Leading Up is a top-ranking leadership podcast to help you work, lead, and live differently. In Season 7, we’ll shine a light on storytelling, and how it can help aspiring leaders communicate better. Alan Todd, VP of Leadership Development at Udemy, sits down with some of the most thoughtful and exciting leaders, practitioners, and thinkers. Together, we’ll help you unlock your potential and become an even better leader. New episodes drop every Wednesday, so be sure to follow the podcast to ...
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Building a Skills-Based Organization with Paul Kent
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In this special mini-episode of Leading Up, host Kelly Schwarze highlights key takeaways from the Udemy Forward 2024 virtual event. This episode features advice from Paul Kent, the senior L&D manager at PepsiCo, about how best to leverage skills-based practices to boost employee performance, engagement, and retention. Paul also emphasizes the impor…
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Leadership Lessons from Fortune 500 Executives
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In this special best-of episode of Leading Up with Udemy, Kelly Schwarze, senior digital marketing manager at Udemy, revisits powerful leadership lessons from the past seven seasons. Hear from former Charles Schwab CEO Dave Pottruck on the importance of humility and emotional intelligence when leading from the middle, Starbucks Head of Learning Bra…
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From Newsrooms to Boardrooms: Alan Murray's Leadership Insights
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Alan Todd sits down with Alan Murray, President of the Dow Jones Leadership Institute and former CEO of Fortune Magazine. Murray shares his journey from a young journalism enthusiast to a leader in the media industry, offering insights on adapting to technological disruption and the evolving role of business in society. He also discusses the challe…
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Neurodiversity at Work: Strategies for Inclusive Leadership
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Alan Todd speaks with Jessica Michaels, an award-winning speaker and expert in leadership development. After discovering in her thirties that she has autism and ADHD, Jessica became an advocate for neurodiversity in the workplace. She shares practical insights on how leaders can create more inclusive environments that unlock the potential of neurod…
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Alan Todd sits down with Hebba Youssef, creator of the popular HR newsletter I Hate It Here and Chief People Officer at Workweek. With over 130,000 subscribers, Heba's newsletter provides candid insights and advice for HR professionals looking to build workplaces that people love. In this conversation, Heba shares her human-centered approach to lea…
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Empowering Women of Color in the Workplace with Cynthia Pong
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Join Alan Todd as he sits down with Cynthia Pong, founder and CEO of Embrace Change, a firm dedicated to helping women of color achieve their career goals. Cynthia shares her innovative concept of "career insurance" — steps to ensure long-term career success. They discuss her transition from law to career coaching, strategies for career advancement…
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Cultivating Gen Z Success with Human-Centered Leadership
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Alan Todd sits down with David Yeager, Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and Stefani Okamoto, Director of Manager Excellence at ServiceNow. They discuss debunking negative stereotypes about Gen Z, introducing the mentor mindset in leadership, and exploring practical insights from David's book, 10 …
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Navigating Generational Dynamics in Work and Life
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Alan Todd as he sits down with Sophie Riegel, a best-selling author, speaker, coach, and mental health advocate. Sophie shares her journey as a young mental health advocate, strategies for optimizing intergenerational relationships, tips for talking about mental health with young people, and how to offer, ask for, and accept help. They also discuss…
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Transforming the Future: Visionary Leadership with Sunny Bonnell
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Join Alan Todd as he sits down with Sunny Bonnell, co-founder of the renowned branding agency Motto and co-author of "Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different." In this episode, Sunny shares key lessons from her book, strategies for balancing creativity and business, and the importance of visionary leadership. Learn …
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Strategic Self-Awareness: The Defining Skills for Leaders
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Alan Todd sits down with Dr. Ann Schulte, a versatile executive with a career spanning communications, consulting, higher education, and work-based learning leadership. Dr. Schulte, former Chief Learning Officer at MasterCard and Procter & Gamble, now serves as an academic director at the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss leadership and deve…
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How to Become a Super Communicator: Lessons from Charles Duhigg
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In the premiere episode of Leading Up’s seventh season, Alan Todd sits down with Charles Duhigg, the renowned journalist and author of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. Charles shares insights on how mastering the art of super communication can significantly enhance your life in numerous ways — whether at work, wi…
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How McLaren Plays to Team Strengths on and off the Racetrack
