the A.L.T. JOURNEY Podcast - LEAD THE FUTURE: Change the Conversation - by Arjan Visser

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an unedited honest Authentic Leadership Transformation dialogue to Lead the Future. Join Arjan Visser as he chats with friends, peers and business leaders on (self-)leadership, future and peers.

  1. Sep 25

    147. When AI Makes The Call You Are Still Responsible | Dilip Chetan

    Dilip Chetan, former AI research leader at Google and Meta, is now the founder of DefensibleZone AI. He thinks the goal was never to outperform AI — it's to find the one place in your work that's truly yours, the part a machine can't reach. In this honest, unscripted conversation, he and host Arjan Visser talk about what happens to a leader's own judgment when convenience keeps doing the thinking for them, and why the question "what is it that I don't know?" might be the most important one a leader can ask. The ALT Journey Podcast is a show for leaders — real, unscripted conversations about what it actually takes to lead well. Expect to learn why real cognitive skills quietly erode once convenience makes the hard version optional; why letting AI make hiring, firing, or performance-review decisions costs you the reason you're in the room; why almost half of managers privately admit they don't know what's going on, and why that's worth naming out loud; why a resume or a track record can't actually prove your judgment is any good; and why the most useful question a leader can ask is the one that admits what they don't know. 📌 Connect with Dilip Chetan DefensibleZone AI — Dilip's own venture, helping companies identify the skills AI can't replace for hiring, promotions, and workforce planning. https://defensiblezone.ai/ Join the ongoing conversation at the ALT Dialogue, an exclusive peer dialogue for visionary leaders to pioneer and ponder the ALT question, the question that shapes our Authentic Leadership Transformation to lead the future.https://alt.businessrevivalists.com 📌 Your host: Arjan Visser | Human-Centered Futurist | ALT Journey Podcast

    147. When AI Makes The Call You Are Still Responsible | Dilip Chetan

  2. Sep 11

    146. Facilitation Is a Leadership Skill First | Pedram Parasmand

    Pedram Parasmand, co-founder and CEO of The Skills Lab, is a facilitator and leadership coach with over 20 years of experience. He thinks most facilitators get it backwards — you can't actually stand outside the process you're running. In this honest, unscripted peer conversation, he and host Arjan Visser talk about why your own inner condition shapes everything you facilitate, and why staying anchored to your own values matters more than staying neutral. The ALT Journey Podcast is a show for leaders — real, unscripted conversations about what it actually takes to lead well. Expect to learn why facilitators can't actually stand outside the process they're running; why staying true to what you believe costs something once you name a real divergence; why authenticity is a responsibility, not an excuse; why a full life can quietly cost you the people who matter most; and why you might be operating from a rule book you built decades ago without ever checking it. 📌 Connect with Pedram ParasmanThe Skills Lab — no website or social handle stated in the episode. Join the ongoing conversation at the ALT Dialogue, an exclusive peer dialogue for visionary leaders to pioneer and ponder the ALT question, the question that shapes our Authentic Leadership Transformation to lead the future.https://alt.businessrevivalists.com 📌 Your host: Arjan Visser | Human-Centered Futurist | ALT Journey Podcast

    146. Facilitation Is a Leadership Skill First | Pedram Parasmand

  3. Aug 28

    145. It's Not a Strategy Problem. You Are Actually Out of Capacity | Andrea Edmondson

    I had this conversation with Andrea Edmondson on what we are tempted to call a Strategy Problem, but actually we are Out of Capacity. It's about a myth every founder inherits: that sacrificing yourself for the mission is just the price of the role. She lived it for years — pushing through, overriding her own signals — until her body forced the stop with an autoimmune diagnosis. Her claim, once she'd rebuilt from it, was almost inconveniently simple: the body goes first. Not the story you tell yourself about why you're fine. Not the plan. That's where it stopped being just her story. Most of us don't call it override — we call it just what leading costs. We remake the plan when execution slips, when the truer diagnosis is that we're out of capacity, not out of ideas. Underneath it sits a story we rarely question: that sacrificing yourself for the mission is the price of the role, not a cost we're allowed to notice. What signals have you been overriding the longest, telling yourself it's just what leading costs? Your host: Arjan Visser

