The Leadership Lab

In this Lab Notes episode, Lucy and Luke reflect on their conversation with Rachel Newman and explore the role values play in leadership, culture and personal alignment. They discuss why organisational values need to be more than words on a wall, how reward strategies can reinforce or undermine culture, and why authentic leadership starts with understanding what really matters to you. Rachel’s ref...

In this episode of The Leadership Lab, Luke and Lucy are joined by Rachel Newman, founder of Stour People Practice, to explore what it really means to lead in alignment with who you are. Rachel shares her journey from a 30-year career in HR, including senior roles across IKEA, the arts sector and the RNLI, to stepping away from a traditional senior leadership path and redefining success on her own...

In this Lab Notes episode, Luke and Lucy reflect on their recent conversation with Nic Scott, exploring the role of coaching, questioning and trust in effective leadership. Building on Nic’s hypothesis that the leaders who create the most value are not always the ones with the best answers, but the ones who ask the best questions, Luke and Lucy unpack what this really means in practice. They discu...

In a world where knowledge is everywhere and answers are easier than ever to find, is knowing the answer still a leader’s greatest strength? In this episode of The Leadership Lab podcast by The Colour Works , Luke Wiltshire and Lucy Pearson are joined by Nic Scott, founder of Seeds Coaching , to put her leadership hypothesis under the microscope: “The leaders who create the most value aren’t the o...

In this first episode of Lab Notes , Luke Wiltshire and Lucy Pearson reflect on the opening experiment of The Leadership Lab by The Colour Works , featuring mindset coach and psychotherapist Jonny Holden . Together, Luke and Lucy unpack the key themes from Jonny’s conversation, including identity, career pivots, vulnerability, dreaming bigger, and the role leaders play in creating space for people...

In this episode of the Leadership Lab, Johnny Holden shares his unconventional journey from acting to psychotherapy and mindset coaching. He explores the importance of dreaming big, vulnerability in leadership, and how listening can transform organisational culture. To find out more about Jonny and his coaching work please visit his Linkedin Page To find out more about Jonny and his therapy work p...

Welcome to The Leadership Lab by The Colour Works . In this launch episode, Luke and Lucy introduce the podcast, explain why it was created, and share what listeners can expect from future episodes. The Leadership Lab is built around real people, real conversations, under the microscope. Each guest will bring a leadership hypothesis into the Lab, which we’ll explore through curiosity, questioning...