The Good Leadership Podcast
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
The More Connected We Become, the Less We Really Connect with Andy Lopata
AI can give us answers faster than ever. But can it replace the trust, relationships, and human connections that make great leadership possible?As organizations embrace AI to improve productivity, they risk overlooking something essential: the conversations, collaboration, and trusted relationships that drive innovation, influence, and professional growth.In this episode of The Good Leadership Pod
How to Build Your Team’s Judgment with AI with Charles Good
Your team agrees. But have five people examined the decision or are they repeating the same recommendation?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Part 3 of the Judgment Series, Charles Good explores how to improve team decision-making by making individual judgments, confidence levels, and assumptions visible before discussion begins.Through a product or service launch scenario, discover h
How to Strengthen Your Judgment with AI with Charles Good
Want to make better decisions with AI? Before you prompt, write down your judgment, your confidence, and your key assumption. Then use AI to challenge your thinking and check your forecast against what actually happens.In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Part 2 of the Judgment Series, Charles Good walks through a practical approach to AI decision-making using a pricing decision and a t
Why Developing Your Judgment Is the New Competitive Advantage with Charles Good
AI can make your work faster, sharper, and more polished. But there is a less obvious risk: your output may be improving faster than your underlying judgment.In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good explores what happens to professional judgment when AI increasingly handles the analysis, generation, and first-pass reasoning that people once had to do themselves.The central ques
Why the Aging Workforce Could Become Your Biggest Advantage with Dan Pontefract
What happens when the workforce gets older, careers get longer, and decades of organizational knowledge begin walking out the door? Dan Pontefract, author of The Future of Work Is Grey, joins Charles Good on The Good Leadership Podcast to explore how demographic change is reshaping the future of work and why leaders need to rethink how they approach age, careers, retirement, and experience. Dan in
How to Stay Valuable at Work in the Age of AI with Melissa Swift
How do leaders stay effective when work is changing faster than ever? Melissa Swift, author of Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World, joins Charles Good on The Good Leadership Podcast to explore what effectiveness really looks like in an era of AI, constant disruption, workplace overload, and organizational chaos. Melissa shares her Effectiveness Architecture (knowledge, methods
When Everyone Sounds the Same, What Makes You Stand Out? with William Arruda
AI has made it easier than ever to create polished content, communicate ideas, and build visibility. It has also made it easier for everyone to sound remarkably similar. So when great-looking output becomes abundant, what actually makes you stand out?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with personal branding pioneer William Arruda about how leaders and professionals
What the Research Says High Performers Do Differently with Ty Bennett
What really separates high performers from everyone else? According to new research commissioned by bestselling author and leadership expert Ty Bennett, the answer is less about working longer and more about preparing better.In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Ty joins Charles Good to unpack the ideas behind his new book, Redefining High Performance. He shares why preparation emerged a
From Scarcity to Scale: What Great Innovators Learn From Constraints with Dr. Amos Winter
What if the next breakthrough comes from having fewer resources, tighter constraints, and less room for error?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with MIT professor Dr. Amos Winter, co-author of Global by Design, about why some of the most powerful innovations emerge from environments where affordability, infrastructure, and context cannot be ignored. Drawing on exa
Design for Transformation: The Next Evolution of Customer Value with Joe Pine
What if the greatest value you create for customers is not the experience they have, but who they become because of it?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with Joe Pine, bestselling author of The Experience Economy, about the next evolution of customer value: transformation. Joe explains how leaders can move beyond products, services, and memorable experiences to un
What Will Make You Valuable When AI Can Do More with Sally Helgesen
AI can help you work faster, produce more, and make your output look better than ever. But as those advantages become available to everyone, a more important question emerges: what will keep you valuable?In this special 300th-episode series of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with bestselling author and leadership expert Sally Helgesen about what continues to compound across a care
How to Stay on the Growth Curve as AI Changes the Work with Whitney Johnson
