C-Suite Intelligence
Episodes
Beyond Labels: Leading a Multigenerational Workforce
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With four generations now working side by side, leaders are being challenged to rethink how they communicate, motivate, and build trust across differe...
Protecting Time at the Top
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Senior leaders are often pulled in countless directions, responding to stakeholders, managing fast-moving priorities, and trying to stay focused amid ...
The Board’s New Mandate: Enterprise-Wide Talent
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Boards are taking a more active role in overseeing talent, expanding their focus from CEO succession into examining leadership strength across the ent...
Leading with an Enterprise Lens
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As leaders rise, they must shift their focus from leading a team to shaping the business. Success at the top depends on how well they see across the e...
Using Influence to Drive Outcomes
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever left a meeting thinking everyone was on board, only to realize weeks later that nothing is actually moving forward? In this episode, TMG...
Raising the Bar: Leading with a Growth Mindset
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At the CEO level, a growth mindset shows up in how leaders think, act, and respond under pressure. It also shapes how they learn, solve hard problems,...
Five Trends Reshaping Executive Leadership
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The role of the senior leader is changing at an unprecedented rate. From tech disruption to talent strategy, five major trends are redefining what it ...
Promotable vs. Ready
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
High performers often reach a point in their careers where forward momentum slows down. Promotions that once followed a steady rhythm now come with hi...
Culture Is What Leaders Let Happen
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Company culture is shaped by what leaders do, not just what they say. In this episode, TMG’s Robert Williams sits down with Taylor Griffin and Liz K...
Feedback at the Top: Why Great Leaders Keep Listening
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coachability is one of the clearest differentiators between leaders who continue to rise and those who hit a ceiling. In this episode, TMG Senior Mana...
Is Your Leadership Model Built to Scale?
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As companies scale, the way decisions get made can either accelerate progress or create hidden drag. Early-stage models that depend on a few senior le...
Battery Life: Managing Energy
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, TMG’s Liz Kelly and John Nasr explore a leadership skill that rarely gets the attention it deserves: managing energy. They look at ...
Built on Trust: How Leaders Drive Performance
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Courtney Hamilton and John Nasr explore how trust shows up on high-performing teams and why it’s a critical part of effective leade...
Making Room to Lead
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John Nasr and Liz Kelly explore the traits that distinguish top-performing leaders—and how those traits help build team capacity. T...
Coaching Doesn’t Stop at the C-Suite
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Stephen sits down with Robert Williams, Senior Consultant at TMG, to unpack how continuous development sharpens leadership at the hig...
High Agency Leadership: How Productive Friction Powers Great Teams
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Stephen sits down with John Nasr, Senior Managing Director at TMG, to explore how high agency leadership can shape organizational suc...
The Agent Problem: Who’s Advocating for You?
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Taylor Griffin, COO of TMG, and Senior Managing Director Courtney Hamilton break down the “agent problem”—the often-overlooked ...
Leading at Scale: How to Build a Management Operating System
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Stephen Miles, CEO of TMG, and John Nasr, Senior Managing Director, discuss how leaders can scale their impact by developing a struct...
Lessons in Leadership & Growth
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Taylor sits down with Laura Cococcia, Managing Director at Council Advisors, for a conversation on leadership, career growth, and the...
Send the Right Signals
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re exploring a leadership skill that’s often overlooked: signaling your leadership style. Stephen is joined by Courtney Hamilton, Senior...
Navigating the Boardroom: Building Relationships That Drive Results, Part 2
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, Stephen is joined by John Nasr, Senior Managing Director at TMG, for the second part of our two-part series on building effectiv...
Navigating the Boardroom: Building Relationships That Drive Results, Part 1
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, Stephen is joined by John Nasr, Senior Managing Director at TMG, for the first part of a two-part series on building effective r...
Embracing Idea Conflict: Creating Space for Healthy Debate
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, TMG CEO Stephen Miles and Managing Director Stephanie McCoy Loquvam discuss the importance of fostering idea conflict without de...
A Leader's Guide to Crisis Prevention
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Stephen is joined by Taylor Griffin, COO of TMG, to explore how spotting early signs of potential threats can transform the way senio...
Founder Mode for the Rest of Us
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is founder mode? Is it just another form of micromanagement, or is it a practical approach to leadership in today’s fast-paced business...
Judo vs. MMA: Choosing Talent for Critical Roles
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Choosing the right talent for a role is always important, but it's even more crucial when that role is essential to meeting your company's strategic p...
From Automatic to Manual: How to Lead With Intention
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, we're joined by Courtney Hamilton, Senior Managing Director at TMG, to discuss one of our favorite coaching concepts: shifting to ...
Developing Next-Gen CEO Talent: Practical Tips for Emerging Leaders
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join TMG’s CEO Stephen Miles and COO Taylor Griffin as they unpack the secrets to developing the next generation of general management talent. From ...
Turning Stress Into Success: How to Manage Through Turbulent Times
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, our host Stephen Miles, CEO of TMG, is joined by Senior Managing Director John Nasr for an insightful discussion on how executives can effectiv...
