Leveraging Operations in Leadership
Most small business leaders are great at what they do but nobody taught them how to build a team around it.
Leveraging Operations in Leadership is the podcast for entrepreneurs and small business leaders navigating the shift from solopreneur to team. Hosted by Tonya D. Harrison, Founder of Cignal Partners, each episode blends practical leadership development with the operational systems you need to grow a small team sustainably without burnout or overwhelm.
Whether you're hiring your first employee or learning to delegate as a business owner with a growing team, you'll learn how to:
• Strengthen your decision-making and leadership systems
• Improve team communication, accountability, and performance
• Build business operations that reflect your values and scale with your vision
Great leadership starts with values but it's sustained through systems.
Ready to stop doing everything yourself? Subscribe and build the team your business deserves.
Leveraging Operations in Leadership
Leaving Burnout Behind: Leading in a Way That Honors Your Capacity and Yourself - Part 2
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Burnout is often treated as something leaders recover from after the damage is already done.
But what if relief could be designed into the way you lead and work?
In this episode of the Leveraging Operations in Leadership podcast, I’m joined by Erayna Sargent, Relief Strategist and founder of Hooky Wellness®, to explore how leaders can proactively build systems that support sustainable performance.
After years of leading innovation and brand strategy for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups, Erayna hit her own wall with burnout. That experience led her to a powerful realization: relief cannot depend on weekends, vacations, or occasional breaks. It has to be intentionally built into the way we work.
Erayna shares how leaders can shift from reactively managing stress to designing structures that protect energy, boundaries, and recovery before burnout takes hold.
If you are a leader who wants to grow your impact without sacrificing your wellbeing, this conversation will help you rethink how relief fits into leadership.
The Burnout Gauge
Not sure how burnout may be affecting you?
The Burnout Gauge is a quick five-minute assessment designed to help you understand where you may be on the burnout spectrum and what actions may help you move toward relief.
Take the Burnout Gauge
https://www.hookywellness.com/gauge
Take the Leadership Shift Assessment
Find out exactly where you are in your journey from solo operator to team-ready leader. This three-minute diagnostic measures your readiness across four key areas and gives you a specific direction, not a generic score.
https://go.cignalpartners.com/assess
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linkedin.com/in/tonyadharrison
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