Hello, Dave Stahoviac here, host of the Coaching for Leaders podcast.

Top coach, Marshall Goldsmith, says that the higher you go up in an organization, the more your problems become behavioral.

That's the inflection point almost every leader hits in their career at some

point. We've all had a lot of training in our disciplines, but most of us haven't had as much

intentional skill development on elevating the people aspects of work. Today I'm bringing you a

conversation with one of our academy graduates who's made the people focus such a critical

aspect of his leadership. Here's our chat. I'm here today with Elham Bidar. He is one of our

academy graduates and is sharing a bit of his story about the experience in the academy with us.

Elham, so good to have you with us.

Thanks for having me, Dave.

I was wondering if we could start a bit by perhaps you sharing a bit about your role professionally and what keeps you busy in your work?

Well, I'm a cardiothoracic surgeon and I work in Maastricht as a city in the south of the Netherlands in Europe.

And yeah, I've recently became the head of the department of cardiothoracic surgery.

And my work involves operating patients with cardiovascular disease, but also a scientific part where I collaborate

with university and we perform scientific research on cardiovascular disease.

Do you recall how you came across the podcast originally?

Yeah, I was working towards a leadership role, and I really was a big fan of your podcast.

I listened to the actually, I think almost all of the first 300 episodes.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, I was right.

And I really liked the topics and I was very surprised at the amount of

scientific data on teamwork and collaboration, which was really fascinating. And, well, at a certain

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