Municipal Leaders: Develop Faster, Lead Stronger, Build Better
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Episode 335 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Most people never think about public works until something stops working.
The water doesn’t come on.
The road floods.
Traffic backs up.
Infrastructure fails.
But behind every functioning community are public servants carrying enormous responsibility to keep cities moving, growing, and thriving every single day.
Episode 334 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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This National Public Works Week, The HaltingWinter Podcast highlights the people doing far more than building roads, pipes, and infrastructure.
In Episode 334, Seth sits down with Julie Underwood, Public Works Director for the City of Kirkland, Washington and former city manager, for a conversation about leadership, service, and the growing challenge facing local government organizations across the country: preparing people to lead.
Owen Eastwood coaches some of the highest-performing organizations in the world, including elite military command groups, Olympic teams, and professional sports organizations. And the foundation of everything he does isn’t tactics, training, or strategy.
It’s belonging.
Episode 332 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Most people don’t step into city management feeling ready. They step in because the opportunity is there, because someone believes in them, or because they’ve said yes enough times that the next door opens.
And then reality hits.
Episode 331 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Most people assume city and county leadership are the same job, just at a different scale.
They’re not and that’s the tension at the center of today’s episode with Christopher Wren, County Administrator of Newaygo County, Michigan.
Most local government organizations are running a structure designed for predictability. Clear hierarchy. Specialized departments. Decisions flowing up, directives flowing down. It’s efficient…when the environment cooperates.
But when does this environment ever cooperate?
Episode 329 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Most people don’t think about water. You turn on the faucet. It works. End of story.
Until it doesn’t. And that’s the tension.
Episode 328 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Most people don’t know what a municipal clerk does. And if they’re honest, they probably don’t think much about the role at all.
And that’s a problem.
You’ve got capable people in your organization, who have good intentions and enough experience to handle almost anything your community throws at you.
And yet something keeps getting in the way.
Episode 326 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Most people assume leadership comes with the title. You step into the role, make decisions, set direction and people follow.
But in local government, it doesn’t work like that.
You can have the position and still have to earn every ounce of trust that comes with it.
