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Handson Coaching: Inspiring Conversations
by Hedinn (Héðinn) Sveinbjörnsson
Happiness at work is not a slogan. It is a question worth asking.I host conversations with leaders, thinkers, and the occasional brave human who is willing to talk about what actually makes work feel human. We dig into listening, belonging, purpose, and the small decisions that shape how people treat each other at work.No fluff. No corporate sparkle. Just honest stories, useful insights, and a steady reminder that Want to be a guest on Inspiring Conversations? Send Hedinn (Héðinn) Sveinbjörnsson a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/hedinn_inspi
Episodes
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Savio P. Clemente - It Was Never About the Summit
When Clarity Begins to Fail We tend to admire people who keep going under pressure. Those who push through uncertainty, manage the demands, and somehow continue to deliver. But what if the ability to keep going is also preventing us from recognising what the pressure is doing to us? Performance...
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Victoria Pelletier - The Iron Maiden Who Became a Turtle
When Strength Becomes Armour Strength gets rewarded. We admire the people who keep going, who handle pressure, who bounce back, who seem almost unstoppable. But what if the qualities that helped us succeed eventually become the qualities we need to question? On October 1st, I’ll be joined on...
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Si Elliott - When Connection Becomes a Transaction
When Connection Becomes a Transaction We have never had more ways to connect. Customers can reach businesses instantly. Brands know more about their audiences than ever before. AI can personalise experiences, automation can remove friction, and almost every interaction can be measured, analysed…
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Toni McLelland - When Compassion Has to Make the Hard Call
When Compassion Has to Make the Hard Call Compassion sounds easy when everyone agrees. It becomes much more interesting when the decision is difficult, the stakes are high, and someone is going to walk away disappointed. On September 17, Toni McLelland returns to Inspiring Conversations. Toni...
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Dr. Oleg Konovalov - When Clarity Gets Tested
When Clarity Gets Tested It is easy to talk about clarity when things are going according to plan. The real test comes when they are not. When complexity increases, priorities compete, conditions change, and nobody can say with confidence what happens next, people still look to leadership for...
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Barry Moline - When Leadership Gets Out of the Way
When Leadership Gets Out of the Way We spend a lot of time talking about how leaders should lead. How they should communicate, influence, motivate, make decisions and bring people together. But what if good leadership sometimes means becoming less central? On September 3, I'll be joined by Barry...
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Divya Raviraj - What Success Can't Teach You
What Success Can't Teach You Most of us spend years becoming better at what we do. We study, practise, solve problems, and build expertise. We assume that if we become technically excellent, leadership will naturally follow. But for many people, that's where the real challenge begins. On August…
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Luca Oake - The Forgiveness You Don't Owe Anyone
Most of us think forgiveness is about someone else. About what they did, what they should admit, or the apology we're still waiting for. But what if forgiveness has very little to do with them? On August 13, I'll be joined by Luca Oake to explore a different way of thinking about one of life's…
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Justin Robbins - Culture Is Not a Company Slogan
When Values Become Work Most organisations can tell you what they value. Far fewer can show you. Not because leaders don't care. More often because the way work is designed quietly rewards something else. - We say people matter. Then we measure something different. - We encourage collaboration....
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Eric Robinson - From the Pulpit to the FBI, and Everything That Got Irreverent Along the Way
Listening for the Truth We often think the truth comes from asking better questions. But what if it begins with listening differently? After serving 24 years as an FBI Special Agent, Eric Robinson spent his career investigating everything from counterterrorism and public corruption to crimes...
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Christian de la Huerta - Power Was Never Meant to Be Control
We spend a lot of time talking about power. Who has it. Who wants it. Who abuses it. Who appears to have more of it than everyone else in the meeting. Yet perhaps the real question is not how much power we have. Perhaps it is whether we have misunderstood what power actually is. On July 16th, I...
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Will Steel - Indispensable Is Not a Compliment
The Hidden Cost of Being Indispensable Why Leaders Who Cannot Step Away May Have Built the Wrong Kind of Success There is something curious about success. Many leaders dream of building a business that gives them freedom. Yet somewhere along the way, they become the one person the business cannot...
