Best of MBS

Best of MBS

Michael Bungay Stanier has a rich history of powerful podcasts, including the Great Work Podcast, We Will Get Through This, and 2 Pages with MBS. Find the best episodes in one place here on the Best of MBS.

Episodes

Coaching as a Strategic Business Lever with Sally Bonneywell

March 23, 2023 • 27 mins
Think coaching is a "feel good" HR initiative? Think again. In this episode of The Coaching Habit, Sally Bonneywell outlines how coaching can be a strategic tool that moves your organization closer toward its business objectives.
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How To Harness The Power of Music with Nathan Leigh Jones, PhD Student In The Power Of Lyrics

March 16, 2023 • 24 mins
Nathan Leigh Jones is a musician and an academic. He's performed all over the world, and is doing a PhD that exposes the impact of music and lyrics on emotional well-being. That expertise meant he was the official music curator at the World Happiness Summit. In our conversation, we talk about the dance between words and music, how you test to discover if lyrics really matter, and how to build the playlist you’re going to need.
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Innovation in Culture Change with Laine Joelson Cohen

March 9, 2023 • 21 mins
Today's guest is Laine Joelson Cohen, one of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coach Group, as well as the Director of Leadership, Executive and Professional Development at Citi. Laine believes that using a coaching style and curiosity as a cornerstone to her work opens up channels of trust and leads to collaboration, performance, and impact.
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How to Lead More and Control Less with Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff

March 2, 2023 • 31 mins
I’m really happy to be talking to Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, the founders of Future Search. They have a terrific new book out called Lead More, Control Less: 8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention. In this conversation the three of us discuss: Why leaders need to give up control The importance of controlling “structure” rather than people How to view anxiety as blocked excitement What leaders can do to ta...
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How to Talk to People About Things with Misha Glouberman

February 23, 2023 • 26 mins
Misha Glouberman runs a program called “How to Talk to People About Things,” is a faculty director at the executive education program at the Ivy Business School, and the host of Trampoline Hall. In our conversation we work on how to get out of our own way when we’re having a conversation; the foundational error that derails a good conversation; how curiosity can be a saving grace; why we so often continue to tolerate short-term irr...
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Nurturing Networks with Selena Soo

February 16, 2023 • 28 mins
As a Marketing & Publicity Strategist, Selena Soo knows the value of relationships and helps others connect to influencers. In this interview, Selena reflects on how the fastest way to reach your goals is through nurturing networks. This episode explores how you can gain leverage and credibility by drawing on the platforms and reach of leaders.
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Being Your True Self with Danielle LaPorte

February 9, 2023 • 24 mins
I’m pleased to share my conversation with Danielle LaPorte. Danielle writes and speaks extensively on how to live an authentic, damn good life and make an impact. She’s the author of The Fire Starter Sessions and The Desire Map. To this day, people will come up to me and tell me how this interview was an aha! moment for them to becoming more attuned to “wide-awake living.” In this interview, Danielle and I chat about: Being your t...
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How to Manage Your Mindset with Ric Leahy

February 2, 2023 • 41 mins
Ric Leahy served on the staff of the Chief of the Australian Navy, and was awarded a Queen's Gold Medal, and later in his career the Conspicuous Service Cross. He now leads a number of leadership programs for Australia’s top business schools, has become a “neuro nerd” with an Executive Masters degree on neuroscience and leadership, and is an endurance athlete. In our conversation we talk about where we do our best thinking--and why...
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Challenging Oppression in Company Cultures with Desiree Adaway

January 25, 2023 • 22 mins
Desiree Adaway, Principal at The Adaway Group, is a seasoned nonprofit consultant and facilitator. Her work involves helping people, organizations, and institutions change their company culture by addressing the norms, policies, and behaviours that maintain oppression.
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To Serve is to Live with Frances Hesselbein

