Episode 190: How to Turn a Team of Leaders Into a Leadership Team?
A team of leaders is not a leadership team. Most executive groups spend their meetings sharing information silo by silo, defer every decision to the person at the head of the table, and then relitigate the whole thing in one-on-ones afterwards. Host Ashish Kothari sits down with Alexander and Janice Caillet, co-founders of Corentus and […]
Episode 189: How to Regulate Your Nervous System Before a Hard Decision
Most leadership problems cannot be solved. The harder you push, the more they slip away. Host Ashish Kothari talks with Carolyn Coughlin, co-author of Unleash Your Complexity Genius, about why people problems are complex rather than complicated. A complicated problem has an answer you find once and use again. A complex one shifts every time […]
Episode 188: Disengaged Employees Aren’t Unmotivated. They’re Unseen.
Your most disengaged employees may not have a motivation problem. They have an identity problem. They were hired for a title, and the parts of them that don’t fit the title stay switched off. After 25 years as a biotech finance and strategy executive, Tony Martignetti walked out of a boardroom to help leaders reawaken […]
Episode 187: How Compassionate Leaders Hold People Accountable
Fear and shame get short-term results. They also burn people out, destroy trust, and make flourishing impossible, which is why those results rarely last. Host Ashish Kothari sits down with Laura Berland and Evan Harrel, founders of the Center for Compassionate Leadership (1,200+ leaders trained across 75 countries), to unpack why compassionate leadership matters most […]
Episode 186: How to Stay Grounded When Everything Falls Apart
Most leaders treat fear as the thing blocking them. Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership and Nicholas Janni, both co-authors of Leading in Chaos, argue the opposite: you block fear, and that blocking is quietly costing you presence, judgment, and your team’s best thinking. Along with host Ashish Kothari, you’ll discover why emotional […]
Episode 185: How to Lead with Vulnerability Without Losing Authority
700 CEOs have gone through McKinsey’s Bower Forum, and the data points to one uncomfortable truth: the best leaders spend less time telling people what to do. Ramesh Srinivasan, McKinsey senior partner, dean of the Bower Forum, and co-author of The Journey of Leadership, joins Ashish Kothari to unpack how top CEOs practice vulnerability in […]
Episode 184: Improv Is the Resilience Skill Leaders Are Missing
What if the skill that makes a comedian great on an unscripted stage is the same skill that makes a leader great in an unpredictable economy? Layoffs and AI have left a lot of people feeling like a line item instead of a human being. Jordana Cole flips that on its head: you are not […]
Episode 183: How to Trust Your Intuition When You’re Running on Empty
Cortney McDermott had the titles, the accolades, and the corporate jet and she was, in her own words, “miserably successful.” In this episode, the two-time author joins Ashish Kothari to unpack why you can’t win the game of externally sourced success, and how to trust your intuition when you’re running on empty. You’ll walk away […]
Episode 182: AI Saves You 2.5 Hours a Week. Most People Waste It
AI now hands the average worker 2.5 hours back every week. Most of us pour it straight into more busywork, then wonder why we are busier than ever. That reclaimed time is the most valuable thing AI has given us, and we are giving it away without deciding to. Bonnie Davis, co-author of Still Human […]
Episode 181: How to Show People They Matter in 3 Small Moves | Zach Mercurio
Only 39% of employees strongly agree that someone at work cares about them as a person, and that number has fallen faster than any other engagement measure since 2020. Zach Mercurio, organizational psychologist and author of The Power of Mattering, joins Ashish Kothari to explain why billions spent on recognition platforms and perks can’t fix […]