The Leadership Tales Podcast with Colin Hunter

Andrew Prior is a consultant, mentor and systemic team coach who supports and accompanies leaders and teams in transforming themselves and their organizations.  He has worked for Motorola and other high tech companies for over 15 years in various different leadership roles. Today he is creating an international community that learns and practises horizontal leadership to generate meaningful a...

Kristoffer Carter is the CEO and founder of Epic Leadership, a training organization for conscious leadership, which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. He is the author of the new book Permission to Glow— A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership, which guides his coaching of Fortune 100 executive leaders at Amazon, AT&T, eXp Realty, Edward Jones, and many more. In today’s episo...

Tammy Heermaan began her career in the research field twenty years ago when she wrote a paper for her masters which focused on the then current state of workplace relations and conditions for women in the workplace. The study honed in on four different nations; England, America, Germany and Japan. Now, twenty years on, Tammy has revisited the topic in her new book ‘Reframe Your Story’ to see what,...

Today’s guest is someone you will have come across if you work in the sector of coaching or leadership. Karen Wright is a highly experienced executive coach and author of two books. She started her career in the FMCG industry and she founded her coaching company, Parachute Executive Coaching, more than 25 years ago.  Karen has very clear and concise opinions when it comes to coaching. In this...

Ela Ben-Ur is founder of Innovators Compass, a design thinking tool which enables people to tap into their natural abilities and improve their business and family lives. Ela worked 13 prior years at renowned innovation firm IDEO where she led and coached teams, facilitated for clients, and co-founded IDEO’s Leadership Studio for developing project leaders.  In today’s episode, you’l...

Sara Milne Rowe is one of the UK’s leading Performance Coaches, working with CEOs, senior leaders and teams, often in high challenge situations so they can stay strong, keep learning and deliver their best. Sara founded her award-winning company, Coaching Impact, in 2008 and works with a variety of organizations Including Creative & Media, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Legal and Education. In tod...

Judy Ditchfield is an actor and corporate roleplay specialist. As an individual intent on working as an actor for the first 18 years of her career, Judy Ditchfield has spent the last 20 years in the corporate world and is loving it. Starting off as a business roleplay actor and facilitator, Judy started to see the power of performance and how the entertainment world paralleled the business environ...

Peter Lederer is the chairman of The Edinburgh Military Tattoo. He has also been chairman of Gleneagles, one of Scotland’s leading high-end hotels and host of the G8 summit in 2005, as well as being involved in the early years of The Four Seasons hotel chain in Canada. Peter shares his struggles with dyslexia, and how he learnt to embrace hands-on learning in the hotel trade. In today’s episode yo...

Henry is an Invited Agitator & Chief Peacemaker to the C-suite. As CEO for Dynamic Results and an Amazon Top-10 author and global speaker, he’s delivered over 12,000 hours of Executive Coaching in the C-Suite and 3000 hours of Change Management/Strategic Implementation services. A five-time CEO with one failure under his belt, Henry smashes myths about high-performance leadership. Listen in to...

Brian Beckcom is one of the United States’ leading trial lawyers. For over 20 years Brian has taken pride in helping victims of injustice and unfortunate circumstances to live the life they deserve to live. He is also a philosopher, computer scientist, philanthropist, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner. Listen to today’s conversation to gain insight into how working and leading from a place of c...

Today’s guest is Bill Treasurer. Bill is the founder of Giant Leap Consulting, a courage-building company, and the author of the international bestseller, Courage Goes to Work . Bill’s courage-building workshops have been taught to thousands of executives in twelve countries on five continents.  For over two decades, Bill has worked with leaders from such renowned organizations as NASA, Saks...

Today’s guest is Dr. Stephen Drawford. Stephen is a coach, speaker, and consultant, on a mission to help business leaders unlock their full potential.  He began his career in the non-profit world, but quickly realized that he could have a greater impact on the  community by helping for-profit companies to discover their mission and desired impact and align them to  achieve success b...

