The Lead Up Podcast

Mike Harbour

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led leadership podcast focused on practical leadership, organizational performance, and healthcare management, with recurring conversations featuring healthcare executives, CEOs, authors, coaches, and other accomplished leaders. PR agencies could credibly pitch hospital and health-system executives, leadership authors, performance coaches, and experts with demonstrated results in culture, retention, patient experience, or organizational transformation; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 460

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 108 subscribers

Instagram: 795 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

mike@harbourresources.com

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Host

Mike Harbour - Mike Harbour is a leadership consultant who helps healthcare organizations develop stronger leaders and improve organizational performance through consistent leadership behaviors.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Healthcare executives, hospital and health-system leaders, leadership consultants, authors, coaches, and other established professionals with demonstrated results in organizational performance, leadership development, patient experience, retention, culture, or high-pressure performance.

Required Achievements:

Senior executive leadership at hospitals or health systems, Measurable improvements in patient satisfaction, employee retention, quality, or organizational performance, Published leadership books, Work with prominent organizations, professional athletes, or championship teams, Leadership of major organizational transformation or innovation initiatives

Recent Guest Discussions

Tracey Carson - Leadership Strategies Behind Top-decile Patient Satisfaction, Employee Retention, Accountability, Scorecards, Leadership Rounding, And Protecting Leaders’ Time.

Marcy Doderer - Healthcare Leadership, Organizational Transformation, Innovation, Hiring For Potential, Leadership Development, And Preparing Organizations For Future Challenges.

Joshua Lifrak - Mental Performance, Resilience, Self-belief, Leadership Under Pressure, Championship Culture, And Developing High-performance Habits.

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Leadership, Patient Experience, Organizational Culture, Performance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Lead Up Podcast

Episode 501 The 9 Cultural Contaminants Hospital Executives Can't Ignore

September 03, 2026

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour takes on something that is quietly costing healthcare organizations good people, stronger performance, and potentially millions of dollars: Cultural contamination. In healthcare, culture isn't soft. It isn't optional. And it isn't simply HR's responsibility. It's an operational and clinical performance variable. When culture begins to deteriorate, the impact eventually shows up in the places hospital executives care about most—employee...

Episode 500 - 500 Never Quit Moments: The Behavior Behind the Breakthrough

August 28, 2026

In this milestone 500th episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour reflects on the lessons, conversations, and never-quit moments that have shaped the show since its beginning in 2019. But this episode isn't simply a celebration of reaching 500. It's about the behavior behind the breakthrough. We tend to see the milestone, the achievement, or the breakthrough. What we don't always see are the small decisions, habits, preparation, discipline, doubt, recommitment, and repeated choices th...

Episode 499 The Leadership Strategy Behind Top 10% Patient Satisfaction with Tracey Carson

August 20, 2026

Great hospital results rarely come from a single initiative. They come from leaders who get clear about what matters, align their teams around those priorities, and then have the discipline to follow through consistently. In this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike Harbour sits down with Tracey Carson, CNO at UNC Health Johnston, for a practical conversation about the leadership practices behind strong patient experience, employee retention, accountability, and organizational performance. Tr...

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