Centaur Stage
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.
Episodes
65 episodes
Mastering Change in Uncertainty
Our guests Ayoub Semaan and Janine Weber-el Meouchy offer a new approach to leading organizational change in today's complex and unpredictable world, moving beyond traditional change management tools to leverage relational skills, systemic thin...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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Mastering Dualities in Leadership
Join Marilyn Zakhour for the opening keynote of the 2024 #CosmicConference, as she explores how exceptional leaders navigate the complexities of today's landscape by embracing polarities at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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Mobile Giant to Nostalgic Memory: The Decline of Nokia’s Digital Dynasty
In this episode, we delve into Nokia's incredible rise and dramatic fall. Once a global leader with 40% of the market share, Nokia connected 1.5 billion people and led the mobile industry. But what caused this giant to crumble?Join Maril...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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Navigating the Tides of Change: Taking the Film out of Fujifilm
In Episode 7 of Centaur Stage Season 3, "Taking the Film Out of Fujifilm," host Marilyn Zakhour delves into the captivating story of Fujifilm's transformation under the visionary leadership of Shigetaka Komori. As the digi...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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25:28
Prioritizing well being at work with Sandra Saleme
Sandra Salame is the founder of Siira, a mental wellbeing platform that provides emotional support through harnessing the power of communities to overcome day to day struggles. Siira aims to educate and empower individuals, businesses and gover...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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52:40
Leading through Time with Prof Jose Santos
Jose Santos joined us for the 4th year in a row for our closing session to talk about the role that time plays in leading organizations that deliver in our closing session. Jose is an Affiliated Professor of Practice in Global Mana...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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Leading Organizations through Restructuring
Tandem’s Rabih Brair and Alexander Damouni spoke at the 2023 #CosmicConference on Wednesday, November 8 to share insights on how leaders can navigate a restructuring holistically.&n...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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Leading the Reskilling Revolution
One of our dearest members of the #CosmicCommunity, Dr. Christiane Mueck joined us for the 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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Leading in a Global Organization
Soussane Chartouny is Senior director, EMEA/LATAM Field & Channel Marketing at Palo Alto Networks. She’s experienced in developing go to market strategies based on data analytics and execution to meet business goals and results. ...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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Leading Systemic Change
Joining us for this year’s 2023 hashtag#CosmicConference is M. Belen Settembri CPCC MCC (Master Certified Coach), Executive and Leadership Coach, and Founder of @shiftunfolders. Belen’s session, all about leading systemic change, explores how t...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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Leadership During Change: Adapting your leadership to the phases of change with Wissam Adib
Wissam Adib is an Executive Coach & Organizational Behavior Expert.He leverages a 25-year career leading large- and small-scale organizational transformation programs and works with these leaders to unlock hidden potential and create tr...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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Lead. Execute. Fund. Grow.
📣 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: Joining us for this year's 2023 #CosmicConference is Fahad ‘Abu PowerPoint’ Habib, Founder of Boost | Consulting Redefined . Fahad shared the critical aspects of scaling, including strategy execution, key skill sets for ...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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Leading the Long Term Game with Richard Fitzgerald
Richard Fitzgerald is CEO and Founder of Augustus Media, an award-winning modern media company in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, publishers of Lovin Dubai, Lovin Saudi and Smashi TV. Initially working in digital, media and social media agencies in E...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:05:07
Leading for Sustainable Growth with Patrick Flesner
Patrick Flesner is a growth mindset leadership coach, mentor and advisor who has a unique and holistic perspective on leadership and business growth. The insights...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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Leading the Strategy Process from Experimentation to Execution with Mihai Ionescu
Mihai Ionescu, Strategy Management technician, has spent the past 15 years developing the practice-tested definition of a Strategy cycle that connects the dots of the key concepts, theories, and frameworks of the Strategy Management discipline....
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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Masters of Strategy Execution: The Coach's Perspective with Wissam Adib
Join us for a rerun of Wissam’s keynote about creating a high-trust executive team from the Opening Event of the 2023 #CosmicConference. Wissam Adib is an Executi...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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Masters of Strategy Execution: The Consultant's Perspective with Jean Abou Assi from PWC
Join us for a rerun of Jean Abou Assi's Fireside chat with Marilyn Zakhour during the Opening Event of the 2023 Cosmic Conference.Jean is a Partner Digital & Technology at PWC ME. He has wide experience in leading large-scale digita...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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Masters of Strategy Execution: The Managers' Perspective
Learn how to become a master of strategy execution from leaders directly involved in doing this at various scales. You'll hear from Infosysta's Edmond Tehini, AES...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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Leading Organizations that Deliver - Virtual Keynote
Marilyn Zakhour the CEO & Founder of Cosmic Centaurs, hosted a Linkedin Live at the
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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Revolution and Reckoning: The Rise and Fall of Carlos Ghosn at Nissan
Witness the transformation of a struggling giant, the formation of the Renault-Nissan alliance, and the consequences of unchecked power. Join us for this gripping exploration of Carlos Ghosn's story, a remarkable figure in the auto...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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30:50
Bootstrap to Brilliance: Atlassian's Unusual Journey to Scale
How did 2 college grads bootstrap a company with only $10,000, and without any VC money, which would later become one the biggest tech companies in the world?Join me next week to learn all about Atlassian’s fascinating story, in our upc...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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20:02
From Maverick to Mishap: Southwest's rise & fall
How did America’s most popular airline, Southwest Airlines, cancel 16,700 flights over the 2022 Christmas period, leading to a 820 million dollar loss?Short answer: it was the tipping point of 20 years of neglect.Join me on this...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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25:08
When Innovation Goes Wrong: Kodak's Untold Digital Camera Story
In 1975, Kodak engineer Steven Sasson unveiled the world's first digital camera—a momentous leap forward for the industry. How did Kodak end up filing for bankruptcy in 2012?Join me on this episode of Centaur Stage Season 3 as I share t...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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17:31
"Discovering" your Strategy: Lessons from IKEA's founding story
In the Swedish province of Småland where the founder of IKEA Ingvar lived, the stony land produced poor crops. Farming wasn’t enough to survive. People had to be innovative, creative, strong and stubborn. Families were thrifty, and many became ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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20:25
Mastering the Turnaround: How Best Buy Stood the Test of Time
How did Best Buy have its shares go from being worth $11 to $110 in 8 years - knowing those were the 8 years that witnessed Amazon’s peak?Listen to the incredible story of how Hubert Joly executed a turnaround strategy with Best Buy in ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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