Dr. Tim ClarkJunior Clark

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Dr. Timothy R. Clark, CEO of LeaderFactor and an Oxford-trained social scientist, is a respected author and coach in leadership. Junior, LeaderFactor's COO, has extensive experience implementing the company's tools globally, providing valuable insights into leadership development's practical aspects.

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Video Episodes

Overcoming Organizational Fear in 3 Practical Steps

Overcoming organizational fear is the key to unlocking innovation and high performance. Here are 3 practical strategies to dismantle fear in your teams.

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46:24
September 24, 2024

What You Need to Know About Project Aristotle

Team interactions are the key to fostering psychological safety. Here are the practical tools you need to put Project Aristotle's findings into actual practice.

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33:39
September 10, 2024

7 Things Psychological Safety Is Not

Discover the top 7 misconceptions surrounding psychological safety and what to do about them.

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20:53
August 27, 2024

What to Do With a Toxic Leader

What are the HR best practices when it comes to toxic leadership? Here are two intervention strategies to try.

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34:53
August 13, 2024

How to Measure Psychological Safety

Psychological safety is a cultural initiative that was made to be measured. Let’s talk about how to measure it effectively.

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32:11
July 30, 2024

How to Measure Emotional Intelligence

What should you look for when evaluating EQ instruments? Learn how to use EQindex™ in a coaching scenario. 

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38:38
July 23, 2024

Psychological Safety: The Collective EQ of a Team

Learn how to program and sequence psychological safety and emotional intelligence training in your organization.

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38:22
July 16, 2024

EQ & Social Regard: Do you actually care about your team?

Healthy influence starts with positive intent. Learn 5 practical behaviors to improve your social regard as a leader.

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45:42
July 9, 2024

EQ: Your Delivery System

Learn how to contribute effectively while contributing indirectly.

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35:05
July 1, 2024

Becoming an Experience Leader

Learn how to avoid bleeding talent and stifling innovation with these practical strategies.

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36:56
June 24, 2024

How to Build Challenger Safety

Discover how to create challenger safety individually, within a team, and throughout an organization.

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38:39
June 17, 2024

How to Build Contributor Safety

Learn how to empower your team with autonomy, guidance, and encouragement in exchange for effort and results.

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37:45
June 10, 2024

How to Build Learner Safety

We can either cultivate or crush, nurture or neglect, stimulate or stifle learner safety. Here are 3 practical ways to build it.

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28:59
June 3, 2024

How to Build Inclusion Safety

How do you activate the power of diversity? Through the foundational stage of psychological safety, inclusion.

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48:13
May 27, 2024

The Coaching and Accountability Matrix

Learn how to increase your team's capacity, transfer critical thinking, and increase autonomy with the ultimate coaching diagnostic tool.

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41:02
May 20, 2024

The 3 Levels of Accountability

Discover the relationship between autonomy and accountability through 3 distinct levels: Task, Process, and Outcome.

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26:48
May 13, 2024

The Coaching Continuum

The Coaching Continuum, which runs from "tell" on one end to "ask" on the other, will help you identify your leadership coaching style.

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25:19
May 6, 2024

Audio Episodes

Redefining Intelligence

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47:31
April 29, 2024

The Resilience Cycle: Disturbance, Adaptation, and Recovery

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47:12
April 22, 2024

The Dangers of Contingent Self-Esteem

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51:30
April 15, 2024

Leadership is an Invitation

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43:45
April 8, 2024

Do Little Things For a Long Time

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59:22
April 1, 2024

The Two Leadership Failure Patterns

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53:01
March 25, 2024

3D Interviews: 10 Questions That Aren't Cliche

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51:08
March 18, 2024

What Employees Need from Leaders in Uncertain Times

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48:52
March 11, 2024

5 Subtle Signs of Leadership Potential

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44:39
March 4, 2024

The 6 Domains of Emotional Intelligence: Believe, Know, and Do

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38:26
February 26, 2024

What Do You Do With a Toxic Leader?

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45:41
February 19, 2024

The Leadership Journey Part Three: Leads the Business

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52:55
February 12, 2024

The Leadership Journey Part Two: Leads the Team

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47:15
February 5, 2024

The Leadership Journey Part One: Leads Self

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54:30
January 29, 2024

Can You Have Too Much Psychological Safety?

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45:51
January 22, 2024

How to Challenge the Status Quo (Pt.2)

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48:36
January 15, 2024

How to Challenge the Status Quo (Pt. 1)

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50:29
January 8, 2024

2023 Psychological Safety Year In Review

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62:38
December 18, 2023

The 5 Alignment Questions

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52:15
December 11, 2023

Transferring Ownership and Critical Thinking as a Leader

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43:43
December 4, 2023

How to Improve Emotional Intelligence

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50:38
November 27, 2023

The Causal Chain Between Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Safety

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45:12
November 20, 2023

Emotional Intelligence and The Experience Economy

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50:06
November 13, 2023

What is Emotional Intelligence?

