Wavelength Podcast: Recent Episodes
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It's never been tougher to be a leader. This podcast explores how to lead change and meet the challenges of being a leader in the 21st century using all the tools and techniques to hand. We discuss peer to peer learning, immersive or experiential learning and how leaders learn best from other leaders. Our guests include authentic, honest and inspirational leaders from across the globe who share their stories.
Stuart Tootal, former Commander, 3PARA, led the first UK battle group into southern Afghanistan in 2006, before spending a decade in several global leadership positions at Barclays. He has worked with over fifty FTSE250 companies on the theme of leadership in adversity and is the bestselling author of Danger Close – Leading 3PARA in Afghanistan.
He is now a founding partner in Matero Consulting. Set up in 2019, Matero fuses military decision making with commercial acumen to drive clients’ change agendas.
In this podcast Stuart shares his lessons from the frontline, the day to day learnings and insights on what it takes to lead through a crisis, to stay resilient, and deliver impact. Stuart also shares insights on how to stay true to your moral compass in the toughest of times.
For more information on Stuart Tootal visit: https://www.wavelengthleadership.com/what/espeakershub/stuart-tootal/
In this second episode of the Wavelength Podcast, Wavelength's Co-founder and Chief Connector Adrian Simpson talks to Barbie Brewer, a Silicon Valley-based Chief People Officer with unparalleled experience of what it takes to lead a fully virtual organisation.
Barbie Brewer is a passionate advocate for remote working. She shares her experience as CPO at GitLab - a $2bn valuation software development company with a thousand employees working across 55 countries yet they have no offices! - and as VP of HR at Netflix. Barbie is now CPO of Love to Know Media, another entirely virtual organisation.
Barbie provides some tangible top tips on how to operate a virtual organisation including advice on the best communication structures; how to prepare for meetings and presentations; tangible tools to help you manage and monitor your culture; and critically how leaders should lead in a virtual organisation.
Barbie also flips the narrative that remote working is laden with downsides and talks eloquently about how to embrace the opportunity to create a more flexible, connected organisation in which leaders can embrace the opportunity to be seen as truly authentic and accessible.
For more information on Barbie Brewer visit: https://www.wavelengthleadership.com/what/espeakershub/barbie-brewer/
For more information on Ian Rowe visit: https://www.wavelengthleadership.com/what/espeakershub/ian-rowe/