186: Kerry Sulkowicz - "The Psychoanalyst"

186: Kerry Sulkowicz - "The Psychoanalyst"

Seeking The Truth.

Kerry Sulkowicz is the leadership confidant and psychiatrist. Kerry works with leaders across the world and is also president-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

In most organizations, leaders sit or are placed on a pedestal. There is a structural hierarchy that directly affects the flow of information.

When we allow ourselves to believe that the structure itself provides us with all the information that we need, we run the risk of never knowing what we don't know.

184: Michael Wolff - "The Parent"

184: Michael Wolff - "The Parent"

A Story of Hope.

Michael Wolff is perhaps best known for Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which topped the New York Times best seller list for several weeks in early 2018.

If we have learned anything from 2020 and 2021, it is that we cannot know what 2022 will bring.

The story we tell future generations about how we met this moment will depend on how we approach what comes next.

With frustration and old rules.

Or with grace, originality and some humor.

183: Judy Jackson - "The Culture Curator"

183: Judy Jackson - "The Culture Curator"

Why Great Leaders Are Honest About Their Weaknesses And Their Strengths.

Judy Jackson is the Global Head of Culture at WPP which makes her responsible for providing the vision and strategy for building a culture that embraces 100,000 people.

There’s no one size fits all approach that satisfies that brief. It’s a role that requires a three dimensional view of human beings.

182: Raja Rajamannar - "The Live Well Leader"

182: Raja Rajamannar - "The Live Well Leader"

How Do You Want To Spend Your Time On The Planet?

Raja Rajamannar is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer for Mastercard and is also President of the company’s healthcare business.

What do you want to do with your life? What do you want to spend your time on while you are alive?

These are questions that scare us.

But when we are willing to confront them, the answers unleash such reservoirs of possibility, that soon we cannot imagine why we lived for so long without the clarity and confidence they provide.

178: Umber Ahmad - "The Accelerating Leader"

178: Umber Ahmad - "The Accelerating Leader"

How A Pandemic Tried To Destroy Her And Why It Failed.

Umber Ahmad is the founder of the rapidly growing bakery, Mah Ze Dahr.

Leadership is most visible when we are confronted by the twists and turns that life brings us.

When faced with these moments we quickly discover whether we are a leader in name only, or whether we are willing to confront the challenges of whatever lies ahead.

174: Gail Gallie - "The Renewable Energy Leader"

174: Gail Gallie - "The Renewable Energy Leader"

Aligning Her Leadership With Her Life.

Gail Gallie is the Co-Founder of Project Everyone.

Their mission is to accelerate progress towards a fairer world by 2030, where extreme poverty has been eradicated, climate change is properly addressed, and injustice and inequality are unacceptable.

Gail’s own energy is infectious. Even across a Zoom from three thousand miles away, she lifted my sense of possibility.

173: Keesha Jean-Baptiste - "The Conscious Leader"

173: Keesha Jean-Baptiste - "The Conscious Leader"

Why She’s Optimistic And Skeptical About The Impact Of DE&I.

Keesha Jean-Baptiste is the Senior Vice President, Chief Talent Officer at Hearst Magazines.

Keesha is brilliant. She is brave. And she is black. And all three of those attributes make her an extraordinarily insightful and powerful advocate for the work that companies need to undertake if their workforces are truly going to reflect society.

169: Justin Thomas-Copeland - "The Change Agent"

169: Justin Thomas-Copeland - "The Change Agent"

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.

168: Khurrum Malik - "The Socratic Leader"

168: Khurrum Malik - "The Socratic Leader"

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.

167: Hashem Bajwa - "The Strategy Linguist"

167: Hashem Bajwa - "The Strategy Linguist"

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.