The Difference Between Being Managed, and Being Trusted to Lead

Gene Folkes 
Instructor: Gene Folkes 
Date: Thursday March 5, 2026
Time:

10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST

Duration: 60 Minutes
Webinar Id: 25681

Price Details

Live Webinar
$150. One Attendee
$290. Unlimited Attendees
Recorded Webinar
$190. One Attendee
$390. Unlimited Attendees
Combo Offers   (Live + Recorded)
$289 $340   One Attendee
$599 $680   Unlimited Attendees

Unlimited Attendees: Any number of participants

Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months (Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)

Overview:

Participants will gain clarity on the behaviors that distinguish leadership from management, learn how to create trust-driven environments, reduce friction caused by over-control, and implement leadership practices that improve engagement, speed, and results.

Why you should Attend:

If your best people are disengaging, it may not be the work it may be the lack of trust. If your organization's losing leaders overnight: you may be losing them slowly through control. Micromanagement doesn’t prevent failure it guarantees it.

Are you developing leaders or just supervising adults?
What happens when decisions stall because no one feels trusted to make them?
If your leaders need permission for everything, who’s actually leading?
If you must monitor every move, do you really have leaders or compliance?
Control feels safe, but is it costing you speed, accountability, and talent?
If trust disappeared tomorrow, would your organization still function?
Leadership doesn’t fail from lack of effort it fails from lack of trust. This session shows the difference.

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • Management vs. leadership: the real distinction
  • How control-based systems weaken ownership and initiative
  • What trust in leadership looks like in day-to-day operations
  • The hidden costs of micromanagement and excessive approvals
  • When oversight supports leadership and when it blocks it
  • Building cultures of accountability, autonomy, and performance

Who Will Benefit:

  • Executives
  • Team Leaders
  • HR Professionals

Speaker Profile
Gene Folkes, MSOL is a strategist, entrepreneur, and thought leader focused on helping individuals and business owners reclaim agency, clarity, and control over their personal and professional narratives. As the host of the Folkes Unfettered podcast, Gene has led candid, high-impact conversations with global leaders across business, finance, technology, and law---distilling complex realities into practical, actionable insight. His work centers on exposing the hidden systems, beliefs, and narratives that quietly limit performance, opportunity, and self-trust.

Gene brings a rare blend of operational leadership, lived experience, and strategic clarity, allowing him to speak not just from theory, but from hard-earned understanding of disruption, rebuilding, and resilience. He is the author of Unshackled: Owning Your Narrative and Reclaiming Your Strength, a forthcoming work that challenges conventional thinking around identity, power, and personal accountability. Gene is a service-disabled Veteran, former Lobbyist, and sought after international speaker having competed on NBC’s The Apprentice.

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