TD Magazine Article
The Hard Skills Podcast
This program explores core leadership skills companies need to fuel leadership and activate real change.
Sat Mar 01 2025
To examine important aspects of leadership, such as creating inclusive and healthy work environments, clinical and organizational development psychologist Mira Brancu hosts The Hard Skills podcast. The weekly discussions explore core leadership skills companies need to fuel leadership and activate real change.
Brancu interviews experts such as inclusion and diversity expert Bernardo Ferdman about navigating tensions in the workplace and Dionne McGee, cohort director of the Eastern Carolina Entrepreneurial Promise, about empowering economic development in underserved areas. Brancu also hosts live coaching calls.
The podcast host notes that she seeks to challenge the notion of soft skills, question long-held leadership development beliefs (such as strategies to address divisiveness), and offer practical solutions for complex leadership challenges.
The Hard Skills gives leaders—particularly in healthcare, technology, and education—strategies to help with employee growth, enhance leadership abilities, navigate workplace politics, and create meaningful organizational change.
