Leading from Love

Exploring our relationship with spirituality in organisational life with Lee Chalmers.

How love is part of creating an ‘ethic of care’, and how we might introduce love into coaching.

How forgiveness and letting go of resentment is the key to moving forward with confidence and trust in the world.

A deep and rich conversation with Christopher Miller, who is increasingly putting love front-and-centre in his global coaching and leadership development practice.

In this conversation Letesia Gibson founder of New Ways, discusses how belonging, inclusion and possibility are forms of love; why we need to dial up love in the face of politics that sow hatred, fear and division; how the bridges between us might be short and not as long as we imagine; and what each of us might do in order to be one tiny dab of mortar in a much larger wall of support for others. Learn more about Letisha: Minds Under Seige: Naomi Klein, Gabor Mate bell hooks: All About Love Othering & Belonging Institute Valarie Kaur: See No Stranger. Not one we mentioned but one that's a great read when it comes to finding way to connect with people who have hurt us/hate us.

In this solo episode, I explore how expansion - both up and down – is a form of love, with practices for expanding our hearts capacity for love.

Talking with Robin Shohet about being pre-loved, choosing the lens we look through, as well as football and Tesco shopping trolleys.

Exploring how grief and love are sisters with Emily Bazalgette, plus why tending to our grief really matters.

A second solo episode, this time exploring the blocks to love in organisations, and what makes love at work such a tricky and sometimes problematic thing.

Hoin Helena Clayton for her first solo podcast, where she talks about the following topic: What do we mean by love (many things…) and what’s changed between 2017 and now.

A wonderful episode with poet Tom Hirons on poetry as bridge-building, how there's a difference between’ love poetry’ and poems that are loving, and (special!) you'll hear Tom read The Secret Heart.

Join me for an interesting discussion with Joshua Abramson about love and how it can be used in all areas of life.

Nigel Cutts and I talk about how a lack of love causes so many problems for us all, how you don’t need to talk about love, but you do need to do it and the role stillness and space has in cultivating the conditions for love.

Join me, Helena Clayton and my good friend Matt Fairbrass, as we discuss and explore the Systemic Constellations work of Jan Jacob Stam.

Tracey McEachran, consultant and artist talks about the importance of honouring our grief, in all its forms and shapes, and what might be possible for us on the other side. We cover a lot of ground from limescale in a kettle, Theory U and her cafe.

Here, drawing on our work with Systemic Constellations, I talk with Matt Fairbrass about belonging – why it matters and especially so today, and what are some of the ways we can cultivate a stronger sense of belonging in in our organisations.

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Pete Clark and I talk about the importance of doing your work on your trauma and difficult experiences, and the ways that small acts of love - and some specific ones in particular - can make all the difference.

Exploring, with Steve Hargreaves, the practical application of compassion, how leaders need to ask themselves how they might be contributing to suffering, and how self-compassion is THE place to start.

This conversation with Tory Strethill-Wright explores the yin and yang of the workplace and how Org Design and Org Development are both linked with love.

This really important episode with therapist Karen Macmillan explores what happens to the child and to the adult when someone is brought up in an institution without love.

Here I talk with Stefan Cantore about how we are often ‘mini machines’ and the way that love is a radical and powerful (and necessary) disruptor in our organisations.

In this months episode of Leading with Love, Helena is joined by Megan Peppin. Among a variety of topics, Helena and Meg explore the concept of “when I feel heard, I feel loved" and how that can impact organisations.

I am joined by David Cousins, a senior leader at IBM, to discuss leading from love – and how that’s difficult to do when you're dealing with 'the noise of the machine'. We also explore how and when David realised that he did in fact lead from love.

I am joined by the extraordinary Catherine Newell, a shadow work coach and group facilitator. For me, Catherine epitomises love-in-action, and we talk about how her parenting a severely autistic son has meant she has got to know love in ALL its forms.

In this episode I talk to Dr Karen Blakeley, the former Head of Responsible Management at Winchester Business School and the author of the book Leading with Love, about how leadership is a sacred trust and that power can dilute love within organisations.

This conversation is with Dr James Traeger, a long time colleague and friend, where we explore whether love is more of process than a ‘thing’ and how having a Director of Love would be the worst thing possible for an organisation.

This conversation is with Gavin Bate, Mountain and Expedition Leader. We explore parallels between outdoor and indoor leadership, with gems about how fear is the doorway for those of us wanting to be more loving in our responses.

With Caron Bradshaw OBE, CEO of the Charities Finance Group who talks about how love is not only gentle but in fact enables healthy and necessary ‘abrasive tension’ to be worked through well.

With Naysan Firoozmand, Head of Global Executive Coaching at Ashridge, where we talk about how leaders sometimes need to go beyond a sense of ‘professional care’ to something much more human, how the relational aspects of coaching are loving aspects.