S5:E205🎙️ LIVE with Dr Brian O. Reuben, Ph.D.

S5:E205🎙️ LIVE with Dr Brian O. Reuben, Ph.D.

Strategy, Power & the Courage to See First ♟️🌍

Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5, Episode 205

Mark your calendars!

📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026

⏰ 6:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA

⏰ 9:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.

⏰ 2:00 PM GMT — London, England, UK

📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]

 

🌟 Meet My Guest

I am excited to welcome my friend Dr Brian O. Reuben, Ph.D. to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ for a conversation about strategy, power, leadership, and developing the courage to see—and act—before everyone else.

Dr. Reuben is a global strategist, researcher, author, educator, institutional advisor, and convener whose work sits at the intersection of strategy, systems, leadership, economic development, and institutional transformation.

Across more than 25 countries, he has advised leaders, governments, corporations, and nonprofit institutions on growth, performance, and strategic direction. He has also facilitated more than 250 strategy training and advisory programs for senior executives across industries including banking, telecommunications, education, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, insurance, broadcasting, and energy.

 

At the heart of Brian's work is a powerful question:

Why do some people, organizations, and nations achieve enduring influence while others struggle despite having talent, resources, and opportunity?

That question will help guide our conversation.

 

📚 Two Books. One Powerful Leadership Conversation.

We will explore Brian's Strategy: Clarity, Choice and Execution in A Broken Business World, which challenges leaders to stop treating strategy as an annual plan or PowerPoint presentation and instead embrace it as a disciplined system of clarity, choices, trade-offs, implementation, and relentless execution.

 

And we'll get a special preview of his NEW book:

📕 Power Play: How the Smartest Leaders Win Deals, Shape Markets, and Build Unfair Advantage

🚨 Official Release: August 27, 2026

Built around 30 strategic stories, Power Play explores how leaders recognize changing games, redefine competition, anticipate shifts, and make consequential moves before change becomes unavoidable.

One idea immediately captured my attention:

“The future does not belong to those who react first. It belongs to those who see first.”

 

That's where our episode title comes from:

♟️ Strategy, Power & the Courage to See First

 

🎯 What You Will Learn…

✨ Why strategy is not a plan—and why clarity, choice, trade-offs, and execution separate strategic intent from strategic results.

✨ How leaders can develop strategic foresight and recognize weak signals before competitors see the same opportunity or threat.

✨ How leaders can pursue influence, competitive advantage, and power while preserving character, trust, ethics, and institutional legitimacy.

✨ What CEOs can learn from statesmen—and what government leaders can learn from great business strategists.

 

💬 Join the Conversation!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a question about leadership, strategy, competitive advantage, power, strategic foresight, execution, or institutional transformation for Dr. Brian O. Reuben? Post it below—we will tackle as many as possible LIVE!

 

And here's a question to think about before we begin:

♟️ What game are you really playing?

Because perhaps one of leadership's greatest advantages isn't simply reacting faster than everyone else.

It is developing the clarity to see what others haven't yet seen—and the courage to act on it.

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👇 Your Turn:

➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, executive, entrepreneur, strategist, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

See you LIVE Friday morning! 🎙️♟️🌍