Why do so many transformations fail - even with the right strategy and technology? In this episode, behavioural scientist Guy Champniss explains why most organisational challenges are really behaviour problems in disguise. From AI adoption and habits at work to decision-making, culture, and motivation, he unpacks why leaders must stop treating behaviour as an afterthought — and start designing for it. 🌐 Headspring web: https://bit.ly/4iGnpC4 👉 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4p3dcCJ...
Dec 22, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Adaptability is fast becoming the defining skill of modern leadership. Andrew Hill, senior business writer at the Financial Times, unpacks how leaders can stay agile, clear, and effective amid political shifts, AI disruption, and rising uncertainty. Guest: Andrew Hill, Financial Times 🌐Headspring web: https://bit.ly/4iGnpC4
Dec 01, 2025•47 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Can we really future-proof our careers? In this episode, Financial Times journalist Isabel Berwick unpacks how AI, automation, and shifting workplace cultures are reshaping what it means to stay relevant. From graduate hiring chaos to the rise of AI agents, she reveals why adaptability-not certainty-is the real career advantage. Guest: Isabel Berwick, Financial Times 🌐Headspring web: https://bit.ly/4iGnpC4
Oct 30, 2025•48 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Negotiation doesn’t end at signature- it begins a relationship. Katharina Dalka, teh CEO of Stellarone, unpacks the human factors that make or break deals: culture and context, money mindsets, “resentment costs,” and the leadership behaviours that turn contracts into durable partnerships. 🌐Headspring web: https://bit.ly/4iGnpC4
Sep 30, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Leadership expert Professor Dame Vlatka Hlupic challenges the obsession with frameworks and methods, and makes the case for a shift in mindset instead. She unpacks her Five-Level Management Shift model, a powerful tool that helps leaders identify where their teams really stand from toxic disengagement to limitless innovation and how to guide them through conscious, level-by-level transformation. Guest : Professor Dame Vlatka Hlupic, Headspring associate faculty 🌐Headspring web: https://bit.ly/4...
Jul 28, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In this episode, business strategist Peter Fisk breaks down why being busy doesn’t mean being productive and why AI alone won’t save your business. He shares bold insights on how purpose, imagination, and strategic learning are the real game-changers. From reverse-engineering the future to building sustainable innovation, Fisk offers practical advice for leaders who want to stop reacting and start reinventing. Guest: Peter Fisk, Business strategist 🌐Headspring web: https://bit.ly/4iGnpC4...
Jun 27, 2025•45 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Why storytelling is no longer a ‘nice to have’ - but an important leadership skill. In this episode, author and corporate storyteller Preethi Nair explores what it truly means to lead with authenticity. She shares how leaders can use storytelling to communicate vision, build trust, and drive meaningful change. From shaping culture to making data resonate - this conversation reveals how the stories we tell can define the futures we create. Guest: Preethi Nair, Corporate Storyteller 🌐Headspring w...
May 29, 2025•44 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Why strong professional relationships are no longer optional-they’re essential. From breaking down the myth of the “natural networker” to practical tools like the Four I’s and the 24/7/30 rule. Andy shares how leaders and organisations can build trust, break silos, and create deeper connections in a rapidly evolving workplace. Guest: Andy Lopata, Author & Professional Relationships Strategist 🌐Headspring web: https://bit.ly/4iGnpC4
Apr 30, 2025•46 min•Season 3Ep. 4
What if the key to better leadership is listening to the voices of those often left out of decision-making? Guest: Patrice Gordon, Reverse Mentoring Expert & Associate Faculty
Mar 25, 2025•43 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Are leaders failing because they think they need all the answers? If so, what’s the real job of a leader in 2025? Guest: Mark Fritz, Leadership Consultant & Associate Faculty 🌐Headspring Web: Headspring Executive Development by Financial Times & IE Business School 📌 Blog: Beyond Talent & Strategy: Why Context is Key to High-Performance Teams - Headspring Executive Development ✅Subscribe to our monthly newsletter: Newsletter | Headspring Executive Development...
Feb 26, 2025•45 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Can you trust AI to make better decisions than your leadership team? If so, what’s the role of your company’s leaders? Guest: Roger Steare, the corporate philosopher and associate faculty professor. 🌐Headspring web: Headspring Executive Development by Financial Times & IE Business School 📌Blog: AI & Ethics: Leadership and Decision-Making in an AI-Enabled Workplace - Headspring Executive Development ✅ Subscribe to our monthly newsletter: Newsletter | Headspring Executive Development...
Jan 20, 2025•32 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Hear about the Leadership Programme and future of leadership at Cefetra, with their HR Director Mirjam Ruiten, Financial Times contributor Michael Skapinker and Headspring’s Meike Gil.
Dec 08, 2023•12 min•Season 2Ep. 10
In this podcast, Paul Lewis speaks with Adam Kingl, Author of Sparking Success: Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset . They discuss why the corporate world stifles creativity, what we can learn from creative industries, and how leaders can help address the problem. You will also hear about: The neuroscience behind creativity Why organisations are failing to embrace it Practical steps leaders can take to foster creativity How to map creativity to business strategy and output...
Jun 13, 2023•47 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Businesses have to change at a fast pace today to stay relevant. But that doesn't mean transformation is easy, as most people are resistant to change. In this podcast, we speak with Lyndsey Jones and Balvinder Singh Powar about going digital: best practices for navigating cultures that are at first opposing change, how to avoid roadblocks, and how to convince the naysayers.
