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The Growth Hacking Culture Podcast is a series of insightful interviews with prominent experts on mindsets, skills and mental resources to grow individually, lead motivated teams and create human-centric work cultures. These episodes are about thought provoking ideas to scale up and growth hack human-centric and performing work cultures. Hosted by Ivan Palomino.
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- 3 days ago38 min
Consciousness Over IQ: What Actually Wins in an AI Workplace with Bruce D. Randall
AI replacing high performers is not the scenario most companies prepared for. They planned for entry-level jobs disappearing. But when a two-day AI output matches what your best analyst produces in four weeks, and nobody in the room can tell the difference, the people most exposed are the ones who never had to build resilience, because raw intelligence was always enough. That's the argument Bruce D. Randall makes in his book The End of Smart. Bruce is an author and technology thought leader working at the intersection of AI, quantum computing, and human potential. He has built functional AI apps with zero coding background, written white papers breaking down quantum computing for non-technical audiences, and spent twenty years developing a meditation practice that shapes his view on consciousness as a workplace skill. In this conversation, Ivan and Bruce explore why corporate hierarchies built on "hire smart, reward smart, promote smart" are breaking, and what replaces intelligence as the thing organizations should actually be developing in their people. In this episode: Why AI replaces high performers before it replaces underperformers, and what makes top talent so exposed The real story of an analyst report recreated by AI in two days that nobody could distinguish from the original How middle management is being hollowed out as AI automates reporting, compliance, and data aggregation What consciousness over intelligence means in practice, and how intuition becomes a learnable competitive skill Why the bottom rung of the corporate ladder is disappearing and what that means for new graduates How quantum computing and AI combine into hybrid systems, and why leaders need a basic grasp of both The critical thinking gap: why universities still produce knowledge storage and not the judgment skills the market demands This one is for the senior leader or HR professional who senses the rules are changing but hasn't found a framework for what replaces intelligence as the thing you hire, train, and promote for. 🔗 Connect with Bruce D. Randall Website: BruceDRandall.AI Book: The End of Smart 📘 Ivan's book Expired? The Science of Staying Indispensable in a World Obsessed with New is live now. More at https://a.co/d/06jcYtVV 🔔 If this episode resonated, a quick rating or review helps more people find these conversations. Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast exploring the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science behind leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by Ivan Palomino
- 1 weeks ago45 min
How to Respond When You Get Interrupted in a Meeting | Andrea Wojnicki
Getting interrupted in meetings, or talked over right before someone else repeats your idea and gets the credit, happens more than most people admit, and to some people a lot more than others. Dr. Andrea Wojnicki is a Harvard-trained executive communication and personal branding coach, host of the Talk About Talk podcast, and a Harvard Business Review contributor who has spent her career studying exactly why this happens in meetings, and what to say the moment it does. In this conversation, Ivan and Andrea break down the psychology of interruptions, the double standard between how men and women get judged for the same behavior, and the specific phrases and body language that shut an interruption down without sounding defensive. In this episode: How to respond when someone interrupts you in a meeting, the exact words and body language, without pausing or sounding defensive Why interrupting is about power, not manners, and who gets interrupted most as a result Assertive or aggressive: why the same behavior gets judged differently for men and women, and how to navigate it The impossible tightrope women face in leadership, with two real examples of controlling the narrative instead of fighting it Internal versus external self-awareness, the communication skill that separates average leaders from exceptional ones When to let an interruption go, and when it's actually a power play worth confronting How meeting leaders and allies can build a culture where interrupting isn't tolerated This one is for the woman who's tired of being talked over in meetings and wants a response that actually works, and for any leader who wants to fix this dynamic on their own team. Connect with Dr. Andrea Wojnicki: Website: talkabouttalk.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andreawojnicki Her book, Let Me Introduce Myself, on building your professional identity and personal brand, is out in 2027. If you've ever felt like your ideas get overlooked until someone else says them louder, that's the same territory I explore in my book, Expired? The Science of Staying Indispensable in a World Obsessed with New, out now at ivanpalomino.net/expired-book-ivan-palomino. If this episode was useful, a quick rating or review helps more people find these conversations. Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast exploring the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science behind leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by Ivan Palomino.
