Leading People

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above Why do we have a brain? It's not what you think... How does exercise benefit your brain? How much of your brain do you use each day?   This week's guest is Gregory Caremans , founder of the Brain Academy which currently has over 400,000 students enrolled in its courses on how to understand and better manage your brain.  The ai...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above On the morning of Tuesday, 8th June 2021 I sent an email to this week's guest, Julie Brown . It was an invitation to herself and her husband to be a guest on this podcast. I'd met him on the street a few weeks beforehand just days before he left for an expedition to Greenland and I'd forgotten to ask him.  I never receive...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above What have cornflakes, penicillin, cling film, velcro and post-it notes got in common?  This week's guest is an award-winning author and Head of Learning at the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, Andy Lancaster . During our conversation, he answers this question among many others.  Andy also outlines 7 ways in which...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above Why should we become good at public speaking and what difference could it make to our careers?  Why do some of us love public speaking and so many of us hate it?  What is a Public Speaking Monkey, anyway? How could some of the issues that we have with public speaking be affecting other aspects of our lives?  These are just some of the q...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above Why do organisations need to invest in Internal Communications?  What is Internal Communications, anyway?  How do you get Managers onboard with your Internal Communications? How do you communicate internally in a Post-covid Hybrid working environment?  These are just some of the questions I explore with this week's guest, author an...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above Would you like to have more influence and get more buy-in and commitment from colleagues or other stakeholders?  Or, perhaps to sell more of your products or services?  Or, to better deal with a low performer on your team?  Or, simply to be a better parent ?  This week's guest is Certified Forensic Interviewer and author, Michael R...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above Do you have high performers on your team? How would you feel if they went to work for your competitors? I guess you'd prefer if they stayed and worked with you ?  So, how do you create the conditions so people can thrive, enjoy what they're doing and perform at their best?   These are just some of the topics I covered in my co...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above Why has coaching become so popular and why do leaders need coaching now more than ever as we emerge from the pandemic?  And what impact has the pandemic itself actually had on leaders? How has the virtual work environment of the pandemic affected leaders?  These are just some of the questions that I explore with this week's guest -...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above In recent years you may have come across terms such as Agile, Lean, Self-Organising Teams, Teal Organisations, Non-Violent Communication and Holocracy. My guest this week is the author and consultant Jef Cumps .  Jef will not only explain and demystify many of these wonderful terms but will also speak about Sociocracy 3.0 and how the pr...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt demotivated or were struggling to get engaged with a new project?  Or, are you managing a team and find that motivating them is an ongoing challenge?  This week's guest is author, coach and NLP trainer, Jeremy Lazarus with whom I took a deep dive into the world of motivation - and not just your own motivation but also the motivation of others.  Jeremy has w...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above This week's guest is Dr Dan Harrison the creator and developer of the Harrison Assessment and Talent Analytics tools. People who discover these tools often refer to them as the best-kept secret in the HR or Talent world!   Of all the investment decisions that organisations make probably the one that has the least amount of rigour i...

Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe via the Podcast links above. My guest this week is fellow Irishman, Paul Davis . Not only has Paul authored several books but over the past 25 years or more he has advised and worked with many entrepreneurs to help them grow and scale their businesses into multi-million euro enterprises. Along the way, he admits that he has done quite well himself.  However, in th...

Send us Fan Mail I'm very humbled by how many people have become regular listeners of this podcast. Based on my research, Leading People currently ranks in the top 20% of podcasts globally in terms of downloads and listeners. Please subscribe via the Podcast links above. It began as an experiment in January 2021. I looked at my extensive bookcase one day and wondered how could I bring so much...

Send us Fan Mail A while back I came across an intriguing article on the BBC Worklife website. It was written by this week's guest, David Robson .  I later went on to purchase his excellent and extremely well-researched book entitled The Intelligence Trap .  In this conversation, we chat about both the Intelligence Trap and David's forthcoming book The Expectation Effect and David reveal...

Send us Fan Mail In December as we approach Christmas and the end of another year many of us start thinking about next year . For quite some people it never goes beyond thinking.  My guest this week is New York Times Best Selling author and consultant, Brian Moran .  I invited Brian onto the show to chat about his results-focused planning methodology , which he calls The 12 Week Year.  I discovere...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I chat with Author, HR expert and CEO, Perry Timms , about his books and in particular what he calls Dispersed Leadership .  With the world of work having been turned upside down by Covid, Perry believes that Dispersed Leadership has the potential to transform workplaces .  Perry provides examples of how Dispersed Leadership is already producing results in a varie...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I caught up with author and Master Trainer, Lindsey Agness , to chat about change. Lindsey is the CEO of The Change Corporation , a boutique consultancy that provides change management services to organisations.  However, whilst we touch on organisational change and Lindsey provides valuable advice for leaders, our conversation focuses more on personal change and i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Leading People, I sat down with author and Master Coach, Jonathan Reitz , to talk about how coaching changes everything .  In particular, we discuss his latest book, Coaching Hacks , and Jonathan shares his top tips or hacks from his 20 plus years of coaching. These are not just useful for professional coaches but for anyone who aspires to take a more coaching a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I chat with Systems Thinking expert and the creator of SystemicIQ, Chris Soderquist , to learn why SystemicIQ is necessary for solving complex problems . He outlines the 6 key skills of SystemicIQ and how to use them. He provides lots of practical examples and also advice on when, and when not, to use SystemicIQ.  He explains what Systems Thinking is and how some o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I chat with author and leadership expert, Yene Assegid about leadership and her new book Leading with Heart . Along the way, she talks about the world-famous leaders she's met, what qualities set them apart - qualities that many of us have or could develop - and why she titled the book Leading with Heart . She tells us about her decision to set up a foundatio...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I caught up with author and Master Trainer of NLP, David Shephard . We covered a lot in our conversation with the central theme being understanding Inner and Outer Leadership and why this has become so important in a post-Covid era.  He also reveals what he believes to be the ultimate life skill .  If you've been thinking of going on a Leadership skills cours...

Send us Fan Mail How do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work?  Well, you might be surprised to discover that a lot of the answers lie in the world of jazz . My guest for this episode is Frank Barrett , Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Management at the US Naval postgraduate school in Monterey, California who is also an accomplished jazz pianist.  In his insightf...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I chat with Leadership Expert and Executive Coach Andrea Danner about her contribution to the book: The Door to Inner Happiness: Secrets from Around the World for When Everything’s Going Wrong . Although conceived pre-Covid, The Door to Inner Happiness reveals powerful strategies from around the world for bouncing back when everything’s going wrong. The book conta...

Send us Fan Mail For this episode I sat down with Executive Coach and author of no less than 17 books, Joseph O'Connor , to talk about his latest book, Coaching the Brain - Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching .  During our conversation, Joseph explains why he writes books on topics that interest him and shares many fascinating insights about how our brains work so that we can a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I chat with author and learning & development expert Stella Collins to discover how our brains learn best at work. The Learning Organisation expert, Peter Senge, once wrote: Taking in information is only distantly related to real learning. It would be nonsensical to say, "I just read a great book about bicycle riding—I’ve now learned that.” In order to de...