How does our early life shape the leaders we become?
What role does fear play in our ambition?
And how can we lead with more wholeness and warmth - especially when work feels hard?
In this episode of The Fulfilled Leader, I’m joined by psychologist and executive coach Dr. Jonathan Marshall for a deeply thoughtful and expansive conversation about the inner world of leaders.
Jonathan supports high performers who look like they're thriving on the outside but feel stretched and burnt out underneath. His work brings together leadership development, psychological depth, and meaningful change - and in this conversation, he shares some of the powerful patterns he sees in the leaders he works with.
We talk about:
- How childhood experiences and attachment styles influence our leadership
- The role of fear in driving performance - and what happens when we heal it
- Why likability matters more than we think in leadership
- The importance of self-awareness and working with our narcissism
- And how we can create warmth and emotional inclusion in our teams
Jonathan also shares stories from his rich and varied background - including the time he helped change how we think about email “attachments” in the early days of Yahoo Mail, and what it was like moving from clinical psychology into leadership coaching at Harvard Business School.
This episode is full of both insight and heart. Jonathan invites us to reflect more deeply on who we are as leaders - and reminds us that the more whole we become, the more powerfully we can lead.
Follow Jonathan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/1marshall/
Jonathan's website: https://www.marshall.com.sg/
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