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, with friends, or with family.

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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 excellence to improve their teams’ performance.

Listeners will take away lessons from how a team can operate in a no-blame culture even while under pressure, empower every member of the team to share their knowledge, make incremental gains, and put sustainability front and center.

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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 advice on what makes an effective leader, how communication and clarity go hand in hand, and how becoming a manager is not a promotion, but a career change. Lindsey is a New York Times bestselling author of four books, including Becoming the Boss and The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace. She's delivered keynote speeches for more than 300 organizations, including Fortune 100 companies and Ivy League universities.

The last episode of season six of Leading Up With Udemy drops on Wednesday, July 10th.

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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 to believe in themselves, advocate for themselves, and how to put modesty in a corner. Yvell is the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Deputy Chief of Organizational Design and Development. Prior to this, she spent nearly 15 years as a professor in the Black and Hispanic Studies Department at Baruch College at the City University of New York.

The last episode of season six of Leading Up With Udemy drops on Wednesday, July 10th.

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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 principles of military leadership translate to the private sector. 

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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 have to teach you about getting ahead at work.

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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 potential and coaching them to be their best selves.

In the second half of the interview with Alan Todd, Carson shares his thoughts on how the GenAI revolution should be managed by Learning & Development leaders, and why a human-first approach is key.

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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 learned, and how she’s handled culture and adapting to a hybrid workforce at Lockheed Martin.

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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 into her leadership principles and shares advice with her signature humor and authenticity.

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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 strategic decisions about their own careers.

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