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EPISODE · Jan 15, 2026 · 23 MIN

How to Retain Talent and Clients Through Purposeful Leadership With Helen Hanison

from Consulting Leaders

Look into the "3 Ways to Generate Leads With Your Podcast" E-book for free here on our website! (https://ghapodcast.com)**********************************************************************Helen Hanison has spent over a decade coaching leaders, founders, and leadership teams who look successful on paper, but feel stuck, misaligned, or at risk of losing their best people. Her work focuses on helping leaders-in-waiting regain momentum, clarity, and confidence before disengagement quietly sets in. With early experience as a Consultant Director at H+K Strategies and a first-class degree in Psychology, Helen brings both commercial credibility and behavioural depth. She now works with organisations like Shell, Citibank, GSK, IBM, and WPP, designing leadership interventions that strengthen emotional resilience, psychological safety, and purposeful performance. Helen is also the bestselling author of Unstuck, where she shares her practical framework for purposeful career redesign, born from her own experience of climbing the corporate ladder only to realise it was leaning against the wrong wall. Her work is especially relevant for consulting firm owners navigating retention challenges, leadership fatigue, and the quiet disengagement of high performers.********************************************************** Proposed Interview Structure: 1. What first pulled you into consulting and leadership coaching after your agency career? 2. What is the core problem you help leaders and organisations solve today, and why do you think it’s becoming more critical for consulting firms specifically? 3. Who are your ideal clients now, and who is usually the decision-maker when they bring you in? 4. How do organisations and leaders typically discover your work, and what has proven most effective in attracting the right clients? Current Aquisition Channels: Referral, Content, Webinars, Podcast (guesting), Speaking engagements Sub Question: What’s your perspective on podcasting as a marketing tool in the consulting and coaching space? 5. Selling leadership and culture work often involves long cycles and multiple stakeholders, how do you usually bring those conversations to a decision? 6. Once a client starts working with you, how do you retain them over time, what do you do deliberately to build trust, create ongoing value, and keep clients coming back? 7. Where do you find yourself most stuck right now, whether in growth, positioning, or the next evolution of your work (if at all)? 8. Looking ahead, where do you see the biggest opportunities, or risks, in leadership and talent retention over the next few years?*********************************************************************Know more about Helen HanisonLink: https://www.helenhanison.com/link: https://helenhanisonbook.com/step-1-ebook--bump-pageConnect with Helen Hanison on LinkedInlink: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-hanison-com/Apply to be a guest on Consulting Leaders:https://ghapodcast.com/application-to-be-a-guest-on-consulting-leaders/

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