Many leaders today find themselves in a phase of reinvention or career transition—and this will only become more common in the years ahead.

If you’re an executive who is sensing a shift, desiring a new chapter, or navigating unexpected change, this episode was created for you.

In this powerful conversation, Dagmara Asbreuk—Executive & Transformational Coach, Speaker, and Founder of the Extraordinary Leadership Movement—shares a transformational lens that helps leaders navigate transitions with more ease, trust, confidence, clarity, and momentum.

Whether you are:

✨ Feeling called toward a bigger impact, a more influential role, or a more meaningful chapter…

✨ Intentionally choosing to leave a misaligned environment and design your next role with purpose…

✨ Or unexpectedly finding yourself without a role and unsure of what’s next…

—this episode will guide you to see this moment not as a disruption, but as an inevitable turning point that holds the opportunity to rise into your next level.

Dagmara introduces her signature Attune–Activate–Align™ process, a powerful three-phase inner transformation that helps leaders reconnect with themselves, elevate their identity, upgrade their internal architecture, and create the momentum needed to shape their next chapter intentionally.

You’ll learn:

🔹 Why every reinvention moment is meant for you—and how it can become your greatest breakthrough 🔹 The crucial inner work that must happen before updating your CV or talking to recruiters

🔹 Why your inner architecture (identity, beliefs, consciousness, and state) determines 95% of your outcomes

🔹 How to avoid repeating old patterns and enter your next chapter from a higher frequency

🔹 The quantum perspective that accelerates clarity, confidence, and aligned decision-making

🔹 How to elevate your energy, identity, and strategy so you attract the opportunities you truly desire

🔹 Why your external reality always mirrors your internal world—and how to shift it

This episode is an invitation to rise into the next-level version of yourself—the leader you are meant to be in this new chapter.

If you are in reinvention or transition and desire clarity, alignment, and momentum—whether to land your next executive role faster or build your business successfully—Dagmara shares how this transformational process can support you. Because legacy leadership begins within. And your next chapter is calling.

About the host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Leadership Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, success and purpose I Founder of Extraordinary Leadership Movement™ I Executive, Quantum Leadership Coach I Keynote Speaker I Podcast Host With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement.

After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment. Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur. Today, she empowers executives, CEO's and founders, to lead with bold authenticity, energy, and presence.

Through her Embodied Extraordinary Leadership™ method—integrating identity work, neuroscience solutions, and energy mastery—Dagmara empower leaders to transform from within, and lead impactfully their teams, changes and business from an aligned and empowered place.

With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: bold, authentic, visionary—rooted in inner alignment, energy, and deep connection. In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

👇 CONNECT WITH DAGMARA ASBREUK:

🌍 https://www.extraordinaryleadership.co

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmaraasbreuk/

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In this episode of the Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, host Dagmara Asbreuk sits down with Christopher Salem—workplace strategist, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and host of Sustainable Success—to unpack the real engine behind high-performing teams: emotional intelligence (EQ).

Chris shares the personal turning point that shaped his mission. Until 31, he lived from anger, anxiety, and addiction—patterns rooted in childhood and a deep need for validation.

His father’s passing sparked a profound realization: we repeat emotional patterns until we take responsibility to change them. From there, Chris committed to what Dagmara calls inner mastery—recovery, Eastern meditation, and disciplined self-work—discovering the name for what transformed his life and leadership: EQ.

Today, Chris helps organizations align EQ with business growth—because EQ isn’t “soft”; it’s strategic infrastructure bridging human connection and measurable performance.

Together, we break down his framework, “The Five Things You Can Control,” a repeatable model any leader can use to build psychological safety, ownership, and sustainable high performance:

In this episode we unpack each of the 5:

1. Communication (Assumptions → Assertiveness): stop guessing, start clarifying.

2. Behavior: align actions with words to build trust.

3. Attitude: shift from “it’s happening to me” to “it’s happening for me.”

4. Emotions: pause and respond, don’t react.

5. Action: prioritize what moves the needle; delegate the rest.

Listen if you’re a CEO, executive, founder, or senior leader ready to elevate your presence, communication, and impact.

