I am joined by the extraordinary Catherine Newell, a shadow work coach and group facilitator. For me, Catherine epitomises love-in-action, and we talk about how her parenting a severely autistic son has meant she has got to know love in ALL its forms.

In this episode I talk to Dr Karen Blakeley, the former Head of Responsible Management at Winchester Business School and the author of the book Leading with Love, about how leadership is a sacred trust and that power can dilute love within organisations.

This conversation is with Dr James Traeger, a long time colleague and friend, where we explore whether love is more of process than a ‘thing’ and how having a Director of Love would be the worst thing possible for an organisation.

This conversation is with Gavin Bate, Mountain and Expedition Leader. We explore parallels between outdoor and indoor leadership, with gems about how fear is the doorway for those of us wanting to be more loving in our responses.

With Caron Bradshaw OBE, CEO of the Charities Finance Group who talks about how love is not only gentle but in fact enables healthy and necessary ‘abrasive tension’ to be worked through well.

With Naysan Firoozmand, Head of Global Executive Coaching at Ashridge, where we talk about how leaders sometimes need to go beyond a sense of ‘professional care’ to something much more human, how the relational aspects of coaching are loving aspects.