The Evolving Leader
The Evolving Leader Podcast is a show set in the context of the world’s ‘great transition’ – technological, environmental and societal upheaval – that requires deeper, more committed leadership to confront the world’s biggest challenges. Hosts, Jean Gomes (a New York Times best selling author) and Scott Allender (an award winning leadership development specialist working in the creative industries) approach complex topics with an urgency that matches the speed of change. This show will give insights about how today’s leaders can grow their capacity for leading tomorrow’s rapidly evolving world. With accomplished guests from business, neuroscience, psychology, and more, the Evolving Leader Podcast is a call to action for deep personal reflection, and conscious evolution. The world is evolving, are you?
A little more about the hosts:
New York Times best selling author, Jean Gomes, has more than 30 years experience working with leaders and their teams to help them face their organisation’s most challenging issues. His clients span industries and include Google, BMW, Toyota, eBay, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Warner Music, Sony Electronics, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, the UK Olympic system and many others.
Award winning leadership development specialist, Scott Allender has over 20 years experience working with leaders across various businesses, including his current role heading up global leadership development at Warner Music. An expert practitioner in emotional intelligence and psychometric tools, Scott has worked to help teams around the world develop radical self-awareness and build high performing cultures.
The Evolving Leader podcast is produced by Phil Kerby at Outside © 2024
The Evolving Leader music is a Ron Robinson composition, © 2022
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 201
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Unpredicting with Stuart Firestein
In this first episode of season two, Scott and Jean talk to neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, about his counter-intuitive thinking on ignorance and failure as propelling forces in problem solving and …
Season 1 Finale: Lessons from 2020
In this final episode of season one, Scott and Jean reflect on the journey that has been season one of the Evolving Leader podcast, and address the question 'What lessons from 2020 are important for …
Bonus Episode: What I learnt from crisis
In this bonus episode Jean addresses the moral reasoning component of leadership, with a focus on making better decisions in the face of uncertain and highly complex situations.
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How emotions are made with Lisa Feldman Barrett (Pt 2)
This episode is part two of a two part conversation that Jean and Scott had with neuroscientist, Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett. University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, …
How emotions are made with Lisa Feldman Barrett (Pt 1)
This episode is part one of a two part conversation that Jean and Scott had with neuroscientist, Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett. University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, …
Bonus Episode: Vocation
In this bonus episode, Scott asks the question 'what is truly going on inside you, and what do you really want?'.
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Beyond great - How to build a brilliant team with Leon Smith (Pt 2)
This is the second part of a conversation between Jean and tennis coach, Leon Smith. For the last decade, Leon has been the Great Britain Davis Cup captain and in 2015 he led the team to becoming wor…
Beyond great - How to build a brilliant team with Leon Smith (Pt 1)
This is the first of a two part conversation that Jean has with tennis coach, Leon Smith. For the last decade, Leon has been the Great Britain Davis Cup captain and in 2015 he led the team to becomin…
Sense-making models with Ashley Bradford
In this episode, co-hosts Scott and Jean talk to polymath Ashley Bradford – tech entrepreneur and philosopher - who brings a riveting perspective about leadership. The conversation explores sense mak…
No Bullsh*t Leadership with Chris Hirst
In this episode co-hosts Jean and Scott talk to Chris Hirst, who runs one of the world’s largest creative networks and is the author of No Bullsh*t Leadership (winner of Business Book of the Year Awa…
The future of leadership with Talia Grantham
What’s shaping the world view, values and priorities for our future leaders? In this episode, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to entrepreneur Talia Grantham about her experiences working …
Leading Creative Profitability with Andy Billings
In this episode, Scott and Jean are joined by Andy Billings, Electronic Arts’ VP of Profitable Creativity and the co-founder of EA University. Andy has a diverse and fascinating background and range …
Nine types of fear (part two)
In this second (and final) part of our exploration into the nine types of fear, Jean and Scott look at the five remaining types of fear. What can the evolving leader do to recognise them in themselve…
Nine types of fear (part one)
During this two part discussion, Jean and Scott explore nine different ways in which fear can govern how we see the world, respond to threats and how it influences our relationships. This is a conver…
The Creativity Challenge with Dr K Kim
In this episode, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender interview Dr K Kim, award winning author (including a research study titled "The Creativity Crisis" which was the subject of a 2011 Newsweek co…
Power
How should the evolving leader think about power? In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender explore a definition of power that conceives it as a currency …
Always Day One (part two)
This is part two of the interview that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Always Day One author, Alex Kantrowitz.
In this episode, we hear about Alex's experiences interviewing Facebook …
Always Day One (part one)
This episode is the first part of an interview with Alex Kantrowitz, author of Always Day One. Alex describes the unique mindset and cultural DNA of Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook and believes th…
Introducing the Evolving Leader
In this introduction to the Evolving Leader podcast, hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender lay out some of the huge challenges facing leaders, heightened and brought into sharp relief by the Corona cri…
Hacking Uncertainty
In this episode of the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender confront leadership in the face of uncertainty. Was our world ever certain? How do leaders hack at uncertainty and chart…