    145. It's Not a Strategy Problem. You Are Actually Out of Capacity | Andrea Edmondson

  4. Aug 14

    144. Creative Leadership That Outlives One Charismatic Leader | Liz Hunt

    Creative Leadership That Outlives One Charismatic Leader | Liz HuntLiz Hunt has spent fifteen years in creative leadership. She runs Daycloud Studios and was formerly at Gallup.She thinks most of what management training teaches about creative leadership works backwards. In this unedited, honest peer dialogue, she and host Arjan Visser talk about why fear — not laziness — is what actually kills creative output, and what it takes to lead a team that can still take real risks.Expect to learn why fear, not laziness or lack of talent, is what actually kills creative output; why felt security is what makes people willing to take a risk; how naming "rising tides raises all ships" out loud shut down one leader's own credit-seeking reflex; why knowing your own lane — leader included — stops you reaching into work that was never yours to control; why being a chameleon for your people, coach one day and listener the next, isn't the same as taking over their job; and why a company that's only ever as good as its leader is already capped at the size of one person.The real risk isn't losing control of your team — it's protecting the wrong thing while you hold on. This conversation is your invitation to lead with the courage to loosen your grip today.Timestamps 00:00 — Intro 00:00:13 — Output keeps getting pushed while creativity quietly drains 00:01:46 — Standard management training misfires on creative people 00:03:42 — Fear, not laziness, is what kills creativity 00:07:08 — The leader as chameleon — being what people need without taking their job 00:10:14 — Under pressure, control cascades from the leader down to the team 00:18:13 — A company that's only as good as its leader is already a ceiling 00:21:36 — "Rising tides raises all ships" — and knowing your own lane 00:27:12 — Culture vs. behaviours that leave when you do 00:29:44 — Abundance mindset — there's room on the stage 00:33:17 — Arjan: reflecting vs. shining 00:40:46 — The blind spot your team is quietly surviving for you📌 Connect with Liz Hunt Website: lizhuntconsulting.com Daycloud Studios: https://www.daycloudstudios.com/ LinkedIn: Liz Hunt Consulting Instagram: Liz Hunt _ConsultingJoin the ongoing conversation at the ALT Dialogue, an exclusive peer dialogue for visionary leaders to pioneer and ponder the ALT question, the question that shapes our Authentic Leadership Transformation to lead the future. https://alt.businessrevivalists.com📌 Your host: Arjan Visser | Human-Centered Futurist | ALT Journey Podcast#CreativeLeadership #AuthenticLeadership #LeadershipBlindSpots

    144. Creative Leadership That Outlives One Charismatic Leader | Liz Hunt

  5. Jul 2

    143. Losing Yourself While Scaling? The Operating System Leaders Miss! | Jürgen Dauk

    Personal growth in leadership means nothing if scaling costs you your vision, your passion, and yourself. Host Arjan Visser sits down with Jürgen Dauk, author of The Leadership Operating System, for an unedited honest peer dialogue about what happens when fear replaces inspiration — and what it takes to lead with clarity when the stakes are highest. Jürgen Dauk brings years of lived experience in leadership development and entrepreneurship to confront the question most scaling leaders avoid: are you still leading from vision, or just managing from fear? In this episode, you will discover: Why scaling leaders shift from vision to fear-driven KPI management — and how that kills team spirit, passion, and personal growthHow viewing your organization as a living organism rather than a machine unlocks leadership skills, creativity, and genuine business growthWhat in-person collaboration after remote work revealed about trust, self discovery, and the irreplaceable power of human presenceWhy giving power to your people — not controlling them — is the one thing most leaders are too scared to do, and what they get in returnHow rediscovering your passion is the foundation of authentic leadership development and self-governance under pressure The real risk in scaling isn't failure — it's losing yourself while succeeding. This conversation is your invitation to lead with vision, passion, and the courage to ask the hard questions today. Join the ongoing conversation at the ALT Dialogue, an exclusive peer dialogue for visionary leaders to pioneer and ponder the ALT question, the question that shapes our Authentic Leadership Transformation to lead the future. https://alt.businessrevivalists.com 📌 Connect with Jürgen Dauk:🌐 https://theleadership-os.com🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juergendauk/ 📌 Your host: Arjan Visser | Human-Centered Futurist | ALT Journey Podcast

    143. Losing Yourself While Scaling? The Operating System Leaders Miss! | Jürgen Dauk

  6. Jun 18

    142. Here's Why Effectiveness Wins Every Time | Miriam Herzberg

    What if the thing quietly killing your leadership isn't complexity or pressure — it's the ego you protect when things get hard? This conversation names that truth out loud. In this unedited, honest peer dialogue, host Arjan Visser sits down with Miriam Herzberg — founder of Morgenwerk and a leadership advisor known for sharp perspective shifts — to explore what it really means to lead with effectiveness over ego. In this episode, you will discover: Why leaders lose authorship the moment they start managing perception instead of making real decisionsHow underlying value differences (not personality clashes) are the true engine of most team conflictThe simple silence-and-question technique Miriam uses to break leaders out of their excuse narrativesWhy courage is a muscle — and how small daily steps build it even when doubt is loudHow "tomorrow begins now" becomes a daily leadership practice, not just a taglineThe conversation you've been avoiding is the exact first step toward the leader you're becoming — what are you waiting for? Join the ongoing conversation at the ALT Dialogue, an exclusive peer dialogue for visionary leaders to pioneer and ponder the ALT question, the question that shapes our Authentic Leadership Transformation to lead the future. https://alt.businessrevivalists.com 📌 Connect with Miriam Herzberg:  🌐 https://morgenwerk.biz/ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriam-herzberg/ 📌 Your host: Arjan Visser | Human-Centered Futurist | ALT Journey Podcast Timestamps 0:00 Intro & Welcome  1:31 The Morgen Werk Leap  4:18 Letting Go to Grow  7:38 Reading Leaders in 20 Min  10:15 Confronting the Control Trap  14:37 Maturity Over Ego  17:54 Why Teams Really Fight  24:33 The Nine Levels Tool  27:01 Tomorrow Begins Now  31:01 Authorship Under Pressure  35:16 Silence as a Strategy  39:31 Start That Conversation

