Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. In this episode, we sit down with Tia Williams, creator of The Leadership Equation™, who challenges the idea that emotional intelligence alone makes great leaders. Tia shows how combining emotional, relational, and analytical intelligence can drive measurable results without burning out your team.

A self-made executive, Tia rose from a Retail manager to leading 100+ people across three continents, achieving 90% talent retention and nearly $1M in efficiency savings during acquisitions at venture-backed SaaS companies—all without a college degree.

🎯 What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to go beyond EQ to lead effectively

• Strategies for team retention and efficiency

• Lessons from scaling leadership across continents

• How to drive results without Burnout

💡 More about Tia Williams: https://theleadershipequation.io/

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Joe Dimino Podcaster/Artist

Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.