The Leadership Enigma

John Amaechi OBE is an organisational psychologist, New York Times best selling author, founder of APS Intelligence, former NBA Basketball Player and Everyday Jedi (as endorsed by Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker) John is back as a guest on the show as we talk about his latest book 'The Promises of Giants' and how he outlines 14 Promises every leader needs to make to themselves in relation to their...

Andrew Wallbridge is a leadership coach and exponent of The Leader's Labyrinth. This is a deeply personal and moving episode where Andrew recalls suffering a stroke in December 2012 which prevented him from working as a global consultant and in turn led to he and his family being made homeless for three months in November 2013 and living in their car. Andrew found his leader within himself and you...

Marc Woods is a Paralympian, world record holder, author, co-founder of Equiida and global educator. Marc shares his inspiring and personal story of having to cope with losing a leg due to cancer at the tender age of 17 and how this experience was a catalyst for him to win 12 medals (including 4 Golds) at 5 Games and go on to become an ambassador for inclusive change. Leaders of organisations must...

Richard Laing is an actor and voiceover specialist who has starred in Batman, Game of Thrones, V for Vendetta and also played Sam Carmichael in Mamma Mia on the West End Stage for 18 months, 8 shows a week to standing ovations. He is also the voice of The Leadership Enigma! In this entertaining, funny and insightful episode Richard talks about seminal moments in his career that have allowed him to...

Connson Locke is a Professorial Lecturer at the world renowned London School of Economics, leadership expert and author of " Making Your Voice Heard ." In this fast paced, informative and personal episode Connson shares what led her to dedicate her academic life to the pursuit of finding her voice and helping others do the same. Connson brilliantly outlines key tips for leaders in ensuring introve...

Lee Evans is a High Performance Coach and therapist. This is an inspiring, heart-warming and humble episode as Lee talks candidly about dealing with the tragic death of his mother at 15 years old, his career as a Commando in the British Army and his passion for serving and helping others win the game of life. What is High Performance? How do we as leaders, as humans, strive to win at life and not...

Rachele Focardi was born in Italy, lives in Singapore and is a global educator and author of 'Reframing Generational Stereotypes'. With 5 generations comprising organisational workforces, how will leaders balance leveraging diversity of thought with understanding intergenerational conflict?  Young people matter more than ever in a working environment that changes at the speed of thought. Covid pro...

Henry Hopkins is the co-founder of Accelerator Solutions focused on helping organisations understand and implement their Service Culture and Service Leadership. Each organisation must carefully decide what their service is and is not. Can you genuinely delight your customers all the time or do you need to be pragmatic and deliver consistently whilst occasionally delighting customers along the way?...

Jonathan Reichental is the former Chief Information Officer for the city of Palo Alto in Silicon Valley. He's the founder of Human Future , author of 'Smart Cities' and a global educator.  Jonathan chats about the need for leaders and their organisations to recognise the risk of becoming irrelevant in an environment where VELOCITY, SCOPE and IMPACT are critical ingredients in a world of constant c...

Amy Lynn Durham is the author of "Create Magic at Work" and with the courage of her convictions she decided to leave corporate life and follow her passion to help leaders explore, understand and utilise their SQ (spiritual intelligence).  Leaders must learn to behave and make decisions with wisdom and compassion regardless of the situation. Putting aside our egos and operating from a higher place...

Danelle Barrett is a retired Rear Admiral in the US Navy and author of "Rock the Boat: Embrace Change, Encourage Innovation and Be a Successful Leader." Danielle has served her country from tours in Iraq to the disaster relief effort in Haiti. She has used multiple high stakes situations to think about her leadership in an ever changing environment. Danelle discusses the need to make speedy decisi...

Brian Bachand was a Catholic Priest for 8 years, 4 of those years spent as the Private Secretary to a Cardinal from The Vatican. However, Brian decided to relinquish his role in order to follow his own desire to be, to do, to love and to impact the world.  This is a heart warming episode as Brian discusses how the Pandemic has offered the world the gift of pause and reflection as we all start to c...

Nick Holley a global educator and associate with the Corporate Research Forum having worked with over 100 organisations in 32 countries. The role of the Enterprise Leader is fundamentally different to leading a unit, function or region. Letting go of what has made you successful is frightening and counter intuitive. In fact, what made you brilliant is the hardest thing to let go of! However, there...

