Leadership Biz Cafe with Tanveer Naseer

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Jun 2026

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Internationally-acclaimed keynote and TEDx speaker, award-winning leadership writer, and author Tanveer Naseer sits down with today’s top leadership experts to explore insights and tools to help leaders take on the challenges and opportunities found in leading today’s workplaces. You'll also hear Tanveer's unique perspective on leadership in his popular "Leadership Espresso Shot" series, where he shares insights from speaking to audiences across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia on how you can improve your leadership craft and be that leader your employees need to succeed and thrive. Join Tanveer as he speaks with Marshall Goldsmith, Tom Peters, Guy Kawasaki, Robin Sharma, Bob Sutton, Jim Kouzes, Stephen M.R. Covey, Liz Wiseman, Faisal Hoque, Tim Sanders, Whitney Johnson, Adam Bryant, Sally Helgesen, and many other experts about leadership, communication, teamwork, organizational culture, and other timely topics. Ranked as one of the Top 2.5% podcasts in the world, "Leadership Biz Cafe with Tanveer Naseer" will give you the tools, insights, strategies, and motivations to transform your leadership and drive your organization's growth and longevity. As Inc. Magazine put it - "This podcast feels like you're sitting down for a cup of coffee with two leadership experts to learn about how to become that leader our employees need us to be." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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June 10, 202612 min

Leadership Storytelling: What It Reveals About the Role You Were Meant to Play | Leadership Espresso Shot 84

There's a leadership role most of us instinctively gravitate toward - especially during periods of change and uncertainty. But while it may feel like the most natural and correct role for us to play as leaders, the fact is it won’t help us to empower our employees to bring their best and ensure our collective success. In this Leadership Espresso Shot, Tanveer draws on the principles of storytelling to reveal something unexpected about where a leader's true power lies … and where most leaders tend to misplace it. Using three compelling stories, he explores a fundamental dynamic that shapes whether your people grow and thrive, or remain dependent on you to get things done. This episode will help give you a fresh perspective on what leaders should be doing right now to meet today’s challenges and, in the process, bring out the best in those you lead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 27, 202642 min

Sabina Nawaz | How Leadership Blind Spots Turn Good Managers Into Bad Bosses

Most leaders believe they're doing a better job than they actually are. Global studies show that while managers rate themselves highly in terms of their effectiveness, less than a third of their employees agree with that assessment. So what’s behind this gap and is there anything leaders can do to address it, without adding even more to their full plates? In this episode of "Leadership Biz Cafe", global C-suite executive coach and former Microsoft executive Sabina Nawaz reveals why even the most well-intentioned leaders develop blind spots and self-sabotaging habits that quietly damage their teams - and what you can do to avoid it. Drawing from her bestselling, award-winning book "You're the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)", Sabina introduces her framework of Power Gaps and Pressure Pitfalls - the hidden forces that grow in proportion to your authority and stress - and shares practical and easy to implement strategies for recognizing and overcoming them. Whether you're a new manager or a seasoned executive, this conversation will sharpen your self-awareness, improve how you communicate and give feedback, and help you become the leader your team actually needs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 13, 202612 min

How Smart Delegation Reduces Leader Burnout and Empowers Your Team | Leadership Espresso Shot 83

85% of business leaders suffer from "decision distress" - and it's not because they fail to delegate. It's because they're delegating the wrong thing. In this Leadership Espresso Shot, Tanveer Naseer shares the mindset shift leaders need to make around delegation - and a practical framework to protect your cognitive energy while helping your team grow, find purpose, and thrive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 29, 202651 min

Patrick Leddin | How To Turn Disruption Into Your Greatest Leadership Advantage

When it comes to periods of disruption, most of us have learned to treat it like a bad storm - something you do your best to avoid, but if you do encounter it, you just hunker down and wait for clearer skies to return. But is it possible that we’ve misunderstood the true nature of disruption? That disruption is the very force that helps us to do work that matters - or as my guest writes in his book, to “live a good life”? In this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe,” I speak with Dr. Patrick Leddin about his New York Times bestselling book “Disrupt Everything - and Win,” he co-authored with legendary storyteller James Patterson, and how leaders can transform disruption from something to endure into a powerful driver to achieve a sense of purpose, and lead their teams to meaningful and lasting success. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 15, 20269 min

