Welcome to
The Leader Factor
How do you build a business where your people are your competitive advantage? These videos equip HR and L&D leaders with tools and insights to program high-impact, people-first initiatives.
About us
Meet the hosts
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.
Video Episodes
Data or Die Trying: The Budget Survival Guide For L&D Leaders
Transcript coming soon.
Trust vs. Psychological Safety: What Leaders Get Wrong
What’s the real difference between trust and psychological safety? Most leaders think having trust on their team is enough, but they’re missing half the picture. In this episode, Junior and Tim explain why teams can trust their leaders yet still feel unsafe to speak up, breaking down the critical distinction between positive predictability (trust) and rewarded vulnerability (psychological safety).
Coachability Isn't Optional: Why It Makes or Breaks Career
Why do some people grow while others stay stuck, despite having the same background, training, and opportunities? In this episode, Junior and Dr. Timothy R. Clark explore the critical but often overlooked factor: coachability.
The Coaching Blueprint: Conversations That Actually Change Behavior
Coaching isn’t about correcting—it’s about creating conversations that actually lead to change. In this episode, Junior and Tim introduce the BIG Coaching Model—Behavior, Impact, and Guidance—a practical framework for leaders who want to move beyond surface-level feedback and build true accountability.
From Excuses to Ownership: How to Lead a More Accountable Team
In this episode, we explore why accountability breaks down—and how great leaders rebuild it with empathy and precision.
How Misalignment is Quietly Derailing Your Team’s Performance
In this episode of the LeaderFactor Podcast, Junior and Dr. Tim Clark dive into the critical role alignment plays in team and organizational performance. They explore the two essential types of alignment—cognitive (shared understanding) and affective (emotional commitment)—and explain why both are necessary for achieving meaningful, sustainable results.
Management 101: Finally Done Right
This episode is a recording of our recent live webinar on the Coaching & Accountability Matrix. In this session, we break down how to drive performance and accountability while building trust through effective coaching.
Why Avoiding Mistakes Is Smarter Than Chasing Success
Is brilliance overrated? In this episode, Junior and Dr. Tim Clark reveal why great leaders don’t obsess over genius—they focus on avoiding failure.
How to Avoid Manipulative Leadership: 2 Failure Patterns Sabotaging Organizational Change
In this episode, we uncover the two most common failure patterns in change management: smuggling and muscling.
The Hidden Danger of Stability: How Great Teams Build Resilience
What if the stability you’re working so hard to protect is actually what’s holding your team back? In this episode, we explore the Stability-Stress Paradox — the idea that too much comfort can quietly stall innovation, weaken resilience, and prevent growth.
Constructive Dissent at Work: How to Turn Conflict Into Innovation
Transcript coming soon.
What Leadership Is Not: 10 Myths You Need to Unlearn
Transcript coming soon.
Navigating Leadership in the AI Era
In this episode, we explore why waiting for organizational AI adoption is a mistake, how fear stifles innovation, and three practical steps for navigating AI in leadership.
Emotional Regulation For Leaders: Staying Calm Under Pressure
How can a leader stay composed in the face of dissent and bad news? Let's talk about it.
Mastering the Autonomy-Accountability Balance in Leadership
Without autonomy, teams feel suffocated. Without accountability, they fall apart. How do you find the right balance?
4 Coaching Derailers That Are Ruining Your Career
How do you resolve the most-common coaching skills gaps in an organization? Here are 4 things to consider.
Fear vs. Innovation: How Toxic Cultures Kill Organizations
Learn how to drive out fear and foster innovation through psychological safety.
How to Overcome a Legacy Culture
Legacy cultures stifle innovation, force out top talent, and hurt growth. Learn how to overcome them in this episode.
What Non-HR Execs Need to Know About Psych Safety
When it comes to implementing psychological safety as a cultural initiative, there's a moral argument, and there's a performance argument.
6 Pitfalls of Large-Scale Psychological Safety Initiatives
We’ve taken the top 6 failure patterns L&D professionals make when programming a psychological safety initiative, dissected them, and detailed solutions to help you ensure success.
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.
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.
7 Things Psychological Safety Is Not
Discover the top 7 misconceptions surrounding psychological safety and what to do about them.
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.
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.
How to Measure Emotional Intelligence
What should you look for when evaluating EQ instruments? Learn how to use EQindex™ in a coaching scenario.
Psychological Safety: The Collective EQ of a Team
Learn how to program and sequence psychological safety and emotional intelligence training in your organization.
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.
EQ: Your Delivery System
Learn how to contribute effectively while contributing indirectly.
Becoming an Experience Leader
Learn how to avoid bleeding talent and stifling innovation with these practical strategies.
How to Build Challenger Safety
Discover how to create challenger safety individually, within a team, and throughout an organization.
How to Build Contributor Safety
Learn how to empower your team with autonomy, guidance, and encouragement in exchange for effort and results.
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.
How to Build Inclusion Safety
How do you activate the power of diversity? Through the foundational stage of psychological safety, inclusion.
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.
The 3 Levels of Accountability
Discover the relationship between autonomy and accountability through 3 distinct levels: Task, Process, and Outcome.
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.
