Podcast · The Human Map
The Human Map – a quiet, precise podcast for leaders under pressure.
The Human Map with Michael Kirschberger is a short-format podcast for leaders, project heads and teams who carry real responsibility: people, budgets, decisions – and the human complexity that comes with all of it.
Each episode offers one concrete lens to read your system, one distinction to talk about tensions without blame, and one experiment you can try in your next week of real work.
Short, quiet, precise – built to fit into real leadership weeks, not empty time.
What the show is about
A map for human dynamics – not another motivation show.
Most teams do not need more slogans or inspiration. They need a way to see the system they are working inside: who carries which load, which rules are spoken and unspoken, where trust is strong and where it is silently leaving the room.
In The Human Map, Michael Kirschberger shares lenses and tools from his work with leadership teams across Europe and the Americas:
- how to scan your organization in five core fields
- how to distinguish symptoms from structural causes
- how to talk about pressure without turning it into personal drama
- how to design small experiments instead of big announcements
The focus is always the same: clarity, responsibility, and respect for the people who actually carry the work.
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Latest episode
The Human Map – How It Starts
In this opening episode, Michael explains why The Human Map exists and how it grew out of conversations with leaders who were not failing – but whose systems were quietly working against them.
You hear what The Human Map is (and is not), which five fields it focuses on, and how you can start using it with your own team – even before reading the book or joining a seminar.
What to expect from each episode
- One concrete leadership question or tension
- One lens from The Human Map to read your system
- One experiment you can test with your team this week
Episodes are intentionally short – so you can listen on the way to a meeting, between calls, or in the quiet ten minutes before your day starts.
Episodes overview
All episodes of The Human Map.
As new episodes are released, you can list them here as cards. For now, the first episode is highlighted. You can duplicate this structure for future episodes.
The Human Map – How It Starts
Why The Human Map exists, what it focuses on, and how to start using it in your own leadership practice.
Host
Hosted by Michael Kirschberger.
Michael works with leaders and teams who operate under real pressure: limited time, limited people, unlimited expectations. His work connects systems thinking, organizational psychology and the hard reality of everyday operations.
The podcast is an extension of that work: small, sharp pieces of The Human Map, accessible in the middle of a busy week.
Combine podcast, book and seminar.
Many organizations use The Human Map in three layers:
- Podcast episodes as regular impulses
- The Human Map book as a shared language and reference
- Seminars and workshops to work directly on their own system
Start with one episode and one conversation.
Listen to the opening episode, notice where it resonates with your own system, and then bring one question or tension into a conversation with your team.
If you want to go deeper, a short call is usually enough to see whether a Human Map Seminar or workshop is the right next step.