AI can help you work faster, improve your output, and stay productive long after your own learning has begun to slow. That creates a new challenge for leaders: how do you know when you are still growing and when technology is simply making the plateau harder to see?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with Whitney Johnson, leading expert on personal disruption and th
What Leaders Must Keep Building as AI Gets Better with Dr. Dave Ulrich
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
What Still Compounds When AI Changes Everything with Dorie Clark
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 lo
What If Your Motivation Problem Is Really a Belief Problem? with Nir Eyal
What if the reason you are struggling to change has less to do with motivation and more to do with what you believe will happen when you try?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with bestselling author Nir Eyal about the hidden role beliefs play in behavior, persistence, and performance. Drawing from his new book, Beyond Belief, Nir explains how beliefs act as workin
The Human Side of AI Transformation with Alison McCauley
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 and The Courage to Say What Needs to Be Said with Amira Barger
Nothing went wrong in the meeting. Everyone was polite. Everyone nodded. No one challenged the plan. Then the meeting ended, the real concerns remained unspoken, and nothing changed.Amira Barger calls this the price of nice. In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, she joins Charles Good to explore how the desire to preserve harmony can keep leaders and teams from saying what needs to be sa
The Hidden Forces Shaping Leaders in the AI Era with Dan Ariely
Your work has never looked better. So why do you feel less certain of your own ability than you did five years ago?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, behavioral economist Dan Ariely, bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and Misbelief, explores a growing risk for ambitious leaders: AI can improve the quality and speed of your output faster than it develops the capability behind
How to Keep Rising in the AI Era with 6 of Today’s Most Respected Voices
AI is making the work faster, cleaner, and more impressive. But is it making us better?For the 300th episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good asked six leading thinkers—Dan Ariely, Dorie Clark, Sally Helgesen, Whitney Johnson, Dave Ulrich, and Alison McCauley—the same question: when AI can increasingly produce the work, what happens to the human capability underneath it? Their answers
What High-Performing Teams Do Differently with Dr. Ron Friedman
What separates teams that keep getting better from those that simply work harder? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, social psychologist Dr. Ron Friedman explores the research behind high-performing “superteams” and the leadership practices that help people perform at their best together.Ron explains why more collaboration and communication do not automatically produce better results,
Work Smarter When Everything Gets Harder: A Better Way to Lead Through Change with Melissa Swift
Why does work feel heavier even when the hours have not changed? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Melissa Swift, author of Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World, explores why intensification, constant context-switching, and overlapping priorities are making people work harder for diminishing returns.Melissa introduces her Effectiveness Architecture and explains ho
The Aging Workforce Crisis Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore with Dan Pontefract
What if one of your organization’s most valuable assets is hiding in plain sight? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dan Pontefract joins Charles Good to explore the growing challenge of an aging workforce and why leaders who overlook experience may be creating what he calls “Age Debt.”Drawing from his new book, The Future of Work Is Grey, Dan introduces the Rivers, Rocks, and Rubies
Why Trust Breaks and How Leaders Rebuild It with Drs. Dennis & Michelle Reina
Trust is not something leaders either have or do not have. It is built through specific behaviors—and those behaviors can be observed, measured, strengthened, and repaired. In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Dennis Reina and Dr. Michelle Reina share what more than three decades of research have taught them about how trust actually works inside teams and organizations.The Reinas ex
Mid-Career Plateau: Why High Performers Stop Getting Better and How to Break Through with Charles Good
Your work may be getting better while your capability stops growing. Somewhere in mid-career, the harder assignments become familiar, feedback gets thinner, reflection disappears, and AI can make output look stronger without requiring the same mental effort that once built your judgment.In this solo episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good explores why capable professionals plateau eve
Stop Giving Advice: Ask the Questions That Build Better Leaders with Michael Bungay Stanier
Most leaders were promoted because they had answers. But as responsibility grows, always being the problem-solver can create dependency and turn the leader into the bottleneck. In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good sits down with Michael Bungay Stanier, bestselling author of The Coaching Habit, to explore how asking better questions can help people think more deeply, take gr