    142. Here's Why Effectiveness Wins Every Time | Miriam Herzberg

  7. Jun 4

    141. Work The New Formula That Actually Fulfills You! | Matt Goddard

    Personal growth in leadership starts with one honest question — and most leaders never stop long enough to ask it. Host Arjan Visser sits down with Matt Goddard, private advisor to entrepreneurs and author of WORK A New Formula, for an unedited honest peer dialogue about what it truly means to consciously design your work around the kind of life you want to live. Matt Goddard brings his lived experience as a founder, coach, and leadership development guide to explore why authentic leadership demands more than hitting numbers — it demands personal development from the inside out. In this episode, you will discover: * The W.O.R.K. formula — Willingness, Offer, Reward, Kind of Life — a personal growth tool that backs you into your desired life and guides your leadership development from there * Why entrepreneurship and founder growth hit a wall at the £2–5M stage — and what courage and maturity it takes to move through it authentically * How journaling, breathing routines, and intentional daily rhythms build the self-governance that sustains authentic leadership under pressure * Why your values only become value when they connect to what matters to others — and how that insight transforms your offer and your coaching impact * The "push me pull me" and double loop learning exercises from Matt's book that slowly realign your true offer with who you are becoming The central test of leadership is staying true under pressure. This conversation is your invitation to stop outsourcing your identity and start living the kind of life you were designed to lead. Join the ongoing conversation at the ALT Dialogue, an exclusive peer dialogue for visionary leaders to pioneer and ponder the ALT question, the question that shapes our Authentic Leadership Transformation to lead the future. https://alt.businessrevivalists.com 📌 Connect with Matt Goddard:  🌐 https://www.thirtysixtwentysix.co.uk/  🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgoddard1/  ➡️ Book WORK A New Formula: https://www.thirtysixtwentysix.co.uk/book 📌 Your host: Arjan Visser | Human-Centered Futurist | ALT Journey Podcast Timestamps 00:12 — Intro: Stay True Under Pressure / Full Authorship in Leadership  01:40 — Work as Authentic Expression, Not Just Survival  06:05 — Founder Chaos to Professionalized Leadership (the pinball machine)  08:00 — The W.O.R.K. Formula Explained  09:40 — Non-Financial Rewards as Part of Your Offer  10:50 — Tightening Your Offer for Relevance  13:50 — Backing Into Your Future Desired Life  15:30 — Market Positioning Through Authentic Purpose  20:50 — Push Me Pull Me & Double Loop Learning Exercises  24:30 — Matt's Personal Journey: Health, Courage & 3626 (Ezekiel 36:26)  29:00 — Reward Beyond Money: Impact & Systemic Change  30:50 — The Donkey Sanctuary: Disrupting Systems for Bigger Impact  33:45 — When Your Values Become Value for Others  34:30 — Measuring Purpose on a 1–10 Scale  36:45 — Work & Life as One Integrated Playing Ground  42:28 — Self-Governance & Daily Routines That Hold You  44:30 — Journaling, Breathing & Building Your Own Rhythm  47:10 — Leon the Motorcycle Magician (Fictional Story)  49:50 — How to Get the Book & Leave Feedback  50:50 — First Step: Sit With "What Kind of Life Would I Love to Live?"  53:30 — Invitation to Join the ALT Dialogue

    141. Work The New Formula That Actually Fulfills You! | Matt Goddard

  8. May 21

    140. The Maturity Gap Most Leaders Never Close

    What if your biggest leadership risk isn't moving too slow — it's never truly owning who you are becoming? Most leaders keep pushing harder when they should be pacing smarter. In this unedited, honest peer dialogue, host Arjan Visser (human-centered futurist) sits down with global leadership expert Mark Fritz — author of Lead and Influence — to explore what mature, sustainable leadership looks like from the inside out. In this episode, you will discover: Why success without continuous learning will eventually outgrow you — and how to close that gap before it costs youHow to replace work-life balance with a 3-rock integration system that keeps you energized across business, family, and selfWhy creativity needs constraints — and how time limits, not perfect plans, unlock your best ideasThe simple reflection ritual that keeps you in the driver's seat of your week instead of being driven by everyone elseHow to use articulation and AI tools to turn learning into action — and actually retain what you discover Mark and Arjan challenge every leader to stop outsourcing ownership of their own growth. Are you pacing your life — or just surviving it? 📌 Connect with Mark:  🌐 markfritzonline.com  🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markfritz/  ➡️ Book "Lead and Influence": https://www.amazon.com/Lead-Influence-Ownership-Commitment-Achievement/dp/B08DF7BS4C/ Join the ongoing conversation at the ALT Dialogue, an exclusive peer dialogue for visionary leaders to pioneer and ponder the ALT question — the question that shapes our Authentic Leadership Transformation to lead the future. 👉 https://alt.businessrevivalists.com

    140. The Maturity Gap Most Leaders Never Close
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