The Hidden Skill Every Executive Ignores with Ken Roberts and Jamie Ramsden

<p>What separates a great leader from a merely competent one? According to Ken Roberts, President of Atlas Roofing (and a 30 year veteran of Masco Corporation), and executive coach Jamie Ramsden, the answer isn&#39;t intelligence, charisma, or having all the answers. It&#39;s <strong>humility</strong>.</p><p>In this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, host <strong>Jonathan Kirschner</strong> sits down with <strong>Ken Roberts</strong>, president of one of North America&#39;s leading building materials manufacturers, and CEO coach <strong>Jamie Ramsden</strong>, author of Let&#39;s Go: How Great Leaders Shape the Future, to talk about why humility is the leadership skill most executives overlook, and why it&#39;s so often mistaken for weakness.</p><p>Ken shares the story of the hardest decision of his career: a gut call made during the COVID supply chain crisis with zero hard data behind it. That moment taught him a lesson that&#39;s stuck with him ever since. If you&#39;re the smartest person in the room, you probably haven&#39;t built a great team.</p><p>Ken and Jamie get into:</p><ul><li>Why real humility means staying open to being wrong, not staying quiet</li><li>The difference between delegation and abdication</li><li>How to avoid getting pulled into &quot;triangulation&quot; and build genuinely collaborative teams</li><li>The courage it takes to make high stakes decisions without complete information</li><li>Why energy management, not time management, is the skill nobody warns you about</li><li>How self awareness and coachability separate leaders who keep growing from those who stall out</li></ul><p>Whether you&#39;re a first time manager or a seasoned executive, this is a grounded, real world conversation about how humility, self awareness, and courage add up to stronger teams and better decisions.</p><p>Topics covered: executive leadership, humility in leadership, decision making under uncertainty, team building, executive coaching, energy management, servant leadership, CEO advice.</p>