{"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":"2026-09-29T14:18:30.462471+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160"},"episode":{"title":"314: Leader as Coach: How Coaching Skills Transform Your Leadership","slug":"314-leader-as-coach-how-coaching-skills-transform-your-leadership","published_at":"2026-08-18T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/314-leader-as-coach-how-coaching-skills-transform-your-leadership","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160","url":"https://tonicollis.com/leading-women-tech/314-leader-as-coach-coaching-skills-transform-leadership/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/leadingwomenintech/LWIT_314_FInal.mp3?dest-id=2183168","summary":"You have \"coaching conversations\" with your team. Career chats, problem-solving sessions, one-to-ones where you share your experience and point people in the right direction. Here's the uncomfortable truth: most of those conversations aren't coaching. They're mentoring. Powerful, well-intentioned, and the wrong tool for what you're trying to build. Because advice creates dependence, and coaching creates capability. In this episode of Leading Women in Tech, Toni Collis breaks down the difference, why it matters more than almost any other leadership skill gap, and how genuine coaching skill transforms your team, your calendar and your career. What's covered: ➡️ The mentoring trap — why the conversations you call coaching are almost certainly advice-giving, why that's made you the bottleneck, and the test that tells you which one you're doing ➡️ Advice creates dependence, coaching creates capability — the mechanism behind why your team brings you the same problems over and over ➡️ The Ignite Framework: Reverse, Neutral, Forward — the diagnostic at the heart of real coaching: \"Reverse is 'this is happening to me'. Neutral is 'this is what's happening'. Forward is 'here's what I can do about it'. Same facts, three completely different relationships to them.\" ➡️ The two counterfeit states — False Neutral (calm that's really collapse) and False Forward (a plan laid over an unaddressed feeling), and why missing them is where most well-meaning leadership conversations go wrong ➡️ The 5-minute coaching conversation — you don't need an hour; you need the diagnosis and three good questions ➡️ What changes when you lead this way — the team that solves its own problems, the calendar that comes back to you, and the leadership reputation that follows ➡️ Where Ignite Coach Academy fits…","meta_description":"You have \"coaching conversations\" with your team. Career chats, problem-solving sessions, one-to-ones where you share your experience and point people in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1436,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/episodes/314-leader-as-coach-how-coaching-skills-transform-your-leadership/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-381160/314-leader-as-coach-how-coaching-skills-transform-your-leadership.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}