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Thriving in Intersectionality is a leadership podcast exploring how identity, lived experience, and culture shape the way we lead, work, and build impact. Hosted by Dr. Lola Adeyemo — leadership strategist, researcher, and founder of EQImindset and Immigrants in Corporate — the show features thoughtful conversations with executives, founders, scholars, and changemakers navigating leadership at the intersections of identity and influence. Through interviews and solo reflections, each episode examines how leaders make decisions, build belonging, navigate complexity, and grow their careers while shaping more human, inclusive workplaces. Listeners gain practical insight, real-world leadership stories, and research-informed perspectives on culture, power, and professional growth. If you care about leading with intention, building cultures where people thrive, and understanding how lived experience informs leadership — this podcast is for you.
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Guest interviews
English
United States
149 episodes
since Aug. 5, 2022
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How much of someone's story do we really know from their role or the work they do?
In this episode of Thriving in Intersectionality, Dr. Lola Adeyemo welcomes Dr. Nneka Oluoha, a Nigerian American physician, mother, and novelist, to talk about identity, career transitions, cultural expectation…
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We all bring a culture into the workplace. But how often do we stop to understand the experiences that shaped it?
In this episode of Thriving in Intersectionality, Dr. Lola Adeyemo sits down with Omar L. Harris, former global pharmaceutical executive, culture systems architect, and author, to explo…
What if becoming a better leader isn't about having more answers, but learning to ask better questions?
In this episode of Thriving in Intersectionality, Dr. Lola Adeyemo welcomes Mike Lynch, leadership advisor, executive coach, author, and founder of MJL Consulting Group, for a conversation a…
What happens when what you know is bigger than what you can communicate in the moment?
Executive communication coach Douglas Brewer works with accomplished non-native English-speaking professionals who are already fluent—but don't always feel like the full version of themselves when the stakes…
Sometimes the person who changes the direction of your life enters it when neither of you knows what that moment will become.
Before Dr. Desiree Williams built a 20+ year career in healthcare leadership, she was a teenage mother and later a motel general manager. One day, a woman staying there with…
What happens when you've built a successful career—and finally ask whether the life you're building is actually the one you want?
Trisha Daho had done what many professionals spend years working toward. She made partner at a Big Four accounting and advisory firm, built multimillion-dollar…
What does it look like to pursue exceptional business results without sacrificing the people responsible for producing them?
Kathy Miller started working on a factory floor at 17 years old. She went on to lead global operations across automotive, aerospace and industrial manufacturing—including res…
What if the parts of your career that look disconnected on paper are actually the experiences that make you uniquely equipped for the work you're doing now?
Kim Peirano's career has been anything but linear. She studied television production, business and art. She became an acupuncturist,…
In this episode of Thriving in Intersectionality, Dr. Lola Adeyemo sits down with Joaquin Martinez, global energy leader, entrepreneur, author of The Super Generation, and founder of Mariposa Energy Consulting.
Joaquin grew up in a low-income single-parent household in Southern Arizona and became t…
What does it take to create environments where people can actually thrive?
For Dr. Melissa Durham, the answer has been shaped across many different parts of her life—as a woman, single mother, healthcare professional, educator, clinician, and organizational leader.
In this episode of Thriving in In…
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