Hosted by Aslak de Silva · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 32 episodes
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Welcome to The Black Belt in Leadership Podcast, hosted by Aslak de Silva. Tune in to discover how martial arts principles like discipline, resilience, and continuous learning can transform your leadership skills. Each episode will delve into real-life examples, practical advice, and inspirational stories to help you become a black belt in leadership. Join Aslak as he explores the path to peak performance and success in both personal and professional arenas.
Aslak de Silva hosts The Black Belt in Leadership, a business show with 32 episodes published.
In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership, Ilkka Mäkitalo, co-founder and Chief Evangelist of Howspace, joins the conversation to explore how people really learn, how organizations make sense of change, and why lea
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Some people seem to get lucky. The right timing, the right connections, the right opportunities appearing at the right moment. But when you look closer, it rarely is just luck. There is usually something underneath it. A
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What happens to leadership when pressure rises and situations start to feel chaotic? In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership, Aslak de Silva speaks with M.K. Palmore, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, former FBI
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Leadership is rarely something people are formally trained for. Most leaders grow into the role through performance, promotion, and responsibility only to discover that leadership becomes more complex over time, not easi
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What happens to leadership when business is no longer predictable? In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership, Aslak de Silva sits down with transformational leadership expert, keynote speaker, and author Dennis Akk
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Michal Bardavid is a psychological counselor and dance movement therapist with a master’s degree in industrial psychology. For more than fifteen years, she has taught the principles of movement, self-expression, and emot
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What makes a leader truly strategic? And why do so many organisations confuse strategy with planning, tactics or endless PowerPoint decks? In this episode of the Black Belt in Leadership, Aslak sits down with strategist,
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Josh Kosnick, entrepreneur, executive coach, and author of The Kairos Code What does a true leader do when everything falls apart? In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership, host Aslak de Silva talks with Josh Kosn
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What does it take to live your truth and lead with authenticity? In this inspiring episode of The Black Belt in Leadership, Aslak de Silva speaks with Shermain Melton, executive coach, international speaker, and host of
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Can short breaks really make you a better leader? In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership, Aslak de Silva talks with Amel Gaily, CEO and Partner of Cuckoo, about how microbreaks, recovery, and well-being culture
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In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership podcast, host Aslak de Silva interviews U.S. Army Officer, leadership expert, and author Tim Staton, who wrote the book Life Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed. Tim shares l
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In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership, Aslak de Silva sits down with Lama Somananda Tantrapa — Tibetan lama, 27th-generation lineage holder of Qi Dao (Tibetan Shamanic Qigong), founder of the Academy of Qi Dao,
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Stoyan Yankov is a productivity and performance coach, bestselling author, podcast host, and keynote speaker who helps organizations build high-performance cultures and boost productivity. With experience working with ov
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Stefan Gogoll is a German tech entrepreneur, visionary leader, and former professional athlete with over 25 years of experience driving software innovation and AI adoption. As the founder of andagon Holding and the creat
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In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership podcast, leadership coach and focus expert Katie Stoddart shares practical strategies for improving focus, boosting productivity, and leading with clarity. As the founder o
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In this episode of The Black Belt in Leadership, Aslak sits down with Glenn Mathijssen, CEO and co-founder of Alberts, the world’s first smoothie-making food robotics company. From building a wooden prototype to scaling
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Lars Sundmann is an advisor, keynote speaker and executive trainer on leadership, strategy, innovation and communication for global corporations and their leaders. He is the owner of Sudmann & Company, a consulting and m
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What if the secret to building great companies wasn’t about chasing unicorns, but solving your own problems first? Mikael da Costa, a serial entrepreneur, CEO of WPSEOAI, with a passion for building and scaling businesse
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Dr. James Hewitt, Human Performance Scientist, speaker, and author.James combines first-hand experience as a full-time racing cyclist with ground-breaking work and research, proven on Formula 1 tracks and with Fortune 50
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What if scaling a business at lightning speed didn’t require burnout, but balance? Lars Johan Bjørkevoll is a Nordic business leader who effectively balances scaling of businesses and organizational leadership with inner
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