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Local leadership, service, and faith in practice.
The Leadership Table With Dr. Kevin Hairston gathers leaders for reflective conversations about how service becomes practice. Its strongest moments come when personal journeys widen into questions of fairness, mentorship, public institutions, ministry, and responsibility to a community.
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The Leadership Table With Dr. Kevin Hairston is an interview show about leadership shaped by service, faith, and local responsibility. Its conversations are rooted in Central Ohio, especially Columbus and the surrounding civic, educational, church, and neighborhood institutions that shape daily life. The show moves at an unhurried pace. Guests are given room to explain where their leadership began before the conversation turns toward what their work asks of them now. A judge describes fairness not as an abstract value, but as conduct inside a courtroom, including how people are addressed, heard, and guided through legal processes. A community leader traces business, church missions, and Linden organizing into a broader question about preparing the next generation to carry the work forward. A school board member reflects on Columbus City Schools, student pride, board leadership, and the hard public scrutiny attached to education. Ministry episodes bring a similar patience, treating pastoral work, chaplaincy, self-care, training, and spiritual grounding as disciplines rather than slogans. The show also makes space for civic advocacy, tax abatements, public office, cultural rootedness, Black consciousness, housing, child care, and community collaboration. It is earnest without being slick. The questions often affirm a guest's story, then ask what lesson it offers to families, students, congregations, city leaders, or neighborhoods. Faith language appears naturally, especially in conversations with pastors, chaplains, and church-connected leaders, but the show's larger subject is practical service. It is interested in people who stay close to the work. That gives the series a distinctly local texture, with Columbus not just as a setting but as the proving ground for its ideas about leadership. The show works best for listeners who prefer reflective civic conversation over argument, spectacle, or quick business tips. Its value is in the cumulative portrait: leadership as patience, presence, mentorship, accountability, and care for institutions that real people depend on.
Made for: For listeners interested in community leadership, public service, faith-informed civic life, education, ministry, and Columbus-area institutions. It especially suits people who prefer reflective interviews over debate-driven commentary.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by keeping leadership close to lived local work: courtrooms, schools, churches, neighborhoods, city politics, housing, and child care. Its conversations use personal stories as entry points into service, not as branding exercises.
Welcome to The Leadership Table where vision meets action. Hosted by Dr. Kevin Hairston, this thought-provoking podcast brings together leaders from politics, business, faith, education, and community organizations for candid conversations about leadership, service, and impact. Each episode offers real-world insights, inspiring stories, and practical strategies to help you lead with purpose, whether you’re guiding a team, influencing policy, building a business, or serving your community. Pull up a chair, take notes, and get ready to grow, because at The Leadership Table, everyone has a seat, and every voice matters.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Local leaders turn organizational responsibility into concrete lessons about judgment, mentorship, institutional trust, and succession.
Dr. Kevin Hairston builds The Leadership Table around direct conversations with people responsible for courts, schools, churches, businesses, and neighborhood institutions in Central Ohio.
A judge leaves the bench to explain paperwork; Dr. Kevin Hairston asks what leadership looks like up close.
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A close look at courtroom discretion, fairness, and the daily work of public trust.
Judge Bill Hedrick's handling of fairness in a Franklin County courtroom gives the episode its clearest shape. The strongest moments stay with the small choices that matter: sending someone back to the holding tank, reviewing expungement paperwork at the table, offering a…
Leadership is cast as family-shaped service, neighborhood work, and a pipeline for new leaders.
Adam Troy frames leadership as something learned at home and carried into service, with Dr. Kevin Hairston returning to Linden through mentorship and the work of building people rather than titles.
School leadership is framed as service, not status.
School leadership is treated here as service, not status. The conversation moves from childhood influences to a board role at Columbus City Schools, and Jennifer's path feels grounded in that sequence: parents and teachers shape her values, a civic role in high school gives her…
Preparation, sacrifice, and leadership under pressure.
The episode frames ministry as disciplined work, with Dr. Marlon Scott, a chaplain and pastor in a hospital setting, emphasizing leadership that shows up for patients, families, and medical staff when crises hit.
A reflective conversation about leadership, schools, and community responsibility.
The Leadership Table presents Kwesi Kambon as a steady voice for truth, Black consciousness, business, and grassroots empowerment in Columbus.
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Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
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Leadership is treated as a calling here, but the conversation stays close to the ground.
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The host welcomes Kwesi Kambon and invites him to speak about leadership.
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Pastor Derrick Holmes discusses his journey from New York City to leading Union Baptist Church in Columbus, focusing on faith, mental health, and community change.
Pastor Frederick LaMarr discusses his journey into ministry, mentorship, and community leadership.
Karen Hill discusses her journey from hairstylist to salon owner, emphasizing mentorship, business growth, and community transformation.