About this episode

Debbie Ung discusses the challenges of senior leadership, focusing on balancing results with empathy and managing pressure.

Senior leadership means living with competing demands. In this episode, Debbie Ung, President of Blanchard, shares what that looks like in practice. The conversation focuses on delivering results without losing people, staying decisive without losing empathy, and handling pressure from above without passing it down. Honest, practical, and grounded in what senior leaders face right now.

People in this episode

Host: Chad Gordon

Guest: Debbie Ung

Topics covered

• leadership
• competing demands
• empathy
• pressure management
• senior leadership

Keywords

• leadership
• senior leadership
• empathy
• pressure
• results
• decisiveness
• competing demands

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blanchard

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