Leading People

60:52

How the Soft Determines the Hard

Leading People ·

2026/10/02

Send us Fan Mail What really makes the difference when leadership gets difficult? Not when the plan is working. Not when the numbers look good. But when the pressure rises, the situation is unclear, and other people are looking to you for direction. Peter Davies has spent decades in senior leadership roles across DHL, SN Brussels Airlines, Air Malta and other complex organisations. Looking back, he has come to a conclusion that challenges the way many leaders think about performance: The soft...

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60:33

Are We Still Confusing Training With Learning?

Leading People ·

2026/09/18

Send us Fan Mail What if the problem with workplace learning isn’t a lack of content, courses or technology? What if we’re still confusing access to information with actual learning? In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray welcomes Stella Collins back to explore how people really learn at work and what organisations need to do differently if they want learning to translate into better performance. Stella’s new book, The Learning Organization, challenges some familiar assumptions ab...

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57:16

Can AI Solve the Problems That Really Matter?

Leading People ·

2026/09/04

Send us Fan Mail AI is getting faster, smarter and more capable. But are we asking it to solve the right problems? In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray welcomes Chris Soderquist back to explore what he calls Systemic Intelligence and why it may matter more than ever in an AI-driven world. Chris argues that many of the challenges leaders face are not really standalone problems at all. They sit inside wider systems, shaped by relationships, feedback loops, assumptions and mental mode...

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14:19

Why Presence Matters Before Words

Leading People ·

2026/08/21

Send us Fan Mail Why do some people seem to command attention before they’ve really said anything, while others struggle to make an impact even when they know their material? They may have attended all the usual communication and presentation courses, but somehow something is still not quite working. In this summer reflection episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray revisits the wisdom and advice of two former guests, Kate Walker Miles and Caroline Goyder, both of whom originally trained in th...

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14:55

What Happens When You Walk into a Room?

Leading People ·

2026/08/07

Send us Fan Mail What happens inside us doesn’t just stay inside us. Our beliefs, emotions, assumptions and internal state all influence how other people experience us — often before we have said very much at all. In this short reflection episode, Gerry Murray revisits two earlier Leading People conversations with Julia Carden, Alan Briskin and Mary Gelinas. Together, they explore why self-awareness is never just an individual matter, how our presence shapes the atmosphere around us, and why ...

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11:34

Why Better Tools Still Need Better Thinking

Leading People ·

2026/07/24

Send us Fan Mail What happens when organisations move faster, adopt smarter tools, and still keep running into the same problems? In this short reflection episode, Gerry Murray revisits two earlier Leading People conversations — with Chris Soderquist and Angela Montgomery — to explore why better tools do not remove the need for better thinking. From repeated problems and firefighting, to silos, outdated management habits, and the danger of automating what isn’t working, this episode is a time...

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63:39

Could AI Be Screening Out the Talent You Need?

Leading People ·

2026/07/10

Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest risk in AI-driven hiring is not what it helps you find — but what it filters out before a human ever gets involved? In this episode, Gerry Murray talks to investigative journalist and author Hilke Schellmann about what happens when black-box AI tools start shaping high-stakes workplace decisions. Hilke’s book, The Algorithm, exposed how AI was already being used to assess, rank, and filter people in hiring and employment. In this conversation, she shares s...

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50:09

Why Most Training Fails Before It Even Begins

Leading People ·

2026/06/26

Send us Fan Mail Why does so much training still fail to change behaviour — even when the content is good, the facilitator is strong, and the intentions are right? In this episode, Gerry Murray talks to learning expert, Fergal Connolly, about one of the most persistent and costly problems in workplace learning: The gap between training delivered and behaviour changed. Fergal argues that the issue often starts long before the session itself. If the environment around the lear...

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54:13

Why Don’t More Leaders Build Learning Communities?

Leading People ·

2026/06/13

Send us Fan Mail What if one of the most powerful ways people learn at work is also one of the most overlooked? In this conversation, Gerry Murray talks to Andy Lancaster about why learning communities deserve far more attention from leaders than they usually get — not as a nice extra, but as a serious way to build confidence, capability, and innovation at work. Andy’s new book, Organisational Learning Communities, explores why people often learn best with and through other people — and why t...

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47:25

What's the Constraint You Don't Know You Have?

Leading People ·

2026/06/01

Send us Fan Mail What if the thing holding you and your organisation back isn't a market problem, a resource problem, or even a people problem — but a thinking problem you can't yet see? This week's guest, Angela Montgomery, has spent three decades helping leaders discover exactly that. As author of The Human Constraint and co-founder of Intelligent Management, she brings together the work of W. Edwards Deming and Eliyahu Goldratt into a practical framework for leading in complexity. In thi...

