Season 2
April 23, 2025
Conflict Is Inevitable—How You Respond Isn’t
Conflict doesn’t kill momentum. Our silence around it does. Maartje van Krieken makes a case for why conflict resolution in growing businesses should be a core leadership skill, not something we save for when things get bad. ...
April 16, 2025
Don’t Wait Out Market Chaos—Act Now
When the market tilts without warning, leadership means stepping up even when the chaos wasn’t your fault. What do you do when geopolitical tension, tariffs, or broken supply chains knock your business off course? In this epi...
April 9, 2025
The Danger of Drifting: Why Businesses Fail in Volatile Times
Waiting out the chaos might feel safe, but in business, standing still during a storm is often the fastest way to lose your course entirely. When a crisis hits, why do so many leaders freeze? What makes waiting feel safer tha...
April 2, 2025
Scaling Checkup: Is Your Leadership Fit for the Future?
Most CEOs don’t plan their own exit. What happens when the person who built the company isn’t the right one to scale it? Scott Calderwood joins Maartje van Krieken to talk about CEO transition strategies, scaling leadership c...
March 26, 2025
The Hidden Growth Killer: A Stagnant Team
When your leadership team can’t evolve with your business, scaling challenges become even harder to navigate. How do you know when it’s time to make tough decisions about key positions in your organization? In this episode,...
March 19, 2025
Scaling Smart: Avoiding Investor Fallout
Trust is everything in leadership. Lose it, and investors won’t think twice about making a change. Maartje van Krieken takes a hard look at investor trust in scaling businesses as she breaks down why half of founder-CEOs don’...
March 12, 2025
Scaling Right: The Role of Brand Messaging
Most businesses think they know why customers choose them until they realize they’ve been focusing on the wrong thing all along. Maartje van Krieken sits down with Orly Zeewy for a sharp, no-nonsense look at brand messaging s...
March 5, 2025
Delegation Done Right: Free Up 40% of Your Time Without Losing Control
Most leaders could free up nearly half their workload but refuse to let go. Why is delegation so hard, and what’s the cost of holding on too tightly? Maartje van Krieken unpacks why so many leaders become the bottleneck in th...
Feb. 26, 2025
Growing Pains: The Leadership Shift from Doing to Delegating
Scaling a business comes with big decisions, tough conversations, and the challenge of building a team that can grow with you. How do you know when it’s time to shift roles, implement structure, or step back so others can tak...
Feb. 19, 2025
Avoiding the Fumble: How Leaders Can Make Smarter Calls in Chaos
Hesitation under pressure costs more than a bad decision. This season 2 kick-off episode of The Business Emergency Room unpacks how to make fast, confident calls when the stakes are high. When everything is unfolding fast, ho...
Feb. 14, 2025
Season 2 Trailer
Scaling a business isn’t just about strategy—it’s about navigating chaos, making fast but sound decisions, and keeping teams aligned under pressure. The Business Emergency Room helps leaders, founders, and decision-makers sha...