In a world where yesterday’s playbook won’t win today’s game, true leaders seek more than inspiration—they seek strategy they can use.
 

Welcome to Talent Talk & Strategy Stroll: the show for founders, people leaders, and transformation agents eager to turn talent into their sharpest advantage.

 

What You’ll Experience This Season:

• Business Strategy as a Superpower: Real-world frameworks to scale, pivot, and unlock value—even during disruption.

• Communication that Resonates: Insights for bridging generations, building trust, and making culture work.

• The Future of Work, Decoded: Honest talk about AI, agentic workforce models, and cross-functional teams—made practical, not theoretical.

• Harnessing Multi-Generational Strengths: Drive growth by uniting the best thinking from every age and background.

• Women in Leadership—Unfiltered: Straight stories and mind-shifting tactics for powering ambition and influence today.

• Talent Optimization that Drives Results: Attract, grow, and unleash your best people.

• Mental Fitness & Positive Intelligence: Build resilience and a performance mindset—because thriving starts internally.

• HR and Procurement, Reinvented: Turn cost centers into strategic innovation engines.

• AI in Business: Bring clarity and confidence to adoption—people-first, always.

• Bold Questions, Actionable Answers, Zero Jargon: Fuel for modern leaders and organizations.

 

Why Listen?

Because leadership, like talent, is global and evolving—and you want to be at the helm.

• Talent Talk & Strategy Stroll has been heard in 9 countries and shared over 1,600 times by listeners who value smart, actionable conversations.

• Every week, Meri Stockwell and influential guests move past surface trends, diving into the strategies and stories that shape the future of work.

• You’ll get the straight talk: honest questions, game-changing frameworks, plenty of wit, and proof that business transformation can be both fun and kind.

• And a VIP cameo alert: Our Chief Cultural Officer, CC the Cavapoo, may just pop by an episode or two with some four-legged wisdom.

 

About the Host

Meri Stockwell, MBA, CSP, CEP, is a recognized thought leader, a relentlessly kind optimist, and a trusted executive advisor. She gained hands-on expertise building and leading high-performing teams at household-name companies, and has trained and mentored hundreds of emerging leaders who now serve as senior leaders in their own organizations. Expect a rare mix of strategy, empathy, and contagious energy—plus occasional “pupdates” from CC!

 

Season 4 premieres October 1, 2025

 

Save the date, update your playlists, and get ready to join an audience of forward-thinkers stretching from coast to coast and around the globe.

 

Wherever you are in your leadership journey, this is your space to think big, lead boldly, and laugh along the way.