Leaders Who Coach™ PODCAST with Sehaam Cyrene

What does it take to lead with clarity, humility and human connection while navigating the rapid rise of AI? In this episode of the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast, Sehaam Cyrene speaks with Darcy Peters , Senior Customer Advocacy Manager at Buffer and graduate of Leaders Who Coach™, about leadership, coaching skills, remote work, AI and the importance of staying human while work continues to move fast...

What does it take to lead people well in a fast-moving Web3 business where the pace is high, the work is complex, and clarity matters every day? In this episode of the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast , Sehaam Cyrene speaks with Caroline Mascarin, COO at Distributed Crafts , about leadership, operations, people-first culture and the human side of building in Web3. Caroline is a Web3 operations leader wh...

What does it take to build a people-first culture in fast-moving startups and scale-ups without losing accountability, clarity or care? In this episode of the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast , Sehaam Cyrene speaks with Kate Lawson , Founder and Director of Thrive Partnership , about what it really takes to build strong people and culture foundations in growing businesses. Kate shares insights from over...

What does it take to lead with clarity, credibility and responsibility in high-pressure environments? In this episode of the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast , Sehaam Cyrene speaks with Jon Freedman , Fractional CTO and financial technology strategist, about what it really takes to build high-performing teams, create alignment and lead with impact in complex organisations. Jon shares insights from over...

What does it take to lead high-performing teams through complexity, pressure and change? In this episode of the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast , Sehaam Cyrene speaks with Aditi Agarwal , fractional CTO and technology delivery leader, about how trust, collaboration and deep listening shape effective leadership in fast-moving organisations. Aditi shares her journey from hands-on engineer to CTO, and the...

What happens when a leader truly aligns with their values? In this episode of the Leaders Who Coach ™ Podcast , Sehaam Cyrene speaks with Laura Shrieves about her leadership transformation through coaching, and how leading with values reshaped her confidence, clarity and strategic presence. Laura shares her journey from navigating maternity leave to becoming a more self-aware, intentional and infl...

What happens when a leader stops solving everyone’s problems? In this episode of the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast, Sehaam Cyrene speaks with Simon C an experienced engineering leader and graduate of Leaders Who Coach™ , about what changed when he moved from “fixer” to coach. Simon shares candid reflections on: • Discovering his core values, caring, integrity and empowerment • The liberation of not h...

In this episode, I explain who you can coach and who you can use your coaching skills with as a leader, why some people are not coachable, and the top 6 groups of people you can use your coaching skills with, including your team and your boss.  As Coach-Leaders, it's important to be clear about who you can coach and why you would coach them — what's the upside for you and for them? And d...

If I'm in a bad headspace and avoiding doing what feels like a boring or difficult task, what's it going to take for me to open up to you as my boss, considering I'm feeling low in confidence, a bit lost, I'm already judging myself negatively? I have no idea how I'm going to get the work done. And can I trust you to not write me off as incompetent? How are you going to hel...

The Hidden Structure of Amazing Conversations — You're joining me on the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast today to master the Coach-Leadership Conversation Arc.  This is going to take the boredom, the frustration, the confusion, the wasted energy, the lack of outcome or painfully slow decision-making... basically the drag out of your conversations.  And when you start to apply this Leaders Who Coac...

Your Team, Peers and Boss need to understand your leadership style this way... To help us answer this episode’s focus — Explaining Coach-Leadership to Your Team, Peers and Your Boss — we start by understanding what it feels like to be a coach-leader and what it feels like to be coached by you. I go on to cover why you would explain your coach-leadership approach and how to do it. Topics in this ep...

There's a high chance your personal values are being compromised every day and your blind spots are derailing you. How you demonstrate genuine care towards a member of your team, how you react when you don't have the answers, your use of clean language that lifts your team up instead of loaded phrases that undermine individuals, and whether in a moment of crisis you choose to seek out fa...

You are expected to coach your direct reports but you probably haven't even received any leadership training, never mind coach training. I share research with you that confirms this dire state of play in leadership generally that we seem to have just accepted and the costly impact to teams, organisations and ourselves as leaders, some data about why leadership training is failing leaders, why...

Maybe you know something about coaching, maybe you’ve done some coach training and want to improve your skills, maybe you’re one of my Leaders Who Coach™ graduates, or maybe you are new to the whole concept of coaching as a leader or people manager and you want to overcome your hesitation and check if it’s for you! Hi, I’m Sehaam Cyrene and I teach leaders how to use coaching skills. Wherever you...