- 1 weeks ago42 min
Why 40% of Company Failures Are a Leadership Problem, Not a Product Problem | Dane Hudson
Most leaders assume when a company stalls, the problem is the product, the market, or the team. It rarely is. After 25 years as a global CEO and mentoring over 150 of them, Dane Hudson keeps arriving at the same uncomfortable answer: the ceiling is usually the person running the company. Not their strategy. Not their product. Their leadership — and the gap between how fast it's growing and how fast the business is. The problem is that gap is invisible until the damage is already done. Dane Hudson is the founder of Impactful Leadership and author of Discipline Beats Vision a hands-on playbook for CEOs who need to grow as fast as their companies do. In this episode, Ivan and Dane unpack why leadership is the hidden variable behind most startup failures — and what disciplined leadership actually looks like in practice. In this episode: Why 40 to 55% of companies fail and Dane's hypothesis that 40% of those failures trace back to the leader, not the product The moment a CEO becomes the biggest risk to their own company Why the Optimism Trap is more dangerous than pessimism and how to catch yourself in it What "Monday ready" leadership looks like: meeting discipline as a signal of accountability culture The four people every CEO needs in their corner — and why the one they always forget matters most Why leaders who stop being relentless students fail before they realize it Newton's Third Law applied to leadership: every behavior produces a response — are you choosing yours? This one is for the CEO or senior leader who knows their company is growing but quietly suspects their leadership hasn't kept up. 🔗 Connect with Dane Hudson https://danehudson.com/ | https://impactfulleadership.com/ Book Discipline Beats Vision: https://amzn.asia/d/0aVgtDWY 📖 Ivan Palomino's book on staying indispensable in a world obsessed with new: Expired? is now available in English and French edition Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast exploring the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science behind leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by Ivan Palomino
- 2 weeks ago47 min
Sarah Rozenthuler: The Psychology of Purpose in the Age of AI
Six extra hours a week. That's what AI has reportedly handed back to people using it well. The real question isn't the time, it's what they do with it. Chartered psychologist Sarah Rozenthuler has spent nearly two decades studying how humans talk to each other about what actually matters, and she's noticed something: more people are turning to AI to think out loud about their purpose, their leadership, their next move. Sarah is a leadership coach and the author of three books on purpose and dialogue, including Now We're Talking, shortlisted for the Business Book Awards, and Powered by Purpose, with a foreword by former Unilever CEO Paul Polman. Her clients include Standard Chartered Bank, BP, and Saïd Business School at Oxford. In this conversation, Ivan and Sarah test whether talking to a machine can genuinely help someone get clearer on their purpose, or whether it just becomes a comfortable way to avoid the real conversation. In this episode: Why AI can be a legitimate rehearsal room for a hard conversation, and the exact moment it turns into a hiding place instead The difference between AI as a clean reflective mirror and an echo chamber that just agrees with you Why 70% of managers avoid the difficult conversation, according to Sarah's own research, and whether AI makes that better or worse What "crucible moments" are, and why the clearest sense of purpose usually comes out of the hardest experiences, not a chatbot Why some leaders say AI is freeing up hours while others feel like they've lost time policing AI's mistakes This one is for the leader who's already talked to AI about a hard decision and isn't sure if that counts as cheating or just good preparation. Connect with Sarah Rozenthuler: Website: https://sarahrozenthuler.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-rozenthuler/ Books: Now We're Talking and Powered by Purpose 📅 Join Ivan on 10th September: a free live session, The 7 Fears: What Employees Actually Think About AI, decoding what 36,165 employees actually said about AI at work, across 5,000 companies. Limited to 40 senior HR leaders, recording sent to all registrants. Register: https://luma.com/x10qnpqq Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast exploring the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science behind leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by Ivan Palomino
- 3 weeks ago41 min
Nicholas Janni & Amy Elizabeth Fox: What Comes After Human-Centric Leadership
Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox, authors of Leading in Chaos, explain why human-centric leadership has hit its ceiling, and what comes next. For fifteen years, leadership development meant one thing: build emotional intelligence, train empathy, create psychological safety. It worked, until it didn't. Some of the most self-aware, emotionally intelligent leaders on the planet are still freezing under pressure, still overcorrecting in a crisis, still making the wrong call. Not because they lack empathy. Because empathy was never the missing piece. Nicholas Janni has spent over 25 years advising CEOs and senior leadership teams worldwide and teaching at top business schools, including IMD. His book Leader as Healer won UK Business Book of the Year. Amy Elizabeth Fox is Co-founder and CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership, and has spent two decades running trauma-informed, transformational leadership programs for Fortune 500 executives and professional services firms. Together they wrote Leading in Chaos, their account of what leadership requires in a world stuck in permanent crisis. 