Leading By Example
Leading By Example
Miki Johnson
Intimate conversations with startup and business leaders about how they're growing—personally, interpersonally, and emotionally.
Jill Macri – Founding Partner, Growth By Design Talent
Learn how leading luxury bike trips set Jill up to lead hiring as Airbnb scaled from 150 to 4,000 employees.
Dec 3, 2020
49 min
Chris Murphy – President, Zoomforth
How to transition out of a CEO role gracefully and how to adapt your management to individual needs.
Nov 20, 2020
43 min
Lissa Minkin – VP, People & Workplace, Tile
Finding execs who live company values and setting strong boundaries — just two of many insights from 25 years in People and HR leadership.
Oct 30, 2020
54 min
Jen Dennard, Cofounder, Range
Rewriting the stories we tell ourselves about what it means to be a leader and a founder.
Sep 29, 2020
47 min
Matvey Farber – Mechanical Engineering Manager, Applied Materials
The difference between building robots and building teams, and how to empower more leaders by leading yourself first.
Aug 30, 2020
39 min
Margaret Schoelwer – Managing Director, Accenture
Learning to regulate strong emotions can make you a better leader—but feeling deeply can also be a superpower that helps you build relationships and connect with your drive and passion, as we hear in this conversation with my long-term friend Margaret Schoelwer.
Aug 1, 2020
37 min
Sander Daniels – Cofounder, Thumbtack
Learning that your greatest strength—which is core to how you understand yourself—is also your greatest weakness is not easy. There are many leaders who would have refused to take that feedback and plowed on without changing course. But not Sander, as you’ll learn from our conversation.
Jun 15, 2020
45 min
Jackson Solway – Cofounder, Job Portraits
For my first episode, it just made sense I'd interview my cofounder and husband Jackson Solway. Job Portraits is the second company we've run together and Jackson's 4th leadership role—reaching all the way back to his time as editor and publisher of his college paper. We discuss his evolution from command-and-control to a nuanced idea of empowerment, and why "what to do next" is his superpower but can also be a curse.
Apr 29, 2020
45 min
Introduction – Leading By Example
It can be lonely at work for someone with all the feels. A quick message from Leading By Example creator Miki Johnson about the (rather personal) impetus for this podcast. 
Apr 23, 2020
6 min