Saurabh Jain
CEO
Founder and host of CEO Whisperer. Sydney-based CEO mentor, ASX-listed Executive Chair and serial board member — with 10,000+ hours each as a CEO operator, a board member, and meditating.
A Podcast for CEOs and Boards
Where CEOs come to think out loud.
Not an interview — a coaching session. Each episode, a CEO brings the problem they're actually working through, and we workshop it together: pressure-test the framing, map the trade-offs, find the unlock. You listen in.
Listen wherever you already are
Pick your platform. The full catalogue lives on each one — audio on Apple, audio + video on Spotify and YouTube.
Recent episodes
The latest conversations — each one a CEO bringing a real problem to the room and us working through it together.
High-Performing Teams, AI Adoption & Organisational Change
Why teams — not individuals — are the real unit of performance, and why most AI initiatives fail on people, not technology.
Leadership, Culture & Building High-Performance Teams
Empathy as a leadership superpower, why companies fail by overlooking people, and what real leadership looks like.
The Future of SaaS, AI & Online Marketplaces
How marketplaces and SaaS stay relevant in an AI-driven world, zero-click search, and what defends a platform now.
AI Adoption, Founder Pressure & Scaling SaaS Teams
Adopting AI without breaking your team, shiny-object syndrome, and why capacity is the real blocker.
Scaling Beyond the Founder
Why a firm can scale yet stay dependent on its founder, and the hard work of building a partnership that survives without them.
Profitability vs Reality
A no-filter conversation on margins, competition, and why success depends less on the market and more on the operator.
About us
Most of our work is sitting across the table from CEOs and founders — sometimes formally as a chair or board member, sometimes informally inside the operator network we run. The pattern we keep seeing: the founders most stuck on a problem are usually the ones closest to it. The unstuck moments almost always start with the right question, not better advice. The podcast is that, on the record.
Three rooms
The depth we draw on starts with our founder, Saurabh Jain:
- 10,000+ hours as a CEO operator
- 10,000+ hours as a board member & chair, including ASX-listed
- 10,000+ hours meditating
The podcast is the conversation those three rooms have with each other.
We work best with founders who need entrepreneurial advisors who understand the interaction of technology, commercialisation, and people. The ones we have the most impact on are usually scaling something complex — a regulated business, a multi-stakeholder platform, a team that's outgrown its operating system.
The work we keep getting hired for: cutting through the yes-culture in a board, asking the questions a CEO can't ask themselves, and pattern-matching across the 7+ businesses we're currently inside to surface what nobody in your room has seen yet.
The podcast is an extension of that — one leader, one current challenge, recorded.
The team
A small team — operators, advisors, and the people who turn each candid conversation into a published episode. Here's who's in the room with you.
Rajpal Singh
Senior Consultant
Works alongside CEOs and founders on strategy and execution — pressure-testing decisions and helping turn the conversation in the room into action that moves the business.
Aldrex Tayong
Podcast Producer & Editor
The producer and editor behind every episode — turning raw, unscripted conversations into the published show across audio and video.
How we can help
Outside the podcast, the work we take on:
Advisory
Technology strategy
1:1
CEO mentorship program
Board
Independent board member
Board
Advisory board seat
Operator
Interim CEO
What we bring to the room
These are non-negotiable — for clients, guests, and listeners.
Candour
Most boards won't tell you what they actually think. We will. Trust comes from cutting through the yes-culture and naming what's going on.
Winning
Whatever shape it takes — a small win for a customer, a life-changing exit for a founder. The result matters.
Mindfulness
10,000 hours on the cushion. You only influence others as well as you understand the lens through which you see the world.
Bias for action
Be like Nike. Just do it.
Want to come on the podcast?
If you're a CEO or founder wrestling with a real challenge — strategic, operational, personal — we'd love to talk about it on the show. One episode, one challenge, one honest conversation.
Email Saurabh →Get in touch
If something here resonated — consulting, board, mentorship, or you've got a challenge you want to talk through — the fastest way to reach us is below. First conversation is free, and properly honest.
A note on candour
Tell us what you're trying to accomplish, and together we'll figure out how to get there. The first conversation is free — and properly honest. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you.