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The Lonely Leader helps existing and aspiring leaders become the best version of themselves. We believe that leadership on the outside begins within. By sharing decades of leadership experience, insights and best practice we can help you sharpen your skills. Our unique and authentic style, drawing upon learnings from success and failure, will ensure you are better prepared to optimise your performance and meet the challenges of the modern day leader. We regularly discuss creating and sustaining high performance, enhancing resilience, empowering our mindset and finding professional and personal fulfilment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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September 7, 202620 min

The Presence Test: How Leaders should handle work on holiday

Every leader faces the same question before a holiday: switch off completely, or stay connected and check in on work? In this episode, James Rule explores a single question that cuts straight through it, does this protect my presence, or does it erode it? James revisits and refines his own advice. He argues that everyone, from employee to founder or chief executive, needs an initial complete disconnect to reset mentally, emotionally and physically, but the length of that reset is personal, and it depends on the stress and exhaustion you carried in. From there he explores whether checking your work emails on holiday actually helps or harms, and the counter-intuitive reason you should never check in every single day. If you are a senior leader, founder or entrepreneur who struggles to switch off from work on holiday, this is a grounded, practical look at how to rest properly, protect your presence with the people you love, and return without the usual avalanche of dread. KEY TAKEAWAYS Why the "switch off completely versus stay connected" debate misses the point The Presence Test: the single question to run every work decision through on holiday Why everyone needs an initial full reset, and how to right-size its length to your stress load The counter-intuitive reason an occasional check in is safer than a daily one How to tell whether you can check in safely, or whether you are someone who should stay fully dark Accelerate your growth and development with The Lonely Leader Academy If you want to work through some of these areas in more depth, to accelerate your learning and access tools, tactics and tips to drive performance and enhance fulfilment then check out The Lonely Leader Academy. The Lonely Leader Academy: https://tll.academy RELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVE Episode 70 - Disconnect to reconnect: Why leaders need a digital detox Episode 48 - Leadership Essentials: Presence Bonus episode: The Lonely Leader Academy is Live ENJOYED THE EPISODE? James works with senior leaders, CEOs, and founders who want to perform at the highest level without losing what matters most in the process. If this conversation has prompted something for you professionally or personally James would genuinely love to hear from you. You can reach him directly via LinkedIn or through the website below. Everything shared is in complete confidence. ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT The Lonely Leader Academy: The Lonely Leader www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

August 24, 202617 min

What your team say when you’re not in the room

There are meetings happening in your organisation that you are not in. They take place in corridors, car parks, over lunch and in WhatsApp groups you do not know exist. In these conversations you would find out exactly what the staff think of the culture you have shaped and environment in which they work. Most leaders believe they have created psychological safety but the research shows there is usually a gap between the leaders perception and the reality their staff experience. In this episode James Rule explores that gap, asks the uncomfortable questions every leader should ask themselves to identify it and shares the key step every leader can take to establish psychological safety. KEY TAKEAWAYS Why the warning signs of a lack of psychological safety have become largely invisible in hybrid and remote working environments. Three practical tests for a leader to establish if psychological safety truly exists in their team. The single most powerful thing you can do to truly establish psychological safety in your culture. Accelerate your growth and development with The Lonely Leader Academy If you want to work through some of these areas in more depth, to accelerate your learning and access tools, tactics and tips to drive performance and enhance fulfilment then check out The Lonely Leader Academy: https://tll.academy/ RELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVE Episode 22 - Creating psychological safety in a team Episode 35 - Leading a Hybrid Team Episode 12 - Eight Steps to a Quality Culture ENJOYED THE EPISODE? James works with senior leaders, CEOs, and founders who want to perform at the highest level without losing what matters most in the process. If this conversation has prompted something for you professionally or personally James would genuinely love to hear from you. You can reach him directly via LinkedIn or through the website below. Everything shared is in complete confidence. ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT The Lonely Leader Academy: The Lonely Leader www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

August 10, 202616 min

The Morning Belongs to You. So Why Are You Giving It to Everyone Else?

