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Rethinking Leadership in 2025: Why Human Leadership Is No Longer Optional
Beyond a ‘nice-to-have’ Human Leadership is the differentiator between an organisation where people love to work, and everywhere else.
It drives human flourishing and high performance, a paradox rather than competing outcomes, only made possible with this style of human-centred leadership.
Learn what Human Leadership is, and how to bring it to life in your organisation.
The Paradox Mindshift: How to Lead In Uncertain Times
In this insightful conversation, we dissect the limitations of conventional "either/or" thinking and explore the transformative power of "both/and" approaches with Professor Wendy Smith.
You Matter: How To Cultivate Significance at Work (and Why You Need To)
In an epoch of work defined by disengagement and a pervasive sense of disconnect, the concept of “mattering” is a critical element in fostering thriving workplaces. At the We Are Human Leaders podcast we sat down again with our first ever repeat guest Zach Mercurio, researcher, speaker, and author of "The Power of Mattering: How Leaders can Create a Culture of Significance," to delve into this fundamental human need. And learn how leaders can cultivate powerful cultures of mattering and significance – and why it’s imperative that they do.
How Burnout Wrecks Your Productivity – And How To Fix It
In the latest episode of the We Are Human Leaders podcast, Alexis Zahner welcomes Dr. John Chan and her usual cohost Sally Clarke to delve into the critical findings of the 2025 State of Workplace Burnout Report. This insightful conversation unpacks the complexities of burnout, its impact on productivity, and the vital role of trust in fostering a thriving work environment.
Remote, Hybrid or RTO? Professor Nick Bloom on What Works Best
With 2025 racing away from us, and more and more mandated return to office (RTO) policies being enacted, the debate around the best way to work continues hotter than ever. In the latest episode of the We Are Human Leaders podcast, Sally Clarke and Alexis Zahner delve into the ever-evolving world of remote, hybrid, and in-office work with Stanford University Professor of Economics, Nicolas Bloom. In this insight-packed conversation, Nick cuts through the noise, offering insights based on years of research spanning global geographies.
Why Workplace Loneliness is a Leadership Issue (and How to Bridge the Gap)
Something might be lurking beneath the surface in your workplace: loneliness. In a world of constant connectivity, it seems counterintuitive, right? But the truth is, workplace loneliness is on the rise, and it's impacting everything from productivity to employee wellbeing. In the latest episode of We Are Human Leaders podcast, we sat down with CEO of Ending Loneliness Together Dr. Michelle Lim to explore what can be done.
Unlocking Success Through Mentorship – A Conversation with Dr. Ruth Gotian
Unlocking Success Through Mentorship – A Conversation with Dr. Ruth Gotian
How successful could you become with the right mentors in your corner? In the latest episode of We Are Human Leaders, Dr. Ruth Gotian shares how mentorship can be the key to unlocking peak performance, transforming your mindset, and accelerating your success.
Dr. Gotian, a globally recognized expert in mentorship and leadership development, has studied the habits of extreme high achievers—including Nobel Prize winners, astronauts, and Olympic champions.
From Survive to Thrive: How to Live a Life of Greatness with Sarah Grynberg
The pursuit of ‘greatness’ often feels like an unattainable aspiration, reserved for a select few elite. However, as Sarah Grynberg, author of the forthcoming book Living a Life of Greatness, shared with us on the latest episode of the We Are Human Leaders podcast, we urgently need to reframe this concept. As Sarah unpacks, greatness is in fact not a distant destination but an internal state accessible to everyone.
The Six Must-Have Leadership Attributes for Success in 2025, and Beyond
What are the most important leadership attributes to be successful in 2025, and beyond?
We asked 24 Global Leaders—including Daniel Goleman, Urs Koenig, Kim Scott, and Martin Gutmann—for their advice on what leaders need to be doing to truly lead from within.
Six key leadership attributes emerged from the research. Learn about them, integrate them, and become the leader you were born to be in 2025!
The Path to Self-Compassion With Amy Finlay-Jones
In our conversation on the We are Human Leaders podcast with Amy Finlay-Jones, a leading self-compassion expert, she highlights several key benefits to building your self-compassion:
First, self-compassion enhances emotional regulation, allowing leaders to respond to stress and setbacks with greater composure and clarity.
Second, it significantly reduces burnout risk, a critical factor in today's high-pressure workplaces.
