The HOW of High Performance

What do you do when you realise the management structure that's meant to help your people perform is actually the very thing getting in the way? Rob Pierre, co founder of global digital agency Jellyfish, grew the business from six people to 2,200 before exiting in 2023.In this episode of The How of High Performance he opens up about how he navigated the high stakes of ripping up traditional leadership and rebuilding it around distributed accountability and trust.He talks about how the same instincts that shaped his career have also helped him navigate high stakes in his personal life, and his one piece of advice for fellow senior leaders is beautifully simple: start small, take full accountability, and let the consistent trail of delivery build belief around you.About the ShowThe How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders.Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent.Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure.Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show.Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops.Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.

Catherine Bond Muir is an IP lawyer turned investment banker turned founder of the W Series, the first women's single seater motor racing championship, which raced alongside Formula One and became the most watched women's sport on Sky before going into administration.In this episode of The How of High Performance she talks about what it took to convince the world that women's motor racing deserved a global stage, the recruitment instinct that mattered more to her than any CV, and the moment her team clapped her out of the office that told her more about her leadership than any metric ever could.Catherine shares what she learned about judgment when you're spinning ten plates and decisions can't wait, and her advice to fellow senior leaders is refreshingly blunt and impossible to forget.About the ShowThe How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders.Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent.Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure.Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show.Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops.Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.

Kathryn Bishop CBE has spent her career getting things done across the private and public sectors as a consultant, line manager, non executive director and chair.In this episode of The How of High Performance, she shares what it was like to be appointed the first chairman of the Welsh Revenue Authority when London delegated tax raising powers to Cardiff for the first time in 800 years, and what she told her husband when January came and the go live date was three months away.Kathryn talks about leading a group of schools through COVID when students were weeks from their exams, why she's so passionate that five minutes looking out of the window might be the thing that makes the real difference when the pressure is at its highest, and the crucible moments that burn away everything that doesn't matter and leave you with a clearer view of who you actually are as a leader.About the ShowThe How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders.Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent.Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure.Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show.Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops.Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.

Ali Riley is captain of Angel City Football Club and the New Zealand women's national team, a role she's held through World Cups, Olympic Games and some of the toughest moments in women's sport.In this episode of The How of High Performance, she opens up about what happened when she stood up against a coach whose behaviour was causing real harm to her and her teammates, knowing it could end her international career, and why she did it anyway because the risk of staying silent felt far greater than the risk of speaking out.Ali talks about what it really means to lead as a captain when so much is outside your control, why the most powerful leadership she's experienced has always been rooted in service rather than status, and the Māori philosophy that has guided every decision she's made as a leader.About the ShowThe How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders.Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent.Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure.Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show.Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops.Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.

Bejay Mulenga MBE is a speaker, advisor and serial entrepreneur who has supported over 50,000 young entrepreneurs and now runs plant based food business Seeds of Wild.In this episode of The How of High Performance, he shares what happened when personal loss hit in the middle of delivering a national tour for Meta, and how being honest with his team about not being okay opened up a completely different kind of leadership culture.Bejay brings high stakes to life through the lens of real time entrepreneurship, including managing a 200 person wedding when the venue, the weather and the plan all fell apart at once, and talks about why journaling and observation are the most underused tools in any leader's kit.About the ShowThe How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders.Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent.Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure.Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show.Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops.Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.