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45:30

How to Read the Room and the Hidden Forces at Play

Leading People ·

2026/05/02

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever walked into a room and felt something you couldn't quite name? A tension, an energy, a sense that something invisible was shaping everything happening around you — and inside you? What if that feeling wasn't imagination? What if there were hidden forces actively at play in every meeting, every team, every relationship — and most leaders have no idea they're there? In this episode, Alan Briskin and Mary Gelinas — authors of Space is Not Empty — reveal what those ...

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8:10

How to Handle “That’s Not Fair” at Work

Leading People ·

2026/04/17

Send us Fan Mail You may already be expecting this conversation. In fact, you may be dreading it. Someone on your team wants to talk about pay, fairness, and why they feel something doesn’t add up. And once that conversation starts, you need to handle it in a way that feels clear, constructive, and consistent — not just for one person, but across the team. In this short One Simple Thing episode, Gerry Murray explores a practical way to handle these conversations without getting pulled int...

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56:05

How to Coach the Person, Not the Problem

Leading People ·

2026/03/20

Send us Fan Mail What if the real issue isn’t the problem someone brings you — but the way they are thinking about it? Or, perhaps it's how they're behaving... In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray is joined by coaching pioneer Dr Marcia Reynolds to explore a more powerful approach to coaching, leadership, and human development. Their conversation goes well beyond formal coaching. It looks at how leaders, HR professionals, and people managers can create better conversations by lis...

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5:29

How to Deal with Team Members Who Don’t Get Along

Leading People ·

2026/03/07

Send a text Few things drain a team faster than two people who just can’t seem to work well together. And for a team leader, it can be surprisingly easy to get pulled into the wrong conversation. In this short episode of One Simple Thing, Gerry Murray looks at a familiar workplace challenge and shares one practical shift that can help you respond with more clarity, confidence, and impact. If you’ve ever had to deal with friction between team members, this episode is for you. Curious...

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45:29

Why We’re Not As Self-Aware As We Think We Are

Leading People ·

2026/02/21

Send a text Most leaders believe they’re self-aware. Research suggests otherwise. Studies indicate that while the majority of us think we understand how we show up, only a small percentage are accurately perceived that way by others. And under pressure — in uncertainty — those blind spots don’t stay hidden. They shape our decisions.Our relationships.Our leadership.In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray speaks with researcher and author Dr Julia Carden about why self-awareness is fa...

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4:55

How to Lead When You Didn’t Make the Rules

Leading People ·

2026/02/09

Send a text What do you say when your team pushes back on a policy you didn’t create? This episode explores a common moment where many team leaders lose credibility — and how you can handle it differently. If you’ve ever felt stuck between your team and “head office,” this one’s for you. Want to go further? Our Team Leader Essentials and Performance Accelerator programmes are designed to help you navigate tough leadership moments like this — and bring out the best in yourself and your team....

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46:06

How Employee Ownership Can Reset Leadership And Culture

Leading People ·

2026/01/30

Send us a text What if engagement wasn’t the finish line — but the starting point? In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray is joined by Alli Gibbons, author of The Power of Ownership Culture, to explore how employee ownership can fundamentally reset leadership and culture — when it’s treated as more than just a new structure. Rather than focusing on legal models or financial mechanisms, the conversation centres on what really shifts when people are invited to take genuine responsibi...

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4:51

What is Leadership 101?

Leading People ·

2026/01/10

Send us a text If you had to explain leadership in one simple sentence, what would you say? After 100 episodes of talking to extraordinary people about what it means to lead, one answer keeps rising to the top. And it’s not what you might expect. This short episode marks the beginning of a new chapter — and a return to something essential. Tune in to discover the one thing that most great leaders have in common. (And if you’re serious about growing as a leader, check out our Team Leader E...

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51:38

Happy 100th Birthday, Leading People

Leading People ·

2025/12/26

Send us a text Episode 100 felt like a moment worth marking. Not with a summary. Not with highlights. And not with a look back. Just a conversation — allowed to unfold. This episode exists thanks to the generosity, creativity, and support of Kate Walker Miles and Valeriia Diakiv, whose contributions helped bring it into being. As always, thank you for listening — and for being part of the Leading People journey since January 2021. Here's to the next 100 episodes... Follow Leading People...

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66:26

How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance

Leading People ·

2025/12/18

Send us a text What does it really mean to create a culture where people perform at their best? In this episode of Leading People, I’m joined by Zach Mercurio, researcher, speaker, and author of The Power of Mattering, to explore how leaders can create a culture of significance — one where people feel seen, valued, and needed. Drawing on decades of research into motivation and human performance, Zach explains why performance, resilience, and engagement suffer when people feel invisible or r...

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