New Leadership - why understanding ourselves and our motivations matters

An open and reflective two minutes from Sam Baker, looking at how his own leadership style is evolving to meet personal and organisational challenges. 

Sam is a partner and leads the Monitor Deloitte strategy consulting pra...

Leadership is as much about knowing yourself as knowing how to lead others. Rosie Brown, CEO of Cook, says "If you are not willing to develop yourself you have no right to lead others." Fabulous 2 minutes with Rosie Brown talking about the responsibility of leaders to take time to develop some...

Tim Littlehales // Co-CEO  //Bridge Partnership

Has there ever been a better opportunity to embrace a different kind of leadership? During times of disruption and change comes the space and possibility for something new to emerge.

Tim Littlehales - Co-CEO of Bridge Partnership - believes the opp...

Victoria Hurth // Associate Professor of Marketing // Plymouth University

Business will not change - whether it is purposeful or not - if the values which underpin the move towards purposeful business are dictated by the market, rather than by what gives us a sense of wellbeing as human beings.

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Ryan Gellert // General Manager EMEA // Patagonia

If change is going to be sustainable, it has to be real, we have to mean it. Ryan Gellert, from Patagonia asks: who is going to lead the change towards a sustainable future - individuals, government, business?

As Ryan says in the clip, business a...

CJ Green CEO // TOVIP

“As a leader, if you allow yourself some vulnerability and people see that you are human, they connect with you a lot more.” CJ Green

If we are more human with one another – if we allow our whole selves to be present at work, then this kind of personal generosity creates co...

Moira Sinclair // CEO Paul Hamlyn Foundation

I've got your back. What does it actually mean? Surely it's a phrase intended to reassure a friend or colleague of our support, to say that we're trustworthy and can be relied on - we'll be there when it matters.

What happens when this becomes a part...

The courage to be kind

Can we be competitive and be kind? Can business maintain a competitive edge and still remember that kindness is one of the rules of the game?

Perhaps the key to the game is courage – the strength to save a space for kindness in the everyday transactions of work and busines...

Writer and speakers Giles Hutchins challenges leaders to question how we run our organisations – and to shed light of the the systems the underpin the way we work.

What would happen if we could go beyond the mechanistic mindset (the metaphor of the organisation as a machine – with production an...

It doesn't just happen – creating a workplace environment where people feel confident and comfortable to speak up and be true to their values takes time and consideration. (Listen to author and speaker Simon Sinek on intensity versus consistency.)

In the absence of an open and supportive workpl...