The One Question Every Leader Needs to Ask to Build Trust

The door is always open, and the team still goes quiet? This episode is for the leader who wants real trust on their team, and for the high performer who got promoted into leadership without anyone showing them how. Executive coach Jen Wilson shares the one question she has seen transform teams, and what it takes to build trust from the foundation up.

Jen Wilson is an executive coach, leadership strategist, facilitator, and speaker. She works with senior women leaders, executives, and high-capacity women who are successful on paper but overextended behind the scenes, through her 90-Day Individual Edge Coaching Program and corporate team coaching and training. She helps women and their teams stop being the default solution for everything and lead with clarity, authority, trust, and sustainable impact. Together, she and Amanda talk about leadership without the puffed shirt: trust, candor, and the support it takes to grow into the next level.

In this episode, you will learn:

🤝 The reason trust sits at the foundation of leadership, and how to be direct without being harsh

🔍 Three capacities for building trust: read your reality, reflect, and investigate

🧭 How detachment and a learning mode keep leaders growing

🚪 What goes wrong with the open door policy

❓ The one question that builds trust: "What am I missing?"

🪜 How sponsors, mentors, and a coach work together to move a career forward

CHAPTERS

00:00 Meet Jen Wilson

02:40 Trust is the foundation of everything