All Leadership Episodes

Where Experience Meets Leadership Growth

Browse all episodes of the Leadership in Manufacturing Podcast and hear how experienced leaders across electronics, manufacturing, and supply chain navigate complexity, lead people through change, and build trust in high pressure environments.

These are real conversations with executives, directors, and operators who are actively leading technical teams today.

Built for Leaders Navigating Rising Complexity

Every episode focuses on one core challenge leaders face when technical complexity, operational pressure, and people leadership collide.

No theory.
No generic leadership advice.
No hype.

Just practical insights from leaders who have been there.

What You Will Learn

Across the episodes, you will hear how leaders:

Stay grounded and decisive during disruption
Build trust across functions, regions, and cultures
Lead change without micromanaging
Communicate priorities clearly when everything feels urgent
Use AI and data to reduce noise, not replace leadership
Develop people without losing accountability
Turn belief, listening, and feedback into execution

All Leadership Episodes

Explore conversations leaders return to when expectations are high and answers are not obvious.

The role of leadership – Jeff Hastie – Episode 6

Every employee impacts an organization’s direction, but leadership has by far the largest and most direct effect on company culture. At the end of the day, leaders are the ones who can make or break it, the choices they make impacts employees engagement, and performance which in the end will influence the business results and performance.

Driving digital innovation is hard work – Charlotte Nytoft – Episode 5

Digital transformation is driving business innovation in many industries, and many companies are failing to actually take the leap and digitalize their communication with their customers, partners, and even within their own organization. Driving digital innovation is hard work and is not all about technology.

Accepting the early stages of innovation – Louise Kjølholm – Episode 4

The value of digital data collection is on everybody’s mind and there are a lot of benefits of how data collection and innovation can increase project productivity and efficiency. It has never been more important than now to begin your company’s digital data collection. If executed correctly, it drives efficiency and transparency.

The process is easy, it’s the people part that is the difficult one – Norbert Majerus – Episode 3

When working with lean product development in R&D, the process is easy, it’s the people part that is the difficult one. You get benefits from a lean transformation, but if you don’t get the whole organization engaged you won’t succeed. Those benefits go up exponentially if you get everybody engaged.

It’s all about the people – become better problem solvers – Bella Englebach – Episode 2

With lean we talk about how we want things to be simple. You are making things easier for people, either making it easier for your customer or the work easier for your employees or you’re making it easier for people to grow and learn. So it’s always about: can you make things better for people?

Passion for lean product development – Bob Melvin

Many leaders struggle with strategy. Understanding the key steps in strategy implementation is critical to being a successful and effective leader within your company.