Change is no longer an event. It's the environment and the leaders who will win in the next decade are the ones who stop waiting for it to slow down and start building the capacity to perform inside it. 

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas sits down with executive coach and leadership strategist Loretta Stagnitto to explore what it actually takes to maintain high performance, build resilient culture, and sustain team effectiveness when everything around you is shifting at speed.

Her signature philosophy, slow down to go fast is the counterintuitive but data-backed approach that separates leaders who execute their way to exhaustion from leaders who build organizations capable of performing through any change.

What You'll Learn

• Why even experienced CEOs are experiencing imposter syndrome and why it has nothing to do with their capability
• How to assess your team's readiness for change before you ask them to execute
• The four leadership pillars that create culture, performance, and bench strength through any disruption
• Why internal self-awareness and external self-awareness often don't match and how to close the gap
• How to use structured, framework-based feedback to get actionable data you can actually measure over time
• The difference between top-down and bottom-up goal execution, and why only one of them drives real results
• Loretta's step-by-step process for assessing yourself, querying your team, and building an action plan for change

Key Timestamps

• 0:00 — Introduction: Leading through uncertainty and constant change
• 2:00 — Why the pace of change is different now  and what it's doing to leaders
• 5:00 — AI, tariffs, and the anxiety driving leadership burnout
• 7:00 — Ambiguity as a leadership skill: how to build structure around chaos
• 11:00 — What's in your control and how to take pressure off by letting go of what isn't
• 13:00 — Assessing your team's emotional readiness before you lead them through change
• 15:00 — Loretta's four-pillar leadership framework introduced
• 17:00 — Why leaders become "hamsters on the treadmill" and how to get off
• 19:00 — Slow down to go fast: top-down vs. bottom-up execution
• 22:00 — How cascading goals connect every team member to the strategic plan
• 24:00 — Sustaining high performance through uncertainty, the sustainable leadership model
• 27:00 — What feedback leaders should actually be gathering and how to structure it
• 30:00 — Loretta's Self-Aware Leader Quiz
• 31:00 — The one thing leaders should do first when navigating change

Loretta Stagnitto is the founder of Loretta Stato Leadership Associates and an executive coach with extensive experience in corporate leadership development, organizational change, and team performance. 

🔗 Website: https://www.lorettastagnitto.com📱 LinkedIn: Loretta Stagnitto 📱 Facebook & Instagram: @LorettaStagnittoLeadership

Resource Mentioned:  Self-Aware Leader Quiz - HERE

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