Randall Stutman
Founder, Admired Leadership Institute · 2 appearances on the record.
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Dr. Randall Stutman is an executive coach who has advised more than 2,000 senior executives and 400 CEOs, particularly across Wall Street banks, hedge funds, and professional sports. He is best known for researching and teaching the behavioral routines of exceptional leaders.
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Stutman: Low-empathy leaders can build relational closeness through deep understanding
“They've learned to create relational closeness without empathy. They've learned to create it without being warm and fuzzy and giving people a lot of couch time. What they've done is they've invest deeply in those people and understanding them.”
Stutman: Hedge fund managers lack people willing to speak truth to them
“The biggest issues for hedge fund managers, as far as I'm concerned, is a couple things. Number one, many of them like themselves way too much, and so they really need somebody that's willing to be honest with them. They're very powerful people, both financial…”
Stutman: High public profile is an enemy that invites scrutiny and lawsuits
“Profile is your enemy. It makes you a target for litigation. It makes you a target for media scrutiny. It makes you a target for pure jealousy. Profile for all great leaders, unless they can't avoid it, Is your enemy, and your job is not to covet profile.”
Stutman: Interviewing leaders is ineffective because they don't know what they do
“We normally don't learn all that much when we interview leaders. Just like a great ball player, they don't know what they do.”
Stutman: AI Cannot Replace Human Coaches on Complex Multi-Level Problems
“Now, Alex can't care about you, doesn't have conviction, It's not going to replace me as a coach or any of the good coaches in our firm. It can't work through a multi-level problem the way that I can.”
Stutman: Most leaders lack the maturity to provide pure, unexplained observations
“Most leaders aren't mature enough to do that because they can't stop from them saying and finishing what the observation means.”
Stutman: Too Many Leaders Depend on Direct Feedback Delivery
“Too many leaders depend too much on telling people and delivering feedback in a more direct way.”
Stutman: Most executive coaches lack actionable answers and rely on vague facilitation
“The majority of coaches that do this for a living don't have answers. And I actually, some of them are very proud with the idea that they process people and the answers are in other people. I believe the answers are in all of this, but at the same time, if you…”
Stutman: Sizing up and adapting to individual motivations in real time fails
“What you learn really quickly is that being able to size people up and adapt to them in an ongoing flow of interaction is almost impossible. So you've got your own goals. You've got other competing things going on. You've got the noise of the context. It's ver…”
Stutman: Leaders motivate more effectively by practicing consistent fan-ness
“And that by being a great fan of other people, and showing your fan-ness, and asking yourself the question in almost every context, what would a fan do here? What would somebody who's your fan do? That becomes a very different thing because you can work on you…”
Stutman: Trait anxiety and poor judgment cannot be fixed through coaching
“If you tell me that you've got some, you know, stress, anxiety, trait anxiety, I can't coach for that. If you tell me that you have bad judgment, I probably change your judgment time. Take me 20 years. If you've got poor judgment, that is not a coachable thing…”
Stutman: Leaders should build consensus offline and use meetings only for validation
“Rather than waste time in group settings, trying to make decisions in group process, what you do is You do it away from the table after a target position's made, you create consensus or near consensus, then you come to the table, and then you validate the deci…”
Stutman: Skill-only respect creates division in hedge funds and private equity
“And in many cases inside places like hedge funds or private equity firms or other places where allocators would invest, there's a high degree of respect on skill and a low degree of respect on character. And that creates division inside those teams.”
Stutman: Personality tests merely reflect the answers users input
“I'm always amazed at how many people take one of the self-diagnostic tests, whether that be DISC or Myers-Briggs or Hogan or whatever it might be. They'll sit down with me and they'll say, Randall, that really nailed me. I can't even believe how good that diag…”
Stutman: Walking shoulder-to-shoulder yields far more disclosure than face-to-face meetings
“It is amazing the research about being side by side and walking with people. People get much more disclosive when they're actually walking shoulder to shoulder than they ever are face to face.”
Stutman: Adopting a new leadership behavior takes three to six weeks
“Once you do that for a handful of weeks, three, four, five, six weeks, it become a routine, it become a habit, and then it will be yours.”
