The Vision Behind the Conversation
Hosted by Danielle Ayana James and Megan Luu, Around the Corner brings you real stories and strategies from high-impact leaders navigating today’s complexity.
We talk about what leadership looks like. The practices, trade-offs, and transformations required to perform in moments that matter.
Each episode unpacks tools, insights, and stories to help you see ahead and lead from where you are.
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Explore our curated podcast series on leadership and performance.
COMMON TOPICS
What You’ll Get From Listening
Every episode is designed to spark reflection and fuel performance.
Unfiltered stories from future-focused leaders
Tools and takeaways to apply right away
A dose of reflection, depth, and clarity
Meet the Hosts
Ayana James
M.DIV, D.MIN, ACC, FEA, ICD.D
co-founder & chief growth officer PRESIDENT
Ayana is the Founder of STRAAD. Ayana leads the thought leadership of the firm with a focus on bringing her multi-disciplinary approach to understanding client needs, industry trends, and strategic foresight to framing perspectives, ideas, and methodologies that continually develop the skill set of future-focused leaders.
Ayana holds graduate degrees from Yale University and the University of Chicago. She is a Certified Executive Coach with the International Coaching Federation and holds the Family Enterprise Advisor designation. An Ordained Minster with the United Church of Canada, Ayana lives out her commitment to social impact as Board Director of Not-for-Profit Boards and organizations including Canada’s Governor General Leadership Conference.
Ayana is a gifted systems thinker, strategist, and developer of leaders. She brings an interdisciplinary skill set to complex people and business problems with human-centric and values driven approaches.
Megan Luu
EMBA / FOUNDER & CEO oF STRAAD
Megan serves as the Executive Founder STRAAD. Megan leads the firm’s growth strategy with a focus on developing and scaling the services and products that keep pace with client & industry needs.
Prior to establishing STRAAD, she held leadership roles at renowned Global Management Consulting Firms and Multi-National Energy companies, encompassing responsibilities in strategy, change management, and organizational effectiveness.
Megan’s extensive background equips her to assist clients in navigating strategic and systemic-level changes. Collaborating with executive leaders spanning various industries, Megan brings a thoughtful approach to unlocking strategic clarity and transformational changes in how leadership teams collaborate and deliver performance together.
Megan earned her commerce undergraduate degree from McGill University and holds an Executive MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
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We do this with a deep commitment to partnering and creating the conditions for future-orientated thinking and application.
We believe this work matters for the sake of a better tomorrow.
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