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12 Geniuses Podcast

Don MacPherson

Booking Overview

An interview-led leadership and high-performance podcast featuring external authors, executives, researchers, and accomplished professionals who share practical lessons from business, personal adversity, and exceptional achievement. Suitable pitches include bestselling business authors, organizational leadership experts, executive coaches, founders, resilience specialists, and experts with distinctive real-world accomplishments; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 215

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 546 subscribers

Instagram: 434 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

future@12geniuses.com

dmacpherson@12geniuses.com

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Host

Don MacPherson - Leadership development entrepreneur and host focused on the behaviors, practices, and insights that help people and organizations perform at their highest level.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Bestselling or published authors, senior executives, founders, researchers, executive coaches, elite performers, and professionals with a distinctive record of achievement or a compelling framework for leadership and personal performance.
Required Achievements:  
Published or bestselling books, Senior executive or founder experience, Recognized expertise in leadership, organizational change, or human performance, Exceptional athletic, military, entrepreneurial, or personal accomplishments

Recent Guest Discussions

Ken Stern - Social Connection, Healthy Aging, Longevity, Healthspan, Community Design, And The Future Of Society.

Eric Ries - Organizational Governance, Human Flourishing, Purpose-driven Business, Trust, Financial Incentives, And Resilient Companies.

Mitch Kusy - Change Leadership, Personal Transformation, Accountability Partnerships, Team Resilience, And Adapting To Uncertainty.

Gilles Benoit - Leading Change, Accountability, Perfectionism, Organizational Resilience, And Navigating Technological And Social Disruption.

Sam Maddaus - Resilience, Endurance, Identity After Loss, Overcoming Doubt, Reinvention, And Applying Lessons From Extreme Adversity To Leadership.

Recent Topics

Business, Leadership, Resilience, Organizational Culture, High Performance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
12 Geniuses Podcast
:

Healthy to 100 | Ken Stern

September 08, 2026

What if one of the most powerful drivers of longevity isn’t a drug, diet, or medical breakthrough? Instead, it’s healthy social connection with friends, family, people in our workplace, and others in our communities. In this episode of 12 Geniuses, Ken Stern, author of Healthy to 100, explores one of the most overlooked factors in living a long, healthy life. Ken acknowledges diet, exercise, stress management, and sleep are important, but too many people neglect how vital vibrant social conne...

Incorruptible: Building Organizations Where People Flourish | Eric Ries

August 06, 2026

What if human flourishing was the measure by which we evaluate organizations? In this episode of 12 Geniuses entrepreneur and bestselling author Eric Ries discusses his groundbreaking book, Incorruptible, and why the future belongs to organizations designed not merely to generate wealth, but to help people flourish.Eric argues that too many businesses eventually succumb to what he calls "financial gravity” - the relentless pressure to prioritize short-term profits over purpose, people, and lo...

The Playbook for Leading Change | Dr. Mitch Kusy & Dr. Gilles Benoit

July 20, 2026

Change is no longer an event. It's the environment. The leaders who thrive won't be the ones who resist it, but those who embrace it, learn to navigate it with confidence and purpose, and understand that change brings opportunity.In this episode of 12 Geniuses, host Don MacPherson welcomes Dr. Gilles Benoit and Dr. Mitch Kusy, co-authors of The Playbook for Leading Change, for a practical conversation about leading through the social, political, technological, and organizational changes resha...

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