Outlearn. Outthink. Outperform. | The Good Leadership Podcast Trailer
Most leadership advice sounds great in the moment. The real test comes Monday morning.When the meeting gets tense. When the decision is unclear. When your team needs direction. When the pressure rises and there is no script.The Good Leadership Podcast is built for those moments.Hosted by Charles Good, President of the Institute for Management Studies and author of Outlearn. Outthink. Outperform.,
How to Make Core Values a Leadership Tool, Not a Poster with Dr. Paul Ingram
Why do core values sound meaningful in theory but often disappear when decisions get difficult? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Paul Ingram, Columbia Business School professor and author of What Do You Really Stand For?, explains how leaders can turn values into practical tools for judgment, trust, and performance.Paul shares why generic value lists often fail, how to uncover t
Build Your Bench Before You Need It: Rethinking Succession Planning with Charles Good
What happens when a key leader leaves, and the person named as successor is not actually ready? In this solo episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good explores why many succession plans look stronger on paper than they prove to be in practice.Charles examines the difference between identifying a successor and developing one, why thin leadership pipelines create dangerous key person depe
How Leaders Cut Through Noise and Make Better Decisions When Everything Feels Urgent with Matt Carstens
How do companies and leaders stay strong when markets shift, headlines intensify, and pressure rises?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good talks with Matt Carstens about what leadership looks like when volatility becomes the norm. Drawing from experience across agriculture, sustainability, finance, and turnaround leadership, Matt explains how strong leaders stay steady when
How to Remember More and Perform Under Pressure with Dr. Megan Sumeracki
What makes learning hold up when the pressure is on? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Megan Sumeracki explores why many familiar learning habits create short-term confidence without producing knowledge we can reliably retrieve and use.Megan explains the power of retrieval practice, the role of growth mindset in sustained improvement, and practical strategies for turning good int
The AI Paradox: When Better Results Hide Weaker Thinking with Charles Good
Is AI making your people more capable—or simply making it easier to produce better work? In this solo episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good explores a growing leadership risk: productivity can rise even as the judgment, knowledge, and skills underneath that performance begin to weaken.Drawing on research from learning science, behavioral science, AI-enabled work, aviation, chess, an
The Coaching Habit That Changes How You Lead with Michael Bungay Stanier
What if the instinct to give advice is actually limiting your team’s growth? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Michael Bungay Stanier, bestselling author of The Coaching Habit, explores why great leaders create more impact by asking better questions and resisting the urge to provide every answer.Michael explains why coaching often fails to become a lasting leadership behavior, even a
How Will You Measure Your Life? Rethink Success Before It’s Too Late with Karen Dillon
What if the metrics you use to judge success are leading you in the wrong direction? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Karen Dillon, co-author of How Will You Measure Your Life?, explores how the choices we make about time, energy, career, relationships, and integrity ultimately shape the life we build.Drawing on the work of Clayton Christensen, Karen explains why titles, money, and
Why Some Messages Stick, Spread, and Persuade with Nancy Harhut
Why do some ideas grab attention, stick in memory, and move people to act while others disappear almost immediately? In Part II of my conversation with behavioral science expert Nancy Harhut, we explore how stories, framing, labels, curiosity, and choice architecture shape the way people perceive information and make decisions.Nancy explains why stories can make ideas more memorable, how reframing
Get Better at Anything: The Science of Faster Skill Development with Scott H. Young
Is there a better way to get good at almost anything? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, bestselling author Scott H. Young explores the science of skill development and why improvement depends on more than simply putting in more hours.Scott explains how observation, imitation, structured practice, and feedback accelerate learning, along with why cognitive load can make complex skills
Why Leaders Revert Under Pressure and How to Perform Better When It Counts with Charles Good
Why does your knowledge seem to disappear in the moments when you need it most? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good explores why leaders often revert to their most practiced behaviors under pressure, even when they know a better response.Charles explains how stress can overload working memory and why skills need to be practiced under varied conditions before they reliably
