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
Distinguishing Risk and Uncertainty with John Kay
In 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 econom…
Bonus Episode: The Power of Listening with Emma Sinclair
During this bonus episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, guest Emma Sinclair talks to Jean Gomes about her current focus, understanding how teams work (and don't work) and her goal which is to help …
Why Management Theories Fail with Don Schmincke
This week we talk to performance advisor, author and researcher Don Schmincke who believes that most management ideas fail because of human biology. Listen as Don shares the findings from his researc…
Future Entrepreneurs with Ilham Said
This week, Evolving Leader co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to aerospace engineer and entrepreneur Ilham Said. Leaving university less than a year ago having completed a masters in aeronau…
The Science of Seeing Differently with Dr Beau Lotto
How can we see the world more clearly? In what seems to be an era of rising polarization, what is real and true versus what is being driven by motivated reasoning, self-deception and illusion?
Thi…
“Certainty is not a thought, it’s a feeling” with Dr Robert A Burton
This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to author and neurologist Dr Robert A Burton. As leaders face greater uncertainty, the consequences of their judg…
“What is consciousness?” with Mark Solms
This 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 …
Be Less Zombie with Elvin Turner
This week, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to author and innovation consultant Elvin Turner. How prepared are our leaders to drive innovation efforts within their organisations? Elvin hig…
Tell Me About Yourself: Honing Your Voice with Holley Kholi-Murchison
This week on the Evolving Leader, our co-hosts Jean and Scott talk to Holley Kholi-Murchison. Author, social practice artist, education producer and entrepreneur, Holley shares how you can tell other…
Radical Self-Awareness with Ian Morgan Cron
During this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes get a masterclass in self-awareness from Ian Morgan Cron. Ian is an expert in the Enneagram, an ancient pers…
Wellbeing Lessons from the Edge with Professor Neil Greenberg
During this episode, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to one of the world’s leading researchers in stress. Professor Neil Greenberg is a specialist in the understanding and management of p…
Rethinking Winning with Cath Bishop
During 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 …
How to Future with Scott Smith
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott talk to futurist, strategist, and author Scott Smith. Scott flips some of the notions of prediction, pushing back at the idea of the fut…
What does 10x leadership look like? Ed Lu. Astronaut, Entrepreneur, Protector of Planet Earth
In 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 abo…
Heritage and Innovation at Wimbledon with CEO Sally Bolton
In 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 he…
Owning the world's number 1 leadership challenge with Ben Osborn, Pfizer UK
What would it be like to be thrust, in a matter of days, from the relative anonymity of being an executive in a large organisation, to being on the front line of solving the world’s No1 health, socia…
The Power of Creative Purpose with Jeremy Cowart
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Jeremy Cowart, a distinctive artist whose work you’ve likely seen either online or in some glossy magazi…
Vollebak: why the world needs products from the future, now
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Vollebak co-founder Steve Tidball. Since 2015, Steve and his (co-founder) brother Nick have been “using …
Bonus Episode: The knowing/doing gap
Where do you plan to become more radically self aware in 2021? How are you going to close the knowing/doing gap? In this short bonus episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, Scott Allender addresses t…
Can we stop talking about digital?
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender bring together three very different digitally focussed leaders. Annemie Ress, Finbarr Joy and Carlos Nasillo joi…