Teresa Amabile is a leading creativity researcher at Harvard Business School, focusing on how workplace environments influence innovation. Diego Rodriguez, a former IDEO partner, is an innovation strategist renowned for his expertise in design thinking and product development. Both bring valuable insights to the podcast on fostering creativity in organizations.

Diana is an advisor to exceptional leaders, and has worked with over 1000 organizational leaders and many of their teams. She has created and implemented professional onboarding and ongoing programs—based on the comprehensive body of work she developed with CLG co-founder Jim Dethmer—with clients such as Asana and Esalen.

Marcus Hollinger is an award-winning marketer and innovation leader. He led Grammy-winning campaigns and now coaches at Stanford d.School. His coffee company was named Georgia’s best by Food & Wine.

Josh Ruff is an innovation expert with experience at Hyatt and Stanford d.school. At Stoked, he helps teams launch new ideas and won a CEO Award for improving postpartum support.

This is a special sneak peek at a new collaborative effort I’m undertaking with entrepreneur Henrik Werdelin, called “Beyond the Prompt,” where we explore the intersection of AI and business. In this first episode, Henrik and I sit down with Greg Shove, CEO of edtech disruptor Section, to discuss the emergence of the AI class and the role of technology in redefining education in the future.

Billy Oppenheimer is a talented writer and research assistant from Austin, TX, and one of my favorite online voices. After cold emailing his favorite writer in 2018 and offering to work for free, he was hired full-time six months later. Since then, he’s helped Ryan Holiday with research, writing, and marketing five books and growing a massive audience.

After delving deep into the psychology of belief in "How Minds Change," best-selling author and acclaimed podcaster David McRaney has set his journalistic sights on understanding the nature of true genius.

We invited him to speak to Transformative Design, a graduate course at Stanford. Here's a sneak peek into the intimate classroom conversation.

Amy C. Edmondson is a Harvard Business School professor known for her pioneering research on psychological safety. Named the #1 Management Thinker by Thinkers50 in 2021, her work has been featured in top publications and her TED Talk has over three million views. She’s the author of Right Kind of Wrong, The Fearless Organization, and Teaming.

Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, advisor, and Columbia Business School professor. A top expert in strategy and innovation, she’s ranked among the world’s leading management thinkers. Her notable books include Seeing Around Corners and The End of Competitive Advantage.

In Think Faster, Talk Smarter, Stanford lecturer Matt Abrahams shares practical tools to help anyone speak confidently on the spot. He shows that quick, effective communication is a learnable skill, offering science-based tips to manage anxiety and speak clearly and memorably in any setting.

Liz Tran is the founder of Reset, an executive coaching company to CEOs and founders. Before founding Reset, Liz spent over a decade working in the tech industry, most recently as the only female executive at a leading venture capital firm. She is a trained meditation teacher and Reiki Master and studied yoga at the Samyak Ashram. She lives in New York City and Norfolk, Connecticut with her husband, Dev, and their dog, Grover.

Lezlie and Jake Karls are the sibling duo behind Mid Day Squares, the white hot venture revolutionizing the chocolate industry through authenticity.

Wiseman is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter. Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world.

Marcus is a Founding Partner of Jumpstart Health Investors (JHI), the most active early-stage healthcare venture capital firm in America. Of JHI’s funds, Marcus leads Jumpstart Nova, the first healthcare venture fund in America investing exclusively in Black-founded and led startups.

Ron Johnson served as the senior vice president of retail operations at Apple Inc., reporting directly to Steve Jobs, where he pioneered the concept of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar. Join me and special guest interviewer Greg McKeown as we dive into several pivotal moments in his relationship with Steve Jobs.

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. She is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. But she’s more than a scholar: she’s also a gifted practitioner.

Dr. Astro Teller is the CEO of X, Alphabet's moonshot factory for building magical, audaciously impactful ideas that can be brought to reality through science and technology.

In this conversation, we dig into how to lead an organization geared to stimulating radical, disruptive innovation and future-orientation.

Seth Godin is an American author and a former dot com business executive with over 20 best selling credits to his name. As a marketing and management guru, Seth has his eyes on the fault lines of today’s shifting working paradigm. Tune in to our discussion of his new book “Song of Significance.”

A deep dive with a deep soul. Warning: this one hits hard.

During Jason’s 13+ year career at Nike, he led and contributed to the creation of innovative sport performances products for athletes and cultural icons such as Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Derek Jeter, and Michael Jordan.

Jennifer Wallace is an award-winning journalist and social commentator covering parenting and lifestyle trends. Her new book, Never Enough, discusses the phenomenon of “toxic achievement culture” among teens, and what parents can do to create environments that enable thriving.