The Rethink Leadership Podcast

Jim HughesFounder, UntamedThrough his unique, outdoor-focused brand of coaching, events and speaking, Jim has helped leaders and teams reconnect with themselves, others and their work.  Leveraging his extensive life experience, that encompasses everything from running a multimillion dollar engineering business in Australia, to skiing the world’s longest giant slalom race wearing only a g-string an...

Iliana Oris ValienteManaging Director and Innovation Lead at Accenture Canada Iliana Oris Valiente, CPA, CA, is an accomplished corporate executive, innovation and emerging tech pioneer, startup investor, respected board member, published author, and sought-after global public speaker. With a clear vision and unwavering determination, she is a thought leader on a mission to cultivate a future enco...

Matthew BrackettLeadership Coach, Consultant, Educator and Speaker Matthew Brackett - With more than 30 years of experience in the field of personal, professional and intercultural leadership development, Matthew is MUCH more than an executive coach.  Matthew has a broad international and intercultural experience in leadership, educational and consulting roles in Italy, Ireland, England, Colombia,...

Julie Perkins is an entrepreneur, author, and the Founder of Wyseminds, where she helps other female leaders and entrepreneurs scale, grow, and find success in their businesses. She is passionate about creating a more equitable entrepreneurial future. Her 30 year career in business included launching and building Specsavers in Northern Europe, leading it to market dominance in the Netherlands. Now...

Courtney Orange 🍊 Wellbeing Motivational Speaker & Content Creator, 🍊Award Winning Entertainment Agency Owner: Courtney Orange is a former 6x times national gymnastics champion, Commonwealth Games competitor, street performer and an award-winning entertainment agency owner. Now better known as a Wellbeing Motivator. Over 200,000 individuals, in the education system, communities, organisations an...

Gerald J. Leonard is the President and CEO of Turnberry premiere, also the Publishing Editor, founder and CEO, of the Leonard Productivity Intelligence Institute. Gerald is also a professional musician, and brings his experiences of playing bands and in concert halls to the business context, in how leaders and teams can build productivity, engagement, motivation and high performance. With a passio...

Emma Donovan is an established professional with 15+ years of experience in brand strategy, content writing, and entrepreneurship. Emma’s ability to identify and seize an opportunity has played a significant role in her entrepreneurial journey so far.  In 2010 she opened a pop-up for backpackers during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa; in 2014 she co-founded Yellow Door Collective, a marketing a...

Dan Sodergren Futurist, serial tech startup founder and media commentator,  Dan Sodergren is digital marketing, technology and Artificial Intelligence(AI) expert working with clients, partners and associations to help them become more aware of the implications and applications of generative AI, now and into the next few years. As a futurist, Dan is a regular tech spokesperson on the BBC, both TV a...

Dez Rock is the CEO of SIEMonster, and a neurodivergent leader. Dez knows that having ADHD has been anything but a detriment to her career – her ability to see the world as a puzzle (and manage all of the pieces) has made her an exceptional leader.  Dez has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and now fully focused in on her own business, SIEMonster, a software company based in the US, dropping...

Tim Fortescue is an extraordinary communication coach who ignites transformation and drives success. With a background in basketball coaching and a passion for helping individuals grow, Tim’s journey has taken him from volunteer high school basketball coach to founding his own coaching venture, 40 Watt Coaching. His coaching philosophy centers around coaching the full human, not just a person’s sp...

Brenda Episcopo, CEO of the Girls Scouts of Northeastern New York, Brenda is an influential problem solver, public speaker, and motivational leader with 20+ years of proven success leading growth, engagement, and collaboration for the advancement of mission-driven community impact organizations.  Brenda has turned around businesses and is well-known for her ability to drive non-profit growth, thro...

Tim Lupinacci is the CEO and Chair at Baker Donelson, 1 of the top 100 law firms in the US, where he leads over 1,300 individuals in 22 offices across the Southeastern US.  Tim is presently leading the firm’s five-year BakerVision 2028 strategy and its Diversity & Inclusion Compact.  A life-long leadership student, Tim recently launched a non- profit called Everybody Leads, focused on empowering i...

