I’m really excited to share my conversation with Michael Bungay Stanier. Michael is a really thoughtful, humble and impressive guy. He lives in Toronto and founded a company called Box of Crayons, which helps organizations transform from being advice-driven to being curiosity led.

His two most recent books, The Advice Trap and The Coaching Habit are both really practical and fantastic tools for leaders looking to ask better questions and use those better questions to have a real impact in the quality of work that people around them do and the quality of solutions to problems that they arrive at.

Michael is just himself a curious and delightful human being. We have a really interesting and—as many of my conversations end up being—pretty wide-ranging from poetry and literature to what it really means to have impact in the world and how we can really make meaningful change.

So, without further ado, I hope you enjoy my conversation with Michael.