Positive Leadership

The voice in your head has been talking since before you finished this sentence. For most leaders it is the least managed instrument they own, and the most consequential. Ethan Kross is the psychologist and author who has spent over two decades studying that inner voice. He directs the Emotion & Self-Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan, advises Fortune 500 leaders and Navy SEALs,...

Six months into her first management job, Anu Bharadwaj got the feedback no leader wants to hear: she was too intense, she pushed her team too hard. She was stunned. She was only asking them to do what she would do herself. Anu Bharadwaj began at Microsoft building video games, then made a bold leap to Atlassian in 2014, where she rose from product lead on Jira to COO and then President. Along the...

In 2011, Stéphane Bancel walked away from the security of leading a 6,000-person diagnostics company to join a startup of about 50 people, built on an idea most scientists had dismissed: that messenger RNA could become medicine. Almost everyone told him not to do it. He gave the bet roughly a five percent chance. Nine years later, that same bet helped the world face a pandemic in 63 days. Stéphane...

Donna Hicks spent three decades at the world's hardest conflict tables and found one hidden injury beneath them all: a violation of human dignity. From the Middle East to Northern Ireland, she watched negotiations stall not over policy, but over something no one in the room had named. This episode is the word that changed everything, and the model she built around it. Dr Donna Hicks, author o...

À 27 ans, il a marché seul jusqu'au bout de la Terre. Ce qu'il a trouvé là-bas n'était pas un sommet. À 27 ans, Matthieu Tordeur devient le plus jeune explorateur au monde à rallier le pôle Sud à ski, en solitaire et sans ravitaillement. 1 150 kilomètres en 51 jours. Un traîneau de 115 kilos. Moins 50 degrés. Et la solitude la plus radicale qu'un être humain puisse choisir. Né...

A country drifting toward narco-state. The answer isn't a hammer. It's warm water.  Belgium is one decision away from becoming a narco-state. Judges in hiding. Prosecutors under armed protection. An 11-year-old girl killed in a drug-related shooting in Antwerp. The country hosting Europe's second-largest port now seizes over 120 tons of cocaine a year. And the Belgian government han...

Companies built on love outperform the S&P 500 by 14 to 1. Conscious capitalism, stakeholder leadership, healing organizations — Raj Sisodia proved it with data, then spent a year in the Himalayas and the Amazon proving it on himself. Raj Sisodia, Co-Founder of the Conscious Capitalism movement and author of sixteen books including Firms of Endearment and The Healing Organization, grew up acro...

What does it take to start a global movement when you feel like the world isn't listening? Today, my guest is Vanessa Nakate, the pioneering Ugandan climate justice activist, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and founder of the Rise Up Movement. Vanessa’s journey began in 2019 with a solitary strike outside the Ugandan parliament. Since then, she has become one of the most powerful and necessary vo...

What happens when one of Silicon Valley's most accomplished engineers decides the system he helped build is broken—and walks away to fix it?  Today my guest is Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla and one of the most civic-minded technologists I know. We explore why the fight for open-source AI isn't just a technical debate; it is really a fight for who controls our relationship with knowledg...

What if the greatest turnaround in modern corporate history wasn’t driven by financial engineering or restructuring, but by an unshakeable belief in science and human talent?  In this powerful episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast, I welcome Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca—a visionary leader who transformed a struggling pharmaceutical company into a defining global force in oncology, cardio...

What if the stories you inherited about who you’re supposed to become—from your family, your industry, your own fears—are the very narratives holding you back?  In this powerful episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast, I welcome Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, a visionary media executive who has led transformations at The New Yorker and WIRED, and an extraordinary marathoner who set an...

Dans ce nouvel épisode du Positive Leadership Podcast, j'ai l'honneur d'accueillir Moussa Camara , un entrepreneur visionnaire et un bâtisseur de ponts infatigable qui redessine le visage de l'entrepreneuriat en France. Fondateur de l'association Les Déterminés , Moussa a consacré sa vie à une conviction simple mais puissante : le talent est partout, même si les opportunit...

In this new episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast, I’m delighted to welcome Katarina Berg, a leader who has redefined HR and culture for the digital age.   As the long-time CHRO of Spotify and now Chief People Officer at On , Katarina has been at the helm of some of the most intense “hyper-growth” stories in tech history. But her journey started long before boardrooms—growing up sailing the w...

