Built for new managers, this list highlights 100 podcasts covering the stories, tools, and conversations that matter most to this audience. Top picks include The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, A Bit of Optimism, and Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques.

  1. The Rest Is Politics: Leading
    The Rest Is Politics: Leading
    The Rest Is Politics’ Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart interview politicians, leaders, intellectuals, and more.  From inside and outside of ...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  2. Coaching for Leaders
    Coaching for Leaders
    Leaders aren’t born; they’re made. Many leaders reach points in their careers where what worked yesterday doesn’t work today. This Monday show help...
  3. Worklife with Molly Graham
    Worklife with Molly Graham
    The world of work is changing, fast. The full range of human emotion can happen on the job: ambition and failure, joy and burnout, confidence and s...
  4. Coaching Real Leaders
    Coaching Real Leaders
    We all want to get to the next level of our career, but so many of us get stuck. Longtime leadership coach Muriel Wilkins takes you inside real-lif...
  5. Good Life Project
    Good Life Project
    Good Life Project is a podcast and video series for people navigating midlife with intention. Hosted by Jonathan Fields, each episode is a deep, ho...
  6. The McKinsey Podcast
    The McKinsey Podcast
    The McKinsey Podcast, our new flagship podcast series, takes you inside our global firm, and features conversations with experts on issues that mat...
  7. Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast
    Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast
    The Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast offers personal, practical coaching lessons that take the mystery out of leadership. In each episode of the ...
  8. The $100 MBA Show
    The $100 MBA Show
    Awarded Best of Apple Podcasts, The $100 MBA Show delivers practical business lessons for the real world. These no fluff episodes are packed with o...
  9. HBR On Leadership
    HBR On Leadership
    Leadership isn’t just a personality trait, it’s a set of skills that you can build. Whether you’re managing up or motivating a team, HBR On Leaders...
  10. Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
    Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
    Tracking the future of technology and how it impacts humanity. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis, MD...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  11. EntreLeadership
    EntreLeadership
    Get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to scale and run a multimillion-dollar business as Dave Ramsey and EntreLeadership’s head coach John ...
  12. Happier with Gretchen Rubin
    Happier with Gretchen Rubin
    Gretchen Rubin is HAPPIER, and she wants you to be happier too. The #1 bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before gets more...
  13. The Tony Robbins Channel
    The Tony Robbins Channel
    "Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one?" Tony Robbins, the #1 Life and Business Strategist, has helped over 50 million ...
  14. Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
    Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
    Dive into the minds of the world’s greatest athletes, leaders, thinkers, and doers with Dr. Michael Gervais—a high performance psychologist and wor...
  15. How to Be Awesome at Your Job
    How to Be Awesome at Your Job
    Get more fun, wins, meaning, and money from your job! With 25,000,000 downloads and mentions in The New York Times, Forbes, and Linkedin Learning. ...
  16. The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
    The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
    The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast is a podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth. The goal? To help you lead like never before—i...
  17. 30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales
    30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales
    The #1 sales podcast in the world, fueled by hyper-actionable sales tactics from the top 1% sellers at companies like Salesforce, Gong, Outrea...
  18. Women's Leadership Success
    Women's Leadership Success
    Since 1989, Women Business Leadership Skills and Career Development Advice. Interviews with Successful Women CEOs, Managers and Entrepreneurs to He...
  19. The Look & Sound of Leadership
    The Look & Sound of Leadership
    An ongoing series of Executive Coaching Tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.
  20. No Bullsh!t Leadership
    No Bullsh!t Leadership
    No Bullsh!t Leadership is a podcast for leaders who want to become truly exceptional. Each week, your host, Wall Street Journal Bestselling author ...
  21. Squiggly Careers
    Squiggly Careers
    Squiggly Careers is a weekly podcast that will help you take control of your career development. Hosted by the founders of Squiggly Careers. (https...
  22. At The Table with Patrick Lencioni
    At The Table with Patrick Lencioni
    Real conversations and practical advice for everyday leaders. Sit across the table from one of the foremost experts in leadership and business. In ...
  23. The Productivity Show
    The Productivity Show
    Asian Efficiency is the leading website on time management and productivity. Learn how to be efficient, get things done (GTD), and stay motivated.
  24. Maxwell Leadership Podcast
    Maxwell Leadership Podcast
    The Maxwell Leadership Podcast is a regular examination of what it means to be a transformational leader—someone who daily influences people to thi...
