Introduction - Why Book Jesan as a Guest on Your Show!

Jesan Sorrells, former founder turned COO, has spent 410+ episodes as host of the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books podcast, applying ideas from the Western canon — from Dostoevsky to Sun Tzu to Hannah Arendt to Jane Austen to Voltaire — to solving the actual problems leaders face in organizations.

With these insights and depth, he brings arguments your audience will not have heard from a leadership guest before.

Jesan’s most recent book is 12 Lessons for Leaders: A Foundation for Intentional Leadership with contributions from Bradley Matican, available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble!

Sample Episodes of Jesan's Show

Listen to a few episodes at the links below:

• Hannah Arendt - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eichmann-in-jerusalem-a-report-on-the-banality-of/id1591069385?i=1000716479075
• Ford Maddox Ford - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/parades-end-by-ford-madox-ford-w-libby-unger/id1591069385?i=1000704718540
• Sun-Tzu - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-war-by-sun-tzu-translated-by-thomas-cleary/id1591069385?i=1000712420686

Potential Titles for Jesan's Appearance

If you book Jesan, here are a few ideas for titles for his appearance:

• "What Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann Analysis Reveals About AI Governance and Organizational Accountability"
• "Why the Leadership Industry Has Been Teaching the Wrong Lessons — And What the Western Canon Gets Right"
• "The Blues Idiom as a Leadership Framework: What Albert Murray’s Argument About Adversity Means for How We Develop Leaders"
• "No More Accidents: Why Intentional Leadership Is Rarer Than We Think and More Urgent Than We Admit"
• "What Sun Tzu Gets Wrong About Modern Strategy — And the One Thing He Gets Exactly Right"
• "The Timescale Problem: Why OKRs, Quarterly Reviews, and Five-Year Plans Cannot Produce the Leaders Organizations Need"
• "Moral Courage Is Not a Soft Skill: The Case for Cultivating Subordinates Who Will Say No"

Logistics Considerations for Jesan's Appearance

• Jesan does cross-promote all appearances on his own social media platforms as well as through his email newsletter.

We look forward to having Jesan on your show!