Episode 194: Smart People, Weak Team: The Team Dynamics No One Measures
You can hire A-players, coach them and pay them well, and still end up with a team that underperforms. Dr. Bobbi Wegner, Harvard lecturer and health psychologist speaks with Ashish Kothari and explains why team dynamics live in the space between people, why agreement is not alignment, and how AI can make you faster while […]
Episode 193: Your Greatest Strength Is Your Biggest Blind Spot
The very thing that made you successful may be the thing holding you back. Your drive, your empathy, your standards, your humility: we treat our strengths as assets, but every strength casts a shadow, and most of us can’t see our own. On this episode, host Ashish Kothari talks with Thomas Droge, who has spent […]
Episode 192: How to Stop Overthinking: Train Your Default Mode Network
Your boss sends a two-word message, “Can we talk?”, and before you’ve read it twice your brain has already decided: you’re in trouble, you’re about to be rewarded, or it’s just a conversation. That split second is the whole game. In this episode, Ashish sits down with Due Quach, founder of Calm Clarity, author of […]
Episode 191: How to Improve Emotional Intelligence: The 10-Second Move
Every decision you make is emotional, including the ones you are sure are logical. Most leaders never notice, react, and spend the following weeks cleaning up the consequences. Business psychologist Dr. Robin Hills, director of Ei4Change and the teacher of more than 500,000 people across 200+ countries, joins host, Ashish Kothari, and explains why AI […]
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 […]