E441 - How Great Leaders Stay Calm Under Pressure with Noel Cardenas
Published: August 1, 2026
Duration: 38:39
How Great Leaders Stay Calm Under Pressure
What does it take to stay calm when lives are on the line?
In this episode of the Deep Leadership podcast, I sit down with Noel Cardenas, retired U.S. Army Colonel and CEO of Memorial Hermann Southeast & Pearland Hospitals, to explore what leadership looks like under the most demanding conditions imaginable. Noel shares lessons from building a 164-bed combat support hospital in Iraq in just 48 hours, leading hundreds of soldiers during two combat deployments, and guiding healthcare teams through the COVID-19 pandemic.
We discuss why...