Positive Leadership

Opportunity gives us power to move forward, live with purpose, and reach our true potential. This is a belief that Baroness Martha Lane Fox and JP share passionately. In this episode, Martha – a pioneering tech entrepreneur, philanthropist, public servant, and Chancellor of the Open University – shares insight on why digital skilling is so important in today's world, as well as the pivotal mo...

What does it mean to belong to an organization, to a team, to your colleagues? For JP’s latest #PositiveLeadership podcast guest, Amy Hood, belonging is a purpose in itself. Because when you feel like you belong, you feel brave enough to be yourself and do great things. In this episode, Amy focuses on her own personal leadership journey to becoming chief financial officer at Microsoft, how she lea...

Si le #PositiveLeadership est une science, c’est aussi un art. En effet, comme le grand art, le leadership consiste à donner vie à une vision, à susciter la réflexion et à inspirer l'action. Je vous invite à découvrir le Dr Guila Clara Kessous, la toute dernière invitée du podcast #PositiveLeadership de JP. À bien des égards, elle est un lien entre les deux mondes. Nommée comme artiste de l&a...

How can you help an entire industry to transform and do more good in the world … especially one as profit-driven as the venture capital industry? In this episode, JP learns the answer to this question from Sir Ronald Cohen, or Ronnie. Known as the “father of impact investment”, Ronnie is a compassionate capitalist dedicated to relentlessly during the transformation of the corporate world, and live...

Join JP and former Netflix CMO, author and entrepreneur Bozoma Saint John for a powerful conversation.  In this episode, Boz shares with us the life experiences that shaped her, but also importantly, the lessons she learned, so that we can also learn from them and grow.  She also shared many other wonderful stories, like walking into Spike Lee’s office as a 23 year old and fighting to get Beyonce...

Season 4 of the Positive Leadership podcast is here!  We are getting started with a wonderful guest: Bill George, a former business executive best known for his books about finding your True North as a leader.  Listen to the full episode now to hear the incredibly open, personal and insightful conversation between JP and Bill.  Feel free to let JP know on social media about which parts resonated w...

How can I make a positive impact on the world? This is a question we often ask ourselves, but struggle to resolve when thinking about the bigger picture. In the final Positive Leadership ‘Best Of’ episode, JP and guests share the personal stories and advice that helped them to find the passion and purpose within themselves to start making a difference. Featuring thoughts from Professor Herminia Ib...

In the last episode, we focused on being more positive with ourselves.  This week, it’s all about improving our relationships with others.  Why is this so important? Because by having more positive connections with those around us, we enable both ourselves and others to thrive, especially when we are in a leadership position.  As leaders, we have the opportunity to help others to dream more, do mo...

JP started this podcast because he knew Positive Leadership could help us to:   Transform our relationship with our ourselves  Have stronger connections with others  Make a bigger positive impact on society   It’s this ripple impact that makes Positive Leadership both so powerful and so simple to practice in our daily lives.  And that’s why he's put together three ‘Best Of’ episodes, each foc...

Quand Hubert Joly a pris les rênes de Best Buy en devenant son PDG en 2012, la société traversait une très mauvaise passe.  Mais il savait que quelque chose pouvait renverser la situation : la magie humaine. Dans cet épisode du podcast, Hubert a raconté à JP raconté cette histoire incroyable : comment il avait réussi à transformer Best Buy en s'appuyant sur les collaborateurs de l'entrep...

Can we approach self-growth like business growth?  Can we ‘climb our mountains’ and achieve growth through personal disruption – in the same way that disruptive innovation transforms industries?  And can we grow so much that we become the ‘keystone species’ for those we manage, feeding their own growth and development?   JP's latest #PositiveLeadership guest, best-selling author, leading busi...

L'an dernier, Maïmonatou Mar était mon invitée spéciale lors de l'épisode avec Satya Nadella, à qui elle a posé une excellente question de la part de tous les entrepreneurs #PositiveImpact. La semaine dernière, JP a eu l'occasion d'enregistrer tout un épisode avec Maï lors du Festival Génération Impact de Live for Good et il a pu en savoir davantage sur son parcours personnel e...

