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The Good Leadership Podcast

The Good Leadership Podcast

Charles Good 305 Episodes Aug 18, 2026

The Good Leadership Podcast helps leaders outlearn, outthink, and outperform. Each week, host Charles Good sits down with leading authors, researchers, and practitioners to unpack the science of leadership, learning, behavior change, decision-making, and human performance. More than inspiration, each episode delivers practical ideas you can apply to think better, lead smarter, and perform when it matters most.

Episodes

Turn Great Experiences Into Lasting Change: Rethinking How You Create Customer Value with Joe Pine
Turn Great Experiences Into Lasting Change: Rethinking How You Create Customer Value with Joe Pine Aug 18, 2026 00:32:02 What are your customers really buying?Often, it isn’t the product, service, or even the experience itself. They are buying what they hope it will help them achieve, change, or become.In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good talks with Joe Pine, bestselling author of The Experience Economy, about the next evolution of value creation: moving beyond memorable experiences to helpin
Standing Out in the AI Age: How to Stay Visible, Valuable, and Relevant with Sally Helgesen
Standing Out in the AI Age: How to Stay Visible, Valuable, and Relevant with Sally Helgesen Aug 11, 2026 00:29:12 AI can help us work faster, produce more, and automate tasks that once took years to master. But as technology becomes more capable, a more important question emerges:What will continue to make you valuable?In this special 300th episode milestone series of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good sits down with internationally bestselling author, speaker, and leadership expert Sally Helgesen to e
Why Leaders Need a Disruptive Growth Strategy in the AI Era with Whitney Johnson
Why Leaders Need a Disruptive Growth Strategy in the AI Era with Whitney Johnson Aug 4, 2026 00:26:11 AI can help us work faster, produce stronger outputs, and appear more capable. But what happens when technology allows us to skip the slow and uncomfortable stage where real learning takes place?In this episode, Charles Good speaks with Whitney Johnson, one of the world’s leading experts on personal disruption and the S-Curve of Learning.Whitney explains why every period of growth begins with unce
Building Leadership Capability in the AI Age with Dave Ulrich
Building Leadership Capability in the AI Age with Dave Ulrich Jul 28, 2026 00:33:27 Artificial intelligence can accelerate output, but sustainable performance depends on whether human and organizational capability can keep pace.In this milestone episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with renowned leadership and HR thinker Dr. Dave Ulrich about turning individual talent into organizational capability that creates value for customers, investors, employees, and
Winning the Long Game With AI: Building Advantage That Compounds | Dorie Clark
Winning the Long Game With AI: Building Advantage That Compounds | Dorie Clark Jul 21, 2026 00:35:46 AI can make your work faster, cleaner, and more impressive. But can it also create an illusion of competence—improving the output while the judgment, expertise, and original thinking underneath it stop developing?In this special episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with bestselling author and globally recognized business thinker Dorie Clark about what it takes to win the lon
Beyond Belief: The Hidden Driver of Behavior Change with Nir Eyal
Beyond Belief: The Hidden Driver of Behavior Change with Nir Eyal Jul 14, 2026 00:46:01 What if your motivation problem is actually a belief problem?We often assume that knowing what to do and understanding why it matters should be enough to change our behavior. Yet knowledge rarely produces lasting action on its own. The missing ingredient is often the belief that our effort will make a difference.In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with Nir Eyal, New
The Human Side of AI Transformation with Alison McCauley
The Human Side of AI Transformation with Alison McCauley Jul 7, 2026 00:32:26 AI is not just changing the tools leaders use. It is changing how leaders think, learn, make decisions, and build confidence in their own capabilities.This episode is part of our 300th episode milestone series, “What It Takes to Keep Rising in an AI Era.”In this conversation, Charles Good sits down with Alison McCauley to explore one of the most important leadership questions of this moment: how d
The Price of Nice: Why Brave Leaders Choose Clarity Over Comfort
The Price of Nice: Why Brave Leaders Choose Clarity Over Comfort Jun 30, 2026 00:37:30 Nothing was wrong in that meeting. That's exactly the problem.Everyone was polite. Heads nodding. Full agreement in the room. And then everyone left — and nothing changed. The frustration no one named kept building. The project everyone quietly doubted kept moving. The talented person who never felt heard started updating their resume.Amira Barger calls this the price of nice.In this episode of Th
The Hidden Forces Shaping Leaders in the AI Era with Dan Ariely
The Hidden Forces Shaping Leaders in the AI Era with Dan Ariely Jun 23, 2026 00:43:49 Your work has never looked better. So why do you feel less sure of yourself than you did five years ago?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, behavioral economist Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational and Misbelief) unpacks a quiet problem facing ambitious leaders right now: AI is polishing your output faster than you're actually growing your capability. The result is an &quot
How to Keep Rising in the AI Era with 6 of Today’s Most Respected Voices
How to Keep Rising in the AI Era with 6 of Today’s Most Respected Voices Jun 16, 2026 00:35:31 For our 300th episode, Charles Good sat down separately with six of the most influential thinkers alive, and asked them all the same question: in an age where AI can produce the work, what's actually happening to us?Dan Ariely. Dorie Clark. Sally Helgesen. Whitney Johnson. Dave Ulrich. Alison McCauley. None of them heard the others' answers. They work in completely different fields. And ev
How to Build a Team That Keeps Getting Better with Dr. Ron Friedman
How to Build a Team That Keeps Getting Better with Dr. Ron Friedman Jun 9, 2026 00:31:20 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆?In this episode of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁, award-winning social psychologist 𝗗𝗿. 𝗥𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻 joins us to unpack the science behind high-performing teams and the practical habits that turn ordinary groups into superteams.Drawing on the most comprehensive study of elite teams ever conducted, featured in his new book 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛
How to Do Great Work When Everything Keeps Changing with Melissa Swift
How to Do Great Work When Everything Keeps Changing with Melissa Swift Jun 2, 2026 00:33:33 The hours are the same, or maybe fewer, but the work has gotten heavier. More context-switching, more overlapping priorities, more pings fracturing your attention. And a nagging sense that all the effort is producing diminishing returns.Melissa Swift has a name for what's happening and a framework for fixing it.In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good sits down with Melissa

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