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Think leadership requires years of training or a corner office? Think again. The Communicative Leader is your weekly guide to mastering the one skill that actually dictates your career trajectory: how you communicate.
I’m your host, Dr. Leah OH, a leadership communication expert, bestselling author, professor, and consultant. With nearly 15 years of hard-won experience in industry before transitioning into academia, I bridge the gap between complex organizational research and the real-world obstacles you face every day.
With over 100 episodes in the archive—featuring insights from international CEOs and innovative startup founders—we’ve broken down the barriers to effective leadership. Why focus on your communication? Because it’s the primary yardstick others use to decide if you are a leader. If that sounds intimidating, don’t worry—I’ve got you.
We cut through the jargon to give you small, meaningful, and actionable shifts you can apply immediately. Stop waiting for your workplace culture to change on its own. You have the power to shape your own professional narrative, one conversation at a time.
Ready to make your work life what you want it to be? Let’s have some fun and get to work.
Got a question or a topic you’d like us to tackle? I’d love to hear from you. Send your questions or a voice note to [email protected].
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- Mind the Gap: Closing the Chasm Between Leadership Values and Communication Under Pressure · 29 min · Sezonul 12 Episodul 5Ep. 125: Mind the Gap: Closing the Chasm Between Leadership Values and Communication Under Pressure In an increasingly fast-paced and complex corporate landscape, it is easy to…
- Reclaiming Cognitive Capacity: Neuroscience, Uncertainty, and Intentional Unfocus · 51 min · Sezonul 12 Episodul 4Ep. 124: Reclaiming Cognitive Capacity: Neuroscience, Uncertainty, and Intentional Unfocus In a world that often demands we constantly process massive information overload and…
- Defensible Decisions: AI Governance, Institutional Trust, and Leadership Accountability · 56 min · Sezonul 12 Episodul 3Ep. 123: Defensible Decisions: AI Governance, Institutional Trust, and Leadership Accountability In a world that often treats innovation as a race toward efficiency, scale, and…
- The Capacity Operating Model: Repairing Systems Before High Performance Slips into Overdrive · 43 min · Sezonul 12 Episodul 2Ep. 122: The Capacity Operating Model: Repairing Systems Before High Performance Slips into Overdrive In a corporate landscape accelerated by constant pressure and technological…
- Best of the Rest: Season 11 · 15 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 9Ep. 120: Best of the Rest, Season 11: The Communicative Leader: Season 11 Complete Retrospective Even the most capable leaders often fall into the trap of treating leadership as…
- Leadership as a Hardware Upgrade with Kelly McGinnis · 34 min · Sezonul 12 Episodul 1Ep. 121: Navigating High-Stakes Ambiguity and Leadership Identity with Kelly McGinnis In a world that often demands we follow a rigid formula for growth, it is easy to feel like…
- The Author Advantage: Building Influence One Word at a Time · 33 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 8Ep.119: The Author Advantage: Building Influence One Word at a Time On this show, we often discuss how to show up with clarity in meetings, on stages, and within our teams. But…
- The Best-Packaged Idea Wins: Why Strategy Needs a Story with Gavin McMahon · 44 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 7Do you believe your brilliant strategy should just "speak for itself"? Think again. If your team is stuck in a loop of skepticism or paralyzed by change, you might be relying on…
- The Post-Win Plateau: Navigating the Psychology of Momentum · 41 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 6What if the relentless drive for "growth, growth, growth" is actually masking the invisible warning signs that your team is about to crash? Joining us on The Communicative…
- The Reverse-Motivational Leader: Reframing Failure to Build High-Trust Teams · 40 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 5What if your biggest professional blunders—and how you communicate them—are actually the secret weapon to building high-trust teams? Joining us on The Communicative Leader is…
- Leading from the Inside Out: Embodied Presence and the Science of LeadershipFlow with Croft Edwards · 32 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 4Welcome to another episode of The Communicative Leader! I’m your host, Dr. Leah OH. We often think of leadership as something that happens from the neck up—strategy, logic, and…
- The Frictionless Leader: Naming, Facing, and Solving the Issues That Stall Growth with Sue Hawkes · 28 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 3Welcome to another episode of The Communicative Leader! I’m your host, Dr. Leah OH. We often talk about leadership as a journey toward growth, but for many organizations, that…
- Beyond the Spreadsheet: Leading with Empathy, Humanity, and Narrative · 51 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 2Welcome to another episode of The Communicative Leader! I’m your host, Dr. Leah OH. In a world of digital noise and data-driven decisions, it is easy for leaders to forget that…
- The High-Stakes of Presence: Scaling a $42M Company Without Losing Connection at Home · 38 min · Sezonul 11 Episodul 1Welcome to another episode of The Communicative Leader! I’m your host, Dr. Leah OH. We often talk about leadership as a high-stakes balancing act—juggling revenue targets, team…
- Best of the Rest, Season 10: The Architecture of Modern Leadership · 13 min · Sezonul 10 Episodul 8The season review of 'The Communicative Leader' explores the underlying architecture of modern leadership, focusing on themes of radical clarity and execution, negotiation…
- Project Recovery: Eliminating the Bottlenecks of Misalignment and Restoring Predictable Delivery · 31 min · Sezonul 10 Episodul 7Welcome to another episode of The Communicative Leader! I’m your host, Dr. Leah OH. We often talk about leadership as a vision-casting exercise, but the reality of leadership is…
- The Curiosity Crisis: Why We Stopped Nurturing Thinkers and How to Reclaim Deep Engagement · 30 min · Sezonul 10 Episodul 6Welcome to another episode of The Communicative Leader! I’m your host, Dr. Leah OH. We often talk about leadership as a series of directives—managing tasks, hitting metrics, and…
- The Legacy of Clarity: Turning Your Mission into a Movement with Michelle Vandepas · 30 min · Sezonul 10 Episodul 5Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest barrier to your impact isn't a lack of data, but the lack of a resonant message? In this episode, we sit down with Michelle Vandepas—founder…
- The Ego Audit: Leading with Self-Awareness from the Front Lines to the C-Suite with Dr. Ron Camacho · 43 min · Sezonul 10 Episodul 4Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to lose trust isn’t a bad strategy—it’s a bruised ego that stops you from listening. In this episode, we sit down with North Charleston Chief of…
- Communicating Earned Certainty: Leadership Lessons from the FBI to the Boardroom with MK Palmore · 26 min · Sezonul 10 Episodul 3Send us Fan Mail The Command-and-Control model is failing today’s leaders. In a fast-paced, high-stakes environment, brute force and rigid hierarchies don't build…







