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Partnering Leadership

by Mahan Tavakoli

Partnering Leadership is an award-winning global podcast for CEOs, board members, and senior executives who want to think more clearly about what is changing, what may be coming next, and what it means for their organizations. Hosted by Mahan Tavakoli, the podcast draws on 450+ conversations with CEOs, founders, researchers, futurists, and leading thinkers on strategy, leadership, organizational transformation, innovation, and AI. The conversations go beyond generic leadership advice.  They explore the questions senior leaders increasingly need to wrestle with: What is changing that could reshape our business? Which assumptions about strategy, customers, work, and organizations may no longer hold? What will AI change beyond productivity? Where might value move next? How should organizations and leadership evolve as the answers change? Guests have included Ram Charan, John Kotter, Stephen M.R. Covey, Ajay Agrawal, Azeem Azhar, Ranjay Gulati, Sangeet Paul Choudary, David Marquet, Bob Johansen, David Rubenstein, Jean Case, Paul Daugherty, Carolyn Dewar, Whitney Johnson, Ron Adner, and many others shaping how leaders think about strategy, organizations, technology, and the future of business. Mahan brings an advisor’s perspective to each conversation, pushing beyond surface-level answers to explore the choices, trade-offs, and implications that matter in the C-suite and boardroom. The result is a broader, more forward-looking perspective on the decisions leaders are making today and the ones they may need to make sooner than they think. Available on all major podcast platforms and at PartneringLeadership.com.

Latest episodes

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476 What Happens When AI Starts Doing the Thinking? With Eric So

AI is rapidly improving what people can produce. But is it also weakening the capabilities that make people valuable in the first place? In this episode of Partnering Le

Oct 13
51 min

475 Leading Under Pressure: Lessons from 9/11, the NFL, and the World's Toughest Decisions with Thom Mayer

What separates leadership as an idea from leading as a daily practice? For Dr. Thom Mayer, the distinction matters. Leadership can become a collection of concepts, titles

Oct 6
36 min

474 From Expertise to Impact: How Leaders Take Ideas to Scale with Bill Sherman

When AI can generate plausible ideas and polished content in seconds, producing more of it is not a competitive advantage. For CEOs and senior executives, the more conseq

Sep 29
43 min

473 Strategy Means Choice: What Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower Teach Us About Leadership with Matt Cavanaugh

Most leaders understand that strategy requires choices. Fewer are prepared for what follows: disappointing people, committing resources under uncertainty, and accepting r

Sep 22
44 min

472 Beyond AI Adoption: How to Reinvent Your Organization for the Age of Abundant Intelligence with Brian Solis and Dave Wright

What happens to the way we design organizations when intelligence is no longer scarce? That is the provocative question at the heart of this conversation with Brian Solis

Sep 15
46 min

471 How to Ask Better Questions and Lead Through Uncertainty with Larry Robertson

As uncertainty rises, people often look to leaders for greater certainty. Yet the more complex the environment becomes, the less credible it is for any one person to clai

Sep 8
39 min

470 [Thursday Refresh] Leading Change: How Leaders Create Lasting Transformation with John Kotter

In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with John Kotter, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, co-founder of a management consulting fir

Sep 3
46 min

469 Why AI Adoption Is a Psychology Problem, Not a Technology Problem with Gleb Tsipursky

AI adoption is often treated as a technology challenge: choose the right tools, train people to use them, and drive implementation. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky argues that this fr

Sep 1
42 min

468 [Leadership Reset] The Performance Paradox: When Success Gets in the Way of Growth with Eduardo Briceño

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Aug 25
50 min

467 [Leadership Reset] How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Persuasion, and Transformation with David McRaney

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Aug 18
1 h 16 min

466 [Leadership Reset] Trust & Inspire: Why the Future of Leadership Requires a Different Operating System with Stephen M. R. Covey

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Aug 11
1 h 07 min

465 [Leadership Reset] CEO Excellence: The Mindsets and Practices of the World’s Best CEOs with Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vik Malhotra

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Aug 6
44 min

464 [Leadership Reset] Turn the Ship Around: Creating Leaders Instead of Followers with L. David Marquet

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Aug 4
44 min

463 [Leadership Reset] Leading Through Uncertainty: How CEOs Make Better Decisions When Everything Is Changing with Ram Charan

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Jul 28
31 min

462 [Leadership Reset] Why Successful Organizations Struggle to Change with Marcus East

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Jul 21
46 min

461 [Leadership Reset] How AI Is Reshaping Value Creation and Competitive Advantage with Sangeet Paul Choudary

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Jul 14
55 min

460 [Leadership Reset] The Octopus Organization: Why Smart Teams Still Wait for Permission with Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner

Welcome to the Summer Leadership Reset on Partnering Leadership. We have more access to ideas than ever before. More books. More podcasts. More articles. More insights.

Jul 7
54 min

459 The Hidden Work Behind Successful AI with Fern Halper

Many organizations have an AI strategy. Far fewer have built the organizational foundations needed for AI to create lasting business value. Generative AI has made it eas

Jun 30
31 min

458 Why Your Team Is Busy, Exhausted, and Still Not Moving the Needle with Liane Davey

Why do so many teams work harder than ever but still struggle to make meaningful progress? In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with organizat

Jun 23
40 min

457 The Hidden Cost of the Conversations Your Team Isn’t Having with Gustavo Razzetti

In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Gustavo Razzetti, workplace culture strategist, founder of Fearless Culture, and author of Forward Ta

Jun 16
39 min

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