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Latest Episodes

Creating a Culture of Excitement and Possibility
July 26, 2016

#1603 - Glenn Hartman, Senior Vice President for Customer Business Development at Starbucks, shares his experience on what it takes to create a culture that excites people and inspires them to their best performance.Read more ›

Mastering the New Media Landscape
March 08, 2016

#1602 - Whether you’re a senior executive in large organization, an entrepreneur with a new startup, or a thought leader seeking to build a successful platform, communication is a key part of your job. But in recent years,

Building Your Leadership Library
February 25, 2016

#1601 - For the past eight months, I’ve been asking a single question of our guests: “What 1-2 books would you recommend every leader have in their leadership library?” Recommendations from Pepper de Callier,

The Paradox of Adversity
December 15, 2015

#1507 - The most successful leaders and entrepreneurs know that failure isn’t the opposite of success, it’s a part of it. What is it about adverse events that helps fuel our growth, and why do some leaders seem to weather adversity better than others?

Investing in Yourself
October 01, 2015

#1506 - The most successful leaders are lifelong, voracious learners, with a seemingly bottomless curiosity and a passion for challenging their own thinking. How do they do it? What drives them to learn? How do they focus their efforts?

Organizational Change
August 26, 2015

#1505 - Leaders often over-engineer organizational change, taking an episodic approach rather than weaving change into the fabric of an organization. Isn’t “change management” really about leadership, communications, and good,

What It Takes to Grow Leaders
July 29, 2015

#1504 - As individuals climb higher in organizations, functional skills are not a differentiator of great leadership or a source of long-term competitive advantage, they are merely the price of entry. But while systematic processes for developing funct...

Leading in For-Profit and Nonprofit Organizations: Is it the Same or Different?
May 05, 2015

#1503 - How much is the same or different in leading a nonprofit versus a for-profit organization? Are any differences simply what you’d expect in moving between any two organizations? Or are there unique leadership challenges in each environment?

Leading in a Fast-Growing Company
April 06, 2015

#1502 - Startup is a unique phase in the lifecycle of an organization, especially for those few companies who realize rapid, exponential growth. Leading these organizations requires a specific set of skills and characteristics, which can be dramatically d

The Future of Biotech
February 25, 2015

#1501 - While analysts still see strong potential in the biotech sector, they also acknowledge that life sciences industry is in an era of significant transition. What does this mean for biotechnology companies? Will the industry continue to expand? Will