Take a moment after the episode to reflect:

Extraordinary Leadership starts the moment you are aware what to shift & intercept the autopilot.

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About Christopher Salem:

Chris Salem is a leading expert in Emotional Intelligence for leadership, communication, sales acceleration, and talent development. He helps organizations build psychologically safe, high-performing cultures that drive engagement and results. A certified workplace strategist, bestselling author, and keynote speaker, Chris also hosts Sustainable Success and Business Influencers, empowering leaders to align EQ with business growth.  

Connect with Chris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophersalem/

 About Dagmara Asbreuk:

Dagmara Asbreuk is the Founder & CEO of Extraordinary Leadership™, and a transformational partner to CEOs, executives, and founders pioneering a new paradigm of leadership—aligned from within.

After more than 15 years in senior leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, Dagmara experienced her own profound transformation and now dedicates her work to helping leaders unlock limitless potential, embody magnetic presence, and lead organizations toward exponential growth—with less effort, more ease, and deeper fulfillment.

Connect with Dagmara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmara-asbreuk/

In this episode of the Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, Dagmara Asbreuk sits down with Florent Couturier — a high-performing investment leader who walked away from a decade-long corporate career, rebuilt himself from the inside out, and is now on a mission to reshape an entire industry.

When Florent first reached out, he was leading a €2B flagship tech investment fund. On paper: successful, trusted by the CEO, building a strong team. Inside: exhausted, carrying it all, pushing harder… and still not getting the ownership or performance he knew was possible.

He tried everything the “textbook leadership” way — set the vision, break it into goals, work harder, stay closer, do more. And yet something still wasn’t landing. What followed was not a playbook tweak — it was a complete identity shift.

In this conversation, Florent reveals:
✨ Why he decided to seek executive coaching
✨ The breakthroughs that unlocked clarity, confidence, and bold moves
✨ How he shifted from pushing for results to leading from deep trust and inner knowing
✨ What he’s now building in Silicon Valley — the AI fabric for Europe

And in this episode you will learn what you need to:

1. Reclaim your authentic leadership identity - lead from who you really are, not who you think you should be.

2. Build a vision you can feel - one that magnetically attracts the right people and opportunities.

3. Shift from control to trust - and unlock clarity, speed, and flow.

4. Operate in alignment - so growth becomes natural, not forced.

Florent’s results speak for themselves: he left corporate, created clients immediately, and is now building a next-generation AI networking company — “the AI fabric for Europe” — while preparing to move to Silicon Valley.

“A year ago, everything was effort and pressure. Today, I’m building something that feels inevitable.”

This episode is for ambitious leaders and founders ready to evolve beyond pressure and perfection — into a new paradigm of extraordinary, conscious leadership rooted in authenticity, energy, and trust.

This episode is for you if you’re a leader or founder who:
💡 Has ambitious goals but feels your team or organization isn’t progressing fast enough
💡 Feels you’re pushing harder yet still not seeing the results you know are possible
💡 Knows there must be a better way to lead, grow, and create lasting impact

About Florent:

Florent Couturier is a Venture Partner at Lunar Ventures and the Founder of a forthcoming AI Fabric Operator platform, a pioneering roll-up reshaping how Europe builds and operates next-generation data infrastructure for AI workloads. With over a decade of experience in venture capital, deeptech investing, and strategic operations across Europe and the US, Florent has backed companies such as Cognigy, Neo4j, Aircall, and Pipedrive, contributing to multiple billion-dollar outcomes. He has also advised leading telecom and cloud players, including Deutsche Telekom, on sovereign AI infrastructure initiatives. A former classical pianist turned investor-operator, Florent combines creativity and systems thinking to bridge the worlds of technology, capital, and leadership.

His current work focuses on AI networking, RDMA fabrics, and data-center orchestration, building a new generation of European “neo-cloud” capabilities. Recognized for his cross-disciplinary approach and global perspective, he is shaping the future of AI-native infrastructure entrepreneurship through a blend of technical depth, strategic rigor, and human-centric leadership.

Connect with Florent: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rainbowsend?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app

About the host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Leadership Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, success and purpose I Founder of Extraordinary Leadership Movement™ I Executive, Quantum Leadership Coach I Keynote Speaker I Podcast Host With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement. After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment.

Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur. With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: bold, authentic, visionary—rooted in inner alignment, energy, and deep connection. In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

👇 CONNECT WITH DAGMARA ASBREUK:

🌍 https://www.extraordinaryleadership.co

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmaraasbreuk/ #leadership #resilience #overcomingadversity #transformationalleadership #personalgrowth #empowerment #authenticleadership #inspirationpodcast

Every leader faces moments when things don’t go as planned — results stall, uncertainty rises, and doubt creeps in. But what if these moments weren’t setbacks… but invitations?

In this episode, Dagmara Asbreuk, Executive & Transformational Coach and Founder of Extraordinary Leadership, shares a powerful framework — the 5 ways to navigate challenging times — so you can transform uncertainty into opportunity and emerge stronger, wiser, and more aligned with your highest leadership potential.

You’ll discover how to:

✨ Shift your perspective and see challenges as gifts.

✨ Zoom out to regain clarity and balance. ✨ Master your state and lead from calm confidence.

✨ Reconnect to your vision and lead from your future self.

✨ Seek support and co-create powerful breakthroughs.

Whether you’re navigating organizational change, stepping into a new executive role, or leading your team through uncertainty — this episode will remind you that challenges are not here to break you, but to elevate you.

Tune in to learn how to lead with greater ease, trust, and presence — and turn your most difficult moments into your greatest growth.

About the host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Leadership Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, success and purpose I Founder of Extraordinary Leadership Movement™ I Executive, Quantum Leadership Coach I Keynote Speaker I Podcast Host With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement.

After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment.

Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur. Today, she empowers executives, CEO's and founders, to lead with bold authenticity, energy, and presence.

Through her Embodied Extraordinary Leadership™ method—integrating identity work, neuroscience solutions, and energy mastery—Dagmara empower leaders to transform from within, and lead impactfully their teams, changes and business from an aligned and empowered place.

With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: bold, authentic, visionary—rooted in inner alignment, energy, and deep connection. In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

👇 CONNECT WITH DAGMARA ASBREUK:

🌍 https://www.extraordinaryleadership.co

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmaraasbreuk/

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In this latest Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, I sat down with an inspiring leader - Amit Grover — Founder & Managing Partner of a global IP advisory firm.

He brings over 27 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience across brand marketing, consulting, and venture capital.

Amit’s journey is a powerful testimony of how adversity can shape you into the best version of yourself - and a leader who inspires.

Raised by a single mother, he faced judgment, loss, and even a near-death health crisis. The turning point came when he chose ownership over victimhood.

From that moment, everything changed. What followed was discipline, transformation, and a leadership style rooted in servant leadership, authenticity, purpose, and continuous self-evolution.

He embodies what he stands for - earning trust, loyalty and being the inspiration for people he leads.

As Amit shares: “Leadership is no longer about control, titles, or status — it’s about becoming the kind of human others want to emulate.”

This ties directly into the heart of Extraordinary Leadership:

Become the legacy leader - whose presence multiplies growth, transforms organizations, and shapes the future - with COURAGE, AUTHENTICITY, and PURPOSE

🎙️ In this episode Amit shares his story and the 5 principles that guide his journey.

You’ll learn:

-Why inspiration outperforms control as a leadership strategy

-How to shift from victimhood and blame to ownership and power

-Why discipline beats motivation (and how to practice it daily)

-The role of spirituality and self-acceptance in rebuilding identity

-The power of forgiveness and letting go in sustaining growth

-Why business growth depends on investing in people

Tune in to this episode full of inspiration and reflect on this:

 If legacy leadership is about becoming the leader others want to emulate, how are you showing up today and where you need to take ownership?

About Amit:

Amit Grover is the Founder and Managing Partner of Grover & Company and General Partner at Grover Impact Ventures, where he actively backs intangible asset classes, particularly intellectual property (IP), with over 27 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience spanning brand marketing, management consulting, and venture capital, including senior positions at ITC Ltd, Lavazza Coffee, and Pernod Ricard. Amit offers deep industry expertise and holds a full-time MBA from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Amit’s leadership extends to serving as a board member for C3 Companies Creating Change, a steering committee member for in5 Tech in the UAE, a mentor at the Founder Institute in the UAE, and as the former Chairman of ANZIBC (Australia, New Zealand, India Business Chambers) in New Zealand.