📖 About the book Leading in Chaos: Portals to a New Future argues that today's polycrisis, institutional fragility, and sustained uncertainty demand more than better tools or best practice. Janni and Fox call it next practice: a shift from control to coherence, from speed to presence, and from purely cognitive leadership to a wider, embodied intelligence. Drawing on decades of work with senior teams, the book blends vertical development and trauma-informed practice into a practical case for how leaders can regulate themselves well enough to lead clearly through chaos. In this conversation, Ivan Palomino asks them to define what actually comes after human-centric leadership: a deeper form of consciousness built on vertical development, trauma-informed leadership, and nervous system regulation, not just more empathy training. In this episode: Why fifteen years of emotional intelligence training plateaued, and what CHROs got wrong measuring its impact The real difference between a leader who is calm because they are regulated, and one who is only suppressing panic Why the average person spends just 5 percent of their day in a state of flow, and what that reveals about modern workplace culture What vertical development and trauma-informed leadership actually look like in practice, without a single hour on a therapist's couch How hyperarousal and hypoarousal quietly hijack a team's best decisions under pressure Why boards are no longer willing to tolerate high-performing but harmful leaders, and what replaces that old model A simple two-minute practice that changes the quality of every meeting a leader runs This one is for the CHRO who invested heavily in emotional intelligence training and still isn't seeing the culture shift they were promised, and for any leader who suspects the old playbook has quietly stopped working. 🔗 Connect with Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox 📘 Book and Course, Leading in Chaos: https://leadinginchaosbook.com/ 🌐 Nicholas Janni: https://www.nicholasjanni.com/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-janni/ 🌐 Amy Elizabeth Fox / Mobius Executive Leadership: https://www.mobiusleadership.com/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyelizabethfox/ 🎙️ More from Growth Hacking Culture Podcast home: https://podcast.ivanpalomino.net Newsletter: https://simplyhuman.substack.com 📘 If this episode resonated, you might enjoy Ivan's own book, Expired? The Science of Staying Indispensable in a World Obsessed with New, on why experience is still your biggest asset in a workplace obsessed with novelty: https://www.ivanpalomino.net/expired-book-ivan-palomino Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast exploring the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science behind leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by Ivan Palomino.
- 4 weeks ago49 min
The Science of Underdog Teams That Beat the Best with André Martin
A ragtag team in Branson, Missouri had no business beating a powerhouse from Saint Louis. No budget, no pedigree, no recruiting advantage. They won anyway. And the question of how they did it sent organizational psychologist André Martin on a decades-long investigation into what actually makes teams unstoppable. Dr. André Martin is a former Chief Talent Officer at Mars, author of Collective Confidence: The Winning Formula Behind the World's Most Unbeatable Teams. He has worked with hundreds of teams across wildly different environments, from submarine crews operating under extreme pressure to Olympic gymnasts chasing a championship 20 years in the making to Silicon Valley startups building from nothing. His research consistently points to the same conclusion: the teams that win are not the most talented. They are the ones that believe they can figure it out together. In this episode, Ivan and André explore why most organizations are optimized for individual excellence in a world that now demands collective performance. They dig into the six principles that every unbeatable team shares, why traditional hiring is solving the wrong problem, and how a trust formula built on four variables explains why your team won't tell you the truth. In this episode: Why collective confidence is a stronger predictor of performance than individual talent, and the research that proves it The three types of confidence (individual, contributory, collective) and why only one of them scales Six principles shared by every unbeatable team André studied, from Navy crews to gymnasts to startup founders How a Burning Man camp leader's hiring philosophy exposes what corporate job descriptions get wrong The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve hack: why teams that learn together retain nearly everything while solo learners lose 70% in three days What André would fix first as CHRO (hint: it's not culture programs, it's onboarding and the top team) A trust formula with four variables, where self-interest is the denominator that can destroy everything else This one is for the leader who looks at their team and thinks: we should be better than this. For the HR professional who suspects that stacking resumes is not the same as building a team. And for anyone who has ever been on a scrappy squad that somehow outperformed everyone's expectations and wondered why it worked. 🔗 Connect with André Martin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/docmartinpdx Book: Collective Confidence (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Collective-Confidence-Winning-Formula-Worlds/dp/1966280084 First book: Wrong Fit, Right Fit Newsletter: More Than the Sum (on LinkedIn) ---- Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast exploring the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science behind leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by Ivan Palomino Ivan Palomino's new book Expired?: The Science of Staying Indispensable When Your Company Bets on Youth is now availble https://a.co/d/036NVnVe