Holly Jukes is an experienced solutions architect - designing and implementing robust technology solutions for both the banking and fashion industry, hosted across both traditional public/private cloud technologies and platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS).  She has a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver programmes across multiple technology stacks, platforms an...

Captain Matt Episcopo (Ret.) knows that the real way for leaders to become effective is to build credibility, trust and relationships. His efforts have helped companies around the world improve all aspects of their leadership. Matt is widely recognized as an energizing and engaging presenter. He is a featured TEDx speaker and the author of the book "How To Gain The Upper Hand - P.O.W.E.R. Tactics...

Dr. Anna Eckardt is Managing Partner of MyLearningBoutique, a Swiss-based international consultancy. She is also CEO and co-founder of SOLARIS. Anna works all around the world with senior leaders in the private, public and non-governmental sectors. Anna is also an academic researcher of managerial attention & focus, with a particular interest in the quality of individual and organisational decisio...

Sanjeev Loomba today’s guest is leadership expert, innovator, founder ‘Valuepreneurship’ and author of the Ninth Gear where he deep dives into the discipline with very much a ‘why, what and how-to’ approach. This is all about value impact leadership.  Sanjeev believes the world is tiring of the loss of integrity. He considers the future will belong to people obsessed by bringing real value to thei...

Jess Roper is a former two-time English kickboxing champion and is currently a 2nd-degree blackbelt. Something she is committed to improve on through self-discipline, learning and committed effort.  More recently, Jess has become a well-known coach and professional speaker, delivering keynotes, and workshops, in both schools and companies, to improve performance, and increase resilience, through l...

Danny Dixon is the Founder and CEO of the start-up business Portevo, a new type of disruptive marketplace for consulting expertise, that connects clients and consultants, using an innovative modular statement of work approach, combining best practice thinking and practical implementation.  Prior to Portevo, Danny was a senior executive and leader in the mobile telecoms industry working in transfor...

Brenda Harrington is a Certified Executive Coach and the founder of Adaptive Leadership Strategies LLC. She works with leaders globally in public, private, government, intergovernmental, humanitarian, and nonprofit organizations. Brenda is staunch advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion everywhere Brenda spent more than thirty years in private industry, in positions ranging from first-level m...

Tim B. Green, Entrepreneur, inventor, Neuro-Cognitive Leadership Consultant, Data Scientist and advocate of empirical validity. Tim is a 55-year-old Canadian living in Japan & working internationally as a " Neuro-Cognitive Leadership Consultant " & Teacher. He helps leaders solve their most challenging problems & build better companies. He accomplishes this primarily by applying the insights of ne...

David Latten is the Head of Procurement at Logitech International. In addition to more traditional procurement priorities of cost optimisation, supplier performance and risk management; David's primary priority as a procurement leader today is to ensure Logitech and the wider corporate sector can deliver real progress towards equality via their supplier spend. A core value for Logitech and a perso...

Jenifer Ziegner is a co-founder and lead coach of Mountains and Marathons, a transformative coaching organisation that works with entrepreneurs and executives to create deeper alignment in their lives. The ALIGN Leadership Program takes leaders on a six-month journey that culminates with running a marathon or climbing a mountain in an epic place in the world, from Mount Everest and Mount Kilimanja...

Stefaan van Hooydonk is founder of the Global Curiosity Institute and author of the bestselling book: The Workplace Curiosity Manifesto. Stefaan researches the topic of workplace curiosity in companies and consults global corporations and leadership teams towards building a stronger curiosity muscle. At all levels.   After working initially in investment consulting and setting up executive educati...

Alexander Matianis  As a leader, human capital professional and HR practitioner of over 20 years, Alexander Matianis has partnered with Boards and CEOs to craft strategies that accelerate business and talent growth.   While in Global HR roles, Alexander has led large-scale strategic business transformation projects across the engineering, event management, telecom, health and security industries a...

Jazz Cool has more than 25 years’ experience at the leading edge of coaching mindset and performance: conducting bespoke corporate training initiatives and providing team and individual performance coaching at all levels of the organisation.   Once described as the “leaders’ coach”, Jazz’s extraordinary ability to ask the uncommon question is what sets her apart as a performance specialist. Alongs...