Podcast

I’m exploring how the brain’s bias towards threat detection can shape behaviour at work, and why resistance, disengagement or conflict may not be an attitude problem at all.

Exploring why words such as stopping, removing and giving something up can create resistance before we have even begun.

Explore the difference between trust and psychological safety, the questions that help you work out what is really happening, and a simple four-quadrant map leaders can return to again and again.

I look at why trust is really about prediction and risk, how it builds over time, and why leaders need to know whether they are dealing with a trust issue or a psychological safety issue.

Psychological safety, what it really means to create it, and how easy it is for good intentions to land as pressure instead of support.

I unpack the difference between responsibility and accountability, why psychological safety matters so much, and how leaders can accidentally kill accountability through micromanaging, vague expectations or punishing mistakes.

I’m joined by Leah Boxell, CEO and founder of Enable Lists, for a conversation about legacy, impact and the people who shape us often without realising just how much they have done.

I explore the difference between failure, error, mistake and unintended outcome, and how each word changes the way we think, feel and act. For leaders, this matters.

I’m sharing why noticing the positives matters, especially when life and leadership feel busy, messy or heavy. From a clearer-than-expected commute to a kind voice note from a colleague, the small things can genuinely shift your energy.

Whether you’re trying to shift something in yourself, your team, or a whole organisation, there’s usually an existing system quietly trying to pull everything back to how it was.