The Whole Leader Podcast
Welcome to The Whole Leader podcast—a podcast about modern leadership that goes beyond the playbook.
Episodes
10 episodes
Emily Cummin: Why We're So Afraid to Talk About Death
What if our fear of death is stopping us from living more fully?In this episode, I sit down with Emily Cummin, founder and CEO of Untangle, a grief support platform helping people feel less alone after loss. Through her work, Emil...
Deirdre Parsons: Transcendental Meditation and the Human Side of Performance
Deirdre Parsons, Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, talks about stress, creativity and helping people think more clearly through Transcendental Meditation. We discuss how she has spent over 40 years practising and teaching TM, br...
Stuart Middleton: From Battlefield to Boardroom
Stuart Middleton, Founder and CEO of Interv_l Group, shares how his experiences in the Royal Marines shaped the leader he is today.From enduring one of the world's toughest military training programmes to serving on the front line in Afg...
John Purkiss: The Power of Letting Go
What happens when a headhunter stops chasing career success and questions everything only to find even bigger success?In this episode, I sit down with John Purkiss, author of The Power of Letting Go and Brand You.
Camilla Dolan: Capital with a Conscience
Camilla Dolan, co-founder of Eka Ventures, is rethinking venture capital as a force for systems change.In this conversation, we explore her idea of shared value: the belief that businesses can create lasting commercial success by solving...
John Thompson: Presence as a Leadership Skill
What if leadership isn’t mainly about strategy or influence, but the quality of connection we bring to each moment — and to each other?John Thompson spends his time helping leaders reconnect with themselves, with the people around them, ...
Scarlett Allen-Horton: Refusing the Script
Scarlett Allen-Horton’s story cuts against the usual odds — and shows what can happen when someone refuses the script that life hands them. She left home at 16, became a mum at 19, and grew up around other people’s expectations of what she coul...
Sahasrajit Ramesh: The Juice of Life
What if surrender isn’t giving up, but waking up to what’s actually happening?In this episode, I speak with Sahasrajit Ramesh, co-creator of Satya Speaks, about what it means to live with more totality. His path runs from engineering at ...
Claire Glasgow: When Leaders Choose Not to See
What happens when power goes unchecked — and the people in charge choose not to look too closely?In this episode of The Whole Leader Podcast, I sit down with Claire Glasgow, a solicitor and director at Fieldfisher who represents individu...
Richard Hoyle: A Life in Leadership
In this episode, I sit down with Richard Hoyle — a former British Army officer whose path has taken him from military command to global enterprise sales, and then into the deeper territory of psychological insight and reflective practice. Over ...