Late Night Leadership
For forward-thinking senior leaders who want to strengthen their leadership and build teams that thrive. We explore what shapes culture, how teams can think and work better together and the real challenges that show up inside organisations.
Confident or Vulnerable? Leading when the plan is a best guess
This episode explores the tension between confidence and vulnerability in leadership, showing when each serves you and when it can harm outcomes. Confidence vs Vulnerability: How Much Should a Leader Show? You're asking investors to back a plan you know is partly a best guess, or you're a few weeks ...
Welcome to Late Night Leadership: Why some leadership problems aren't meant to be solved
Why some leadership problems aren't meant to be solved We're back, with a new name and a new season! If you found us before as A Curious Space, it's still the two of us, with all the research, ideas and experience you know, but Late Night Leadership is focused on leadership itself: the joys, challen...
14. No Fear, No Filter: Building a Team That Tells You the Truth
Late Night Leadership: Psychological Safety Season finale In this episode, Kate and Maddie explore psychological safety: what it actually means, why most people get it wrong, and the specific leadership behaviours that create it. Drawing on Amy Edmondson's book The Fearless Organisation, they make t...
13. Culture Room 101: Four Things We're Banishing From Workplace Culture
Culture Room 101: Four Things We're Banishing From Workplace Culture Episode Summary In this bridge episode between seasons, Kate and Maddie borrow the format from the BBC show Room 101 (itself borrowed from Orwell's 1984) to make the case for banishing pieces of organisational culture orthodoxy for...
12. Culture Clinic: The One Person You Can't Afford to Lose
In this episode of Late Night Leadership, Kate and Maddy open up the Culture Clinic for the first time, responding to a letter from a listener we are calling Rowan. Rowan runs a business where two years of deliberate culture-building is being undermined by one person: a commercial director who bring...