Fidelis Leadership Podcast

Dr. Michael Useem is world-renowned leadership expert who serves as the William and Jacalyn Egan Emeritus Professor of Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He's a prolific author whose books, like Leading Up and The Leadership Moment, have fundamentally changed how organizations approach management and career growth. In this podcast, Dr. Useem shares insights and advice that can benefit those who aspire to Leadership Excellence.

David Fung spent 23 years in tech, most recently as a Senior Director at Salesforce, where he led Sales Engineering teams through hypergrowth, reorganizations, and sudden market shifts, picking up three President's Club awards along the way. Today he's an executive coach and the founder of Coachful Coaching, working with leaders at organizations like Amazon, EA Games, Globant, and Lightspeed Commerce. He's spoken at Tech Leadership Conferences and hosts the Coachful Coaching Leadership Podcast. His focus is the gap most leaders never look at: the distance between the clarity they think they're projecting and the confusion their team is actually living in. In this episode, David shares some valuable insights that can benefit leaders at all levels.

Nick Jonsson is an award-winning global keynote speaker, bestselling author, transformational master coach and facilitator, Counsellor & Psychotherapist. He is widely recognized as the world's leading voice on Executive Loneliness. Nick works globally across individual, group, team, and organizational settings. He offers private executive and life coaching, private counselling and psychotherapy, as well as group, team, and organizational coaching. In addition, he designs and delivers leadership facilitation, process facilitation, and training programs for leadership teams and organizations worldwide, supporting psychological safety, culture, wellbeing, and sustainable performance. His work is shaped by more than two decades of senior leadership experience in global organizations, as well as his own lived experience of burnout, addiction, and recovery. Nick has a particular heart for leaders, professionals, and their families who carry significant responsibility while quietly struggling with burnout, anxiety, depression, addiction, compulsive behaviors, relationship strain, or a loss of purpose.

Fay Newiadomski, a former University Dean with over 40 years of experience, is an international, award-winning change management strategist and is the founder and CEO of ICTN in 1993. Fay has set up universities and schools, and she consults for and trains leading multinational companies. She has delivered many thousands of experiential workshops to the public and private sectors, and has published over 500 articles on business culture and leadership behavior. Fay has designed and developed her own Leadership Program called the "Four Journeys of a Leader"© and is currently writing a book with the same title to accompany the program. Her purpose is to awaken true leadership in leaders and she shares many insights on this topic during our conversation.

Our guests today are Natalie Johnson and Rebecca Johnson, two dynamic change-makers who are rewriting the rules of modern workplace culture. As the founders of Vidl Work, a company that helps companies transform their culture, they use a proven, proprietary process to take an organizations' daily interactions from mediocre or toxic to thriving. They are also the co-authors of the book Leading the Culture Journey. Together, they also host the Energy, Connection & Courage at Work podcast series. In this episode, they share sage insights on how to develop exceptional workplace cultures!

David Kochanek is a branding and thought leadership strategist and the founder of BoardVoice.com and ThoughtLeadership.com. He helps senior executives and board candidates clarify their value, strengthen their positioning, and increase their visibility. David and his team have supported more than 6,200 executives in developing personal brands that attract new opportunities, build credibility, and elevate professional influence. At ThoughtLeadership.com, they turn expertise into authority, visibility, and trust through thought leadership strategy, executive branding, content, LinkedIn positioning, PR, and training.

Dr. Bruce Vojak has held senior leadership roles in both the private sector and in academia, and is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Breakthrough Innovation Advisors, a consultancy that periodically advises Procter & Gamble and regularly presents to, leads workshops for, and advises various other companies on innovation. He sits on the boards of several large companies and is also the author of two books titled Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms and most recently No-Excuses Innovation: Strategies for Small- and Medium-Sized Mature Enterprises In this episode, we will discuss his latest book and why it is so important for small and medium-sized businesses to innovate.

Anne McGhee-Stinson is a seasoned Executive Leadership Coach and Consultant with over 30 years of experience helping leaders and organizations move beyond surface-level strategy to address the deeper system dynamics that drive, or quietly erode, sustained performance. As Co-Owner and Managing Partner of InteraWorks, she works with leaders across global corporations, government agencies, and complex organizations to strengthen alignment, build trust, and create cultures where performance and purpose stay in sync. Her career has taken her from Washington D.C. consulting rooms to boardrooms across Europe, Japan, and beyond, giving her a rare cross-cultural lens on leadership and human potential.

Alex Vohr is a retired United States Marine Corps veteran, serving 25 years, to include multiple combat campaigns and other operations such as humanitarian relief. Since retiring from the Marine Corps, Alex has served in executive leadership roles in a variety of companies and industries. In addition to his primary logistics specialty, Alex is a defense acquisition professional, a military planner, and educator. He served as the Director for the School of Advanced Warfighting, a graduate level curriculum focused on planning and decision making in war. Alex holds three advanced degrees, his most recent in strategic studies from the Marine Corps War College. He has authored articles on Leadership, Disaster Relief, and Decision Making in the Marine Corps Gazette and in Military Review. Alex resides in Florida with his wife Susan and they have three children.

Neill Marshall and Kurt Mosley are nationally recognized experts in healthcare leadership and executive search, with more than 60 years of combined experience guiding organizations to recruit and support top executives. Together, they co-authored The First 90 Days: From Résumé to Results, a framework that offers leaders practical tools to earn trust, build momentum, and make an impact from day one. In this episode, they will share some insights on leadership by leveraging their experience interviewing over 10,000 healthcare executives.