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

This podcast’s purpose is to open up honest conversations. Ones that get under the surface and tell us what leadership and life are really like. When leaders share something personal or deep with us, we learn tangible and practical things.  We also connect as human beings. In hearing others’ challenges, we feel connected and validated as fellow imperfect humans ..read more

Dominic was brought up to go for big goals but to do so in a way that was considerate to those around him. This is reflective in his company, which seems to build community as much as actual business ..read more

Skyler Mattson is President of the global creative agency, Wongdoody. She is a corporate leader with a very ‘human’ style. This really comes across as she talks about looking after a large team of creatives. I really got the impression she was ‘one of them’! Despite her leadership role and schedule, she’s still there on the ground, involved in projects and balances the corporate elements of her role with her employees’ needs ..read more

This month the tables have turned and I had the fortune of being interviewed for my own podcast by the wonderful @Fi MacMillan. It felt a bit indulgent but as my book ‘Next Level Leadership: nine lessons from conscious leaders’ is published THIS WEDNESDAY, it feels important. From this episode you will take away: Why I wrote the book What holds leaders back Memorable and practical moments of great leadership from the podcast Simple practices you can adopt to take your leadership to the next level Tune in here – I would love to hear what you think! You can pre-order the book here and did I me ..read more

Shanice Mears is back on the Conscious Leaders Podcast two years later to update us on how far business has come on diversity and inclusion (D&I) since George Floyd’s death in 2020. She shares great stories of leading businesses but talks through the reasons why much of this work is limited. Shanice is a young, black Co-Founder of a highly successful marketing agency called The Elephant Room who help build inclusive brands ..read more

Martyn got his latest business off the ground when he put himself out there, asked for help and then capitalised on those moments. As a business leader, his company, Purple Goat now uses the power of disabled creatives and influencers to create engaging, progressive and representative marketing campaigns and serves big brands such as Tesco and Virgin Media. Martyn is keen to highlight that the disability market is huge with approximately 1.3 billion people in it. He says that these audiences are underserved. As an employer, Martyn employs 50% disabled people (across mobility, neurodiversity, h ..read more

In my revisit interview with Jon Alexander, Co-founder, the Citizenship Project and now Author of ‘Citizens’, we dive deeper into his philosophy. Jon believes the story of us as consumers is broken. Practically, he gets organisations to ask themselves ‘what would it look like to bring the same creative energy into selling stuff, into involving people?’. He says that if you see people as consumers then you’re starting from the wrong place. This is then merely about ‘how can we sell people stuff’ whereas if you start from a place of seeing them as citizens then you can ask yourselves ‘what are y ..read more

Sue McClean started in a man’s world. She’s now a Partner at large law firm Baker McKenzie. Some of those men wanted her to have more ‘gravitas’. She questioned if they wanted her to be more like them. There weren’t many female role models that she could look up to. Most of them worked crazy hours just like the men. She could have accepted that and hung around the lower levels of her firms but she saw that her companies lost great women and things needed to change. Sue still works hard but she has broken the mould – she worked in senior roles 4 days a week while her husband took on the bulk of ..read more

John Timpson is Chairman at Timpson, well-known as a high street brand for shoe repairs and key cutting which now has over 2,000 stores and makes £20million in profit. What is it that works so well? John sought to shake up the business when he originally became CEO, instilling a key principle of ‘Upside Down Management’. This means as much autonomy for staff as is humanly possible. He says there are only two rules to follow (which he shares) the rest is up to the individual to decide. The faith that Timpson puts in people is most powerful when we consider that 10% of their workforce are ex-con ..read more