Leadership Art Podcast

S3 EP10 — Keren Leshem — Leading Under Pressure: Cancer, Conflict & Courage

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Keren Leshem, biotech executive and CEO of ViVac Pharma, for a powerful conversation on leading through uncertainty, building resilient teams, and pursuing a mission measured in years, not quarters. ❓ How do you lead when the goal is a decade away — and the world keeps interrupting? 🧠 Why does Keren see resilience not as toughing it out, but as a deliberate strategy? 🚀 With a career spanning startups, women's health, and med tech, Keren now leads a team pioneering RNA-based immunotherapies aimed at transforming cancer treatment. She breaks down how to react when the unexpected happens, why humility and humor belong in every leadership conversation, and why she celebrates every win along the way. 📈 If you believe great leadership is about staying grounded in your values when everything around you shifts, this conversation will resonate with you. 📅 Season 3, Episode 10 📍 Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Amazon Music 📲 Follow Leadership Art for more stories on everyday leadership, purpose, and growth

Art-icle #8: Leadership Is A Mindset, Not A Title

A title grants you authority. But it doesn't grant you influence. And that difference changes everything.  🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo reflection series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you. 💭 Art explores the myth that leadership is a destination you arrive at once you've climbed high enough. He calls it the Title Trap — the belief that you need permission, a promotion, or a corner office before you can start leading. The truth? The highest-performing teams aren't led by titles. They're led by the people who take ownership, serve others, stay curious, and act with integrity — whether anyone asked them to or not.  If you've been waiting for the green light to lead — this Art-icle is it. 📅 Watch now and start leading from exactly where you are. ➡️ Follow for more Art-icles — presenting enduring lessons on leadership

S3 EP9 — Julia Nimchinski — AI Won’t Replace Leaders; It Needs Them!

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Julia Nimchinski, CEO and Founder of Hard Skill Exchange, for the most honest conversation about AI and leadership you'll hear this year. ❓ Everyone is talking about AI. But how many leaders have actually defined their vision for it and set the guardrails before touching the technology? 🧠 Why is AI less about the technology and more about the leadership behind it? And why does every company need to figure out their own answer instead of copying someone else's? 🚀 Julia built one of B2B's largest executive networks where leading CXOs, VCs, and analysts are navigating AI together in real time. She breaks down why there is no single methodology that works for everyone, how the four stages of AI integration give leaders a roadmap without oversimplifying the journey, and why the companies winning with AI are the ones whose leaders approached it as a tool to empower not to replace. 📈 If you're tired of the AI hype and ready for a conversation grounded in operational reality — this episode is exactly what you've been looking for. 📅 Season 3, Episode 9 📍 Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Amazon Music 📲 Follow Leadership Art for more stories on everyday leadership, purpose, and growth

Art-icle #7: The Likability Trap

Are you leading with character or just riding on a smile and a shoeshine?  🎙️ In this Art-icle — a solo  series from the Leadership Art Podcast — host Art Robbins speaks directly to you.💭 Drawing from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Art delivers five leadership lessons from a story written nearly 80 years ago that still hits harder than most business books on the shelf today. 📚Charm opens the door. But character keeps it open. And the leaders who confuse being liked with being trusted are the ones who fall the hardest. 🔥If you've ever wondered whether you're building something real or just chasing someone else's definition of success — this Art-icle is for you. 📅 Watch now and ask yourself — what are you actually building? ➡️ Follow for more Art-icles — presenting enduring lessons on leadership 💡

S3 EP8 — Kevin Noertker — Trust Your Principles, Flip The Coin

🎙️ This week on the Leadership Art Podcast, Art Robbins welcomes Kevin Noertker, Co-Founder and CEO of Ampaire, for a powerful conversation on pioneering innovation, staying true to your convictions, and leading when the future is uncertain. ❓ What happens when the world wants you to chase the shiny object — but your principles tell you to stay the course? 🧠 Why is the most important leadership decision not what you choose to do — but what you choose not to do? 🚀 From aerospace engineering at Northrop Grumman and research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kevin co-founded a company that's redefining flight. Under his leadership, Ampaire has become a global innovator in hybrid-electric aviation — backed by Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and British Airways' parent company IAG. He breaks down how he navigated hype cycles, resisted pressure to abandon his strategy, and built conviction from first principles rather than fleeting trends. 📈 If you believe great leadership is about shedding light into the unknown and helping people run toward it with confidence, this conversation will resonate with you. 📅 Season 3, Episode 8 📍 Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Amazon Music 📲 Follow Leadership Art for more stories on everyday leadership, purpose, and growth