TED Business

Modupe Akinola

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Booking Overview

TED Business delivers TED-style business ideas every week, then gives a practical mini-lesson on how to apply them. Guests include well-known leaders and reporters who can translate business strategy into actionable workplace and innovation insights.

Metrics

Episodes: 319

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 27.2M subscribers

Instagram: 8.0M followers

Contact Information

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Host

Modupe Akinola - Host and Professor at Columbia Business School; she curates powerful, surprising business ideas and shares practical takeaways for applying those insights to real life and work. (Referenced as “hos...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
High-credibility business leaders, executives, foundation leaders, senior board members, and respected reporters/authors who can connect business strategy to real workplace or innovation implications.
Required Achievements:  
Leadership roles in major organizations (e.g., foundations and large enterprises/boards), Media/reporting leadership in business history or business journalism, Notable thought leadership around workplace inclusion, career strategy, innovation, or business strategy, TED/TEDx-level ideas or widely recognized public-facing expertise implied by the TED format

Recent Guest Discussions

Virginia Santy - Designing Office Spaces For Women; How Workplaces And Cities Fail Women; Productivity And Collaboration Outcomes From Gender-inclusive Design; Workplace Value And Inclusion

Jacob Goldstein - Origins And Myths Of Southwest Airlines; Founding/route Decisions; Fleet Strategy (boeing 737s); What Distinguishes Southwest From Competitors; Role Of Ego In Business

Patty Stonesifer - How To Make Career Decisions; Using A Personal Mission Statement; Filtering Opportunities; Turning Down What Doesn’t Fit; Speaking Up For What Matters; Coaching On Creating A Mission Statement

Recent Topics

Career, Workplace, Leadership, Innovation, Strategy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
TED Business
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Is inviting everyone to the meeting holding back global cooperation? | Qahir Dhanani

June 15, 2026

International collaboration expert Qahir Dhanani makes the case for rebuilding public trust in broken institutions by embracing small, focused coalitions that can move faster and act bolder — offering a hopeful, practical vision for updating diplomacy to meet the world’s toughest challenges. Then, Modupe shares why it's useful to identify "coalitions of the willing,” in your own workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why the world is still not built for women | Virginia Santy

June 08, 2026

Design consultant Virginia Santy set out to create an office space built specifically for women, flipping the script on the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways that workplaces and cities still fail them. The results were striking: greater productivity, deeper collaboration and an environment where women felt genuinely valued, leading her to ask a simple question: What would the world look like if we designed with women in mind? After the talk, Modupe shares what managers and male coworkers can do...

The surprising origins of Southwest Airlines with Jacob Goldstein

June 01, 2026

In this special TED Business episode, Modupe is in conversation with Jacob Goldstein, reporter and co-host of the Business History podcast, to dig into the origin story ofSouthwest Airlines. From debunking the airline's founding myth, about a triangular route sketched on a napkin to discussing why Southwest chose to only fly Boeing 737s, Jacob shares the decisions that made Southwest stand out from its competitors—and why healthy egos might make for better business. Hosted on Acast. See ...

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