Structure and Soul The case for human-first operational leadership
If you've ever felt like you're holding your entire business together with sheer willpower — this episode is for you.
Jen Wyatt is the founder of Elite BizOps and has spent over eleven years helping business owners build the operational systems that let them breathe again. She's a fractional operations expert, a soon-to-be author, and someone who brings a genuinely unique perspective to leadership — one shaped by an art and fashion design background, an MBA, life as a military spouse, and more than a decade of figuring out how people actually work best.
In this conversation, we get into all of it — the messy, the practical, and the refreshingly honest.
In this episode we talk about:
- Why her art background made her a sharper operational thinker
- The "my way or the highway" mindset and why it no longer works
- How to lead remote and hybrid teams with fairness and flexibility
- Using AI responsibly without losing the human touch
- What fractional leadership really looks like day-to-day
- The boundaries and systems she uses to protect her own time and energy
- Why her biggest leadership goal is to work herself out of a job
A few of our favorite moments: "Collaboration fosters innovation. The 'my way or the highway' mindset just fosters the status quo."
"The key commodity moving forward is going to be the human touch."
"In a vacuum, we can create any kind of story we want about any situation. Stop the stories. Keep it simple."
Connect with Jen: Find Jen Wyatt on LinkedIn and follow her newsletter on operational leadership. Her book on operational leadership is coming soon — one you'll want to watch for.
https://www.elite-biz-ops.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennferwyattmba/Connect With Us and Learn More about Leadership Portraits
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