In this episode, Nicola Hunt speaks with Steve Cockram, co-founder of Giants Worldwide, about his latest book The Voice-Driven Leader. Together, they explore why leadership must evolve for the digital age, how diverse voices unlock team performance, and why self-awareness is the foundation of relationally intelligent leadership. Steve introduces the Five Voices framework and explains how leaders can create environments where every voice is heard, valued, and effectively deployed.

Key Topics Discussed

• Why leadership skills must change in the digital, complex world of work
• The shift from individual performance to agile, collaborative teams
• The Five Voices framework and how each voice contributes to team success
• How leaders unintentionally silence voices—and how to prevent it
• The role of self-awareness in becoming a voice-driven leader
• Generational differences, resilience, and their impact on workplace dynamics
• Balancing high support and high challenge to develop people effectively

Featured Guest

Steve Cockram – Co-founder of Giants Worldwide, leadership coach, speaker, and co-author of The Voice-Driven Leader

Resources Mentioned

• The Voice-Driven Leader: How to Hear, Value and Maximise Every Voice on Your Team, by Steve Cockram and Jeremy Kubitschek
• Five Voices website and resources
• The Five Voices app and AI coaching tools

We talk to communication expert, international keynote speaker and transformational coach, Ravi Rajani, about his new book, “Relationship currency: five communication habits for limitless influence and business success”.

In Relationship Currency, Ravi uncovers the five communication habits you can embody to influence, inspire, and ignite change in your prospects, partners, customers, and team through building meaningful business relationships that matter.

We explore:

• How to ask conscious questions and why they are important.
• Why Ravi believes that we all have the innate superpower of charisma.
• True authenticity vs faking it.
• How to create story-worthy questions.
• Why imperfection equals connection.
• Why the suits Ravi wears have a far deeper significance!
• Key take-aways from the book that listeners can implement right away.

Relationship Currency is available from all major book sellers and from: www.theravirajani.com/book

In this episode of What Matters, we dive into the new book from Deloitte’s Geoff Tuff (Global and U.S. Sustainability Leader for Energy, Resources, and Industrials) and Steven Goldbach (Principal, Sustainability leader, Deloitte US), Hone: How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift.

Hone builds upon the authors’ two previous books Detonate (2018), which challenged readers to blow up outdated playbooks; and Provoke (2021), which focused on creating future advantage by spotting risk early. This third book addresses the daily work of staying on track once you've positioned yourself for advantage.

• What exactly is ‘drift’ and why is it all too easy for organisations to lose their edge in times of massive transformation?
• How can the way in which a kitchen knife is sharpened deepen strategic insight?
• What is the connection between how our nervous systems work and management systems?
• What do four artisans - a chef, a documentary filmmaker, a nautical photographer and a Canadian rock band all have in common?
• What can sailing teach us about navigating change?

In our conversation, Tuff and Goldbach make a compelling case for the power of purposeful, continuous, human-centred improvement – something that’s so much more appealing than the often-brutal top-down corporate transformation!