Imperfect Leaders · 2026-05-28 · 57 min
In this episode of Imperfect Leaders, host Jeff Cohn sits down with Dr. Bradley Schlaggar - physician, neuroscientist, and President and CEO of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, one of the world's premier institutions for children and young adults with disorders of the brain and nervous system. Brad's path to leadership began with a lifelong obsession with the developing brain, an MD and PhD from Washington University, and nearly two decades on the faculty building a celebrated research career. But it was a series of deeply personal crucible experiences - the loss of his sister and father to cancer, his own emergency heart surgery, his wife's breast cancer diagnosis, and his son Simeon's four-year battle with leukemia - that forged his most important leadership qualities. Those experiences gave Brad something no training program could: a profound, bone-deep empathy for the families sitting across from him, and a servant leader's instinct to make space for others rather than occupy it himself. That empathy and humility are not incidental to how Kennedy Krieger works - they are the foundation of it.
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