Leadership Matters

Effective performance management is about more than evaluating results—it's about creating clarity, building accountability, and helping people succeed. In this episode, we explore the manager's role in setting clear expectations, providing ongoing feedback, addressing underperformance early, and navigating difficult conversations with confidence and empathy. In this episode, hosts Dr. Sheryl White, Dr. Undraye Howard, and Dr. Loretta Howard will discuss with guest Dr. Pegah Teymoorian, Senior

Diamonds aren't formed in comfort. They're formed under enormous pressure, over time, in places no one would choose to stay. This week on Leadership Matters, the People's Doctors take on a truth most leaders learn the hard way: the pressure we try to avoid is often the very thing shaping us. Dr. Undraye Howard, Dr. Loretta Howard, and Dr. Sheryl White explore the difference between pressure that crushes a leader and pressure that refines one. When the stakes are high, who do you become? The host

Most leaders don’t set out to build a weak culture. It happens when strategy, values, and daily systems drift out of alignment and no one notices. On this episode of Leadership Matters with the People’s Doctors, we welcome Yengyee Lor, Founder and CEO of Faithful Consulting and an ICF-credentialed executive coach with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations turn ideas into meaningful action.

Every organization has a culture. The question is whether leaders are intentionally shaping it or simply allowing it to happen. In this insightful episode of Leadership Matters with the People's Doctors, Dr. Sheryl White, Dr. Undraye Howard, and Dr. Loretta Howard explore with Joy Freeman, Founder & CEO of JOY Just Own Yours, explore workplace culture through a unique lens: the gap between the culture organizations say they have and the culture employees actually experience; the role leaders pla

Organizational culture doesn't collapse overnight — it erodes, one broken agreement and one disengaged team at a time. In our follow-up to "The Quiet Exit," we sit down with Nicholas Dillon, M.Ed, M.S., a leadership consultant, mindset coach, counselor, and international speaker explores what it actually takes to repair culture across an organization once trust has already broken down. Drawing on his work in leadership development, emotional intelligence, and executive coaching, Nick walks us t

Employee disengagement rarely announces itself. It doesn't show up as a resignation letter — it shows up as silence in meetings, minimal effort, and talented people doing just enough to stay employed while they've already left in every way that matters. In this episode, hosts Dr. Sheryl White, Dr. Undraye Howard, Dr. Loretta Howard, examine the slow, often invisible process of culture erosion — how it starts, why leaders miss the early warning signs, and what it costs organizations in innovation

This week on Leadership Matters, the microphone turns around. Co-hosts Dr. Undraye P. Howard and Dr. Loretta A. Howard step into the guest chairs to discuss their new book, Is This the Way It's Supposed to Be? Lessons in Leadership and Lived Experiences — an honest, often funny, deeply personal exploration of the gap between how leadership is supposed to look and how it actually unfolds. Two kids from Milwaukee grew up just miles apart, never crossing paths until graduate school — then earned t

What happens in the mind and body of a leader under sustained stress — and what can leaders do about it before burnout takes the chair? This week, the People's Doctors welcome Natasha Mullen, licensed mental health expert, clinical supervisor, and Founder & CEO of Milestones Consultants, LLC. With more than 25 years of experience spanning schools, community agencies, and private practice, Natasha brings a therapist's insight to a leadership problem: the toll that pressure, responsibility, and un

Every leader knows what stress feels like — but few understand what it is actually doing to them. On this episode of Leadership Matters, the People's Doctors sit down with Dr. Yvonne Bell Gooden, a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 30 years in behavioral health, to talk about the real cost of carrying the weight of leadership. Dr. Gooden has spent her career serving in community-based settings as both clinician and director, with deep clinical expertise in trauma, depression, anxiet

Every leader knows the weight that comes with the seat—but few talk about what that weight costs. In this episode of Leadership Matters with the People's Doctors, Dr. Undraye Howard, Dr. Loretta Howard, and Dr. Sheryl White take an honest look at the hidden toll of leadership stress: the sleepless nights, the decision fatigue, and the quiet burnout that erodes even the strongest leaders. We discuss how to distinguish healthy pressure from harmful strain, why self-care is a leadership discipline

In this episode of Managing Stress in the Workplace: What Leaders Can Do to Stay Fortified and Protect Their Team, co-hosts Dr. Sheryl White, Dr. Undraye Howard, and Dr. Loretta Howard sit down with a mental health expert to unpack one of the most overlooked dynamics in leadership: stress. Leader stress doesn’t stay contained — it spreads. It shapes communication, decision making, team morale, and the overall health of the workplace. Our guest, Jacqueline Manley, explains how leaders can recogn

What if the conflict your organization is experiencing is not a problem to be managed — but a doorway to something better? In this powerful episode of Leadership Matters with the People's Doctors, Dr. Undraye Howard, Dr. Loretta Howard, and Dr. Sheryl White are joined by Oriana Carey, CEO of the Coalition for Children, Youth & Families, for a candid conversation about what it truly takes to lead through conflict — and come out on the other side stronger. Together, they make the case that when h