Power & Impact

What makes someone a great communicator? Is it natural charisma, confidence, or a skill anyone can learn? In this episode of _Power & Impact_ , I'm joined by Matt Abrahams, a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, author, and host of the popular Think Fast, Talk Smart podcast, to explore what makes conversations meaningful and how we can become more effective communicators. Matt explain...

Why is change so hard, even when we know it could make our lives better? To find out, I turned to someone who's spent years studying what makes people tick. Julia Dhar leads the Behavioral Science Lab at Boston Consulting Group and is the co-author of How Change Really Works. On this episode of -Power & Impact_ , she challenges some of our most common assumptions about why people embrace change —...

When Gary Haugen began his career, he thought slavery was something Abraham Lincoln and the abolitionists had ended generations ago. Then he encountered children forced into labor and people being sold into sexual exploitation. What he discovered changed the course of his life. On this episode of Power & Impact, I sit down with Gary, founder and CEO of International Justice Mission (IJM), to explo...

AI is changing how we work, communicate, and learn. We're becoming more productive, but what might we be losing along the way? In this week's Power & Impact , I sit down with Dr. Tessa West, an NYU psychology professor and author of Jerks at Work, and my friend Dr. George Everly to explore a question with implications for all of us: Are we losing the human skills that matter most?  We talk about h...

Groups can bring us together to accomplish things none of us could achieve alone. They can also fuel prejudice, division, and conflict. The groups we belong to shape whom we trust and how our brains respond to the people around us.   NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel has spent his career studying what makes groups so powerful and how we can harness that power for good. In this episode of  Power & Imp...

When Andrew Yeung moved to New York, he landed jobs at Facebook and Google — and almost no one to hang out with. So he started bringing people together, beginning with a casual meetup in Central Park that drew 50 people. Those early gatherings grew into Fibe, a community that now hosts 100 events a year for some 20,000 entrepreneurs and tech leaders. Along the way, Andrew became such a fixture in...

What happens when you stop worrying about where your career is supposed to lead and start paying attention to what interests you? Craig Dubitsky has built a career on exactly that. He began on the floor of the commodities exchange and worked his way up to trader. Then he made a sharp turn into entrepreneurship, helping build Method and EOS before founding Hello Products. His latest venture is Happ...

Every kid is a natural storyteller. Somewhere along the way, most of us lose our nerve for it. Joe Lazer believes rediscovering that skill may be one of the most powerful ways to connect with other people, especially in an age of AI. A writer, marketing executive, and AI strategist, Joe has spent his career studying what makes stories work. He sees storytelling as a human ability that starts early...

Money can complicate even the strongest family relationships. It can bring to the surface questions about trust, loyalty, responsibility, and the roles everyone thought they understood. Those are questions Emily Bouchard has spent more than 20 years helping families work through. Her conversations often begin with wealth, inheritance, philanthropy, family businesses, or succession, but quickly get...

What happens when you notice an opportunity hiding in plain sight? Shawn Porat has built his career around that instinct. He started a technology company while in law school and later created a marketplace for buying and selling legal judgments. His next idea came while sitting in a Chinese restaurant, watching diners open their fortune cookies. They read the messages, laughed, talked about them,...

Capitalism has a PR problem. Martin Whittaker thinks the solution isn't abandoning it but rather making it work better for more people. Martin is the CEO of JUST Capital, an organization built around a big idea: Business can be one of our most powerful tools for solving society's toughest problems, particularly when doing good and doing well point in the same direction. In this week's episode of P...

What does it really take to build something that lasts? Starting something is hard. Making it successful is even harder. But building something that can survive changing markets, new technology, different generations and challenges you never saw coming takes something more. In this final episode of our Lessons Learned series, I look back at conversations with leaders who have built organizations a...

What if living longer isn't actually the goal? What if the real goal is living better? In the third episode of Lleadership lessons, we explore the longevity playbook with some of the leading voices in health, wellness, and purposeful aging. From the Blue Zones and the foods that help people live longer, to chronic disease, lifestyle medicine, sleep, stress, relationships, biological age, and the p...

