The Leadership Series Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sally Henderson
The Leadership Series is a weekly podcast, based around inspiring, honest conversations with interesting people in senior leadership roles, to make the world of work, work
The final chapter of the first series is an audio file from Sally Henderson's recent leadership talk with the Design Business Association, in which she shares practical advice on the five very same core leadership challenges that inspired The Leadership Series Podcast.
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Suzy Ross, Senior Advisor at Accenture Retail, is developing a new critical offer within an already well-established organisation.
How do you make such ambitious change work and what obstacles need to be overcome?
Suzy speaks to Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, for The Leadership Series Podcast, on the successes and challenges she’s faced when implementing change at senior leadership level. As well as five pieces of advice for other senior leaders implementing change from the inside out.
According to a report by Harvard Business Review back in 2011, half of CEOs reported experiencing feelings of loneliness within their role, with 61% of CEOs believing this hinders their performance. How has this evolved with the modern workplace? Is isolation still a worrying emotion that sits hand-in-hand with senior leadership and how does a workplace built around independent workers fit into this?
Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, chats to Amelia Torode, founder of The Fawnbrake Collective to find out Amelia’s valuable insight on their initiatives to help overcome isolation within a company formed of a collective of independent workers, whether isolation differs between businesses and how companies can work together to overcome this hindering emotion.
Ever sat there wondering what’s truly expected of you in your senior role and what defines your success? How do you break this cycle to achieve positive growth?
A common leadership hurdle in a senior role can be the lack of definition in what you’ve actually been hired to do. Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, chats to Sarah Harvey, Former Head of UK at the Fintech group Square, to discuss how this can be overcome, including Sarah’s advice for recruiting new hires and when a lack of clarity in a job role can actually be a positive thing.
"Modern leadership is about sharing leadership out. It’s no longer a pyramid structure with one person at the top. We all have a responsibility to people within our organisation and work has become more of a community that supports each other."
In the latest episode for the series, Phil Bartlett, MD of CDM London, part of Omnicom, shares his incredibly honest and open insight with Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, on how to develop yourself, and your team, to grow the leadership capabilities required to build a successful business.
Within the episode, you’ll also learn how Phil is an advocate of diversity, hear his humble experiences of the common emotion of isolation as a senior leader, as well as finding out where Phil sources his leadership inspiration from.
"In many cases, we find a security and comfort in doing the things we know we do well, so it’s much easier to sit down and do a task you’ve done a thousand times rather than gear yourself up to do something outside of your comfort zone, or that you don’t quite know the answer too".
How do you build the confidence to overcome this? Clare Gambardella, Chief Customer Officer at Zopa, talks to Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, for The Leadership Series Podcast on how to have the confidence to lead rather than be stuck in the day to day.
Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, speaks with Atif Sheikh, Founder & CEO of businessthreezero, on the importance of investing in your team to turn brilliant managers into effective leaders.
Atif is a leader who is totally unafraid of being himself, is more than happy to share some of his lowest lows and generously give away top-tips to support fellow senior leaders in making today’s world of work, work.
Atif shares Sally's view that to set up a business for long-term success, you must start with having a culture whereby investing in leadership is seen as a brilliant investment, not a painful cost.
Hear what made Atif cry, what he thinks makes a great leader and some of the lessons he wishes he’d being given earlier on in his career.
People tell you that it’s lonely at the top, but it’s not till you are there that you believe it. So, who do you turn to in order to help you build ideas, innovate, make decisions and have the clarity of vision to rise above the daily grind?
Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, talks to Gemma Greaves on what she has learnt since becoming CEO of The Marketing Society, as well as three key pieces of advice to avoid loneliness and isolation at the top.
It’s all too easy to spend your time as a leader focusing on the day-to-day of fixing rather than looking ahead to the wider business needs and what can be improved to encourage and implement positive change.
Phil Burgess, Chief People and Operations Officer at C Space, speaks with Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, to share what he has learnt during his career so far, how he keeps his attitude positive to allow him to focus on growth as well as his key principles of leadership.
How can you be a leader that supports their team to help them achieve their ambitions, whilst channelling your own ambitions at the same time?
Sally Henderson, Executive Change Mentor, talks to Jonny Tooze, Founder & CEO at digital agency LAB, about how he ensures his ambitions and the ambitions of his team are met, whilst remaining an effective leader.