The Leadership Vision Podcast
The Leadership Vision Podcast explores what helps leaders, teams, and organizations navigate complexity and move forward with greater clarity, alignment, resilience, and engagement.
Hosted by Nathan Freeburg and featuring conversations with Dr. Linda Schubring, Brian Schubring, and leaders and thinkers from a wide range of fields, each episode looks beneath the surface of leadership to examine the patterns shaping how we work, relate, change, and grow.
Drawing from more than 25 years of work with leaders and teams, Leadership Vision brings together insights from positive psychology, applied neuroscience, organizational development, and real-world experience. We explore questions about team culture, relationships, well-being, change, communication, conflict, identity, and what it means to lead well in uncertain environments.
We’re interested in better questions, deeper understanding, and practical ideas you can apply to yourself, your team, and the people you lead.
Episodes
436 episodes
We Still Use Strengths, But We Start Somewhere Deeper
We pull back the curtain on why we rebuilt our website and what it reveals about how our leadership consulting has changed as clients face nonstop uncertainty. We explain why strengths still matter but no longer lead the conversation, and we sh...
Have You Built a Life Bigger Than Your Work?
What is work for—and who are we when we're not working?In this short Labor Day reflection, Nathan explores the history behind the holiday, our desire to find meaning in our work, and the importance of building a life that isn't defined e...
Re-Broadcast: 3 Things Great Leaders Do When They Get Laid Off
In this rebroadcast from 2023, we revisit a conversation that feels just as relevant today: What do you do when you get laid off?Losing a job—or experiencing an unexpected work transition—can be disorienting, painful, and deeply p...
What Is Leadership Vision? Revisiting Where We Started
We're going back to where it all began!Originally released in September 2017, this was the very first episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast. Nathan Freeburg and Brian Schubring explore the early ideas behind Leadership Vision—using St...
Re-Broadcast - The One Thing Great Leaders Do Before They Grow: They Let Go
We're on a summer break of sorts from new episodes of the podcast, but we wanted to re-share some favorites from the past nine seasons of The Leadership Vision Podcast. This was one of my favorites from 2026, as it is a great reminder to all of...
How Play Gets Us Out Of Our Heads And Into The Moment
Play isn’t childish, and it isn’t a distraction from leadership. It’s one of the quickest ways to get out of your head, reconnect with the people around you, and create the kind of energy where learning actually sticks. We talk about why play h...
Doing Hard Things: Rethinking What It Means to Be Mentally Tough
What does it really mean to be mentally tough?For many of us, toughness has always meant pushing harder, working longer, and ignoring discomfort. But what if real resilience isn't about grinding through challenges—it's about learning how...
Healthy Teams Don't Avoid Change. They Learn to Navigate It Together.
In this rebroadcast from the Leadership Vision archives, Nathan Freeburg sits down with Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring to explore how teams experience change differently and why understanding those differences can transform the way people work t...
Can You Optimize People Without Treating Them Like Machines?
Can you optimize people without treating them like machines?That question sparked a thoughtful conversation between Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring about what healthy leadership really looks like. While organizations naturally want high-pe...
Re-Release: How Teams Can Fly in the Same Direction
After Nathan watched his son begin the painful journey of braces, he was reminded that meaningful change often gets harder before it gets better. That same principle applies to leadership. In this rebroadcast, we explore what true team alignmen...
What High School Students Can Teach Us About Dreams, Resilience, and Growth
What happens when the ideas behind Unfolded are shared with a room full of high school seniors?In this episode, Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring reflect on a recent opportunity to wo...
Finding Your Strong Inner Voice: Learning to Be Kinder to Yourself
Do you ever feel like the voice in your head is your biggest critic?In this episode, Brian and Linda Schubring explore one of the central themes from Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation fr...
Three Quotes from Unfolded That Invite Deeper Reflection
Sometimes a single sentence can stay with you long after you've finished a book.In this episode, Nathan Freeburg sits down with Brian and Dr. Linda Schubring to explore three meaningful quotes from Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation...
How Unfolded Is Helping Teams Dream, Reflect, and Grow
One year after the release of Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation from an Origami Crane, Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring return to reflect on how the book is actually being used with teams, leaders, ...
Two New Ways to Experience Unfolded
In this short Memorial Day update, Nathan shares two new opportunities to engage more deeply with Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation from an Origami Crane by Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring.<...
Unfolded One Year Later: Stories from Readers
One year after the release of Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation from an Origami Crane, Nathan Freeburg joins Brian and Dr. Linda Schubring to reflect on the stories and conversations that have em...
One Year Later: Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring Reflect on Unfolded
One year after the release of Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation from an Origami Crane, Nathan Freeburg sits down with Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring for a personal conversation about what the journey has meant to them.In this e...
What It Looks Like for Leaders to Model Learning
What does it really mean for a leader to model learning?In this episode, Nathan Freeburg joins Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring to explore how leaders shape team culture—not just through direction, but through example. The conversation high...
How the Best Leaders Stay Committed—Even When Progress Feels Slow
In this episode of The Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan Freeburg sits down with Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring to explore what it takes to stay committed when progress feels slow.They discuss: Why organizations ...
The One Thing Great Leaders Do Before They Grow: They Let Go
In this episode of The Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan Freeburg is joined by Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring to explore a foundational idea for leadership growth: before leaders can grow, they often need to let go of something.<...
Why Struggle Is Essential to Real Growth in Leadership
In this episode, Nathan Freeburg is joined by Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring to explore the role of struggle and discomfort in the learning process. We discuss how leaders can recognize learning moments, support individuals with different learni...
The Patience of Leadership: Why Endurance Matters More Than Speed
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan Freeburg is joined by Dr. Linda Schubring and Brian Schubring to explore the role of patience and endurance in leadership.Together, they discuss: Why leadership is...
Every Leadership Challenge Is Asking You To Learn Something
Most leadership challenges appear to be performance problems. The results aren’t there, the team isn’t moving fast enough, and the instinct is to push harder.But what if the issue isn’t effort?In this episode, we explore how to ...
Counterintuitive Leadership — Start Messy, Grow Faster
Most leaders wait for clarity before they act.But what if that’s the very thing holding you back?In this episode, Nathan, Brian, and Dr. Linda explore counterintuitive leadership—why growth often requires starting before yo...
What Are You Still Carrying? A Leadership Lesson from a Zen Story
Sometimes the most powerful leadership lessons come from the simplest stories.In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian and Linda share a short Zen parable that surfaced during a coaching conversation with a client. The sto...