Leadership Art Podcast

✨ Art-icle 18: The Peter Principle is here! 👉 Host Art Robbins takes on promotion: people rise for the job they are leaving, not the job they are entering, until craft excellence meets work it was never built for. 📌 In this Art-icle, you'll hear:Why promotion rewards the last job, not the next oneWhy a day one Chief Technology Officer title can create a mismatch, not just a skills gapHow AI...

This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Mandana Bonakdar for a powerful conversation on reinvention, creativity, and discovering new passions. After building a career in IT, business, and academia, Mandana discovered a passion for painting during the pandemic. Since then, she has earned national recognition for her work, embracing a new creative path in an unexpected second c...

📧 Art-icle 17: The Third Ideology is coming! 👉 Host Art Robbins takes on a tired debate: neither capitalism nor socialism decides whether an organization is good to work for. What matters is the operating layer underneath, which he calls human centric leadership. 📌 In this Art-icle, you'll hear: Why economic systems don't determine workplace culture The three principles of human centric...

This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Zarina Bahadur, founder of 123 Baby Box, for a powerful conversation on entrepreneurship, leadership, and building a business with purpose. As the founder of 123 Baby Box, Zarina brings her perspective on building a brand, navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship, and turning an idea into a business. ? What does it take to turn a b...

✨ Art-icle 16: The Power of Critical Thinking is now live!👉 Host Art Robbins takes on a quiet crisis: critical thinking is disappearing, and AI is speeding up the decline. We have moved from information overload to answer overload, where polished answers arrive without the reasoning behind them. Just ask the attorney who submitted AI fabricated case law to a federal court.📌 In this Art-icle, yo...

Ghosting isn’t just bad manners. In business, it can be a leadership failure. A fast “no” gives people clarity and the ability to move forward. Silence leaves them carrying the cost of your indecision. In this Leadership Art Art-icle, Art Robbins explores why responsiveness builds trust, why leaders need to close the loop—and why sometimes a fast "no" really is a gift. Ask yourself: Is t...

🎙️ That's a wrap on Season 3 of the Leadership Art Podcast. Fifteen guests. Different industries, different generations, different continents — a biotech CEO fighting cancer with RNA, a college senior already leading teams before graduation, a founder who employs refugees because that's where the magic is, and many more. Yet line every conversation up side by side, and the same lessons kee...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast,  Art Robbins  welcomes Katarina Polonska, executive relationship strategist and founder of the Successfully in Love® Method, for a powerful conversation on leadership where it matters most: your relationship with yourself. Katarina works with founders, executives, and senior leaders who are exceptional in business, but at the expense of their relationshi...

Every Frankenstein movie gets it wrong. The monster wasn't the danger, the abandonment by his creator was. Victor Frankenstein built something extraordinary, panicked, and ran away without a plan for what came next. Sound familiar? We're building AI at a pace and scale no one fully controls, and too many leaders are doing the same thing Victor did: creating first, then taking no responsibility as...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast,  Art Robbins  welcomes Neda Pelar, scientist, educator, and founder of Neda's Consulting, for a powerful conversation on adversity, reinvention, and betting on yourself across three continents. Neda's journey took her from running her own clinics in Iran, to earning her PhD in molecular pathology in Brazil, to scaling life science startups in the...

🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you. 💭 Art borrows a concept from chess: zugzwang — the moment when you're forced to move, and every legal move loses. It's not a courage problem. It's what happens when the menu of good options quietly narrows, one decision at a time, long before the crisis hits. Toys R Us got bo...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Nicolas Votano, Chief Business Officer at OJIN AI, for a powerful conversation on leading through disruption, building resilient teams, and keeping the human at the center of the AI era. Nicolas has spent 20+ years driving innovation and digital transformation across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America — today leading th...

One table. Twelve men. A teenager's life in the balance. The first vote is 11 to 1 and the lone holdout isn't even sure he's right. He just isn't ready to send someone to die without talking about it first. 🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you. 💭 Art turns the classic film 12 Angry Men into a leadership labor...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Mindy Zemrak, Supervising Casting Producer for Shark Tank, for a powerful conversation on storytelling, pitching, and what makes people impossible to look away from. Mindy has been part of Shark Tank since Season 1 and has led its casting team through 18 seasons — sifting through 15,000 to 20,000 applications a season to find the ent...

Two companies. Same AI budget. Same tools. Eighteen months later, one saved their users hours each day — the other still can't figure out why its AI keeps getting the answer wrong. Same technology. Wildly different outcome. 🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks why vertical AI solutions are the way to unleash the untapped value within you...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Don DiCostanzo founder of Pedego Electric Bikes. Don didn't just build a company — he created an entire industry, taking electric bikes from an idea the cycling world rejected to the mainstream movement it is today. A lifelong serial entrepreneur who sold his first products door-to-door at nine years old, Don grew Pedego into the...

Replace every plank of a ship, one by one — is it still the same ship? A 2,000-year-old question that might be the most important one you answer as a leader. 🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you. 💭 Art unpacks the Ship of Theseus paradox: the Athenians replaced every rotting plank of their hero's ship until not one origi...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Tyler Clark, founder of Zawadie, for a powerful conversation on inclusive innovation, the untapped power of overlooked talent, and leading a model the world has never seen before. In a recent Art-icle, Art shared Michelangelo's belief that the statue was already in the marble — leadership isn't always about adding, but about...

🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you. 💭 Art has traveled to Florence, to Michelangelo's David  a masterpiece carved from a block of marble two other sculptors had abandoned as damaged and unusable. Asked how he created it, Michelangelo reportedly said he simply removed everything that was not David. The statue was already th...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Keren Leshem, biotech executive and CEO of ViVac Pharma, for a powerful conversation on leading through uncertainty, building resilient teams, and pursuing a mission measured in years, not quarters. ❓ How do you lead when the goal is a decade away — and the world keeps interrupting? 🧠 Why does Keren see resilience not as toughing i...

A title grants you authority. But it doesn't grant you influence. And that difference changes everything.  🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo reflection series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you. 💭 Art explores the myth that leadership is a destination you arrive at once you've climbed high enough. He calls it the Title Trap — the belief that you need permission,...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Julia Nimchinski, CEO and Founder of Hard Skill Exchange, for the most honest conversation about AI and leadership you'll hear this year. ❓ Everyone is talking about AI. But how many leaders have actually defined their vision for it and set the guardrails before touching the technology? 🧠 Why is AI less about the technology and...

Are you leading with character or just riding on a smile and a shoeshine?  🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo  series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you.💭 Drawing from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Art delivers five leadership lessons from a story written nearly 80 years ago that still hits harder than most business books on the shelf today. 📚Charm ope...

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Kevin Noertker, Co-Founder and CEO of Ampaire, for a powerful conversation on pioneering innovation, staying true to your convictions, and leading when the future is uncertain. ❓ What happens when the world wants you to chase the shiny object — but your principles tell you to stay the course? 🧠 Why is the most important leadership...

What if the most important decision you make as a founder isn't what you build — but where you build it?   🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you. 💭 Drawing from the old real estate principle "location, location, location," Art makes the case that geography isn't just logistics it's a strategic leadership...