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S3e04 Building Better Leaders with Jonathan Kirschner

The Mindful Leadership Podcast with Shahana Banerjee · 2025-10-31 · 54 min

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This episode is a mega dose of inspiration with Jonathan Kirschner, Founder & CEO of AIIR Consulting and AIIR analytics, a kindred spirit, fellow podcaster, coach, hockey champ and psychology buff. He is on a mission to make the world a bit better through leadership excellence. In this episode, we dig into the power of value based leadership, why leaders lose their way and so much more: How he overcame a ‘learning disability’ and went from “the kid least likely to be CEO” to building a company that helps thousands of leaders grow How his personal challenge became a goal, … and the goal became his Purpose How his art teacher’s unique blend of support and challenge shaped his leadership His WHY for founding AIIR in grad school Case : This leaders’ career is stalling. He just doesn’t know it yet. He tries harder and harder, but nothing is working… Is it his skills, his values or his cognitive schema? A truly insightful story. Case : This leader brings an overwhelming sense of urgency and depth of expertise to engineer a transformation. But he fails. Why? What did he need to do differently? Another insightful story.

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