{"podcast":{"title":"Leman Tech Leadership Podcast","slug":"leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357","podcast_index_feed_id":7045357,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6343272/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast--6343272","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/4982bc323b348940ab5d4a08c6dc9c37.jpg","author":"Aleksandra Lemańska","episode_count":197,"summary":"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, CQ Technology Leadership Mentor & Speaker. Founder @LemanSkills, Co-Founder & Board President @Startup Community Poznan Foundation, Host @Leman Tech Leadership Podcast. She is the creator of the CQ Leadership Method: a battle-tested framework that helps tech leaders communicate with precision and lead without burnout. 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 who have 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…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-17T12:19:11.454164+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357"},"episode":{"title":"#178 | Female Founders, Fear of Success, and the Leadership Leap Nobody Prepares You For w: Nita Laad (@ex-Cisco, @ex-HP, @Nexia AI)","slug":"178-female-founders-fear-of-success-and-the-leadership-leap-nobody-prepares-you-for-w-nita-laad-ex-cisco-ex-hp-nexia-ai","published_at":"2026-07-16T03:30:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357/178-female-founders-fear-of-success-and-the-leadership-leap-nobody-prepares-you-for-w-nita-laad-ex-cisco-ex-hp-nexia-ai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/178-female-founders-fear-of-success-and-the-leadership-leap-nobody-prepares-you-for-w-nita-laad-ex-cisco-ex-hp-nexia-ai--72965557","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72965557/178_female_founders_fear_of_success_and_the_leadership_leap_nobody_prepares_you_for_w_nita_laad_ex_cisco_ex_hp_nexia_ai.mp3","summary":"▶︎ #178 | Female Founders, Fear of Success, and the Leadership Leap Nobody Prepares You For w/ Nita Laad (@ex-Cisco, @ex-HP, @Nexia AI) In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex welcomes Nita Laad: Founder and CEO of Nexia AI, a Silicon Valley startup building an AI-native platform for product management teams. Nita brings a rare arc to this conversation - eight years writing code, then a full-stack leadership career spanning engineering, product, and go-to-market at Cisco and Hewlett Packard, and finally the leap into founding. She is also a 2025 Silicon Valley Business Journal Woman of Influence - and she is not here to make any of it sound easy. The heart of this conversation is the gap between leading in a corporation and leading as a founder - and it is wider than most people expect. Nita is specific: in corporate, the brand, the processes, the HR department, the training programs are all already there. You execute within a system. In a startup, you are the system. Every function lands on your shoulders before you have people to delegate it to, and the iteration cycles are not quarterly - they are sometimes hourly. Alex brings in one of her sharpest questions - not about fear of failure, but about fear of success. The exchange that follows goes somewhere most leadership conversations avoid: self-sabotage, the risk management table the brain runs quietly when you are about to outgrow your current circle, and whether the people around you are actually positioned to help you reach the next level or quietly holding you where you are. There is also a sharp section on why only 2% of women-founded companies get investment, what is finally starting to shift, and what Nita would tell any woman standing at the edge of the founder decision right now. 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