As 2025 comes to a close, Chris Adams shares a special end-of-year message for Muhami Matters, reflecting on an outstanding year of conversations, insights, and impact.

In this solo episode, Chris looks back on the key themes explored throughout 2025 — leadership, growth, governance, wellbeing, credibility, and the commercial realities facing today’s professionals. The podcast brought together lawyers, business leaders, consultants, founders, and specialists who shared practical experience and honest perspectives on what truly matters in business.

Chris also reflects on a strong year for CJA Consulting, supporting professional services firms across the Middle East and internationally, and on the continued growth of Muhami as a trusted platform connecting individuals and businesses with credible legal expertise worldwide.

This episode is both a thank you to the guests, partners, clients, and listeners who made 2025 such a success, and a look ahead to an exciting return of Muhami Matters in January 2026.

🎙️ Muhami Matters will be back in the new year with fresh conversations and new perspectives.

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Muhami Matters: https://muhami.ae/muhami-matters/

CJA Consulting: https://www.cjaconsult.com

👤 Host:

Chris Adams – https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisadamsdxb/

Visit www.muhami.ae for legal knowledge and to connect with lawyers who can solve your legal issues.

Visit www.cjaconsult.com for marketing & business development services catering to professionals

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In this episode of Muhami Matters, Chris Adams is joined by Jude Jennison, Founder of Leaders by Nature, to explore leadership through the lens of emotional intelligence.

Jude explains how horses provide immediate, honest feedback on leadership behaviour by responding to emotional state, clarity and intention. Drawing on her corporate experience and years of working with leaders, she shares why trust starts with the leader, how wellbeing is shaped by leadership behaviour, and why emotional intelligence becomes critical during uncertainty and change.

The conversation also explores why organisations begin to strain as they grow, how leaders unintentionally create cultures of stress, and what it takes to lead with clarity, calm and confidence.

Guest:

Leaders by Nature: https://www.leadersbynature.com/

Jude Jennison LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judejennison/

Host:

Chris Adams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisadamsdxb/

Topics:

• How horses provide immediate and honest leadership feedback
• Why leadership is felt before it is understood
• Trusting yourself as the foundation for trusting your team
• Emotional intelligence versus logic in times of uncertainty
• Why wellbeing is a leadership issue, not an HR initiative
• The impact of leadership behaviour on team stress and safety
• Why organisations often struggle as they scale
• Leading with clarity, calm and confidence
• Small behavioural changes that transform team performance

Visit www.muhami.ae for legal knowledge and to connect with lawyers who can solve your legal issues.

Visit www.cjaconsult.com for marketing & business development services catering to professionals

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What if the most honest feedback on your leadership came from a 600-kilogram animal?

In this trailer, Jude Jennison, Founder of Leaders by Nature, reveals the extraordinary way horses expose our blind spots as leaders — instantly, non-verbally, and without judgement.

From leaders who crumble when a horse “sees” them…

to aggressive managers who soften instantly when dominance stops working…

to CEOs stuck in the weeds at 100 employees…

Jude shows how horses make the invisible visible — trust, fear, clarity, uncertainty, emotional intelligence and embodied leadership.

The full episode lands Monday, 15 December.

Prepare for one of the most unique leadership conversations you’ll hear this year.

Leaders by Nature: https://www.leadersbynature.com/

Jude Jennison LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judejennison/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/muhami/

Website: https://www.cjaconsult.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cjaconsulting/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cjaconsulting/

👤 Host: Chris Adams

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisadamsdxb/

Visit www.muhami.ae for legal knowledge and to connect with lawyers who can solve your legal issues.

Visit www.cjaconsult.com for marketing & business development services catering to professionals

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