Description

🎙 EPISODE 3: “I LEARN”
Podcast: A Different Kind of Leader
Duration: ~13 minutes

In Episode 3 of A Different Kind of Leader, Deidré Sample challenges one of leadership’s most persistent myths—that authority comes from certainty. In “I LEARN,” she reframes learning as an executive discipline and a strategic advantage, especially in rooms where perspective matters more than perfection.

This episode explores what it means to lead while unfinished. Deidré shares how humility, reflection, and adaptability become markers of intelligence at senior levels—and why the leaders who endure are the ones who keep learning faster than the world keeps changing. Through candid insight and practical frameworks, she reveals how lessons hide in results, feedback, reflection, and release.

“I LEARN” is both a mindset and a method: a call to unlearn outdated habits, study outcomes without defensiveness, and transform critique into foresight. It’s about trading control for curiosity—and discovering that growth doesn’t weaken leadership, it clarifies it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why certainty loses value as leadership scope expands
• How learning becomes a credibility signal in executive rooms
• Four practices that keep leaders adaptable, relevant, and teachable
• The difference between managing what was and leading what could be
• How unlearning can be the most powerful leadership move you make

Perfect for:
Senior leaders, executives, and emerging C-suite professionals navigating complexity, change, and the pressure to stay relevant in a fast-moving world.

Because the leaders who learn in real time don’t cling to what worked—
they build what’s next.