How New Managers Can Coach a High Performer Who Wants Your Job

New Manager Conversations with Fexingo: First 90 Days, Managing Former Peers, and Leadership Basics · Jul 3, 2026 · 9m · transcript

Episode 90 of New Manager Conversations tackles one of the trickiest leadership challenges: coaching a direct report who is ambitious, competent, and openly gunning for your role. Lucas and Luna break down a real scenario — a senior analyst named Priya who outperforms her peers, asks pointed questions in all-hands meetings, and has told her skip-level she wants to be a director in two years. They discuss how to distinguish healthy ambition from threat perception, the 'stretch assignment' framework that actually works, and why the best move is often to sponsor rather than compete…