January 19, 2023 • 21 mins
When I think about the icons of management and leadership theorists, not many names come to mind. But a few do. Peter Block, Peter Drucker, Frances Hesselbein. In this interview, I had the deep pleasure of speaking with Frances from her office at the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. For those of you who are not familiar with Frances, she held the position of CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA from 1976 to 1990 and is the recipie...
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How to Tell an Epic, with Nancy Duarte, author of Data Story

December 29, 2022 • 25 mins
Nancy Duarte is the co-founder and CEO of Duarte, an agency based in Silicon Valley that has been at the forefront of the revolution to improve communication. In our conversation, we explore the power of the three-act structure, different types of stories and the problems they solve, and how to start and finish any story with grace and aplomb.
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Michael Leckie on Sparking Change

December 22, 2022 • 17 mins
Michael Leckie believes that our ability to learn and engage with our fellow human beings is the catalyst for transformation. In this interview, he reflects on giving people the tools and the space that can spark change.
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How to Get to the Next Level with Whitney Johnson

December 15, 2022 • 27 mins
When you are up to your eyeballs in the Good Work you do every day, it’s sometimes impossible to figure out how to level up and get to your Great Work. That’s why I’m excited to be speaking to Whitney Johnson, the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, as well as Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream. Whitney’s a recognized thought leader on driving corporate innov...
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How to Create an Invincible Company with Alexander Osterwalder, innovation expert

December 8, 2022 • 29 mins
Dr. Alexander Osterwalder is one of the world's most influential innovation experts, and is an author, entrepreneur and speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Strategyzer. He shot to fame with his business model canvas, a tool used by millions worldwide. In our conversation we talk about what it means to me to create an ambidextrous company; the role of the CEO in innovation; some examples from his library of different business mode...
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Dr. Marcia Reynolds on Presence, Coaching Culture & Crossroads

December 1, 2022 • 19 mins
Today, I'm speaking with Dr. Marcia Reynolds, who was the fifth global president of the ICF, the International Coach Federation, and is currently on the global board as a director.
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Ron Friedman Takes on Bad Workplaces

November 24, 2022 • 30 mins
Did you know that over 80% of the world’s employees are disengaged at work? That figure is both enormous and depressing. Unfortunately, too many workplaces can be a mediocre environment — the kind of environment that saps people’s spirit, engagement, motivation and life. That’s why I’m thrilled to talk to Ron Friedman, PhD, the author of The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace. In this con...
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How Build a Resilience Profile, with Dr. Edy Greenblatt, author of Restore Yourself

November 17, 2022 • 30 mins
Dr. Edy Greenblatt is a resilience pioneer, a work/life balance expert, and a coach supervisor. She has a joint PhD in organizational behaviour from the Harvard Business School, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where she specialized in dance. In our conversation we dig into what, exactly, a dance anthropologist is; how to find those behaviours that nourish and deplete us; and Michael gets some coaching on dealing with a pa...
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Mark C. Thompson on Scaling Yourself & Your Organization

November 10, 2022 • 25 mins
Meet Mark C. Thompson, the founder of Sir Richard Branson's entrepreneurship centres, New York Times bestselling author and executive coach. In this interview, he shares how "business as usual" is essentially dead and buried, and, as leaders we need to be the instigators of our own change. See how he outlines what's needed to be able to scale ourselves and our organizations to greater heights.image
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Helping People Do Great Work with Pamela Slim

November 3, 2022 • 29 mins
Before writing the powerful and transformative book Body of Work, Pamela Slim was best known for her Escape from Cubicle Nation, an impassioned plea to organizations to let people do Great Work — or let them go free. That’s when I first interviewed Pam, just a little over six years ago. I’m revisiting this interview with her in our 300th-episode series because I think there is a lot we can learn about finding our own Great Work. Sh...
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Lead in extremis with Tom Kolditz, former Brigadier General

October 27, 2022 • 27 mins
Tom Kolditz is the founding Director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, named top university program by the Association of Leadership Educators. The Doerr Institute is his fifth successful leader development start-up. His book In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended on It has become one of the go-to texts for leading in the COVID-19 crisis. In our conversation we dig into the process for eva...
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