In this weeks episode, Mari Williams is joined by Jamie Urquhart, co-founder of ARM Holdings, sharing his remarkable journey from chip designer to technology innovator. Through candid storytelling, Jamie reveals the leadership principles, personal challenges, and strategic insights that helped transform ARM into a global technology powerhouse. Jamie Urquhart was part of the founding team of ARM Holdings from its inception in November 1990 until November 2002. He helped deliver ...

Gabriela Rosa is a world-renowned fertility specialist, author, and reproductive health educator. Gabriela is the founder and director of the Rosa Institute—an organization dedicated to helping couples create healthy babies, despite previous reproductive challenges. Since 2001 Gabriela and her team of clinicians blend evidence-based science into a holistic, supportive, and education-focused approach to fertility treatment. Her proven and effective methodology (shown to deliver a 78.8% l...

Roit is a trailblazing orchestra conductor and sought-after performance coach. With over two decades of experience leading world-class orchestras across Europe, Israel, and beyond, she has built a remarkable career that seamlessly integrates artistic excellence with transformative leadership development. As the founder of BHZ Consulting Group, Roit developed the MAESTRO Method, a cutting-edge approach that applies the principles of orchestra conducting to the corporate world. Roit...

In this inspiring episode of the Alternative Leader Podcast, Anne Bailey, CEO of Form the Future, shares her personal story of navigating career challenges after graduating from Harvard. She reveals how her own struggles with finding meaningful work led her to create a nonprofit that supports young people in discovering their potential and career paths. Anne discusses the importance of mentorship, challenging self-limiting beliefs, and breaking through societal expectations to cre...

Stacey Grant-Canham, founder of Black and Beech, discusses her journey from a part-time side hustle to a mission-driven fashion brand. Inspired by her father's brain aneurysm and her own experiences, Stacey emphasizes the importance of integrity, feminism, and sustainability in her business. She transitioned from academia to entrepreneurship, driven by the need for safety and security. Black and Beech focuses on ethical practices, supporting positive industry changes, and fosterin...

Hannah Walker is a personal trainer who, after seeing just how much physical training changed not only her health and fitness but also her mindset, set up her own business, Eton Fitness. Eton Fitness focuses on 1-2-1 online training in her ‘The Empowered Female Programme’. Although this is based around fitness, she also includes education surrounding hormones, training and nutrition. The majority of women I train are in Perimenopause. Hannah is here to share the struggles and the ...

In this episode Goitseone Thamae shares her entrepreneurial journey from selling fruit and vegetables from her childhood garden in Botswana to starting her own company Evobiome, to help combat ill health by focusing on the microbiome. We talk about her leadership mindset and drive and how she learned from failures. Goitseone shares how she fought for her life in hospital with covid and the ill health she felt plagued by which made her focus on her gut. She has resolved these issues by c...

In this episode, Voice and Presentation coach, Julia Caddick, shares her journey to leadership. Beginning with how she was enamoured by music at a young age, to following her passion through singing and performance. Diagnosed with skin cancer when young, she found her strength and coping mechanisms highlighted in a way she hadn’t experienced before. Julia shares with us why being able to use your voice to be authentically yourself as a leader is a skill which affects us way beyo...

Join Mari Williams as she sits down with Lisa Sibley, a pioneering breath work expert, to explore the powerful intersection of conscious breathing, neurodiversity, and personal growth. Lisa shares her transformative journey of discovering her ADHD, uncovering the healing potential of breath work, and how this practice can revolutionize leadership, stress management, and self-understanding. From corporate teams to individual healing, this episode offers profound insights into how breath...

Ken Okoroafar achieved financial freedom by 34, and alongside his wife Mary runs the Humble Penny. In this episode, Ken discusses his childhood, how his mother's entrepreneur spirit inspired him, and how he achieved financial independence and helps others achieve the same. Find Ken Okoroafor here: The Humble Penny: https://thehumblepenny.com/about/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-okoroafor/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehumblepenny/ Twitter: http...