This morning, in the first thirty minutes after you woke up, who did the morning belong to? Did it belong to you? Or did it belong to your inbox, your notifications, the news, and the chaos of getting everyone else out of the door? For many senior leaders, the answer is the latter. The morning that had the potential to set them up for everything that followed was handed over before they had even fully woken up. Nobody took it from them, they gave it away. In this episode of The Lonely Leader Podcast, James Rule returns to one of the most consistently requested topics in the back catalogue and goes significantly deeper than the original Episode 4. This episode is about standards, because how you start the morning is a direct reflection of the standards you hold yourself to and the morning audit James shares at the end will make that uncomfortably clear. James builds a practical framework for reclaiming the first hour of your day, a set of non-negotiables that take fifteen minutes and change how the rest of the day feels. KEY TAKEAWAYS Why most leaders have a morning reaction rather than a morning routine and the difference it makes. The Three and Three practice revisited, expanded, and built upon from Episode 4. Why the phone has to wait and how to handle every objection to that. Why a good morning starts the night before. The complete framework for building a morning that serves you, adapted to your own life and rhythm. A five-day morning audit challenge that reveals exactly what you have been accepting. Accelerate your growth and development with The Lonely Leader Academy If you want to work through some of these areas in more depth, to accelerate your learning and access tools, tactics and tips to drive performance and enhance fulfilment then check out The Lonely Leader Academy: https://tll.academy RELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVE Episode 4 - High performers do this everyday to empower their mindset Episode 33 - High Performance Pledges Episode 93 - Inside The Lonely Leader: My story, my philosophy, my purpose ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT The Lonely Leader Academy: The Lonely Leader www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

July 27, 202622 min

Seven years, seven challenges every leader faces

Seven years ago James launched The Lonely Leader. In that time he's had the privilege of coaching and mentoring leaders across FTSE 100 businesses, the NHS, SMEs and the wider public and not for profit sectors. Different sectors, different titles, different pressures, and yet the same handful of challenges surface again and again. In this milestone episode he pulls together the seven challenges that clients have raised most often over the past seven years. For each one, he points you towards the episodes in the back catalogue that explore it in more depth, so you can go straight to the area that matters most to you right now. Whether you're a chief executive, a founder or an emerging leader, the chances are at least one of these is sitting close to home. 1.Loneliness in leadership Go deeper: Episode 30 Preventing Loneliness in Leadership Episode 103 Escaping Leadership Loneliness Episode 106 When performance stops feeling worth it 2.Burnout Go deeper: Episode 9 Warning Signs of Burnout and Tips to Prevent It Episode 23 Lessons Learned from Burnout Episode 71 Holiday Illness, a Warning Sign You Cannot Ignore 3.Imposter syndrome Go deeper: Episode 20 Tackling Imposter Syndrome 4. Standards Go deeper: Episode 61 Set your Standards High 5.Psychological safety Go deeper: Episode 22 Creating Psychological Safety in a Team 6.Communication Go deeper: Episode 38 Mastering the Art of Communication Episode 80 Feedback Culture Part 1: Giving Feedback Episode 81 Feedback Culture Part 2: Receiving Feedback Episode 113 Connection before command: The human side of leadership Episode 124 Feedback isn't bullying. Silence is worse 7.Clarity Go deeper: Episode 84 Leadership Essentials: Clarity Go further with The Lonely Leader Academy If you want to work through some of these areas properly, James goes deeper on standards, communication and clarity across the modules and lessons already available inside The Lonely Leader Academy . ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT The Lonely Leader Academy: The Lonely Leader www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

July 13, 202617 min

Executive Presence: The six things you control before you walk into the room

A desire to improve their executive presence is a theme that James Rule discusses regularly with the clients of The Lonely Leader. In this episode he challenges the misguided belief that it is an innate trait and shares the six step road map that anybody can use to enhance their presence. Whatever meeting room you have to enter, whatever presentation you are tasked with making, embrace this plan and step forward with real confidence. RELATED EPISODES Episode 92 Leadership Essentials: Body Language Episode 36 Leadership Essentials: Confidence Episode 20 Tackling Imposter Syndrome ENJOYED THE EPISODE? James works with senior leaders, CEOs, and founders who want to perform at the highest level without losing what matters most in the process. If this conversation has prompted something for you professionally or personally James would genuinely love to hear from you. You can reach him directly via LinkedIn or through the website below. Everything shared is in complete confidence. If this resonated, the single most valuable thing you can do is share it with one person who needs to hear it. A leader you know who is carrying this quietly. A colleague who is building something significant and paying a price at home they haven't fully examined yet. A five-star review on your podcast app also makes an enormous difference in helping this podcast reach the leaders who need it most. It takes thirty seconds and it matters more than you know. ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT The Lonely Leader Academy: The Lonely Leader www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

