Best Felix Zeltner Podcasts (2025)

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“It’s time for a complete reset” – Maria Vassalou on the future of investing 32:45

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Global rules are being rewritten. Pictet’s Maria Vassalou joins David Bach to discuss BRICS, AI, aging societies – and why leaders must rethink everything they thought they knew. As global trade rules unravel, AI accelerates, and demographics shift dramatically, what should business leaders do? What do they need to rethink, and where should they in…

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Why Democracies Die – and What Business Leaders Must Do 1:04:20

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Harvard’s Daniel Ziblatt explores how democracies fail and why business leaders must act now before it’s too late. “Democracy is a system of competition: not harmony, but contest... When that competition is fair, something extraordinary happens.” In this gripping keynote and fireside conversation with IMD President David Bach, Harvard professor and…

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“We were so scared of our IPO”: Leaders Unplugged with former On-CEO Marc Maurer 42:15

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Marc Maurer didn’t build ON by playing it safe. In this live conversation with IMD’s Alyson Meister, the outgoing Co-CEO explains why betting on purpose, rejecting hype, and ignoring the industry playbook paid off: 1. Culture over hype. “We’re actually the anti-metaverse.” ON doubled down on real-life movement instead of pixels, and built a brand w…

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From the classroom to the boardroom – why do IMD alumni lead differently? 26:29

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Three alumni. Three decades. One question: What makes IMD’s leadership journey so lasting? What do a former Olympic basketball player, a Japanese strategist in London, and a Swiss energy executive have in common? IMD. In this special MBA reunion episode of Leaders Unplugged, IMD President David Bach welcomes - John Hatch (MBA 1990) - Kazumi Nakayam…

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How do deans lead when the world turns upside down? 38:28

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Global deans on leading through turbulence — and why optimism, not certainty, is the real power in today’s business education. In today’s episode, IMD President David Bach discusses how the rapid global shifts of the moment impact leadership education, with two of his peers: – Catherine Duggan, Dean of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of…

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David Bach: Why we all benefit from America’s top universities 35:45

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In the latest episode, IMD President David Bach explains the vital importance of the partnership between the US government and the elite research universities, what we can learn from the vibrancy of the Middle East, and why Ted Lasso is a better leadership role model than Elon Musk. “The US built its global edge by attracting the world’s best. Now,…

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Episode 3: David Bach with Stuart DeCew and Geraldine Matchett 38:23

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Welcome to the third episode of Leaders Unplugged, presented by IMD, and hosted by IMD's president David Bach, together with Remote Daily's founder Felix Zeltner. Leaders Unplugged is real talk with the impactful – candid, honest, and fresh from behind the scenes. Today, we take you behind the scenes of a recent gathering led by the World Business …

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Episode 2: David Bach and UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti 32:34

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Welcome to the second episode of Leaders Unplugged, a bi-weekly podcast by IMD, hosted by IMD President David Bach with Felix Zeltner. In this wide-ranging chat, David goes from the global to the personal with one of the world’s most prominent bankers: UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti. At a recent event in Lausanne, Sergio Ermotti joined Bach on stage and pu…

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Welcome to Leaders Unplugged! 30:49

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Welcome to the inaugural episode of Leaders Unplugged, presented by IMD and hosted by IMD President David Bach and Felix Zeltner. To kick things off, David and Felix discuss the key learnings from David's recent travels that took him from the World Economic Forum to the World Government Summit, to business school conferences in Las Vegas and Lisbon…