Aug 25, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Andrew Mawson and Thiago Kiwi discuss how leadership has changed, how leaders can make virtual models work better, mental health and productivity, and some leadership challenges of the future.
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 7
What does good culture look like? Why is having a shared purpose within organisations so important? And where do formal processes go wrong?
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 6
How can you build trust in teams and organisations? What are the challenges with doing this remotely? And what happens when there's no trust? In this podcast, Thiago Kiwi speaks with Dr John Blakey about leadership and trust.
Apr 01, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Conscious leadership must start with the self. In this podcast, Thiago Kiwi speaks with Marika Messager about authentic leadership, leading in alignment with your beliefs, and creating better habits.
Mar 15, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 4
How can we get more women in leadership roles? How can we overcome biases and imbed D&I in company culture? In this podcast, Silvia Pavoni speaks with Tine Arentsen Willumsen about Women's Leadership and Inclusion.
Mar 03, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Our host, Thiago Kiwi speaks with Rupert Morrison, author of Data-Driven Organization Design , and CEO of Orgvue. Kiwi and Morrison speak about the importance of data driving your organisational design, including: - how this can lead to better engagement and satisfaction among employees, - what most companies do wrong when they restructure, and - why HR should do the workforce planning, and which skill sets are needed for this new function.
Feb 10, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In our first podcast of the season, our host, Thiago Kiwi speaks with Ruth Kudzi, founder of the Optimus Coach Academy and author of Is it is? The Smart Woman's Guide to Finding Work You Love. Kiwi and Kudzi speak about the science behind high performance, from how to prioritise work to how to get your team to perform their best.
Jan 19, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Beth Davies is the former Director of Learning at Tesla and host of the super-popular Career Curves podcast, sharing a progressive voice in the domains of HR and L&D. In this fast-moving interview we explore the death of the linear professional path and consider the prospects of the evolutionary career. Meet our guest: Beth Davies
Oct 08, 2020•38 min•Ep. 29
AI has been called everything from a fantasy to a curse. Between the extremes we find something more practical and useful: a tool that can be used to automate unwanted human functions and augment our ability to make good decisions. As our guest in this week's episode, Sana Labs CEO, Joel Hellermark, says: AI in corporate learning is still in its infancy. But what is its potential? We invite Joel to comment on: The difference between artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence, and why it ...
Sep 17, 2020•20 min•Ep. 28
It has never been more critical for organisations to be authentic about inclusiveness. Yet, many leaders still lack the self-awareness, language or emotional skills needed to engage effectively and empathetically with LGBTQ+ members of their business. In this episode we meet Victor Nieves, Partner in EY Capital Markets and longstanding leader of LGBTQ+ and D&I initiatives. We discuss the pressures and pitfalls facing organisations today as they move more consciously and assertively towards g...
Aug 27, 2020•32 min•Ep. 27
Resilience has long been a staple of leadership development, but through the global crisis this quality has come to define successful individuals, leaders and organisations. Through our conversations with leading thinkers, practitioners and development experts, Headspring has had access to multiple perspectives on the topic of resilience. In this review we collect some of the insights shared with us over the past few months, distilling key lessons about the roots of resilience, how to foster it,...
Aug 04, 2020•27 min
The accelerated rate of change we are experiencing will not disappear with the subsidence of Covid-19 - this is the new normal. How can leaders build the capacities they need to engage with this rapidly evolving landscape? In this episode of Learning Rewired, Alan Watkins - neuroscientist, international leadership expert, bestselling author and Founder and CEO of Complete - argues that L&D functions within organisations need to move beyond L (learning) and focus on D (development). In this i...
Jul 16, 2020•33 min•Ep. 26
Diversity and Inclusion have been “important but not urgent” issues for some time, but are we living in a pivotal period in history, when the momentum of social movements finally accelerates organisational change? We posed this question to Stephen Frost: CEO and consultant at inclusion specialists, Frost Included. Stephen was previously diversity and inclusion advisor to both the UK government and former White House office, as well as Head of Diversity and Inclusion for the Olympic and Paralympi...
Jul 02, 2020•36 min•Ep. 25
"Until recently, it was assumed that the business interest was on a collision course with social and environmental concerns. Yet recent research findings challenge this assumption. It turns out that you can secure superior financial returns through highly engaged staff displaying social and environmental responsibility." These are the words of Vlatka Hlupic, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Transformation at Hult Ashridge Executive Education, Global Faculty Member at Headspring and Fou...
May 22, 2020•38 min•Ep. 23
Learning REWIRED's FLASH INSIGHTS is a short and sharp distillation of key takeways from our podcast series. In this episode, the highlights of our interview with Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School and author of the norm-challenging book, Grow the Pie - How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit. In this episode we learn: Why profit and purpose do not need to be a direct payoff and the route t greater wellbeing for all stakeholders? Why those at both extremes of...
May 14, 2020•20 min•Ep. 22
Businesses are under increasing pressure to seek their profits in a responsible way. The common view is that aiming for positive social outcomes requires financial sacrifice for investors; or, in the opposite direction, that the pursuit of profit is always at the cost of social and environmental health. But is there something fundamentally flawed with this worldview? Is there a different route that leads to increased profits and greater wellbeing for all stakeholders? Alex Edmans is Professor of...
May 07, 2020•40 min•Ep. 21
