Whole Brain® at Work Podcast
The Whole Brain® at Work podcast explores how leaders think, work, and lead in a changing world.
Hosted by Karim Morgan Nehdi and Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, each episode features candid conversations with leaders who are shaping the future of work. We dig into the decisions, mindsets, and experiments behind their leadership and how trends like AI, hybrid work, and team design are transforming organizations.
Along the way, we connect their stories to thinking preferences with a brief HBDI® debrief, offering a personal lens on how leadership styles take shape. The focus is always on what you can take back to your own team:...Show more
All Episodes
The $37 Billion Meeting Problem Organizations Miss
Companies lose billions annually to unproductive meetings, but the real cost is stolen creativity. Dr. Mark Smith, founder of Meeting Canary, joins hosts Karim Nehdi and Ann Herrmann-Nehdi in this episode of the Whole Brain® at Work podcast to explore how meeting culture systematically excludes certain thinking preferences and why that matters for innovation. Discover which cognitive differences your meetings silence, why the transaction costs that once protected thinking time have vanished, and practical steps to redesign collaboration for how brains actually work.
The Rise of the AI-Native Leader
Adapting to AI at work requires more than just learning a few new tools. It’s an opportunity to reimagine how we think, learn, work, and lead. In this episode of the Whole Brain® at Work podcast, hosts Karim Nehdi and Ann Herrmann-Nehdi connect with Kieran Snyder, founder of Textio and Nerd Processor, to explore what it truly means to lead as an AI-native. The conversation reveals something counterintuitive: The leaders shaping the future aren't the ones with the fanciest tools or biggest AI budgets. They're the ones willing to rebuild from the ground up, embrace cognitive diversity as strategy, and get their hands dirty with experimentation. Whether you’re building a startup or scaling a team, this episode offers fresh insights into the mindsets and tools required to lead in the age of AI.