The Academic Boardroom Podcast
Welcome to The Academic Boardroom, where the world’s most influential scholars, executives, and visionaries meet to bridge the gap between rigorous research and real-world results. Co-hosted by Dr. Janice Gassam Asare and Dr. Eli Joseph, this podcast provides a seat at the table for listeners who want more than just surface-level business advice—they want the data-driven strategies and behavioral insights that power global leadership. From the research labs of our most prestigious universities to the high-pressure environments of global industry, we explore how the most complex systems in our society actually operate. We move beyond the traditional lecture hall to deconstruct the intersection of sports analytics, competitive strategy, and organizational equity with the leaders who shape these fields. Our episodes feature candid, high-stakes conversations with elite guests—distilling their lifetime of expertise into actionable intelligence for the modern professional. We examine how the most complex systems in our society function from our finest universities' research labs to the high-pressure work of the world's largest companies. Moving beyond the traditional classroom environment, we deconstruct the relationship between the inner workings of higher education and analytics in sports, competitive strategy, and organizational equity by interviewing the leaders in each industry. Our episodes consist of candid, high-stakes discussions with elite guests, extracting from their lifetime of experience and turning it into actionable information for today's professional. Subscribe to The Academic Boardroom for a masterclass in leadership, delivered multiple times a week. This is where the lecture ends and the execution begins. Media Inquiries: support@theacademicboardroom.com
Episodes
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 we all are living in our own fi...
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; however, five minutes of emotional...
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 defines the 'vibe' as the energy exc...
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 electric propulsion.
In this epis...
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 vision, including high-level executive br...
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 takes aging and depth for granted. Then...
In this impactful episode of The Academic Boardroom, co-hosts Dr. Eli Joseph and Dr. Janice Gassam Asare converse with Dr. Shay Taylor-Allen to detail her inspiring journey from cleaning floors to saving lives. For the last ten years, Dr. Shay Taylor-Allen worked as a graveyard shift custodian for Yale New Haven Hospital until she experienced a personal health crisis with her family members. As a result of an important advocacy dis...
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