The 90th Percentile: An Unconventional Leadership Podcast

The 90th Percentile: An Unconventional Leadership Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 157: Team Trust at BJ’s Wholesale Club with Scott Schmadeke
December 17, 2025

Details Trust is the foundation of any high-performing team, but in todays fast-paced, uncertain business environment, building and maintaining trust has become more challenging than ever. Research s

Episode 160: Using Neuroscience to Make Feedback Work with David Rock
December 16, 2025

Details Research shows that both giving and receiving feedback triggers stress responses similar to physical threatsbut understanding these brain mechanisms can help us build better feedback cultures

Episode 25: Elements of the Best 360-Degree Assessments
December 03, 2025

Details The 360-degree assessment is a central component in most leadership development programs. But not all assessments are in the same class when it comes to the value they offer individual leaders and the benefits they offer the organizations using...

Episode 178: The Hidden Truth About Gender and Leadership Ratings
November 19, 2025

Details Are workplace evaluations truly objectiveor do subtle perceptions still shape how we see male and female leaders differently? In this episode, host Bre Okoren sits down with leadership resear

Episode 109: Transforming Leadership Development—Are We Missing The Main Thing?
November 05, 2025

Details Whats the main thing for leadership development? Is it excelling at selecting the right people? Is it a well-funded corporate learning center with renowned faculty? Is it using the most power

Episode 177: Why Strengths-Based Development Outperforms Traditional Methods
October 29, 2025

Details Consider this episode your Strengths-Based Leadership 101. BreAnne and Joe revisit the foundation of Zenger Folkmans entire leadership philosophy the data-driven insight that extraordinary

Episode 176: Jotun Case Study in Extraordinary Leadership
October 14, 2025

Details In this special episode of The 90th Percentile, we unpack how Jotunthe Norway-based, family-owned paints and coatings company operating in 100+ countrieselevated leadership effectiveness usi

Episode 175: 7 Key Leadership Behaviors of the Most Effective Decision Makers
October 08, 2025

Details What separates the best decision-makers from the rest? In this episode, Joe Folkman shares research on nearly 16,000 leaders to reveal seven key qualities that enable effective decision-making

Episode 174: Making Development Popular with Deseret Financial Credit Union
September 24, 2025

Details In this episode of The 90th Percentile, we sit down with Kathleen Crenshaw and Christopher Bisgrove from Desert Financial Credit Union to explore how they are rethinking leadership development

Episode 173: The Surprising Way Leadership Behaviors Go Viral at Work
September 17, 2025

Details What if great leadership could go viral? In this episode of The 90th Percentile Podcast, Dr. Jack Zenger joins BreAnne Okoren to explore how positive leadership behaviorslike openness, respec