert. In this episode, he shares what he has discovered in more than 15 years exploring what he calls “natural followership." We discuss how our human ances...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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42:12
Followership for Social Good - Fatema Haque and Dorine Lawrence-Hughes
This episode is a conversation about integrated leadership-followership education, featuring both Fatema Haque, Academic Program Manager & LEO Adjunct Lecturer at the Barger Leadership Institute at the University of Michigan, and also Dorin...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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37:18
Followership in the Engineering Leadership Programs at Cornell University - Erica Dawson
I speak with Erica Dawson, Professor of Practice and Nancy and Bob Selander Executive Director of the Engineering Leadership Programs at Cornell University.Erica’s Montana upbring...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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41:26
Followership and Strategic Process - David Leitner
Dr. David Leitner has spent the last 15 years as a followership, leadership, and strategy educator. In this episode, he shares his passion and perspective on followership and leadership not only interpersonally but also as a way of analyz...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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39:24
Celebrating Followers in Spiritual Life, Business, and Governance - Nixon Jallo
Nixon Jallo is Husband, Father, Chief Executive of FOLDEVIN Consults Ltd., Bishop of Supernatural Love Ministries, Rector of Agape Bible College, Writer and Researcher based in Jalingo, Taraba State, Northeast Nigeria. He speaks about teaching ...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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43:47