The Art of Followership: How to Reduce Friction and Drive Results
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the world is saturated with content on leadership, most of us spend the majority of our careers as followers. Today's guest, TMG SMD John Nasr, ...
Power in the Details: Using Micro-Leadership to Drive High-Performing Teams
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micromanagement gets a bad rap, but could more involvement in the details be the key to successful leadership?This week, Stephen Miles and Taylor Grif...
Pt. 2 Strategies for Success: A Guide to Leadership in a Complex World
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our discussion on the challenges facing CEOs in 2024, Stephen and Taylor dive deeper into the mechanics of the return to office, the in...
Pt. 1 Strategies for Success: A Guide to Leadership in a Complex World
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
”What you actually hear from CEOs is that they're more in Crisis Leadership planning mode than ever before.”From the issues surrounding return-to-...
14. High-Performance Coaching – A Conversation with Harley Finkelstein of Shopify
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify, joins TMG CEO Stephen Miles to discuss their successful coaching relationship and what an idea...
13. Re-Engaging Burned Out Employees
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Employees and teams are experiencing burnout across all levels of the organization. Burnout challenges not only workforce engagement, but quality, pro...
12. Weak Signal Detection
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every time there’s a threat against a company, there is almost always a weak signal or a whiff of smoke that can serve as an early warning of the ri...
11. Building Trust on Your Team and Inside Your Company
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Without trust, there is no shared or mutual accountability, and teams do not have strong enough foundations to accomplish their goals. Yet, many peopl...
10. Onboarding Into a Senior Role
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Derailment rates for executives in transition, particularly in senior level roles, tend to be higher because they don’t always have the proper under...
09. Coachability: Getting Serious About Your Own Development
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Regardless of raw potential and natural talent, every person who is serious about their leadership development and growth demonstrates coachability. T...
08. The Dark Side of Company Culture: Stasis and Conformity
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Culture is most often shaped and fortified on the margin, when leaders must make hard choices. Depending on what they can tolerate, their decisions wi...
07. Every Job is a People Leader Job
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HR has changed dramatically over the last few years, growing well beyond recruiting and development. Jeff Vijungco – the former Chief People Officer...
06. High-Performing Leadership Teams: Raising the Bar and Lowering the Cost of Coordination
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frustration among leaders is mounting when it comes to the overall effectiveness and collective performance of their leadership teams. Amplified by th...
05. Performance and Purpose – An Interview with Tom Williams of Parker Hannifin
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Tom Williams discusses key issues CEOs are facing today – and will face tomorrow. Executive chairman and former CEO of Parker Hannifin...
04. Ask for Advice, Not Feedback
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Employees crave feedback on how to improve their performance, but according to workplace surveys, most say they don’t get it. Taylor Griffin and Sam...
03. The Preparedness Playbook for Leadership in Difficult Times – Part 2
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world is less predictable – for many leaders and people inside companies, it’s hard and stressful. TMG CEO Stephen Miles and featured guest, O...
02. The Preparedness Playbook for Leadership in Difficult Times – Part 1
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TMG CEO Stephen Miles invites a special guest, Oracle EVP Rob Tarkoff, to explore the preparedness playbook for leaders in difficult times. In this fi...
01. The Case for Change: Building Operating Models and Cultures That Are Flexible and Adaptable
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CEOs and executives are facing a tsunami of real-time change – at a pace and velocity never seen before. Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin discus...
C-Suite Intelligence Returns for Season 3
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The go-to podcast for high performers and aspiring leaders is back for a third season. Hear CEO Stephen Miles, COO Taylor Griffin, and top executive c...
19. Low Friction Leadership
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most important elements of being a high performance, high growth executive is identifying ways to reduce behavioral friction. These “low ...
18. It’s What You Learn After You Know It All: How Founders and High-Growth Executives Can Scale Their Own Leadership and Stay Ahead of Thei
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders and executives are so deeply immersed in their business model and products that they forget about themselves – their own personal grow...
17. The New Leadership Toolkit: From Potential to Performance
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Even though they can be inspirational, motivational, and passionate, many Silicon Valley leaders lack the right performance-driven toolkit to achieve ...
16. Executing for Outcomes: What It Takes To Win
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Operating in highly complex and dynamic environments, the best CEOs maintain alignment with their teams by communicating frequently, collaborating eff...
15. Executing for Outcomes: Pivoting from Potential to Performance
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As layoffs hit the tech sector, Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin discuss how companies need to pivot from potential to performance. We’ve seen valua...
14. Executing for Outcomes: A New Operating Environment
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Unlocking performance inside an organization requires delivering real outcomes, not just a proliferation of activities, say Stephen Miles and Tayl...
13. Critical Measures of Leadership Awareness: MeQ, EmQ, and SocQ
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are three levels of leadership awareness that are critical for any leader, or aspiring leader: self-awareness (MeQ), one-to-one leadership (EmQ)...
12. The Paradox of High-Potential Employees
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
High-potential employees are easy to spot – they’re usually quick on the uptake, light on their feet, and have a high capacity for growth. Leaders...
11. The Real Meaning of Executive Presence: Followership
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations around developing an effective executive presence tend to focus heavily on “leadership” but not enough on “followership.” Most e...