What It Takes to Reach the Top 1% with Dr. Kumar Mehta
What separates people who are very good from those who become truly exceptional? In Part II of my conversation with Dr. Kumar Mehta, we explore why elite performance depends on more than talent or effort. It requires a system built around deliberate practice, environment, commitment, and the ability to make choices today that serve who you want to become tomorrow.Kumar explains how commitment devi
What Every Leader Should Know About How Learning Works with Dr. Megan Sumeracki
What if one of the biggest leadership advantages is simply knowing how to learn better? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, cognitive psychologist Dr. Megan Sumeracki explores what learning science reveals about memory, effective practice, and why our intuition often misleads us about whether learning has actually happened.Megan explains why confidence can be a poor measure of competen
Don’t Succeed at the Wrong Things: Build a Life You Won’t Regret with Karen Dillon
What if the biggest risk is succeeding at things that ultimately do not matter to you? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Karen Dillon, former editor of Harvard Business Review and co-author of How Will You Measure Your Life?, explores how leaders can apply business thinking to the decisions that shape careers, relationships, and long-term fulfillment.Karen shares lessons from her wor
Get People to Act: The Psychology Behind Persuasive Messages with Nancy Harhut
Why do people respond to one message and ignore another? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Nancy Harhut explores how behavioral science can help leaders communicate more persuasively by understanding the shortcuts people use when making decisions.Nancy explains the role of emotion, loss aversion, the endowment effect, reciprocity, scarcity, exclusivity, and social proof in shaping be
Learn Faster, Lead Better: Build the Meta-Skill That Keeps You Adaptable with Scott H. Young
What if the leaders who adapt fastest are simply better at learning? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, bestselling author Scott H. Young explores how leaders can improve more quickly by designing learning around strong examples, focused practice, and useful feedback.Scott explains why effort alone is rarely enough, how cognitive load can make learning harder than it needs to be, and
Turn Potential Into Performance: What High Achievers Do Differently with Dr. Kumar Mehta
What separates people with potential from those who turn it into exceptional performance? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Kumar Mehta explores why talent is only the starting point and how self-belief, environment, commitment, and consistent action shape what we ultimately achieve.Kumar shares the concept of micro excellence, mastering the small details that compound into super
See the Problem Differently: What Art Teaches Leaders About Better Decisions with Amy Herman
What if better problem-solving starts with learning to see more clearly? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Amy Herman explores how observing art can train leaders to notice hidden details, challenge assumptions, and approach difficult problems from new perspectives.We discuss how bias can distort judgment, why empathy and feedback expand what leaders are able to see, and how better q
Cultivating Community in the Workplace with Dr. Karla Van Havel
What makes people feel like they truly belong at work, especially when teams are spread across offices, homes, and time zones? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Karla Van Havel explores how leaders can intentionally build stronger workplace communities that increase trust, connection, and engagement.Karla shares her BRING method for cultivating community and explains why leaders
The Missing Link in Leadership: Aligning Mindset, Skillset, and Behavior with Wendy Ryan
Why do leaders sometimes know exactly what good leadership looks like and still struggle to put it into practice? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Wendy Ryan explores the connection between mindset, skillset, and behavior—and why lasting leadership growth requires all three.Wendy explains why self-awareness and a growth mindset are essential, how a people-first approach strengthens
Make Customers Feel Special: The Details That Build Lasting Loyalty with Jon Picoult
What makes a customer experience feel genuinely personal and memorable? In Part II of my conversation with Jon Picoult, we explore the subtle details that shape customer impressions and turn ordinary interactions into stronger loyalty.Jon explains the power of perceived control, relevance, personalization, advocacy, and pleasant surprises. We also discuss why seemingly small details matter so much
Why Satisfied Customers Still Leave: Build Loyalty Through Better Experiences with Jon Picoult
Why do satisfied customers still walk away? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Jon Picoult explains why satisfaction is only the starting point and how leaders can create experiences that leave stronger, more memorable impressions.Jon shares lessons from Amazon’s frustration-free packaging, the dangers of complacency, and why great experiences depend on reducing effort, simplifying ch
