What They Don't Tell You About Leadership

The ActionCOACH Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 55m

What They Don't Tell You About Leadership | Mandy Hickson RAF Top Gun Pilot Interview

Most business leaders only get taught how to lead after they've been promoted. Mandy Hickson learned it the opposite way round, and it might explain why the military still builds better leaders than most companies do.

Mandy broke through as one of the first women flying fast jets for the RAF, at a time when women weren't permitted in the cockpit at all. She flew combat missions over Iraq, dodged a live missile mid-air, and was mid-Atlantic refuelling a jet when 9/11 shut down an entire continent. She's since…