The Rethink Leadership Podcast

Guest: Tom Pullen CEO of Innovinco® and award-winning author of INNOVATOR: 10 simple steps to innovate with speed, scale, and confidence Tom Pullen is the award-winning author of INNOVATOR and CEO of Innovinco®, a company that helps large corporations to maximise business growth by accelerating innovation. Tom spent the first 18 years of his career driving business growth inside major companies, i...

Guest: Paweł Zakielarz  Founder at GLOBAL24 & SHOPRETURNS Paweł Zakielarz is a European entrepreneur operating at the intersection of cross-border commerce, regulatory complexity and platform-driven business models. As founder of Global24 and Shopreturns, he designs and builds cross-border operational systems that enable companies to scale internationally in environments shaped by evolving regulat...

Guest: Amar Dhall Psychotherapist and Leadership Researcher (Nervous System Regulation Under Pressure) Amar Dhall is a psychotherapist and leadership researcher focused on what happens inside people when pressure is on. He works at the intersection of leadership, psychology, trauma-informed practice, and nervous system science, helping executives and leadership teams stay coherent in high-stakes m...

Guest: Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore Executive coach, CEO of Global Connections for Women Foundation, and co-author of ‘The Power of the Learning Mindset’ Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore an Executive coach, founder and CEO of Global Connections for Women Foundation, and co-author of ‘The Power of the Learning Mindset’ with Dr Marshall GoldsmithLilian is an award-winning Chief Learning Officer, research scholar, and p...

Guests: Sutton C. McCraney, MA, MBA, Founder, The Flavor Room™️ & USAF Veteran Lace Flowers Co-Founder, The Flavor Room™️ The Flavor Room was founded by Sutton C. McCraney and Lace Flowers as an invite-only, curated leadership ecosystem for founders and CEOs of color operating at a higher standard. Drawing on Sutton's decade of military leadership and systems expertise and Lace's 18 years at the i...

Guest: Rochelle Trow Author | Coach | Founder of The Change Canvas Rochelle Trow is an HR executive, author and coach with more than twenty-five years of international experience leading people strategy and transformation across organisations including Unilever, GSK, Astellas, Takeda and Onsemi. After experiencing burnout herself, she founded The Change Canvas to help leaders thrive in high-pressu...

Guest: Yining Wang Global Business Strategist and Executive Partner at Sincere Alignment Group Yining Wang personifies Eastern and Western leadership and life, spanning Sweden, Hong Kong and China Yining has a background leading billion-dollar ventures across Asia and Europe, helping leaders cultivate their inner clarity, emotional neutrality, and conscious presence that create truly healthy, high...

Guest: Len Ward Founder and Managing Partner of Commexis LEN WARD, a former Wall Street VP on the institutional equity trading desk, transitioned from the high-stakes world of finance to become a digital marketing expert—and now leads the AI revolution as Managing Partner of Commexis. With a rare blend of financial insight, entrepreneurial experience, and AI expertise, Len brings practical, forwar...

Guest: Danny Wareham Culture & Engagement Director + Founder - Firgun Ltd Danny believes that happy bees make tasty honey. If we have the right culture, leadership, support and strategy, then high performance becomes a side effect. He is an author and organisational psychologist who specialises in leadership, culture and personality – with a particular focus on narcissism, psychopathy and Machiave...

Guest: RAJESH NAGJEE CEO Mentor | Business Physicist | Author | Creator of CEO Freedom OS | YPO Forum Facilitator ‘There are two great days in a person’s life - the day we are born, and the day we discover why.” - William Barclay Rajesh Nagjee is a CEO mentor and business physicist who helps scale- stage founders solve what he calls the Velocity Crisis, the widening gap between a company’s systems...

Guest: Gina Battye Founder and CEO of the Psychological Safety Institute  Gina Battye is the founder and CEO of the Psychological Safety Institute and author of ‘The Authentic Organization’. Her mission is to create work environments where people work better together and thrive. She is a consultant for some of the world’s biggest companies, providing strategic insights, accessible training, and pr...

Special Guest: Major General Robert W. Mixon, Jr. (U.S. Army, Ret.) Leadership Expert | Founder and CEO of Level Five Associates Major General Robert W. Mixon, Jr. (U.S. Army, Ret.) is a leadership expert, former commander of the 7th Infantry Division, and bestselling author of ‘The Power of Being All In’. After his Army career, he led both manufacturing and nonprofit organizations, giving him pra...