Corey Gaidzionis Founder, Big Emotions Academy Corey is a passionate, heart-centred entrepreneur on a mission, and it's all about: "Creating positive change using simple tools to teach Emotional Intelligence to equip our next generation of leaders to have their own motional superpowers." With a background as a personal trainer and coach, Corey recognised the need for a personal development program that reached young people in a way that made sense to THEM, rather than the usual, m...

John Spencer is an urban warfare and military expert, author, professor and scholar. He recently published the book Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War. John regularly consults for United States Army Forces Command units, Training and Doctrine Command, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the United Nations, and many others military and national security organisations. Having served 25 years in the US Military, in this episode John...

Content warning: Please note this episode discusses suicide Joel Stone runs his own successful marketing agency Codebreak, and in 2022 launched Andy’s and Joel’s Growth Academy, marketing coaching for solopreneurs. He is also the author of Amazon best seller book, Stay Hungry, and hosts the Stay Hungry podcast, a marketing and mindset podcast for business owners. Raised in rural Shropshire, Joel’s childhood was affected by his father's severe bipolar disorder. He then went on to u...

Brendan Turner is a Personal Trainer and Human Biomechanics Specialist who coaches business owners and executives who are in pain to become pain free. Brendan runs workshops and 6/ 12 month 1-2-1 coaching programmes. He has a growing YouTube channel where he talks about his journey of losing 10 Stone (64 kilograms) in weight and recovering from Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome which is deemed to be incurable. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiqR311F7yEwGW5EtiiNGHQ

I met Emma when I was interviewing Calvin Niles several years ago. Emma ran a beautiful bookshop called, ‘Travelling Through’ - now the name of her podcast. Emma worked talks about her experiences of working in the Balkans in post conflict cultural conservation. This work was about so much more than the conservation. She then began a journey driving through the Balkans to experience the land and she talks about this journey in her book, ‘Driving Tito’ – who is Tito you ask, I’ll leave y...

Gareth joined the police at aged 15. Since then, his life has been profoundly shaped by his experiences in the force, with two near-death experiences leaving him to navigate PTSD. Now full-time dad and 'part-time grass cutter', Gareth reflects on the impacts of his work, the importance of mental health and his ability to heal with the love of his family, 'Team Squance'.Gareth's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Irishpixel/...Gareth's Twitter: https://twitter.com/irishpixel?lang=enGar...

In this episode I am joined by Clare McDonald to share her story. It's a story rooted in her childhood from when her parents separated to her father dying when she was just 12. It's a story of loss and grief but also immense strength and resilience. Taking Clare from a life where she believed she was living small to one where she's acting on stage right out of in front of an audience. She went from feeling unloveable to and not good enough to feeling so good that she puts herself forward for ...

Anna McAfee is a LinkedIn Trainer, Community Strategist and Author. Anna’s work is focused on helping people and businesses alike to build better and more authentic connections, as well as empowering companies and brands to create and scale their own communities. She created #LinkedInLocal movement, an initiative to meet online connections offline at a local and human level, which spread to over 1000 cities in 96 countries. Anna has a unique background in social media and recruitment and is b...

In 2010 Nola applied for a leadership programme but was refused as she needs support to help with the extra learning and childcare around commuting. When she was going to the office it took so long that she didn’t see her kids. She changed jobs so she had a VPN and could work 3 days from home – then she broke her leg… So how do you leverage leadership when you aren’t leading a team? (It’s funny how we think of leadership always as leading others, a topic I cover in my book.) N...

Michelle grew up as an army kid travelling all over, she found this a struggle and asked to be sent to boarding school. She thrived at boarding school with structure and routine. However, she feels she fell into the good girl behaviour model, not speaking unless spoken to and not standing up for herself. As an adult and having gone through relationship breakdowns Michelle started to understand herself differently and realised that she may have ADHD. Having gone all, ‘Hermione Granger’ in gath...