Leman Tech Leadership Podcast

Aleksandra Lemańska
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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 and engaged team. Follow Alex @aleksandralemanska on LinkedIn for more inspiration and actions that you can take as a transformational leader. Check out more as well on https://lemanskills.com!  

  1. 5h ago

    #203 | Why an All-Star Team Might Be Your Biggest Risk

    ▶︎ #203 | Why an All-Star Team Might Be Your Biggest Risk In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska answers a question she’s been asked, years apart, by two different leaders: should I build a team of only A-players? She takes the appeal seriously, then walks through why a team stacked entirely with stars is often more fragile than it looks, not less, especially once real pressure hits. Using PCM, she shows how a team built from one dominant personality base - all push, all speed, all confidence - predictably struggles with the things that base isn’t built for: finishing, pausing, maintaining. Then she names the Wheel of Conflict hiding underneath "only hire stars": it’s rarely about competence; it’s a conflict of values between believing individual brilliance wins versus believing complementary contribution wins, one that most organizations have never actually debated out loud. If your team looks incredible on paper but keeps stalling in practice, this episode gives you a concrete way to map what’s actually missing, and to hire for the gap instead of for another version of what you already have. Mentioned in the episode: "From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For": https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

    #203 | Why an All-Star Team Might Be Your Biggest Risk

  2. 5d ago

    #202 | From Typing by Hand to Automating It What 11 Years of Building a Startup Teaches About Trust, Control, and Leading Jagoda Pieścicka

    ▶︎ #202 | From Typing by Hand to Automating It: What 11 Years of Building a Startup Teaches About Trust, Control, and Leading w/ Jagoda Pieścicka @NuDelta In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra sits down with Jagoda Pieścicka, CEO and Founder of NuDelta, a Polish fintech company specializing in intelligent document recognition and process automation for the financial sector. NuDelta works with major banking institutions including PKO BP, BNP Paribas, and Pekao SA, supporting over 120 document types and automating workflows that previously required manual data entry. The episode opens with three chapters from Jagoda's career: an early pattern of being promoted to team manager within months of joining any organization, a first startup that taught her exactly how not to run a company {scattered focus, money spent on the wrong things, a founder who couldn't commit}, and the chance encounter at a stable that led to the investor conversation that made NuDelta possible. What runs through all three is the same instinct: spot a real problem, take responsibility for solving it, and give people the space to do their best work. Jagoda identifies two things that have made her a leader people actually want to work with: responsibility and freedom. On responsibility, she is precise about what it means in practice. When something goes wrong, her first move is never to find someone to blame. She tries to understand what happened, why it happened, and what can be fixed, and she does not leave an employee alone with a problem. On freedom, she describes a model built on agreed outcomes and deadlines, with full autonomy over how the work gets done, combined with the expectation that if something changes, she hears about it early rather than the day before a deadline. For any founder leading a technical team without a technical background, or any leader trying to rebuild trust after years of over-controlling, this is a conversation full of earned, specific answers. Mentioned in the episode: NuDelta: https://nudelta.pl ✉︎ FOLLOW JAGODA ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @jagoda-piescicka Email: jagoda@nudelta.pl Website: nudelta.pl ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Get the Book! https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

    #202 | From Typing by Hand to Automating It What 11 Years of Building a Startup Teaches About Trust, Control, and Leading Jagoda Pieścicka

  3. Oct 6

    #201 | It’s Not About One Big Boundary. It’s About a Few Small Habits.

    ▶︎ #201 | It’s Not About One Big Boundary. It’s About a Few Small Habits. In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska follows up on the always-on leader episode with the question a lot of listeners asked afterward: okay, but what do I actually do every day so I don’t end up there in the first place? This is the prevention episode, not the crisis response, and she’s upfront that it isn’t one big boundary that fixes exhaustion, it’s a handful of small, repeatable habits. She frames self-management as Contracting, but contracting with yourself, the same tool most leaders only ever use with other people, and shows why a vague wish like "I should disconnect more" doesn’t work the way a specific, checkable agreement does. She brings in PCM to explain why recovery isn’t universal either, what actually restores a Thinker base, a Harmonizer base, and a Rebel base are genuinely different things. If you’ve tried the big dramatic resets and watched the same patterns creep back within two weeks, this episode gives you a smaller, more durable alternative: three specific habits, attached to your existing routine, checked weekly. Mentioned in the episode: "From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For": https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

    #201 | It’s Not About One Big Boundary. It’s About a Few Small Habits.