Lorsque vous aidez les autres et que vous leur donnez les moyens de s'épanouir et de laisser leur empreinte sur le monde, vous multipliez votre #PositiveImpact de façon exponentielle. Alice Barbe, avec qui JP a discuté en direct lors au Festival Génération Impact de Live for Good, le prouve abondamment.  Alice a travaillé 10 ans comme cofondatrice de SINGA, une organisation internationale con...

JP's third bonus WEF guest is Dr. Rajiv Shah. Rajiv has spent his career helping to solve many of society’s greatest issues – working to immunize the world with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, serving as the Administrator of USAID under President Obama. And now, as President of The Rockefeller Foundation, he is bringing green energy to people all around the world through the Global E...

JP's next guest, Jos de Blok, doesn’t believe in management. So how is he a Positive Leader? Because he believes in empowering employees by giving them the freedom to develop their own skills and careers, and providing quality coaching when needed.  It’s why he created the self-managed model that has allowed his community healthcare organization Buurtzorg to transform the Dutch healthcare ind...

In the first of 3 bonus, bite-sized episodes, JP talks to Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green, about how she is changing the world by being a 'cultural translator' - someone who brings different classes, races, ideas together to create a more equitable, sustainable and just world.  This episode was recorded on-location at WEF 22 in Davos! New here? Subscribe to Positive Leadership...

This episode had some very special moments for JP. Firstly, he got to speak with the person who wrote the book that introduced him to the concept of Positive Leadership: Kim Cameron. He also learned some valuable tips about creating stronger, more authentic relationships with teams, even when delivering negative feedback. And finally, he had the opportunity to do the Reflected Best Self Exercise w...

Que faire lorsque la vie vous force à prendre un autre chemin ? Si vous avez un état d'esprit positif, comme c'est le cas de Pauline Laigneau, l'invitée de cet épisode, vous vous en servez comme d'une chance pour réévaluer vos objectifs et devenir encore plus fidèle à vous-même. C'est ainsi qu'elle est passée d'études qui la destinaient à devenir fonctionnaire à...

This week's Positive Leadership Podcast guest is JP has long admired: Bill Drayton, the founder of  Ashoka and widely considered to be the father of #SocialEntrepreneurship. We can all learn so much from Bill about leading purpose-led individuals and empowering them to turn their ideas into actions that make an impact.  And we can all be inspired by his deep belief that everyone is a Changema...

What do you say when you get a call from Satya Nadella himself, asking you to help him transform a culture? Luckily for Microsoft, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Kathleen Hogan said yes.  From that moment on, she became an integral part of the journey that brought a new purpose, growth mindset and manager expectations to the company. In this episode, JP heads to the Mic...

It takes real courage to be purpose-driven leader, who ensures that their team and company has a Net Positive impact on the world.  So how can we be courageous leaders?  This episode’s guest, Paul Polman, is the perfect person to help us answer this question. Not only has Paul recently written a book about it, but he has also demonstrated immense courage himself – such as when he launched the Unil...

Welcome back to a brand new season of the Positive Leadership Podcast! We are kicking off with someone JP knows very well: Herminia Ibarra – academic, thought leader and author.  JP first met Herminia while he was leading a massive transformation of Microsoft’s sales organization.  Five years later, he has become one of the case studies in her MBA classes, and they are reuniting in this episode to...

Why are we better leaders when we get enough sleep or smile at strangers? How can we coach others to greatness by being lazy? And how do we use both our strengths and our weaknesses to start movements that change the world? Listen to this special ‘Best Of’ episode, featuring JP’s favorite moments from Season 2, to learn the answer to all of these questions and more. This episode uses clips from Mi...

Pour ce dernier épisode en français de la saison 2, JP discute avec Jacques Attali de la façon dont nous pouvons créer un avenir meilleur pour nous-mêmes, pour le monde et pour la prochaine génération. Ne manquez pas cette occasion unique d’apprendre de quelqu’un qui, tout au long d'une carrière longue et riche, a participé activement à de nombreuses discussions qui ont changé la face de dive...

Our final English episode of Season 2 features a big surprise: JP is speaking to not just one, but three incredible guests!  Say hello to Dr. Iffat Zafar (co-founder and COO of Sehat Kahani), Wendy Gonzalez (CEO of Sama) and Emmanuel Ekwueme (CEO of ICE Commercial Power).  While they all have very different lives and backgrounds, they are united by the fact that they have dedicated themselves to m...