Ep 416 : Being Held Accountable vs Becoming Someone Who Is Accountable
The Transformational Leader
Being held accountable can help you do the thing, but it doesn't create a transformational shift. It creates compliance, not leadership. Adam Quiney explains why becoming someone who is accountable is different from being held accountable by someone else.
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Ep 415: Feedback vs Contact
The Transformational Leader
Today, we are going to draw a distinction between getting and receiving feedback. It happens all the time across the leadership world, but contact is almost never happening. Many leaders believe they are receiving feedback because they listen, ask clarifying questions, thank people, and take action. But those moves can become part of a protective identity that keeps the real issue at a distance.
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Ep 414: Why Feedback Friendly Cultures Fail.
The Transformational Leader
Why does creating a feedback-friendly culture fail? Most people welcome feedback that fits the story they already have about themselves, but reject feedback that challenges their existing identity. Real transformation begins when leaders and teams develop the capacity to hold tension, stay in the conversation, and let in the feedback they would normally push away. That's what creates meaningful change: not just asking for feedback, but learning how to truly receive it.
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Ep 413: From the Vault Ep 192 - The First Energetic Law - Fear and Possibility
The Transformational Leader
Can we get rid of our fears permanently? There’s always a standard way of how we think things work. Working twice as hard could typically mean acquiring twice as much salary and likewise, working less means less income to earn. This realm of predictability is simply increasing or decreasing your effort and having the equivalent result, thus no breakthroughs are applied. The realm of possibility, on the other hand, is anything and everything that you can think of that is not common. Working less but earning more? That may look unrealistic but it’s certainly not impossible. As you can see,...
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Ep 412: From the Vault Ep 169 - What it Means to Lead Up
The Transformational Leader
Did you ever think that you could fully commit to be a better leader if only your superior is not in the way? Or you can be able to showcase your leadership effectively but you’re being hampered by someone above you? But, stepping into the being of a leader has nothing to do with them changing in any way. Leading up starts with us taking responsibility and not letting ourselves off the hook and we’ll discuss it all in today's episode! Leading up is an essential aspect of being a leader. In today’s conversation, we’ll highlight the ways on how to lead up and take accountability on...
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Mid-week Ep 161: Adam Quiney
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s live episode, join Adam Quiney for a candid conversation about one of the most frustrating experiences high-performing leaders face: knowing exactly what needs to happen next and somehow not doing it. Adam explores why this isn't a motivation problem, a discipline problem, or a sign that you need a bigger challenge, but rather a deeper pattern that often emerges when competence and success have outgrown their usefulness. Together, you'll unpack the hidden costs of being highly capable, why boredom can be a surprisingly important signal, and how the very skills that helped you...
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Ep 411: From the Vault Ep 166 - How Blindspots are Created and Work Part 2
The Transformational Leader
We can’t identify our own blindspots. We may have tried to explore it but let’s admit it, we can’t see what we’re blinded to so we have to let go of that belief that we can do it all by ourselves. As a sequel to last week’s episode, I’ll discuss what you can do to discover your blindspots and why you should be responsible for them. We’ll continue our conversation on blindspots as I’ll share how your blindspot will impact everything around you - your leadership, team, and the work’s culture and environment. I’ll also unpack the notion of blindspots colluding with each other...
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Ep 410: From the Vault Ep 165 - How Blindspots are Created and Work Part 1
The Transformational Leader
The need to identify and understand our blindspots in order to develop our leadership further is natural. We also tend to struggle to accept the idea once we learned our blindspots and that’s also normal as we are indeed blind to our weak points. In today’s conversation, we’ll discover your blindspots by knowing how it gets created in the first place. I’ll discuss why our blindspots are a function of our fears, judgements, and significance on our way of being. I’ll also share how we are exceptionalizing ourselves from these blindspots, how it creates an impact on our leadership...
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Mid-week Ep 160: Laurel Collins
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s mid-week episode, Adam Quiney sits down with his friend, Forge alumna, and Member of Parliament for Victoria, Laurel Collins, to explore leadership, transformation, and what’s happening beneath the surface of politics. Together, they examine how breakthroughs occur in complex systems, what authentic leadership looks like inside government, and the deeper forces that shape political decision-making beyond policies, headlines, and public debate. Rather than focusing on politics as a game of strategy or ideology, Adam and Laurel explore the human side of leadership and the...
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Ep 409: How Leaders Create the Clearing They Complain About
The Transformational Leader
Most leaders believe they are reacting to culture, pressure, or the people around them. But often, they are participating in creating the very thing they complain about. Leadership is not just about what you say or do, but about who you are being. In this episode, Adam Quiney explores the idea that “the leader is a clearing for the thing they are complaining about.”
info_outlineOn this week’s mid-week episode, Adam Quiney explores the deeper pattern underneath what so many leaders are searching for right now. This conversation moves beyond the constant hunt for better tactics, stronger communication frameworks, and more polished confidence strategies, and into what may actually be driving that search in the first place. Adam looks at four conversations that continue surfacing inside leadership circles and unpacks what sits underneath each of them.
What emerges is not a discussion about missing skills, but a deeper exploration of what happens when leadership becomes overly focused on performance, certainty, and getting it right. At a time when turbulence, pressure, and rapid change are pushing leaders to adapt faster than ever, many are still approaching leadership as something to optimize externally rather than develop internally.
As with all of Adam’s live shows, this episode isn’t scripted or polished - it unfolds in real time. It’s a space where ideas are explored as they arise, assumptions are questioned, and the deeper dynamics shaping leadership begin to come into view.
Join Adam for a grounded, in-the-moment conversation about why the search for the “right” leadership skill may actually be keeping leaders stuck, and what starts to shift when a different level of awareness enters the conversation.