🔗 Connect & Learn More:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grovera

About the host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Leadership Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, success and purpose I Founder of Extraordinary Leadership Movement™ I Executive, Quantum Leadership Coach I Keynote Speaker I Podcast Host With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement.

After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment. Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur.

Today, she empowers executives, CEO's and founders, to lead with bold authenticity, energy, and presence. Through her Embodied Extraordinary Leadership™ method—integrating identity work, neuroscience solutions, and energy mastery—Dagmara empower leaders to transform from within, and lead impactfully their teams, changes and business from an aligned and empowered place.

With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: bold, authentic, visionary—rooted in inner alignment, energy, and deep connection. In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

👇 CONNECT WITH DAGMARA ASBREUK:

🌍 https://www.extraordinaryleadership.co

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmaraasbreuk/

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Most leaders get stuck chasing small, incremental growth - working harder for 5–10% improvements year after year.

But extraordinary leaders don’t play in that paradigm. They think exponentially.

In this episode of The Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, Dagmara Asbreuk unpacks the mechanics of exponential growth and why it’s actually easier—and far more impactful—than linear growth.

She reveals:

The hidden costs of staying trapped in linear, incremental growth. Why exponential growth unlocks possibility, bold vision, and faster results with less effort.

How visionary leaders embody exponential thinking, redefine industries and shape the future.

Three practical steps you can start today to shift from incremental to exponential growth and begin building your legacy.

If you’re a CEO, executive, or founder wanting to set a new standard, unlock exponential growth in your business and shape the future of your organization with less efforts - this conversation is for you.

About the host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Leadership Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, success and purpose I Founder of Extraordinary Leadership Movement™ I Executive, Quantum Leadership Coach I Keynote Speaker I Podcast Host With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement.

After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment. Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur.

Today, she empowers executives, CEO's and founders, to lead with bold authenticity, energy, and presence.

Through her Embodied Extraordinary Leadership™ method—integrating identity work, neuroscience solutions, and energy mastery—Dagmara empower leaders to transform from within, and lead impactfully their teams, changes and business from an aligned and empowered place.

With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: bold, authentic, visionary—rooted in inner alignment, energy, and deep connection.

In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

👇 CONNECT WITH DAGMARA ASBREUK:

🌍 https://www.extraordinaryleadership.co

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmaraasbreuk/

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In this episode of the Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, host Dagmara Asbreuk welcomes Begonia V. Merayo—founder of Net4Tech and Y-Consult, executive coach, speaker, and trainer.

Begonia shares her remarkable journey from building a global corporate career to pioneering new ways of empowering women in technology and driving cultural transformation in organizations.

Together, Dagmara and Begonia explore what it takes to shape a new narrative of leadership—one that is diverse, inclusive, and future-oriented. They discuss pivotal career transitions, the importance of networks and allyship, and the role leaders play in creating environments where diverse talent can thrive and stay.

In this episode you’ll hear:

 About the guest:

Begonia Vazquez Merayo is the Founder & Managing Director of Why Consult and the driving force behind The New Face of Leadership, a global movement redefining how we lead in the age of AI, diversity, and purpose. A cosmopolitan entrepreneur with more than 20 years of C-Suite experience in global corporations, she founded Why Consult in 2012 to harness diversity as a catalyst for innovation and sustainable growth. Since then, Begonia has advised executives and organizations on the future of work, supported companies in recruiting and retaining women up to the boardroom level, and helped shape inclusive leadership cultures across industries. In 2018, she launched net4tec | 4 WoMen Careers in Technology, a thriving global ecosystem of over 2,000 members that accelerates women’s careers in tech and fosters international community support. Recognized as a serial entrepreneur, advisory board member, coach, mentor, and keynote speaker, Begonia inspires leaders in the DACH region and worldwide to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion as strategic drivers of success—and to shape a new leadership culture where AI amplifies human talent at the core.

