Authentic Leadership for Everyday People

Miki Feldman Simon, is an executive coach, speaker, and the author of CORE Leadership: A Four-Step Framework to Lead Yourself, Grow Your Influence, and Amplify Your Impact . Miki's perspective on people, performance, and what it really takes to lead effectively across different environments was shaped by two different lenses. First, a wide range of leadership roles, including marketing, operations, and HR leadership in companies that went through successful mergers and acquisitions. Second, grow

Kvon Tucker , founder of Consciously, was first on the podcast a few years ago , when Consciously was still closer to an idea than a fully formed organization. Since then, he has built the Consciously Collective into a growing community of coaches, counselors, and consultants who are aligned around a shared mission: helping leaders become more conscious, more loving, and more effective. I have joined Consciously as one of its co-creators, so part of this conversation is about the work we are bui

Julie Kratz teaches organizational behavior, decision-making, leadership, and culture at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. She is also a leadership coach, trainer, speaker, and author whose work focuses on allyship — what it means to support people who are different from ourselves, and how leaders can use their power and influence to make workplaces more fair and more inclusive. We talked about her path from corporate life to academia, and how a childhood moment helped shape h

Jimmy St Louis is a former NFL tight end and currently on his second successful venture leading innovative healthcare companies focused on solving unmet needs. He is the CEO of Agentis Longevity, a healthcare company specialized in performance and longevity medicine. In our conversation, we explored how his experiences in sports shaped his leadership philosophy, particularly his focus on discipline, resilience, and the importance of the journey over the destination. We also went deep into the ro

Irina Cozma is an organizational psychologist and executive coach who has spent her career at the intersection of talent, fit, and workplace design. After a long path through academia, consulting, and senior roles at large organizations like Salesforce and Wells Fargo, she built her own practice focused on helping individuals and organizations create better alignment between people and the work they do. In our conversation, we talked about how early experiences shape our relationship with work,

Stephanie Chung is a C-suite leader and board member with decades of experience in aviation and the first Black person in U.S. history to run a private aviation company. Stephanie really paid her dues to get there: she started her career quite literally on the tarmac, parking airplanes and loading luggage at Boston Logan Airport, then went on to leadership in aviation sales, to president of JetSuite X and Chief Growth Officer and brand ambassador of a publicly traded aviation company. In our con