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Centaur Stage is a podcast by Cosmic Centaurs exploring bold ideas about the future of work and learning. In each episode, podcast host, CEO & Founder of Cosmic Centaurs Marilyn Zakhour is joined by incredible guests to share insights, opinions, and perspectives about the future of how we work and learn.

  1. The Skills AI Can't Replace & How Organizations Build Them with Dua Al Toobi

    Jun 10

    The Skills AI Can't Replace & How Organizations Build Them with Dua Al Toobi

    As AI and technology continue to reshape the workplace, I keep coming back to one question: what human capabilities will matter most in the future of work? Tala Odeh, Capability Development Lead and Dua Al Toobi, Founder of The Futureproof Advisory and author of Futureproof Your Workforce, for a conversation on what it really takes to build future-ready organizations today. Together, we’ll explore: 🔹 The human capabilities organizations often overlook and why they are real superpowers 🔹 Why transferable skills and nonlinear career paths matter more than ever 🔹 How leaders and organizations can better recognize and grow future-ready talent across the GCC This conversation is for leaders, HR professionals, and individuals looking to better understand how we can build stronger, more capability-driven workforces in a rapidly changing world.

    56 min
  2. The Foundation of High-Performing Teams: Willingness to Help at Work

    Jun 9

    The Foundation of High-Performing Teams: Willingness to Help at Work

    In this episode of the  Psych Safety in Focus Series, we’re diving into Willingness to Help, one of the four core domains that shape whether teams can truly collaborate, learn, and perform together. Many organizations value collaboration, yet asking for help can still feel risky. People worry about looking incompetent, overburdening others, or appearing less capable, especially in high-pressure environments. In this session, we’ll explore: 🔹Why willingness to help is foundational to psychological safety 🔹What prevents people from asking for support at work 🔹How helping behaviors shape trust, learning, and team performance 🔹What leaders can do to create supportive and collaborative team environments

    55 min
  3. What the Latest Data Says about Psychological Safety with Marie Nakhle & Hadeel Kabosh

    May 13

    What the Latest Data Says about Psychological Safety with Marie Nakhle & Hadeel Kabosh

    Psychological safety is one of the strongest predictors of performance, learning, and innovation, but how is it actually experienced across organizations today? In this session of our Psych Safety in Focus Webinar Series, we unpack the latest Fearless Report: one of the most comprehensive global studies on psychological safety to date. Drawing on over 16,000 cumulative responses across 33 countries and 21 industries, this report goes beyond theory to reveal what truly shapes psychological safety at work today, from team dynamics to power structures, loneliness, and organizational design. Hosted by the Cosmic Centaurs team, the exclusive MENA partners of the Fearless Organization Scan, this session bridges global data with practical insight, helping leaders move from awareness to action. Together, we’ll explore: 🔹What the global data reveals about how psychological safety is actually experienced 🔹The organizational conditions that most strongly shape psych safety today 🔹Where perception gaps exist between leaders and teams 🔹How to benchmark and strengthen psychological safety in your own organization This session is designed for leaders, HR professionals, and culture practitioners who want a data-backed, real-world understanding of psychological safety, and how to actively build it. About the Organizer Cosmic Centaurs is an Organizational & Leadership Development consultancy helping leaders & leadership teams make better decisions and effect sustainable change. We are the only official partner in the region for the Fearless Organization Scan, and the exclusive Arabic-language partner. The Cosmic Centaurs’ “Psychological Safety in Focus” Webinar Series is a free, open learning space to reflect on how psychological safety shows up in MENA organizations, and how to foster it in our local and regional context. Throughout the series, we’ll bring together insights from global research and real stories from the region, exploring how these lessons can be applied in our workplaces to unlock higher performance and healthier, more collaborative teams across MENA.

    51 min
  4. Crisis & Creation: Building Organizations that Renew - Keynote with Marliyn Zakhour | 2026 Cosmic Cofnerence

    Apr 27

    Crisis & Creation: Building Organizations that Renew - Keynote with Marliyn Zakhour | 2026 Cosmic Cofnerence

    The organizations that remain resilient and relevant are the ones that build the ability to continuously innovate. In this keynote bridging our Adapt and Thrive weeks, Marilyn Zakhour brings together the key ideas from the week and the best of academia to explore how organizations develop the ability to continuously evolve, invent and innovate, strengthening their resilience and readiness to navigate complex, shifting contexts. Drawing on the work of Gary Hamel, this session explores how organizations build the capacity to continuously reinvent their business models before change is forced upon them, and how leading organizations embed innovation into how they operate. We’ll look at what this means in practice:  • How to identify when to improve what exists vs. when to build something new  • How continuous innovation strengthens resilience and supports long-term growth  • How to embed exploration into the organization through rituals, processes, and culture  • How to run execution and innovation in parallel  • How organizations like Fujifilm have built this capability over time

