CD's Take - Situations & Solutions
Every organization faces challenges. Every leader faces decisions. And every problem leaves clues.
On CD's Take: Situations & Solutions, leadership practitioner and doctoral researcher CD Rogers-Wright takes a closer look at real situations shaping organizations, teams, and institutions, and breaks down what's really happening beneath the surface.
Each episode covers one situation, one honest breakdown, and offers a fix leaders can actually use. Whether the topic is organizational change, workplace culture, crisis response, burnout, innovation, or leadership accountability — the question is always the same: what's really going on here, and what's the fix?
Created for Fellow Fixers everywhere, this podcast helps leaders move beyond assumptions, identify what’s broken, and take meaningful action.
Because hope is not a strategy. Accountability matters. And there's always a fix.
Contact: cdeerw71@gmail.com
Episodes
6 episodes
Intellectual Humility: The Best Idea Can Win
CD examines how intellectual humility determines whether organizations turn disagreement into intelligence or silence. Sidi contrasts Boeing’s 737 Max era—where engineers’ safety concerns were ignored or punished, contributing to the Lion Air F...
Ford: When Experience Walked Out and AI Walked In
In this episode, CD breaks down Ford's recent admission: after replacing hundreds of veteran engineers with AI-driven quality control, the company had to rehire 350 of them. Drawing on 25+ years of leadership experience inside Fortune 500 compa...
Nike: Learning to Just Do It Right Again
Episode 4: Nike: Learning to Just Do It Right AgainWhat happens when one of the most successful brands in the world forgets what made it successful in the first place?In this episode, CD examines Nike's leadership cr...
The Slow Burn: Burnout is not Personal, it's an Organizational Crisis
CD, a leadership practitioner with 25+ years in Fortune 500 and U.S. federal government roles and a current doctoral researcher, analyzes that burnout builds quietly and is worsening despite increased organizational spending. She asserts that l...
Hope Is Not a Strategy: The EDSA Leadership Autopsy
Privatizing EDSA in Sierra Leone: Fix or Deferred Accountability?CD, a leadership practitioner with 25+ years in Fortune 500 and U.S. federal government roles and a current doctoral researcher, analyzes Sierra Leone’s April 7, 2026, ann...