Brad Federman is the founder of PerformancePoint where he works at companies like Nordstrom, FedEx, Hilton Hotels, Mayo Clinic, Deloitte, and Polo Ralph Lauren. Brad served as an executive vice president of Novations Group and served in leadership roles at Accenture Health and Humana. He's frequently interviewed on Fox Business News, American Banker, Fortune Small Business, The Los Angeles Times, HR Magazine. He serves on the Forbes Coaches Council on several nonprofit organizations. I'm so...

Roger L. Martin is Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, where he served as Dean from 1998 to 2013, and as Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013 to 2019. In 2013, he was named Global Dean of the Year and in 2017, he was named the world’s #1 management thinker. He has published 12 previous books including, most recently, When More is Not Better and Playing to Win, which won the award for Best Book of 2013 by Thinkers50....

Jon Gordon is the author of fifteen books, including five best-sellers. Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, The Golf Channel, Fox and Friends and in numerous magazines and newspapers. His clients include The Los Angeles Dodgers, The Atlanta Falcons, Campbell Soup, Dell, Publix, Southwest Airlines, LA Clippers, Miami Heat, Pittsburgh Pirates, BB&T Bank, Clemson Football, Northwestern Mutual, Bayer, West Point Academy and more. Jon is a graduate of Cornell...

Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked psychology department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. He has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The...

Michael Bungay Stanier is the Founder and CEO of Box of Crayons. Box of Crayons helps people and organizations raise their leadership game, by teaching them 10-minute coaching. He’s the author of several books, including The Coaching Habit and Do More Great Work. Michael has written for or been featured in numerous publications including Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, The Globe & Mail and The Huffington Post.

Seth Godin is the author of 18 international bestsellers that have been translated into over 35 languages, and have really changed the way people think about marketing. For a long time, Unleashing the Idea Virus was the most popular ebook ever published in Purple Cow, a book you've probably read, is the best-selling marketing of the decade. Seth's book, Tribes, was a nationwide bestseller, appearing on Amazon, New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. It's about...

Dan Heath and his brother Chip have written four New York Times bestselling books: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments. Heath is a senior fellow at Duke University’s CASE center, which supports entrepreneurs fighting for social good. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. The Heath brothers’ books have sold over three million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty-three languages.

Leidy Klotz is the Copenhaver Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. He's appointed in the schools of engineering, architecture, and business. He founded and directs the university's convergent behavioral science initiative. Klotz has earned a highly selective career award from the National Science Foundation and more than $10 million in competitive research funding. He advises influential decision makers who straddle academia and practice working with the World Bank, the World...

Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy. He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Joly has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s and one of...

Roger Martin is Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as dean from 1998 to 2013. He was named the world's number one management thinker and has published 11 books including Creating Great Choices and Playing to Win. He's a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. He's also a trusted strategy advisor to many CEO's and global companies including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford. Roger's latest book is “When More Is Not...

Ashley Whillans is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and a leading scholar in the time and happiness research field. She earned her PhD in social psychology from the University of British Columbia. She's twice named a Rising Star of Behavioral Science by the Behavioral Science and Policy Association. On this episode of The Burleson Box, we'll talk with Ashley about her book, Time Smart, How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life. Ashley Whillans is part of the Global...

Julia Galef hosts the popular podcast, Rationally Speaking, and is the founder of the Center for Applied Rationality. She has consulted for organizations including OpenAI and Open Philanthropy. Her TED Talk “Why You Think You’re Right – Even If You’re Wrong” has been viewed over four million times. And now she is the author of the book “The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t.”

Jan-Benedict Steenkamp is the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and author of the book, Time to Lead: Lessons for Today's Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History. He is an honorary professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, fellow of the European Marketing Academy, chairman of the International Board of Experts at the Institute for National Branding, and fellow at the...

Scott Anthony is a Senior Partner at Innosight and former Managing Partner of the firm. Based in the firm’s Singapore offices since 2010, he has led Innosight’s expansion into the Asia-Pacific region as well as its venture capital activities. A graduate from Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School, Scott was recognized as the #9 most influential management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of global business thinkers. His latest book explores how innovation really happens and...

Dr. Jacinta Jiménez is the author of The Burnout Fix: Overcome Overwhelm, Beat Busy, and Sustain Success in the New World of Work. She is a thought leader in the science of leadership, motivation and behavioral change. A graduate of Stanford University, her work has been featured on CNN, Business Insider, Forbes, and Fast Company. Her latest book is a must read for anyone who wants to achieve success without compromising fulfillment, vitality, or wellbeing in the process. The Burnout Fix...

Ryan Holiday is a strategist and writer. He dropped out of college at nineteen to appren­tice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, and later served as the director of mar­keting for American Apparel. His company, Brass Check, has advised clients like Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors. Holiday has written four previous books, most recently The Obstacle Is the Way, which has been translated into seventeen languages and has a cult following...

Paul Carroll is the CEO and editor-in-chief of Insurance Thought Leadership. He is also the co-author of The New Killer Apps: How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Start-Ups and Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn From the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years and the author of Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM, a major best-seller published in 1993. Paul spent 17 years at the Wall Street Journal as an editor and reporter. The paper nominated him twice for Pulitzer...