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The Intentional Leaders Podcast: Helping ambitious leaders gain clarity, communicate with confidence, and lead with intention.
Helping ambitious leaders gain clarity, communicate with confidence, and lead with intention.
Leadership isn’t about titles, authority, or having all the answers—it’s about being intentional.
If you’re ready to move from managing tasks to empowering people, you’re in the right place.
Each week, host Cyndi Wentland, founder of Intentionaleaders, shares actionable tools, real-world stories, and fresh perspectives to help you grow into the confident, respected leader you aspire to be. You’ll learn how to handle tough conversations, inspire trust, build stronger teams, and lead with purpose without burning out in the process.
Whether you’re a first-time manager, seasoned executive, or small business owner, the Intentional Leaders Podcast will help you develop the mindset and skills to create impact that lasts.
Tune in, grow intentionally, and become the kind of leader your team—and your life—deserve.
The Intentional Leaders Podcast: Helping ambitious leaders gain clarity, communicate with confidence, and lead with intention.
Latest Episodes
The Cost of Silence in Leadership: Power, Truth, and Missing Data
If the people around you aren’t telling you the truth, you’re not getting the full picture and you’re paying for it in ways you can’t always see. In this episode, we unpack why honest communication so often breaks down at work, even among smart...
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From Reacting to Regulating: Leadership That Holds Under Pressure
Pressure doesn’t just test leaders—it reveals the habits you’ve been running on for years.When deadlines tighten and emotions spike, do you get sharper and more connected… or do you slip into control, avoidance, or resistance?In t...
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Emotional Intelligence: The Multiplier You’ve Been Overlooking—And How to Finally Unlock It
Think your IQ is what limits your influence? The real bottleneck might be your reactions. We pull back the curtain on emotional intelligence and show how it quietly governs decision quality, trust, performance, and the culture your team lives i...
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Lead With Intention, Not Autopilot: How the LEAD Framework Can Change your Career (and life!)
Feeling stuck between your best intentions and your most stressful reactions? We unpack a simple, repeatable way to move from autopilot to intentional leadership using the LEAD framework: Look within, Exercise choice, Act with intention, and De...
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“I See You”: The Most Powerful Phrase in Leadership
Feeling like your leadership playbook was written for a world that no longer exists? We dive into Sawubona leadership, a human-first approach rooted in the Zulu greeting “I see you,” and show how it reframes engagement, accountability, and perf...
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