David Fung | Coachful Coaching Leadership Podcast

How to Make Your Engineering Team More Creative | Steven Puri, Ex-DreamWorks and Fox Executive

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How to make your engineering team more creative, with ex-DreamWorks EVP Steven Puri. Most technical leaders think creativity belongs to designers and writers. Steven Puri started his career as a software engineer at IBM, became an Executive Vice President at DreamWorks and a Vice President at 20th Century Fox, then went back to tech and raised $21M across three startups. His conclusion: the most creative engineers and the most creative screenwriters work the same way.

Topics: Can Engineers and Scientists Be Creative? · Why Writing Code Is an Act of Creation · LLMs Repeat the Pattern. Creative People Break It. · The Spielberg Meeting: When the Coffee Boy's Idea Wins · Ask "What's Best for the Project?" to Take Ego Out of Ideas · Why Committees Kill Creativity

You Think You're an AI Visionary. Your Team Thinks You're Confusing | David Fung | DisruptHR Talks

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Guest: DisruptHR Talks

One Slack message about an AI demo. Two job offers rescinded, six HR people's day gone, and a support team scared for their jobs. At DisruptHR 2026, I break down what happens when leaders "think out loud" about AI, and how HR can stop it.

The 3 C’s of Executive Presence for Introverts | Jennifer Marcou, Former Microsoft and AmEx VP

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Jennifer was running the GM job as interim, had the expertise and the people results, and still didn’t get the role. The person who did had something she had never prioritized: visibility, influence, and a network. That moment changed how she led, and it’s the lesson at the center of her new book, Lead with Quiet Confidence (out October 6).

Topics: Changing Behavior Without Changing Who You Are · The “Ice Queen” Lesson: Say Hello to Five People · Networking for Introverts: Start With People You Know · Going Quiet When Loud People Dominate the Meeting · Passed Over for GM While Already Doing the Job · Confidence Beats Competence

Promoted Too Fast? The 3 Tests Every New Leader Faces | Bill Gunn, Ex-J&J and FedEx

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Bill Gunn went from entry level to Managing Director at FedEx in under five years, then to a VP role at Gap. Looking back, he says he valued the speed of the journey more than what he was learning along the way. We cover

Topics: When your old leadership playbook stops working · Meet Bill Gunn: FedEx, Gap, J&J, and now executive coach · Leaving corporate: the identity shift from company armor to your own · How long to stay in a role before moving up · FedEx to Gap: adapting your leadership style to a new culture · How to build a healthy relationship with feedback

How to Build a Team That Runs Without You | Jon Rennie, Former Nuclear Submarine Officer

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How do you build a team that runs without you? Jon Rennie spent ten years letting go, then stepped down as CEO in January. Show notes Jon Rennie served as a US Navy nuclear submarine officer through seven Cold War deployments. 155 people sealed in a steel tube where, as he puts it, if there's a fire, we all die. He carried that into industry, ran eight manufacturing businesses for three global companies, then co-founded AccuGrid Technologies and led it for a decade.

Topics: Why a CEO Became a Professor at 59 · The Command and Control Myth About Military Leaders · Shared Accountability: How 155 Sailors Lead Each Other · First Deployment: Watching a Captain Lead Under Pressure · Nuclear Weapons at 25, No Authority to Buy a Stapler · Why Veterans Lose Their Sense of Purpose in Corporate

Why AI Projects Fail Inside Big Companies | Anmol Madan, AI CEO & MIT-Trained Data Scientist

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Guest: Anmol Madan

Why do AI projects fail inside big companies? Anmol Madan (RadiantGraph CEO, ex-Teladoc) on getting teams to actually adopt AI. Full show notes Most AI projects inside large companies do not fail because the technology is weak. They fail because nobody tied the work to a business result the CFO could measure.

Topics: Career transitions and the creative reset between jobs · Why podcast expectations keep rising · The Machines Will See You Now · Star Trek vs Mad Max: two futures for healthcare AI · Does technology raise the healthcare floor? · The three levels of healthcare automation

AI Isn't Coming for Your Job, It Makes Experts Dangerous.

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AI is coming for your job is the wrong fear, says Steven Kotler. The real shift: AI makes experts super dangerous. Full episode Kotler reframes the AI-and-jobs panic. The problem isn't mass unemployment — it's how you train young employees to expert level fast and reskill people who've aged out. The answer is coupling flow (the brain's peak-performance state — McKinsey clocked leaders 500% more productive in it) with AI to reskill faster than ever.