Stutman: Leaders must focus on developing one behavior at a time
“What you have to do is pick a behavior that you're going to work on. Just one. Not 20.”
Stutman: Practicing leadership behaviors solely for effect causes abandonment when they fail
“Because if you do them for effect, you won't keep them up. You'll only do them in some situations. You won't get very skillful at them. As soon as they don't work on somebody, you'll give them up. You got to pick the behavior that you believe in that represent…”
Stutman: Admired Leadership Cannot View Client Conversations With Alex AI
“By the way, Alex is entirely confidential. We can't see your questions and answers. We do a couple of quality checks randomly, but other than that, it's just like a coach. It's totally confidential.”
Stutman: Feedback delivered from power inherently triggers recipient defensiveness
“That power has a consequence. It creates resistance. People naturally become a little bit reluctant, if not totally defensive, to things that come at them from power.”
Stutman: Frame feedback as recommendations to drastically reduce employee defensiveness
“What I tell leaders all the time, Ted, is they need to get out of the feedback business and get in the recommendation and suggestion business. They're going to be able to give a lot more feedback a lot more often with a lot less resistance and defensiveness ju…”
Stutman: Internalized Feedback Has Longer-Term Impact Than Direct Feedback
“Internalized feedback is feedback that's going to get acted on, remembered, has real duration to it, and has a longer-term impact.”
Stutman: Prompt self-feedback easily by asking for a third-party perspective
“Anytime I can get you to give yourself your own feedback and using a third party is the easiest way to do it.”
Stutman: Deliver feedback immediately after successes, not mistakes, to reduce defensiveness
“Right after success, right after mission accomplished, right after tasks have been achieved, people are much more receptive to feedback. Why? Because they've just succeeded. They've got an armor to them because of their success, their effectiveness. They're mu…”
The other half of the tape: Randall Stutman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 941 times in 468 episodes on Capital Allocators. every mention, with the transcript →
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2026 58 mentions in 29 episodes 2 per episode
- Rebuilding the NYU Endowment – Michelle Knudsen (EP.513)
- Senior Decision Makers: Luis Laboy, Hewlett Foundation (EP.512)
- Economic Growth, Governance, and Capital Allocation – Dambisa Moyo (EP.510)
- Moat Investing Nuances – Pat Dorsey (EP.509)
- Senior Decision Makers: Nicholas Csicsko, Trinity Wall Street (EP.508)
- Homegrown CIO at Williams College - Abigail Wattley (EP.507)
- Hotel Investing at EOS – Jonathan Wang (EP.506)
- Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 85 mentions in 42 episodes 2 per episode
- Ted on Alt Goes Mainstream (EP.458)
- Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- John Khoury – Asymmetry and Opportunity in Public Real Estate at Long Pond (EP.474)
- Michael Kelly – Democratizing Access to the Middle Market at Future Standard (EP.473)
- David Lyon – Hybrid Capital Solutions for Private Assets (EP.471)
- Jay Ripley – Emerging Manager Selection at GEM (EP.470)
- Jeff Aronson – Building Centerbridge Across the Capital Structure (EP.468)
- 34 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 108 mentions in 54 episodes 2 per episode
- Year in Review 2024 (EP.424)
- Training Grounds: Wellington Management – Jean Hynes (EP.423)
- Eric Peters - Paradigm Shifts and Solutions at One River (EP.422)
- Asset Management Consolidation - Simon Krinsky, Hall Capital and Tim McCusker, NEPC (EP.421)
- Chris Heller - Ten Years of Weird Alternatives (EP.420)
- Matt Bank - "GEMs" of Risk, Asset Allocation, and Manager Selection (EP.419)
- Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
- Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416)
- 46 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 100 mentions in 50 episodes 2 per episode
- Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- Marcia Page – Corn Capitalist with a Velvet Hammer at Värde and MPowered (EP.355)
- Nicolai Tangen – Overseeing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund (EP.354)
- Michael Levy – Crow Family Real Estate Empire (EP.353)
- Ted Seides – Unlocking Investment Wisdom (EP.352)
- Chad Hutchinson – Professional Athlete to Professional Investor in Sports (EP.351)
- Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- 42 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 116 mentions in 58 episodes 2 per episode
