The 7 Leadership Traps: Your Intentions Are Not Your Impact - The Inner Edge

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Your team isn't responding to your intentions. They never were. In the Season 3 premiere of The Inner Edge, executive coach Janet Ioli introduces the concept that will anchor the entire season: your leadership imprint. This is the gap between how you believe you show up and how your team actually experiences you. After reading more than 1,600 360-degree feedback assessments across two decades of coaching senior leaders inside Fortune 100 companies, Janet has found the same pattern again and again: good intentions and real impact rarely match. And that invisible gap is quietly shaping your team's trust, candor, and performance. This episode kicks off an eight-part series on the seven leadership traps, based on Janet's upcoming book, Escape the Traps (releasing October 2026). Each episode unpacks one trap that catches even the most well-intentioned leaders and how to escape it. If you're a leader who's ever wondered why your team isn't responding the way you expect, this season is for you.