  4. Oct 1

    #200 | From Pro Basketball to a 4,000-Venue Startup: Shameless Pivots and Betting on A-Players w/Fryderyk Szydłowski (@ Embargo)

    ▶︎ #200 | From Pro Basketball to a 4,000-Venue Startup: Resilience, Shameless Pivots, and Betting on A-Players w/ Fryderyk Szydłowski (@ Embargo) In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex sits down with Fryderyk Szydlowski, Co-founder of Embargo, the loyalty and CRM platform now used by close to 4,000 cafes, restaurants, and bakeries across the UK, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, and the US. Freddie’s path runs from a professional basketball career in Poland’s top division, through London hospitality {becoming the youngest Head of Marketing in the city’s nightlife scene at 21}, a first attempt at a fashion brand, and finally Embargo: a business he nearly had to sell for survival money in the earliest days of COVID. What makes this conversation stand out is how directly Freddie ties his years as an athlete to what it takes to build a company: resilience defined not as toughness but as showing up and delivering through constant setbacks; long-term thinking held in tension with daily impatience; and what he calls a "shameless" willingness to change direction, fail, and try again, fast, because speed is a startup’s real edge over big competitors. Freddie is candid about who entrepreneurship is not for: people who need to fully switch off, who cannot tolerate rejection, or whose sense of worth depends on saying yes to every good idea. His practical rule, borrowed from a resonant read {see below}: every yes to something new is a no to something else, and learning to say no on purpose is what makes scaling possible. If you are building something from scratch, wondering whether the entrepreneurial path is for you, or trying to figure out what to say no to next, this episode is for you. Mentioned in the episode: Buy Back Your Time: by Dan Martell ✉︎ FOLLOW FREDDIE ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: Fryderyk (Frederick) Szydlowski Embargo: embargoapp.com Embargo on YouTube: youtube.com/embargoapp ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Get the Book! https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

    #200 | From Pro Basketball to a 4,000-Venue Startup: Shameless Pivots and Betting on A-Players w/Fryderyk Szydłowski (@ Embargo)

  5. Sep 29

    #199 | The Leadership Skills That Actually Matter in Q4 2026

    ▶︎ #199 | The Leadership Skills That Actually Matter in Q4 2026 In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska skips the generic "top 10 leadership skills" list {the kind that could have been written in 2015} and names what’s actually changed heading into the rest of 2026: teams getting smaller relative to output because of AI tooling, decisions moving faster, and a widening gap between leaders who can personally verify the work and leaders who can’t. She walks through the four skills she sees separating leaders who are doing well right now from leaders who are quietly struggling: judgment under ambiguity (including her simple 40/70 rule for knowing when you have enough information to decide), renegotiating agreements out loud, asking real questions across an expertise gap, and naming what you’re actually for, and runs each one through PCM to show why the hardest one for you depends on your personality base. If you’re tired of skills lists that don’t reflect what your job actually looks like right now, this episode gives you four specific, practiced skills to choose from, and a way to pick the one worth focusing on this quarter. Mentioned in the episode: "From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For": https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

    #199 | The Leadership Skills That Actually Matter in Q4 2026

  6. Sep 24

    #198 | From Actor to AI Strategist: Red Flags, Real Feedback, and Leading Like Your Favorite Teacher w/ Sean Dagony-Clark (@Your Tech Ally)

