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Hi this is Kate Davis I’m a comic and keynote Speaker, and thanks for checking out my Podcast Humor in the C-Suite where I interview leaders, executives and business owners on how they use humor and levity to create an extraordinary work culture. I want to ask the questions that we all want answers to like… Does humor help us or harm us at work? Does humor change our perception of a problem? And how do our leaders use humor to inspire curiosity, success and innovation. I want to be a fly in their chardonnay, I mean a fly on their wall. Honestly, I’m as curious as you are…So join me and a guest every week for Humor in the C-Suite

Recent Episodes

Current Affairs: How Amie Fox Trades Sympathy for Empathy to Build Better People Managers

On this episode of Humor in the C-Suite, I sit down with leadership trainer Amie Fox, founder of A Fox Consulting and author of Mind the Blind Spot: Decision to Done. We talk about why you need to follow current affairs before you joke with a global team, the difference between empathy and sympathy, what to do when a joke bombs, and the keynote where the lights came up and Amie was on the wrong end of the stage. Additional Links & Resources: Interested in being a guest on Humor in the C-S...

34 MIN

Two Truths, One Lie: How Mark Wessner Uses Humor to Break Down Hierarchy and Build Trust

MB Seminary President Mark Wessner once opened a sermon for a church deciding whether to hire him with a game of two truths and a lie: I've done cocaine. I've been in prison. I have a tattoo. He doesn't have a tattoo. Mark joins Kate Davis to talk about using humor to lower the guard that comes with hierarchy, from all-out Nerf battles with his team to the evaluation that told him to be more presidential. He also breaks down the four languages leaders communicate in, what the Birkman Method r...

35 MIN

How Kevin Dias Makes Room for Humor in a Fully Remote Startup

Kevin Dias doesn't think he's funny, but he's built a company where everyone else gets to be. From his home in Oyama, Japan, the founder of Ambiki talks with Kate about leading a fully remote startup with levity: jokes flying in the Zoom chat, the teammate who told him a joke about a customer crossed the line, and the annual hackathon that keeps turning play into real product features. In this episode: Why humor has to start one-on-one before it works in a groupLaughing at a situation vs. lau...

30 MIN

Build Your Own Building: How NAVAC Founder Lintao Lu Turns Rejection Into Resilient Leadership

Leadership development, resilience, and humor in leadership take center stage as Kate sits down with NAVAC founder Lintao Lu, author of In Through the Window, for a conversation on grit, authentic leadership, and turning closed doors into opportunity. In this episode, Kate and LT talk about: Why "sometimes you have to realize this building is not for you" — and how to build your own insteadTurning a workplace mishap into trust and team cohesion instead of embarrassmentBridging US-China cultu...

32 MIN

Humor is Rebellion: How Author Pavithra Venkatesan Uses Humor to Break Free From Old Patterns

This week, Kate sits down with Pavithra Venkatesan, author of Archetypal Remembering and pattern intelligence practitioner, for a conversation about the identities we build to survive, and the exact moment those identities turn funny. Pavithra traces her path from software engineer to author and life coach, a shift that began the day she became a mother and started questioning whether the life she was living was actually hers. She walks through her framework of archetypes as adaptive roles bu...

33 MIN