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631. Change Leadership, Critical Hope + Building Cultures We Don’t Have to Heal From - Lindsey Fuller, Jon McCoy and Becky Endicott
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We’re closing out this series with a powerful conversation that redefines what leadership can look like. Lindsay Fuller of The Teaching Well joins us to explore how leading with courage starts right where you are—not with a title, but with intention.
We unpack big ideas: hope as a daily practice, resilience as a rhythm, and policies that reflect lived experience—not just words on a page.
Lindsay challenges us to rethink what tools truly sustain leadership—like rest, offboarding, and sabbaticals—and why they’re not extras, but essentials. We also name the often-unspoken reality of compassion fatigue and offer a vision of shared leadership grounded in alignment, not replication.
If you're ready to build a culture that centers humanity, care, and courage—this episode is your invitation to begin.
Learn:
- Learn why human-centered leadership means choosing courage over comfort
- Discover how critical hope is a practice—not a personality trait
- Understand why change leadership begins right where you are—even without the title
- Explore what it means for policies to be living, responsive, and rooted in lived experience
- See how resilience is built through consistent, intentional rhythms
- Unpack why rest, offboarding, and sabbaticals are essential leadership tools—not perks
- Learn how shared leadership depends on calibration, not cloning
- Recognize why compassion fatigue is a real occupational hazard—and what to do about it
Episode Highlights:
- The Importance of Critical Hope (05:00)
- Policies as Culture in Action (08:55)
- Reframing Policies for Human-Centered Organizations (09:01)
- 5-Part Framework and Where People Get Stuck (15:00)
- Challenges in Implementing Human-Centered Policies (14:53)
- Human-Centered Leadership (25:00)
- The Role of Feedback in Leadership (27:51)
- Becoming the Change Leader in Your Team (30:00)
- The Journey of Rest and Leadership (32:11)
- Reflections from the Well (33:00)
Episode Shownotes: www.weareforgood.com/episode/631
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