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The Mindful Leadership Podcast with Shahana BanerjeeAuthor: Just Human Leadership Advisors
What makes a great leader? Think of the best leader youve ever had. What makes them so memorable to you? What did they do? Did they believe in you before you even believed in yourself? Did they take a chance on you when you werent ready yet? Want to know why they did it? We dig into the why through deeply personal stories of great leaders who: Are Powered by their Purpose, Anchored in their Authenticity and Connect who they are to how they lead in good times and bad, at crossroads and crises who Challenge status quo & existing paradigms and Do different things ... differently Language: en Genres: Business, Management Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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S4e03 Decoding Your Blindspots with Martin Dubin
Episode 3
Friday, 12 June, 2026
Have you been super successful … and yet felt stuck?When I ask leaders, ‘What is REALLY getting in your way?’, there is usually a long pause before they say … ‘MYSELF’. The reason? The very same things that enabled our success… stop working as effectively as they used to.I’ve seen leaders go from ‘HERO’ to ‘ZERO’ way too often in organizations. There are some consistent underlying themes I see.🚫 The leader has blind spots but is clueless about it. The more senior you get, no one wants to tell you about it either.🚫 These blindspots cascade into behaviors, often resulting in poorer choices, actions and decisions🚫 Blindspots blur the lines between assumptions, prejudices, biases and facts, resulting in non evidence-based decisions or actions🚫 Under pressure, especially in crises, their blindspots often take the wheel …and they have no idea that it is happening 🚫 Others often see their blindspots way before the leaders themselves do. 🚫 Best case - it affects your career and future. Worst case - it has a corrosive effect on your team and organization. Either way, addressing it is pivotal to your future success.We all have blind spots, but we don’t usually know what they are, how they hold us back or how to overcome them. If you’ve ever felt stuck, this one is for you. Join me as we take a scientist’s approach to our mind and decode the blind spots that prevent us from achieving our goals with Marty Dubin. He is a clinical psychologist, a serial entrepreneur, a business coach and author of the best seller Blindspotting. He is on a mission to empower people by unlocking their self awareness.In this episode, we dig into:✅ Marty’s successful healthcare company, and how his blindspots inadvertently almost killed it✅ His passion for unlocking self awareness in others as the grounding force of leadership ✅ How to decode your blindspots (what are the clues you should look for)✅ How to understand your ‘motive’ blindspots and how we lie to ourselves (Why do we really do what we do)✅ How to understand the chasm between our intent and our impact. (Why do we say one thing…and do another…and not know it?)✅ How to make sense when your motives are in conflict with each other✅ How do you know if you are overplaying your strengths to the point of them becoming your derailers✅ How to figure out your need for power and whether it is productive or corrosive✅ We explore all the above through the journeys of many leaders. I am sure some of these stories will mirror your own.✅ A thought provoking Rapid Fire segment Don’t miss out on this amazingly educational, alarming, yet inspiring episode‼️About Martin Dubin:Martin Dubin is a clinical psychologist, serial entrepreneur, business coach, and adviser to C-suite executives and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. He is the author of Blindspotting: How to see what’s holding you back as a leader, published July 2025 by Harvard Business Review Press. His writing has appeared in Entrepreneur Magazine and Fast Company, and he writes a monthly blog for Psychology Today.After a decade in private practice, he cofounded and was CEO of a company they grew to $50M and sold to a Fortune 100 public company. A former coach at the Center for Creative Leadership and a partner at talent firm RHR International, he worked directly with hundreds of C-suite senior executives from Fortune 500 companies and with Silicon Valley venture capital firms and their portfolio companies.About Shahana Banerjee:Shahana is a Strategic Advisor, Certified Executive Coach and member of the elite Forbes Coaches Council. She helps leaders navigate through challenging points of inflection in their business, in their teams, their careers and their own leadership journey. Setup a 30 minute free intro call with her at https://justhuman.io. Learn more about her executive coaching services at https://justhuman.io/coaching/
