Profile of a Leader: Dr. Merrylue Martin, People First

Hello everyone!  This is Rachel and welcome to The Introspective Leader Podcast and to another addition of our Profile of a Leader series, where some of today’s top leaders and leadership experts take us through their personal leadership journeys; highlighting their greatest influences, successes, setbacks, and personal struggles.   As an organizational leader and as someone who is responsible for the performance of others, do you feel you sometimes struggle with finding the line that separates empathy from enablement?  Do you struggle with understanding why some employees seem much more difficult to lead than others?  And, do you at times feel exploited by the same employees to whom you are so consistently nice?  If you do, you are not alone.  Many leaders struggle with these components and at least some of them are driven out of leadership because of them.  However, this does not have to be your fate because today’s featured leader, Dr. Merrylue Martin, happens to be an expert in solving such conundrums and is here to share that expertise with us.      Dr. Martin is a people leadership strategist, business owner, and former Fortune 50 senior executive. She has experience developing and implementing real-world strategies and has worked with global leaders. Dr. Martin is also a graduate of the Wharton School"s Women"s Leadership program and Pepperdine University, where she conducted research on organizational leadership. Her dissertation from Pepperdine University explores the factors that influence an employee"s decision to stay or leave an organization.   She is also the author of The Big Quit Survival Guide, in which she presents tools and tactics to attract and retain the best talent out there in today’s highly competitive job market.   Stuart and I interviewed Dr. Martin last year and had no doubt that her leadership story would make for an excellent Profile of a Leader episode; and we were not wrong.  So, here it is, picking up with Dr. Martin, or Merrylue, as she prefers to be called, discussing her current endeavors and objectives.  And, remember, at the end of Merrylue’s narrative, Stuart and I will take a few moments to discuss some of what we see as the highlights of that narrative. The Big Quit Survival Guide The Job Joy Group Website Support the show