Leadership Letters

In this episode, we are reflecting on our conversation with author of  Revolting Women: Why Midlife Women Are Walking Out And What to Do About It,  Dr Lucy Ryan. You can learn more about  Lucy here  and find her on  LinkedIn . Inspired by Lucy's work, we offer you some questions to prompt your thinking as a leader about the extent to which you, and your organisation, are a...

Our guest in this episode, Dr Lucy Ryan holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour and an MSc in Positive Psychology. Her most recent book ‘Revolting Women: why midlife women are walking out and what to do about it’ is an important and highly engaging call to action to pay more attention to multi generational workforces and in particular the challenges and biases faced by women in Mid Life. She is th...

Welcome to Towards Leadership.  In this episode we are reflecting on our conversation with CPO of Exa Infrastructure, Carrie Cushing. Learn More About Exa Infrastructure and find Carrie on LinkedIn There were so many insights to explore in Carrie’s episode, and one that struck a chord with many of you was her reference to the leadership shadow. How do you know what yours is? And if you t...

Our leadership conversation in this episode is with Chief People Officer for EXA Infrastructure, Carrie Cushing. Carrie is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has more than 20 years experience working in HR roles across a range of industries including financial service, healthcare, energy and tech. She has a passion for developing talent and culture where people an...

Welcome to Towards Leadership from Leadership Letters.   We are reflecting on  our conversation with CEP of The Sport and recreation Alliance, Lisa Wainwright . Lisa shared an enormous amount of insight, advice and experience - we are thinking we might need another Towards Leadership episode! If there is something you want to hear more about from Lisa’s episode please get in touch. ...

In this episode our leadership conversation is with CEO of The Sport and Recreation Alliance, Lisa Wainwright. Lisa has held a number of senior roles at Sport England initiating the work on the safeguarding standards, clubmark and volunteering before moving to become CEO at Volleyball England in 2008 and then British Basketball in 2016.   Internationally she has held roles on the Interna...

Back for a new season, Towards Leadership is where we take a deeper dive into some leadership tools, resources, ideas and inspiration arising from the Leadership Letters podcast. In this episode #9, we are focusing on our first episode of season four when we were joined by Co-Founders of Radio News Hub  Stephanie Otty and Jamie Fletcher. Find  Steph  and  Jamie  on LinkedI...

Welcome back for a new season! In this episode, for only the second time in Leadership Letters history, we have co-founders joining us on the podcast and sharing why two heads really are better than one. Stephanie Otty and Jamie Fletcher founded Radio News Hub in 2014 having met at Sky Sports News Radio. Radio News Hub provides news bulletins to over 400 radio stations across the UK and beyond.&nb...

Welcome to Towards Leadership from Leadership Letters.  This episode is part two as we look at how the Ego States or Parent-Adult-Child model developed by Eric Berne, can be useful to us as leaders. Sometimes when our thinking and relationships at work feel stuck, it can be difficult to find a way to name and give voice to what is happening without getting into blame and judgement of each oth...

Welcome to Towards Leadership from Leadership Letters.  In today’s episode we are looking at how the Ego States or Parent-Adult-Child model developed by Eric Berne, can be useful to us as leaders. Sometimes when our thinking and relationships at work feel stuck, it can be difficult to find a way to name and give voice to what is happening without getting into blame and judgement of each other...

Welcome to  Towards Leadership  from Leadership Letters. In this episode we take more of a dive into some thoughts and ideas arising from talking to  Performance Director of Boccia UK, Greg Baker , in our most recent episode of Leadership Letters. Hover over the pause button during this episode - we have a lot of reflective questions for you in this episode! Our starting point is th...

Our guest in this episode is Greg Baker. Greg was instrumental in the success of British Para Table Tennis achieving multiple medals at the London 2012 Paralympic games, and securing record breaking results in both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, helping Great Britain secure 2nd place in the overall medals table. As an ex-England International table tennis athlete, former National Coach, Head Coach and c...

