The Leadership Podcast by Niels Brabandt EMBA MBA MSc / NB Networks

Niels Brabandt
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Niels Brabandt, the owner and founder of NB Networks, is your host. Sustainable Leadership. We are helping managers to become better leaders. This show dedicates time to help, to improve and to assist you in achieving your goals. You may already be a leader and aim to become better, or you want to be in a leadership position in the future and avoid mistakes on the way of getting there. Your host, Niels Brabandt, is in business since 1998. He worked for a large corporation as well as a global franchise company before he became full-time self-employed. This podcast is your free access to his knowledge, his experience and his network of experts. What can you expect? You will get scientifically proven expertise. Your host will make unambiguously clear when he is talking about opinion rather than facts. He will address your challenges as a leader or someone who wants to be one and how to overcome them. The challenges you face as a leader in today's business world come from many different aspects of an organisation. Finding the right way to communicate and managing conflicts are just the beginning. Excellent presentations skills are a must today besides dealing with change inside and outside the teams which you have to lead — keeping motivation high means that you must be able to have skills of influence without being manipulative. Negotiate and set goals, be creative and innovative, make the right decisions and position yourself in a business work which heavily relies on networking. You must deliver all this at the best quality with efficient and effective processes during projects which must be on time, on track, on target but under budget. Moreover, of course, you must recruit, develop and retain the best talents of your industry. Your employer's brand and business storytelling become a significant part of your work today. At the same time, hard skills as forecasting, planning, conceptualisation are part of you as a leader mastering Strategy. Of course, selling the products has to work as well in challenging and competitive environments. Niels Brabandt, owner and founder of NB Networks, your host, will help to become a (better) leader.

  1. 12h ago

    #558 Leadership, Education and Diversity: What Goes Wrong and How to Fix It - with Niels Brabandt

    The UK has a new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, and his cabinet is one of the most Oxford and Cambridge educated in years, from a party built on the promise of social mobility. In this episode, host Niels Brabandt uses that story as the starting point for a wider conversation on leadership, education and diversity: what organisations commonly get wrong, and how to do it better. Niels Brabandt explains why neither blanket anti-intellectualism nor blind trust in qualifications makes for good decisions, why isomorphism and groupthink take hold in leadership teams, and why the scientific evidence for diversity improving outcomes is unambiguous. He also covers hard KPIs and soft Critical Success Factors, and the central insight that no selection decision is ever truly neutral, along with what leaders can do about it in practice. Host: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Contact Niels Brabandt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsbrabandt/ Niels Brabandt's Leadership Letter: https://expert.nb-networks.com/ Niels Brabandt's Website: https://www.nb-networks.biz/

    #558 Leadership, Education and Diversity: What Goes Wrong and How to Fix It - with Niels Brabandt

  2. 13h ago ·  Bonus

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  3. 13h ago

    #557 The 4 Languages of a Leader: Mark Wessner on Executive Communication with Niels Brabandt

    What language do you speak as a leader? Not English, French or German, but the communication style that determines whether your board, your clients and your team truly understand you. In this episode of The Leadership Podcast, host Niels Brabandt speaks with executive coach, government adviser and author Mark Wessner about his book "The 4 Languages of a Leader: Finding Your Heart Language and Building Teams That Can Connect with Anyone." Wessner explains why communication, not technical skill, is a leader's primary tool, and introduces a practical framework for identifying your own default heart language, using it deliberately, and building the versatility to reach colleagues and clients who are wired differently. Niels Brabandt and Mark Wessner discuss why this approach differs from personality tests and colour systems, why the book is written to be read on a commute rather than studied in a seminar, and how a free 30-day guide helps leaders apply the framework immediately. This conversation is for decision-makers who want their expertise to be understood, not just admired: executives, founders, board members and anyone responsible for leading teams through complex, high-stakes communication. Host: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Contact Niels Brabandt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsbrabandt/ Niels Brabandt's Leadership Letter: https://expert.nb-networks.com/ Niels Brabandt's Website: https://www.nb-networks.biz/

    #557 The 4 Languages of a Leader: Mark Wessner on Executive Communication with Niels Brabandt

