The 90th Percentile: An Unconventional Leadership Podcast

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Bonus Episode– Susan David, Emotional Agility
Details Dr. Susan David is a founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard University.In this episode, S
Episode 148: The Real Key to Employee Engagement—Leadership Over Location
Details Have you noticed a remarkable shift where major companies are mandating return to office policies. Amazon recently joined the ranks of Meta, Google, and others in requiring employees to return
Episode 146: Quality And Quantity Are Not Trade-offs—How Some Leaders Are Choosing Both
Details In todays episode, we dive into a fascinating topic that many leaders grapple withquality versus quantity. Are they truly competing objectives, or can organizations achieve both simultaneous
Episode 145: What You Should Know About Coachability Through Career Decades
Details Today we are looking at coachability and its intriguing role across different career decades. Each stage in our professional liveswhether its the exploration of the 20s, the depth-building o
Episode 144: Connecting The Manager, Employee, and Customer Satisfaction Chain
Details In this episode of The 90th Percentile, hosts BreAnne Okoren and Joe Folkman explore the powerful connection between leadership, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction. Drawing on res
Episode 143: Are You Surviving or Thriving With AI?
Details We can all admit that we have felt a little threatened by AI. After all its whole purpose is improve and ultimately replace Human intelligence. And leadership will not be spared by the impact
Episode 109: Transforming Leadership Development—Are We Missing The Main Thing?
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 142: Trust and Resolving Conflict in the Workplace—Key Behaviors for Leaders
Details Recently, a compelling question emerged: How do trust and conflict resolution impact a leaders effectiveness? To explore this, we analyzed a robust dataset of 360-degree assessments from 4,34
Episode 76: Identifying and Managing Micro-stressors
Details Stress comes to us all in tiny minor assaults throughout our day through relationships and interactions that are too numerous to shake off quickly. The problem is that most of us have come to
Episode 141: Can Honest Leaders Rebuild Integrity?
Details Can individuals truly recover from being perceived as fundamentally flawed in honesty and integrity? We embarked on a research journey to uncover whether redemption is possible for those who h