What really makes us happy? What makes us successful? What makes a life meaningful? After a year of conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers, leaders, and entrepreneurs, one lesson keeps coming back to the same place: relationships. In the second part of Power & Impact's Leadership Lessons series,, we revisit powerful conversations about the relationships that shape our lives, our...

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping how we work, learn, and make decisions. For leaders, the challenge is learning how to move forward when the pace of change makes certainty impossible. This week's episode of Power & Impact kicks off Leadership Lessons, a month-long series exploring what today's most thoughtful leaders can teach us about navigating change. In this first instal...

What will separate the companies that thrive in the AI era from those that fall behind? In this conversation, I speak with London Business School professor and author John Mullins about the entrepreneurial mindsets that help people move faster, test ideas, and build businesses around real customer demand. John explains why experimentation is replacing traditional strategic planning and how AI can...

What happens when artificial intelligence can perform routine tasks faster, cheaper, and better than we can? In this episode of Power & Impact , I sit down with renowned business strategist Roger L. Martin to explore what will make people valuable in an AI-driven economy. Roger offers a compelling framework: AI excels at finding the most common or predictable answer, while people create value by a...

Most people hope to inherit wealth. At 27, Dr. Silver Kung inherited $10 million in family debt instead.   That unexpected burden became the catalyst for an extraordinary journey. Today, he leads a $3.3 billion investment firm and has captured his hard-won wisdom in a new book, Silver Linin gs . In it, he shares the core principles that guided his turnaround , from the rigor of his early aerospace...

Every business conversation this year seems to circle back to artificial intelligence. This week's episode of Power & Impact circles back to something older: leadership.  Former Xerox CEO Steve Bandrowczak has spent his career helping organizations navigate massive change. In our conversation, he makes the case that the companies who get AI right will be led by people who know how to help others a...

Young men are facing unprecedented challenges—from loneliness and anxiety to social media pressure and the loss of meaningful friendships. Young men are facing unprecedented challenges—from loneliness and anxiety to social media pressure and the loss of meaningful friendships. Licensed therapist Austin Cole joins Jim McCann for an honest conversation about what is really happening with men's menta...

In this week ' s  Power & Impact , I spoke with Dr. Nathan Bryan, a scientist whose  life ' s  work centers on a molecule that most of us have never heard of — but one he believes may hold important clues to how we age  and  why we get sick.   Nitric oxide helps regulate blood flow, oxygen delivery, and cellular communication throughout the body. Dr. Bryan says we produce plenty of it when  we ' r...

Larry Long Jr. lost his father more than a decade ago. He still hears his voice every day. As a struggling freshman baseball player at the University of Maryland, Larry found himself mired in a brutal slump. His father sat him down and delivered a message he didn't necessarily want to hear: Fix your mindset and everything else will follow from that. The lesson stuck: Larry went on to hit .319 in A...

In this week's episode of Power & Impact , I sat down with William Villanova, president of the iconic Frank E. Campbell funeral home in New York City. After more than 25 years in funeral service, William has guided families through some of life's most difficult moments while helping preserve traditions that have endured across generations. Our conversation explored how those rituals are adapting t...

Most of us step into an elevator without giving it a second thought. That's exactly how Judy Marks likes it. In this week's episode of Power & Impact , I speak with the CEO of Otis Worldwide Corp. about the invention that helped make modern cities possible — and what it can teach us about another technology now reshaping daily life. Otis moves 2.5 billion people every day, and Judy sees firsthand...

In this episode of _Power & Impact_, Eric Ries, creator of Lean Startup, joins Jim McCann to reveal why even the most successful businesses can lose sight of the core values that first propelled them to greatness—insights found in his new book, Incorruptible. From Costco and Johnson & Johnson to AI, venture capital, Wall Street pressure, and the future of leadership, Eric breaks down the hidden fo...