Welcome to the latest episode of Towards Leadership from Leadership Letters.  In this edition, we take more of a dive into some thoughts and ideas arising from talking to theatre director Sean Turner in our most recent episode of Leadership Letters. Sean talked about the importance of casting – which for you might be the interview so we start there, with a look at the leaders’s role as the au...

Our guest in this episode is Sean Turner. Sean is Associate Director on the West End and UK Touring productions of the hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, and has directed numerous productions of the show across the globe. He has recently completed a tenure as Artistic Director of Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells and he trained at the National Theatre as well as in Devising with Complicite.&nbs...

Welcome to Towards Leadership from Leadership Letters. This episode builds on some of what we heard from Karen Eber , taking more of a dive into storytelling for leaders, and some ways to reflect on and become more confident in your use of stories as a leader. We begin with a look at how we tell our stories, and thinking about and connecting with our audience.  “If the facts are the engi...

Our guest in this episode is a global leadership consultant and keynote speaker, Karen Eber, who’s talk on TED.com: How your brain responds to stories – and why they’re crucial for leaders has almost 2 million views and is one I have shared hundreds of times, including through this podcast.  As the CEO and Chief Storyteller of  Eber Leadership Group , she helps companies reimagine and ev...

Welcome to Towards Leadership from Leadership Letters I thought I would start 2023 by delving into past blogs and Leadership Letters archives for some of the conversations, resources and writing we have shared, and maybe even add in a few new ones for good measure! I’ve gathered them together under the theme - the C's of Kind Leadership. RECOMMENDATION LINKS: Rising Strong by Brené Brown  “Wh...

Welcome to Towards Leadership from Leadership Letters For me, an effective, curious, compassionate, decisive, resilient and successful leader is able to serve the needs of their organisation, their community, themselves and indeed the wider world in a way that is about thriving and about sustainability in both the individual energy sense, and a global sense. It is leaders that are equipped to go t...

Katie Friedman is the director of Gold Mind Neurodiversity . Previously a senior leader in secondary education she is now an ADHD coach, a coach trainer and is someone who through her business, Gold Mind, I have had the privilege of learning from during her neurodiversity in coaching training. I have also had the privilege of being coached by Katie, an experience that has been, and continues to be...

Welcome to the very first 'Towards Leadership from Leadership Letters' with Lizzie Bentley Bowers For me, an effective, curious, compassionate, decisive, resilient and successful leader is able to serve the needs of their organisation, their community, themselves and indeed the wider world in a way that is about thriving and about sustainability in both the individual energy sense, and a global se...

Tanya Marwaha is a young person that decided to pioneer youth mental health awareness during the pandemic from her bedroom by founding a youth-led peer community Championing Youth Minds . She has struggled with her mental health from a young age after developing long-term disabilities, Fibromyalgia and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Navigating mental health support as a young female in the South Asian co...

This is Leadership Letters, the podcast reflecting on all things leadership. And we've also been reflecting on the future this summer, therefore in this episode we have some exciting news! Lizzie writes a special letter to you, the Leadership Letters listener, about the guests we have coming up for the rest of this year, but also the brand new plans, starting next month (October), to put our usual...

In this episode our guest is mental health campaigner, founder of The InsideOut Leader Board and CEO of Formscore, Rob Stephenson. Rob is on a mission to help create happier, healthier and higher performing workplaces. As a consultant Rob works with Boards and senior leadership teams on the design and implementation of an integrated wellbeing strategy and through Formscore’s revolutionary technolo...

In this episode, our guest is Co-Founder of Inventum Group , Adam Tobias. Adam has worked in the staffing industry for over 20 years and his experience spans recruitment, contingent workforce management, executive search, management roles and leadership development. With a passion for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion born from his desire to remove the barriers faced by diverse and underrepresented...

In this first episode of a new season our guest is the Founder and CEO of HRRevolution , Wendy Read.  Wendy is a founder of 2 start-ups and a member of Tech London Advocates, an inward investment specialist and a mentor for several Business Growth Programmes.  For over 20 years she has worked with renowned companies in the UK, USA, Canada and across Europe, working for high profile busin...