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In our final episode of Leading Up’s sixth season, host Alan Todd passes the mic to Udemy CMO Genefa Murphy. Genefa’s conversation with Ian James, Managing Director of McLaren Electric Racing & Team Principal of NEOM McLaren Formula E & Extreme E Teams, centers around how leaders on and off the racetrack can use ideas from McLaren’s culture of exce…
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Stepping into leadership is challenging, particularly at the early stage of a career. And tomorrow’s leaders are stepping into the most generationally diverse workforce in history, and thus stepping into a world with new dynamics and challenges. This week on Leading Up With Udemy, we are revisiting a conversation with Lindsey Pollak. She gives advi…
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Modesty, while a virtue, is sometimes taken too far when it comes to speaking up and promoting yourself at work. Society has conditioned women and people of color, in particular, to underestimate themselves in modesty’s name. This week on Leading Up With Udemy, we are revisiting a conversation with Yvell Stanford. She speaks about teaching people t…
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Create a Team of Teams to Empower Your Organization
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Stanley McChrystal, General (Ret), Chairman, and CEO of McChrystal Group, knows a lot about what it means to transform a group of ordinary people into a highly calibrated, responsive, and skilled team. The former commander of the US Joint Special Operations Command joins host Alan Todd to discuss the importance of skills training and how the princi…
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Mark Edwards spent over 25 years as the chief music critic for London’s Sunday Times, so he knows how to capture an audience’s attention. And his new book, “Best Story Wins,” is all about using the ideas of storytelling to communicate better in business. He joins host Alan Todd to dig into what makes a good story, and what your favorite movie might…
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How Company Culture Impacts Every Team Member
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Starbucks VP of Learning, Leadership, and Cultural Experiences Brandon Carson has witnessed first-hand how different company cultures impact the way teams work together. From his work at major companies like Walmart, Delta, Home Depot, and now the Seattle-based coffee giant, Carson illustrates his own leadership philosophies of unlocking his team’s…
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Culture, Trust, and Flexibility: The Keys to a Successful Career
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Deb Tees, Director of Talent & Organizational Capability for Rotary and Mission Systems at Lockheed Martin, has taken a circuitous route to her current position: she has prioritized lateral moves and learning about the breadth of her organization and industry over simply climbing a corporate ladder. She joins Alan Todd to talk about what she’s lear…
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Dr. Genefa Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer at Udemy, hasn’t always been a marketer: she spent time in academia and also worked in product. Her path has taken her through a variety of leadership and individual contributor roles, and she credits this varied experience as being crucial to her success. In this conversation with Alan Todd, Genefa digs i…
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Dr. Roger L. Martin, named the world’s foremost management thinker by Thinkers50 in 2017, is one of the few leadership thinkers to successfully marry theory and practice in the field. He joined host Alan Todd to dig into the difference between having a plan and an integrated strategy, and how listeners can adopt the Playing to Win framework to make…
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The 7 Rules of Power – And Why You Should Develop Yours
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Alan Todd sits down with Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer of the Stanford Graduate School of Business to talk about one of the last remaining “dirty words” of business: power. From this rousing discussion of Pfeffer’s research and his latest book, 7 Rules of Power, listeners will learn the steps they can take immediately to develop their own ability to influenc…
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Dr. Barbara Kellerman is a Fellow and Founding Executive Director at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, and she’s dedicated to the study of leadership — focusing on the good and the bad. Through her study of leadership on the world stage, Barbara has gleaned insights that can be used by leaders — and, crucially, followers — …
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Identify Your Leadership Wobble to Work Faster and Better
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In our first episode of Leading Up’s sixth season, Alan Todd sits down with Dr. Frances X. Frei of Harvard Business School. Frances’s new book with her wife and research partner Anne Morriss is called Move Fast and Fix Things, and she walks Alan through the steps every organization or team must take before they can realize explosive growth. Listene…
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RERUN: How to Lead Authentically and Build High-Trust Environments
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Who are you as a leader? This is the critically important question we revisit on this week’s podcast episode. Our podcast guest, Lisa Dahms, encourages all of her new managers to reflect on this question, as it can help them lead authentically, purposefully, and effectively. Dahms is the Global Head of People Development IT at TUI Group, one of the…
