Society for Advancement of Management
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The SAM C.E.N.T.S. podcast is a groundbreaking series designed for current and aspiring managers and management educators. Each episode dives deep into the nuances of effective leadership, team dynamics, and the latest trends in management or could touch base on histories great management pioneers. Hosted by the Society for Advancement of Management, we bring together a team of seasoned industry leaders to talk about management while featuring engaging interviews with successful managers from various fields, sharing their insights and experiences. Whether it's discussing innovative strategies, exploring the challenges of team management, or uncovering the secrets to...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its practical roundtables connect management theory to the everyday decisions shaping trust, retention, remote work, and team performance.
SAM C.E.N.T.S. A Management Podcast turns workplace management into a candid roundtable, with Allie, Patrick, Hank, and Wesley testing ideas against their own experience.
A stolen lunch reaches HR; you get management talk with a break-room grin.
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A quiz-style management episode that turns first-time-manager mistakes into practical guidance on boundaries, decisions, and hard conversations.
The episode opens as a light quiz, then settles into grounded advice for new managers whose responsibility outpaces their authority. It is at its best when it shifts from broad guesses to specific pressures: setting boundaries, making decisions, and handling hard conversations.
A candid management interview that weighs member value, leadership, and what business education should actually teach.
The episode uses a presidential interview to ask a plain but worthwhile question: what should a management society owe its members? The answer points to useful resources, clearer content delivery, and a better sense of what is a passing trend and what will actually last.
Season two centers on conference prep, personal updates, and practical networking advice.
Episode 46 keeps its attention on season two, a personal update, and the upcoming Sam International Business Conference. The conversation stays practical: how to prepare for a management conference, why networking still matters, and how virtual and in-person attendees can make…
A blunt reset on one-on-ones, feedback timing, and the cost of sounding too polished.
This episode treats one-on-ones as more than calendar filler. It shows how a routine check-in can turn vague or defensive, then settles on a plain rule: start with the behavior, connect it to something real, and leave the other person with a usable next step.
A remote-work discussion that lands on management, burnout, and the trap of rewarding busyness.
SamSense Episode 43 treats remote work as a management problem: who gets judged by output, who gets judged by presence, and what changes once the office stops being the default.
A grounded management conversation about graduate screening, judgment, and the skills schools cannot teach in a classroom.
SamSense gathers Allie, Patrick, Hank, Wesley, and soon-to-be Dr. Megan Brose of the New England Institute of Technology around a management discussion that moves into graduate screening, hands-on experience, and the limits of classroom teaching.
A mailbag episode that turns workplace friction into a practical team reset.
A mailbag-heavy management episode frames a familiar workplace strain as a useful reset: a team can look busy and capable while still failing to work together in the way leadership wants.
A playful discussion that turns management and workplace support into a lived, practical conversation.
SamSense starts with a light, almost teasing setup before settling into a serious discussion of management, mental wellbeing, values, and what people bring to work.
Tyler Selhorn interviews remote-work founders and researchers on building distributed team culture.
The hosts interview Megan Brose, director of a Speech-Language Pathology program, to explore the management challenges within her field.
Workplace icks get dragged into management territory.
The hosts talk about retention and job hopping.
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The hosts return for season two and check in with one another.
The panel opens with a joke-heavy warm-up before settling into a mailbag question.
In this episode, host Allie and co-hosts interview Michelle Gonzalez, CEO of New Frontiers Behavioral Health, about the differences between mental and behavioral health, workplace challenges, and practical strategies for managers.
The hosts spend the episode on one-on-ones and the awkward, everyday challenge of giving feedback well.
The hosts open with their usual banter and bring Shelby into a special guest episode about research presentations and conference life.
SamSense turns the topic into a Guess the Right Answer game.
The show records from home and opens straight on the fight over remote work.
The panel turns to business travel.
The hosts open a special interview with Hank Johnson, the society's brand new president.
Allie opens the show with Patrick, Hank, and Wesley, and the panel quickly settles into a loose, joking management conversation.