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Bianca Riemer - The Secret to Staying Calm When Everyone Is Watching
Most of us spend years becoming experts. Then we discover that expertise and influence are not the same thing. Knowing your subject does not guarantee that people will listen. Being right does not automatically create trust. And pressure has a curious way of making even highly capable people...
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Glenn Bostock – Useful, Not Just Successful
Thinking about work lately, I keep coming back to a strange question. What if the problem is not that organisations are failing people badly? What if the bigger problem is that many organisations are functioning just well enough to never question what they are actually building in the first…
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Dr. Ewelina Kurtys - Building the Brain That Powers Tomorrow's AI
Most conversations about AI focus on what machines can do faster than humans. Fewer conversations ask the more uncomfortable question: what actually makes human intelligence… human? On June 18th, my guest on Inspiring Conversations will be neuroscientist and deep-tech strategist Dr. Ewelina…
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Richard Clarke - Happy People, Leaving Anyway
Why Happy Teams Still Leave Most organisations do not realise they have a retention problem until someone leaves. Before that, everything often looks fine. People are friendly. The culture seems positive. The perks are there. Teams laugh together on calls. Engagement scores are respectable enough...
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Scott Trumpolt - Why Employees Stop Trusting the Black Box
The Black Box at Work: Why Employees Stop Trusting How Value Is Decided Most people do not expect work to be perfect.But they do expect it to make sense. They want to understand how decisions are made. Why some people progress faster than others. Why recognition feels inconsistent. Why...
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Keith Kuperman – Calm Until It Isn't: What Disaster Zones Teach Us About Leadership
Calm Until It Isn’t: What Disaster Zones Teach Us About How Organisations Actually Function Most organisations are not in crisis. And that is exactly the problem. Work gets done. Targets are met. Meetings happen. On the surface, everything looks fine. But clarity is often assumed, not tested.…
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Audley Stephenson – The Engine You Already Have
What does it actually take to be bold inside a life that was not designed for it? Most of us have been taught that boldness belongs to certain kinds of people. The ones who took the leap. The ones who walked away. The ones with the perfectly timed story of risk and reward. But Audley Stephenson...
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Kevin Hubschmann - Funny Until It Isn’t: What Comedy Reveals About How We Actually Show Up at Work
Funny Until It Isn’t: What Comedy Reveals About How We Actually Show Up at Work Most organisations are not short on communication. Meetings happen. Messages are sent. Presentations are delivered. Everything looks clear on paper. And yet people leave the same conversation with different...
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Ethan Reisboard - When Your Nervous System Says No
What Is Your Body Trying to Tell You? Most professionals push through. That is what we are trained to do. The headache that will not quite leave. The tension that follows you home. The feeling of being permanently switched on, even when nothing urgent is happening. We explain it away, adjust, and...
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Kelly Schuknecht - Visibility Feels Uncomfortable, That’s The Point
Owning Your Voice: How Thought Leadership Helps You Lead, Work, and Live with Clarity Kelly Schuknecht has spent almost twenty years helping entrepreneurs and professionals elevate their message and build visibility that actually means something. As the founder of Two Mile High Marketing and the...
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John Geraci - Why Smart Leaders Still Fail to Communicate
The Subconscious Advantage: Why Better Thinking Doesn’t Fix Broken Communication Most organisations do not have a communication problem. That might be the problem. Conversations are happening all the time. Meetings are full. Messages are constant. Strategies are explained, repeated, documented.…
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Mike Stevenson - Awake at Work, Without the Wake Up Call
Awake at Work, Without the Wake-Up Call Most organisations are not in crisis. That might be the problem. They are functioning. People show up, work gets done, targets are met, and on the surface everything looks fine. And yet, something feels slightly off. The energy is lower than it should be,...
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Chip Scholz - The Small Moments That Quietly Shape Your Leadership
The Small Moments We Ignore… That Shape Our Leadership We tend to point to the big moments when we talk about leadership. The promotion. The pressure. The moment you realise it’s on you now. But when you look back, it’s rarely those moments that actually shaped how you lead. It’s the smaller…
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Merry Korn - Fired Into Purpose, Built From Nothing
Unemployable by Design? When Your Strengths Don’t Fit the System People get labelled all the time. Not ready. Not the right fit. Not what we’re looking for. Sometimes it’s said directly, sometimes it’s implied. And once that label sticks, it tends to follow. But here’s the question we rarely stop...
