Lead with Love: How Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Build Stronger Teams and Better
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Lead with Love: How Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Build Stronger Teams and Better

54:07 May 19, 2025
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Most leaders talk about productivity. Few talk about love. In this episode, Doland White sits down with Kelly Weingarden Hall—former global sales leader, self-directed org architect, and author of Live Large: The Power of Love at Work—to unpack why love might be the leadership advantage we’ve all been missing. Kelly shares her transformation from Fortune 500 executive to cultural change agent, revealing the story behind building self-directed teams, eliminating toxic hierarchies, and bringing humanity back to business. You’ll hear how reframing "why bother" accounts as “High Potential Entrepreneurs” generated double-digit growth and how replacing delegation with enrollment created genuine team ownership. Actionable insights from this episode: • Why "treating people like adults" is a leadership multiplier • The power of rethinking org charts for inclusion and ownership • How to use story and status to shift culture and drive performance • The secret to co-creating accountability and letting go of command-and-control Kelly’s personal story of surviving metastatic cancer adds powerful context to her mission: remove dis-ease from work and let love lead. Whether you lead a team of 5 or 5000, this conversation will challenge your definition of leadership. GUEST EMAIL kelly.hall@live-large.world GUEST WEBSITE: KellyWinegardenHall.com SOCIAL MEDIA: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-hall-0a23a11 https://www.instagram.com/kelly_hall824/ Love Works on Amazon: https://bit.ly/43z5pVM Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to help more leaders learn how to lead with love and build radically empowered teams.
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