Oct 19, 202637 min
Outcome equals intelligence plus agency. AI is making the first part cheap. Yevgen Nebesov has spent five years mapping the second.Yevgen is a systems architect who watched too many good ideas in his projects go nowhere...
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Stellar Work
Hosted by Benjamin Igna · business · EN
About this Podcast:
Work is broken. Not in a LinkedIn-thought-leader way. In a "we spent 18 months on a transformation and nothing changed" way. Ben unpacks what actually moves the needle with practitioners, engineers, and leaders who've been through it. New episodes every two weeks.
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What is Stellar Work about?
Work is broken. Not in a LinkedIn-thought-leader way. In a "we spent 18 months on a transformation and nothing changed" way. Ben unpacks what actually moves the needle with practitioners, engineers, and leaders who've been through it. New episodes every two weeks.
Who hosts Stellar Work?
Stellar Work is hosted by Benjamin Igna. The show has published 67 episodes to date.
What has Stellar Work covered recently?
Recent episodes include "#68 Yevgen Nebesov - The architecture of power" (19 October 2026, 37 minutes), "#66 Petra Wille - How to lead a product org in the age of AI" (21 September 2026, 35 minutes), and "#64 Laura Tacho - You weren't measuring well before AI either" (24 August 2026, 27 minutes).
How often does Stellar Work publish?
Stellar Work publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 43 minutes across 67 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Stellar Work?
Booking probability for Stellar Work is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Stellar Work requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Stellar Work's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Stellar Work?
The strongest fits for Stellar Work are Business & Management Consulting. Stellar Work has a business audience.
About the host
Benjamin Igna hosts Stellar Work, a business podcast with 67 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Sep 21, 202635 minPetra Wille thinks measuring your team's token usage is one of the worst things a leader can do right now. She explains what to measure instead.Petra is a product leadership coach, author of STRONG Product People, and...
Aug 24, 202627 minAI did not break engineering metrics. It made it obvious that most companies never had any worth trusting.Laura Tacho spent 15 years building developer tools, ran DX as CTO, and now works on developer experience at AWS...
Jul 27, 202634 minIf your leadership is discussing which AI tool to buy, they are having the wrong discussion.Barbara Lampl has built and fixed data and AI strategies for over 20 years. Behavioral mathematician, known on LinkedIn as AI...
Jun 8, 202643 minEvery industry has invented a substitute for the actualwork, and the best practitioners have quietly stopped using it. Sixty episodes in, Ben spends a solo episode tracing onepattern that showed up across 40-plus...
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Episode #59
Industrial AI, keep the data in-house
May 25, 202648 minCarsten Kraus's pitch for the German Mittelstand isn't to build foundation models. It's to keep the data in-house and let other people's models run on it.Kraus has founded 12 companies and is opening the 13th. He sold a...
Episode #58
The Psychology of AI-Driven UX
May 11, 202644 minAI tools increase time-on-task by 20 to 40%. That's not a bug report, that's a UX research finding.Sophie is a UX Researcher at Citigroup with a background in Chemical Engineering. She has built and scaled research...
Episode #57
Engineering Management In The Age Of AI
Apr 27, 202643 minMost engineering teams using AI are about 2x faster. Not 10x. The bottleneck moved, but nobody optimized the rest.Jeff Lee-Chan spent 10 years at Google working on YouTube, then seven years at Snapchat. He went from IC...
Apr 13, 202656 minSummary In this episode, Ben sits down with Derek Borthwick — sales expert, bestselling author, and founder of Power2Mind — to talk about what actually makes people buy. Spoiler: it's not your pitch deck. Derek...
Mar 30, 202644 minSummary Agility was supposed to change everything. And it did — just not always in the way we hoped. In this episode, Ben sits down with Allen Holub to talk about how agile methodology shaped the software industry...
Mar 19, 202635 minSummary In this episode, Ben talks with Matas Rastenis, Senior Staff Engineer at Uber's Developer Platforms team, about what it actually looks like to bring AI tools to one of the world's largest engineering...
Mar 2, 202631 minIn this episode, Ben sits down with Matthias Wagner, founder and CEO of Flux AI, to explore how artificial intelligence is finally making its way into hardware engineering — a field where design tools have barely...
Episode #52
#52 Harry Max On Managing Priorities
Feb 23, 202635 minSummary In this episode, I sit down with Harry Max, author of Managing Priorities , to explore why prioritization is one of the most critical — yet frustratingly difficult — skills in work and life. We unpack what makes...
Jan 26, 202653 minSummary In this episode, Benjamin interviews Stuart Munton, CIO at AND Digital, discussing the transformative impact of AI on the consulting industry and software development. They explore how generative AI is reshaping...
Episode #49
#49 Stuart Munton on the adoption of AI
Jan 12, 202650 minIn this episode, Benjamin interviews Stuart Munton, CIO at AND Digital, discussing the transformative impact of AI on the consulting industry and software development. They explore how generative AI is reshaping...
Dec 29, 202550 minIn this conversation, Benjamin and Darja Smite explore the evolution of remote and hybrid work over the past five years, particularly in light of the pandemic. They discuss cultural differences in work practices, the...
Dec 15, 202533 minThis episode features Magnus Östberg, Chief Software Officer at Mercedes-Benz, discussing how the company is transforming its approach to software and innovation. Magnus explains the development of MB.OS, their custom...
Dec 1, 202538 minThis episode dives into the substance behind “agile mindset,” stripping away jargon to uncover what really makes teams effective in complex, fast-moving environments. Karen and Christiaan share findings from their...
Nov 17, 20251h 14mSummary This episode features a conversation between Marcelo Lopez and Benjamin, exploring themes of professional growth, the impact of AI, and the importance of critical thinking. Marcelo shares his journey as a...
Nov 3, 202542 minIn this episode of the Stellar Work Podcast, Benjamin interviews Philipp Guth, the CTO of Rittal, about the company's transformation journey. Rittal, a leader in electrical enclosures and cooling solutions, is evolving...
Recent guests
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Petra Wille
Author of Strong Product People, Founder @ Product at Heart, Product Leadership Coach, Strong Product People
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Barbara Lampl
Lehrbeauftragte und Beraterin für Data Science, Empathic Business
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Harry Max
author of Managing Priorities, Peak Priorities LLC
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Nick Brown
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Greater Littleport And District New Spiritualists' Society
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