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RERUN: How Inclusion Drives Innovation and Retains Employees
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Everyone is looking to drive innovation, retain employees, and create a healthy workplace culture. Inclusive Leadership can provide solutions for these challenges and more. This week on Leading Up With Udemy, we are revisiting a conversation with Stefanie Johnson. She offers tips on running more inclusive meetings, creating an effective DEI strateg…
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How Human Potential and Emerging Technology Intersect
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Neda Schlictman, Managing Director & Chief Learning Officer - Leadership and Human Potential at Deloitte, has spent her career in learning, first as a teacher and then in adult development. She joins Alan Todd to go deep into how her firm thinks about human potential, GenAI, and supporting younger generations’ desires for meaningful work. Learn mor…
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Nick Craig, President of the Core Leadership Institute, has spent his professional life dedicated to helping others step into their purpose to become better leaders and human beings. He joins Alan Todd to dig into some examples of purpose statements and what you can achieve when you are connected to what you’re meant to be doing. Learn more about U…
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Udemy Chief Product Officer Prasad Raje has been at the forefront of many technological shifts in his career, from the dawn of the internet, when content transmission became free and lightning-fast, to the latest revolution in content creation and synthesis. He joins Alan Todd to explore how we got to the cusp of the generative AI revolution, and h…
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To Reach Workers of Different Generations, Understand Their Technological Preferences
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Social psychologist and generational expert Jean Twenge has written nearly half a dozen books about the psychological profile of young people — first Millennials, and now Gen Z. In her new book, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents – and What They Mean for America’s Future, Twenge seeks to define…
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Deep Curiosity Can Transform the Way You Lead
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Curiosity expert Scott Shigeoka, author of SEEK: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World, has spent years researching curiosity’s impact on our social connections and empathy. He joins Alan Todd to dig into the difference between deep and shallow curiosity, and how keeping an open mind and a spirit of intellectual humility can ma…
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New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Pollak is an expert on helping Millennials and Gen Z navigate the workforce. Her books, including Becoming the Boss and The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace, offer a roadmap for both seasoned and emerging leaders to tackle difficult conversations and succeed in a management …
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Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman at legendary ad firm Ogilvy UK, knows how to make a bit of magic in business. His book Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life encourages a new way of thinking, using context, clever messaging, and exploratory thinking to solve problems that are ordinarily approached l…
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Over the course of his multi-decade career, legendary author and speaker Gary Hamel wrote the book on many aspects of modern management. So when he explains that bureaucracy is stifling all kinds of human potential in the workplace, organizations and leaders should take note. Hamel joined Alan Todd to unpack the history of bureaucracy and some of t…
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Why a “Culture of Genius” Can Lead to Stifled Innovation
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You’ve likely heard of Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindset and fixed mindset for individuals. But the research that went into social psychologist Mary C. Murphy’s new book, Cultures of Growth, proves that the mindset or culture of an organization can make a huge impact on its output and innovation. Dr. Murphy joins Alan Todd to dig into the ke…
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How to Weather Change with Rugged Flexibility
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What if navigating big changes in your personal life or business wasn’t a cause for distress? If you view change as a neutral phenomenon, rather than something negative that’s happening to you, you may be better equipped to manage it. Brad Stulberg, bestselling author of Master of Change and The Practice of Groundedness and adjunct professor at the…
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FIXABLE: Uber, and how to fix things when trust is broken
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While we prepare new episodes for 2024, we’re sharing an episode from our friends at Fixable, a TED podcast hosted by leadership coaches Anne Morriss and Frances Frei, who dive into their area of expertise: trust. Frances recounts the time when she was brought in to help Uber fix their huge trust breakdown. Using Uber as a case study, they explain …
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RERUN: Leading from the Outside In With Dave Ulrich
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Originally released July 2023, Alan sits down in this episode with Dave Ulrich, often referred to as the “Father of Modern HR.” It’s a fascinating conversation about creating value for the customer, always working from the customer backwards, and thinking about business from the outside in. Alan and Dave discuss how your job as a leader is to make …
