Play to Potential Podcast

Deepak Jayaraman

Booking Overview

This is a leadership and career interview podcast focused on transitions, decision-making, and realizing professional potential, featuring distinguished executives, academics, authors, and specialist practitioners as external guests. Credible pitches include senior business leaders, leadership researchers, executive coaches, career and education experts, and authors with substantial frameworks or career experience; booking difficulty is high because recent guests include prominent professors, authors, and highly experienced business professionals.

Metrics

Episodes: 141

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

support@playtopotential.com

deepakj.p2p@transitioninsight.com

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Host

Deepak Jayaraman - Executive coach and leadership advisor who works with senior executives and growth-minded leaders on business and career transitions. He is the founder of Transition Insight and has previously work...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior executives, distinguished academics and researchers, established authors, executive coaches, and recognized specialists with significant practical experience or original frameworks in leadership, careers, organizational change, education, or personal development.

Required Achievements:

Leadership of established organizations or substantial professional practices, Faculty positions at leading universities, Authorship of recognized books on leadership, careers, or personal development, Long-term advisory, coaching, research, or operating experience, Documented impact at scale in business, education, or organizational development

Recent Guest Discussions

Ramesh Mangaleswaran - Building A Life Beyond Professional Identity, Preparing For Retirement And Other Transitions, Relationships, Reflection, Intentional Use Of Time, And The GIFT Framework Of Giving, Investing, Family And Friends, And Teaching.

Wendy Smith - Leadership Paradoxes, Competing Demands, Complexity, Binary Thinking, Paradox Mindsets, And Navigating Tensions And Dilemmas In Organizations.

Viral Doshi - Career Counseling, College Selection, Lifelong Learning, Artificial Intelligence And Careers, Specialization, Education Choices, And Building A Trusted Specialist Practice.

Hitendra Wadhwa - Leadership Development, Inner Mastery, Breakthrough Moments, Activating Leadership States, Meaningful Change, Conflict, Purpose, And Personal Growth.

Recent Topics

Business, Leadership, Career Transitions, Executive Coaching, Organizational Change

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

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706: 112.00 Christina Wallace on Being intentional about a Portfolio Life

October 01, 2026

GUEST:Christina Wallace is a Harvard Business School faculty member, entrepreneur, author and Broadway producer who has built a career across business, technology and the arts. Her own journey has moved across seemingly different worlds, giving her a deeply personal perspective on what it means to build a career and life that does not fit neatly into a single identity.In this conversation, we explore Christina's idea of a Portfolio Life and why it may be useful to think beyond the traditional...

705: EP1 Crafting a Full Life - Ramesh Mangaleswaran on What Will You Do With Your Next Chapter?

September 19, 2026

GUEST:In this episode of Crafting a Full Life, Deepak Jayaraman speaks with Ramesh Mangleswaran about what it means to build a life beyond your professional identity. After more than three decades at McKinsey, Ramesh began consciously preparing for his next chapter and has since embraced what he calls a portfolio life.They explore how to create space for reflection, invest in relationships, think about transitions before they arrive, and be intentional about where you choose to spend your tim...

704: 111.00 Dr. Wendy Smith on Navigating dilemmas, tensions and paradoxes

July 28, 2026

GUEST:Dr. Wendy Smith is one of the world's foremost researchers on leadership, paradox and organizational change. She is the Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management at the University of Delaware and co-author of the influential book Both/And Thinking, which explores how leaders navigate competing demands in an increasingly complex world.In this conversation, we explore why many of leadership's hardest decisions are not problems with a single correct answer but paradoxes that require holding ...

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