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
S03E08 The Value the Voice Episode
Check-In Question:
- Would you tell people if you won the lottery, would you tell people or keep it a secret?
Big Ideas:
- Exercise:
- Draw a meeting on a paper.
- Color code. RED- people talking …
- Draw a meeting on a paper.
S03E07 The Feel Gratitude Don't Talk Gratitude Episode
Check-In: What cause would you be willing to give up your life for?
Big Ideas:
- gratitude can help us out of dark places
- attitude of gratitude is not the same as a practice of gratitude
- grat…
S03E06 The Mental Health Responsibility Episode
Check-In:
- If you could change anything about yourself, what would you change?
Big Ideas:
- Should organizations provide resources for employee mental health?
- Mental health is still a taboo to…
S03E05 The Everyday Authentic Leadership Episode
Check-In:
- Which superpower would you like to have?
Big Ideas:
- Definitions of authentic leadership
- Authentic leaders deeply understand their values, strength and purpose and use that to mot…
S03E04 The Create Your Leadership Episode
Check-In:
- Do you like to be used or second hand items?
Big Ideas:
- Is leadership working? Does leadership training work?
- Training cannot be done outside of the context
- Consuming, Connecting, …
S03E03 The F*ck Up List Episode
SPECIAL NOTE: This podcast was originally recorded as part of the "Talent Unleashed" podcast, which never launched because Theresa was too optimistic about her time capabilities. We dec…
S03E02 Harnessing Curiosity and Purpose
SPECIAL NOTE: This podcast was originally recorded as part of the "Talent Unleashed" podcast, which never launched because Theresa was too optimistic about her time capabilities. We dec…
S03E01: The Power to Be Episode
Check-In:
- What's better, love or money? Which has more power, love or money? What's more powerful, love or money?
Big Ideas:
- Money as a substitution for time
- Infatuation can be a very powe…
S02E22 The Care and Challenge Episode
Check-In Question
- If you were invisible, what's the first thing you would do?
- What good can you do while being invisible?
Big Ideas:
- 4 quadrant matrix - Caring Personally, Challenging Direc…
S02E21 The Creating Meaning At Work Episode
Check-In:
- What do you think the purpose of life is?
Big Ideas:
- Failing reference models
- Shift from the meaning of crisis to the crisis of meaning
- What's the meaning of work?
- Reference models …
S02E20: The Leadership Beyond Morality: Othering Others for Othering Episode
Check-In:
- If you had the whole world's attention for 30 seconds, what would you say or do?
Big Ideas:
- Hypocrisy and leadership
- Immorality in leadership
- Do leaders have to be good people?
- We t…
S02E19 Intentionally Close While Distant Episode (with Wayne Turmel)
Check-In:
- Share an experience when you felt great as part of a long-distance team, or a team in general.
Big Ideas:
- Is virtual the right word?
- Long distance, remote, or virtual - Are they …
S02E18 The Arguing is Fun Episode
Check-In:
- What is one key trait that makes successful people successful?
Big Ideas:
- Thinking better with other people
- "We think best when we think socially."
- Social constructivism
- Group thi…
S02E17 The It's Not About Meetings Episode (with Elise Keith)
Check-In Question:
- Share a memorable meeting experience.
Big Ideas:
- Rituals in meetings
- Clear structures in meetings get to a result
- How we feel in a meeting matters
- Power dynamics in meeting…
S02E16 The Get a Move On Episode
Check-In Question:
- What do you look back and think, "I would never do that again?"
Big Ideas:
- We do our best thinking when are up and moving around
- Gestures help us think through ideas
- "We …
S02E15 The Learning Revolution Episode (with Lisa Davidian)
Check-In Question:
- Do you think the internet is making people more or less social than we used to be?
Big Ideas
- Look at the quality of connections
- Move to virtual was an opportunity for man…
S02E14 The Create Opportunities to Connect Episode
Check-In Question:
- What are you attached to?
Big Ideas:
- How does our attachment related to our happiness?
- Relationships have a direct relationship to our health
- What will continue to shift i…
S02E13 The What's His Name Again Episode (with Dave Mills)
Dave Mills Bio:
With over 25 years experience in the learning and development industry. In that time he has facilitated internationally and covered a wide number of subjects from driver …
S02E12 The Upstream And Downstream Episode
Check-In:
- Describe a time when you helped a stranger.
Big Ideas:
- sense of ownership
- autonomy as a cop-out for organizational responsibility
- not about changing the fish, but about changing th…
S02E11 The Failure Is An Option Episode
Check-In Question
- Have you given yourself a life mission?
Big Ideas:
- How different industries look at failure and learning
- Not being criminalized for making mistakes
- Can we really trust peop…