Emily comes across as a very calm, measured, and humble CEO – one that does not feel that we need unnecessary pressure. She is committed to connecting with employees and organically growing their business in sustainable ways ..read more

Welcome to the 2023 Conscious Leaders Podcast Highlights Episode. If you don’t know me already, I’m your host, Founder of Conscious Leaders, Ruth Farenga. Quite apparently to us all, 2023 has been a year where all the implications have joined into a perfect storm. A year when we desperately need great leaders to look up to and help us navigate a path. And, leaders have continued to step up - and I have been there to hunt them down and hack into their brains so you can learn from their philosophy and practice. Personally, 2023 has been the year I have been settling in Stroud near Bristol having ..read more

Melanie has always been an achiever and rose through the ranks of young innovative companies, then moving to Google and now a Senior Product Director at LinkedIn. When COVID hit she went through her own burnout, realising that her own striving was a way of finding her own safety, having experienced a lack of safety for part of her childhood ..read more

Tom Hall has had a host of leadership roles in publishing and education and now works as GM at Lego International Education where he is a stand out leader in corporate. He is a huge advocate of cultivating more presence in his leadership and he explains how he consciously works on that through strong intention, meditation, and exercise. He is also keen to open himself up to his team and did that quite explicitly through running an offsite at his home comprising downtime, business strategy and time with clients. He finds that intentional face to face time creates much more connections and upfro ..read more

At 24, is wise beyond his years. He has built software development company that places students in organisations – Hatless studios. He is passionate about human psychology (our function and dysfunction), the ‘stories we tell ourselves’ and finding our purpose. He thinks very deeply about people and how we can more connected at work. He reads widely particularly around philosophy including stoicism and seeks to apply that approach to himself and supporting young people to ‘weave and not drift’ in their lives. Chris is keen to point out that pain and struggle is integral to being a leader and th ..read more

Flavilla was raised in the ghetto of Paris – starting in a 2-bed flat with her single parent mum and 4 other siblings, it was a difficult start. But she evolved through education, self-teaching and commitment a vision of something better moving through careers in events, fashion and into branding and marketing. It became clear to her quite quickly that she wanted to run her own show so her agency, ‘3 colours rule’ was born. Her energy is infectious so you cannot help leaving this episode with a new spring in your step and an optimism for the future. You will take away: Broadening our minds th ..read more

In Daniel’s revisit interview (his first is episode 3), Daniel opens up his large brain to us again! He describes his journey of being bought by a bigger company. He founded Satalia, a now 120 person AI consultancy and it was recently bought by WPP and he is still CEO. Daniel struggled initially to understand how funding or a buyout was the right route. He is a big proponent of decentralisation and did not want to fit into a predictable role that Venture Capitalists wanted. According to Daniel, WPP was unlike other potential buyers and embraces Satalia’s difference and wants to use it within t ..read more

Adam’s career started out the way everyone expected. His father was a Partner at one of the big consulting firms and this was his path. Indeed, it was as Adam accelerated up the promotion ladder to Partner at Accenture and then onto PwC. But brewing in the background were Adam’s mental health issues. Despite his success, he noticed issues dating back to when he was at university. Looking back, he realised the lows became lower and the highs higher. This was exacerbated by COVID. Eventually he was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and admitted to the Priory for 2 ½ months. As part of that he adm ..read more

Tim Williams took over Onalytica with a mandate to run it as if it was his own start-up. He had come in, disliked the original set up and resigned. However, the investors wanted him to stay so he was asked to rebuild the company as he saw fit ..read more

Renee Watson is Founder of Watson Consulting and the Curiosity Box (as well as a head coach in women’s touch rugby!). She is fantastic at tuning into her team and finding out what makes them tick and shares her specific methods for doing so ..read more