Kendra JohnsonKendra JohnsonFounder, The Venned Group · Leadership and organizational performance | Helping senior leaders and middle managers close the gap between strategy and execution | Speaker | Founder of The Venned Group | Get weekly tips👇

Kendra Johnson's videos and podcasts

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September 2026

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CDMX drop 🇲🇽 We ate We sang We explored We cheered We met amazing people We fell in love with Mex...

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Before you tell someone to “just take initiative,” make sure you can answer these five questions: 1...

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I spent last week in Mexico City. The first half of the week was personal, giving my husband and I t...

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A promotion gets expensive fast when you keep the old job and add the new one on top. Six months in...

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Being overly considerate creates a surprising amount of confusion. It seems counterintuitive, but ev...

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Last week in CDMX, one of our North America Leadership Alliance (NALA) events was karaoke and tacos....

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Your team walked into work this morning with a finite amount of energy. Do you know where they're sp...

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Burnout is a destination. By the time you’re there, coming back is hard. Capacity is the gauge that...

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I loooove a good podcast and right now these 5 podcasts are the ones actually holding my attention o...

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I used to think absorbing more was the kindest way to protect my team from my capacity problem. They...

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The version of feedback you rehearse in the shower is rarely the version that makes it into the room...

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Most people who ask how The Venned Group started assume there was a grand plan, and there was...sort...

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I've spent the last four days running around CDMX with my husband. We ate well, explored museums an...

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Speed became the shortcut for competence somewhere along the way, so pausing can feel like a risk in...

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We have a strange way of rewarding the individual contributors everyone relies on. We rely on them ...

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Can’t wait to be back in #CDMX next week with the North America Leadership Alliance (NALA) planning ...

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I went to PwC’s Physical AI in the Real World event last night. Interestingly, one of the biggest th...

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Every few years, someone informally 'rebrands' what we do at The Venned Group. 2018: "So you're basi...

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August 2026

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Your managers keep bringing you decisions they should be making themselves. Before you tell them to...

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...and it doesn’t get any easier. All jokes aside, this has become such a rewarding outlet. After 8...

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This week’s Boardroom Confession came from a leader whose client caught an AI-generated error that h...

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AI output can look finished long before the thinking is. Before the work is signed off on, make sur...

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Most team performance problems aren’t the ones anyone’s actually looking at. I sat down with @kripa...

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5 conditions every high-performing team needs to have to be sustainable and successful #leadership

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On this day last year 🤍

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You get promoted because you were great at the work. Nobody stops to check if you’re any good at the...

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I loved sitting down with Kripa Anand on the CanadianSME Small Business Podcast to talk all things h...

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You can sit in limbo land waiting on a decision, or you can send one sentence that forces an answer ...

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These are the 5 conditions that every high-performing team needs to have to be sustainable and succe...

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Do you agree with these rankings? What else would you add? . . #tierlist #ranking #leadershipskills ...

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