Connect with Begonia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/begoniavazquezmerayo

About the Host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, growth, and success with greater ease I  Executive Coach I Keynote Speaker

With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement. After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment.

Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur. Today, she empowers executives, CEO's and founders, to lead with bold authenticity, energy, and presence. Through her Embodied Extraordinary Leadership™ method—integrating identity work, neuroscience solutions, and state mastery—Dagmara empower leaders to transform from within, and lead impactfully their teams, changes and business from an aligned and empowered place.

With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: unlocking human potential, driving exponential growth, building human centric, high performing organizations that thrive and creating extraordinary impact with greater ease.

In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

🌍 https://www.extraordinaryleadership.co 

🔗 LinkedIn:    / dagmaraasbreuk  

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Is your leadership team good, but not yet extraordinary?

Many executive teams operate “well enough,” but remain stuck between two extremes:

Efficient but disconnected → focused on results but lacking trust and deeper cohesion.

Friendly but unchallenging → harmonious but avoiding difficult conversations and accountability.

Both scenarios leave enormous potential untapped in business performance, innovation, culture, and engagement. In this episode of the Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, I reveal:

✅ The five key behaviors that differentiate good teams from truly high-performing ones.

✅ Why staying “good” is the most dangerous place for a leadership team.

✅ The step-by-step process I use with CEOs and executives to transform leadership teams into cohesive, high-impact powerhouses.

If you’re a CEO, founder, or senior executive who feels your team has more potential, this episode will give you clarity, inspiration, and a proven path to elevate your leadership team — and through it, your entire organization.

✨ Because when your leadership team steps up, you step into your highest identity as a leader: empowered, visionary, and free to shape lasting impact.

About the host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Leadership Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, success and purpose I Founder of Extraordinary Leadership Movement™ I Executive, Quantum Leadership Coach I Keynote Speaker I Podcast Host

With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement. After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment.

Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur. Today, she empowers executives, CEO's and founders, to lead with bold authenticity, energy, and presence.

Through her Embodied Extraordinary Leadership™ method—integrating identity work, neuroscience solutions, and energy mastery—Dagmara empower leaders to transform from within, and lead impactfully their teams, changes and business from an aligned and empowered place.

With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: bold, authentic, visionary—rooted in inner alignment, energy, and deep connection. In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

👇 CONNECT WITH DAGMARA ASBREUK: 🌍 https://www.extraordinaryleadership.com

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmaraasbreuk/

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In this powerful episode of the Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, host Dagmara Asbreuk sits down with seasoned HR executive Maher Sabbagh, whose 20+ years of global experience—from Jordan to Sudan, Lithuania to Bangladesh—have shaped a profound understanding of human-centric leadership in times of transformation.

Together, they explore:

✨ What it really means to put people first in today’s corporate landscape

✨ Why empathy is not weakness, but a leadership superpower

✨ How to balance business results with genuine connection and care

✨ The role of HR as a strategic business partner, not just a support function

✨ The power of executive coaching to navigate change and embody leadership from within

You’ll hear Maher’s compelling personal stories—from leading through conflict zones to cultivating multi-cultural teams—and the lessons that shaped his signature leadership formula rooted in empathy, authenticity, and growth.

Whether you're a senior leader, HR professional, or visionary executive seeking to create a thriving culture that drives performance, this episode will inspire you to lead with more connection, courage, and clarity.

About Maher:

Maher Sabbagh, born April 24, 1974, is Jordanian and married with two children. His extensive human resources (HR) career spans several prominent international roles, showcasing his profound impact on organizational success.

Maher started at Crown Holdings in Jordan as a Personnel Officer (April 1997-December 2000), focusing on employee records, payroll, and policy development. He advanced to HR Manager at Japan Tobacco International (JTI) in Jordan (January 2001-April 2005), where he recruited a top team and implemented HR systems, aiding the company's market share surge from 3% to 20% by 2004.

From May 2005 to October 2010 at JTI Iran, Maher expanded the business under challenging conditions, increasing revenue from $45Bn to $300Bn by 2009. Subsequently, as Regional HR Manager in Dubai (November 2010-October 2011), he led investor certifications and oversaw a $450Bn Sudan acquisition, enhancing regional development programs.

