Leadership Chemistry

Danny Coleman
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This show is for managers and coaches to learn how leadership actually works — how people interact, influence, and transform. Learn to sharpen your communication, enhance your influence, and develop others. We make psychology practical, provide you tools you can use right away, and become someone worth following.

Episodes

  1. 3D AGO

    2. The Courage to Be Disliked

    Most advice around people-pleasing tells you to stop caring what others think. That's not just hard — it's bad advice. In this episode, Danny digs into the psychology behind people-pleasing managers and coaches: where it comes from, what it costs, and why the standard prescription misses the mark entirely. Drawing on Alfred Adler's work (and the irony of Adler's own people-pleasing), the Big 5 personality framework, and five years of personal experience doing this work himself, Danny lays out a more honest path forward. The goal isn't to stop caring. It's to find something you care about more than being liked. You'll walk away with three concrete practices — changing your language, building firm boundaries, and moving toward conflict — and a clear-eyed warning: this process is uncomfortable, clunky, and worth every bit of it.   Get Weekly Insights on Leadership: Sign up for weekly tools to communicate and behave in ways that actually change other's behavior Sign up free here: https://www.dannycoleman.co    Connect with Danny: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsdannycoleman/  Substack: https://substack.com/@dannycoleman  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djcoley/

    33 min
  2. 1. The Great Myth of Leadership

    APR 10

    1. The Great Myth of Leadership

    Welcome to Leadership Chemistry, the rebranded show where we study the composition, structure, and reactions that make leadership actually work. In this debut episode, Danny takes a sledgehammer to what he calls The Great Myth of Leadership — the pervasive idea that "jerks get results." Using examples from business and sports, the research on dark personalities, and a clear-eyed look at long-term impact, Danny lays out why empathetic, thoughtful leaders are not only the more humane choice, but the more effective one. If you've ever felt like the loud, brash, dominant leaders get all the credit while you do the real work — this episode is your permission slip to lead differently. Get Weekly Insights on Leadership: Sign up for weekly tools to communicate and behave in ways that actually change other's behavior Sign up free here: https://www.dannycoleman.co  Connect with Danny: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsdannycoleman/  Substack: https://substack.com/@dannycoleman  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djcoley/

    30 min
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This show is for managers and coaches to learn how leadership actually works — how people interact, influence, and transform. Learn to sharpen your communication, enhance your influence, and develop others. We make psychology practical, provide you tools you can use right away, and become someone worth following.

Information

  • Creator
    Danny Coleman
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026
  • Show Website
    Leadership Chemistry