Chief Change Officer™
Change is already working on you. Could you make it work for you?
Chief Change Officer™ is a podcast for people who want to turn change into a breakthrough. It is for those reshaping a career, redirecting an organization, or rebuilding a life.
The show is hosted by Vince Chan, whose first lesson in change came at age four, after a severe arm injury led to surgery, hospitalization, and a long recovery. Since adolescence, she has lived through 20 major transformations across countries, careers, and crises. Before launching the podcast, she spent three decades in global finance and economics, from central banking and credit markets to billion-dollar institutional capital.
That experience taught her that change is never only personal. Markets shift. Institutions decide. Circumstances expand or narrow what people believe is possible. Talent matters, but so do context, timing, and power.
Vince brings together rare minds, black sheep, breakthrough builders, and unconventional champions from around the world. They include scholars who have spent decades studying people and institutions, executives who have carried responsibility through uncertainty, and leaders whose most valuable knowledge was earned beyond the clean lines of a textbook.
Together, they bring what Vince calls hard-earned human intelligence: judgment shaped by consequence and tested by time, trial, and revision.
They do not offer polished success stories or textbook formulas. They reveal what helped when plans collapsed, careers broke open, or life demanded a new direction.
Each conversation turns hard-earned human intelligence into practical judgment: how to understand what is changing, make stronger decisions, and move forward without losing yourself.
Chief Change Officer™ extends Vince’s work beyond markets and institutions into the human side of power and change. How people understand themselves, navigate their environment, and reclaim agency when the old rules no longer hold.
A Global Top 1% podcast and US #1 Careers show, Chief Change Officer™ is built for people who do not want merely to endure change. They want to understand it, use it, and turn it into a breakthrough.
Life is change. The question is whether change works on you, or you learn to make it work for you.
Chief Change Officer™
#419 Adaira Landry MD: From Mentorship to Micro Skills—Tools for Thriving at Work — Part One
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Before she became a physician, educator, and mentor to hundreds, Adaira Landry felt out of place in nearly every professional room she entered. In Part One, she opens up about entering college at 16, watching a man collapse on campus, and how that moment -- and a painful accident -- pulled her toward medicine. She reflects on growing up without access to mentors, and why that made her even more intentional about creating useful, inclusive career tools later on. This episode is a behind-the-scenes look at what shaped the voice behind Micro Skills.
Key Highlights of Our Interview:
When Life Said “Step In”
“He collapsed right outside my class. And I just walked toward him. I didn’t know what I was doing—but I knew I had to do something.”
The moment on campus that first pulled her toward medicine.
Burned and Alone
“I remember laying on the floor thinking—this isn’t how it’s supposed to be. I couldn’t even call for help.”
A personal injury that left her with pain—and perspective.
No One Called It Mentorship
“We never used that word growing up. It wasn’t until grad school that someone even explained what a mentor really does.”
Why finding guidance felt so unfamiliar at first.
The Confidence Gap
“I had to teach myself to stop over-explaining—to just say the thing.”
On growing into her voice in high-pressure environments.
Why Micro Skills Mattered
“I was tired of career advice that was abstract. I wanted to write something people could actually use Monday morning.”
The motivation behind a book built for practicality, not prestige.
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Host: Vince Chan | Guest: Adaira Landry MD
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