Unlocking Leadership Potential Through Coaching with Dr. Karla Van Havel
Why do even experienced leaders benefit from having a coach? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Karla Van Havel explores how coaching can help leaders gain perspective, navigate difficult challenges, and become more intentional about where they invest their time and energy.Karla shares how effective coaches adapt their approach to the individual rather than relying on a single met
Train Your Brain for Happiness: Daily Practices That Strengthen Leadership with Dr. Paul Zak
Can happiness be trained? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Paul Zak explores the biology of happiness and explains how daily practices such as gratitude, connection, service, and vulnerability can strengthen emotional well-being and leadership effectiveness.Paul shares why social connection is so important, how high-value moments shape our experience, and why investing in relati
Rethinking Talent Management: What Learning Science Can Teach Leaders with Dr. Cynthia Nebel
What if better talent management starts with understanding how people actually learn? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Cynthia Nebel explores how learning science can improve every stage of the talent lifecycle, from recruiting and onboarding to leadership development, retention, and even employee exits.Cynthia shares practical ways to simplify candidate experiences, use concret
What Happens When Everyone Is Expected to Lead? Inside JTI with Kate Ostrovska
What changes when leadership stops being defined by title and becomes an expectation for everyone? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, I speak with Kate Ostrovska, Talent Development Partner at JTI, about the company’s move toward a universal definition of leadership.Kate explains how creating one shared leadership standard can reshape culture, expand ownership, and help employees acro
Rethink How You Learn: What Works, What Fails, and What to Do Instead with Drs. John Dunlosky & Regan Gurung
Which learning strategies actually help—and which ones only feel productive? In Part II of my conversation with Dr. John Dunlosky and Dr. Regan Gurung, we examine popular approaches to learning, including rereading, highlighting, mnemonics, brain-training apps, study environments, and the role of music in focus.We also explore why mindset, self-efficacy, emotional well-being, planning, and support
Why Top Performers Learn Differently with Drs. John Dunlosky & Regan Gurung
Why do some people turn learning into lasting performance while others forget most of what they were taught? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. John Dunlosky and Dr. Regan Gurung explore what learning science reveals about how adults retain, apply, and transfer new knowledge.We discuss self-regulated learning, spaced practice, interleaving, priming, and why what happens between le
Turn Career Conversations Into Competitive Advantage with Drs. Dave Ulrich & Beverly Kaye
What can leaders do before a great employee starts thinking about leaving? In Part II of my conversation with Beverly Kaye and Dave Ulrich, we explore the career conversations and development practices that help people keep growing even as work, technology, and organizations change.Beverly shares practical tools including stay interviews and her LEVER framework—Lateral, Explore, Vertical, Enrichme
Why Great People Stay: Growth, Culture, and Value Creation with Drs. Beverly Kaye & Dave Ulrich
Why do great employees stay and what ultimately causes them to leave? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Beverly Kaye and Dave Ulrich explore how growth, relationships, culture, and values shape employee engagement far more deeply than perks alone.Beverly shares why leaders should “ask more and assume less,” how career conversations can become powerful moments of connection, and why h
See What Others Miss: Sharpen Your Observation and Decision Making with Amy Herman
What are you missing simply because you have stopped looking closely? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Amy Herman explores how stronger observation skills can improve judgment, communication, and decision-making.Amy introduces her Art of Perception framework—assess, analyze, articulate, and adapt ad explains how studying art can train leaders to notice details, question assumptions,
Why Most Learning Doesn’t Last: What Leaders Should Do Differently with Dr. Cynthia Nebel
Why does so much learning disappear soon after the training ends? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Cynthia Nebel explores what learning science reveals about how people actually build knowledge that lasts and why many familiar approaches create weaker results than we think.Cynthia explains the value of spaced retrieval, effective note-taking, and active engagement while challeng
Change What People See: Use Stories to Build Trust and Connection with Gabriel Reilich
What happens when the stories we consume every day begin shaping how we see people, work, and the world around us? In Part II of my conversation with Gabriel Reilich, we explore how constant exposure to negative narratives can reinforce fear and disconnection—and how more intentional storytelling can help restore trust and perspective.Gabriel shares lessons from years of curating real-world storie
