A Podcast About Leadership

The Power of the Quiet Voice: Lessons on Leadership from Bristol Myers Squibb

What does it take to lead well when nothing is predictable anymore? According to Amanda Poole, Chief People Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb, and Vincent Garufi, VP of HR

The Hidden Skill Every Executive Ignores with Ken Roberts and Jamie Ramsden

What separates a great leader from a merely competent one? According to Ken Roberts, President of Atlas Roofing (and a 30 year veteran of Masco Corporation), and executiv

The Hard Call: If You Love Your People, Can You Let Them Go? Leadership Lessons with Jamie Ramsden

Can real love for your people and the hard decision to let one of them go ever coexist? That's the paradox at the center of this bonus episode of A Podcast About Leadersh

From Have-To to Want-To: What 50+ Years of Leadership Looks Like with Peter Arthur Smith

Most organizations are running on the wrong fuel — and they don't know it. The tools leaders reach for most instinctively — competition, incentives, fear, measurement — m

TOPGUN Leadership: Lessons from Naval Aviation's Elite

What separates the best from everyone else isn't talent — it's what they do with failure. At the Navy's elite TOPGUN school, thirty percent of training flights end in fai

Bricks, Culture & The Building Blocks of Leadership with Brickworks' Steve Bell & Jamie Ramsden

What does a brick — one of humanity's oldest building materials — have to teach us about leading through disruption, integration, and change? The answer turns out to be m

When Culture Is the Strategy: Lessons from Elite Leaders in HR

The CHRO role has been quietly transforming — not in the gradual, incremental way of most professional evolution, but in a sharp, compressed shift that has redrawn what i

The Hidden Cost of Harmony: Wissam Adib on Leadership in the GCC

What does it take to lead in a place where ambition has no ceiling — where building the world's tallest skyscraper is just the beginning, and failure isn't an option? The

What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Leadership with Michael Platt - Bonus Episode

In this bonus episode of A Podcast About Leadership, AIIR CEO Dr. Jonathan Kirschner sits down with Dr. Michael Platt — professor across three schools at the University o

The Leader's Brain: What Neuroscience Reveals About the Future of Leadership with Michael Platt

What is actually happening in the brain when a team clicks, a leader inspires, or a group of individuals becomes something greater than the sum of its parts? According to

The High-Performance Mindset of Elite Athletes with Leaders from the NBA, MLB, and Elite Endurance Sports

What separates good performers from truly elite ones, and why do some teams suddenly turn things around while others stay stuck? According to leaders working at the highe

Confetti and Chaos: An Inside Look at Leading an IPO with Kat Williamson and Gary Survis

From the outside, an IPO can look like it's all confetti, bell ringing, and a soaring valuations. But, behind the scenes, it’s one of the most intense leadership transiti

The Art and Science of CEO Succession with National Vision CEO Alex Wilkes and Executive Chairman Reade Fahs

What does CEO succession look like when it’s planned, values-led, and built for continuity and change at the same time? In this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, ho

Leading with Love with Bob Chavez, Former CEO of Hermès Americas

Can love be a serious strategy in today’s high-pressure business environment? In this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, host and AIIR Consulting CEO Dr. Jonathan Ki

Thriving Through Constant Change with Ian Wilcox and Dr. Joy Nissen

What does it take to lead when change is no longer episodic but constant and fluid? On this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, AIIR Consulting CEO Dr. Jonathan Kirsch

The Evolving Role of the CHRO with C-Suite Whisperer John Touey

What really determines whether a company thrives or unravels under pressure? According to John Touey, one of the country’s most trusted C-suite recruiters, it comes down

Staying Human in the Age of AI with Gideon Rosenberg from NVIDIA

What does “human-first” leadership look like inside a company building the future of artificial intelligence? AIIR Consulting CEO Jonathan Kirschner and Joy Nissen sit do

Leading with Agility, Curiosity, and Care with Reese Haydon

In this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, Dr. Jonathan Kirschner sits down with Reese Haydon to explore what it takes to lead with agility, curiosity, and care in to

Is Coaching Really That Different Than Therapy? With Dr. Davida Vogel

For decades, executive coaching and psychotherapy have been treated as distinct disciplines — one focused on business performance, the other on unpacking unproductive pat

Leading Cross-Functional Pharma Teams with Ian Wilcox and Megan Marshall

In pharma, the barrier to progress isn’t usually the science—it’s how well leaders align brilliant, functionally deep experts to move an asset forward together. In this c