--- title: "65: Leading From Within with Stephani Roy McCallum" id: "5352" type: "post" slug: "leading-from-within-with-stephani-roy-mccallum-65" published_at: "2018-10-20T22:17:55+00:00" modified_at: "2022-12-23T23:24:40+00:00" url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/leading-from-within-with-stephani-roy-mccallum-65/" markdown_url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/leading-from-within-with-stephani-roy-mccallum-65.md" excerpt: "Stephani Roy McCallum is a leader who helps people have difficult conversations. In this conversation she navigates a deeper of understanding of what leadership really is and how to be an effective leader." taxonomy_category: - "Podcast" taxonomy_post_tag: - "leadership" - "Rick Tamlyn" - "Stephani Roy McCallum" --- [Skip to the content](#site-content) [John Poelstra](https://johnpoelstra.com) ### Bringing order to chaos and clarity to confusion - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) Toggle search field - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) # [65: Leading From Within with Stephani Roy McCallum](https://johnpoelstra.com/leading-from-within-with-stephani-roy-mccallum-65/) Stephani Roy McCallum is a leader who helps people have difficult conversations. In this conversation she navigates a deeper of understanding of what leadership really is and how to be an effective leader. 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