Partnering Leadership

About Partnering Leadership

Partnering Leadership is an award-winning global podcast for CEOs, board members, and senior executives who want to think more clearly about what is changing, what may be coming next, and what it means for their organizations. Hosted by Mahan Tavakoli, the podcast draws on 450+ conversations with CEOs, founders, researchers, futurists, and leading thinkers on strategy, leadership, organizational transformation, innovation, and AI. The conversations go beyond generic leadership advice. They explore the questions senior leaders increasingly need to wrestle with: What is changing that could reshape our business? Which assumptions about strategy, customers, work, and organizations may no longer hold? What will AI change beyond productivity? Where might value move next? How should organizations and leadership evolve as the answers change? Guests have included Ram Charan, John Kotter, Stephen M.R. Covey, Ajay Agrawal, Azeem Azhar, Ranjay Gulati, Sangeet Paul Choudary, David Marquet, Bob Johansen, David Rubenstein, Jean Case, Paul Daugherty, Carolyn Dewar, Whitney Johnson, Ron Adner, and many others shaping how leaders think about strategy, organizations, technology, and the future of business. Mahan brings an advisor’s perspective to each conversation, pushing beyond surface-level answers to explore the choices, trade-offs, and implications that matter in the C-suite and boardroom. The result is a broader, more forward-looking perspective on the decisions leaders are making today and the ones they may need to make sooner than they think. Available on all major podcast platforms and at PartneringLeadership.com.

Publisher

Mahan Tavakoli

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Sept 2020

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

156 of 476 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   475 Leading Under Pressure: Lessons from 9/11, the NFL, and the World's Toughest Decisions with Thom Mayer

   Host [Host Name] interviews Dr. Thom Mayer, command physician and NFL medical advisor, about leading through extreme pressure and uncertainty.

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   474 From Expertise to Impact: How Leaders Take Ideas to Scale with Bill Sherman

   Mahan Tavakoli interviews Bill Sherman, a thought leadership authority, on how leaders transform impactful ideas into scalable ventures.

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   473 Strategy Means Choice: What Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower Teach Us About Leadership with Matt Cavanaugh

   Mahan Tavakoli interviews Matt Cavanaugh on how Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower demonstrate that strategy demands difficult choices and accepting responsibility for outcomes.

Inside a recent episode

472 Beyond AI Adoption: How to Reinvent Your Organization for the Age of Abundant Intelligence with Brian Solis and Dave Wright

Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I think the other thing that's interesting is an infinite company doesn't feel constrained by where it moves to next. You've got to have that vision in the company of what you want to achieve. And this is one of the reasons why we always say that an AI strategy shouldn't be about AI. You should be looking to achieve something else with your company. And AI is simply the vehicle that allows you to achieve what you want to achieve. So it's not necessarily growing infinitely to become the biggest thing in your particular domain. It's always having that agility and flexibility to know that you can infinitely reinvent yourself. […]

Who has been a guest on Partnering Leadership

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Thom Mayer
• Bill Sherman
• Matt Cavanaugh
• Brian Solis
• Dave Wright

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

57,502

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

32 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

203 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

99

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

93

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