The Leadership Podcast

Jan Rutherford and Jim Vaselopulos co-host The Leadership Podcast with a formula that has held up remarkably well across 509 episodes: interview great leaders, review the books they read, and speak with the authors who study them. The show holds a 4.9 rating from 100 reviews, and while the review count is modest compared to celebrity-driven shows, the quality of the conversations is consistently high. Episodes run 28 to 48 minutes and cover contemporary leadership challenges including AI implementation, building resilience, accountability structures, and organizational transformation. Rutherford brings a military and adventure background, while Vaselopulos adds corporate and entrepreneurial experience. Together they ask questions that push past rehearsed talking points and into genuinely useful territory. Each episode includes key takeaways, quotable insights, and curated resource lists, which makes it easy to share specific episodes with your team. The show works best for mid-career leaders who are past the basics and looking for more nuanced thinking about how to lead during complexity and change. The hosts are not trying to build a media empire or sell you a course. They are genuinely trying to learn from their guests, and that authentic curiosity makes the conversations feel more like peer discussions than polished media appearances.