VETgirl podcast tackles influence and leadership inside practices

VETgirl has released a new podcast episode, published January 7, 2026, focused on a familiar workplace challenge in veterinary medicine: how team members can have more influence on upper management without escalating conflict. In the episode, Dr. Justine Lee interviews Randy Hall, leadership coach and founder and CEO of VetLead, as part of a four-part leadership series. The discussion centers on practical steps such as creating space for better listening, aligning expectations between leaders and team members, and being respectfully proactive in shaping practice growth. VetLead’s broader leadership content emphasizes accountability, engagement, coaching, and culture-building as the foundation for stronger practice performance. (podchaser.com)

Why it matters: For veterinary professionals, the message lands at a time when leadership development, communication, and workplace culture remain major operational issues across the profession. AAHA’s leadership and culture resources continue to frame communication, transparency, and team engagement as core parts of a healthy workplace, while AVMA has also highlighted the value of aligning team members’ strengths and responsibilities to improve practice function. For hospitals dealing with retention pressure, change fatigue, or friction between frontline staff and decision-makers, this kind of CE content reflects a growing push to treat influence as a learnable professional skill, not just a function of title. (aaha.org)

What to watch: Expect more veterinary CE and consulting content to keep moving beyond clinical training and toward leadership, communication, and culture as workforce priorities in 2026. (marketing.vetgirlontherun.com)