Find out why over 1M people view his TED Talks. Join us, especially if you're in Public Safety for a rare look at how extraordinary experiences shape us, our happiness, wellbeing and performance. Paul J. Zak is a professor at Claremont Graduate University and is ranked in the top 0.3% of most cited scientists with over 180 published papers and more than 19,000 citations to his research. Zak's two decades of research have taken him from the Pentagon to Fortune 50 boardrooms to the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Along the way he helped start a number of interdisciplinary fields including neuroeconomics, neuromanagement, and neuromarketing. He has written three general audience books and is a regular TED speaker. His latest book, Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and Source of Happiness (2022), identifies the neurologic basis for extraordinary experiences and uses 50,000 brain measurements to show readers how to create high-impact training among other benefits.

Phil Le-Brun is a former corporate VP and International CIO at McDonald's Corporation.

He co-led the consolidation and modernization of technology across thirty-eight thousand restaurants in 120 countries. He now leads the Amazon Web Services Executives in Residence team, former business and public sector leaders who mentor and guide Fortune 500 leaders on their journeys to create more adaptable organizations.

He is a sought-after speaker and has been featured in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. He is co-author of The Octopus Organization: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Continuous Transformation (Harvard Business Review Press).

For more information, please visit https://www.theoctopusorganization.com
Email: plebrun@amazon.co.uk

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Alicia Rius is an ICF PCC-certified leadership coach, former co-founder and COO, and author of Lead With Clarity: How New Managers Turn Confusion into Confident Leadership. She lived the doer-to-leader leap firsthand, scaling distributed teams across Europe and the US in fast-moving startup environments.

Today, through Hive Leadership & Team Coaching, she helps engineering organizations strengthen their leadership pipeline by equipping first-time managers with the clarity, structure, and confidence to lead well. She is the creator of the 4Ps Leadership Framework™ and writes about the invisible shift from doer to leader.

For more information: coach@aliciarius.com
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Most CEOs don't realize they've become the bottleneck inside their own success, and Rajesh Nagjee lived that story himself before he solved it. He is a CEO mentor, creator of CEO Freedom OS™, and a trusted advisor endorsed by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith and Dr. Ivan Misner. For 30 years, he has helped 350+ CEOs running $5M to $25M companies move from chief problem solver to strategic leader, without losing control of what they built.

Rajesh Nagjee built his first company, burned out running it, and nearly lost everything. That breaking point became the foundation for everything he teaches today. Now a CEO mentor and business physicist, Rajesh helps scale-stage founder-CEOs escape the Founder Bottleneck: when a company grows sophisticated enough to scale yet still depends on the founder for decisions and operational stability. He calls this underlying dynamic the Velocity Crisis, when systems evolve faster than the founder's internal operating capacity.

To solve this, Rajesh created CEO Freedom OS™, a leadership architecture that removes structural founder dependency without sacrificing control. The framework installs four systems: Command Center OS, Delegation OS, Client Magnet OS, and Personal Brand OS. Over 30 years, Rajesh has mentored 350+ CEOs across 15 countries, including leaders at Amex KSA, Nielsen MEA, and BNI Middle East, helping them build companies that scale beyond the founder.

For more information, please visit https://rajeshnagjee.com
Email: rajesh@rajeshnagjee.com

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Frederic Marshall is a pioneer in identifying the research-based behavioral patterns of top performers—and then helping global innovators like Apple, Pfizer, and Genentech scale those behaviors to drive billions in brand growth. He is a recognized expert in change management, launching new brands, and sales force effectiveness. He's personally trained over 130,000 people in fourteen countries. And the Quantum Learning team has helped launch seventy-four new brands in the biopharma space that have generated billions in new growth.

Known for his ability to turn anxiety into agency and radically simplify the complex, Fred's pragmatic but zen-like approach helps organizations go from zero to market leader—fast. Now, for the first time, he is sharing his research-based insights to a wider audience at a time when change, future uncertainty, and job anxiety are at an all-time high.

For more information, please visit https://thrivefutureyou.com/
Email: fred@quantumlearninginc.com

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Ryan A. Cherry, Colonel, USMC (Ret.), is an executive coach, speaker, and retired Marine aviator and senior military leader with over twenty-five years of service around the globe. From leading helicopter squadrons in the Indo-Pacific to advising top Department of Defense leaders on crisis response and autonomous aviation strategy, he has dedicated his career to leading under pressure.

Cherry is widely recognized for building and mentoring high-performing teams, driving innovation, and leading complex operations in some of the most demanding environments.

For more information, please visit RyanACherry.com
Email: ryan.cherry@ymail.com

If your most brilliant minds are also your most challenging, you are in the right conversation. Our guest today is Susan Inouye, co-creator of Sawubona Leadership and the author of the #1 bestseller Leadership's Perfect Storm on millennials and transformational change. She works at the intersection of profit, purpose, and presence, helping executives transform themselves into better leaders, thus transforming their managers and rising millennial and Gen Z talent into connected, accountable, high-performing teams. Get ready to explore gifts, blind spots, and cultures of belonging that actually move the numbers in real time.

Susan Inouye is an executive leadership coach, co-creator of Sawubona Leadership, and author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Leadership's Perfect Storm. For nearly two decades, she has helped executives, senior partners, and managers in financial and professional services, and technology firms transform into leaders who motivate their people not from positional authority but from connection and deep trust, thus developing managers and high-potential millennials and Gen Zs into engaged, accountable, high-performing teams. Drawing on her work with over 600 organizations in 40 industries, she blends clear business metrics with human-centered transformation that improves engagement, retention, and profit.

Her approach was shaped in South Central Los Angeles, where she experienced the power of Gift-Centered mentoring with inner-city millennial youth and translated it into corporate cultures of belonging. Through practical somatic practices, gift-centered coaching, and cross- generational mentoring, Susan helps intellectually brilliant, relationally challenged leaders see the whole person, including themselves. The results are leaders who develop a leadership presence that empowers their people to navigate disruption, AI, and constant change with presence, courage, and grace.

Recent article for Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global written by Susan: https://community.thriveglobal.com/how-financial-leaders-must-lead-in-the-age-of-ai/

For more information: susan@susaninouye.com, website: https://www.susaninouye.com

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Jeremie Kubicek is a dynamic communicator, seasoned entrepreneur, and influential content creator whose work has shaped leaders and organizations across the globe. He is the author of Making Your Leadership Come Alive—a national best-seller and The Peace Index, as well as the co-author of The 100X Leader, 5 Voices, 5 Gears, The Communication Code, and the newly released Voice-Driven Leader (November 2025).

As the Co-Founder of GiANT, Jeremie leads a global enterprise dedicated to certifying coaches and consultants who serve organizations and their people. Over the course of his career, he has founded more than 25 companies while living and working in Oklahoma City, Moscow, Atlanta, and London. His passion is equipping leaders to multiply healthy influence and build cultures of trust and effectiveness around the world.

For more information: jeremie@giantworldwide.com
website: flyingthrulife.com https://www.giantworldwide.com

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