Positive Leadership
by Jean-Philippe Courtois
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Rebecca Winthrop: If AI Does the Homework, Learning Stops
Rebecca Winthrop: If AI Does the Homework, Learning Stops
About this podcast
Positive Leadership has the power to change the world. By focusing on trust, empathy, authenticity and deep collaboration, leaders can energize their teams to achieve success for individuals, their organizations, and society as a whole. Yet, it remains relatively unknown outside positive psychology and neuroscience circles.
Join Jean-Philippe Courtois, former member of the Microsoft senior leadership team alongside Satya Nadella and co-founder of Live for Good, as he brings Positive Leadership to life for anyone in a leadership capacity—both personally and professionally. With help from his guests, Jean-Philippe explores how purpose-driven leaders can generate the positive energy needed to drive business success, individual fulfillment, and societal impact across a range of industries—from technology and social enterprise to sports and coffee.
Most importantly, you’ll learn practical tips to apply in your own life—so you can start making a positive difference in the world.
Episodes
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- Rebecca Winthrop: If AI Does the Homework, Learning Stops · 1 h 29 min · Season 13 Episode 5During COVID, Rebecca Winthrop watched her straight-A eldest son stop working the day his grades went pass/fail. "If it's not counted, it doesn't matter," he told her. Her…
- Psychologist Jamil Zaki: Empathy Is a Skill You Can Train · 1 h 40 min · Season 13 Episode 4Jamil Zaki was eight when his parents began a divorce that took four years. To stay close to both of them, he had to work, every day, to understand two people who could no longer…
- Olivier Goy: Invincible Hope · 1 h 12 min · Season 13 Episode 3In December 2020, a neurologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière told Olivier Goy he had ALS, Charcot's disease. No cure. Three to five years. He spent four months on the floor. Then a…
- Atul Satija: Give Till It Hurts · 1 h 39 min · Season 13 Episode 2He kept promising himself he would fight poverty one day. First at retirement. Then in his fifties. Then his forties. Until the day it felt like he was lying to himself. So one…
- [FR] Frédéric Laloux, Reinventing Organizations : 15 000 personnes, zéro manager · 1 h 42 min · Season 13 Episode 1Regrouper les infirmiers pour faire des économies. Leur retirer le téléphone, un centre d'appels s'occupera de tout. Chronométrer chaque geste : deux minutes trente pour un bas…
- More Human Than Ever: Summer Special 2026 · 1 h 2 min · Season 12Every August, I offer you something different. Not a new conversation, but a pause. This was the year AI stopped being a headline and became part of our daily lives as leaders. I…
- [FR] Frédéric Mazzella : le rôle de l'entrepreneur est d'améliorer la société · 1 h 30 min · Season 12 Episode 13Il roule vers la Vendée un soir de Noël, coincé sur l'A10. Un TGV le double. Il sait qu'il est complet, il a essayé d'y acheter une place. Autour de lui, des centaines de…
- Psychologist Ethan Kross: Emotions Aren't the Enemy · 1 h 22 min · Season 12 Episode 12The voice in your head has been talking since before you finished this sentence. For most leaders it is the least managed instrument they own, and the most consequential. Ethan…
- Anu Bharadwaj: AI Won't Save a Team That Fears It · 1 h 22 min · Season 12 Episode 11Six months into her first management job, Anu Bharadwaj got the feedback no leader wants to hear: she was too intense, she pushed her team too hard. She was stunned. She was only…
- Stéphane Bancel: The 5% Bet That Built Moderna · 1 h 26 min · Season 12 Episode 10In 2011, Stéphane Bancel walked away from the security of leading a 6,000-person diagnostics company to join a startup of about 50 people, built on an idea most scientists had…
- Dr Donna Hicks: Every Conflict Hides a Dignity Wound · 1 h 23 min · Season 12 Episode 9Donna Hicks spent three decades at the world's hardest conflict tables and found one hidden injury beneath them all: a violation of human dignity. From the Middle East to…
- [FR] Du pôle Sud au pôle intérieur : Matthieu Tordeur, explorateur · 1 h 33 min · Season 12 Episode 8À 27 ans, il a marché seul jusqu'au bout de la Terre. Ce qu'il a trouvé là-bas n'était pas un sommet. À 27 ans, Matthieu Tordeur devient le plus jeune explorateur au monde à…
- The Iceberg Strategy: Ine Van Wymersch, Drug Commissioner · 1 h 40 min · Season 12 Episode 7A country drifting toward narco-state. The answer isn't a hammer. It's warm water. Belgium is one decision away from becoming a narco-state. Judges in hiding. Prosecutors under…
- Raj Sisodia: How Conscious Capitalism Brings Love into Business · 1 h 28 min · Season 12 Episode 6Companies built on love outperform the S&P 500 by 14 to 1. Conscious capitalism, stakeholder leadership, healing organizations — Raj Sisodia proved it with data, then spent a…
- Erased but Not Silenced: Leading the Global Climate Fight with Vanessa Nakate · 1 h 22 min · Season 12 Episode 5What does it take to start a global movement when you feel like the world isn't listening? Today, my guest is Vanessa Nakate, the pioneering Ugandan climate justice activist…
- Rebuilding Trust in Technology with Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian · 1 h 18 min · Season 12 Episode 4What happens when one of Silicon Valley's most accomplished engineers decides the system he helped build is broken—and walks away to fix it? Today my guest is Raffi Krikorian…
- How a Purpose-Led Culture Transformed AstraZeneca with Pascal Soriot · 1 h 3 min · Season 12 Episode 3What if the greatest turnaround in modern corporate history wasn’t driven by financial engineering or restructuring, but by an unshakeable belief in science and human talent? In…
- Running From and Running Toward: Rewriting the Stories We Inherit with Nicholas Thompson · 1 h 28 min · Season 12 Episode 2What if the stories you inherited about who you’re supposed to become—from your family, your industry, your own fears—are the very narratives holding you back? In this powerful…
- [FR] Ne jamais rien lâcher avec Moussa Camara · 1 h 33 min · Season 12 Episode 1Dans ce nouvel épisode du Positive Leadership Podcast, j'ai l'honneur d'accueillir Moussa Camara, un entrepreneur visionnaire et un bâtisseur de ponts infatigable qui redessine…
- "Controlled Chaos": How to Scale Innovation Without Killing Culture with Katarina Berg · 1 h 28 min · Season 11 Episode 11In this new episode of the Positive Leadership Podcast, I’m delighted to welcome Katarina Berg, a leader who has redefined HR and culture for the digital age. As the long-time…
