Camilla Dolan, co-founder of Eka Ventures, is rethinking venture capital as a force for systems change. Here’s how I’d frame it: we explore her idea of shared value — how business can serve people and planet without compromising performance. From sustainable consumption to women’s health, her work points to a simple but important shift: doing good and doing well aren’t opposites anymore. They’re starting to look like the same game.

What if leadership isn’t mainly about strategy or influence, but the quality of connection we bring to each moment — and to each other? John Thompson spends his time helping leaders reconnect with themselves, with the people around them, and with what’s actually happening in the present. Through his work at Transformational Connection, he’s supporting a different kind of leadership: one that’s rooted in presence, emotional depth, and what he calls “relational intelligence” — the capacity to s...

Scarlett Allen-Horton’s story cuts against the usual odds — and shows what can happen when someone refuses the script that life hands them. She left home at 16, became a mum at 19, and grew up around other people’s expectations of what she could or couldn’t become. She didn’t buy it. She made the final of The Apprentice, built a successful executive search firm, and has become a voice for leadership that lifts others with it. In this conversation, we go past the CV and into the real stuff — i...

What if surrender wasn’t giving up — but waking up? In this episode, Richard Britton speaks with Sahasrajit Ramesh, co-creator of Satya Speaks, about what it means to live with totality. From engineering at Oxford and MIT to spiritual exploration in Rishikesh, Sahasrajit shares his personal journey of moving beyond societal expectation and rediscovering the raw creative flow of life. Together, they explore: The quiet inner voice we often ignoreHow modern work routines dull our alivenessReconn...

What happens when power goes unchecked — and the people in charge choose not to look too closely? In this episode of The Whole Leader Podcast, I sit down with Claire Glasgow, a solicitor and director at Fieldfisher who represents individuals harmed by powerful systems — from catastrophic injury cases to survivors of sexual assault taking on some of the UK’s most established institutions. Claire brings a steady, unvarnished perspective shaped by years of seeing what happens when policies aren’...

In this episode, Richard Britton sits down with Richard Hoyle—a former British Army officer whose leadership journey has taken him from military command through global enterprise sales, to the world of psychological insight and reflective practice. Along the way, Hoyle has integrated influences from Jungian psychology, Buddhist philosophy, and decades of hands-on leadership experience. Together they explore how leadership evolves over a lifetime: from task and discipline, to trust, presence, ...