People-First Leadership Was Never the Soft Choice: Adrienne Wilkerson on BizBlend
This episode is for the founder who assumes people-first leadership is the gentle option, the thing you can afford in good times and cut first when things get tight. Adrienne Wilkerson, CEO and co-founder of Beacon Media plus Marketing, joins BizBlend after 20 years of building an agency around one unfashionable idea: keep people at the center, even when it would be easier not to.
Adrienne explains why people-first leadership is actually harder than the alternative, not softer, how she tells the difference between someone worth investing in and someone who isn't a fit, and why she believes AI…
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