10. The Real Meaning of Executive Presence: Introverts and Extroverts; Thinkers and Blinkers
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Introvert or Extrovert; Thinker or Blinker – one is not better than the other when it comes to elevating your executive presence. Rather, it’s abo...
09. The Real Meaning of Executive Presence: Beyond the Sartorial
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many executives who have been working from home during Covid may need a wardrobe and executive appearance refresh. Yet the challenge for most leaders ...
08. Being Best at the People Business
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No matter where you work or whatever industry you are in, being best at the “people business” can help you succeed. When talent management is as c...
07. The Leader of the Future – And You Thought Covid-19 Was Hard
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The job of high-performing leaders isn’t what it used to be. On top of running the company amidst a complex business environment of overlapping cris...
06. The Great Transition
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to successfully reframe “The Great Resignation” into “The Great Transition?" Top executive coaches Stephen Miles and Courtne...
05. The Office as a Private Club
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As business leaders continue to reimagine the way we work, offices everywhere are getting revamped to support new organizational priorities. For Step...
04. Getting Your Mojo Back
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“This is what happens when you put everybody in solitary confinement for an extended period of time,” says Stephen Miles, Founder and CEO of The M...
03. Office Next – How We Can Make Offices Work Better
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic lockdown called for CEOs everywhere to transform their businesses to remote operation. Two years in, millions of white-collar workers are...
02. Struggling to Lead in Hyperinflation
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation continues to climb at its fastest pace in decades, but most CEOs and board directors today have never dealt with hyperinflation – that’s...
01. Resilience Redefined
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Faced with new challenges every day, the world we live in is full of setbacks. Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin discuss how unfamiliar setbacks can te...
C-Suite Intelligence returns for season 2
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The go-to podcast for high performers and aspiring leaders is back for a second season. Hear top executive coaches at The Miles Group discuss how succ...
18. Leading During the Coronavirus Crisis
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The coronavirus pandemic is challenging leaders at unprecedented levels. Executives are facing the complexity of severe business impact and employee h...
17. 10 Critical Keys to Business Survival
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The incredible challenges companies are facing today are creating shocks to the system that every CEO needs to prepare for, says Stephen Miles. From t...
16. Dealing with Sudden Change
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During times of sudden change, how leaders respond is critical to driving the best outcome. Leaders who are less effective make decisions too quickly ...
15. Managing Underperformance
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly all leaders wait far too long to deal with underperformers. “I wish I had handled the problem sooner” is what Taylor Griffin says she hears...
14. What Does a General Counsel Do?
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The General Counsel acts as air traffic control for all legal issues across a company, says Billy Stern – from HR, compliance, and IP to a host of b...
13. The Agent Problem: Becoming a Better Advocate for Your Best People
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The most critical decisions around an employee’s future at a company usually happen when they aren’t in the room. But most organizations have an “...
12. Dealing with Difference: Adapting to a Diverse Global Workforce
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Working with colleagues and clients who come from many cultures, countries, and backgrounds is a hallmark of global business today. But how effective ...
11. SocQ – The New Leadership Skill Required for the Social Economy
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As we move from a knowledge-based to a “social economy,” leaders must build what Stephen Miles defines as their “social intelligence quotient”...
10. Managing Your Most Difficult But Most Valuable Employees
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
They’re hard to get along with and difficult to manage, but they bring disproportionate value creation to a company, says Stephen Miles. He dubs the...
09. When the Right Person Is in the Wrong Role
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many high-performing executives promoted or hired into a new senior role are “uniquely unqualified” for the position – they have never done that...
08. The Importance of Asking Questions
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most effective tools to get the results you want, Taylor Griffin explains, is to think of your job as asking questions. Whether you are CEO...
07. Fostering Idea Conflict
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders can find it tough to get their teams to engage in real debate around a topic. Why? When people’s ideas are challenged, many take it too pers...
06. The Talent Private Equity Firms Are Looking For
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Private equity firms want the best management teams in place when they purchase companies. If your company is being evaluated by a PE firm, what do yo...
05. How to Avoid Having Another Worthless Meeting
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meetings are the most expensive use of company resources, yet they are still too long, poorly organized, and a waste of everyone’s time. But they do...
04. Working For a Tough Boss
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Working for a tough boss doesn’t mean that you are powerless in your job, says Taylor Griffin. There are strategies for adapting to a range of chall...
03. Protecting Your Job in a Merger or Acquisition
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When new owners take over your organization, how do you protect your job? As five consecutive years of acquisition top $3 trillion and robust private ...
02. Stasis vs. Growth Mindset
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For some companies, success can be dangerous: a “stasis mindset” can take root, with a complacent “we know best” attitude capable of bringing ...
01. How the Smartest CEOs Are Preparing for the Next Recession
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Boom or bust, the smartest CEOs put plans in place well before the next downturn arrives, says Stephen Miles. Without scenario planning and taking ste...
Introducing C-Suite Intelligence
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What are the secrets of the top performers in business? Learn from the team at TMG, who coach the world’s most successful executives and see every d...