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RERUN: How Total Leadership Transforms Your Life Beyond Work
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While we prepare new episodes to share with you in January 2024, Alan wants to highlight a conversation from March 2023 with Stew Friedman, founder of The Wharton Leadership Program and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project at The University of Pennsylvania to talk about leadership as a lifelong practice. They discuss how leadership skills can …
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Rigor and Discipline: Udemy CEO Greg Brown’s Secret Sauce
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For the final episode of Season 4, Udemy CEO Greg Brown joins Alan Todd to share some of the keys to his success. Brown discusses how his interest in Stoic philosophy, sports background, and intense morning routine work together to give him a competitive advantage in business and life. Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast…
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Ian Leslie, the author and researcher behind the books Curious and Conflicted, joins Alan Todd for a spirited conversation on the different types of curiosity. They discuss why organizations should strive to create a culture where there’s no such thing as a silly question and everyone’s curiosity is rewarded. Listeners will learn strategies for ope…
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Sharpen Your Skills for the AI-Assisted Future of Work
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Dr. Vasant Dhar has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence research since he received his doctorate in the field over 40 years ago. Now, he teaches a new generation of AI leaders at NYU Stern School of Business. Dhar joins Alan Todd for a rousing conversation on where AI will take us, and why he believes business leaders looking to sharpe…
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How to Give Feedback That Will Actually Be Heard
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Leadership expert, Udemy instructor, and former World Bank executive Elizabeth Pagé is no stranger to managing successful teams through tough times; shortly after she began working at the financial institution she was tasked with leading her team through a process shift that came directly from the bank’s president. In this conversation with Alan To…
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CEO coach and author Jack Daly didn’t get to where he is today by sitting by and allowing it to happen: he set ambitious goals and tracked his progress to them. Today, he’s run marathons in every state and on every continent, has competed in over a dozen Iron Man triathlons, has written multiple books, and is widely hailed as one of the best sales …
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Yvell Stanford, Talent and Learning Lead at the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, is a lifelong teacher and learner. So when she found herself outside of academia for the first time, she decided to use her talents and drive to create her own position, making her responsible for the professional development of over 70,000 employees of the MTA…
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Jennifer Barnes, Global Learning & Development Leader at chemical and materials company Celanese, has led learning and development efforts across industries from healthcare to telecom. She sits down with Alan Todd to talk about how she thinks about supporting early-career employees, from internship to onboarding and beyond. Jennifer’s insights into…
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Sacha Connor, the CEO and Founder of Virtual Work Insider, is no stranger to leading remote and hybrid teams. She joins Alan Todd to discuss the biases that leaders must overcome and best practices for leading and contributing to distributed teams. If you’re in the corporate workforce, there’s a good chance that your team is distributed over differ…
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How to Be a Leader Even If You Don’t Have the Title
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Roberta Matuson is a talent consultant and author of several incredible leadership books, including international bestseller Suddenly In Charge, Can We Talk?, and The Magnetic Leader. She discusses how to manage up and how to have difficult conversations at work. If you're looking to become a more effective leader, this episode is for you. Listen n…
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Empowering the Right People in the Right Jobs
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Brad Watt, Chief Learning Officer at Colgate-Palmolive, joins host Alan Todd to discuss why leaders who put people first make their teams shine. Brad shares his insights on why great leaders are also great teachers, and how to create an environment where every employee can thrive. He also reveals how Formula 1 racing can teach us a thing or two abo…
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Leading Up is back with a brand new season of episodes. Host Alan Todd, VP of Leadership Development at Udemy, dives into engaging conversations with leading executives and professional development experts. This season, we’re focusing on how to leverage new technologies like AI and create invested leaders who unlock the potential of employees, whet…
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RERUN: Why Communication is the Most Important Skill
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Originally released April 2022. Alan sits down with Molly Nagler, Chief Learning Officer at PepsiCo, to discuss the dramatic evolution of the way we work from in-person to distributed work. Arguably, there’s one skill you need to hone more than any other in order to keep up with rapid change: Communication, the ability for nothing to get lost in tr…
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