Guest: David Liddle CEO of The TCM Group and President of The People and Culture Institute (PCI) David is CEO of The TCM Group and president of The People and Culture Institute (PCI). David’s vision for The TCM Group continues to be focused on helping organisations to develop purpose driven, values based and person centred cultures. David is author of ‘MANAGING CONFLICT’,  ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL CULTUR...

Guest: Dr. Katie Best Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Leadership Coach, Consultant, Author Dr Katie Best is a Leadership Coach, Consultant, Author and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Katie has recently published her new book, ‘The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems and How to SOLVE Them’ Katie helps FTSE 100 comp...

Special Guests: Isaac Getz Speaker, Author, Senior Advisor and Professor at ESCP Business School, Co-author of ‘The Caring Company’ Isaac specializes in the areas of leadership and organizational transformation and has been instrumental in the modern corporate liberation movement involving hundreds of companies and institutions in Europe and Canada. He is the co-author of the award-winning interna...

Guest: Dr. Alexa Chilcutt Author, Executive Coach and Executive Development Faculty at John Hopkins Carey Business School, and co-lead for the Academy for Women and Leadership. Dr. Alexa Chilcutt is a Certified Executive Coach and subject matter expert in executive presence, body language, strategic communication, and leadership development. As faculty lead for Johns Hopkins Carey Business School'...

Guest: John Krotec U.S. Army veteran, Author, and Founder of NeoMasculinity Solutions John Krotec is a U.S. Army veteran, visionary entrepreneur, and founder of NeoMasculinity Solutions—a global movement helping men and women reclaim purpose, live through truth, and lead with clarity. After surviving a traumatic brain injury and confronting long-buried trauma, John transformed adversity into a mis...

Guest: Bryanna BoneAuthor of The Dawn of AI, Founder, OXIE: Oxford Innovative EducationOriginally from St. Catharines, Ontario, Bryanna now calls Oxford, England, home. She is an author and creator of Critical Minds especially with focus on AI, through an AI Literacy curriculum at Oxford Innovative Education (OXIE and through her passionate  reshaping of how education can be more inclusive, creati...

Guest: Matthew Oleniuk  Founder and CEO of The Risk Insider  Matthew Oleniuk is a former senior executive and Chief Audit Executive who provided oversight of billions of dollars in public projects.  He now advises public leaders on leadership behaviour, decision-making, and high-stakes delivery through his company, The Risk Insider. Matthew has also set up www.projectredflags.com for leaders every...

Guest: Dr. Cameron MartinLeadership Guide, Astrologer, and Keynote SpeakerDr. Cameron Martin is a keynote speaker, astrologer, and thought leader on the future of conscious leadership. He is the creator of the Being-Centered Leadership framework and recently delivered the TEDx talk “Leading From Being.” As the founder of Path and Purpose, Cameron guides changemakers, creatives, and executives to a...

Guest: Grant Harris, MBA, Certified Diversity Executive (CDE®) Neurodiversity Champion | Organizational Culture SpecialistGrant Harris is the founder and president of GTH Consulting, LLC, SWaM, MBE, DOBE, a minority- and disability-owned management consulting firm Grant’s work helps leaders and organizations maximize outcomes for people and profit through the power of neurodiversity from the board...

Guest: Brea Starmer Founder & CEO, Lions & Tigers  When Brea Starmer was laid off during her pregnancy, she resolved to find a solution to the all-or-nothing career model – for herself and others like her. She set out to create a new set of conditions in which individuals could thrive on their terms and alongside a community. In 2018, she founded Lions & Tigers, a company that enables enterprises...

Guests: Ivanna Mikhailovna Rosendal - Author & Creative Director Anne Katrine Carlsson Sejr - Executive Producer Ivanna was Born in 1987 in eastern Ukraine, and grew up amidst the instability of the post-Soviet collapse, which taught her the importance of adapting and seeking better ways to do things. This led Ivanna a career in behavioral economics and life sciences and as a film maker, writing a...

Guest: Rachel Shaw President & Founder of Shaw HR Consulting Rachel is an award-winning HR strategist who has dedicated more than 20 years in helping organizations and HR leaders create workplaces that are both legally sound and deeply human. Rachel is a nationally recognized ADA compliance expert in the US, relating to the ‘Americans with Disabilities Act’, writing THE book on the subject, ‘The D...

Guest: NIC MARKS Founder and Chief Statistician of Friday Pulse; Speaker and Author of ‘Happiness is a Serious Business’ Nic Marks is a statistician, speaker and author who pioneered the field of workplace wellbeing. After reading Mathematics at Cambridge, he trained in organisational change and psychotherapy before founding the Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation. There, he creat...