242 - What a Near-Death Experience Taught a $500B CIO About Leadership
04/06/2026 | 46min
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Most leaders are taught to push harder, move faster, and never give up. But what if that mindset is exactly what puts their health, judgment, relationships, and long-term performance at risk?
In this episode, Andrea Petrone sits down with Sébastien Page, Head of Global Multi-Asset and Chief Investment Officer at T. Rowe Price, author of The Psychology of Leadership, and a leader overseeing more than $500 billion in assets under management. Sébastien shares the personal health crisis that forced him to rethink resilience, performance, and the real cost of ambition.
This conversation explores what leaders can learn from psychology, sport, finance, and high-pressure decision-making — from feedback and strategic patience to goal-induced blindness, time management, ego, and the importance of meaning in work.
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241 - Why the Best CEOs Were Forged by Adversity
28/05/2026 | 9min
I've been building something quietly over the last few months. WCL21 is a private CEO community — small, curated, confidential. Monthly roundtables, masterclasses with CEOs you wouldn't normally get access to, and the kind of conversations that don't happen anywhere else in your life. We're in the founding member phase right now. A few seats are still open. If you're a CEO running a mid-market company and this sounds like the room for you:
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In this episode of The World Class Leaders Show, I unpack the pattern I've observed across more than a decade of coaching leaders at the top and that Adam Bryant confirmed after interviewing over a thousand of them. The CEOs who perform under the most pressure almost always share the same origin. They were shaped by adversity. Not as a metaphor. As a lived reality that burned away hesitation and replaced it with a kind of drive that can't be taught.
I walk through what that adversity actually looks like, why it creates such an unusual capacity for pressure, and the four categories that shape exceptional leaders including the one that dominates all the rest. But I also go into the part nobody warns you about. The same wiring that forged these leaders often becomes the thing that quietly limits them. The inability to ask for help. The instinct to carry everything alone. It feels like strength. It makes things harder.
This episode is for CEOs, founders, and senior executives who want to understand where their drive actually comes from and whether the survival instinct that got them here is still working for them, or running the show without their permission.
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240 - Why Most CEOs Are Thinking About AI Wrong
21/05/2026 | 48min
I've been building something quietly over the last few months. WCL21 is a private CEO community — small, curated, confidential. Monthly roundtables, masterclasses with CEOs you wouldn't normally get access to, and the kind of conversations that don't happen anywhere else in your life. We're in the founding member phase right now. A few seats are still open. If you're a CEO running a mid-market company and this sounds like the room for you:
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Most CEOs are trying to figure out how to turn AI into real strategic value, not just productivity gains.
In this episode, Andrea Petrone speaks with Charlene Li, a bestselling author and leadership advisor, about why AI transformation is not just a technological challenge, but also a leadership, cultural, strategic, and decision-making challenge.
Charlene explains why the companies that win with AI will be the ones with clear direction, strong leadership conviction, and the courage to break through internal resistance.
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239 - Why Great CEOs Fail Under Pressure (And How to Avoid It)
14/05/2026 | 12min
I've been building something quietly over the last few months. WCL21 is a private CEO community — small, curated, confidential. Monthly roundtables, masterclasses with CEOs you wouldn't normally get access to, and the kind of conversations that don't happen anywhere else in your life. We're in the founding member phase right now. A few seats are still open. If you're a CEO running a mid-market company and this sounds like the room for you:
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In this solo episode of The World Class Leaders Show, I unpack the pattern I've seen destroy more leaders than any market shift ever has. It's not uncertainty that breaks CEOs. It's what uncertainty creates inside them.
Under real pressure, most leaders revert to the version of themselves that used to win. I call this Achieved Identity and under pressure, it takes the wheel without asking permission. It feels like leadership. It makes things worse.
I walk through the three things that break down every time a leader is under sustained pressure, why the sequence matters, and the exact steps one CEO took to lead through a company in crisis without losing himself in the process.
This episode is for CEOs, founders, and senior executives who are carrying real pressure right now and need a clearer sequence for moving through it without losing themselves in the process.
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238 - The Truth That Almost Cost This CEO Everything
07/05/2026 | 43min
I’ve been building something quietly over the last few months. WCL21 is a private CEO community — small, curated, confidential. Monthly roundtables, masterclasses with CEOs you wouldn’t normally get access to, and the kind of conversations that don’t happen anywhere else in your life. We’re in the founding member phase right now. A few seats are still open. If you’re a CEO running a mid-market company and this sounds like the room for you:
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AI is not going to destroy every software company — but it may expose the ones without a clear strategy.
In this episode of The World Class Leaders Show, host Andrea Petrone is joined by Dr John Bates, CEO of Doxis, a former Cambridge computer science academic, and a technology leader who has built and led five successful companies.
John shares what he has learned from leading through the dotcom crash, 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, COVID, and today’s AI disruption. He explains why CEOs must stay focused on business value, sharpen their positioning, and avoid panicking when markets shift.
The conversation explores AI, crisis leadership, competing with giants like Microsoft and Box, the burden of CEO transparency, and why every leader needs trusted people around them when pressure is high.
John also reflects on why transformation can be more powerful than starting from scratch, why great CEOs must sometimes act as agitators, and what it really takes to lead with clarity when uncertainty never seems to end.
Follow Our Guest: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drjohnbates Learn more about Doxis: https://www.doxis.com
Sobre The World Class Leaders Show: The CEO leadership podcast for leaders who solve big problems and build better futures.
Sobre The World Class Leaders Show: The CEO leadership podcast for leaders who solve big problems and build better futures.
Sobre The World Class Leaders Show: The CEO leadership podcast for leaders who solve big problems and build better futures.
If you’re a CEO or senior executive, your challenges don’t sound like “I need more leadership tips.”
They sound more like:
“Why am I still carrying this company on my shoulders?”
“Why doesn’t my top team own the strategy the way I do?”
“How do I challenge the board or investors without blowing up the relationship?”
“How do we build a company that still matters in 10 years, not just hit this year’s numbers?”
The World-Class Leaders Show is the CEO leadership podcast built for those questions.
Hosted by Andrea Petrone – A Global Influencer, CEO Whisperer, WIley Author, Executive Coach and Speaker – the show goes deep into what it really takes to lead at the top: using power well, doing the identity work of leadership, and making the big decisions that shape the future of your company.
Each episode brings real CEO stories and the best business thinkers in the world to the table. You’ll hear how sitting and former CEOs, chairs, and C-suite leaders tackle the biggest business problems of our time – growth, culture, strategy execution, transformation, technology, risk, and talent – and how they stay true to who they are while doing it.
You’ll use this podcast to:
Get your executive team truly aligned, so you stop re-fighting the same battles in every meeting.
Turn strategy into a small set of clear priorities and behaviours your people actually execute.
Hold your ground with boards, investors, regulators, and powerful internal stakeholders – and still move the agenda forward.
Use your voice and position with more clarity and impact, so people know what you stand for and where the company is going.
Find fresh inspiration and language to build a better future for your organization, your people, and the markets you serve – without losing yourself in the role.
Featuring leaders from Fortune companies and some of the best thinkers in the world (like Amy Edmondson, Adam Bryant, James Keyes), the show is known for its richness, depth, and straight talk. Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally, it’s followed by thousands of CEOs and senior executives who want more than recycled ideas and surface-level conversations.
If you care about solving real business problems, shaping the future, and doing the inner work required to lead at the very top, this podcast is for you.
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