Mailander Podcast
The Mailander Podcast is a film room for high-stakes decisions.
In each episode, strategist and author Chris Mailander sits down with leaders who have been tested under real pressure to replay 2–3 pivotal choices that changed the trajectory of a company, career, or market.
The show is built around decision intelligence—the discipline of designing the processes, frameworks, and systems that make consequential choices better over time. Guests are typically CEOs of private mid-market companies (roughly $50M–$5B+ in revenue) or founders of AI and technology platforms (roughly $5M–$50M ARR) who have already navigated major inflection points: exits, strategic investments, AI transformations, turnarounds, or elite program builds.
Instead of surface-level origin stories, conversations slow the game down. Chris and his guests break down what they saw, what they missed, the trade-offs they wrestled with, and how those decisions shaped enterprise value, culture, and competitive advantage.
If you’re a performance-driven leader—CEO, investor, operator, or emerging founder—and you treat judgment as a craft, this is your room. Episodes are produced in long-form video and audio and released across Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, YouTube, and major social channels, with selected clips cut for precision delivery to the audiences that matter most.
Mailander Podcast
Andrew Jones: Global Thinker | Complex Decision-Making | Climate Interactive
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Andrew Jones is one of the foremost experts on the use of simulation modeling to improve decision-making for our most pressing global challenges, including the socio-economic and geopolitical ramifications of climate change. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Climate Interactive, and creator of the En-ROADS simulation model which has been used by an estimated 1.4 million people in over 170 countries, including by global negotiators, U.S. Senators and more than 178 Members of Congress, and multinational corporations. In this episode, filmed in Asheville, North Carolina, following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, we explore how system dynamics modeling, simulations, and synthetic experiences can be used to help policymakers and decision-makers to better conceptualize and understand the myriad dimensions of complex problems. Jones reveals methods and strategies for overcoming the challenges of time and space in order to visual future outcomes within milliseconds, creating non-judgmental environments for exploring alternative options, and avoiding reliance on ‘black box’ modeling to instead use methodologies which transparently reveal the dynamic cross-correlations at play within complex systems.
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You too can directly work with the simulation model discussed in this podcast (available for free and in 20 languages) by going to https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/ .
You can connect with Andrew Jones here: https://www.climateinteractive.org/about/staff/andrew-p-jones/ .
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Original Music by Billy Goodrum
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Original Music by Billy Goodrum