- Aug 16, 202645 min
Dr. Audrey Tang: Detours, Dopamine, and the Science of a Life Not Scripted
Most of us were handed a script before we were old enough to question it. A school told us what to study. A parent told us what success looks like. A career ladder told us which rung comes next. And somewhere along the way, we confused following the script with actually living. This conversation with Dr. Audrey Tang starts with a simple but unsettling question: what if the detour was never the problem? What if the belief in a straight line was? Dr. Audrey Tang is a Chartered Psychologist, leadership trainer, and award-winning author of The Leader's Guide to Resilience and The Leader's Guide to Wellbeing (winner, Business Book Awards 2024). For years she has worked with leaders and organisations on the psychology behind performance, confidence, and behaviour change. Her own life, which has crossed teaching, performing, writing, broadcasting, and building a charity, is anything but linear. Ivan and Audrey explore the neuroscience behind why we default to linear thinking, why the corporate habit of setting fixed goals makes us worse at life, and what it actually takes to build confidence in the face of the unexpected. In this episode: Why the brain fills in narrative gaps automatically, and how Gestalt psychology explains our obsession with sequences and conclusions The difference between happiness and relief, and why "I'll be happy when I achieve X" is one of the most common traps we fall into How parental scripts get installed early and how to start asking whose critical voice you are actually hearing The skills vs. strengths distinction: why getting promoted on things you are good at but that drain you is one of the quietest career crises there is How dopamine reinforces the wrong behaviours, keeping people climbing ladders that lead somewhere they never wanted to go Why "follow your passion" can tip into obsession, and the better question to ask: what problems do you want to solve? The stretch zone framework: how small daily discomforts build the resilience to handle real uncertainty without panic What to do when you are stuck in the mess right now, cannot see the point, and do not know where to start This one is for the experienced professional who suspects the path they are on was never quite theirs, and is ready to ask what comes next. 🔗 Connect with Dr. Audrey Tang Website: https://www.draudreyt.com/ Book - The Leader's Guide to Resilience: https://a.co/d/064klLMC 📘 Ivan's new book Expired? The Science of Staying Indispensable When Your Company Bets on Youth — for the 50+ professional navigating relevance, visibility, and what experience is actually worth. Launching September 2026: https://www.ivanpalomino.net/expired-book-ivan-palomino Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast exploring the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science behind leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by Ivan Palomino
- Aug 12, 202639 min
John Nieuwenburg on Building Systems That Don't Need You in the Room
Picture the busiest person you know. First to answer email, last to leave a meeting, always available. Now ask yourself: are they actually the best decision maker in the room? John Nieuwenburg has coached hundreds of leaders through exactly this contradiction, and his answer might surprise you. John spent decades working his way up in retail, eventually running a $3 billion operation as company president. That experience taught him the busiest executives are rarely the most effective ones. He's now spent 20+ years coaching leaders using the Socratic method, helping them ask themselves better questions instead of handing them answers. In this conversation, Ivan and John unpack what actually separates leaders who scale their impact from those who just scale their hours, and why the answer has almost nothing to do with working harder. In this episode: Why the captain of a rowboat, a yacht, and an aircraft carrier all need a completely different definition of "work" The difference between personal trust and structural trust, and why only one of them scales past ten people What "delegation debt" costs you when you keep saying "it's just faster if I do it myself" Why Jeff Bezos treats 5 good decisions a year as a successful year, and what that means for how you spend your time The real difference between being available and being accessible, and how to protect blocks of real, focused work How to run an executive update using BLUF (bottom line up front) instead of a 50-slide deck nobody reads Why culture is defined by what a leader tolerates, not what's written on a wall, and how to build one worth keeping This one is for the leader who's proud of how busy they are, and quietly wondering if that busyness is actually working against them. Connect with John Nieuwenburg Website: w5coaching.com Coming Soon: The Culture Signal: a free online session for senior HR leaders on what your people actually fear about AI, and what to do about it Register on https://luma.com/x10qnpqq Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast exploring the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science behind leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by Ivan Palomino
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