We spend a lot of time talking about what leadership gets wrong.

Today we are celebrating what it gets right.

In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim flips the script and names the green flags. The real, observable signs that tell you without any doubt that you are in the presence of a leader who gets it. Not the theory. Not the framework. The actual things you can see and feel when great leadership is happening.

From the leader who steps back and lets their person shine to the team that speaks in one voice no matter who is in the room, Kim breaks down what great leadership produces and what it looks like from the inside.

If you have ever worked for a leader who changed you, this episode will help you name exactly what they did.

And if you are that leader, this one is worth hearing too.

Have you ever watched someone completely transform the moment power walked into the room?

In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim opens with a scene from a church hallway that never left her, and unpacks what it revealed about one of the most quietly destructive dynamics in organizational life. Proximity to power.

From DC events to Miranda Priestly, Kim traces how the instinct to perform for power shows up everywhere, and what happens to an organization when that performance becomes the culture. The creativity that dies. The innovation that stops. The honest feedback that never makes it into the room.

Kim also gets honest about the leaders who enable it, sometimes without even realizing it, and what it actually takes to build a culture where people show up for the work instead of the worship.

Someone on your team used your own words against you. Not because you did something wrong. Because you did something human.

In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets honest about one of the most painful and least discussed realities of leadership: character assassination from within. What it actually feels like. Why it happens. And why loneliness is almost always the door that gets left open.

Kim introduces the Airbnb framework for thinking about access, what your team should and shouldn't have, how trust and time determine what gets opened, and why the host never forgets they're the host.

If you have ever shown someone who you really are underneath the title and had it used against you, this episode is for you.