The Evolving Leader
Jean Gomes and Scott Allender
The Evolving Leader Podcast is a show set in the context of the world’s ‘great transition’ – technological, environmental and societal upheaval – that requires deeper, more committed leadership to confront the world’s biggest challenges. Hosts, Jean Gomes (a New York Times best selling author) and Scott Allender (an award winning leadership development specialist working in the creative industries) approach complex topics with an urgency that matches the speed of change. This show will give insights about how today’s leaders can grow their capacity for leading tomorrow’s rapidly evolving world. With accomplished guests from business, neuroscience, psychology, and more, the Evolving Leader Podcast is a call to action for deep personal reflection, and conscious evolution. The world is evolving, are you?A little more about the hosts:New York Times best selling author, Jean Gomes, has more than 30 years experience working with leaders and their teams to help them face their organisation’s most challenging issues. His clients span industries and include Google, BMW, Toyota, eBay, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Warner Music, Sony Electronics, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, the UK Olympic system and many others.Award winning leadership development specialist, Scott Allender has over 20 years experience working with leaders across various businesses, including his current role heading up global leadership development at Warner Music. An expert practitioner in emotional intelligence and psychometric tools, Scott has worked to help teams around the world develop radical self-awareness and build high performing cultures.The Evolving Leader podcast is produced by Phil Kerby at Outside © 2024The Evolving Leader music is a Ron Robinson composition, © 2022
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Aug 27, 2024 • 4min
SUMMER SHORTS: Anil Seth (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Anil Seth back in November 2021 (S3 Ep11). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: Dissolving the Central Mystery of Life with Anil SethFor years explaining exactly how our brains conjure subjective conscious experience has been described by cognitive scientists as ‘the hard problem’. In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Professor Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex whose book (Being You, Faber 2021) continues this exploration, proposing an idea of the human mind as a “highly evolved prediction machine”, rooted in the functions of the body and “constantly hallucinating the world and the self” to create reality.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 25, 2024 • 8min
SUMMER SHORTS: Ellen Langer (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Dr Ellen Langer back in December 2023 (S6 Ep11). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: The Mind And Body Are One ThingIn this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to the mother of mindfulness, Dr Ellen Langer. Dr Langer is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard and for over 40 years has studied Mindlessness/Mindfulness, concluding that mindfulness (without meditation) results in improved health, well-being and improved relationships. She has written over 200 research articles and 13 books, the most recent of which is The Mindful Body (2023). Dr Langer is also a gallery exhibiting artist. Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 22, 2024 • 8min
SUMMER SHORTS: Philip Clarke (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Philip Clarke back in November 2021 (S3 Ep9). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: What Makes A Pioneer?“It’s clear that we have a massive problem in the way that we run our biggest and most powerful organisations.”Listen as co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Philip Clarke, founder and CEO of strategic innovation consultancy Hunch, podcast host and author, about the eight pioneer principles needed to change the world.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 21, 2024 • 21min
Leaders Who Fiction with Melanie Bell (BONUS)
Are you a leader who loves to read fiction but rarely finds time to do so?In this bonus episode, guest host Sara Deschamps talks to Melanie Bell about the intersection between reading fiction and heightened creativity, how fiction can help broaden your openness to and awareness of different points of views, and how impactful creating a community over shared literary experiences has been for the leaders who come together every month.Enjoy this short bonus episode of The Evolving Leader podcast.Leaders Who FictionOther reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)Social:Instagram @evolvingleaderLinkedIn The Evolving Leader PodcastTwitter @Evolving_LeaderYouTube @evolvingleader The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 20, 2024 • 5min
SUMMER SHORTS: Ed Lu (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Ed Lu back in March 2021 (S2 Ep7). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: What does 10x leadership look like? Ed Lu. Astronaut, Entrepreneur, Protector of Planet EarthIn this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are joined by Ed Lu, astronaut, pioneer engineer and potentially future saviour of planet Earth. Ed tells us about his experiences on two space shuttle missions, his time on the international space station following the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia, his time at Google and his work as co-founder of the B612 Foundation where the mission is to save Earth from an asteroid collision. Ed embodies leadership to his core in the most inspiring way.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 18, 2024 • 7min
SUMMER SHORTS: Kevin Kelly (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that co-host Jean Gomes had with Kevin Kelly back in September 2021 (S3 Ep2). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: The Next 15 Years with Kevin KellyIn this episode our guest is Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly. Kevin co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its executive editor until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website and is the former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. Kevin Kelly has written several bestselling books including ‘New Rules for the New Economy’, ‘What Technology Wants’ and his most recent book ‘The Inevitable’.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 15, 2024 • 4min
SUMMER SHORTS: Aidan McCullen (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Aidan McCullen back in July 2021 (S2 Ep25). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:The Undisruptable Mindset with Aidan McCullenThis week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to transformation consultant, keynote speaker, author, host of the Innovation Show and retired internal rugby player Aidan McCullen about how he transformed himself from unpromising athlete into successful international rugby player, and then into a digital business leader and thought leader.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 13, 2024 • 3min
SUMMER SHORTS: Dr Emily Clements (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that guest host Emma Sinclair had with Dr Emily Clements back in January 2023 (S5 Ep10). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: Disruptive Thinking with Emma Sinclair and Emily ClementsIn this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott hand the mic to Emma Sinclair who talks to cognitive neuroscientist Dr Emily Clements. As part of her PhD at Kings College, London Emily led one of the world’s first studies into the neuroscience of entrepreneurship. She aims to uncover what might be different within entrepreneur’s brains and how we might develop our mindsets to become more entrepreneurial?Sit back and listen to this fascinating conversation during which Emma and Emily explore a key foundation for tomorrow’s leaders, building mindsets to navigate uncertainty and improve their capacity for disruptive thinking. Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 11, 2024 • 11min
SUMMER SHORTS: Mark Solms (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with neuroscientist Mark Solms back in April 2021 (S2 Ep14). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: “What is consciousness?” with Mark SolmsThis week, the Evolving Leader podcast talks to one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Mark Solms. Most widely known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience, Solms’ research has taken him and his teams to a surprising source – not the evolved part of our brain responsible for memory, decision making and creativity, but the ancient parts. His hypothesis is that the origins of consciousness stem from bodily feeling and then emotion seated in the brain stem. If he’s right, the implications on the prevailing notions of what it is to be a human are profound.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
Aug 8, 2024 • 6min
SUMMER SHORTS: Steve Ingham (BONUS)
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Steve Ingham back in October 2021 (S3 Ep7).LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:Steve Ingham - Pioneering Performance ScientistTalking to Jean and Scott this week is Steve Ingham, one of the world’s most successful performance scientists. Steve has worked with over one thousand elite athletes, and over 200 of those (including Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent) have gone on to achieve World or Olympic medal success.Social:Instagram @evolvingleaderLinkedIn The Evolving Leader PodcastTwitter @Evolving_LeaderYouTube @evolvingleader The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team
