Minds Worth Meeting
Minds Worth Meeting is a timely discussion forum hosted by the speakers agency and public relations experts at Stern Strategy Group.
Bringing together the world’s top thought leaders; from business leaders to technology analysts, academics, and researchers, Minds Worth Meeting features accessible, down-to-earth conversations about some of the most important topics of the day with the experts and leaders who are the top authorities in their fields.
The Stern Strategy Group team features the Speakers & Advisors division - your trusted ally for connecting with the top business advisors, practitioners, and educators in the world, and the PR & Executive Visibility division – helping business leaders find and unleash their inner strengths, creating greater visibility and value for leaders and their organizations. Together, the team at Stern Strategy Group is a driving force for elevating expertise and positive change, helping transform the future.
Subscribe to Minds Worth Meeting to gain valuable insight into the top-of-mind issues that are impacting business, academia, and society in each episode.
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Episodes
28 episodes
Looking Ahead to What’s in Store for Tech in 2025 With Futurist Mark Esposito
Few could predict the speed with which generative AI evolved in 2024, surprising even top global experts. Could we see similar explosive capability growth in 2025? On this bonus New Year episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis sits down wi...
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Season 4
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37:42
Revisit the Best Moments from Minds Worth Meeting Season 4
This season on Minds Worth Meeting, we talked to global experts including renowned thought leaders from Stern Strategy Group’s exclusive roster of
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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20:00
Learn How to Play ‘The Reputation Game’ With Oxford’s Rupert Younger
It’s always been vital to stay on top of reputation management, both individually and organizationally. Today, though, bad actors can tarnish a reputation in the blink of an eye thanks to social media and artificial intelligence. On this episod...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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39:39
Is It Time for Performance Reviews to Be Put Out to Pasture? Leadership Expert and Author Ashley Goodall Explains
From an employee standpoint, constant upheaval and the specter of having to sit down with the boss multiple times a year to be graded via performance review is a recipe for organizational disaster. In this episode of
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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30:40
Megan Reitz on Open Dialogue, Spaciousness and the Conversations We Need to Have
Speaking up – and empowering your employees to speak up – is a vital prerequisite for a company culture that supports innovation. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justi...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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36:47
How to Supercharge Strategy While Avoiding Digital Exhaustion with UCSB's Paul Leonardi
Successfully leading a business in the AI-heavy digital age requires a new mindset. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis sits down with University of Californi...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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35:52
Finding the Friction Sweet Spot with MIT's Renée Richardson Gosline
The conventional wisdom in business is that friction is a bad thing that must be removed for processes to move forward smoothly. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Whitney Jennings has a fascinating conversation with MIT researcher and hea...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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39:41
Are You a Plumber or a Poet? AI, Purpose and Leadership With Harvard’s Ranjay Gulati
How can leaders engage people both rationally and emotionally? In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Whitney Jennings and Justin Louis sit down with Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati. We talk about corporate purpose, artificial ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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36:05
Hear Our Favorite Moments from Season 3
What do the geek takeover, rethinking economies, unparalleled resilience, appreciating nostalgia while understanding our past and ensuring recognition and dignity for all have in common? They’re just a few of the memorable lessons w...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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18:04
Seeing Others Can Help Heal a Divided World, but How? Harvard's Michèle Lamont Tells Us
How can something seemingly as simple as recognition help to heal society's deep divides? In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Whitney Jennings has a conversation with sociologist and Harvard University professor Michèle Lamont. She tells us...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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34:36
How Can You Become a Great Boss and a 'Good-ish' Person? Dolly Chugh Explains
How can we become ‘good-ish’ people? For that matter, what is a ‘good-ish’ person? In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Whitney Jennings and Justin Louis speak with NYU Stern School of Business professor and social psychologist Doll...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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40:14
Learn How To Nurture Hope From Great Adversity With Tova Friedman
It is possible to spread a message of hope from the greatest adversity possible. In this inspirational episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis and guest host Meg Virag speak with Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman about how to find ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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27:34
Are There Economic Alternatives That Actually Work? Author Nick Romeo Says Yes
Economics is inseparable from politics and philosophy, but we don’t have to be prisoners to what are assumed to be inevitable economic laws. As we kick off our third season of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis speaks with journalist and UC Berk...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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30:48
We're Getting Geeky With Andrew McAfee
Companies that are run by geeks are some of the most innovative, agile and scalable organizations today. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis speaks with renowned MIT researcher
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Season 3
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25:42
The Best of Minds Worth Meeting Season Two
Exponential technology, modern communication and failing well – those were the themes we touched on in the second season of Minds Worth Meeting. Today, we’re taking a look ba...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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22:17
Is It Possible To Fail Well? Amy Edmondson Teaches Us How
"Failure" doesn't have to be a bad word. In fact, failing well can lead to unexpected positive breakthroughs. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Whitney Jennings speaks with Harvard Business School's Amy Edmondson, author of the upcoming b...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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30:44
Reid Blackman Explains the Importance of Evaluating Ethical AI
Artificial intelligence is spreading fast, but are ethical safeguards spreading as quickly as they should be? In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis speaks with the founder and CEO of Virtue Ethics Consultancy and author of “
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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28:05
What Do the AI and Robots of Tomorrow Have in Store? OSU Dean Ayanna Howard Tells Us
Have you ever wished you could sit down and have a conversation with one of the top robotics and AI engineers in the world? In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting we do exactly that when Whitney Jennings speaks with former NASA engineer and the...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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22:16
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative? Columbia University’s Hod Lipson Makes the Case
Is AI on the path to sentience? This time on Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis speaks with the director of Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab, Hod Lipson.In this episo...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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30:06
Public Relations Expert Mark Beal Helps Us Decode Gen-Z
Public relations , marketing, and Gen-Z expert Mark Beal joins Stern PR's Kenny Conrade this episode of Minds Worth Meeting. Mark, a public relations professor at Rutgers University, has published several books for and about Gen-Z, including
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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35:20
What Is the Future of Tech and Innovation? Azeem Azhar Takes an Exponential View
Exponentialist Azeem Azhar, bestselling author of “The Exponential Age” and author of the Exponential View newsletter joins host Justin Louis on the first episode of season two of Minds Worth Meeting to discuss the future of technology and inno...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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26:32
The Best of Minds Worth Meeting Season 1
In this final episode of season one, hosts Whitney Jennings, Justin Louis, and Kenny Conrade look back at some of the top contributions of guests from Minds Worth Meeting season 1 which focused on female experts and thought-leaders. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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18:59
How Can AI and Human Emotions Complement Each Other? Nirit Pisano Explains
Dr. Nirit Pisano, licensed clinical psychologist and the Chief Psychology Officer of Cognovi Labs, an award winning psychology-infused AI platform, joins host Kenny Conrade on Minds Worth Meeting to discuss several hot-button issues in AI, the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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28:56
Columbia Business School’s Sheena Iyengar Explains How To Open Our Little Black Box of Creativity
Sheena Iyengar, Columbia Business School professor and a global authority on decision-making and choice, joins host Whitney Jennings on this week's episode of Minds Worth Meeting. In this episode, Sheena discusses her best-selling book, "The Ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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31:30
How To Build an Enduring Company Culture With Susan Stern
Susan Stern, founder of Stern Strategy Group, joins host Whitney Jennings on Minds Worth Meeting to discuss her experience as a female founder, important lessons learned from founding a PR agency and speakers bureau, and to give advice to the n...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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34:00