    1 hr
  5. Purpose & Impact: Stories from Team Centaur | Cosmic Conference 2026

    Apr 17

    Purpose & Impact: Stories from Team Centaur | Cosmic Conference 2026

    As part of the final session of the Cosmic Conference 2026, we turn the lens inward to reflect on a simple question: What does impact really look like? In this conversation, the Centaur team shares real stories from the past year — across organizations, communities, and within our own team — bringing to life how leadership, capability, and culture translate into meaningful outcomes. Moderated by Sabah Al Nakouzi, this session explores:  How organizations move from strategy to execution  What it takes to build leadership capability that lasts  Why psychological safety is essential to performance  How leadership teams operate as a true unit  The role of community in scaling knowledge and impact  What it means to truly practice what we preach as a team Featuring contributions from the Cosmic Centaurs team, including Marilyn Zakhour, Marie Nakhle, Tala Odeh, and others. This session closes a 3-week journey where we brought together leaders, experts, and practitioners to explore how organizations can endure, adapt, and ultimately thrive in times of uncertainty. About Cosmic Centaurs Cosmic Centaurs is an organizational and leadership development consultancy that helps leaders build organizations that perform, grow, and create lasting impact.

    1h 10m
  6. Leading & Governing at the Edge of Uncertainty with Jose Santos | 2026 Cosmic Conference

    Apr 16

    Leading & Governing at the Edge of Uncertainty with Jose Santos | 2026 Cosmic Conference

    In a world where the future cannot be predicted, how should leaders think about strategy, governance, and decision-making? In this episode, Marilyn Zakhour speaks with José Santos about what it means to lead and govern at the edge of uncertainty. Challenging conventional thinking, José draws a clear distinction between risk and true uncertainty—and explains why treating one as the other leads to flawed decisions and fragile organizations. The conversation shifts the focus from prediction to design: how boards create the boundaries within which leaders can act, and how managers can operate, innovate, and remain entrepreneurial without relying on forecasts. From governance frameworks to leadership mindset shifts, this episode offers a deeper lens on how organizations can function—and thrive—when the future is unknowable. This episode is part of the 2026 Cosmic Conference by Cosmic Centaurs, focused on helping leaders build organizations that can endure, adapt, and thrive.

    1h 55m
  7. Lives & Livelihoods: Lessons from the UAE Crisis Management Playbook with Peter Zemsky | 2026 Cosmic Conferene

    Apr 16

    Lives & Livelihoods: Lessons from the UAE Crisis Management Playbook with Peter Zemsky | 2026 Cosmic Conferene

    The UAE’s response to COVID-19 has become a global case study, not just for how it managed the crisis, but for how it emerged stronger. In this episode, Peter Zemsky, Professor of Strategy & Innovation at INSEAD and CEO of Lexarius, shares insights from his research into what made that response effective. The conversation explores how leaders navigated difficult trade-offs, integrated expertise into decision-making, and coordinated across systems in moments of uncertainty. It also looks at what organizations can learn from this experience today, from building crisis-ready capabilities to rethinking how leaders develop people in a world shaped by rapid change and AI. This episode is part of the 2026 Cosmic Conference: Grounded & Limitless – Leading Organizations that Survive & Thrive, hosted by Cosmic Centaurs, an organizational and leadership development consultancy supporting leaders to build stronger, more adaptive organizations.

    58 min
  8. Pressure & Performance: How Crisis Reshapes the System with Dr. Saleh Altamimi | Cosmic Conference 2026

    Apr 16

    Pressure & Performance: How Crisis Reshapes the System with Dr. Saleh Altamimi | Cosmic Conference 2026

    Most organizations only discover their true capabilities when they are tested. In this episode, Dr. Saleh Al-Tamimi reflects on leading one of Saudi Arabia’s largest healthcare systems through both COVID-19 and a broader national transformation. This is a conversation about what pressure reveals, what it builds, and how leaders can turn short-term responses into long-term strength. We explore how systems scale under constraint, why innovation and efficiency go hand in hand, and what it takes to build organizations that can sustain performance beyond the leader. Along the way, Dr. Al-Tamimi shares practical leadership practices around presence, trust, and empowerment, as well as personal reflections on resilience, burnout, and staying grounded in high-stakes environments. Topics covered:  Leading through crisis vs. leading through transformation  Scaling capacity and capability under pressure  Building agility that lasts beyond urgency  Innovation as a driver of efficiency  Leadership at scale: trust, visibility, and empowerment  Staying grounded as a leader over time About the Organizer Cosmic Centaurs helps leaders and organizations navigate complexity, build capability, and drive meaningful change across the GCC.

    57 min
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Centaur Stage is a podcast by Cosmic Centaurs exploring bold ideas about the future of work and learning. In each episode, podcast host, CEO & Founder of Cosmic Centaurs Marilyn Zakhour is joined by incredible guests to share insights, opinions, and perspectives about the future of how we work and learn.

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  • Creator
    Cosmic Centaurs
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    121
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