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01:26
November 6, 2023

Psychological Safety: From Theory to Practice

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46:41
October 30, 2023

Creating Cultural Accountability

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50:08
October 23, 2023

How to Measure Culture

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40:07
October 16, 2023

The Patterns of High-Performing Teams

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54:13
October 9, 2023

Challenger Safety in Practice

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48:00
October 2, 2023

Contributor Safety in Practice

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41:56
September 25, 2023

Beware the Tyranny of Your Expertise

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09:41
September 21, 2023

Learner Safety in Practice

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49:35
September 18, 2023

Mission Type Orders

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09:55
September 14, 2023

Inclusion Safety in Practice

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51:12
September 11, 2023

Excavate Your Talents

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09:58
September 7, 2023

Building a Culture Where Employees Feel Free to Speak Up

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52:23
September 4, 2023

Use Minimum Necessary Intervention to Liberate Talent

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09:49
August 31, 2023

The Social Exchanges of Psychological Safety

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53:57
August 28, 2023

Adversity is an Opportunity for Beauty

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10:51
August 24, 2023

Psychological Safety for Managers

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46:17
August 21, 2023

Proximity Prevents Hostility

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09:46
August 17, 2023

The Coaching and Accountability Matrix

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45:33
August 14, 2023

Urgency is a Catalyst, Seldom A Sustainer

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09:58
August 10, 2023

Micro Cultures & The Single Most Important Variable for Psychological Safety

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50:01
August 7, 2023

Mistakes Are Not the Exception, They Are the Expectation

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09:48
August 3, 2023

Violations of Psychological Safety and Their Costs

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57:06
July 31, 2023

Leaders Get Paid for Judgment

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09:55
July 27, 2023

The Ladder of Vulnerability

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54:39
July 24, 2023

Become an Agile, Self-directed Learner

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09:50
July 20, 2023

Vision: Investing in the Future

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54:57
July 17, 2023

Leadership Makes it Harder to Get to Reality

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09:54
July 13, 2023

Judgment: Making Decisions as a Leader

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54:56
July 10, 2023

You Will Grow Based on What You Demand of Yourself

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10:00
July 6, 2023

Change: Building Resilient Organizations & People

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51:42
July 3, 2023

Learning: Maintaining Your Competitive Advantage

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45:03
June 26, 2023

Courage & Your Leadership to Management Ratio

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51:24
June 19, 2023

Accountability - Owning Your Outcomes

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48:00
June 12, 2023

Humility - The Final Stage of Confidence

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June 5, 2023

Integrity - Are you for sale?

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May 29, 2023

Leading with Character & Competence: The Core & The Crust

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57:03
May 22, 2023

Pt.2 Beyond the Office: Psychological Safety in Personal Relationships

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45:02
May 15, 2023

Beyond the Office: Psychological Safety in Personal Relationships

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67:05
May 8, 2023

Navigating Cultural Differences: The Key to Psychological Safety in Global Teams

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76:01
May 1, 2023

Psychological Safety in Healthcare

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45:00
April 24, 2023

The Human Side of Layoffs: How Companies Can Prioritize People and Culture Amidst Uncertainty

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47:25
April 17, 2023

The Catastrophic Consequences of a "Nice" Culture

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54:04
April 10, 2023

Why Psychological Safety Is Impossible Without Emotional Intelligence

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45:21
April 3, 2023

How to Promote Psychological Safety as an Early Adopter

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58:30
March 27, 2023

10 Misleading Leadership Theories

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59:42
March 20, 2023

Two Leadership Failure Patterns: Paternalism and Exploitation

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46:54
March 13, 2023

The 5 Functions of Leadership

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59:02
March 6, 2023

Achieving Physical Safety Through Psychological Safety

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49:45
February 27, 2023

What Psychological Safety is Not

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51:52
February 20, 2023

How a CEO Can Create Psychological Safety in the Room

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50:56
February 13, 2023

(Pt.5) How Mental Health and Wellness is Driving Demand for Psychological Safety

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49:11
February 6, 2023

(Pt.4) The Impact of Psychological Safety on Engagement and Retention

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52:54
January 30, 2023

(Pt.3) Competitiveness and Innovation

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39:18
January 23, 2023

(Pt.2) Exclusion and Social Injustice

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41:21
January 16, 2023

What's Driving the Demand for Psychological Safety?

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50:43
January 9, 2023

How to Bridge from Diversity to Inclusion

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47:40
January 2, 2023

The Intersection Between Diversity, Inclusion, and Innovation

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58:09
December 19, 2022

Agile Doesn't Work Without Psychological Safety

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45:43
December 12, 2022

Why Some Leaders Are Afraid of Psychological Safety

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46:48
December 5, 2022

Hiring, Firing & Promotion with Psychological Safety

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58:18
November 28, 2022

Where Great Culture Starts

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65:45
November 21, 2022

Navigating Vulnerability at Work

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66:36
November 14, 2022

How to Create a Deeply Inclusive Culture

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34:40
October 31, 2022

What is Psychological Safety?

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59:12
October 24, 2022

Stage Four: Challenger Safety

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56:54
October 17, 2022

Stage Three: Contributor Safety

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55:25
October 10, 2022

Stage Two: Learner Safety

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58:17
October 2, 2022

Stage One: Inclusion Safety

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54:39
September 26, 2022

Invest in Your Well-Being with Melody Wilding

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32:24
September 19, 2022

Don't Let Hierarchy Stifle Innovation

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58:07
September 11, 2022

Employee Engagement or Psychological Safety: Which Comes First?

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38:33
September 5, 2022

Leaning into Self-Awareness with Caroline von Koenig

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44:03
August 29, 2022

Be a Human Leader with Lindsay Kaplan

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41:56
August 22, 2022

Meeting People Where They Are with Bobbye Sweat

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48:33
August 15, 2022

The Ladder of Vulnerability Panel Discussion

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52:20
August 8, 2022

Own Your Story with Wenche Fredriksen

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38:33
August 1, 2022