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90th Percentile Leadership: Insights. Backed by Data.

Zenger Folkman Leadership

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Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 200

Leadership opinions are everywhere. We bring the data. Drawing on more than 2 million leadership assessments, psychometrician Joe Folkman, BreAnne Okoren, and special guests challenge conventional wisdom and reveal what extraordinary leaders do differently. Surprising research. Honest conversations. Practical actions that help you lead at the 90th percentile.

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Your Feedback Is Too Nice to Be Useful

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 • Duration 14:58

Your Employees Know When You’re Pretending to Listen

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • Duration 23:32

AI in the Workplace: The Leadership Skills AI Can’t Replace

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 • Duration 25:11

Leadership Blind Spots: Why Others See You More Clearly

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 • Duration 11:40

The Leadership Skill Everyone Thinks Is Dangerous

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration

Your Good Leaders Are the Hidden Problem

Thursday, July 23, 2026 • Duration 13:59

Remembering Jack Zenger—The Leader Behind the Research

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 • Duration 18:39

The Future of Employee Development

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 • Duration 18:23

The Future of Employee Development

For decades, employee development has largely been reserved for leaders and high-potential talent. But as organizations face growing succession challenges, talent shortages, and a rapidly changing workforce, many are beginning to ask an important question:

What about everyone else?

In this episode of The 90th Percentile, BreAnne Okoren sits down with Susan Christensen to discuss the hidden development gap affecting organizations today. Together, they explore why traditional development models leave so many employees behind, how that impacts engagement and succession readiness, and what organizations can do to build a stronger talent pipeline from the ground up

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why succession challenges are really development challenges
How the retirement of Baby Boomers is exposing weaknesses in organizational talent pipelines
Why employees don’t need leadership titles to deserve meaningful development
What happens when development opportunities are reserved for only a small percentage of the workforce
The barriers that have historically made development difficult to scale
How Extraordinary You was designed to bring research-based development to individual contributors earlier in their careers

Whether you’re an HR leader, talent development professional, manager, or executive, this conversation offers a fresh perspective on how organizations can create a more engaged, capable, and future-ready workforce.

Interested in bringing Extraordinary You to your organization?

Visit Zenger Folkman to learn how Extraordinary You helps individual contributors identify their strengths, accelerate their development, and make a greater impact—long before they step into formal leadership roles.

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Filling the Missing Gap in Early Career Development: Extraordinary You

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 • Duration 15:14

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Why do so many capable professionals overestimate their effectiveness at work? And what are the hidden behaviors quietly limiting trust, credibility, communication, and career growth?

In this episode of The 90th Percentile, BreAnne Okoren sits down with Zenger Folkman co-founder Jack Zenger to explore new research on one of the most important drivers of professional growth: self-awareness. Drawing on data from thousands of individual contributors, they uncover a surprising gap between how employees view their own effectiveness and how their managers actually experience them.

BreAnne and Jack discuss the eight workplace behaviors people most commonly misjudge—including trust, communication, follow-through, initiative, and speaking up—and why these blind spots can stall development long before someone enters a leadership role. They also explore why traditional development programs often miss the mark and how organizations can begin building stronger contributors earlier through meaningful feedback and strengths-based development.

Whether you’re an individual contributor looking to accelerate your career or a leader responsible for developing talent, this episode offers practical insights on how greater self-awareness can become a powerful competitive advantage.

Zenger Folkman’s new development experience, Extraordinary You, is designed to help individual contributors build strengths, increase self-awareness, and accelerate growth at every stage of their career.

Key Learnings

1. Self-awareness is a competitive advantage.
The most effective professionals aren’t the ones who think they’re perfect—they’re the ones who have an accurate understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, and impact on others.

2. Blind spots are more common than most people realize.
Research shows that many individuals significantly overestimate their effectiveness in areas such as trust, communication, follow-through, and initiative, creating barriers to growth.

Managers and colleagues often have a clearer view of our effectiveness than we do ourselves. Without external feedback, development efforts can be built on faulty assumptions.

Episode 185: Are You Overestimating Your Effectiveness? (And Why It Matters More Than You Think)

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 • Duration 14:15

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Why do so many capable people overestimate their effectiveness at work? And what are the hidden behaviors quietly damaging trust, credibility, communication, and career growth?

In this episode of The 90th Percentile, BreAnne Okoren sits down with Joe Folkman to explore new research from Zenger Folkman on the surprising gap between how individual contributors see themselves… and how their managers actually experience them. Based on a study of more than 15,000 professionals, the conversation uncovers the 8 workplace behaviors people most commonly misjudge — from follow-through and communication to trust and work ethic.

Joe explains why self-awareness is one of the greatest competitive advantages in today’s workplace and how blind spots can quietly limit performance and growth. BreAnne and Joe also discuss why organizations need to start development earlier — before someone becomes a formal leader — and how Zenger Folkman’s new development experience, Extraordinary YOU, is designed to help individual contributors build strengths, increase self-awareness, and accelerate growth at every stage of their career.

If you’ve ever wondered whether others experience you the way you think they do… this episode is for you.

Key Learnings

1. Most people have larger professional blind spots than they realize.

Research from more than 15,000 individual contributors revealed major gaps between self-ratings and manager ratings, especially in behaviors tied to trust, communication, follow-through, and influence.

2. Self-awareness is a competitive advantage.

The professionals who improve the fastest are not necessarily the most naturally talented — they are the most accurate at seeing their strengths and weaknesses clearly.

3. Small daily behaviors shape your reputation more than you think.

Reliability, preparation, responsiveness, and consistency quietly build — or erode — credibility over time.

4. High performers proactively seek feedback instead of waiting for reviews.

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