The Evolving Leader

This is the first of a two part conversation that Jean has with tennis coach, Leon Smith. For the last decade, Leon has been the Great Britain Davis Cup captain and in 2015 he led the team to becoming world champions for the first time in 79 years. In the first of these two episodes, Leon talks to Jean about what he's learned about leadership since starting coaching at 18 years of age.Social: Instagram     @evolvingleader LinkedIn      The Evolving Leader PodcastSend a message to The Evolving Leader team

In this episode, co-hosts Scott and Jean talk to polymath Ashley Bradford – tech entrepreneur and philosopher - who brings a riveting perspective about leadership. The conversation explores sense making tools to help teams navigate uncertainty, lowering barriers to ensure everyone can have access to the best education and the ethics around the rising power of digital technologies – how can we be better people in states of high uncertainty? Social: Instagram     @evolvingleader LinkedIn      The Evolving Leader PodcastSend a message to The Evolving Leader team

In this episode co-hosts Jean and Scott talk to Chris Hirst, who runs one of the world’s largest creative networks and is the author of No Bullsh*t Leadership (winner of Business Book of the Year Award 2020: Leadership for the future). In the book, Chris seeks to overturn what he calls the leadership industrial complex that over complicates what leadership is and prevents the core role and practices of what leaders really need to do from being explicit.  Social: Instagram     @evolvingleader LinkedIn      The Evolving Leader PodcastSend a message to The Evolving Leader team

What’s shaping the world view, values and priorities for our future leaders? In this episode, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to entrepreneur Talia Grantham about her experiences working in start-ups and the things that truly matter to her in her life and work. Social: Instagram     @evolvingleader LinkedIn      The Evolving Leader PodcastSend a message to The Evolving Leader team

In this episode, Scott and Jean are joined by Andy Billings, Electronic Arts’ VP of Profitable Creativity and the co-founder of EA University. Andy has a diverse and fascinating background and range of interests. However during this disussion, the main focus is his experiences of leadership during EA’s incredibly turbulent time from a position of dominance in the console games era to near death, and successful transformation in the new world of free and online games.   Social:Instagram     @evolvingleaderLinkedIn      The Evolving Leader PodcastSend a message to The Evolving Leader team

In this second (and final) part of our exploration into the nine types of fear, Jean and Scott look at the five remaining types of fear. What can the evolving leader do to recognise them in themselves (and others) and grow past a reactive relationship towards them? Where are the opportunities for growth and better judgement?Social:Instagram     @evolvingleaderLinkedIn      The Evolving Leader PodcastSend a message to The Evolving Leader team

During this two part discussion, Jean and Scott explore nine different ways in which fear can govern how we see the world, respond to threats and how it influences our relationships. This is a conversation prompted by a comment made by the neuroscientist Beau Lotto who suggested at the onset of the Corona crisis that fear of uncertainty is perhaps our greatest fear. So, what can that unlock for the evolving leader?Social:Instagram     @evolvingleaderLinkedIn      The Evolving Leader PodcastSend a message to The Evolving Leader team

In this episode, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender interview Dr K Kim, award winning author (including a research study titled "The Creativity Crisis" which was the subject of a 2011 Newsweek cover story), and Professor of Creativity & Innovation at the College of William & Mary. Dr Kim focused this research on the analysis of the Torrance creativity test that has been taken by millions of children in 50 languages over the past 50 years, and the realisation that the correlation to lifetime accomplishment is more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ. She is passionate about reversing that decline arguing that it is stalling our economy and our ability to solve the world's biggest problems. During the podcast, Dr Kim reveals that she is about to publish some major new research and provides an exclusive trail to Jean and Scott. Social:Instagram     @evolvingleaderLinkedIn      The Evolving Leader Podcast  Send a message to The Evolving Leader team

How should the evolving leader think about power? In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender explore a definition of power that conceives it as a currency to be wisely spent as opposed to asset to be accumulated and defended. What needs to evolve within us to see and manage power in healthy and productive ways?Social:Instagram     @evolvingleaderLinkedIn      The Evolving Leader Podcast  Send a message to The Evolving Leader team

This is part two of the interview that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Always Day One author, Alex Kantrowitz. In this episode, we hear about Alex's experiences interviewing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the culture of feedback and listening that Zuckerberg has built into the organisation. Alex also addresses the fundamental choice that today's leaders are having to face between building an organisation that defends value and an organisation that grows value for the future.Social:Instagram    @evolvingleaderLinkedIn       The Evolving Leader PodcastSend a message to The Evolving Leader team