  25. Projectified
    Projectified
    Projectified[R] is your guide to the future of project management. Created by Project Management Institute, this podcast is for people who lead str...
  26. The Anxious Achiever
    The Anxious Achiever
    Host Morra Aarons-Mele is on a mission to reframe how we think about anxiety and mental health in the workplace. Anxiety disorders are the most com...
  27. Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
    Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
    MAKE WORK BETTER. Eat Sleep Work Repeat is the best podcast about workplace culture - it's been listened to millions of times.Bruce Daisley brings ...
  28. Radical Candor: Communication at Work
    Radical Candor: Communication at Work
    Ready to love your job, crush your career goals, and become the kind of leader everyone actually wants to work with? Welcome to the Radical Candor ...
  29. Women at Work
    Women at Work
    Women face gender discrimination throughout our careers. It doesn't have to derail our ambitions — but how do we prepare to deal with it? There's n...
  30. The Modern Manager
    The Modern Manager
    Practical management skills you can use this week. Host Mamie Kanfer Stewart helps managers close the gap between knowing what good management look...
  31. Boss Class from The Economist
    Boss Class from The Economist
    The best bosses create systems for solving problems old and new—from navigating working-from-home demands to hiring the right people, from running ...
  32. Leadership Without Losing Your Soul: Master Communication & Management Skills To Boost Productivity, Teamwork & Ease Overwhelm
    Leadership Without Losing Your Soul: Master Communication & Management Skills To Boost Productivity, Teamwork & Ease Overwhelm
    Does your team's lack of productivity frustrate you? What if I told you it's possible to be a decent human being and STILL lead teams that achieve ...
  33. People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast
    People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast
    Welcome to the People and Projects Podcast, where we provide interviews and insights to help you lead people and deliver projects. Since 2009, this...
  34. Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
    Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
    The future of work isn't coming. It's already here — and it's moving fast. Future Ready is the podcast for leaders who want to stay ahead of AI, wo...
  35. McKinsey Talks Talent
    McKinsey Talks Talent
    Listen in to learn how to navigate a fast-changing business landscape and prepare for the future of work by turning talent into competitive advanta...
    Audience:
    New Managers
    When:
  36. Modern Mentor
    Modern Mentor
    Rachel Cooke is your guide to leadership and communication, helping you craft a workplace environment you can feel good about. She’ll share tips to...
  37. Career Tools
    Career Tools
    Career Tools is a weekly podcast focused on specific actions you can take to grow and enhance your career, whether you are a manager or not. Career...
  38. Managing Made Simple
    Managing Made Simple
    Managing Made Simple is a weekly leadership and management podcast for people managers, business owners, and founders who want to lead high-perform...
  39. The Digital Project Manager
    The Digital Project Manager
    The Digital Project Manager is the home of digital project management inspiration, how-to guides, tips, tricks, tools, funnies, and jobs. We provid...
  40. Silver Disobedience® Perception Dynamics with Dian Griesel: How People Think, Lead and Succeed
    Silver Disobedience® Perception Dynamics with Dian Griesel: How People Think, Lead and Succeed
    A psychology & mindset podcast for anyone rethinking success, leadership and reinvention at any age. Host Dian Griesel is a communication couns...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  41. People Managing People
    People Managing People
    The People Managing People podcast equips forward-thinking leaders to thrive in the AI era—reshaping teams, systems, and strategy without losing wh...
  42. REWORK
    REWORK
    A podcast by 37signals about the better way to work and run your business. The REWORK podcast features the co-founders of 37signals (the makers of ...
  43. The Manager's Playbook
    The Manager's Playbook
    Hosted by Mauricio Ruiz, a music industry executive of 15 years, The Manager's Playbook is your essential podcast for insights into the music indus...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  44. Take Command: A Leadership Podcast
    Take Command: A Leadership Podcast
    Embark on a journey of real-life business insights and inspiring personal growth narratives. Welcome to Dale Carnegie Take Command: A Leadership Po...
    Audience:
    CEOsNew Managers
  45. Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast
    Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast
    A conversation designed to help leaders go further, faster. Rooted in providing practical advice for both emerging and veteran leaders, the Andy St...
  46. Take Command
    Take Command
    106.7 The Fan Host Grant Paulsen and Former NFL Tight End Logan Paulsen give expert commentary on Washington Commanders football. It’s the go-to re...