Making Goodness Contagious: The Upworthy Formula for Viral, Positive Storytelling with Gabriel Reilich
Why do some positive stories spread to millions of people while others disappear in the feed? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, I sit down with Gabriel Reilich, Head of Content and Innovation at Upworthy, to explore the power of positive storytelling, viral content, and using social media to strengthen human connection.Gabriel shares the thinking behind Upworthy’s success and what th
Put Your Values to Work: Make Better Decisions and Realign What Matters with Robert Glazer
What happens when the values you say matter most no longer match the way you are living or leading? In Part II of my conversation with Robert Glazer, we move from discovering core values to using them as a practical tool for better decisions, greater alignment, and more authentic leadership.Robert explains how to recognize value misalignment, why three or four clear values are more useful than a l
Find Your Leadership Compass: Let Core Values Guide Better Decisions with Robert Glazer
What actually guides your decisions when the stakes are high? In Part I of my conversation with Robert Glazer, we explore how identifying and articulating your core values can create a clearer internal compass for leadership, career choices, relationships, and major life decisions.Robert shares how discovering his own core values changed the way he led and made decisions. We also examine why many
How Burns & McDonnell Builds Leaders at Scale with Jim Facinelli & Tyler Kerkmann
How do you build a strong leadership pipeline across a large, growing organization? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, I speak with Burns & McDonnell’s Jim Facinelli, Head of Learning & Development, and Tyler Kerkmann, Talent Development Strategist, about how they develop leaders across more than 70 offices.We explore how Burns & McDonnell’s employee-owned culture shapes l
From Leadership to Teamship: Rethinking High-Performing Teams with Keith Ferrazzi
What if the biggest limitation on team performance is expecting the leader to do too much of the leading? In Part II of my conversation with Keith Ferrazzi, we explore his concept of “teamship” shifting from hub-and-spoke leadership toward teams that challenge, support, and hold one another accountable.Keith shares practical ways to build psychological safety, increase candor, create peer-to-peer
Why Smart People Learn Faster: The Science of Learning with Dr. Daniel Willingham
Why do experts see patterns that beginners miss, and why is background knowledge so important for learning something new? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, cognitive scientist Dr. Daniel Willingham explains how knowledge, practice, memory, and pattern recognition work together to build real expertise.We explore chunking, fluid versus crystallized intelligence, the progression from ro
Grow Your Career by Growing Your Relationships with Keith Ferrazzi
What if the biggest constraint on your career is not talent, but isolation? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Keith Ferrazzi shares why meaningful relationships remain one of the most powerful drivers of career growth, leadership influence, and opportunity.Keith explains why generosity should come before asking, why you should build relationships long before you need them, and how Re
Turn Learning Into Performance: What Leaders Should Do Differently with Drs. Henry Roediger & Mark McDaniel
What makes learning actually show up when people need to perform? In Part II of my conversation with Drs. Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, we move from the science of memory into practical strategies leaders can use to improve retention, transfer, and performance.We explore spacing, interleaving, prospective memory, environmental cues, elaboration, and reflection, along with real-world applicatio
What Leaders Should Know About How We Really Learn with Drs. Henry Roediger & Mark McDaniel
Why does rereading feel productive even when it produces weak long-term learning? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Drs. Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, co-authors of Make It Stick, explain what decades of cognitive science reveal about how learning and memory actually work.We explore encoding, consolidation, and retrieval, why productive difficulty strengthens learning, and how re
From Worry to Wonder: Build Success You Can Actually Enjoy with Dr. Mary Anderson
What if the next level of achievement has less to do with pushing harder and more to do with enjoying the life you are building? In Part II of my conversation with Dr. Mary Anderson, we explore how high achievers can transform worry into curiosity, strengthen relationships, and create motivation that lasts beyond the next milestone.Mary shares practical ways to turn “shoulds” into “cans” and “want
Achieve More Without Burning Out: What High Performers Get Wrong About Happiness with Dr. Mary Anderson
Why can achievement feel so rewarding on paper and still leave high performers exhausted or dissatisfied? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Mary Anderson explains how perfectionism, comparison, cognitive distortions, and the constant pursuit of the next milestone can undermine both wellbeing and performance.Mary shares practical ways to challenge all-or-nothing thinking, separate
