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You were promoted for being good at the work. Leading the people who do it is a different job.
Resources from Transformational Leadership: Bridging the Gap Between Technical Excellence and Human Performance. PMA MDA Class 16, Denver, October 27, 2026.
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What we worked on
Technical excellence keeps production running. Healthy leadership keeps people engaged, connected, and committed. Here’s what we built together.
Identity
It starts with you.
How you lead yourself under pressure. When something hits, there’s a space between what happens and what you do. That space is where your leadership lives.
Influence
It shows up in your team.
Trust gets built through how you Communicate, Connect, and Collaborate. Out-In-Together is your tool for the conversations that matter: go out first, share what’s important to you, then decide what you’re building together.
Impact
It lasts in your organization.
Better decisions come from better thinking, together. Think, Write, Share gets every voice into the room before the loudest one wins.
Keep it going
The guide only works if you use it. Go back to What Changes Monday and pick one thing. Just one. Tell someone what it is.
Want this for your whole team?In Denver you practiced on your own challenges. With your team, we work on your real ones, with your people in the room, so better thinking becomes how you operate. |
About Traci
Traci Fisher is the founder of The Healthy Leader Group and a partner with The Referent Group. She is a West Point graduate, a former Army helicopter pilot, an ICF PCC, and a Red Team Thinking facilitator.
Her approach is simple. The expertise is usually already in the room, and her work is helping your team get it out.
Live and lead well,
~traci