Rishon Blumberg is an entrepreneur and co-author of Game Changer - How to be 10x in the talent economy.  Rishon has worked with rock stars to tech stars and the first 10x he met and work with was the iconic Bruce Springsteen.  The pandemic has changed the talent landscape and leaders must now deal with challenges such as  1. Super high turnover  2. Nothing and no one will go back to normal  3. Loy...

Anat Peri is a transformational coach, healer and Founder of Training Camp for the Soul.  We know that leadership of self remains at the core of our ability to lead others and lead our organisations and Anat specialises in helping leaders remember how to heal themselves and regain their personal power. The pandemic has pressed the pause button on us all!  Anat explains that we alll have a 'script'...

Chris Daw QC (Queen's Counsel) is a barrister, author, broadcaster and non-executive director. Chris is involved in some of the most high profile cases in the English Courts and is not shy to ask the question 'why' as he probes the Status Quo.  His latest book "Justice on Trial" suggests the closing of prisons, the decriminalisation of drugs and keeping kids out of the criminal justice system. Whi...

Gabrielle Dolan is a global speaker and author of 6 books, including her latest book "Magnetic Stories." We all have a personal brand but do we know what it is? What are the stories people share about us when we are not in the room? Is our personal brand being built deliberately or organically? Gabrielle shares some wonderful anecdotes from Barbie, to scuba diving to national swimming trials as we...

Kishore Jayaraman is the President of Rolls-Royce for India and South Asia . He describes Outcomes Focused Leadership as our internal satellite navigation system where we understand where we are coming from and where we are going as a leader. Kishore's leadership has been tested during the recent pandemic and his Outcomes Focused Leadership has allowed him to create and communicate a clear vision...

The Anniversary Episode (Part 6) features Futurist Graeme Codrington and Global Educator and Customer Centricity Expert, Pepe González as they join my studio guests Keith Douglas and Dr Katie Best. In this final guest segment we chat about how leaders need to anticipate, develop scenarios and prepare for an ever changing environment. How adaptive leadership is essential in order to mitigate consta...

Major General Tom Copinger-Symes is the Director for Military Digitalisation for the UK Strategic Command and a 2 Star General in the British Army. In this insight packed episode, Tom talks about the challenge of balancing the deluge of technical and psychological information in a critical environment so as to create, process and distribute valuable data and insight to those who most need it.  We...

I am joined by Dr Tremaine du Preez , author of 'Decide' and Decision Scientist and Kevin O'Leary former Head of Covert Policing for the Metropolitan Police and Hostage Negotiator. We discuss 'Instinctive Decision Making' with my studio guests Keith Douglas and Dr Katie Best. It's the job of the police to be 'professionally curious' however what is the science behind the coppers hunch?  Tremaine o...

This episode is part of The Leadership Enigma CEO Series with SatinderPal (SP) Singh, CEO of Adani Total Private Limited in India. SP chats about the power of humility and empathy as he fondly remembers washing dishes in Australia in order to make ends meet and how, as CEO he still uses that human centred approach to be able to work across regions and cultures and build homogenous and unified team...

Joe Fredericks is the Chief Strategy Officer for PCA. He joins me with my studio guests  Keith Douglas, EVP Mastercard and Dr Katie Best, author and educator. Joe talk us through 'The Leadership Equation' as a way of ensuring we are a Force for Good, something that Mastercard incorporates as part of their cultural DNA. The Leadership Equation: (TQ + EQ + DQ) x MQ TQ (Technical Quotient) - is a lea...

Joel Casse is the Global Head of Leadership Development for Nokia. In this fast paced and insight packed episode, we chat about the importance of leaders managing their own brand to engage and inspire people. We discuss the difficulties for experienced leaders to 'unlearn' decades worth of education, experience and wisdom in order to contemplate new ways of working in an ever changing environment....

Part 3 of the Anniversary Episode with Cheryl Stokes, Partner at Hedrick & Struggles and Greg Orme, author of 'The Human Edge' which won Business Book of the Year 2020. In this episode we chat about The Inclusive Human Centred Leader and how we must rely on the 4C's (Consciousness, Curiosity, Creativity & Collaboration) to differentiate ourselves from a world of machines.  We discuss how leaders m...