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Thinkers50 in collaboration with Deloitte presents:

The Provocateurs:

Profiles in Leadership

#TheProvocateurs podcast series

Provocateurs offer fresh insights, novel perspectives and unique ways forward in the face of uncertainty. In a new series from Thinkers50 in collaboration with Deloitte, every month we will present a Provocateur in conversation.

A collaboration between Thinkers50 and Deloitte, the monthly Provocateurs podcast gives you direct access to the thoughts, experiences, stories and insights of remarkable leaders from around the world. The aim is simple: to provoke you to think and act differently through candid and thought provoking conversations with fantastic leaders.

Are you ready to be challenged?

Hosts:

Stuart Crainer

Stuart Crainer

Co-founder, Thinkers50

Biography

About Stuart Crainer

Des Dearlove & Stuart Crainer are the founders and directors of Thinkers50. For two decades, they have been the recognized masters of finding and promoting the most accomplished and promising business and management thinkers worldwide. Internationally recognized experts on business ideas, they are the authors of more than 15 books available in 20 languages, editors of The Financial Times Handbook of Management, and are both former columnists to The Times. They advise thinkers and organizations worldwide.

Des Dearlove

Co-founder, Thinkers50

Biography

About Des Dearlove

Des Dearlove & Stuart Crainer are the founders and directors of Thinkers50. For two decades, they have been the recognized masters of finding and promoting the most accomplished and promising business and management thinkers worldwide. Internationally recognized experts on business ideas, they are the authors of more than 15 books available in 20 languages, editors of The Financial Times Handbook of Management, and are both former columnists to The Times. They advise thinkers and organizations worldwide.

Stacy Janiak

Global Deputy CEO, Deloitte

Biography

About Stacy Janiak

Stacy Janiak is a transformative leader committed to making an impact that matters for her clients, the people of Deloitte, and the communities in which she lives and serves.

Throughout her 30+ year career with Deloitte, Stacy has held significant leadership roles driving the firm’s strategy with an emphasis on bold, integrated, digitally-enabled business solutions, services, and insights, all while serving as a role model and champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion. 


As Deputy Chief Executive Officer, she is responsible for driving performance across Deloitte’s $60B network of more than 415,000 professionals. She oversees businesses, strategy, innovation, and technology, in pursuit of optimizing Deloitte’s integrated strategy and impact in the market. In addition, Stacy chairs the Global Cross-Business Growth Council and serves on the Deloitte Global Executive Committee.


Most recently, she served as US Managing Partner – Chief Growth Officer, where she was responsible for a $24B client portfolio. Always with a focus on creating a differentiated client experience, Stacy led the acceleration and digital transformation of the firm’s go-to-market assets while bringing the breadth of Deloitte’s solutions to the marketplace.


Stacy’s extensive governance experience includes terms on the Deloitte Global Board of Directors, where she chaired the Global Risk & Ethics Committee and US Board, where she chaired the Strategic Investment Committee. She is a proud graduate and trustee of DePaul University and a board member of Boys & Girls Club of Chicago, The Executives’ Club of Chicago, and New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that backs breakthrough social entrepreneurs who are advancing equity and opportunity.


Stacy is passionate about mentoring and developing the next generation of diverse leaders. Her forward-thinking and influential thought leadership has been featured in prominent business publications such as Fortune, Forbes, and Fast Company. She is a sought-after speaker at prestigious industry events including Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, CES, and The Female Quotient’s Equity Lounges where she champions inclusivity and shares insights on modern leadership, corporate governance, crisis resilience, and business growth in a rapidly evolving global environment. 

Stacy is a Certified Public Accountant in the US and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She and her family reside in Illinois, USA. 

Steve Goldbach

Sustainability, Climate & Equity Leader, Deloitte

Biography

About Steven Goldbach

Steven Goldbach leads Deloitte’s Sustainability practice in the US. This practice serves the complex and novel challenges our clients face across issues such as climate change, DEI, and other challenges associated with creating a more sustainable future. We help clients make measurable progress on all dimensions of these challenges by bringing to the table all areas of Deloitte’s expertise.

Prior to assuming the leadership of this practice, Steve served as Deloitte’s US Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) for 8 years. Over his time as CSO, the US firm made a major pivot in strategy, focusing on winning as an integrated firm. Prior to joining Deloitte, Steve was the head of the New York Office at Monitor Group, and head of strategy for Forbes. 

