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Centaur Stage

Cosmic Centaurs

Centaur Stage is a podcast by Cosmic Centaurs exploring bold ideas about the future of work and learning. In each episode, podcast host, CEO & Founder of Cosmic Centaurs Marilyn Zakhour is joined by incredible guests to share insights, opinions, and perspectives about the future of how we work and learn.

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All Episodes

31:34

2026 Cosmic Conference - Opening Keynote | Grounded &...

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2026/03/25

Opening Keynote | Cosmic Conference 2026 Grounded & Limitless: Leading Through Uncertainty Today’s leaders are navigating a level of uncertainty that is layered, prolonged, and constantly shifting. Decisions are being made faster, with less clarity, and under increasing pressure, while teams look to their leaders for stability and direction. In this opening keynote, Marilyn Zakhour (Founder & CEO of Cosmic Centaurs) explores what it really takes to lead in these conditions. This sess...

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60:53

Leadership as Service | أمانة

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2026/03/11

What does it mean to lead not as a career, but as a form of service? In this episode of Center Stage, Marilyn Zakhour sits down with Muna AbuSulayman, one of the most influential voices in the Arab world across media, philanthropy, leadership development, and social impact. Named among the 500 most influential Muslims globally, Muna has spent her career shaping narratives, empowering communities, and building institutions that expand opportunity. In this deeply reflective conversation, Muna...

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14:13

Leading from the Arab World | Season IV Premiere

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2026/02/25

In this Season IV premiere of Center Stage, Marilyn Zakhour, CEO of Cosmic Centaurs opens a bold new chapter. After years of exploring global case studies and leadership lessons from around the world, this season turns the lens inward. It asks a powerful question: What can the world learn from leadership in the Arab world? Marilyn reflects on her own journey from declining media interviews in the name of humility to embracing public presence as responsibility. She shares the cultural tension...

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58:37

Why and How Leaders in the GCC Build Meaningful...

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2026/02/19

What if visibility is not ego, but leadership? In this episode, we turn the mic on Cosmic Centaurs’ founder and CEO, Marilyn Zakhour, in a candid conversation about why leaders in the GCC and wider MENA region must step into public presence with intention, and what it truly takes to do it well. From cultural norms around humility and discretion, to structural gaps in media ecosystems and speaking circuits, we explore the real reasons many accomplished executives hesitate to share their voice ...

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54:18

Psychological Safety: Inclusion and Diversity in...

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2026/02/19

In this episode of our Psych Safety in Focus webinar series, Marie Nakhle and Tala Odeh dive into the first of 4 Domains that shape whether teams can truly perform, learn, and adapt together: Inclusion & Diversity Too often, inclusion is treated as separate from performance. In reality, it’s foundational to it. When people don’t feel included, unique voices go unheard, and psychological safety never fully takes hold. In this session, we explored: 🔹How inclusion and diversity show ...

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56:54

What Leaders Learn When They Measure Psychological...

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2026/01/29

What really happens when leaders pause long enough to measure psychological safety—and then dare to talk about what they find? In this episode of Psychological Safety in Focus, we sit down with Mazuba Hainama, independent consultant with over 15 years of experience working across tech, government, corporates, and civil society, to explore what measuring psychological safety looks like in practice. Together, we unpack why Mazuba chose to run a psychological safety scan with her team, what the ...

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49:17

Key Insights from Psych Safety Day 2025

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2026/01/04

As part of our Psych Safety in Focus webinar series, this is a special follow-up session to unpack the biggest insights, themes, and breakthroughs from the global event. Marilyn Zakhour, CEO of Cosmic Centaurs, and Marie Nakhle, Psychological Safety Lead shared what they took from Psych Safety Day 🔹What Cosmic Centuars learned from the world’s leading researchers and facilitators 🔹Practical tools shared on curiosity, failure, belonging, and high-performing teams 🔹Their reflections and ...

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47:05

Psychological Safety in the MENA Region

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2026/01/04

This is the first of our Cosmic Centaurs Psychological Safety webinar series with a deep dive into the insights uncovered during our recent roundtable in Dubai, held in partnership with Sander Hoeken, Co-founder of The Fearless Organization Scan, where 18 HR leaders came together to discuss how psychological safety is understood and practiced across the MENA region. The session will be facilitated by Marie Nakhle, Psychological Safety Lead at Cosmic Centaurs, in conversation with Marilyn Zak...

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55:35

How AI is Redefining the Future of Workforce Learning...

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2025/12/11

A conversation with Russell John Cailey, CEO and Founder of Elham Studio and Almach AI, and Tala Odeh, Capability Development Lead at Cosmic Centaurs. As AI accelerates, collapses time, and democratizes knowledge, the world of work is undergoing a transformation unlike anything we have seen before. The question is no longer whether AI will replace some jobs. The real question is: What human capabilities become more valuable than ever In this session, Russell and Tala explore: • How AI is re...

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63:41

Understanding Neuroinclusion in the Workplace with...

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2025/12/11

Workplaces are at their best when every individual’s strengths are recognized and supported. Together, Dr Molly Taylor & Tala Odeh will explore what neurodivergence truly means, the strengths it brings, and the misconceptions that limit progress. Together, we’ll look at the everyday realities of neurodivergent employees and the steps leaders can take to design systems, cultures, and learning experiences where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. This session provides leaders, p...