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Dr. Danny Brassell - Facts Inform, Stories Transform
Leadership Is a Story. The Question Is Who Gets to Tell It. Thinking about how often leadership sounds correct. The strategy is clear. The values are printed. The message is polished. And yet nothing shifts. People nod. They comply. They do not move. Which raises a slightly uncomfortable…
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International Day of Happiness - Caring, Sharing… and the Attention Problem
We expected to talk about happiness. After all, it was the International Day of Happiness, built around this year’s theme, Caring and Sharing. But the conversation kept circling back to something else. Attention. How easily it gets pulled away. How quickly we switch. How normal it has become to…
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Liz Weber - Promoted Too Soon, Ready Too Late
Promoted Too Soon? The Competency Trap in Leadership Succession Thinking about how often leadership begins with a promotion email. Top performer. Technically brilliant. Reliable. Safe pair of hands. So we reward competence with authority. And hope leadership appears. It usually does not....
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Amy Loden Tiffany – The Biology of Success, Why Healthy Leaders Redefine What Winning Means
High Impact, Healthy Leadership The Biology of Sustainable Success We talk about mindset, strategy, and resilience in leadership. We rarely talk about biology. We expect clarity from exhausted people. We expect sustainable performance from leaders who ignore sleep, recovery, and metabolic health....
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Graham Norris - When Conflict Is the Message, Not the Problem
When Conflict Is the Message, Not the Problem Thinking about how often workplace conflict gets treated as something to fix, smooth over, or make disappear. As if tension itself is the failure. Yet conflict usually shows up for a reason. It points to something unmet, unspoken, or misunderstood.…
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Jay Setchell - When Life Breaks You and You Refuse to Break Back
Redefining Success When the Rules Change Success is easy to describe when life follows a familiar script. Mobility, momentum, milestones. Then the rules change. Jay Setchell has lived through multiple near-death experiences, dozens of surgeries, paralysis, and relentless recovery. What emerges is...
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Stephanie Sylvestre – Everyone Needs a Buddy: Using AI to Amplify Humanity, Not Replace It
Confidence Before Capability Mentorship, intuition, and the human side of intelligent tools Thinking about how often leadership development focuses on skills before confidence. As if people can apply new tools or frameworks while quietly doubting themselves. As if capability comes first, and…
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John DeDakis - When Life Writes the Story, and Why Writing What Hurts Helps
When Life Writes the Story for You, and Why Writing What Hurts Helps Thinking about how often we talk about resilience as something we build deliberately. Skills we develop. Mindsets we choose. But life does not always wait for us to be ready. Sometimes it writes chapters we never planned to...
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Andrew Brummer - Why Networking Feels So Hard, and Why People Choose to Follow You Anywhere
Why Networking Feels So Hard, and Why People Choose to Follow You Anywhere People talk a lot about networking. Tips, tactics, frameworks. What they talk about far less is the discomfort. Reaching out without a clear reason. Walking up to strangers. The quiet fear of sounding self-serving or...
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Jim Carlough - The Myth of the Born Leader, and the Six Pillars That Prove Otherwise
The Myth of the Born Leader - and the Six Pillars That Prove Otherwise Some say leaders are born. Jim Carlough says they’re built. With over 30 years of leadership in the trenches, Jim dismantles the myth of the “natural leader” and replaces it with a practical framework: the Six Pillars of...
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Mark L. Vincent - When Leadership Stops Being About the Role, and Starts Being About You
Thinking about leadership, it is easy to hide behind titles, responsibilities, and expectations. The role becomes the focus. The person quietly disappears behind it. And yet, when things feel off in teams, strained in culture, or heavy in decision-making, it is rarely the role that people respond...
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Russell Van Brocklen - Why Dyslexia Isn’t a Deficit, and Why Schools Still Treat It Like One
Why Multisensory Learning Works, and Why Schools Are Still Slow to Use It Reading struggles are often met with polite reassurance and a familiar line. Wait and see. The problem is that waiting rarely helps, and families lose time that matters. Russell Van Brocklen, known as the Dyslexia…
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Andrew Moss - Leading with Humanity: Building Cultures That Care
You Don’t Need to Be Fixed - You Need to Remember What if growth wasn’t about fixing your flaws, but about remembering who you already are? Andrew Moss - veteran coach, adventurer, and community-builder - invites us to rethink change. Together, we’ll explore how remembering your strengths,...