Third, it improves decision-making by minimizing emotional biases and fostering more balanced judgment.
Fourth, a self-compassionate leadership style fosters stronger team dynamics, building trust and collaboration.
Finally, it underpins ethical leadership by encouraging empathy, fairness, and a genuine concern for team well-being.
Just Ask: The Surprising Key to Better Relationships with Jeff Wetzler
There’s a lot of noise about what it takes to build strong relationships with your team: active listening, asking the right questions, adopting an empathetic approach.
The Ask Approach helps leaders cut through this noise, offering a simple step-by-step framework to deepen shared understanding, unleash creativity and unlock hidden potential within your team.
Learn more about the Ask Approach in this article with Jeff Wetzler
Listen to the full episode here: www.wearehumanleaders.com/podcast/ask-communication-jeff-wetzler
Five Neuroscience-Based Tips for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick by Alexis Zahner
Tired of making New Years Resolutions and Goals that just don’t stick? Try these Five Neuroscience-Based Tips for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick by Alexis Zahner
Finding our Common Humanity through Respectful Disagreement with Justin Jones-Fosu
In the latest episode of the We are Human Leaders podcast, we invite you to learn this and more through this deeply moving conversation with Justin Jones-Fosu. Justin is an international speaker, a social entrepreneur, a critically-acclaimed author, and mountain climber and author of the book “I Respectfully Disagree: How to Have Difficult Conversations in a Divided World.”
And this conversation will blow your mind as well as your heart.
Justin not only helps us understand how to Respectfully Disagree, but shares how to recognise that despite the surface-level differences our common humanity is something much much more important and profound. And something we each have a responsibility for acknowledging.
The Impact of Meditation for Leaders: Lessons from Lodro Rinzler
The latest episode of the We Are Human Leaders podcast illuminates just how profound – and perhaps even essential – a consistent meditation practice is for modern leaders.
In this episode, Sally and Alexis speak with Lodro Rinzler, a Buddhist meditation teacher with over 20 years experience, and award winning author of seven books, including The Buddha Walks Into a Bar, The Buddha Walks Into the Office, and Take Back Your Mind: Buddhist Advice for Anxious Times.
The conversation will change how you think about the impact of meditation for leaders – and might just convince you to start, restart, or restrengthen your own meditation practice!
Authentic Collaboration: Lessons from Disney on the 5 Aspects of Working Better Together
Collaboration is key to success in every organisation and across every society. For Human Leaders, authenticity is an important driver of what we do. So, what does it mean to Collaborate Authentically?
In the latest episode of We Are Human Leaders, Sally and Alexis speak with experts Edward van Luinen and Tricia Cerrone who met working as leaders at Walt Disney Imagineering leaders and together have founded the Authentic Collaboration method.
The Power of Micro-Interactions for Impactful Leadership with Sarah Langslow
This conversation with Sarah Langslow explores numerous key questions for people-centred leaders, including: What if some small stuff is worth sweating?
What if sometimes it's the micro-interactions that can lead to maximum impact in how we build relationships, foster trust, and deepen connections at work and beyond?
Neurodiversity and True Inclusion: a Powerful Conversation with Ludmila Praslova
Neurodivergent people face drastic barriers in the workplace, and even to entering the workforce. Like canaries in the mine, neurodivergent people are impacted first by issues that ultimately harm everyone.
In the latest episode of We are Human Leaders with Dr Ludmila Praslova, we explore how, when you look after the people who are most vulnerable in the organisation, the most susceptible to toxic culture and poor systems, you in turn look after everyone. And this creates a massive win-win.
In this thought provoking conversation, we explore the power of an explicitly intersectional and holistic approach to (neuro)inclusion, and what leaders can do to centre, celebrate and invite in multiple voices from the neurodivergent community.
You Only Die Once: How to Live a Squander-Free Life with Jodi Wellman
It’s an undeniable truth that you only die once. And yet as today’s guest explores with us, many of us are already living like the un-dead. Each day passes by with a distinct lack of meaning and vitality.
So how can Memento Mori - remembering we must die - actually make our lives better?
In this conversation we explore the very real reality that we'll all die someday in the future with speaker and Author Jodi Wellman.
Although a seemingly morbid concept, Jodi implores us to view our imminent death as a motivator to live our best life, one that’s wide with vitality and deep with meaning, every single day. And in this conversation she’ll help us understand how.