  4. 13h ago

    #556 Hope as a Leadership Practice - Marc Inzelstein interviewed by Niels Brabandt (Episode 4 of 4)

    Hope sounds soft. The data says otherwise. In the finale of a four-part leadership series, host Niels Brabandt closes his conversation with executive coach and author Marc Inzelstein (Essential Leadership) by making the business case for hope as a measurable driver of employee engagement, not a personality trait. Marc Inzelstein explains why hope is not the same as manufacturing certainty, why leaders who try to guarantee outcomes lose credibility the moment reality shifts, and why a genuine listening practice, not a motivational speech, is where hope actually starts. Niels Brabandt and Marc Inzelstein also discuss whether every sceptic can be won over, using a real story of a century-old professional services firm whose fiercest internal critics became its strongest advocates. This episode closes a four-part conversation between Niels Brabandt and Marc Inzelstein on modern leadership, following leadership in the age of AI, why executive teams underperform, and the leadership heartset. Host: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Contact Niels Brabandt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsbrabandt/ Niels Brabandt's Leadership Letter: https://expert.nb-networks.com/ Niels Brabandt's Website: https://www.nb-networks.biz/

    #556 Hope as a Leadership Practice - Marc Inzelstein interviewed by Niels Brabandt (Episode 4 of 4)

  5. 13h ago

    #555 The Leadership Heartset - Marc Inzelstein interviewed by Niels Brabandt (Episode 3 of 4)

    Everyone talks about mindset. In the third episode of a four-part leadership series, host Niels Brabandt and executive coach and author Marc Inzelstein (Essential Leadership) make the business case for its under-discussed counterpart: the heartset, and the science of emotional coherence. Marc Inzelstein explains why the heart emits a measurable electrical signal that colleagues sense before a leader says a word, why leadership is best understood as a transmission of state, and why the documented pathway between heart and brain means emotionally coherent leaders make better decisions, not softer ones. Niels Brabandt challenges Inzelstein with the reality many senior leaders describe privately: KPI-obsessed cultures that treat the human side of leadership as a distraction from the numbers, and the two discuss what needs to change in executive education as a result. This episode is part of a four-part conversation between Niels Brabandt and Marc Inzelstein on modern leadership, following leadership in the age of AI and why executive teams underperform, and continuing with hope as a leadership practice. Host: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Contact Niels Brabandt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsbrabandt/ Niels Brabandt's Leadership Letter: https://expert.nb-networks.com/ Niels Brabandt's Website: https://www.nb-networks.biz/

    #555 The Leadership Heartset - Marc Inzelstein interviewed by Niels Brabandt (Episode 3 of 4)

  6. 14h ago

    #554 Why Executive Teams Underperform - Marc Inzelstein interviewed by Niels Brabandt (Episode 2 of 4)

    Prestigious degrees, decades of experience, strong networks, high salaries. So why do so many executive teams still underperform? In the second episode of a four-part leadership series, host Niels Brabandt is joined again by executive coach and author Marc Inzelstein (Essential Leadership) to explain why individual excellence rarely converts into collective performance, and what chief executives can do about it. Marc Inzelstein introduces the concept of coherence, the trust gap that undermines even the most talented committees, and why so many senior leaders behave like temporary soldiers focused on their next bonus rather than the long-term mission. Niels Brabandt and Marc Inzelstein also discuss a real case from European banking where executives positioned themselves for a departing CEO's job rather than supporting the business, and introduce the concept of co-opetition as a healthier alternative to internal rivalry.   This episode is part of a four-part conversation between Niels Brabandt and Marc Inzelstein on modern leadership, following leadership in the age of AI and continuing with the leadership heartset and hope as a leadership practice. Host: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Contact Niels Brabandt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsbrabandt/ Niels Brabandt's Leadership Letter: https://expert.nb-networks.com/ Niels Brabandt's Website: https://www.nb-networks.biz/

    #554 Why Executive Teams Underperform - Marc Inzelstein interviewed by Niels Brabandt (Episode 2 of 4)