In this final episode of our special series dedicated to AI, I’m delighted to welcome MacKenzie Price , a Stanford-trained psychologist turned education revolutionary and co-founder of Alpha School .  We often hear that AI might disrupt education, but MacKenzie is proving that it can actually save it. After her own daughter told her that school was “boring,” MacKenzie didn’t just complain—she buil...

In this episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast , second edit ofthis special series dedicacted to AI, I’m delighted to welcome Navrina Singh , Founder and CEO of Credo AI , and one of the most influential voices shaping the future of responsible artificial intelligence.  Navrina is a technology leader with nearly two decades of experience at Qualcomm and Microsoft , and today she stands at the...

In this first episode of our special AI series, I have the pleasure of welcoming Peggy Johnson — a remarkable leader whose career spans mobile innovation, augmented reality, and now humanoid robotics.   What struck me in our conversation is how deeply human her approach to technology has always been.  Peggy grew up as one of fifteen children, in a family where every voice mattered. Later, she beca...

Pour célébrer les 10 ans de Live for Good , j’ai souhaité enregistrer un épisode très spécial du Positive Leadership Podcast. J’y reçois deux entrepreneurs que j’admire profondément et qui incarnent, chacun à leur manière, l’esprit de notre communauté : Anne-Sophie Thomas , fondatrice de Gestia Solidaire , et Marius Hamelot , cofondateur du Pavé® .  Depuis dix ans, avec Live for Good, nous souteno...

In this episode, I speak with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox , global leadership expert, Thinkers50 Hall of Famer, and a pioneer of gender-balanced and age-ready organizations.  We explore her unique journey across cultures, what she’s learned from advising leaders on four continents, and why cultural and contextual awareness is now essential for anyone leading across genders, generations — and even within...

From transforming how business thinks about nature, to mapping the first global plan to reverse global warming, Paul Hawken has spent his life showing us that regeneration isn’t just possible — it’s already happening.  As the author of landmark books like The Ecology of Commerce , Natural Capitalism , Drawdown , and Regeneration , and now Carbon: The Book of Life , Paul has inspired generations of...

What if the biggest risk in leadership wasn’t failure — but success that blinds us to change?  In this episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast , I had the great pleasure of welcoming Rita McGrath , one of the world’s most influential voices on strategy and innovation. A professor at Columbia Business School and author of The End of Competitive Advantage , Discovery-Driven Growth , and Seeing Ar...

In this new episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast , I have the pleasure of welcoming Jean-Pascal Tricoire , Chairman and former CEO of Schneider Electric.  From his humble beginnings in rural France to leading one of the world’s most influential industrial companies, Jean-Pascal’s story is one of resilience, transformation, and purpose. For nearly two decades as CEO, he reimagined Schneider E...

In this episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast , I have the great pleasure of welcoming Gianpiero Petriglieri , one of the world’s leading voices in leadership development. A professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD, Gianpiero’s work bridges psychology, management, and education.  Trained first as a medical doctor and psychiatrist in Italy, he later reinvented himself as a leadership sch...

Méditation, neurosciences et leadership spirituel   Dans cet épisode du Positive Leadership Podcast , j’ai le plaisir d’accueillir Hermès Garanger : Lama, conférencière, auteure et productrice de télévision.  À seulement 19 ans, elle est devenue la plus jeune femme Lama occidentale après une retraite spirituelle de plus de 1 000 jours. Depuis, elle a consacré plus de 30 000 heures à la méditation...

In this special summer bonus episode, I want to offer you something a little different. This is a chance to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters. Leadership that goes beyond profit to create lasting impact is what drives change, and in this 40-minute episode, I’ve gathered powerful moments from past conversations on the Positive Leadership Podcast —voices that remind us how purpos...

In this episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast , we sit down with John Elkington , the trailblazing thinker who coined the concept of the Triple Bottom Line and helped shape the global sustainability agenda for over four decades.  From his early influences to his latest provocations like Green Swans and Tickling Sharks , John shares his journey, his frameworks, and his vision for a future wher...