The Evolving Leader

New for season 3 , we’re excited to release this first Under the Hood episode. Our intention is that these monthly discussions (which we’ll release alongside our regular weekly Evolving Leader episodes) will allow co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender additional airtime to dive a little deeper into many of the fascinating topics that they have explored with our guests since launching the podcast...

This week on the Evolving Leader, Jean talks to English rugby international Leanne Infante (née Riley) about what she’s learnt as a leader during her career both on and off the pitch. Leanne’s debut in the England squad was against South Africa in 2013 and she has since been central to England’s success including winning the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2019. 0.00 Introduction 0.41 How has the profil...

Talking to Jean and Scott this week is Steve Ingham , one of the world’s most successful performance scientists. Steve has worked with over one thousand elite athletes, and over 200 of those (including Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent) have gone on to achieve World or Olympic medal success. Steve is author of the bestselling book ‘ How to Support a Champion: The...

This week on the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to RJ Cordes . RJ is a research fellow at (American think tank) the Atlantic Council, and his research includes work around the fields of sensemaking and knowledge management. However, it feels like we may have just scratched the surface during our hour with polymath RJ Cordes - if you’d like a broader picture of RJ’s ex...

This week, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with Dr Todd Kashdan , one of the world’s leading experts in the psychology of well-being, curiosity, mental flexibility and social relationships. In addition to having written more than 200 published scientific articles, Todd has also written three books, the most recent being ‘ The Art Of Insubordination: How to Dissent and De...

In this bonus episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, host Scott Allender addresses the idea of knowability, or to put it another way being known. What does it mean as a leader to be knowable? Does it matter, and if so why?   Social: Instagram           @evolvingleader LinkedIn             The Evolving Leader Podcast Twitter               @Evolving_Leader Send a message to The Evolving Leader team...

In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-host Jean Gomes talks to Will Page , former chief economist at both Spotify and PRS for Music, visiting fellow at London School of Economics and author of the recently published ‘ Tarzan Economics: Eight principles for pivoting through disruption ’.    0’00 Introduction 0.43 Background to your career and what you are working on at the moment. 6.32...

In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Dr Tim Lomas . Tim is one of the world’s leading researchers in positive psychology. He has published numerous papers on meditation, Buddhism and masculinity and has written several books including his most recent publication ‘ Happiness - Found in Translation. A Glossary of Joy from Around the World ’....

In this episode our guest is Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly . Kevin co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its executive editor until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website and is the former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review . Kevin Kelly has written several bestselling books including ‘ New Rules for the New Economy ’, ‘ What Technology Wants ’ an...

Welcome to Season 3 of the Evolving Leader podcast. In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are joined by innovation expert Rita McGrath . Rita is an author, professor of management at the Columbia Business School, keynote speaker, founder of the innovation platform ‘ Valize ’ and in September 2021 was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Strategy Award. Readi...

Welcome back to part two of our exploration into the Evolving Leader vulnerability interview archive. If you’ve not listened to part one, then you could well be wondering what these two vulnerability episodes are all about. Where time permits, after we’ve finished recording an episode with our fabulous guests we also record them answering a series of rapid fire questions. We refer to this as the E...

Both this and the next episode of the Evolving Leader podcast are going to be a little different to our usual format. Where time permits, after we’ve finished recording an episode with our fabulous guests we also record them answering a series of rapid fire questions. We refer to this as the Evolving Leader Vulnerability Interview. You’ll hear that it’s pretty lighthearted, but beyond that we also...

In this episode of the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes share some of their highlights from season 2. It’s been an incredible season comprising 26 episodes where Jean and Scott have spoken to a fascinating array of guests. If you’ve been an Evolving Leader subscriber since the start of season 2, then we hope you enjoy revisiting some of our favourite moments. If you’ve disco...

This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Sam Gilbert , expert in data-driven marketing, entrepreneur and researcher. Sam was employee number one and Chief Marketing Officer at Bought By Many, the multi-award winning fintech ranked No. 13 in The Sunday Times TechTrack100 and prior to that held the position of Head of Strategy and Development at Experi...

This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to transformation consultant, keynote speaker, author, host of the Innovation Show and retired internal rugby player Aidan McCullen about how he transformed himself from unpromising athlete into successful international rugby player, and then into a digital business leader and thought leader. Undisruptable: A Min...

If you could, would you want to live to 200? This week our co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to longevity investor, author and visionary Sergey Young whose lifelong mission is to ‘help people live long, healthy and happy lives’. Sergey Young is the founder of the $100M Longevity Vision fund and also innovation board member at the XPRIZE foundation. His book ‘ The Science and Technology o...

Sit back and listen as hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Jonas Ridderstråle , one of the world’s most exciting business thinkers, speaker and author. Hear his reflections on Covid and how leaders can avoid being paralyzed by data as things change – how to combine decisive action with emotional conviction.  Social: Instagram           @evolvingleader LinkedIn             The Evolving Lead...

This week our guest on the Evolving Leader is multi-award winning global diversity, equity and inclusion leader, keynote speaker and author Sheree Atcheson . Working in organisations across the globe, Sheree Atcheson helps leaders create accountability driven inclusive cultures and is also the author of the best seller Demanding More (Kogan Page). Social: Instagram           @evolvingleader Linked...

Robert Swan is a polar environmentalist, author and founder of 2041 , a company that is dedicated to the preservation of Antarctica. The year 2041 is hugely important as it marks the end of a 50 year treaty that was signed by almost every nation designating Antarctica as ‘a natural reserve land for science and peace’ as well as placing a ban on mining and mineral exploration for that period. Each...

This week, Evolving Leader hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes speak to Eric Berger , space journalist and author of Lift Off (HarperCollins, 2021). Eric Berger has had exclusive access to many of the past and present members of the SpaceX team, so sit back and listen as he gives us a thrilling account of how Elon Musk took SpaceX from shaky start-up in 2002 into the world's leading space com...

In this episode of the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to John Kay , one of the world’s leading economists, whose life’s work is focused on the relationship between economics and businesses.  Together with Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England, he wrote Radical Uncertainty about the impoverished approach many economists and business strategists take regar...

During this bonus episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, guest Emma Sinclair talks to Jean Gomes about her current focus, understanding how teams work (and don't work) and her goal which is to help teams thrive. During this study, Emma has identified several core components that are required for effective teaming, and describes active listening as being foundational for human connection and...

This week we talk to performance advisor, author and researcher Don Schmincke who believes that most management ideas fail because of human biology. Listen as Don shares the findings from his research and his belief that while many well respected books, theories and tools that leaders take into their organisations may well have a positive impact on the bottom line, the way to deliver the greatest...

This week, Evolving Leader co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to aerospace engineer and entrepreneur Ilham Said . Leaving university less than a year ago having completed a masters in aeronautical engineering, IIham Said is the co-founder of the start-up E2E , a global digital community created to allow other young engineers to help one another accelerate their knowledge.    Social: Insta...

How can we see the world more clearly? In what seems to be an era of rising polarization, what is real and true versus what is being driven by motivated reasoning, self-deception and illusion?     This week on the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean and Scott talk to perceptual neuroscientist and author Dr Beau Lotto who opens our eyes and minds to the fact that we evolved to see what is useful, not ac...