Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend

Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend is a warm, interview-led leadership show that treats professional life as inseparable from the rest of life. Its conversations are not built around slogans. They are built around people remembering what formed them, naming what they value, and describing how those values appear in meetings, teams, families, businesses, and moments of change. Recent episodes move from mindful command and presence to digital connection, workplace transition, feedback, entrepreneurship, creativity, women’s wellbeing, and the search for wholeness in business. The pace is measured. A guest is usually given room to tell a story, then the host reflects it back and draws out the leadership question inside it. That pattern gives the show its particular texture: personal, but not confessional; thoughtful, but not abstract. Sally-Anne Airey speaks about clarity, care, and being present for the people one leads and loves. Jenny Latham brings attention to how digital habits can leave people connected in one sense and under-bonded in another. Patrick Andrews considers participation, flow, and the power of groups to think wisely when they are properly invited in. Marissa Kismal frames change through engagement, development, performance, equity, and fairness. Mark Burden’s conversation turns feedback into something specific and relational, especially when leaders ask what they have done that affected others. Asad Duna connects creativity, bravery, humour, spirituality, and the founding of The Unmistakables. Clare Bowden-Hughes brings the pressures of motherhood, entrepreneurship, sport, trust, and professional relationships into the same frame. The show is especially strong when it slows down around an apparently ordinary leadership act: listening, signposting, asking for help, creating safety, or noticing what matters. It is executive coaching in conversational form, but with more room for memory and meaning than a typical business podcast.