The Leadership Range Podcast
1) Work Friends
Neil shares the most important evidence-based competencies a leader needs to embody for work and career success. Driven by a video posted on social media that could be easily interpreted as "angry bla...Show More
2) Season 2 Trailer
Neil is officially returning to The Leadership Range for Season 2! Check out the trailer and catch new episodes every Monday. You can connect with Neil on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. You can em...Show More
3) Power Beyond Measure (w/ Neil Edwards)
Neil draws a distinction between power and privilege. It is an invitation to everyone to own their natural and equal power. He illustrates with examples of how to notice the difference between privile...Show More
4) Words May Tear Us Apart (w/ Neil Edwards)
Neil discusses how words get in the way of advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts. He uses the old childhood rhyme “Sticks and Stones” to highlight the error many were taught at a...Show More
5) Corporate Blacklash (w/ Neil Edwards)
Neil uses the reality of online dating and the wisdom of Organizational Relationship Systems Intelligence to explain what is arguably the most intractable problem corporations face after recruiting Bl...Show More
6) The Nature of the Problem (w/ Neil Edwards)
Neil uses concepts from Co-Active Leadership and Relationship Systems Intelligence, findings and facts from leadership research, and a personal example to illustrate how racism is expressed by well-me...Show More
7) Expecting Blackness is Unreasonable (w/ Neil Edwards)
Neil uses Relationship Systems Intelligence to illustrate why we cannot expect predominantly white corporate cultures to be more Black. In this episode he outlines what to expect and how to respond to...Show More
8) Verbalization - The Shadow of Microaggressions (w/ Neil Edwards)
Neil lays out a behavior that doubles down on the already damaging nature of so-called microaggressions. It is a triggered response when generally well-meaning people are faced with the reality that t...Show More
9) Where Is Anti-Racism? (w/ Neil Edwards)
Neil takes a direct look at what is happening across the nation and in corporate America with D&I work. He points directly at a hole and a dangerous trend that threatens to undermine the potential of ...Show More
10) Problem Solving or Exploitation? (w/ Neil Edwards)
Neil uses context from a divergent field to illustrate how systems may operate to distract our attention. He takes listeners into the world of environmental justice and the global climate crisis to po...Show More