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The Evolving Leader

By: Jean Gomes and Scott Allender
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  • 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
    © 2024 The Evolving Leader
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Episodes
  • Deploying Tactical Empathy with Chris Voss

    Deploying Tactical Empathy with Chris Voss
    May 15 2024

    In this episode of The Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Sara Deschamps are in conversation with former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss. During his 24 years in the FBI Chris changed the game in negotiation from one of stoicism to one of tactical empathy, persuading kidnappers, terrorists, and bank robbers to see things his way, saving countless lives in the process. Chris has translated his high-profile experience and synergy of collaboration and empathy into his negotiation consultancy The Black Swan Group, where he and his team of expert hostage negotiators apply negotiation skills in business contexts to help their clients make better deals, develop new relationships, and uncover valuable pieces of information the other side is hiding.

    Chris is a household name on the Masterclass platform where he’s garnered a following for his accessible courses that teach everyone how to better communicate using behavioural science and human nature. He is also a successful author - his book Never Split the Difference explores how everything is a negotiation, and how anyone can use FBI negotiation tactics to solve problems, get what they want and resolve conflicts in all aspects of their life.


    Referenced during this episode:
    The Edge negotiation newsletter: https://www.blackswanltd.com/the-edge
    The Black Swan Group: Blackswanltd.com


    Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
    Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
    The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)


    Social:
    Instagram @evolvingleader
    LinkedIn The Evolving Leader Podcast
    Twitter @Evolving_Leader
    YouTube @evolvingleader

    The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • How to Find Hidden Potential with Gil Winch

    How to Find Hidden Potential with Gil Winch
    May 1 2024

    In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with psychologist, TED speaker, author and social entrepreneur Gil Winch. Described by Adam Grant (author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife) as ‘a pioneer in creating opportunities for people who have been underestimated and overlooked’, Gil has developed a managerial model that enables people with severe disabilities to achieve regular productivity in free-market businesses for regular market wages. In 2008, he founded CY, an outsourcing services call centre for-profit social business that was staffed and managed primarily by previously unemployed, severely disabled people and other marginalized populations, demonstrating how a managerial model and corporate culture focused on finding and nurturing potential can benefit companies everywhere.

    “Winning With Underdogs: How Hiring the Least Likely Candidates Can Spark Creativity, Improve Service, and Boost Profits for Your Business”. (2022 McGraw Hill)

    Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
    Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
    The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)

    Social:

    Instagram @evolvingleader
    LinkedIn The Evolving Leader Podcast
    Twitter @Evolving_Leader
    YouTube @evolvingleader

    The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.
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    55 mins
  • How to Think Strategically with Michael D Watkins

    How to Think Strategically with Michael D Watkins
    Apr 17 2024

    In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Arjun Sahdev are joined by Michael D Watkins. Michael is a globally recognized leadership transitions expert, he is professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at IMD in Switzerland and he has written 12 books including the best-selling book “The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter” and his most recent book “The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking” in which he explores how executives can learn to think strategically and lead their organizations into the future. Michael is a Thinkers 50-ranked management influencer and recognized expert in his field, his work features in HBR Guides and HBR’s 10 Must Reads on leadership, teams, strategic initiatives, and new managers. Over the past 20 years, he has used his First 90 Days methodology to help leaders make successful transitions, both in his teaching at IMD, INSEAD, and Harvard Business School.


    Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
    Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)

    The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)


    Social:

    Instagram @evolvingleader
    LinkedIn The Evolving Leader Podcast
    Twitter @Evolving_Leader
    YouTube @evolvingleader

    The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.
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    1 hr and 20 mins
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