The Evolving Leader

What’s shaping the world view, values and priorities for our future leaders? In this episode, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to entrepreneur Talia Grantham about her experiences working in start-ups and the things that truly matter to her in her life and work. 

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After more than 5 years of hosting The Evolving Leader, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are launching their new show The Mindset Economy in January 2026. The new show will explore how to live better, work smarter and be connected in a more uncertain world where machines can think. 

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In this episode, Scott and Jean are joined by Andy Billings, Electronic Arts’ VP of Profitable Creativity and the co-founder of EA University. Andy has a diverse and fascinating background and range of interests. However during this disussion, the main focus is his experiences of leadership during EA’s incredibly turbulent time from a position of dominance in the console games era to near death, and successful transformation in the new world of free and online games.   

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In this second (and final) part of our exploration into the nine types of fear, Jean and Scott look at the five remaining types of fear. What can the evolving leader do to recognise them in themselves (and others) and grow past a reactive relationship towards them? Where are the opportunities for growth and better judgement?

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During this two part discussion, Jean and Scott explore nine different ways in which fear can govern how we see the world, respond to threats and how it influences our relationships. This is a conversation prompted by a comment made by the neuroscientist Beau Lotto who suggested at the onset of the Corona crisis that fear of uncertainty is perhaps our greatest fear. So, what can that unlock for the evolving leader?

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After more than 5 years of hosting The Evolving Leader, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are launching their new show The Mindset Economy in January 2026. The new show will explore how to live better, work smarter and be connected in a more uncertain world where machines can think. 

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In this episode, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender interview Dr K Kim, award winning author (including a research study titled "The Creativity Crisis" which was the subject of a 2011 Newsweek cover story), and Professor of Creativity & Innovation at the College of William & Mary. Dr Kim focused this research on the analysis of the Torrance creativity test that has been taken by millions of children in 50 languages over the past 50 years, and the realisation that the correlation to lifetime accomplishment is more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ. She is passionate about reversing that decline arguing that it is stalling our economy and our ability to solve the world's biggest problems. 

During the podcast, Dr Kim reveals that she is about to publish some major new research and provides an exclusive trail to Jean and Scott. 

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How should the evolving leader think about power? In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender explore a definition of power that conceives it as a currency to be wisely spent as opposed to asset to be accumulated and defended. What needs to evolve within us to see and manage power in healthy and productive ways?

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This is part two of the interview that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Always Day One author, Alex Kantrowitz.

In this episode, we hear about Alex's experiences interviewing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the culture of feedback and listening that Zuckerberg has built into the organisation. Alex also addresses the fundamental choice that today's leaders are having to face between building an organisation that defends value and an organisation that grows value for the future.

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This episode is the first part of an interview with Alex Kantrowitz, author of Always Day One. Alex describes the unique mindset and cultural DNA of Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook and believes that the Always Day One mindset is set to become the new norm of successful enterprises worldwide.

Part two of this interview will be published 17 September.

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After more than 5 years of hosting The Evolving Leader, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are launching their new show The Mindset Economy in January 2026. The new show will explore how to live better, work smarter and be connected in a more uncertain world where machines can think. 

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In this episode of the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender confront leadership in the face of uncertainty. Was our world ever certain? How do leaders hack at uncertainty and chart their way forward?

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After more than 5 years of hosting The Evolving Leader, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are launching their new show The Mindset Economy in January 2026. The new show will explore how to live better, work smarter and be connected in a more uncertain world where machines can think. 

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In this introduction to the Evolving Leader podcast, hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender lay out some of the huge challenges facing leaders, heightened and brought into sharp relief by the Corona crisis. We are living in a new emotional climate that makes markets behave differently - what does that mean for leaders? As the stakes for leaders rise, how does radical self-awareness, integrity and judgement play out in our new world? What are the challenges facing leaders post Corona, and how will our shared experiences help us to make better sense of our non-linear world?

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After more than 5 years of hosting The Evolving Leader, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are launching their new show The Mindset Economy in January 2026. The new show will explore how to live better, work smarter and be connected in a more uncertain world where machines can think. 

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