  7. 14h ago

    #553 Leadership in the Age of AI - Marc Inzelstein interviewed by Niels Brabandt (Episode 1 of 4)

    Artificial intelligence is reshaping every function in the modern enterprise, but does it also threaten the relevance of leadership itself? In the opening episode of a four-part leadership series, host Niels Brabandt speaks with executive coach and author Marc Inzelstein (Essential Leadership) about why organisations that treat AI purely as a productivity tool are setting themselves up to fail, and why leaders who anchor decisions in human values, not just output, are best placed to thrive. Marc Inzelstein explains his do-have-be model, the difference between human doings and human beings, and why AI adoption without a clear sense of purpose accelerates burnout rather than performance. Niels Brabandt and Marc Inzelstein also address the question many executives are afraid to ask out loud: how do I remain valuable to my organisation as AI capability expands? They explore why, four decades after the first warnings that computers would replace human jobs, businesses are busier than ever, and why the next wave of roles will be defined by distinctly human skills such as creativity, connection and collective intelligence. This episode is part of a four-part conversation between Niels Brabandt and Marc Inzelstein on modern leadership, continuing with why executive teams underperform, the leadership heartset, and hope as a leadership practice. Host: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Contact Niels Brabandt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsbrabandt/ Niels Brabandt's Leadership Letter: https://expert.nb-networks.com/ Niels Brabandt's Website: https://www.nb-networks.biz/

    #553 Leadership in the Age of AI - Marc Inzelstein interviewed by Niels Brabandt (Episode 1 of 4)

  8. 2d ago

    CSD Berlin: A Personal Statement on the Terrorist Attack – Niels Brabandt Interviewed by DER SPIEGEL / SPIEGEL MAGAZIN

    A terrorist attack struck Pride Berlin during this year's Christopher Street Day celebrations. Niels Brabandt was at the event, had left shortly before the attack, and was unharmed. In this unscheduled special episode of his podcast and videocast, he shares a personal statement for his community and for business leaders, drawing on the same reflections he gave DER SPIEGEL in an interview at the memorial vigil held at the Brandenburg Gate. Niels Brabandt discusses the importance of recognising your own privilege before speaking, why diversity, equity and inclusion matter more than ever, why leadership requires genuine conviction rather than statements alone, and introduces the Psychological First Aid method (Look, Listen, Link) from Johns Hopkins University as a practical tool for supporting people affected by trauma. Host: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Contact Niels Brabandt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsbrabandt/ Niels Brabandt's Leadership Letter: https://expert.nb-networks.com/ Niels Brabandt's Website: https://www.nb-networks.biz/

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Niels Brabandt, the owner and founder of NB Networks, is your host. Sustainable Leadership. We are helping managers to become better leaders. This show dedicates time to help, to improve and to assist you in achieving your goals. You may already be a leader and aim to become better, or you want to be in a leadership position in the future and avoid mistakes on the way of getting there. Your host, Niels Brabandt, is in business since 1998. He worked for a large corporation as well as a global franchise company before he became full-time self-employed. This podcast is your free access to his knowledge, his experience and his network of experts. What can you expect? You will get scientifically proven expertise. Your host will make unambiguously clear when he is talking about opinion rather than facts. He will address your challenges as a leader or someone who wants to be one and how to overcome them. The challenges you face as a leader in today's business world come from many different aspects of an organisation. Finding the right way to communicate and managing conflicts are just the beginning. Excellent presentations skills are a must today besides dealing with change inside and outside the teams which you have to lead — keeping motivation high means that you must be able to have skills of influence without being manipulative. Negotiate and set goals, be creative and innovative, make the right decisions and position yourself in a business work which heavily relies on networking. You must deliver all this at the best quality with efficient and effective processes during projects which must be on time, on track, on target but under budget. Moreover, of course, you must recruit, develop and retain the best talents of your industry. Your employer's brand and business storytelling become a significant part of your work today. At the same time, hard skills as forecasting, planning, conceptualisation are part of you as a leader mastering Strategy. Of course, selling the products has to work as well in challenging and competitive environments. Niels Brabandt, owner and founder of NB Networks, your host, will help to become a (better) leader.

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