Learn, Unlearn, Relearn: What Leaders Need to Know About Learning Science with Drs. Robert & Elizabeth Bjork
How do you know whether you have actually learned something—or whether it simply feels familiar? In Part II of my conversation with Drs. Robert and Elizabeth Bjork, we explore why rereading, highlighting, and verbatim note-taking can create false confidence while retrieval practice and self-testing expose what you truly know.The Bjorks also explain goal-directed forgetting, why outdated knowledge
What Leaders Get Wrong About Learning and Development with Drs. Robert & Elizabeth Bjork
Why can making learning harder actually make it more effective? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Drs. Robert and Elizabeth Bjork explain the science of “desirable difficulties” and why practice that feels smooth and easy can create an illusion of mastery without producing lasting learning.We explore spacing, interleaving, retrieval practice, varying practice conditions, and the diff
What Clutch Performers Do Before the Pressure Hits with Jake Thompson
What can you still control when the pressure rises and the outcome feels uncertain? In Part II of my conversation with Jake Thompson, we focus on three things that remain within your control your attitude, effort, and actions—and how leaders can use them to perform more consistently under pressure.Jake explains why leaders should act like thermostats who set the tone rather than thermometers who s
What Elite Performers Do Differently Every Day with Jake Thompson
What if your most important competition is the person you were yesterday? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Jake Thompson explains how his “Compete Every Day” philosophy can help leaders build greater courage, resilience, and performance by focusing less on comparison and more on consistent personal improvement.Jake shares why small actions compound, how interpreting stress as a chal
Help Your Team Feel Seen: Recognition, Pride, and Connection with Chris Littlefield
How do you help people talk about what they are proud of without making recognition feel forced or uncomfortable? In Part II of my conversation with Chris Littlefield, we explore how leaders can create environments where people feel safe sharing accomplishments, receiving recognition, and celebrating progress.Chris explains the difference between authentic and hubristic pride, why leaders should s
Use the Right Coaching Style: 7 Ways Great Leaders Develop People with Dr. David Morelli
Why does the same coaching approach work brilliantly with one person and fail with another? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. David Morelli introduces the RESPECT framework—seven coaching styles that help leaders adapt their approach to the person and situation in front of them.The seven styles (Rally, Educator, Strategist, Provocateur, Explorer, Confidant, and Transformer) give
What Leaders Can Learn from Great Musicisians with Dr. Michael Brenner
What can music teach us about leading people well? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Dr. Michael Brenner explores how the principles behind great musical performance, trust, timing, listening, harmony, and adaptation, also shape effective leadership.We discuss why emotional intelligence, gratitude, humility, and respect are essential for strong teams, along with Michael’s Three V’s o
Lead Beyond Your Triggers: Turn Old Patterns Into Greater Strength with Susan Winchester
Why do some workplace situations trigger reactions that feel much bigger than the moment itself? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Susan Winchester explains how past experiences can shape behaviors like perfectionism, people-pleasing, fear of criticism, and conflict avoidance and how greater awareness can give us more choice in how we respond.Susan explores the shift from an unconsci
What We Miss When We Overlook Potential with Wendy Ryan
Why do women founders continue to receive such a small share of venture capital? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Wendy Ryan, executive producer of Show Her the Money, explores the barriers women entrepreneurs face in accessing capital and why investors may be overlooking significant opportunities.Wendy shares practical strategies founders can use to improve their chances of securin
Why Great Leaders Design the Environment, Not Every Action with Josh Allan Dykstra
What can leaders do to create an environment where people consistently do their best work? In Part II of my conversation with Josh Allan Dykstra, we explore how leaders can design better systems while giving people greater ownership, energy, and room to contribute.Josh introduces the architect-builder model and explains why organizations need to value both big-picture thinkers and the detailed doe
Building a Future-Ready Organization with Strategic Foresight and Adaptive Leadership with Dr. Jake Sotiriadis
How do you turn strategic foresight from a leadership skill into an organizational capability? In Part II of my conversation with Dr. Jake Sotiriadis, we explore how leaders can build futures literacy, develop anticipatory thinking across teams, and create cultures that adapt without losing operational discipline.Jake explains how to identify people who naturally challenge assumptions, why humilit
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