Partnering Leadership

Mahan Tavakoli

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 w...

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Partnering Leadership

Episodes (478)

Tue Oct 20th 477 Why Your Track Record Isn’t Enough: How Senior Executives Build Career Optionality with Kelly O. Kay
Tue Oct 13th 476 What Happens When AI Starts Doing the Thinking? With Eric So
Tue Oct 6th 475 Leading Under Pressure: Lessons from 9/11, the NFL, and the World's Toughest Decisions with Thom Mayer

Partnering Leadership

Oct 20, 2026
46 minutes
32 MB

Senior executives can spend years thinking rigorously about strategy, talent, capital allocation, and organizational performance while giving surprisingly little strategic thought to their own careers. That gap sits at the center of this Partnering Leadership conversation with Kelly O. Kay, Managing Partner of the Global Software Practice at Heidrick & Struggles and co-author, with Jeffrey Sanders, of Show Up to Win: How to Land the Leadership Role You Want. Drawing on decades of executive search experience, Kelly offers an unusually candid look at how senior leadership opportunities actually develop, how executives are evaluated, and why an impressive track record alone...

Partnering Leadership

477 Why Your Track Record Isn’t Enough: How Senior Executives Build Career Optionality with Kelly O. Kay

Mahan Tavakoli

00:00 -46:06