Leading People

Send us Fan Mail What really makes the difference when leadership gets difficult? Not when the plan is working. Not when the numbers look good. But when the pressure rises, the situation is unclear, and other people are looking to you for direction. Peter Davies has spent decades in senior leadership roles across DHL, SN Brussels Airlines, Air Malta and other complex organisations. Looking back, he has come to a conclusion that challenges the way many leaders think about performance: The soft...

Send us Fan Mail What if the problem with workplace learning isn’t a lack of content, courses or technology? What if we’re still confusing access to information with actual learning? In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray welcomes Stella Collins back to explore how people really learn at work and what organisations need to do differently if they want learning to translate into better performance. Stella’s new book, The Learning Organization, challenges some familiar assumptions ab...

Send us Fan Mail AI is getting faster, smarter and more capable. But are we asking it to solve the right problems? In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray welcomes Chris Soderquist back to explore what he calls Systemic Intelligence and why it may matter more than ever in an AI-driven world. Chris argues that many of the challenges leaders face are not really standalone problems at all. They sit inside wider systems, shaped by relationships, feedback loops, assumptions and mental mode...

Send us Fan Mail Why do some people seem to command attention before they’ve really said anything, while others struggle to make an impact even when they know their material? They may have attended all the usual communication and presentation courses, but somehow something is still not quite working. In this summer reflection episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray revisits the wisdom and advice of two former guests, Kate Walker Miles and Caroline Goyder, both of whom originally trained in th...

Send us Fan Mail What happens inside us doesn’t just stay inside us. Our beliefs, emotions, assumptions and internal state all influence how other people experience us — often before we have said very much at all. In this short reflection episode, Gerry Murray revisits two earlier Leading People conversations with Julia Carden, Alan Briskin and Mary Gelinas. Together, they explore why self-awareness is never just an individual matter, how our presence shapes the atmosphere around us, and why ...