3 Questions Every Leader Needs To Cut Through Complexity | Leadership Espresso Shot 82

The more complicated things become, the more leaders feel compelled to tighten control. Yet this drive for efficiency often introduces more uncertainty than clarity. In this Leadership Espresso Shot, I share a three-step framework to bridge the gap between organizational goals and what truly drives your employees, so you can align your team’s best efforts for long-term success. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 1, 202646 min

Margaret Andrews | How Self-Management Transforms the Way You Lead Others

Most leaders come to leadership development hoping to find tools that will fix their employees. What Margaret Andrews reveals in this episode of Leadership Biz Cafe is that the real work of leadership starts somewhere else entirely - with understanding and managing yourself first. In this episode, Harvard instructor and author Margaret Andrews introduces her MYLO (Manage Yourself to Lead Others) approach, a four-stage framework built on the insight that we can only lead others effectively once we understand who we are, who we want to become, and what stands between the leader we are today and the one we're capable of being. You'll learn how to develop genuine self-understanding, apply it through practical self-management, and use both to lead others with greater clarity, empathy, and resilience, including how to navigate upward through challenging relationships with your own leaders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

March 18, 202613 min

What It Really Means to Protect and Empower Your Team | Leadership Espresso Shot 81

What does it truly mean to protect and empower your team? In this episode, Tanveer shares a remarkable - and unexpected - real-world leadership story that challenges how most leaders think about their role. Inspired by a series of candid conversations with business leaders across North America and Europe, this episode cuts to the heart of what separates leaders who drive real impact from those who simply manage outcomes. Listen to Leadership Espresso Shot 81 to hear something that will genuinely make you rethink how you show up for the people you lead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

March 4, 202638 min

Matthew Kohut | Why Leaders Can't Afford To Stay Silent

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a perceptual pendulum swing from leaders opening speaking out on a number of social and political issues, to many of those same leaders now being conspicuously quiet.While this might seem reasonable in the face of increasing social divisiveness and economic uncertainty, my guest Matthew Kohut makes the case that this retreat into silence may carry a far higher cost than leaders realize. Matthew is a communication strategist who joins me on this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe” to talk about his book, ”Speaking Out: The New Rules of Business Leadership Communication” and what those new rules for speaking out are, along with a practical communication framework that can help leaders know when they should speak out, how to do it, and why it’s critical to their organization and its stakeholders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

February 18, 202612 min

Lead With Purpose: 3 Leadership Lessons from My 15-Year Podcasting Journey

15 years ago, I got an email from Guy Kawasaki that would change the course of my life. He had a new book out and said if I wanted to interview him for a podcast, he’d be game. The only problem … I didn’t have a podcast. But being able to have a one-on-one conversation with a successful leader and entrepreneur like Guy is not an opportunity one passes up. And so, this podcast “Leadership Biz Cafe” was created and I could never have imagined the journey and growth this podcast would lead to. Over the past 15 years and 199 episodes, I’ve been able to have conversations with renowned thought leaders like Marshall Goldsmith, Tom Peters, Stephen M.R. Covey, and Robin Sharma, and a create platform that has reached leaders around the world. And through such a long and successful journey, you pick up a few hard-earned lessons of what it takes to not only succeed, but persist no matter what uncertainties lie ahead. That’s why I’ve decided for this milestone episode of this podcast to share the unexpected lessons I learned along the way - about why purpose matters more than certainty when starting new initiatives, why curiosity is a more effective leadership tool than waiting for the fog to clear, and the one thing that separates leaders who build something enduring from those who stall before they ever begin. Listen now to discover what 15 years of podcasting taught me about leading with purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

February 4, 202641 min

Priya Nalkur | From Inclusion to True Belonging at Work

Most organizations treat inclusion as a checkbox exercise - build diverse teams, implement training programs, and assume employees will automatically feel like they belong.But as Priya Nalkur reveals in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”, this fundamental misunderstanding is exactly why so many workplace initiatives fail to create genuine connection.Priya is the President of The RoundTable Institute and has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She’s also the author of the book, “Stumbling Towards Inclusion: Finding Grace in Imperfect Leadership”.Whether you’re leading inclusion initiatives or simply want to understand how to create a workplace where every employee feels empowered to deliver their best, this conversation will give you the insights and practical strategies you need to make meaningful progress. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.