{"podcast":{"title":"Leading Women in Tech Podcast","slug":"leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160","podcast_index_feed_id":381160,"rss_url":"https://leadingwomenintech.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://tonicollis.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/5/1/f/851f9a04c34cf0d688c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Podcast_Cover_2023.jpg","author":"Toni Collis","episode_count":100,"summary":"For ambitious women ready to rise, lead, and thrive — without burning out. Are you delivering results… but still waiting to be seen as a true leader? Tired of performance reviews with praise — but no promotion? Hosted by Dr. Toni Collis, executive coach for women in tech, this podcast is your go-to leadership toolkit. Whether you're a rising Director, lone female VP, or overextended operator tired of being overlooked — you're in the right place. Each week, Toni shares real-world leadership strategies, career advancement frameworks, and executive presence tools to help you: ✅ Build strategic visibility ✅ Communicate like a trusted exec ✅ Navigate politics with integrity ✅ Advocate for yourself (without overworking) ✅ Lead with confidence, clarity, and influence You'll also hear powerful interviews with women who've paved the way — and candid conversations on the unspoken challenges women face in male-dominated industries. ✨ If you're ready to go from \"she's great\" to \"she's the obvious next Exec\" — hit follow.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T02:17:03.487813+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160"},"episode":{"title":"304: How to Shine In A Crisis: The Adaptive Crisis Leadership Toolkit for Staying Grounded When Everything Shifts","slug":"304-how-to-shine-in-a-crisis-the-adaptive-crisis-leadership-toolkit-for-staying-grounded-when-everything-shifts","published_at":"2026-06-09T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/304-how-to-shine-in-a-crisis-the-adaptive-crisis-leadership-toolkit-for-staying-grounded-when-everything-shifts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160","url":"http://tonicollis.com/leading-women-tech/304-crisis-leadership-adaptive-leadership-toolkit/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/leadingwomenintech/LWIT_304_Final.mp3?dest-id=2183168","summary":"When everything is shifting — a restructure, a board crisis, a project on the edge of collapse, or just the relentless uncertainty of leading a team through sustained change — the expectation is that you hold it together. You stay steady. You have the answers. But nobody tells you how. In this episode of Leading Women in Tech, Toni Collis builds out the adaptive leadership toolkit every senior leader needs for navigating a genuine crisis — not the kind of crisis leadership that sounds good in a conference keynote, but the practical, honest, unglamorous work of staying grounded when everything around you is shifting. This is not about eliminating the pressure. It is about developing the specific capabilities that let you remain clear, present, and effective within it. What's covered: Why crisis leadership is a trainable capability, not a personality trait — and why the unruffled leader you're comparing yourself to is a fiction The team-speed problem: why your team is not where you are emotionally, and what it actually means to meet people where they are Crisis communication as a leadership skill — not just a PR function. The specific language that calms, orients, and aligns your team when they're in crisis mode. And why you need to say it far more times than you think The internal dimension: staying grounded in yourself before you can hold space for anyone else Protecting decision quality when the stakes are highest — the difference between genuine urgency and anxiety-driven urgency The blame game, why a crisis is never the time to play it, and the story from early in Toni's career that has stayed with her ever since The isolation of senior leadership in a crisis — and the structural responses that make it manageable Related episodes: Episode 170 - Does it have to be lo…","meta_description":"When everything is shifting — a restructure, a board crisis, a project on the edge of collapse, or just the relentless uncertainty of leading a team throu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3182,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/episodes/304-how-to-shine-in-a-crisis-the-adaptive-crisis-leadership-toolkit-for-staying-grounded-when-everything-shifts/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/304-how-to-shine-in-a-crisis-the-adaptive-crisis-leadership-toolkit-for-staying-grounded-when-everything-shifts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}