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Elevate Your Leadership Journey Through Authentic Conversations with Business Leaders
In business, balancing acts are everywhere. Join Dr. Andrew Temte for The Balancing Act Podcast—an award-winning leadership development podcast featuring authentic, in-depth conversations with accomplished business leaders, senior executives, entrepreneurs, and industry experts who share the real stories behind their professional success.
What You'll Discover:
Each episode explores the critical skills and balancing acts that define exceptional leadership through engaging conversations covering:
- Leadership development and executive management strategies
- Organizational health, trust, and workplace accountability
- Employee engagement and team performance optimization
- Communication skills and business transformation
- Financial acumen and business decision-making
- Career acceleration strategies and professional growth
- Continuous improvement and lifelong learning principles
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace
- Emerging trends in AI, technology, and workforce development
The Balancing Act Format:
Every episode features four powerful segments:
- Origin Stories - Discover how today's leaders began their professional journeys
- Rocket Booster Moments - Learn about the pivotal events that accelerated their careers
- Deep Dive Conversations - Explore timely business topics with actionable insights you can apply immediately
- Lightning Round Questions - Quick-fire questions that reveal your guests' perspectives on leadership, success, and life
With over 200 episodes, The Balancing Act examines business challenges from multiple perspectives, giving you comprehensive insights into the skills that drive workplace success.
Your Host:
Dr. Andrew Temte is the former CEO of Kaplan Professional and bestselling author of "Balancing Act: Teach, Coach, Mentor, Inspire" and "The Balanced Business: Building Organizational Trust and Accountability through Smooth Workflows." As a thought leader on leadership development, organizational health, and corporate learning, Andy brings deep expertise in professional education and business management to every conversation. He holds a PhD in finance from the University of Iowa and the CFA designation, with over 15 years of university teaching experience.
Who Should Listen:
Perfect for aspiring leaders, mid-level managers seeking executive roles, C-suite executives refining their approach, entrepreneurs building their businesses, and anyone committed to continuous improvement and professional growth.
New episodes weekly. Subscribe today and elevate your leadership journey.
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Before a manager can build the emotional quotient of their team, they must first understand their own emotions. Episode number five discusses how managers, and employees, can work with their own self-awareness and how self-awareness centers around understanding the relationship between our emotions and our actions or behaviors.
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
On our fourth episode, followership takes center stage. Andy discusses the balancing act between followership and leadership. He also focuses on how important it is to allow for talk time and collaboration in meetings. This is another key step in understanding the proper way to develop as a manager and in the workplace.
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
On our third episode, we discuss resilience and will build on the topics of ego and vulnerability from episodes one and two. Resilience is a topic that’s been receiving a lot of attention over the past year. We dive into how a strong ego can help aid being resilient and what role failure could and should play in the workplace.
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
On our second episode, we build on our discussion around ego to understand how managers, leaders, and others can strike the proper balance of vulnerability. Andy discusses how to leverage a strong ego to provide just the right amount of vulnerability to your employees.
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
On our first episode, Andy discusses the variety of definitions for the word ego and how a “good” ego is essential to a balanced approach as a manager. We make sure to separate a “big” ego from a good one and how the ego will be the focal point for our nine episode season.