PODCASTS

James Middleton explores why organisational strategies often fail at the executive level. Throughout the episode, James provides behavioural insights and practical tips for bridging the gap between vision and execution.

In this episode, you’ll explore how leadership shapes organisational culture. This episode examines how poor leadership erodes culture and offers practical leadership behaviours you can apply today to drive meaningful, positive cultural change.

In this episode, you’ll explore the difference between change management and change leadership. It highlights five core principles: steering direction, seeing the big picture, breaking silos, modelling behaviour, and prioritising people, to guide meaningful, human centred transformation. Change management moves the pieces, change leadership moves the people.

In this episode, you’ll learn five essential traits of high performing teams: shared purpose, trust, a growth mindset, unity, and recognition. It offers practical ways to strengthen these qualities so you can elevate team performance with greater confidence, clarity, and purpose.

In this episode, you’ll discover how parenting principles can strengthen your leadership. Drawing on personal experience, it explores emotional regulation, clear communication, adaptability, and owning mistakes, showing how these everyday lessons build confidence, clarity, and purpose in professional environments.

Difficult conversations are part of leadership, but they do not have to lead to conflict. In this episode, James Middleton shares practical strategies to help leaders navigate challenging discussions with clarity and confidence.

In this episode, you’ll explore the rising challenge of burnout among millennials and its impact on wellbeing and leadership. It outlines key environmental causes, early warning signs, and practical strategies to manage stress, protect your health, and maintain performance with greater balance and awareness.

Look after yourself so that you can look out for others. James Middleton highlights the necessity of leaders prioritising their own wellbeing to lead effectively. Drawing from 20 years of leadership experience in the Australian Air Force and the private sector, James emphasises that work stress and life stress are interconnected and cannot be compartmentalised.

In this episode, you’ll learn how reliance on leadership styles could be holding you back as a leader. You'll explore five prominent leadership styles and how they can be used as practical tools. It highlights the importance of an inner-compass, adaptable decision making, and values driven leadership to create meaningful, lasting organisational change.

In this episode, you'll learn that leadership is influence, not a title. It highlights staying calm, owning your actions, showing confidence, and staying centred on what matters so you can lead effectively from any position with clarity and purpose.

In this episode, you’ll learn five practical ways to communicate with clarity and purpose. It explores active listening, thoughtful pauses, reflection, and adapting your style to different situations so you can lead confidently and communicate with intention in any environment.