    Audience:
    CEOsNew Managers
  47. SHRM All Things Work
    SHRM All Things Work
    SHRM's All Things Work podcast takes you on a deep dive into game-changing topics that are redefining the world of work. Each week, host Anne Spara...
  48. Dear HBR:
    Dear HBR:
    Work can be frustrating. How can you get along with that maddening coworker? Figure out what your unapproachable boss really wants? Motivate your d...
  49. The Leadership Podcast
    The Leadership Podcast
    We interview great leaders, review the books they read, and speak with highly influential authors who study them.
  50. Manager Tools - New Managers
    Manager Tools - New Managers
    This feed contains our guidance on being a new manager. What to do, and importantly, what not to do, how to develop relationships with your directs...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  51. Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
    Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
    How will the future unfold? What is the impact of AI and other exponential technologies on business & society? Join Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponen...
  52. Crucial Skills | Management & Accountability
    Crucial Skills | Management & Accountability
    What if the biggest problems at work—and in life—aren’t about strategy, but about how we communicate and respond when it matters most?The Crucial S...
  53. CIPD Middle East Podcast
    CIPD Middle East Podcast
    We’re the CIPD — the professional body for HR and people development. We are the voice of a worldwide community of more than 160,000 members commit...
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    Audience:
    HR ProfessionalsNew Managers
    When:
  54. The New Manager Podcast
    The New Manager Podcast
    The New Manager Podcast is where you'll learn how to be a better manager with simple, doable ideas and frameworks. Kim Nicol is a coach and mindful...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  55. Women of Faith in Leadership | Leading with integrity, Leadership Self-doubt, Christian Leadership, Leading with confidence, Teamwork
    Women of Faith in Leadership | Leading with integrity, Leadership Self-doubt, Christian Leadership, Leading with confidence, Teamwork
    Ranked Top 2% GloballyDo you wish that you could lead your team in a way that honours and glorifies God? Are you struggling to overcome self-doubt ...
    Audience:
  56. Manager Tools Basics
    Manager Tools Basics
    Manager Tools is a weekly business podcast focused on helping business professionals become more effective managers and leaders. Each week, the hos...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  57. The Manager Track
    The Manager Track
    If you’re in you're a new manager and want to become a confident and competent leader people love to work with, then join leadership expert Ramona ...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  58. Ask a Manager
    Ask a Manager
    Need expert advice on handling workplace dilemmas and dramas? Alison Green, founder of the popular website AskAManager.org, is here to help you res...
  59. Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond
    Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond
    Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations features thoughtful, in-depth discussions with leaders, authors, executives, and pra...
  60. The Modern Facilities Management Podcast
    The Modern Facilities Management Podcast
    The Modern Facilities Management Podcast is your premier resource for insights, trends, and best practices in the ever-evolving world of Facilities...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  61. HBS Managing the Future of Work
    HBS Managing the Future of Work
    Artificial intelligence. Robotics. The Gig Economy. Globalization. The world is changing at a dizzying pace in ways that will have a profound effec...
    Audience:
    Remote WorkersNew Managers
    When:
  62. HR Happy Hour Network
    HR Happy Hour Network
    At Work in America, the longest running and top downloaded HR podcast, focuses on human resources, management, leadership, and workforce technology...
  63. The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR
    The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR
    Listen to interviews with CHROs, Chief People Officers, and other work experts on how they're pioneering the way that we work. They share what's wo...
  64. The Global Leadership Podcast
    The Global Leadership Podcast
    You have influence, right where you are. We'll help you ignite it — at work, home, church and in your community. The Global Leadership Podcast brin...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  65. Leadership Development News
    Leadership Development News
    Leadership Development News: Provides listeners with practical, actionable insights on how to be and how to develop dynamic, effective leaders. Lea...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  66. Things Leaders Do
    Things Leaders Do
    Things Leaders Do is a leadership podcast for managers who want practical strategies that actually work, not leadership theory that sounds good in ...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  67. Founder's Journal
    Founder's Journal
    Alex Lieberman, the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Morning Brew, gives you an insider’s look into building businesses. Alex explores the foun...
