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Beyond Leading
Leadership is never only about the leader. Beyond Leading is for people who want to understand what is really going on when leadership gets complicated — when teams get stuck, decisions aren't clear, businesses change, relationships become difficult or the usual leadership advice simply isn't enough. Hosted by executive coach and Non-Executive Director Alec Pearson, the podcast explores the whole leadership system — from self-awareness, confidence and behaviour, through trust, conflict and team…
Episodes
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Ep 28 - Before You Plan 2027, Look Back
with Alec Pearson. Before you start setting targets and making plans for 2027, how much have you really learned from 2026? For some leaders, it's been a…
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Ep 27 - When the Horse Says No: What It Reveals About Your Leadership
with Alec Pearson and Jude Jennison. What does a horse know about leadership? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Jude Jennison works with senior leaders and…
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Ep 26 - The Business That Got You Here Won't Get You There
with Alec Pearson and Claire Ryan. A business can be successful and still reach a point where the way it has always worked is no longer enough. The systems may…
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Ep 25 - When Nobody Owns The Outcome
with Alec Pearson. What happens when everyone follows the process, does exactly what they are supposed to do, and the problem still isn’t solved? That is where…
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Ep 24 - When Everyone’s Right and Nothing Moves
with Alec Pearson. What happens when everyone around the leadership table has a perfectly reasonable case and the business still can’t move? Sales wants…
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Ep 23 - Listening Skills for Leaders: How to Hear What People Aren't Saying - with Joseph McGuire
with Alec Pearson, Joseph McGuire. Joseph McGuire has spent a career learning to read people — three decades as a therapist before moving into executive…
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Ep 22 - The Wellbeing Lie: Part 2 - When High Achievers Break
with Alec Pearson and Dr Calvin Lightbody. In Part 1, Alec and Calvin took apart the comfortable version of wellbeing - the fruit bowls, the tick-box…
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Ep 21 - The Wellbeing Lie: Part 1 - Wellness Isn't Wellbeing
with Alec Pearson and Dr Calvin Lightbody. Every organisation says it takes wellbeing seriously. The fruit bowl, the yoga session, the mindfulness app someone…
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Ep 20 - 5 Leadership Questions Every Leader Must Answer
with Alec Pearson. After 19 honest conversations with leaders, founders and coaches working in very different worlds, the same themes kept appearing. Questions…
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Ep 19 - Change Management: Why People Don't Think They Have a Problem
with Alec Pearson, Tiffany David and Graham Da Costa Change is no longer a one-off event, it's the constant backdrop of working life. New technology, shifting…
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Ep 18 - Team Leadership: It All Starts With Trust
with Nick Sellers, Tiffany Barnard and Ellen Putz. In this episode of Beyond Leading, Nick Sellers takes the host's chair and is joined by Tiffany Barnard and…
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Ep 17 - Somatic Leadership: What Your Body Is Trying To Tell You
with Alec Pearson and Lucy Nicholson, Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Movement Analyst. In this episode of Beyond Leading, we explore an approach to…
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Ep 16 - Procrastination: It's Not What You Think
with Alec Pearson, Nick Sellers and Tiffany Barnard. In this episode of Beyond Leading, we tackle something every leader, manager and professional quietly…
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Ep 15 - Rich Carter: Building a Culture of Speed in an Increasingly Complex World
with Alec Pearson and Rich Carter, Chief Growth Officer and President of Advanced Programs at Albers Aerospace. In this episode of Beyond Leading, we sit down…
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Ep 14 - EQ Beyond The Buzzword: It Starts With You
with Alec Pearson, Tiffany David and Graham Da Costa. Emotional intelligence. Two words that have been talked about, trained, workshopped and plastered on…
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Ep 13 - Growth Through Discomfort: How Pain, Fear and Stretch Build Resilience
with Alec Pearson, Tiffany Barnard and Nick Sellers. In this episode of Beyond Leading, we explore a question that sits at the heart of leadership, growth and…
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Ep 12 - Consistency Wins: The Real Way Credibility Gets Built
with Alec Pearson, Nick Sellers and Gemma Dawe. When you hear “starting a business during Covid”, it’s easy to assume it was a brave leap. But sometimes it…
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Ep 11 - When the Signal Thins: Leadership in the Aftershock Era
with Alec Pearson. In this solo episode, Alec reflects on something many leaders are quietly feeling but struggling to name - why leadership feels heavier…
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Ep 10 - What’s Really Running Your Mind Under Pressure? The Inner Game of Leadership and Positive Intelligence (PQ)
with Alec Pearson, Tiffany David and Graham Da Costa. When pressure hits, most of us think we’re responding logically. But often, something else is running the…
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Ep 9 - Relevance, Resistance - What Standing Still Really Costs
with Alec Pearson, Tiffany Barnard and Nick Sellers. Relevance is a question many people don’t ask until something shifts. A role changes. Technology…
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Ep 8 - Turning Redundancy into a New Beginning
with Alec Pearson, Lizzie Cousins and Chelsea Dickinson. In this episode, Alec Pearson speaks to Lizzie Cousins and Chelsea Dickinson from C&D Debt Recovery to…
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Ep 7 - The Leadership Dilemmas CEOs Don't Talk About
with Alec Pearson, Ellen Putz and Nick Sellers. In this episode, Alec is joined by Nick Sellers and owner of EP Talent Search and Executive Coach Ellen Putz…
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Ep 6 - Is Patience Helping You Succeed — or Quietly Holding You Back?
with Alec Pearson, Nick Sellers and Tiffany Barnard. In this episode, we explore why patience — something we’re taught to value — can sometimes get in the way…
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Ep 5 - Before You Push Forward: A Leadership Reset for 2026
with Alec Pearson. As we step into 2026, many leaders aren’t lacking ambition — they’re carrying sustained pressure. Motivation has dipped. Clarity feels…
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Ep 4 - Harrison Ward - Fell Foodie - A Journey of Change, Purpose and Authentic Living
with Alec Pearson, Harrison Ward and Nick Sellers. In this episode, Alec and Nick are joined by Harrison Ward — known to many as Fell Foodie — whose journey…
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Ep 1 - The Visibility Gap: Why Good Work Isn’t Enough
with Alec Pearson, Tiffany Barnard and Nick Sellers. Good work doesn’t always get noticed, especially in fast-paced, high-pressure environments. This episode…
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Ep 2 - Soft Burnout - When You’re Fine on the Outside, Empty on the Inside
with Alec Pearson, Tiffany Barnard & Nick Sellers. Soft burnout doesn’t look dramatic — which is why so many leaders miss it. You’re still performing, still…
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Ep 3 - Who You Think You Are…and Who Others See
with Alec Pearson, Tiffany Barnard and Nick Sellers. In this episode, we explore three foundations that shape how you show up at work: your identity, your…
Beyond LeadingWelcome to Beyond Leading
Welcome to Beyond Leading — a podcast about leadership as it really happens. Across solo episodes and conversations with guests, Beyond Leading explores…