Today’s guest is Carien Borst, Artist and Leadership Coach. In this episode we are talking about Creativity and Reflection in Leadership - how every job is a creative act, and how we all have a part to play in creating a workplace and environment in which there is harmony, diversity and contrast.

Carien offers valuable insights into:

• How as human beings we are all creative

• How through being creative it can be an endless source of life energy

• Knowing and being yourself - how being authentic and vulnerable gives others permission to be authentic and vulnerable

• Creativity and how it’s related to leadership

Today’s guest is Guy Newey, Chief Executive Officer at Energy Systems Catapult - a company committed to accelerating NET ZERO in the UK through supporting innovators to commercialise, and helping design and deliver the future energy system.

Together Guy and I delve into the people, places and experiences that have made him the person and leader he is today. Guy offers valuable insights into:

• Communication and what he has learnt about communicating across the wider team.

• Resilience, how managing your own energy is key, along with helping to manage that of the team.

• Getting comfortable with not knowing everything, and how the more senior you become as a leader the less you know.

In this episode I am delighted to be in conversation with Emma Harris, Finance Director, M&S Food, Property and Retail. Together we delve into:

• How to bring alignment in corporate world

• The importance of amplifying your strengths

• And of staying authentic in more challenging environments

In this episode I am delighted to be in conversation with Chris Harte, Chief Executive and Commercial Real Estate Partner at Morton Fraser MacRoberts LLP, a leading Scottish law firm committed to providing straightforward advice, clarity on cost and to building strong trusting relationships with clients ensuring that their evolving needs are met with focus and care. Together we delve into:

• What it means to "Serve to Lead" and that leadership is not about you.

• The importance of Being Curious and to remember firstly that "the issue is never the issue", and secondly ‘not knowing’ all of the answers is a feature not a bug!

• How focusing our energy - not dispersing it - is key to strategy and that limitations can be useful, and helpful rather than a hindrance.

In this episode I am delighted to be in conversation with my two guests, Susie Ballentyne an Independent Psychologist and Bob Judson, a fellow podcaster, facilitator, leadership coach, and keynote speaker. We delve together into:

• The importance of continually developing your skills as a leader, both individually and as part of a team.

• The value of both mentors and coaches to leaders.

• The challenges of building, leading and inspiring teams in today’s complex and convoluted working environment.

• The really key requirements of a good leader.

In this episode I am delighted to be in conversation with Carolyn Youdell, Group eCommerce & Customer Engagement Director, Group Marketing Specsavers.

I have known Carolyn for many years and am a huge fan, she is a regular speaker on the Marketing Leaders Programme, and herself a huge fan of developing marketing leadership. Together we delve into:

• Embracing challenge

• Becoming compelling

• Driving simplicity

Co-Founders Anni Townend and Lucy Kidd in conversation with Natalie Shering for a special episode of Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend podcast. Here they explore why Curiosity, Care and Courage are the mindset and behaviours that underpin their Collaboration Equation™ to:

• Build Psychological Safety

• Practise Inclusive Dialogue

• Invite Diversity of Thought & Feeling and

• Drive Collaborative Edge

In this episode I am delighted to be in conversation with Akin Thomas, CEO and Founder of AKD Solutions - an international learning and development consultancy - built upon an ethos of stimulating brilliance through providing the space for people to engage in transformative and disruptive, and impactful fun learning experiences. Together we delve into:

• How do we create a learning environment that stimulates brilliance and the right to be your very best person, the very best version of yourself.

• How the quality of conversations that we have today has a direct correlation to who you will be in the next 5 - 10 years and beyond.

• The importance of disruption, and asking What happens if we do something differently, what is possible?

• Being intentional about our impact, and conscious of how the decisions we make now have a massive impact beyond what we are conscious of now.

In this episode I am delighted to be in conversation with Karen Wilkinson, inspiring and award winning Marketing Director, we delve together into:

• The power of connecting with your Values & Purpose

• How knowing your Strengths and not sweating your weaknesses is the best way to Focus and Fly

• Why Courage & Belief and Stepping out of your comfort zone is all part of being Brave

• Adventure Seeking - On seizing the day and going for it!