July 6, 20264 min

The Lonely Leader Academy is Live

In this bonus episode, James Rule announces the launch of tll.academy , our digital leadership development platform. It has been built on decades of leadership insight and is designed to support your growth and development at a place and pace that suits you best. As a gesture of appreciation for supporting The Lonely Leader Podcast, James presents the Founding Member Offer. For a limited period you can access tll.academy for just £9 per month and that price is frozen for life. Listen in to learn more and check out The Lonely Leader Academy on tll.academy RELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVE Episode 120 - Launching The Lonely Leader Academy. ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 29, 202620 min

How successful leaders create their own luck

Is success really about luck? Or is that just the story we tell ourselves when someone else gets further than we do? In this episode of The Lonely Leader Podcast, James Rule takes on one of the most comfortable excuses in leadership and life. The idea that high achievement is down to being in the right place at the right time. He argues that what looks like luck from the outside is almost always the product of invisible work, difficult decisions, and the willingness to prepare long before any opportunity appears. Drawing on Gary Player’s famous line “The harder I practise, the luckier I get” James shares two stories from his own journey: the years of work it took to represent England as a rugby player, when peers around him were dismissed as “just lucky”; and the moment he walked into a boardroom as a young professional and presented an unsolicited strategic analysis to the board a move that could have cost him his JOB, but instead led to him becoming CEO. This episode is a challenge. If you have ever looked at someone else’s success and thought “they were lucky” James wants you to ask a harder question. Do you actually know what it took? And more importantly: what are you willing to do to get lucky yourself? KEY TAKEAWAYS Why calling someone “lucky” is often a way of avoiding personal accountability The four behaviours that consistently separate those who “get lucky” from those who don’t Two real stories from James’s career that reframe what luck actually looks like A challenge to apply immediately to your own leadership journey RELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVE Episode 93 - Inside The Lonely Leader: My story, my philosophy, my purpose Episode 88 - The Leadership Essential of preparation Episode 65 - Leadership Essentials: Consistency ENJOYED THE EPISODE? James works with senior leaders, CEOs, and founders who want to perform at the highest level without losing what matters most in the process. If this conversation has prompted something for you professionally or personally James would genuinely love to hear from you. You can reach him directly via LinkedIn or through the website below. Everything shared is in complete confidence. If this resonated, the single most valuable thing you can do is share it with one person who needs to hear it. A leader you know who is carrying this quietly. A colleague who is building something significant and paying a price at home they haven't fully examined yet. A five-star review on your podcast app also makes an enormous difference in helping this podcast reach the leaders who need it most. It takes thirty seconds and it matters more than you know. ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 15, 202619 min

You're accumulating experience. You're not learning from it

Many leaders have years of experience and very little self-knowledge to show for it because they've never stopped to process their experiences. In this episode, James Rule makes the case for journaling as a serious leadership discipline. The practice that builds self-awareness, sharpens decision-making, and gives leaders the one thing they almost never create, space to think. KEY TAKEAWAYS Why experience without reflection is just repetition The specific loneliness of senior leadership and why honest self-examination becomes harder the higher you go James's personal story. What collapsing with pneumonia taught him about the cost of not reflecting Three things journaling actually does for leaders at a senior level Marcus Aurelius, Ray Dalio, and why the most effective leaders in history all did the inner work Three questions, five minutes the entry point that removes every excuse RELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVE Episode 15 covers the practical mechanics of journaling, how to start, what formats work, and how to build the habit. This episode is the deeper argument for why it matters at a senior level: self-awareness, decision quality, and managing the weight that comes with leading at the top. The two episodes are complementary. If you haven't heard Episode 15, it's worth going back to it after this one on the link below. Episode 15 - The Power of Utilising a Journal (practical mechanics and habit building) Episode 93 - Inside The Lonely Leader: My story, my philosophy my purpose Episode 110 - My enough is enough moment and how it changed me as a leader ENJOYED THE EPISODE? James works with senior leaders, CEOs, and founders who want to perform at the highest level without losing what matters most in the process. If this conversation has prompted something for you professionally or personally James would genuinely love to hear from you. You can reach him directly via LinkedIn or through the website below. Everything shared is in complete confidence. If this resonated, the single most valuable thing you can do is share it with one person who needs to hear it, a leader you know who is carrying this quietly, a colleague who is building something significant and paying a price at home they haven't fully examined yet. A five-star review on your podcast app also makes an enormous difference in helping this podcast reach the leaders who need it most. It takes thirty seconds and it matters more than you know. ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 1, 202614 min

