Carol Pearlman is a psychologist and one of the pioneers of cognitive behavioral treatment programs for adults with ADHD, where she's spent more than two decades developing, researching, and applying practical strategies for managing attention, time, and executive functioning. She later expanded that work to the general population through her healthy habits programs, and today she also consults with organizations and leaders on how to streamline workflows and work more efficiently. She's also...
Aug 28
53 min
Matt joins Paul for another episode in the “Seven Big Questions About AI” series to explore a provocative question: is generative AI actually good at anything meaningful? They unpack what it really means for AI to be “good” at something, distinguishing between being useful or effective and producing genuine quality. The conversation explores why this distinction matters as generative AI moves deeper into creative work, where quality can depend on originality, surprise, and the ability to prod...
Aug 26
47 min
Dr. Yosi Amram is a psychologist, executive coach, entrepreneur, and author of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership. He created the first measurable definition of spiritual intelligence and has coached more than 100 CEOs, drawing on his experience as a CEO of a public company and as a founder and investor in technology businesses. His work explores how qualities like purpose, service, compassion, gratitude, humility, presence, and integrity can become practical capabilities for more effective l...
Aug 20
56 min
Matt joins Paul for the second episode in the “Seven Big Questions About AI” series to explore a provocative question: is AI actually making us dumber? They unpack concerns that AI may be changing how people learn, remember, focus, and think, including stories from people who find they can complete work with AI but struggle to recall or explain what they actually did. Paul also introduces the Flynn Effect and its reversal, exploring evidence that measures of human intelligence have declined a...
Aug 18
36 min
Mark Peters is CEO of Butterball Farms, a family-owned food manufacturing company where he has spent decades thinking differently about what it means to be an employer. He is also the founder of The Source, an organization that helps employees navigate challenges like transportation, childcare, healthcare, food insecurity, and other barriers that can make it difficult to stay in the workforce. His work focuses on building more resilient people, businesses, and communities, and his new book, T...
Aug 13
46 min
The team kicks off Paul’s new “Seven Big Questions About AI” series, with Matt joining him to explore the first big question: why is AI making some of us more burned out? They unpack the gap between AI’s promise of saving us time and the reality that it can raise performance expectations, accelerate the pace of work, and blur the boundaries between employees’ and managers’ expectations. They explore how AI can turn work into a never-ending treadmill, especially when productivity is measured b...
Aug 11
53 min
Amy Bruske is President and co-owner of Kolbe Corp, where she's spent her career helping entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and consultants tap into their natural instincts to work more effectively. She's one of only three Senior Master Consultants in the Kolbe Concept, the authoritative framework for human instinct and performance, and she advises Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing businesses on how people can do more by working with their natural strengths rather than against them. She's...
Aug 6
52 min
Sonya Shelton is the founder of Executive Leadership Consulting, where she's spent 25+ years helping organizations like The Walt Disney Company, Nestlé, Microsoft, AECOM, and Experian align strategy, culture, and leadership. She's also the author of the Amazon bestseller You're an Executive, But Are You a Leader?, a book that lays out the enduring capabilities required to actually lead — not just hold a title. In this episode, Paul and Sonya discuss how rapid change, economic uncertainty, and...
Jul 31
57 min
Paul welcomes back three-time guest Bob Johansen to discuss his co-authored book, Navigating the Age of Chaos, and the shift from VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) to BANI (brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible) as a more accurate frame for today’s world. Bob explains that unlike VUCA, BANI assumes some external events won’t make sense even with data and experts, yet leaders must still decide, often with less information than they want. Paul and Bob explore why today di...
Mar 3
40 min
The team returns after the launch of Paul's new book, The AI Ready Human, and this time Matt plays the role of interviewer! In this episode Matt and Paul discuss the book’s core framework: the “Magnificent Seven” stacked capabilities—readiness, organization, control, balance, motivation, resilience, and adaptability—created in response to programs that treat AI only as a tool and overemphasize prompt engineering. The explore how to truly create evergreen skills in a world that is ever c...
Feb 24
59 min
Load more