The Bending Steel Podcast: Conversations with Leaders Shaping the Future with Dr. Antonio Oftelie
This podcast looks at breakthrough ideas and innovations, and gets in the trenches with real life leaders to show how they think about and move forward innovation and change. These leaders and organizations are breaking from hardened ways of working and, as like bending steel, transforming their approaches to deliver breakthrough outcomes and value.
The Bending Steel Podcast: Conversations with Leaders Shaping the Future with Dr. Antonio Oftelie
When Courage Finds Its Voice: Reflections on Leadership with Harvard Business School's Dr. Nancy Koehn
In a time marked by relentless volatility, rising uncertainty, and a sense of “perma-crisis,” leaders are searching for ways to stay steady, clear-headed, and connected to what truly matters. Today’s challenges demand not just sharper strategic thinking, but also deeper emotional grounding. It’s not just the mind, but the heart that has to lead.
In this episode, Harvard Business School professor and historian Dr. Nancy Koehn joins host Dr. Antonio Oftelie to bring these concepts to life. Drawing from her book Forged in Crisis and her research on figures like Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and civil rights figures, Dr. Koehn shares how great leaders confronted turbulence, grew their capacity in real time, and guided others through uncertainty. Together, they reflect on practical approaches for cultivating resilience, communicating with honesty and hope, and sustaining oneself while offering grounded insight for anyone striving to exercise leadership today.