Feedback isn't bullying. Silence is worse

Something has shifted in how organisations handle feedback and it's costing leaders their confidence, and teams their standards. In this short, direct episode, James Rule names what's happening: honest feedback is increasingly being labelled as bullying, leaders are going quiet, and the silence that follows isn't kindness. It's negligence. A rallying call for any leader who has hesitated before a difficult conversation they knew they needed to have. KEY TAKEAWAYS The clear distinction between genuine bullying and honest, professional feedback What James is seeing in his work with senior leaders and why it concerns him The real cost of going quiet: how silence erodes culture, standards, and your best people Why the standard you tolerate becomes the standard you set A direct challenge to every leader who has pulled back from a conversation they knew was necessary How to deliver feedback that is honest, fair, and unambiguous without apology RELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVE Episode 80 - Feedback Culture: The Secret Weapon of High Performing Teams (Part 1 - Giving Feedback) Episode 81 - Feedback Culture: The Secret Weapon of High Performing Teams (Part 2 - Receiving Feedback) ENJOYED THE EPISODE? James works with senior leaders, CEOs, and founders who want to perform at the highest level without losing what matters most in the process. If this conversation has prompted something for you professionally or personally James would genuinely love to hear from you. You can reach him directly via LinkedIn or through the website below. Everything shared is in complete confidence. If this resonated, the single most valuable thing you can do is share it with one person who needs to hear it. A leader you know who is carrying this quietly. A colleague who is building something significant and paying a price at home they haven't fully examined yet. A five-star review on your podcast app also makes an enormous difference in helping this podcast reach the leaders who need it most. It takes thirty seconds and it matters more than you know. ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 19, 202622 min

Leading at home - The role most leaders are failing without knowing it

Most leaders are exceptionally good at their jobs. They've built careers on performance. They are respected, trusted, and delivering results. However, when asked how are you performing in the most important leadership role you hold? The answer is almost always the same. A pause and then, not as well as I should be. In this episode of The Lonely Leader Podcast, James Rule tackles one of the most underserved conversations in leadership the real, honest cost of senior leadership on family life. An honest examination of the role most leaders are quietly failing at without ever realising it's happening and what the leaders who get it right actually do differently. KEY TAKEAWAYS The slow erosion: how entirely reasonable decisions compound into a pattern that quietly reshapes your home life. The guilt loop most leaders carry silently and how it compounds the very problem it responds to. Four specific behaviours the leaders who navigate this well actually practice. RELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVE Episode 110 - My Enough Is Enough Moment and How It Changed Me as a Leader and a Person Episode 106 - When Performance Stops Being Worth It: A Conversation Leaders Rarely Admit They're Having Episode 119 - Strip Away the Title. Who's Left? ENJOYED THE EPISODE? James works with senior leaders, CEOs, and founders who want to perform at the highest level without losing what matters most in the process. If this conversation has prompted something for you professionally or personally James would genuinely love to hear from you. You can reach him directly via LinkedIn or through the website below. Everything shared is in complete confidence. If this resonated, the single most valuable thing you can do is share it with one person who needs to hear it. A leader you know who is carrying this quietly, a colleague who is building something significant and paying a price at home they haven't fully examined yet. A five-star review on your preferred platform also makes an enormous difference in helping this podcast reach the leaders who need it most. It takes thirty seconds and it matters more than you know. ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors. His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level. As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT www.thelonelyleader.co.uk The Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedIn Instagram hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTER Sign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.