Ryan interviews Hannah Bauer, the CEO and founder of Heartnomics. They discuss the intersection of leadership and heart, exploring how personal experiences shape leadership styles. Hannah shares her journey from facing health challenges to creating a coaching program that emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and the need for alignment between personal values and organizational goals. The conversation highlights the significance of kindness, communication, and the role of service in effective leadership, as well as the challenges faced by the next generation of leaders.

• Hannah Bauer’s origin story…childhood heart crisis…years in cardiac care…learning the “language of love” beyond words
• The real meaning of Heartnomics…love and excellence…people and process…internal alignment and external execution
• Why leaders lose the heart of their work…then burn out trying to fix it with more metrics
• KPIs as milestones…not identity…why “who you become” matters as much as the goal
  Alignment as the antidote to burnout…values, culture, and the cost of misalignment

Key moments and themes

• Leadership as service…service as leadership
• Hope without being fake…how to tell the truth with empathy
• Pattern recognition…how Hannah’s hospital years became a leadership skill
• Heartnomics definition in one line…transformation through love and excellence

Links mentioned…and closely related resources

• Guest…Hannah Bauer and Heartnomics
• Heartnomics website…https://heartnomics.com   
• About Hanna D. Bauer…https://heartnomics.com/about/   
• Keynote referenced in spirit of the conversation…HEARTnomics…Leading Change Through Love and Excellence…https://heartnomics.com/keynotes/   
• Heart Leadership Profile page…https://heartnomics.com/discover-your-heart-leadership-profile/ 

Story reference in the episode

• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta…https://www.choa.org/   
• Background story that closely matches the episode’s “first child ablation…documentary” thread…Atlanta Journal Constitution feature…https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/health/documentary-website-help-children-healthcare-celebrate-100-years/93zHA6cdhJWxRHkDqdeH9I/   
• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta history page…useful context for the “100 years” mention…https://www.choa.org/about-us/history