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How Teams Operate At Their Best, with Stephen Frenkel, Voyager Consulting
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- Your World of Creativity
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- Jun 22, 2026
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Summary
Welcome back to Your World of Creativity , where we travel the globe talking with creative professionals who turn ideas into impact. In recent episodes, we’ve explored creativity through design, dance, music, and innovation—how ideas come to life across disciplines. Today, we’re taking that conversation inside the organization. Because creativity isn’t just about what you make—it’s about how you lead, how you adapt, and how you bring people with you. We’re focusing on what it really means to perform at your very best, especially during moments of transition, uncertainty, and transformation. Our guest is Stephen Frenkel, a coach and consultant with more than 25 years of experience in leadership development, team optimization, conflict resolution, and change management. He brings a systems-thinking approach to help organizations clarify where they’re going, what’s getting in the way, and how to move forward with purpose. Stephen is also a contributing author to Lives Lost and Leadership Found , a powerful collection exploring how grief and loss shape leadership. Stephen's Website https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-frenkel-voyager/ 1. Defining “At Their Very Best” Stephen, you help leaders and teams “be their very best.” That’s a powerful phrase—but it can mean different things to different people. How do you help leaders define what “their very best” actually looks like—and why is that clarity so critical before any real progress can happen? 2. What Gets in the Way Once that vision is clear, the next step is identifying what’s getting in the way. From your experience, what are the most common obstacles—whether at the individual, team, or organizational level—that prevent people from performing at their best? And how do you begin to surface those issues in a way that peo…