Imperfect Leaders

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Leadership & Legacy for Neurodiverse Families – with Michael Duckworth

August 03, 2026

This episode of Imperfect Leaders is about leadership and legacy: how parents of autistic and neurodiverse children think about the long arc of their family’s happiness, not just this year or next, but decades into the future, even after the parents are gone.Jeff’s guest is Mike Duckworth, Managing Director of the Duckworth Hagerty Group at Merrill Lynch. Mike and Jeff share a common passion: helping parents plan for their family’s long-term wellbeing and legacy, and helping them build a comm...

Small Dose, Big Impact: The Science of Low-Dose Lithium for Leadership Performance, with Dr. Sudhir Gadh

June 18, 2026

What if the key to better sleep, faster recovery, and long-term brain health is a trace mineral that was once in your drinking water — and quietly removed? In this episode, I sit down with Sudhir, a board-certified psychiatrist, Navy veteran, and co-founder of Third Element, to explore the surprising science behind lithium microdosing — and why it's nothing like the high-dose psychiatric treatment you may have heard of.Sudhir breaks down how low-dose lithium works at the cellular level — from...

Thinking About Thinking: What a World-Class Neuroscientist Learned When His Own Child Got Sick, with Dr. Bradley Schlaggar, CEO of the Kennedy Krieger Institute

May 28, 2026

In this episode of Imperfect Leaders, host Jeff Cohn sits down with Dr. Bradley Schlaggar — physician, neuroscientist, and President and CEO of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, one of the world's premier institutions for children and young adults with disorders of the brain and nervous system.Brad's path to leadership began with a lifelong obsession with the developing brain, an MD and PhD from Washington University, and nearly two decades on the faculty building a celebrated resea...