- Year in Review 2022 (Capital Allocators, EP. 289)
- Ana Marshall – Preparing for the New Environment at Hewlett (Capital Allocators, EP. 288)
- Charley Ellis - Figuring Out Investing and Vanguard (Capital Allocators, EP.286)
- Sachin Khajuria – Two and Twenty, An Insider's Take on Private Equity (Capital Allocators, EP.285)
- Charles Van Vleet – Thinking Differently with Pensions at Textron (Capital Allocators, EP. 283)
- Frank Brosens – Culture and Partnership at Taconic Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.282)
- Geoffrey Rubin – The Modern Canadian Model at CPPIB (Capital Allocators, EP.280)
- Colin Smith and Farouk Miah - Empty Rooms: Investing in Africa (Capital Allocators, EP. 279)
- 50 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 133 mentions in 66 episodes 2 per episode
- Ted with Patrick O'Shaughnessy – Lessons from the World's Elite Money Managers (Capital Allocators, EP.184)
- Jamie Montgomery – March Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.26)
- Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25)
- Paul Black and Mike Trigg – How to Build a $100B Money Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.227)
- Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24)
- Christopher Zook – Thematic Investing and Raving Fans at CAZ Investments (Capital Allocators, EP.226)
- Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
- 58 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 88 mentions in 43 episodes 2 per episode
- Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
- Ted Seides - Capital Allocators Year in Review (Capital Allocators, EP.170)
- André Perold – Pockets of Inefficiency at HighVista Strategies (Capital Allocators, EP.169)
- Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)
- Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- Ben Reiter – Over the Edge with the Houston Astros (Capital Allocators, EP.166)
- Joel Greenblatt – Common Sense for Value at Gotham Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.165)
- Karyn Williams – Measuring Risk Practically at Hightree Advisors (Capital Allocators, EP.163)
- 35 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 97 mentions in 48 episodes 2 per episode
- Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- Dr. Sarel Vorster – Conducting Brain Surgery (Capital Allocators, EP.117)
- Neal Triplett and Kim Lew – Issues of Management at Duke and Carnegie (Capital Allocators, EP.116)
- Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator's Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115)
- Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)
- Drew Dickson – Blending Behavior and Fundamentals at Albert Bridge Capital (First Meeting, EP.13)
- Steve Rattner – Overseeing Michael Bloomberg's Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113)
- Jason Karp – From Hedge Funds to Health and Wellness at HumanCo (First Meeting, EP.12)
- 40 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 92 mentions in 46 episodes 2 per episode
- Tim McCusker – Consistency and Creativity as CIO at NEPC (Capital Allocators, EP. 80)
- Brent Beshore - Micro Buyout Adventur.es (Capital Allocators, EP.79)
- Tom Bushey – Launching a Hedge Fund (Capital Allocators EP.78)
- Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- Annie Duke – Thinking More in Bets (Capital Allocators, EP.76)
- Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75)
- Karl Scheer – Competing Sensibly as CIO of the University of Cincinnati (EP.74)
- Andrew Tsai – Catching a Theme on the Chalkstream (EP.73)
- 38 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 64 mentions in 32 episodes 2 per episode
- Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)
- Chris Acito – Credit Where Credit is Due (Capital Allocators, EP.33)
- Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin – The Perfect Investment (Capital Allocators, EP.32)
- Meredith Jenkins – A Path to Trinity (Capital Allocators, EP.31)
- Larry Mestel – Making Music Royalties Sing (Capital Allocators, EP.30)
- Ashby Monk – Asset Giant Futurist (Capital Allocators, EP.29)
- Jason Klein – Investing to Cure Cancer (Capital Allocators, EP.28)
- Ellen Ellison – Playing to Your Strengths (Capital Allocators, EP.27)
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
Appearances (2)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Randall Stutman – Giving Feedback, Followership, and Admired Leadership (EP.497) | Apr 13, 2026 | 44m |
| Randall Stutman - Admired Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.150) | Jul 27, 2020 | 53m |