Season 3, Episode 9 | 040 (Part 2). Adrian Wolfberg on characterizing a problem before touching the tool, judgment as a practice, the leader as shepherd of critical and creative thinking, and drift.
Season 3, Episode 8 | 039 (Part 1). Adrian Wolfberg, author of Who Leads When AI Thinks?, on the briefing that reached the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the line between uncertainty and ambiguity, and the telephone game with a machine in the chain.
Season 3, Episode 038 (Part 2 of 2) Measuring What Change Feels Like – The Joyful Change Quotient and the Signals Leaders Miss (Part 2) With Dr. Michelle Pipes, Creator of Joyful Change and Author of Stewarding Joyful Change Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Dr. Michelle Pipes Duration: 41 minutes Available: October 22, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 38 (Part 2) Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and…
Season 3, Episode 037 (Part 1 of 2) Measuring What Change Feels Like – The Joyful Change Quotient and the Signals Leaders Miss (Part 1) With Dr. Michelle Pipes, Creator of Joyful Change and Author of Stewarding Joyful Change Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Dr. Michelle Pipes Duration: 82 minutes Available: October 15, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 37 (Part 1) Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and…
Season 3, Episode 036 The Misread – Why Structural Friction Gets Read As Individual Resistance With Jenny Vazquez-Newsum, Founder and CEO of Untapped Leaders and Author of Untapped Leadership Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Jenny Vazquez-Newsum Duration: 61 minutes Available: October 8, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 36 Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview The Misread – Why…
Season 3, Episode 035 The Missing Half of Change Management – Why Transformation Has a Model for Everything Except the Person Inside It With Dr Grant Van Ulbrich, Creator of Scared So What and Founder of The PCM Company Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Dr Grant Van Ulbrich Duration: 65 minutes Available: October 1, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 35 Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via…
Season 3, Episode 034 On Scope, On Schedule, Off Purpose – Why Following the Plan Is Not the Same as Realizing the Purpose With Tina Berger, Digital Transformation Advisor and Author of Invest Like a Mother Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Tina Berger Duration: 72 minutes Available: September 24, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 34 Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript…
Season 3, Episode 033 Performance Is Lost Before Execution – Why the Conditions Around the Work Decide What Capability Converts With David Edward, Founder and Chief Strategist, Strategic Initiatives Group Host: Kevin Novak Guest: David Edward Duration: 60 minutes Available: September 17, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 33 Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview Performance Is…
In the Season 3 opener, Kevin Novak names the measurement ratchet: organizations can add a measure but almost never subtract one, and the reason is accountability, not analytics. Seventy years of research, from Ridgway to Porter, the two mechanisms that keep the ratchet turning, what it sounds like when a leadership team tries to retire a measure, and the four questions and six moves that make retirement a practice.
In the Season 2 finale, Kevin Novak traces the arc of all eighteen episodes, from the identity crisis of expertise to the long game of institutional transformation, names the three discoveries the season revealed, and previews where Season 3 is going: the AI and human dynamic as the clearest case study of the human factor ever run.