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The Chief Growth Officer Podcast with Dr. Antonio Oftelie

The Chief Growth Officer Podcast hosted by Dr. Antonio Oftelie of Harvard University, illuminates ideas on achieving transformational growth in outcomes and value. The podcast features iconic executives and change agents as they share stories and ideas on growing the organizational and personal capacity to achieve breakthrough innovation and change and most importantly – generate outcomes that make a sustainably prosperous, equitable, and just world. The Chief Growth Officer podcast will help you lead organizations, institutions, communities – and yourself – into transformational levels of growth in outcomes and value.

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The Chief Growth Officer Podcast with Dr. Antonio Oftelie

Lauren Hirshon and Antonio Oftelie on How We're Bending Steel (with a new Podcast!)

June 17, 2025 • Dr. Antonio Oftelie

The Chief Growth Officer Podcast has moved! You can now find the work continuing at The Bending Steel Podcast: Conversations with Leaders Shaping the Future with Dr. Antonio Oftelie, available now on your favorite podcast source.

In this special kickoff episode of Bending Steel, host Dr. Antonio Oftelie flips the script and becomes the guest. Interviewed by longtime collaborator Lauren Hirshon — Director of Learning and Development at Leadership for a Networked World at Harvard — the two explore the vision behind the podcast and why now is the time for bold ideas in the public and social sectors.

Together, they reflect on the urgent need for new frameworks, principles, and leadership tools in a world teetering between potential progress and persistent challenges. This introductory episode sets the tone for the season ahead — one designed to help leaders navigate complexity and drive meaningful change.