Steve has co-authored two bestselling books – Detonate: Why – and how – corporations must blow up best practices (and bring a beginner’s mind) to survive (Wiley, 2018), and Provoke: How leaders shape the future by overcoming fatal human flaws (Wiley, 2021). Thinkers50 has nominated Steve as a finalist for the 2019 Distinguished Achievement Award in Strategy and in 2021 for the Distinguished Leadership Award 

Steve holds degrees from Queen’s University at Kingston, where he serves on the Global Advisory Board of its Smith School of Business, and Columbia Business School. He and his wife live in Manhattan with their young daughter.

Geoff Tuff

Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Biography

About Geoff Tuff

Geoff has almost 30 years of experience consulting to some of the world’s top companies on the subjects of strategy, growth, innovation, and adapting business models to deal with change.  Currently, he is a Principal at Deloitte and holds various leadership positions across its Sustainability, Innovation and Strategy practices. Prior to this, he led the innovation firm Doblin and was a senior partner at Monitor Group, serving as a member of its global Board of Directors.  He is currently based in Deloitte’s Boston office.

Geoff’s work centers around helping clients transform their businesses to grow and compete in nontraditional ways. Over the course of his career, Geoff has worked in virtually every industry and he uses that breadth of experience to bring novel, cross-sector insights about how things might operate to clients stuck in industry conventional wisdom. Geoff has a particular strength in using facilitation and personal intervention to help clients make hard choices and take action. 

For his entire career, Geoff has focused exclusively on helping companies grow. He has been instrumental in developing many of Monitor’s – and now Deloitte’s – core methodologies related to driving profitable topline growth for clients.  His expertise spans the domains of design-driven innovation, new business model development, product launch and growth strategy, and business transformation. 

Geoff is valued for his integrative approach to solving problems. He combines deep analytic and strategic expertise with a natural orientation towards approaches embodied in design thinking.  His belief that human behavior is still – even in the digital age – the fundamental driver of economic value for companies allows him to bring a unique perspective to his clients struggling to shift their business models.  

He is a widely sought-after speaker and writer on the topic of growth through innovation.  His writing has appeared in journals such as Marketing Management and Harvard Business Review and as a regular contribution to HuffPost. He is also co-author of the National Bestseller Detonate: Why – and How – Corporations Need to Blow up Best Practices (and Bring a Beginner’s Mind) to Survive, released in May, 2018. His new book, Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws launched in September, 2021 and quickly became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller. In 2019, Thinkers50 named Geoff as a finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award in Strategy; in 2021, they did the same for the Leadership Award.

Geoff grew up in Canada and the UK, and came to the United States for university.  He received his B.A., with honors, in English literature and creative writing, from Dartmouth College.  He also holds a MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was an honors student.  He currently lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with his wife, Martha, and four sons.  

Inspired by the book Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human FlawsWiley, 2021.

THE PROVOCATEURS: EPISODE 17

Guest starring:

Kim Scott

Kim Scott

Author and co-founder of Radical Candor

Stuart Crainer

Stuart Crainer

Co-founder, Thinkers50

Steve Goldbach

Sustainability, Climate & Equity Leader, Deloitte

The author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott joins Steve Goldbach of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to talk through the politics, practicalities, and purpose of feedback in the workplace. 

In this discussion, part of The Provocateurs podcast series, Kim explains how her two-by-two framework for radical candor can help create productive feedback by avoiding the two extremes of obnoxious aggression and ruinous sympathy. She also shares her insights on bias, prejudice, and bullying and offers actionable responses for each one that can help eliminate workplace injustice, paving the way for greater engagement, collaboration, and growth.

As well as Radical Candor, Kim is also the author of Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity and three novels: Virtual Love, The Househusband, and The Measurement Problem. She was CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Twitter, and a member of the faculty at Apple University. Previously, she led AdSense, YouTube and DoubleClick teams at Google, managed a paediatric clinic in Kosovo, and started a diamond cutting factory in Moscow during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Kim is co-founder of executive education company, Radical Candor.

This podcast is part of an ongoing series of interviews with executives. The executives’ participation in this podcast are solely for educational purposes based on their knowledge of the subject and the views expressed by them are solely their own. This podcast should not be deemed or construed to be for the purpose of soliciting business for any of the companies mentioned, nor does Deloitte advocate or endorse the services or products provided by these companies.

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