    ▶︎ #198 | From Actor to AI Strategist: Red Flags, Real Feedback, and Leading Like Your Favorite Teacher w/ Sean Dagony-Clark (@Your Tech Ally) In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex welcomes Sean Dagony-Clark: a self-described "high-tech problem solver with a high human focus" whose path runs through acting, design, and 14 years in education {including running academic technology at Riverdale Country School} before landing at coding bootcamps Flatiron School and Iron Circle {formerly Thrive DX}, and now his own consultancy, Your Tech Ally, helping small and solo businesses build AI and tech strategy. What makes this conversation stand out is how directly Sean connects his years in education to leadership: clear communication, constant feedback, and treating people like a favorite teacher would {not a taskmaster}. He is candid that most leaders learn on the job, not from studying leadership, and shares an early mistake that still guides him: lack of clarity in communication can quietly alienate the people you lead. Sean also shares why he joined the STEMinist Summit {October 15–16, 2026} as an ally: a shared thread with co-host AJ Lauer’s work on imposter syndrome, and his belief that the biggest leadership skill in the AI era is still the human one {understanding what a tool can and cannot do, and using it without over-trusting it}. If you are rethinking how you hire, give feedback, or lead through the noise of AI, this episode has practical, hard-won lessons for you. Mentioned in the episode: Turn the Ship Around!: by L. David Marquet STEMINIST SUMMIT (October 15–16, 2026): https://steministsummit.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW SEAN ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: dagonyclark Your Tech Ally: yourtechally.net ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Get the Book! https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

    #198 | From Actor to AI Strategist: Red Flags, Real Feedback, and Leading Like Your Favorite Teacher w/ Sean Dagony-Clark (@Your Tech Ally)

  7. Sep 22

    #197 | How to Speed Up Without Your Team Falling Apart

    #197 | How to Speed Up Without Your Team Falling Apart In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska starts from a sentence a founder said to her recently: "I know we need to move faster, but I’m scared that if I push even more, the whole thing falls apart." Alex pushes back on the idea that this fear is a personal weakness, and on the false choice hiding underneath it, that the only options are slow and safe or fast and fragile. She uses the Wheel of Conflict to show why accelerating teams start fighting: what looks like a relationship problem is almost always an unclear structure {who decides, what "done" means, how long to wait before shipping} finally under pressure. From there, she brings in Contracting to explain the actual fix, picking a small number of non-negotiables that stay fixed on purpose while everything else is allowed to flex. If you’re trying to accelerate right now and feel the ground getting shaky under your team, this episode gives you a concrete, three-step way to speed up without losing the trust that makes speed survivable in the first place. Mentioned in the episode: "From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For": https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

    #197 | How to Speed Up Without Your Team Falling Apart

  8. Sep 17

    #196 | You Are Your Own Worst Enemy: Self-Worth, Boundaries, and the Real State of Women in Tech (Part 2) w/ Aleksandra Łoś

    ▶︎ #196 | You Are Your Own Worst Enemy: Self-Worth, Boundaries, and the Real State of Women in Tech (Part 2) w/ Aleksandra Łoś In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex sits back down with Aleksandra for part two of their conversation. If you haven't listened to part one yet (episode #188, where Ola shares her story as a serial entrepreneur now building her fourth startup), pause here and start there, then come back. This episode picks up exactly where that one left off. This time the conversation goes deeper into the state of women in tech and STEM, then and now. Ola traces her own transition from spending fifteen years trying to compete with men on their terms (efficient, unemotional, always proving she belonged) to realizing that treating her differences as a superpower, not a liability, changed everything. She and Alex unpack imposter syndrome, the exhausting habit of chasing external validation, and why so many women (and plenty of men) are, in Ola's words, "their own worst enemy." The conversation turns practical fast: how to stop being cruel to yourself in your own head, why energy (not time) is the real currency of a leader's day, and how learning to say no is what separates a good entrepreneur from a great one. And as a bridge to close things out, Alex and Ola talk about the STEMinist Summit, a two-day virtual event for women in STEM that Alex is co-hosting with AJ this October. Ola will be joining as a speaker, sharing more of exactly what you'll hear in this episode. If this conversation moved something in you, this is where you'll find your people. Mentioned in the episode: Episode #188, Part One of this conversation: "Przejścia. Którędy do miłości?" by Natalia de Barbaro STEMinist Summit (October 15 to 16, virtual): https://steministsummit.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ALEKSANDRA ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandra-los-1423615b Website: https://www.relayn.sh/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Get the Book! https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

    #196 | You Are Your Own Worst Enemy: Self-Worth, Boundaries, and the Real State of Women in Tech (Part 2) w/ Aleksandra Łoś
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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 and engaged team. Follow Alex @aleksandralemanska on LinkedIn for more inspiration and actions that you can take as a transformational leader. Check out more as well on https://lemanskills.com!  

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  • Creator
    Aleksandra Lemańska
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    204
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Aleksandra Lemańska
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    Leman Tech Leadership Podcast