Leadership is crucial to provide vision, direction, and motivation, guiding individuals and organizations toward common goals and overall success. This is true whether it’s in business, society, or your local community.

Today, Clarke Murphy sits down with His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, a well-known leader in the Catholic church, in the New York City community, and around the world. Cardinal Dolan shares his path to leadership roles in the Church and how he looks at developing the next generation of Church leaders. He talks about what goes into electing the next Pope and lessons on leading through uncertainty. He’ll explore the commonalities that business and religious leaders have when it comes to the challenge of earning and developing trust. And he shares his views on the role of faith in today’s world of technology and change.

We’ll also hear from Dean Stamoulis, a leadership advisor at Russell Reynolds Associates, who shares why thoughtful succession planning—and the responsible transfer of power—are essential to long-term leadership continuity. 

Four things you’ll learn from this episode:

1. The key insights business leaders can learn from religious leaders to help them build and maintain trust in their organizations
2. The criteria that go into deciding who the next Pope will be and how to manage through leadership uncertainty
3. The critical skills and traits to look for in the next generation of leaders
4. His views on the role of faith today in a fast-changing world

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like these Redefiners episodes:

• The Urgent Race to Create 800 Million Jobs: World Bank President Ajay Banga’s Global Challenge
• Leadership Lounge: How to Create and Maintain Impact as a Leader
• Action Creates Hope: A Conversation with IRC President and CEO David Miliband
• Leadership Lounge: The Art of Succession: How to Identify Tomorrow's Leaders Today
• Thriving Through Adversity: How WTO’s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is Solving Global Problems
• Leadership Lounge: Beyond Handshakes: How to Build Trust and Transform Executive Team Performance

Welcome back for Season 6 of Redefiners! What better way to kick off the new year than introducing Russell Reynolds Associates’ first-ever Chief Science Officer, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. And if that wasn’t enough, Emma Combe from the Leadership Lounge joins Marla Oates for this special conversation.

In this episode, Tomas shares his latest research on talent management, leadership development, and the human-AI interface. He’ll explain why authenticity is overrated, how to use negative thinking as a positive force, and what leaders new in their roles can do to gain competence and confidence to be successful. He’ll dig into AI and how people can stand out in a sea of technology while avoiding the growing problem of “AI workslop.” He’ll look at how AI is impacting the traditional career ladder and what leaders need to do to develop young talent for future leadership roles. And he’ll highlight the key leadership topics he’s tracking in 2026.

We’ll also hear from Amy Scissons, RRA’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, who will highlight a key AI challenge many leaders are only just beginning to notice. 

Four things you’ll learn from this episode:

1. How to rethink authenticity and use negative thinking as a positive force
2. What leaders new to their roles need to do to gain competence and be successful
3. How to avoid AI workslop and how AI is impacting the traditional career ladder
4. What are the key leadership topics Tomas is tracking in 2026

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like these Redefiners episodes:

• The Leadership Lessons That Shaped Us: Celebrating 100 Episodes of Redefiners
• Leadership Lounge: How to Create and Maintain Impact as a Leader
• Banking on AI: How Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti Is Rewriting the AI Playbook
• Leadership Lounge: Unleashing AI’s potential: Are you ready to lead the charge?
• Talking Transformational Leadership with RRA’s CEO Constantine Alexandrakis
• Leadership Lounge: How to nail your first year as CEO

There was no shortage of challenges for leaders in 2025, as they navigated a year filled with uncertainty and change. Leaders’ skills were tested as they steered their organizations through changes in the global economy, geopolitics, AI transformation, succession planning, and board relationships.

In this final Redefiners episode of the season, hosts Marla Oates and Simon Kingston take a look back at 2025, highlighting how guests from the year are navigating these challenges. Hear from former CEO and current Chairman of Coveo Louis Têtu and Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti on AI transformation; World Bank President Ajay Banga on culture change; Russell Reynolds Associates CEO Constantine Alexandrakis, Pets At Home CEO Lyssa McGowan, and former President and CEO of Marvel Entertainment Peter Cuneo on stepping into the CEO role; Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman and former chair and CEO of MTV International Bill Roedy on leadership; plus insights from RRA leadership advisors in the Leadership Lounge.

If you’d like to hear more, check out all the episodes of Redefiners and Leadership Lounge.

Redefiners and Leadership Lounge will return with more conversations with global leaders in January 2026, so be sure to follow and subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss an episode!

Happy holidays!