What This Podcast Is About
As companies grow, the leadership demands placed on executives and managers change.
What worked at one stage doesn’t always work at the next. Decisions carry more weight. Teams expand. Culture stretches. Leaders are required to think differently about how people are developed, supported, and led.
Leading Through Growth creates space for experienced executives to share:
How growth has shaped their leadership approach
Decisions that became more complex as the organization scaled
Lessons learned from developing leaders and teams over time
Perspectives other executives can learn from
The goal is insight—not exposure.
EPISODES
One of the most persistent assumptions about confidence is that we need to feel it before we act. We wait until we’re confident enough to speak up in the meeting...
Most leaders are technically brilliant. They work hard. They have good intentions. And they’re still just average. In this episode of Leading Through Growth, Tony Sanders sits down with Josh...
Most founders wait until something breaks. By then, it’s already cost them six figures. In this episode of Leading Through Growth, Tony Sanders sits down with Tina Lindenbrink, a fractional...
Invisible friction is the quiet tension that builds when people stop trusting each other and start protecting themselves — and it’s silently slowing down fast-growing teams. Chris Rollins, creator of...
Steve Cadigan was LinkedIn’s first-ever CHRO — and he scaled the company from 400 to 4,000 employees in 3.5 years through an IPO. In this episode, he breaks down what...
-Pinky Cole built Slutty Vegan from an Instagram food delivery service in her apartment into a $100M brand with 14 locations — then filed for bankruptcy. What actually happened? In...
What is workplace culture, really — and why does it matter so much when a company is growing fast? In this episode, Tony sits down with Amber Fields, Chief Culture...
What does it actually take to get promoted to SVP in a fast-growing company? Nicole Fallowfield didn’t follow the traditional HR path — and that’s exactly why she got the...
If you’ve ever scrolled past a TikTok telling you to never trust HR, this episode is for you. Angie Woods has spent 30 years in human resources — and she’s...