The Leadership Diet

Season 3 was another great season with loads of interesting guests, stories, insights and learnings. This episode captures some of those as introductions to guests you might have missed and reminders of those you enjoyed.

See you all in 2022 for season 4!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

In the previous episode, I spoke with Audrey McGibbon- a globally recognised expert on leadership, wellbeing and wellness.

My thoughts and reflections on that are in this episode.

We discuss;

•What does wellness really mean,

•How does a personal sense of meaning or purpose positively impact wellness?

•What happened for leaders living during our extended lockdown in terms of their

•loss of control, loss of meaning, loss of clarity and certainty?

•Increased sense of personal agitation, lack of grace, no release from monotony etc

•Where does personal accountability/followership accountability come into work wellness?

•Resilience versus endurance? Where are you seeing languishing emerge?

•GLWS profile- what is it designed for?

And a whole lot more!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

Audrey is a globally recognised expert on wellness within the corporate domain.

We discuss;

•What does wellness really mean,

•How does a personal sense of meaning or purpose positively impact wellness?

•What happened for leaders living during our extended lockdown in terms of their

•loss of control, loss of meaning, loss of clarity and certainty?

•Increased sense of personal agitation, lack of grace, no release from monotony etc

•Where does personal accountability/followership accountability come into work wellness?

•Resilience versus endurance? Where are you seeing languishing emerge?

•GLWS profile- what is it designed for?

And a whole lot more!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

In the previous episode, I speak with Steve Weston, founding CEO of VOLT, a neo bank. Here I share my reflections on our conversation.

Steve Weston is the founding CEO of Volt, a neo bank that is in disruption mode. Having led significant parts of Barclays in the UK, NAB and Challenger in Australia, he returned to Sydney and has set about using technology as a disruptive force in its truest sense.

Steve grew up in rural Queensland and as he tells it fell into banking by mistake. His strong beliefs in customer service led him to transform residential mortgage services around the world.

We discuss,

What leadership in a traditional industry needs to look like in the 21st century,

Why he is obsessed with leaders spending time in the front line,

What 'handing the keys over', means to him,

The reality of moving from a corporate CEO to a start up CEO,

and a whole lot more,

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

Steve Weston is the founding CEO of Volt, a neo bank that is in disruption mode. Having led significant parts of Barclays in the UK, NAB and Challenger in Australia, he returned to Sydney and has set about using technology as a disruptive force in its truest sense.

Steve grew up in rural Queensland, and as he tells it, fell into banking by mistake. His strong beliefs in customer service led him to transform residential mortgage services around the world.

We discuss,

· What leadership in a traditional industry needs to look like in the 21st century,

· Why he is obsessed with leaders spending time on the front line,

· What 'handing the keys over', means to him,

· The reality of moving from a corporate CEO to a start up CEO,

and a whole lot more...

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview industry leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

In the previous episode, I speak with Declan Boylan on leading a high-performing organisation as if it were a sports team. Here are my reflections on that conversation.

Declan Boylan is the founder and CEO of Seven Consulting, the most successful Program Delivery firm in SE Asia and Australia. In this wide-ranging conversation we discuss:

•What is program delivery and why is this an emerging specialty,

•Agile delivery versus agile mindsets,

•Why does his team spend so much time on giving and receiving feedback,

•Why does the feedback giver get reviewed?

•Looking at customer satisfaction rates every day,

•The reason behind Seven sponsoring the Matildas - The Australian Women's National Football team,

•Using CSR and marketing initiatives beyond the obvious

And a whole lot more!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

Declan Boylan is the founder and CEO of Seven Consulting, the most successful Program Delivery firm in SE Asia and Australia. In this wide-ranging conversation we discuss:

•What is program delivery and why is this an emerging specialty,

•Agile delivery versus agile mindsets,

•Why does his team spend so much time on giving and receiving feedback,

•Why does the feedback giver get reviewed?

•Looking at customer satisfaction rates every day,

•The reason behind Seven sponsoring the Matildas - The Australian Women's National Football team,

•Using CSR and marketing initiatives beyond the obvious

And a whole lot more!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high-performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

My reflections on the conversation with Peter O'Brien of Russell Reynolds Search and Selection

Peter L. O'Brien is a trusted advisor to boards and CEOs on corporate governance, board effectiveness, succession planning, executive development, and leadership search and transformation. He is an expert at developing highly effective leadership teams and boards in Australia and internationally. Peter is a member of Russell Reynolds Associates' Global Board & CEO Advisory Partners Sector and he leads the firm's business across Asia Pacific. Previously, Peter led the Global Supply Chain Practice, as well as the Global Industrial Services & Infrastructure Sector.

We discuss;

•His own career path from AUS to EUROPE back to APAC

•How he developed his strengths as a leader

•How that helped him and where it has not

•Leading during a crisis...What did the Russell Reynolds partners notice in terms of leadership and how it is showed up in the C suite?

•What is emerging in 2022 as being important that we might have underestimated in the past?

•His thoughts on not being able to give certainty to people who are craving that. How do leaders give their teams a sense of - "here is what you can control...."and a whole lot more...!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

Peter L. O'Brien is a trusted advisor to boards and CEOs on corporate governance, board effectiveness, succession planning, executive development, and leadership search and transformation. He is an expert at developing highly effective leadership teams and boards in Australia and internationally. Peter is a member of Russell Reynolds Associates' Global Board & CEO Advisory Partners Sector and he leads the firm's business across Asia Pacific. Previously, Peter led the Global Supply Chain Practice, as well as the Global Industrial Services & Infrastructure Sector.

We discuss;

•His own career path from AUS to EUROPE back to APAC

•How he developed his strengths as a leader

•How that helped him and where it has not

•Leading during a crisis...What did the Russell Reynolds partners notice in terms of leadership and how it is showed up in the C suite?

•What is emerging in 2022 as being important that we might have underestimated in the past?

•His thoughts on not being able to give certainty to people who are craving that. How do leaders give their teams a sense of - "here is what you can control...."and a whole lot more...!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

In my previous conversation we discussed;

What is burnout and why is it a syndrome,

The impact it has on executive leadership and leaders,

What are symptoms that are useful to be alert for,

I offer some ideas on how to implement some inoculations against burnout as a leader.