Maher's success continued in Sudan (November 2011-July 2018), where he revitalized HR, optimized the workforce, and launched the Sudan Talent Nurturing Program, fostering talent for African markets.

In Bangladesh (August 2018-March 2021), he transformed a 15,000-employee company into a multinational firm, leading a $1.5Bn acquisition and initiating a Women in Leadership program.

In 2022, he served as Group HR Director at JAT International, spearheading a transformation project across five African countries.

At Zag Trader in 2023, he established HR functions tailored to business goals. From September 2023 to February 2025, Maher was Head of People and Performance at EDGNEX Data Centers/DAMAC Group.

He focused on HR strategy alignment across MENA, EU, and AP regions, and championed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Connect with Maher:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maher-sabbagh

About the host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Leadership Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, success and purpose I Founder of Extraordinary Leadership Movement™ I Executive, Quantum Leadership Coach I Keynote Speaker I Podcast Host With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement.

After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment. Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur.

Today, she empowers executives, CEO's and founders, to lead with bold authenticity, energy, and presence. Through her Embodied Extraordinary Leadership™ method—integrating identity work, neuroscience solutions, and energy mastery—Dagmara empower leaders to transform from within, and lead impactfully their teams, changes and business from an aligned and empowered place.

With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: bold, authentic, visionary—rooted in inner alignment, energy, and deep connection.

In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

👇 CONNECT WITH DAGMARA ASBREUK: 🌍 https://www.extraordinaryleadership.co

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmaraasbreuk/

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In this powerful episode I’m joined by Tom Mills – a seasoned procurement leader, soft skills coach, and self-proclaimed procurement protagonist with over 100,000 followers on LinkedIn.

Together, we dive deep into what truly drives high-performing, future-proof leadership – and it's not what most procurement functions focus on.

🎯 What we cover in this episode:

Tom’s personal journey with leadership pressure, anxiety, and imposter syndrome

Why self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and communication are the real differentiators in procurement

The human side of procurement: building trust, psychological safety, and empowered teams

What makes a true business partner vs. a policy enforcer

How to thrive as a procurement leader in the age of AI and organizational change

The power of soft skills, and how Tom is helping leaders become 1% better every day

This is a conversation for every leader – whether you're in procurement or not.

If you're committed to evolving beyond technical skills and unlocking your full leadership potential, this episode will speak to you.

🎧 Listen now and let us know in the comments – what resonated most with you?

About Tom Mills: 

Author of Procure Bites, the number 1 Procurement newsletter delivering insights to help Procurement Professionals get 1% better every week.  

Creator of Procurement Soft Skills Mastery, the online course that's fast tracking Procurement careers globally.  

Public Speaker

👇 CONNECT WITH TOM MILLS:

🔗https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-mills-procurement/

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About the host:

Dagmara Asbreuk is a Leadership Transformation Catalyst, Trusted partner to visionary CEOs, Executives, Founders ready to unlock the next level of impact, success and purpose  Founder of Extraordinary Leadership Movement™ I Executive, Quantum Leadership Coach I Keynote Speaker I Podcast Host With over 15 years in corporate leadership roles across global Fortune 500 companies, she deeply understands the pressure, complexity, and emotional toll leaders face behind high achievement.

After years of driving change, leading teams, and juggling performance with personal demands, Dagmara realized that true leadership success requires inner alignment. Her own transformational journey—marked by deep self-discovery and inner work—led her to shift from corporate executive to purpose-driven entrepreneur.

Today, she empowers executives, CEO's and founders, to lead with bold authenticity, energy, and presence. Through her Embodied Extraordinary Leadership™ method—integrating identity work, neuroscience solutions, and energy mastery—Dagmara empower leaders to transform from within, and lead impactfully their teams, changes and business from an aligned and empowered place.

With Extraordinary Leadership, she’s paving the way for a new era of leadership: bold, authentic, visionary—rooted in inner alignment, energy, and deep connection. In recent years, she’s had the privilege of working with leaders and teams across industries, cultures, and company sizes, including Maersk, Chanel, IKEA, Microsoft, and Denso.

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