  68. People Leader Accelerator Podcast
    People Leader Accelerator Podcast
    Welcome to “People Leader Accelerator Podcast”! On this show, we dive deep with business and HR leaders to uncover what really works when it comes ...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  69. Manager Mondays with Fexingo: People Management, Team Leadership, and First-Time Managers
    Manager Mondays with Fexingo: People Management, Team Leadership, and First-Time Managers
    Every Monday morning, Lucas and Luna sit down in a small manager's office to talk about the craft of people leadership: hiring, firing, giving feed...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  70. Without Fail
    Without Fail
    Candid conversations with entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, visionaries of all kinds—about their successes, and their failures, and what they learn...
  71. Inspirational Leadership for People Managers, Executives & HR Leaders
    Inspirational Leadership for People Managers, Executives & HR Leaders
    Kristen Harcourt is an Emotional Intelligence Expert and Leadership Catalyst who believes leadership starts from the inside out. On Inspirational L...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  72. Real Gaijin — Japan’s Business, Culture & Life Podcast:  A podcast about Japan’s economy, work culture, foreign residents, regional revitalization, and the people shaping the country’s future.
    Real Gaijin — Japan’s Business, Culture & Life Podcast: A podcast about Japan’s economy, work culture, foreign residents, regional revitalization, and the people shaping the country’s future.
    A podcast that explains Japan’s business, culture, economy, and foreign-resident experience through real stories and in-depth conversations. Real G...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  73. Leadership Career Accelerator: Build Executive Presence, Influence With Impact & Get Promoted
    Leadership Career Accelerator: Build Executive Presence, Influence With Impact & Get Promoted
    The Leadership Career Accelerator podcast is for young professionals, team leads, emerging leaders, new managers, entry-level managers, and first-t...
  74. Happiness at Work
    Happiness at Work
    This is the first podcast dedicated to happiness at work. We interview authors, entrepreneurs, coaches, and industry experts to discover what they'...
    Audience:
    HR ProfessionalsNew Managers
    When:
  75. The Growth Show
    The Growth Show
    Starting a business has never been easier. But finding success in one has never been harder. Each episode explores the inspiring stories behind how...
  76. The Leadership Habit
    The Leadership Habit
    Welcome to the Leadership Habit podcast from the Crestcom Leadership Institute, the show that brings you inspiration and information to help you tr...
  77. Super-Macro Management
    Super-Macro Management
    SuperMacro provides a summary of the most critical economic and financial news from the major regions, with insights into the impact on markets and...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  78. Leadership Biz Cafe with Tanveer Naseer
    Leadership Biz Cafe with Tanveer Naseer
    Internationally-acclaimed keynote and TEDx speaker, award-winning leadership writer, and author Tanveer Naseer sits down with today’s top leadershi...
  79. Leadership From The Heart | Transformational Leadership Insights
    Leadership From The Heart | Transformational Leadership Insights
    Welcome to Leadership From The Heart, your go-to podcast for leadership, personal growth, and leadership development. Host Romie Montpeiorus explor...
  80. Read to Lead
    Read to Lead
    Si eres emprendedor y estás interesado en obtener nuevos conocimientos y herramientas, este Podcast es para ti. Aquí tendré conversaciones con buen...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  81. Fintech One-On-One
    Fintech One-On-One
    Fintech is eating the world. Join Peter Renton, Co-Founder of Fintech Nexus and now an independent fintech media and events consultant, every week ...
  82. The Balanced Leader
    The Balanced Leader
    Are you a woman in leadership feeling lost and frustrated in a male-dominated workplace? Do you struggle with confidence, assertiveness, and managi...
  83. Leading with integrity: Leadership talk
    Leading with integrity: Leadership talk
    This is Leading with integrity: Leadership talk. The podcast for new leaders, managers, or first-time founders in specialist-driven businesses and ...
    Audience:
    New Managers
  84. New Here
    New Here
    Whether it’s your first job or a fresh start, “New Here” is the young professional's guide to work — and how to make it work for you. Every Wednesd...
    Audience:
    Recent GraduatesNew Managers
  85. SuperManager
    SuperManager
    The workplace is evolving, with new laws, people, and technology... Avoid problems and use these changes to better your team, your company, and you...
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    Audience:
    New Managers
  86. New Manager Conversations with Fexingo: First 90 Days, Managing Former Peers, and Leadership Basics
    New Manager Conversations with Fexingo: First 90 Days, Managing Former Peers, and Leadership Basics
    Lucas and Luna explore the first 90 days of a new manager, from navigating the transition from peer to boss to building credibility without authori...
    Audience:
    New Managers