Zack Hudson is a leader that has a heart for developing others. He is the founder of Passing the Baton Leadership Resources where his written content and podcast are picked up in 162 countries on a weekly basis. Zack also leads the talent management, leadership development, and career pathing functions for Kindred at Home’s 45,000 associates, the largest in-home health care company in th...

Maureen Finn is a globally savvy transformational leader with a passion for activating talent – particularly leadership talent at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. She excels at partnering with the business to create an actionable people development strategy aligned with business goals. Maureen resides in a Boston suburb, is an avid Red Sox fan and spends time in the summer on Cape Cod. Listen in to underst...

Doug Shapiro and Deborah Tranelli join Colin for a conversation on roleplay in the corporate environment. As a versatile actor and career coach throughout the United States for over 25 years, Doug is an expert at creating multiple realistic characters for a corporate environment.  As a business role player for Potential Squared, he takes great pride in being a vehicle for our clients’ growth...

Today’s guest is an experienced Senior Managing Director with a proven track record of managing large scale BPO Operations, Transformation and Technology projects. Andy Clark has extensive experience of managing Global Operations complex projects together with all aspects of financial performance. He is passionate for talent and leadership development programs and has thrived by building successfu...

Today’s guest is a seasoned talent development specialist. Lauren Rollins has spent her entire career in the Learning and Development space. She has a passion for helping individuals and leaders continue to grow and evolve, becoming more effective in their roles as they apply new models/methods and try new and more innovative ways of working. In today’s episode, Lauren discusses balancing work and...

Linguist and lover of language, Robert Wylie is a self-proclaimed Interior Designer manqué with an aesthetic allergy to Draylon, professional Critical Reader who never grasped the Rules of Capitalisation, Poet, Occupational Psychologist and inveterate Collector of Beautiful Oddities. Robert worked closely with me as the editor for ‘Be More Wrong’, and his amazing creative flair is truly inspiring....

How can we best challenge our ideas? Today’s guest, Andrew Webster, shares how Design Thinking has been instrumental in his growth as a leader. As ExperiencePoint’s Vice-President of Transformation, Andy is the leading catalyst for innovation — lending expertise, drive and imagination to ExperiencePoint’s many clients as he helps them champion their transformative journeys. The world-leading innov...

Today’s guest has over twenty years of experience as an executive coach, leadership consultant, trainer, team builder and business consultant. Winnie da Silva has been a solopreneur for the last 16 years, working with hundreds of leaders at all levels from the C-Suite to newly established leaders in over a dozen industries in Fortune 500 companies to start-ups.  Winnie also hosts the podcast,...

Today’s guest is the author of ‘Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results’. Jamie Smart is an internationally renowned writer, speaker, coach and consultant who shows individuals and organisations the unexpected keys to clarity; the ultimate leverage point for creating more time, better decisions and more meaningful results.  In addition to working with a handful of coaching cli...

Dan Pontefract is a leadership strategist, keynote speaker, best-selling author and he founded the Pontefract Group in 2014. The four books he authored, Lead. Care. Win. , Open To Think , The Purpose Effect , and Flat Army are all critically acclaimed and best-sellers, which we explore on the show.  I loved learning more about Dan’s leadership philosophy and the insights from his books and ta...

Tracey Harrison is a business leader, a strategic change consultant and a passionate advocate of social inclusion and mobility. She has lived and worked in Manila, Paris and Texas, she describes herself as restless, a person who enjoys the novelty of the new, but thrives on bringing a degree of order to chaos. She enjoys working with businesses and individuals who share a similar purpose and whose...

Today’s guest is a perfect example of a team builder. Caustan De Riggs is a business coach who believes in the value of partnerships. He is an experienced enterprise relationship leader with a focus on helping organizations build new capabilities at scale. Caustan is the founder of ‘Comedians On Zoom’, a digital leadership support network based on improv comedy. Born out of the pandemic,...

Today’s guest is testament to the power of being a jack of all trades. Trond Undheim is a futurist, podcaster, investor, author, speaker, entrepreneur and former director of MIT Startup Exchange, based outside of Boston. He has helped launch over 50 startups. Trond hosts the podcasts Futurized, thought leadership on our emerging future, and Augmented, the industry 4.0 podcast. Listen to this conve...