Fearless Creative Leadership
We talk to leaders of the world’s most disruptive companies about how they are jumping into the fire, crossing the chasm and blowing up the status quo. Leaders who’ve mastered the art of turning the impossible into the profitable.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 516
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Ep 28: Media executive and entrepreneur Gerry Laybourne on Encouraging Others
'The Teacher'.
Gerry Laybourne has spent her life unlocking the creativity of others. From her early beginnings as a teacher and film-maker, she created not one but two game-changing networks. First,…
Ep 28: Gerry Laybourne - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our full conversation.
Ep 27: Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs of Food52.com on Feeding Their Passions
'The Partners'.
Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs are the co-founders of Food52.com. Their goal was to create the first crowd sourced, online cook book. As you will see if you visit the site, they hav…
Ep 27: Food 52 - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our full conversation.
Ep 26: Rosemarie Ryan of CO Collective on Tackling Tough Topics
'The Dancer'.
Rosemarie Ryan has been leading creativity most of her life. She has helped to build some of the most famous and effective creative companies of their time, leaving behind her a wake of…
Ep 26: Rosemarie Ryan - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our full conversation.
Ep 25: Elizabeth Kiehner of IBM on turning ideas into realities
'The Optimist'.
Technology is increasingly the platform on which fearless creative leadership sits. The challenge of this is twofold. First, we need the capability to get the answers to the questions…
Ep 25: Elizabeth Kiehner - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our full conversation.
Ep 24: Nils Leonard of Uncommon on Unlocking Creativity
'The Difference Maker'.
Over time and with experience, the best leaders are able to quiet the internal noise. The voice in their head becomes less critical and more confident - more certain and more …
Ep 24: Nils Leonard - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our full conversation.
Ep 23: Faith Popcorn of Brain Reserve on Predicting The Future
'The Futurist'.
Faith Popcorn has spent almost half a century living in the future. She has predicted everything from the inevitable to the unbelievable. Her company, Faith Popcorn’s Brain Reserve ha…
Ep 23: Faith Popcorn - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our full conversation.
Ep 22: Writer Adam Bryant on asking smart questions
'The Listener'.
Adam Bryant is the creator of ‘The Corner Office’, a weekly feature of The New York Times in which he interviews business leaders from diverse industries. The Corner Office has been a…
Ep 22: Adam Bryant - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our conversation.
Ep 21: Wendy Clark of DDB on focusing on what matters
'The Poet'.
Today’s guest is Wendy Clark, the CEO of DDB, North America. She has been the President of Strategic Marketing at Coca-Cola and the SVP of Global Marketing at AT&T. She was named Ad Age’…
Ep 21: Wendy Clark - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our conversation.
EP 20: "The Story So Far" - 1
Welcome to the twentieth episode of Fearless. After four months, nineteen interviews and roughly two hundred thousand spoken words, I thought this was a good time to take stock.
And so this episode …
Ep 19: Lisa Gersh of Alexander Wang on conquering problems
'The Lawyer'.
Lisa Gersh is a lawyer by training and a leader by instinct. After a career practicing law, she became the co-founder of the Oxygen network, before becoming the CEO of Martha Stewart om…
Ep 19: Lisa Gersh - In 5
A five minute edited highlight of our full conversation.
Ep 18: Torrence Boone and Lars Bastholm of Google on Accepting Differences
'The World Changers'.
"We're trying to figure out how do we get vaccines delivered to places that have no physical addresses."
Torrence Boone and Lars Bastholm work at Google. Their jobs are multi-fa…