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Leman Tech Leadership Podcast

Leman Tech Leadership Podcast

Von: Aleksandra Lemańska
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 Leman Tech Leadership Podcast

Welcome to the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, your ultimate guide to developing exceptional tech leadership skills. Whether you're a seasoned tech leader or just stepping into a managerial role, this podcast is designed to provide you with actionable insights and best practices to create a thriving work environment that people won't want to leave. Learn how to do it with host Aleksandra Lemańska, founder of LemanSkills, speaker, PCM leadership mentor and facilitator that works with hundreds of leaders each year to elevate their potential into the next level.

Join Alex as she delves deep into the secrets of effective leadership, from mastering essential tools to implementing cutting-edge techniques. Each episode brings you invaluable knowledge, practical advice, or unique perspectives through engaging interviews with leaders that have their experiences and lessons to share. Discover the dos and don’ts of tech leadership, learn about the habits that drive success, and gather strategies to foster a motivated and engaged team.

Follow Alex @aleksandralemanska on LinkedIn for more inspiration and actions that you can take as a transformational leader.

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  • #155 | The Burnout Nobody Talks About: What Happens When You, the Leader, Are Running on Empty

    #155 | The Burnout Nobody Talks About: What Happens When You, the Leader, Are Running on Empty
    Apr 28 2026
    ▶︎ #155 | The Burnout Nobody Talks About: What Happens When You, the Leader, Are Running on Empty

    In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska turns the burnout conversation inward: toward the person who is most often the last to receive support, the last to admit they're struggling, and the first to keep showing up with a plan. The leaders themselves.

    Alex opens by naming what leader burnout actually looks like, and how it's almost the inverse of what you'd expect. Where a burned-out engineer goes quiet and withdraws, a burned-out leader often becomes hyperactive: over-communicating, micromanaging, taking on more instead of less, all while privately running on fumes. The performance of being fine is one of the most energy-expensive things a leader can do.

    Using the Process Communication Model® (PCM®) from the CQ Leadership Method, Alex explains the concept of the distress sequence — the specific, predictable way each personality type's communication collapses under sustained stress. The over-controlling leader who finds fault with everything. The one who stops making decisions and leaves the team in a vacuum. The perfectionist who disappears into deep work and makes the team feel abandoned. The urgency-mode communicator who turns every problem into a crisis. None of these is a character flaw. They are what happens to all of us when we're depleted, and they land on the team as instability, not as tiredness.

    If you've been telling your team to protect their energy while quietly neglecting your own, this episode is the one you've been waiting for someone to make.



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    LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska
    TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska
    X: @lemanskills
    Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp
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    12 Min.
  • #154 | Focus Is a Superpower: What 30 Years of Building Teaches Us About Tech Leadership w/ Sarah Biller @FinTech Sandbox

    #154 | Focus Is a Superpower: What 30 Years of Building Teaches Us About Tech Leadership w/ Sarah Biller @FinTech Sandbox
    Apr 23 2026
    ▶︎ #154 | Focus Is a Superpower: What 30 Years of Building Teaches Us About Tech Leadership w/ Sarah Biller @FinTech Sandbox

    Join your host, Aleksandra Lemańska, for a powerful episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast as she sits down with Sarah Biller, Co-Founder of FinTech Sandbox — a global not-for-profit operating across five continents that provides free access to high-quality data for fintech entrepreneurs — and a seasoned investor, builder, and leader with a non-linear career spanning capital markets, life sciences, venture capital, and fintech.

    In this episode, Sarah brings a rare combination of grit, depth, and hard-won wisdom to the conversation, starting from her roots in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and tracing a journey through financial crises, failed startups, and breakthrough companies. The discussion centers around what it truly means to lead people — not just projects — and why the relationship a leader builds before the hard moment arrives determines everything that happens after it. Sarah shares why great feedback begins long before the conversation itself, how leaders can stay focused and purposeful in times of crisis and volatility, and why focus, not hustle, is the real superpower in today's technology landscape.

    From her experience navigating the 2008 credit crisis to leading teams building tomorrow's FinTech infrastructure, Sarah challenges tech leaders to expand their view beyond the sprint and the ship, and to invest in the human dimension of their teams with the same rigor they apply to their systems.



    ✔︎ Mentioned in the episode:

    “Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones”


    ✉︎ FOLLOW SARAH ON: ⤵︎
    LinkedIn: @sarahbiller
    FinTech Sandbox: https://www.fintechsandbox.org/


    ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎
    LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska
    TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska
    X: @lemanskills
    Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp
    www.lemanskills.com
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    1 Std. und 2 Min.
  • #153 | Q2 Kickoff Done. So Why Isn't Anyone Moving?

    #153 | Q2 Kickoff Done. So Why Isn't Anyone Moving?
    Apr 21 2026
    ▶︎ #153 | Q2 Kickoff Done. So Why Isn't Anyone Moving?

    In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska tackles one of the most quietly frustrating moments in a tech leader's calendar: you've done the kickoff, shared the roadmap, set the goals, and the team still isn't moving. No one is refusing. But the energy is flat, some people are waiting for more clarity, others have already gone off in their own direction, and you're standing there wondering what went wrong.

    Alex's answer: Nothing is wrong with your goals. The problem is that you delivered one message, the same way, to people who are fundamentally wired differently. And that's exactly what the Process Communication Model® (PCM®), a core pillar of the CQ Leadership Method, is designed to solve.

    She walks through four PCM® patterns that most visibly surface in tech teams at the start of a new quarter: the person who needs process and structure before they can move; the big-picture thinker who's already gone off-script because the vision wasn't compelling enough; the team member who needs human connection before they can engage with any direction; and the action-oriented person who's frustrated that you're still talking about the quarter instead of starting it. Same goal. Four completely different activation needs.

    If you've ever presented a perfect plan to a team that responded with polite silence, this episode explains why and what to do instead.

    ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎
    LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska
    TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska
    X: @lemanskills
    Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp
    www.lemanskills.com
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    11 Min.
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