Podcast

#104: Human First, AI Second: Own Your Thinking

Over-relying on AI might be quietly eroding your sharpest thinking, and most people aren’t noticing until it’s too late. This episode covers the real cost of convenience: why the overwhelm around AI isn’t going away, how to spot the difference between intentional use and lazy use, and what brain atrophy actually looks like in the…

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#103: The Art and Science of Storytelling in Leadership

What makes a story land in a corporate setting, and what kills it? In this episode, Dr Gian Power OBE breaks down why leaders who rely on facts alone fail to move people, how to structure a story that drives real behaviour change, and what the biggest enemy of good storytelling really is (what he…

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#102: Creativity at Work, and Why We Stay Stuck

Most of us have said it at some point: “I wish my work was more creative.” And then stopped right there. In this episode, Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of The Creativity Choice, speaks about what keeps professionals stuck at that wish, and what it…

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#101: How to feel less trapped and show up better at work

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a loop (work, home, repeat), this conversation is for you. Julia Romanova brings an unusually human-centred lens to how we navigate change. In this episode, Julia introduces two powerful frameworks that reframe how we relate to ourselves, our colleagues, and the world around us. Radical Connectedness is the idea…

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#100: Ego in leadership: Why two CEOs aren’t the answer

This episode was inspired by a Financial Times article titled “Why Co-CEOs Might Suit Our Tumultuous Times.” In this conversation with Executive Coach Costas Kalisperas, we use it as a springboard to dig into something most of us have felt but rarely name: what leadership ego actually looks like day to day, how it ripples…

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#99: How to give a presentation that actually lands

Most business presentations fail for the same reason: we confuse the slides with the message. Andrea Pacini has spent his career helping business leaders fix that.Andrea is the author of “Confident Presenter” and “Timeless Presenter”, and head of Ideas on Stage UK. In this conversation, we explore why simplicity is so hard to apply even…

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#98: AI is not replacing you: It’s moving you up the stack

The dominant narrative around AI and work is built on fear. But is the replacement narrative historically illiterate, and is there a more nuanced argument to make?”. Tessa is the founder and CEO of HireGains.ai, an AI-powered platform, and author of the Human Centric AI newsletter on Substack. In this conversation, we explore three converging…

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#97: The freedom to overwork

For most of history, workplaces controlled people by telling them what they couldn’t do. Today the control works differently, by removing all restrictions and letting people push themselves to their own limits. In this conversation, Mark Orlic unpacks what philosopher Byung-Chul Han calls “The Burnout Society” where individuals are both victim and perpetrator of their…

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#96: Personality, leadership, and remote teams: what the research actually shows

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Henry Mullins, senior operations and strategy leader, and PhD in industrial-organizational psychology, to dig into what personality traits actually drive leadership performance in virtual and remote settings. Henry shares findings from his research on remote leadership, including where the existing literature falls short, the key theories connecting…

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#95: Performance management: The Revolut way

In a world where performance can make or break a company, creating a high-performance culture is essential. In this post, we dive into a conversation with Andrei Oprisor, the head of the people product department at Revolut, to explore how their internal human resource management system, Revolut People, emphasizes performance and meritocracy. We uncover the…

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