[E03]Now PlayingSeason One · on O for OMG · On Surprise & Magic

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Tania Luna
TED Speaker, Organizational Psychologist & Leadership Author.
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Season One · on O for OMG · On Surprise & Magic
New episodes Wednesdays · Summer 2026

The Conversation_

Published · Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Tania wanted to surprise me in this episode so she brought a box of surprises they engineered at LifeLabs learning. Tania is known for so many things, but for us she’s the ultimate surprisologist since she coined the term in her book “Surprise: Embrace the unpredictable and Engineer the unexpected”. In her company and practice, she has grown a brand and culture that have embraced and embedded surprise in everything they do, and that made them very resilient to face the unexpected pandemic.

We had a bad surprise at the end of the episode, realizing she was not recording on her side … well, we were ready.

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The Guest

Tania Luna_

TED Speaker with 1.8 million views of her talk on “The Power of Perspective”, Co-author of he first non-fiction books dedicated to Surprise; “Surprise: Embrace the unpredictable and Engineer the unexpected”. Tania is the co-founder, and former co-CEO of LifeLabs Learning. She is also a researcher, educator, and writer for Psychology Today, Harvard Business Review, and multiple other publications. Tania has recently published her new book “The Leader Lab: How to Become a Great Manager, Faster. Tania is also the co-host of the podcast Talk Psych to Me.

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