Break the Habits Holding Back Your Career | Andrea Petrone

AJ sits down with leadership coach, former CEO, and author Andrea Petrone to talk about what happens to leaders when the skills that earned them the promotion stop working. Drawing from his book Reinvention at the Top, Andrea explains how copying admired executives can leave leaders performing a borrowed style, why micromanagement and the need for control quietly undermine team performance, and how the pressure to always appear confident blocks the self-awareness that leadership actually requires. He lays out a framework built on three pillars — identity, message, and presence — and argues that new skills and leadership training rarely stick until the underlying identity changes. The conversation closes on leading under pressure without abandoning your values, and on why admitting uncertainty can strengthen trust rather than cost a leader authority.