In this episode, we’re delighted to welcome Susie Alegre back to The Evolving Leader. Susie is a leading human rights barrister at the internationally renowned Garden Court Chambers. She has been a legal pioneer in digital human rights, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on the human rights of freedom of thought and opinion and she is also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton.Artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from ...

Have you ever wanted to travel through time and see what your life will be like in the future? While we want the best possible future for ourselves, we often fail to make decisions that would make that a reality. So why are so many of us so disconnected from our future selves?This week on The Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to psychologist Professor Hal Hershfield. Hal is Professor of Marketing, Behavioural Decision Making, and Psychology at UCLA’s Anderson School...

Are you feeling stuck? Finding your purpose changes everything.During this new episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-host Jean Gomes talks to self-confessed purpose nerd James Glover. James is the founder of The Excitable Soul, an organisation through which he and his team address the challenge that is helping people find their purpose. James is a World Champion athlete and a former Olympic performance coach, and after leaving elite sport he has worked all over the world with large organ...

Steve Rader is a leader in the thinking behind open innovation, open talent, and the future of work. In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, Steve joins Evolving Leader cohosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender to share how leaders can learn from his important work and use their learnings to solve complex problems. Steve tells us that open innovation and open talent are key strategies for organisations to stay competitive in a rapidly changing world.References from this episode:"Co-Intell...

What happens when everything changes, when your core assumptions about your life and work seem no longer to hold true? A key responsibility of the leader is to be honest with themselves and others about anticipating, accepting and preparing for new realities while acknowledging that human beings often resist reality in ingenious and self deceiving ways.In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Sharath Jeevan O.B.E. about his work helping le...

In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender welcome back former guest science writer David Robson. David is an award-winning science writer specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour. He has worked as editor of New Scientist and BBC Future, and his writing has been published in The Guardian, the Observer, the Washington Post and Atlantic and in 2022 was a finalist for the Best British Science Journalist of the year award. He ...

In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with Kim Scott. Kim is the author of the best selling ‘Radical Candor, How To Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean’ (2017), ‘Just Work: How to Confront Bias, Prejudice and Bullying to Build a Culture of Inclusivity’ (2021) and the more recently published ‘Radical Respect, How to Work Together Better’ (2024). Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrix and Twitter and she hosts the Radi...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Richard Fith-Godbehere back in March 2023 (S5 Ep15). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: How the Way You Feel Builds the World You Know with Richard Firth-GodbehereIn this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with Richard Firth-Godbehere. Richard is one of the world's leading experts on disgust and emotions, he is an independent researcher and...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Anil Seth back in November 2021 (S3 Ep11). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: Dissolving the Central Mystery of Life with Anil SethFor years explaining exactly how our brains conjure subjective conscious experience has been described by cognitive scientists as ‘the hard problem’. In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Professor Anil Seth, professor...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Dr Ellen Langer back in December 2023 (S6 Ep11). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: The Mind And Body Are One ThingIn this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to the mother of mindfulness, Dr Ellen Langer. Dr Langer is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard and for over 40 years has studied Mindlessness/Mindfulness, concluding that mindfulness (without meditati...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Philip Clarke back in November 2021 (S3 Ep9). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: What Makes A Pioneer?“It’s clear that we have a massive problem in the way that we run our biggest and most powerful organisations.”Listen as co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Philip Clarke, founder and CEO of strategic innovation consultancy Hunch, podcast host and author, about the eight pioneer principles ne...

Are you a leader who loves to read fiction but rarely finds time to do so?In this bonus episode, guest host Sara Deschamps talks to Melanie Bell about the intersection between reading fiction and heightened creativity, how fiction can help broaden your openness to and awareness of different points of views, and how impactful creating a community over shared literary experiences has been for the leaders who come together every month.Enjoy this short bonus episode of The Evolving Leader podcast...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Ed Lu back in March 2021 (S2 Ep7). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: What does 10x leadership look like? Ed Lu. Astronaut, Entrepreneur, Protector of Planet EarthIn this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are joined by Ed Lu, astronaut, pioneer engineer and potentially future saviour of planet Earth. Ed tells us about his experiences on two space shuttle miss...

This short comes from a conversation that co-host Jean Gomes had with Kevin Kelly back in September 2021 (S3 Ep2). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: The Next 15 Years with Kevin KellyIn this episode our guest is Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly. Kevin co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its executive editor until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website and is the former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. Kevin Kelly has written several bests...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Aidan McCullen back in July 2021 (S2 Ep25). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:The Undisruptable Mindset with Aidan McCullenThis week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to transformation consultant, keynote speaker, author, host of the Innovation Show and retired internal rugby player Aidan McCullen about how he transformed himself from unpromising athlete into su...

This short comes from a conversation that guest host Emma Sinclair had with Dr Emily Clements back in January 2023 (S5 Ep10). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: Disruptive Thinking with Emma Sinclair and Emily ClementsIn this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott hand the mic to Emma Sinclair who talks to cognitive neuroscientist Dr Emily Clements. As part of her PhD at Kings College, London Emily led one of the world’s first studies into the neuroscience of entrepreneurship...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with neuroscientist Mark Solms back in April 2021 (S2 Ep14). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION: “What is consciousness?” with Mark SolmsThis week, the Evolving Leader podcast talks to one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Mark Solms. Most widely known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience, Solms’ research has taken him and his ...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Steve Ingham back in October 2021 (S3 Ep7).LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:Steve Ingham - Pioneering Performance ScientistTalking to Jean and Scott this week is Steve Ingham, one of the world’s most successful performance scientists. Steve has worked with over one thousand elite athletes, and over 200 of those (including Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent) have gone on ...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Sally Bolton back in March 2021 (S2 Ep6).LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:Heritage and Innovation at Wimbledon with CEO Sally BoltonIn this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Wimbledon CEO, Sally Bolton. Sally shares some of the leadership challenges that she has faced during her first 12 months as CEO of one of the world’s most prestigious sporting ev...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Cath Bishop back in March 2021 (S2 Ep9).LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:Rethinking Winning with Cath BishopDuring this episode, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Cath Bishop, former world champion and Olympic silver medal winning rower, and conflict diplomat who worked in some of the world’s most challenging regions including Bosnia and Iraq. In October 2020, Cath's first book "The Long Wi...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Robert Swan back in June 2021 (S2 Ep21).LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:2041: The Mission to Save Antarctica with Robert SwanRobert Swan is a polar environmentalist, author and founder of 2041, a company that is dedicated to the preservation of Antarctica. The year 2041 is hugely important as it marks the end of a 50 year treaty that was signed by almost every nation designating Antarctica as ‘a natura...

This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Sir John Kay back in June 2021 (S2 Ep19).LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:Distinguishing Risk and Uncertainty with John KayIn this episode of the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to John Kay, one of the world’s leading economists, whose life’s work is focused on the relationship between economics and businesses. Together with Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of ...

This short comes from a two part conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett back in December 2020 (S1 Ep15 and 16). LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION:How emotions are made with Lisa Feldman Barrett (Pt 1)How emotions are made with Lisa Feldman Barrett (Pt 2)Lisa Feldman Barrett is among the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeaste...

We’re excited to launch this new Evolving Leader mini-series, ‘The Inner Canvas’ co-hosted by our research colleagues psychologist Emma Sinclair and Neuroscientist Dr Emily Clements. In each episode, Emma and Emily talk to pioneering scientists about new breakthroughs in our understanding as to how we make sense of ourselves, painting a picture of the internal canvas that our mind creates. As a result we’ll learn more about our mindset and why it matters, and continue on our journey as evolvi...