The Academic Boardroom Podcast

In a very personal episode of The Academic Boardroom, hosts Dr. Eli Joseph and Dr. Janice Gassam Asare speak with Dr. Jonathan Farley, who is a trained mathematician from Harvard and Oxford, a longtime professor, and a former member of the Vanderbilt faculty who left Tennessee after receiving threats over his views on Confederate memorials. However, in this episode, the topic of discussion is not...

Have you ever finished a presentation only to think that sounded much better in your mind? In this episode of the Academic Boardroom, Dr. Eli Joseph and Dr. Janice Gassam Asare talk with Dr. Laura Sicola—communication guru, executive coach, author of Speaking to Influence, and TEDx speaker who has gotten over 7 million views—on the many reasons why many intelligent and capable leaders miss the mar...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Brian Clark was standing on the 84th floor of the South Tower when he felt the tremor, and instead of rushing through the only stairway still operational, he hesitated. He heard someone calling for help through the smoke and rubble; it was Stanley Praimnath, who was stuck on the 81st floor. In this episode of the Academic Boardroom, Brian Clark tells Dr. Eli J...

On September 11, 2001, Stanley Praimnath was on the 81st floor of the South Tower when United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into his office, making him one of the 18 people who survived the impact zone. Praimnath tells the story of his experience on that day in this episode of the Academic Boardroom in conversation with Dr. Eli Joseph. He describes the ordinary Tuesday morning, which became a life-c...

In The Academic Boardroom, Dr. Eli Joseph and Dr. Janice Gassam Asare have an interesting discussion with Julie Mastrine.  Julie is the Director of Communications and Bias Services at AllSides and the creator of the AllSides Media Bias Chart. Julie explains how she made her way from being a journalism student to being a media bias watchdog and describes the event that alerted her to the fact that...

For 42 years, Dr. Laurel Mellin has been part of UCSF, as well as working and studying for almost 50 years the problem of understanding why we suffer. All this experience brought her to a conclusion: the roots of almost every chronic disease, addiction, and mental disorder are the same—a brain being stuck in survival circuits, which means that neither psychotherapy nor effort will affect it; howev...

In this episode, Dr. Eli Joseph and Dr. Janice Gassam Asare welcome Dr. Jason Del Gandio, a communications professor at Temple University and the writer of the new book "Vibe Talk: How and Why We Communicate About Vibes." Del Gandio discusses how his lifelong interest in 'vibes' began, stemming from early experiences in counterculture and becoming an academic philosophy of 'bodily emanation.' He d...

Dr. Eli Joseph and Dr. Janice Gassam Asare sat down with Dr. Naia Butler-Craig, who is a scientist and aerospace engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center. Dr. Butler-Craig graduated from Georgia Tech with a Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering and shares her experience starting from the moment she discovered aerospace engineering in eighth grade until her research work in the domain of providing space el...

Celebrating a pivotal milestone, "100 Days of TAB" reflects on the remarkable first 100 days and 15 episodes of The Academic Boardroom . Hosted by Dr. J and Dr. E, this special release highlights the show's rapid ascent into the top five percent of global podcasts, amassing over 20,000 downloads and producing 16 original tracks. The episode revisits key themes that have defined the platform's visi...

In this insightful episode, Seth Panitch talks about his first book, Antique; his two-decade-long career of blending academia with theater and moviemaking; and views on artistry in the era of artificial intelligence and quite popular influencer culture. Seth explains that Antique was born from witnessing the emotional scene on the show Antiques Roadshow, which explains the issue of how society tak...