Ep 62: Mita Mallick - Bestselling Author

What makes a great leader today? And how do we avoid becoming the bad boss everyone complains about?

In this episode of the Snarketing Podcast, host Matt Wurst sits down with Mita Mallick — corporate changemaker, marketing executive, and bestselling author of Reimagine Inclusion and The Devil Emails at Midnight.

Mita has spent decades inside some of the world’s biggest companies including Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Unilever, and now advises leaders and organizations on how to build better workplaces, stronger cultures, and more inclusive brands.

This conversation goes far beyond marketing tactics. Matt and Mita explore the real human challenges shaping today’s workplace: leadership pressure, burnout, representation in marketing, AI’s impact on work, and the uncomfortable truth that sometimes the biggest leadership problem… might be us.

They discuss:

- Why inclusion is not charity — it’s smart business

- The real reason bad bosses are made, not born

- How leaders accidentally cap the potential of their teams

- Why midnight emails quietly reinforce burnout culture

- The promotion trap: why companies reward top performers with leadership roles they’re not trained for

- How AI could free leaders to coach, mentor, and develop teams

- Why human storytelling matters more than ever in the age of AI content

Along the way, Mita shares candid reflections on her own leadership mistakes, the lessons behind her latest book, and why self-awareness may be the most important leadership skill of all.

If you’re a marketer, manager, founder, or anyone trying to build better teams in a fast-changing world, this conversation will challenge how you think about leadership.

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