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Multiplying Resilience
Outcomes Magazine · March 3, 2026 Today’s leaders aren’t simply managing isolated periods of change—they’re leading through an environment where change is continuous, overlapping, and often exhausting. In this article for Outcomes Magazine, Dr. Julie Armstrong argues that the leadership challenge has shifted from overcoming resistance to building the capacity to adapt. She introduces…
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GCC LEADS: Developing Middle Managers into Middle Leaders
How a community behavioral-health organization transformed its leadership culture. At 3H Leadership Consulting, we believe middle leaders are the leverage point of culture.When they’re equipped to both lead × manage — to connect strategy with people, and purpose with execution — the entire organization grows stronger. Gulf Coast Center (GCC), a 325-person community behavioral-health…
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Developing Middle Leaders
CLA Outcomes Conference 2025 · Dallas, TX · April 30, 2025 Middle leaders play a distinct role in organizations: they must deliver results while also shaping the experience of the people they lead. In this CLA Outcomes Conference session, Dr. Julie Armstrong explored the shift from managing work to leading people and why that…
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Middle Manager to Middle Leader: A Pathway for Developing Your Team
Outcomes Magazine · March 3, 2025 Middle managers sit at one of the most influential—and often misunderstood—points in an organization. In this Outcomes Magazine article, Dr. Julie Armstrong draws on her doctoral research to distinguish a middle manager from a middle leader: someone who uses leadership competencies to influence the thinking, behavior, and performance…
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The Resilience Quad
NLA Leadership Academy Podcast · August 30, 2023 In this episode of the NLA Leadership Academy podcast, Dr. Julie Armstrong introduces The Resilience Quad, a framework designed to help leaders build and foster resilience amid constant change. Rather than treating resilience as something leaders simply need to “have,” Julie presents it as a capacity…
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Navigating Always-On Change with the Resilience Quad
The Journal of Leaderology and Applied Leadership · August 25, 2023 Change is no longer something leaders navigate occasionally—it has become an ongoing condition of organizational life. In this article for The Journal of Leaderology and Applied Leadership, Dr. Julie Armstrong argues that traditional change models, which often assume a clear beginning and end,…
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Leader Positivity and Team Outcomes: A Literature Review
Abstract Given the high demand for 21st century knowledge work to be completed in group settings, combined with the low percentage of teams who reach high performing status, the stakes are higher than ever as teams attempt to deliver on their organization’s strategic, financial, and community objectives. Researchers have hypothesized repeatedly that the conditions in…
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Empowering Middle Leaders
NLA Leadership Academy Podcast · June 28, 2023 Middle leaders occupy a critical position between organizational strategy and day-to-day execution. In this episode of The NLA Leadership Academy, Dr. Julie Armstrong explores the unique challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities that come with leading from the middle. Rather than viewing middle managers primarily as implementers, the…
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The Need for Developing Leaders
Businesses spend more on developing leaders than any other expense item in their training and development budgets (Ardichvili et al., 2016). Such significant investment demonstrates the influence leaders assert on organizational outcomes (Holt et al., 2018; Manning & Curtis, 2019). Like other processes, leadership is subject to an input-mediator-output logic such that output quality…
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Leading from the Middle
Leading from the middle contrasts with top-down leadership and bottom-up leadership (Hargreaves & Shirley, 2019). De Nobile (2019) agreed, asserting middle leaders have distinctly unique roles from senior leaders. Scholars described middle managers as “stuck in the middle” of the organizational hierarchy, required to balance senior management demands with followers’ realities (Way et al.,…