Ep. 174 | The Leadership Development Formula That Actually Works | A HIT-chat with Maren Perry

Great leadership isn't developed in a single training session—it takes insight, action, repetition, and real-world application. On this episode of The H.I.T. Podcast, Toby Kennedy sits down with Maren Perry, Founder and President of Arden Coaching, to discuss how organizations can develop stronger leaders at every level. Since founding Arden Coaching in 2007, Maren has grown the organization into a network of more than 35 executive coaches, helping leaders, teams, and organizations strengthen their people skills, improve performance, and create meaningful organizational change. Maren breaks leadership development into three distinct domains: self leadership, relational leadership, and strategic leadership—and explains why the way we develop leaders needs to change as people progress through an organization. In this episode: Self Leadership — developing self-awareness and understanding your communication style Relational Leadership — navigating difficult conversations, accountability, execution, and developing others Strategic Leadership — building the skills needed to lead at the highest levels of an organization Why leadership development should evolve as responsibilities increase Why one long training session usually isn't enough How repetition and multiple learning "touches" fight the forgetting curve Why coaching and small-group sessions help lessons stick Turning leadership concepts into action under real-world pressure Maren also shares a simple but powerful formula: INSIGHT + ACTION = RESULTS Information can create insight, but lasting leadership development happens when people take those insights back into their actual jobs, put them into practice, and continue building on them over time.