The Leader Learner Podcast
The Leader Learner podcast is for readers and leaders of all kinds.
Rather than talk to authors about the professional development books that they have written, the Leader Learner podcast spotlights readers and delves into their process the book(s) that have had an impact on them and their work.
This podcast is brought to you by Theresa Destrebecq, founder of Emerge Book Circles.
Join me as I discuss books, learning, and leadership with the guests.
Read Deeper Not Faster.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
S04E09- Shake the Tree with Valentina Tacchino
💡 SPOTLIGHTED BOOK : Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
📚 GUEST READER : Valentina Tacchino
💬 CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS:
- the book is very portable -- you can dip in and out
- how girls/wom…
S04E08 Incongruence and The Smush (with Lucy Chambers)
💡 SPOTLIGHTED BOOK : Unbound by Kasia Urbaniak
📚 GUEST READER : Lucy Chambers
💬 CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS:
- when managing 2 opposing views together ( a Taoist Nun and a Dominatrix)
- power is c…
S04E07 Live, Love, Learn and Leave a Legacy (with Maha Bali)
💡 SPOTLIGHTED BOOK : First Things First by Stephen R. Covey 📚 GUEST READER : Maha Bali
💬 CONVERATION HIGHLIGHTS:
- it's a life management book and how to prioritize
- imagining the end of you…
S04E06 Turn a Sacred Wound Into a Sacred Scar
💡 SPOTLIGHTED BOOK : Wild Mind by Bill Plotkin
📚 GUEST READER : Andrei Stoicescu
💬 CONVERATION HIGHLIGHTS:
- growing from a place of unknowing
- not knowing where/when you will learn - it can h…
S04E05 Comment Fonctionnent Les Groupes Humains
LIVRE: Les structures fondamentales des sociétés humaines de Bernard Lahire
INVITÉ : Aïda Koné
Resumé:
- Comprendre les groupes humains
- Psychologie - focus sur l'individuel
- Sociologie - focus …
S04E04 Don't Fear Her Tears with Dominique Ara
Spotlight Book: That's What She Said by Joanne Lipman
Guest : Dominique Ara
Conversation Highlights:
- soft skills are people to people
- transgender experiences can give a peak into how our g…
S04E03 The Perils and Power of Perfectionism
SPOTLIGHTED BOOK: The Perfectionists Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
GUEST READER : Viktoriia Berezhna
CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS:
- Perfectionism evolves over time when w…
S04E02 Moose Heads and Fertilizer with Alejandro Garcia Machuca
SPOTLIGHTED BOOK: Moose Heads on the Table by Karin Tenelius and Lisa Gill
GUEST READER : Alejandro Garcia Machuca
CONVERSATION TOPICS:
- Leadership is something you step in and out of. It's…
S04E01 : The Magic of Metaphor with Vincent Musolino
SPOTLIGHTED BOOK : Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan
GUEST READER : Vincent Musolino
CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS :
- We talk of organizations as metaphors
- We speak in metaphors and stories
- S…
S03E19 The Season 3 Recap
Check-In:
- What actor or actress would play you in the movie version of your life?
Episode 1:
- Power is for everyone
- Power is an expression of our relationships within groups
- Power over and p…
S03E18 The Practice Listening! Episode
Check-In:
- What was your favorite job? And why?
Big Ideas:
- move from shallow questions to deep questions
- freedom, pace, connection
- autonomy and connectedness are part of the motivational fact…
S03E17 The Disengaged Episode
SUMMARY:
In this episode, Vincent and Theresa chat about some Gallup data around employee engagement across the world. Who is actively disengaged at work? Who is not engaged? Who is enga…
S03E16 Leading The 20-Somethings Episode
Check-In:
- What's your favorite place in your neighborhood?
Big Ideas:
- Common issues in phone-based children now adults - social isolation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, add…
S03E15 : The How Can I Help? Episode
Check-In:
- What has recently become less important to you?
Big Ideas:
- Look at the lattice of the organization, not just the ladder
- Leap between individual contributor and manager
- No change of…
S03E14 Is Theresa a Sexist Episode?
Check-In: What's giving you hope right now?
Big Ideas:
- What constitutes inequity?
- When your unbelonging can connect you with other people who feel unbelonging
- Gender equity issues not comi…
S03E13 The Story I'm Telling Myself Episode
Check-In:
- Which projects give you energy?
Big Ideas:
- 3 skills that lead to successful groups: building safety, sharing vulnerability, establishing purpose
- cohesive groups - telling stories …
S03E12 The Intentional Flexibility Episode (with Lisa Davidian)
Check-In:
- Do think the best time of your life is in the past, present, or future
Big Ideas:
- flexibility in work schedules - what do we need to do so
- the equipment that supports remote work…
S03E11 The Chess and Checkers Episode
Check-In:
- If you could live anywhere, where would you live and why?
Big Ideas:
- when books make leadership seem easy, when it's not
- 5 elements that every team needs to function well togeth…
S03E10 The Trombone Leadership Episode
Check-In:
- How did you spend your summer breaks as a child?
Big Ideas:
- How do you know when connection exists in a group?
- The importance of having care/connection when giving feedback
- Connect…
S03E09 The Kronos and Kairos Episode
Check-In:
- In your opinion, when is innovation overused?
Big Ideas:
- Binary questions - Are they useful or not?
- Are creating and innovating the same?
- Moving from being salaried to hourly and …