What Is Your Leadership For?
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the Junior Senator from the State of New York.
Running for public office places you in a spotlight that is white hot. Being clear why you’ve made the choice to run in the first place is table stakes for creating the life you want to live and the legacy you want to leave behind.
What Do You Think And Why?
Tom O’Keefe and Jeff King are two of the four partners who have just merged their respective businesses, OKRP and Barkley.
When we are clear about why we think what we think, when we are free of insecurity or hubris or ego, then we can assess an alternative path with an open mind.
Mergers provoke the need to lead through this lens.
How Vulnerable Is Too Vulnerable?
Anselmo Ramos is the Co-Founder and Creative Chairman of GUT, a global independent creative agency that’s headquartered in Miami, and with six other offices around the world.
How vulnerable is too vulnerable?
The answer, of course, depends on the culture that you have created. If your culture is based on deep and enduring emotional trust, you give people the ability to show up as complex, multifaceted humans, to show up as whole beings.
Are You Conscious Of Your Choices?
Kara Swisher is the most effective and successful tech journalist of our lifetimes.
In a world of white men with giant bank accounts and even bigger egos, how did this 5 feet 2 inch, self-described, liberal lesbian mother of four, end up as the most influential and insightful reporter of the technology age?
As you’ll hear, Kara puts it down to curiosity, confidence, and understanding the choices available to her.
This week’s guest is Avery Baker. She’s the former President and Chief Brand Officer of Tommy Hilfiger.
Six months after she stepped down from her position at Tommy, we talk about her desire to empower others and why it's an essential skill to demonstrate as a leader.
We also discuss the new leadership paradigm that we have developed together for creative and innovative businesses. We call it 'Partnership Leadership'.
On Starting And Ending And Starting Again.
Gerry Graf is the co-founder of Slap Global.
Gerry is best known as the founder of Barton F. Graf 9000 - which he built into one of the most acclaimed advertising agencies in America.
Looking At Life Through A Thousand Sets Of Eyes.
Michael Korda is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Simon & Schuster.
He has lived several lives in this one, and helped countless others tell the story of theirs.
Embracing Each Other’s Differences.
Justin Thomas-Copeland is the CEO of DDB, North America.
He’s a dynamic, charismatic leader with a long history of building successful businesses and creating change.
The lack of diversity among the senior leadership of American business is a systemic issue.
Changing it will require determination and trust at an unprecedented scale. It will require leaders who have the right intent.
Why Questions Are More Important To Him Than Answers.
Khurrum Malik is the Head of Global Business Marketing at Spotify.
Creativity is the most human - perhaps uniquely human - characteristic. It is revealed by a problem, powered by a tolerance for risk and scaled by the capacity to trust.
For every company, your growth potential and its trajectory is directly correlated to your leadership’s capacity to engender trust.
Why Experience Principles Are Critical To The Success of The Apple Stores.
Hashem Bajwa was the Director of Strategy at Apple.
This episode is a case study in managing change at enormous scale, to the highest standards and under the brightest of lights. It is filled with practical explanations that have helped create one of the most creative, innovative, visible and valuable businesses of any lifetime.
Why Living A Creative Life Is A Choice.
Laura Holson is a writer with The New York Times. She is a brilliant and award-winning feature writer and visual editor who has written extensively about Hollywood, Silicon Valley and powerful figures in finance and politics.
Like a lot of us, Laura has had time to reflect about life.
How The Builder Of One Of The Coolest Brands Defines Success And Happiness.
Jesse Joeckel is the founder, owner and designer at Whalebone Creative. Based in Montauk, New York, Whalebone describes itself as a lifestyle brand that’s built around art, design, and surf culture.
Over the eleven years since he started Whalebone, Jesse has never strayed far from his definition of success.
Why She Doesn’t Wait For Permission.
Lisa Mehling is the owner of Chelsea Pictures.
In June, they were named the winner of the Palme D’Or as the Production Company of the Year at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
The power to unlock creative thinking and innovation depends on challenging assumptions and breaking down norms.
How they’re building a powerful partnership.
Nancy Reyes is the CEO of TBWA\Chiat\Day New York and Chris Beresford-Hill is the agency’s Chief Creative Officer.
None us succeed alone. And the bigger the ambition, the more we need other people to reach it.
Successful and satisfying partnerships are rare. So rare, that when we find them we should take some time to understand why they work.
Why Loving Ourselves Makes Us Better Leaders.
Will Travis is the founder of Elevation Barn.
What do you want to do with your time here? What legacy do you want to leave behind?
Leadership is an opportunity to unlock the potential of people and to shape the world in the process.
One of those people whose potential you unlock, can be you.
Redefining the Status Quo.
David Kolbusz is the Chief Creative Officer at Droga5 in London.
In a world in which everything we thought we knew has been thrown up in the air, playing by an old set of artificial rules will get us to one place fast - a broken version of the past.
Leading the future starts when you imagine the world without rules. And let the most powerful force of all - your imagination - run wild.
What Makes Leaders Three Dimensional.
Stephanie Mehta is the Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company.
Leadership today is a three dimensional role, powered by a leader's ability to use influence and in which they are the visionary, guide, architect, storyteller, as well as the supporter of multiple constituencies.
Why We Should Imagine The Unimaginable.
Faith Popcorn is a futurist. To many of us she is the original and still the best.
Life is short. And unpredictable. And we have much less control over it than we think.
Leadership is an opportunity to make a difference while we’re here.
How She Is Teaching Women to Take Risks.
Jenny Just is the co-founder of PEAK6 Investments.
She’s been described as the most successful business woman you’ve never heard of.
How This Optimist Found His Breaking Point
Charlie Cole is the CEO of FTD.
As you’re about to hear, Charlie is a high energy leader. Relentlessly positive, endlessly optimistic. He took over a bankrupt company in the early days of a pandemic.
Charlie discovered something brand new about himself in the middle of all that. That he has a breaking point.
Why a Company’s Values Really, Really Matter.
Dave Gilboa is the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. Books have been written about the strategic steps they have taken to grow this business. But I wanted to understand the personal journey that led to him starting this company and how he, his co-founder Neil Blumenthal and their senior leadership team are adapting to the challenges of our new world. What guides them today?
Why Luck Should Be Part of Your Company’s Strategy.
Andy Nairn is the co-founder of Lucky Generals.
Andy has been named the top brand strategist in the UK for the last three years and has also been named one of the top 5 creative people in world advertising.
Andy has just written a book called Go Luck Yourself, which discusses the role luck can and should play in unlocking creative thinking and innovation.
A Leadership Mediatation.
Some people have suggested that every few weeks they’d like me to put a broader context around what I’m learning about leadership, both from these conversations and from my own work. How do the leaders who are best at unlocking creativity and innovation in the people that work for them, do that?
So, let’s start here. What is leadership?
Why Asking ‘How Are You?’ Is Not Enough.
Greg Lyons is the Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo, North America.
Greg lost his wife, Andrea in December of 2016. Before she died, she gave him and their two children three pieces of advice. There is nothing more important than family and friends. Your health is critical. And spend time doing what you love.
What Happened When He Slowed Down.
Nils Leonard is the co-founder of Uncommon, the London-based Creative Studio. They were just named Agency of the Year by Campaign UK.
He believes that, 'Good things happen to people who do stuff’. He’s got enviable energy. And he’s in a hurry.
