The Leadership Enigma

In a constantly changing world, today is as simple as it gets!  You’re listening to ‘The Leadership Enigma’. A Podcast to explore, experiment and power up your leadership to make the difference to your business, your people and your success. Whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner or corporate executive, each week we dig deep into global experts, academics, rising stars, ambitious upstarts and disruptors. Find all episodes on our website.Watch & Subscribe: 👀 https://www.youtube.com/@theleadersenigma/videosListen & Subscribe: 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/5NSnRyHzPmyY5OWhGzKU5Pwww.leadersenigma.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the world of undercover policing and hostage negotiation. Kevin O’Leary joins me in this very first episode of The Leadership Enigma. Kevin spent 30 years as a Metropolitan Police Detective, 8 years as the Head of Covert Policing Unit and was part of the command team for the London Olympics. Oh, by the way, he is also the advisor and referee for the award-winning Channel 4 show ‘Hunted’ and the Sky series ‘The Heist’ What could possibly go wrong in this first episode? This episode focuses on ‘The Commanders Intent’ as a way to create and communicate a clear message as to what success looks like even during chaos.  I chat to Kevin about how The Commanders Intent has helped him in covert high stakes operations and about how it translates across to the modern leader and promotes adaptive leadership. Kevin was also responsible for the amazing experiential learning event called ‘Operation Benedict’ that has been delivered to organisations all over the world including as part of the Google (GBA) Global Business Academy.Watch & Subscribe: 👀 https://www.youtube.com/@theleadersenigma/videosListen & Subscribe: 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/5NSnRyHzPmyY5OWhGzKU5Pwww.leadersenigma.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The tiger by the tail episode! How has the global pandemic catapulted digital transformation forward by 4-5 years? What are the challenges, opportunities and dilemmas facing leaders and their organisations? Hold on to your hats for this one as I am joined by Danny Goh, CEO of Nexus Frontier Tech and also Mark Esposito and Terence Tse, also from Nexus but they also teach at Harvard and Cambridge to name a few as they manage the interface between business, technology and government.Between them they are also authors of ‘AI Republic’ and ‘Understanding How The Future Unfolds: Using Drive to Harness the Power of Today’s Megatrends.’Watch & Subscribe: 👀 https://www.youtube.com/@theleadersenigma/videosListen & Subscribe: 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/5NSnRyHzPmyY5OWhGzKU5Pwww.leadersenigma.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The rise of the geek. However, this geek is John Amaechi, 6’9” on a bad day, psychologist, best-selling author, former NBA player, CEO of Amaechi Performance Solutions and Everyday Jedi. John is a straight-talking pragmatist with a human centred approach to life, work and leadership. In this episode John outlines how leaders will have to navigate old ways, extreme ways and new ways of working. His mantra of ‘leadership is energy expensive’ rings true regardless of what size organisation or sector you work in. Leaders are always under scrutiny and congruence is essential.John’s mum dramatically impacted his strong belief system when she told him “the most unlikely of people in the most improbable of circumstances can become extraordinary.” And he did. If a lad from Stockport who liked pies can get to the NBA…..!Watch & Subscribe: 👀 https://www.youtube.com/@theleadersenigma/videosListen & Subscribe: 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/5NSnRyHzPmyY5OWhGzKU5Pwww.leadersenigma.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With billions spent on leadership development annually, does it make a difference? Do we really understand how adults learn? Do we still rely on experts downloading their wisdom out of context in fancy hotels in the hope that some kind of value or impact will be realised back in the organisation?I chat to Nick Holley, Director of CRF Learning, global faculty for multiple business schools and voted #5 most influential thinker in HR. Nick has a no-nonsense approach to the issue. He advises, guides and challenges global multi nationals to start to consider how they can deliver leadership development, in context, in time and for the benefit of the organisation as a sustainable entity that provides value to more than just shareholders. If 70% of all work-related learning happens in workplace how can we design and deliver ‘fit for purpose’ development that delivers real measurable value?Watch & Subscribe: 👀 https://www.youtube.com/@theleadersenigma/videosListen & Subscribe: 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/5NSnRyHzPmyY5OWhGzKU5Pwww.leadersenigma.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.