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96:40

Conference Closing Is the System the Strategy?

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2025/11/04

After seven weeks of exploring systems thinking through the lens of leadership, culture, and transformation, the 2025 Cosmic Conference comes full circle with a powerful closing conversation. Professor José Santos, Affiliated Professor of Practice in Global Management at INSEAD, joins Marilyn Zakhour to challenge and deepen the conference’s central idea: Is the system really the strategy? Together, they explore how leaders can move from managing parts to understanding the whole and why seeing...

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63:23

Building Systems to Bring Culture to Life with Tala...

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2025/11/03

Culture isn’t the soft stuff, it’s the system that makes everything else work. In this lively conversation, Marilyn Zakhour and Tala Ode from Cosmic Centaurs unpack how culture shows up not in slogans or posters, but in the invisible systems that shape how organizations operate: how decisions are made, how meetings run, how feedback flows, and how people feel when they show up to work. Using the Omnichannel Organization™ framework, they explore how leaders can design culture through structure...

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62:13

Building Systems to Reclaim Your Time with Dhiren Bhatia

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2025/10/29

Time is the one system every leader struggles to manage — and the one that reveals how well all the others work. In this energizing conversation, Diren Bhatia, entrepreneur, coach, and founder of Cloudscape Technologies, joins Tala Ode to explore how leaders and founders can redesign their relationship with time. From his own journey of moving from a 14-hour-day founder to a “part-time CEO,” Diren shares how systems, rituals, and mindset shifts can help leaders free themselves from firefighti...

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112:52

Building Systems to Transform at Scale with Ibraheem...

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2025/10/28

What does it take to lead transformation across one of the region’s most complex organizations, and make it human? In this powerful conversation, Ibraheem Sheerah, Chief Transformation Officer at Saudia Group, joins Marilyn Zakhour to share how he led one of the Kingdom’s most ambitious transformation journeys, reshaping not just an airline, but the ecosystem around it. Through stories that span from listening to a security guard’s advice to engaging pilots, suppliers, and customers in change...

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57:13

Building Systems to Transform Large Companies with...

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2025/10/28

How do you nudge a 13,000-person organization to move from managing change to creating the conditions for change? In this conversation, Chun Feng “Breeze” Dong, Associate Director of Organizational Development at Roche, joins Marilyn Zakhour to share how she and her team applied systems thinking to enable large-scale learning, collaboration, and innovation across global teams. Drawing from years of experimentation inside one of the world’s leading healthcare companies, Breeze shows how transf...

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54:15

Building Systems to Balance Parenthood & Work

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2025/10/24

Parenthood is one of the most complex systems we’ll ever navigate — and for working parents, it often runs in parallel with another: work. In this heartfelt conversation Faten Fathallah, Marie Nakhle, Marilyn Zakhour, Tala Odeh, and Zeinab Makke from the Cosmic Centaurs team join Hadeel Kabosh to explore how they design, adapt, and sustain systems that help them thrive as both professionals and parents. Together, they reflect on: 🔹 How motherhood reshapes priorities, time, and definitio...

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67:09

Weaving the Human into the System (& Vice Versa) with...

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2025/10/15

What does it mean to bring humanity back into our systems, and to see ourselves as part of them? In this conversation, Dr. José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón, Associate Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, joins Marilyn Zakhour to explore the intersection of systems thinking, rituals, and the art of being. Together, they reflect on how leaders can find balance between doing and being, structure and spontaneity, efficiency and presence. They discuss: 🔹 How philosophy, poetry, and ...

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59:22

Building Systems to Innovate with Wissam Adib

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2025/10/13

Innovation rarely fails because of a lack of ideas. It fails because the systems around it are built for compliance, not experimentation. In this episode, Wissam Adib, Executive Coach and former Advisor at the UAE Prime Minister’s Office, joins Marilyn Zakhour to explore what it really takes to build systems that foster innovation at scale. Drawing on two decades of experience shaping national innovation frameworks in the UAE, Wissam shares lessons that apply to both governments and organizat...

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57:21

The Heart of Systems with Rawan Albina

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2025/10/10

In leadership, we often focus on strategies, frameworks, and structures. But what keeps systems alive are the people within them — their purpose, presence, and connection. In this soulful conversation, Rawan Albina, Leadership & Wellbeing Academies Director at Chalhoub Group, joins Marilyn Zakhour to explore the human and emotional dimensions of systems. Together, they discuss how leaders can nurture balance, resilience, and meaning within complex organizations. They explore: 🔹 What it

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84:53

Building Systems to PERFORM with Stoyan Yankov

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2025/10/10

Most leaders want high performance. Few know how to sustain it. In this energizing session, Stoyan Yankov, productivity & performance consultant, bestselling author, and co-creator of the PERFORM methodology, joins Marilyn Zakhour to unpack what it really takes to build teams that deliver results and stay energized. Together, they explore how leaders can: 🔹 Design systems that balance productivity and people 🔹 Turn clarity, planning, and focus into everyday habits 🔹 Bui...

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