Feb 25, 2026
Charles Steel reflects on “more than two decades in private equity, banking,” combined with “public service roles, including advising Tony Blair,” and how these experiences led him to a late but powerful discovery: “the best way to really find purpose in life is to be creative, to make stuff.” He...
Feb 23, 2026
Lorraine Marchand, startup CEO, advisor to Johnson & Johnson, member of the Pharmaceutical Advisory Board at Columbia Business School, and faculty at Wharton, discusses how leaders can sustain growth through disciplined experimentation in an era shaped by AI and institutional risk aversion.
Marchand’s perspective is...
Feb 18, 2026
Ashley Herd, former Head of HR North America at McKinsey, joins this episode to discuss what effective leadership looks like in practice, especially in environments defined by speed, pressure, and increasing expectations around AI.
Drawing on her experience training more than 250,000 managers, she introduces a simple...
Feb 16, 2026
John McGinnis, law professor at Northwestern University and author of Why Democracy Needs the Rich, examines constitutional design, democratic stability, and the accelerating force of artificial intelligence. Drawing on the Federalist Papers, Tocqueville, and public choice theory, he argues that a...
Feb 11, 2026
Dr. Guy Winch explains why we must treat emotional injuries with the same urgency as physical ones. “We ruminate, we beat ourselves up, we criticize ourselves, we think we’re weak… and we end up compounding the emotional injury.” He introduces the idea of “emotional first aid” and why we need a psychological...