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Leadership Uncensored with host Dawn Emerick, EdD
Where Real Leaders Talk About the Hard Stuff
Welcome to Leadership Uncensored—the podcast that cuts through the polished scripts and curated personas to bring you raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about what it truly means to lead in today’s world.
Hosted by Dr. Dawn Emerick, a national voice in trauma-informed leadership and systems change, this podcast goes beyond buzzwords to explore the messy, meaningful, and transformative moments of leadership. Whether you're a seasoned executive, a changemaker in the making, or someone navigating the tension between personal healing and professional growth, Leadership Uncensored is your space.
Each episode features courageous conversations with leaders across sectors—corporate, nonprofit, government, and education—who are willing to pull back the curtain. We talk burnout, breakthrough, betrayal, bias, boundaries, and becoming. No fluff. No filters. Just truth.
Leadership Uncensored with host Dawn Emerick, EdD
3 Min Trailer, Episode 5: Iron Fists Eventually Rust
We need emotional intelligence and trauma informed leadership now more than ever. The outdated coercive style of leading and managing people is out.
Emotional intelligence and trauma informed leadership is an approach that acknowledges there is an emotional world of experiences that runs deep within each of us. When these emotional responses are triggered in the workplace, each person responds according to the extent of their emotional scars, traumas and emotional strengths.
Rather than creating a tinderbox workplace culture that asks,
“What’s wrong with you?”
We should be asking,
“What happened to you?”
"What matters to you?”
“What can we accomplish together?”
Guests:
Kathryn Thomas is the founder of Yoga 4 Change and on the management team of ANAMAR Environmental Consulting
Jarik Conrad, EdD, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, leads the Human Insights and HCM Evangelism team at Ultimate Kronos Group