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Chris Marr - Learning Out Loud: The Power of Sharing What You Know
The Authority Reframe: How to Lead Without People-Pleasing (or Pretending to Be Someone You’re Not) Authority doesn’t have to feel arrogant. In fact, the most respected coaches and consultants aren’t the loudest in the room – they’re the clearest. In this conversation, Chris Marr helps us…
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Garry Ridge - Belonging at Work: Why People Stay When They Feel Seen
Any Dumb Ass Can Do It: The Unsexy Truth About Great Leadership Leadership isn’t rocket science - it’s human science. In this honest and energizing conversation, best-selling author and legendary culture-builder Garry Ridge shares why brilliance is overrated and consistency is everything. Drawing...
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Kenneth J. Kunken - Resilience and Purpose: Living Beyond Limitations
I Dream of Things That Never Were: From the Field to the Frontlines of Justice What happens when your life changes in a single moment - and you're left to build a new one from scratch? Kenneth Kunken was a college athlete with big plans when a tackle on the football field left him paralyzed from...
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Charles Spinosa - Leadership and Meaning: Creating Value Through Dialogue
The Courage to Risk: Why Moral Bravery is the Missing Link in Modern Leadership What if leadership wasn’t just about driving results - but about creating something morally distinctive? In this compelling conversation, Charles Spinosa - leadership strategist and co-author of Leadership as...
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Dr. Dorothy Martin-Neville - Becoming Who You Are: Courage, Clarity, and Conscious Growth
Becoming the Leader Your Life Has Prepared You For: Courage, Clarity, and the Work of Becoming Who You Are Dorothy A. Martin-Neville, PhD brings a lifetime of reinvention, insight, and grit to this conversation. Her journey from an orphanage in Boston to founding multiple organizations, leading...
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Linda Carlisle - The Art of Listening Leadership: Connection Before Correction
Making Culture Stick: The Long Game of Integration In this episode of Inspiring Conversations, I’m joined by Linda Carlisle, Fractional Communications and Culture Leader with over two decades of experience guiding companies through mergers, acquisitions, and large-scale change. We dive into the...
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Thomas Wilson - Beyond Motivation: Inspiring People Through Meaning
Ever been called a “monster”? Thomas R. Wilson has - and he used that label as rocket fuel. Battling bipolar disorder, anxiety, ADHD, and autism spectrum traits, he was nearly crushed by a cruel school system. Instead, he exploded into a valedictorian, poet, and global advocate. His story will…
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Rod Collins - Nobody Is Smarter Than Everybody: Collective Intelligence in a Changing World
This Inspiring Conversation features Rod Collins, an author and keynote speaker known for his work on how collective intelligence can transform the way we lead and collaborate. Rod has spent decades showing that organizations perform at their best when they stop depending on a few people at the…
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Teaser - Thursday December 4th
Rod Collins joins Inspiring Conversations to explore an idea many leaders still resist. Nobody is smarter than everybody. Organizations work better when the thinking is shared, not guarded.
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Traci Austin - The People Equation: Creating Workplaces That Work for Humans
People Strategy for the Trades: A Blueprint for High-Performing Teams How do you build a team that actually works - on the site, in the cab, and in the chaos? In this live conversation, transformational leadership strategist Traci Austin shares her no-fluff approach to building high-performing...
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Naila Selimović - Lean With Heart: Where Structure Meets Human Connection
From Lean to Lyrical: Finding the Human Voice in Process and Performance Lean thinking and opera don’t usually share a stage. One obsesses over efficiency; the other over emotion. But Naila Selimović has lived in both worlds - and discovered they’re not opposites after all. As a former opera…
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Happiness at work is not a slogan. It is a question worth asking.I host conversations with leaders, thinkers, and the occasional brave human who is willing to talk about what actually makes work feel human. We dig into listening, belonging, purpose, and the small decisions that shape how people treat each other at work.No fluff. No corporate sparkle. Just honest stories, useful insights, and a steady reminder that Want to be a guest on Inspiring Conversations? Send Hedinn (Héðinn) Sveinbjörnsson a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/hedinn_inspi
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