Dotted Lines

Conversations on Influence, Leadership, and Impact

Join us for our series of conversations about Clout.

Dotted Lines is the podcast where Lateral Leaders - function leaders and change drivers - share the ROI on building clout. Each month, we talk with leaders who have invested in building clout on their team about the following:

What business objective prompted the need for more clout
How they drove success before, during, and after the learning
What results they saw with stakeholders and projects

On-Demand Podcasts:

Missed one of our live interviews? Catch up anytime with our podcast recordings!

Explore valuable insights and actionable strategies from industry experts, designed to help you grow your leadership skills and amplify your impact.

Browse our past sessions below:

WATCH Interview with Guest Speaker: Kathryn Wilder

Watch Lydia and Kathryn Wilder from Kaiser Permanente share powerful insights on how leaders can build their team's clout to secure a seat at the table, overcome resistance, and deliver meaningful strategic impact.

WATCH Interview with Guest Speaker: Dr. Ariana Robinson

Dr. Ariana Robinson Danquah captures how the journey to having true strategic influence begins internally. Sometimes, only we, as lateral leaders and change drivers, can ask the direct, provocative questions that help them think outside the box. Higher reward means higher risk.

WATCH Interview with Guest Speaker: Deb Pecci

Deborah Pecci, Global Deputy General Counsel at Allied Universal, explains how she transformed her legal team by adopting a "business partner first, legal advisor second" mindset. She shares strategies for building influence, collaborating across departments, and co-creating solutions to drive change.

WATCH Interview with Guest Speaker: Nina Schill

Don’t just get a seat at the table, BE the table… in our conversation, Nina Schill describes how she managed their HR-wide influence skills initiative to deliver on that strategic impact mandate.

WATCH Interview with Guest Speaker: Daphne Woolfolk

In this episode, we explore how functional leaders can become indispensable business partners and safeguard their roles from outsourcing. We'll reveal the four essential things your partners should say about your function, introduce four science-backed conversational techniques for high-impact alignment, and share a real-life success story from a tech team. Tune in to learn practical tools that will increase your influence in your next cross-functional meeting.

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