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Most leaders weren't trained to lead. They were promoted because they were good at the technical work, then handed a team and told to figure it out.
The Kestryl Edge is a conversation series about what actually builds trust, accountability, and retention on high-performing teams, especially in industries where the stakes are real. Host Dan Korus talks with practitioners, researchers, and operators who've done the work, not theorized about it from a distance.
Expect grounded research, real experiences, little corporate jargon, and conversations that respect your time. If you're a leader trying to build a team people actually trust, this is for you.
New episodes regularly.
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Average audio length:
82 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
17 episodes
since June 21, 2026
episodic
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When people are scared, they stop thinking. Their brains shift into survival mode, and the prefrontal cortex you hired them for goes quiet.
Patricio Cuesta, founder of Thinkquan2m, joins Dan Korus on The Kestryl Edge Podcast to break down the neuroscience of psychological safety and why fear is the…
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How do you go from starting a nonprofit with no house, no office, and a meeting at Applebee's to leading an organization that has backed New Mexico small businesses for nearly four decades?
Lindsey Kay, CEO of WESST, joins Dan Korus on The Kestryl Edge Podcast to talk nonprofit leadership, small b…
Brent Bode has spent thirteen years in college admissions, now Senior Assistant Director at Western Washington University, and yes, he used to be my boss. We get into what actually happens on the other side of an application (a majority of four-year colleges admit most of who applies, despite what …
Burnout is a relationship breaking down between a person and their job.
Michael Leiter, Professor Emeritus at Acadia University and co-author (with Christina Maslach) of The Burnout Challenge, joins Dan to unpack the three-part definition researchers actually use to diagnose burnout, why the Worl…
Kathi Dalguntas spent a year as a fractional chief of staff, got offered too little for work nobody could measure, and quit in a way that was not at all planned. Now she runs Not Rising, a decentralized journalism magazine built to avoid the single biggest trap in media: capture.
We go deep on the…
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Most emotional intelligence training hands out a framework and calls it done.
Jennifer Houle, HR leader and Substack writer, argues the opposite: there's no script, no personality quiz, n…
Masks at work and the Case for CPOs in the Corner Office (with Mark Putrus)
Mark Putrus has spent his career moving through the full HR arc, from pharma sales rep to sales trainer to Chief People Officer, and he's not shy about calling out what he calls "1980s HR" along the way. In this conversati…
Matt Heyn spent over two decades as a hospital chaplain and in ministry before he ever touched a marketing campaign. On this episode of Kestryl Sessions, he explains why the two jobs are more alike than anyone expects.
Host Dan Korus talks with Matt Heyn (Strategy Signal, VyB Marketing) about what…
Tanu Tiwari: Why Your Team's Disengagement Is a Leadership Design Problem
Global employee engagement just hit its lowest point since 2020, the first two consecutive years of decline ever recorded. Manager engagement collapsed from 31% to 22% since 2022. Ten trillion dollars in lost productivity. No…
Rich Reynolds is a licensed marriage and family therapist turned leadership coach, and he opens with a claim that reframes the whole episode: the reason a leader struggles in a boardroom is the same reason a husband struggles in a marriage or an addict struggles to quit. Same emotional wiring, diff…
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