Lee's guest Kate Connors is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with helping people back to work after experiencing significant mental health challenges. She is a Board Director at the Emergency Services Foundation (ESF), and Chair ESF's Mental Health Advisory Group (MHAG).

Lee first met Kate in 2010 years ago when seeking expertise while desigining a series of workshops for senior leaders struggling with how to effectively lead staff experiencing significant mental health challenges. At the time Kate was CEO of an organisation delivering best in class workplace psychological services including employee assistance, critical incident and organisational development services.

This conversation explores the question - How can I balance my duty of care and commitment to being a compassionate, responsible leader with the pressure to deliver results, when I have team members facing significant mental health challenges?

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Lee asks Roger Edwards about why he feels cultivating a sense of 'Belonging' is such an important feature of effective leadership.

Roger started his career in sales and marketing in GSK progressing to manage multi-million dollar account relationships with some of the UK’s leading retailers including Tesco, Boots, Asda, Amazon and Sainsburys. At bp Roger led the UK&I business for Castrol where he was responsible for leading a team of 150 people with responsibility for $250m revenue. He went on to head up global strategy for Castrol before moving into change management for bp group. Roger worked in culture across bp with a focus on delivering team effectiveness programs and coaching teams up to bp board level, delivering these initiatives in more than 30 countries around the world. He has successfully led multiple global change programs in bp. Roger now runs his own leadership consulting and coaching business, and partners with Lee on major global projects.

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Part 1 is in Episode 7 - if you want to hear them in order, please listen to Episode 7 first. We do a quick recap here so its not essential, but Episode 7 may provide some useful context for you to get more from this episode.

Lee's guest in this conversation is Darine Najem. Darine is a Systemic Change Facilitator, Consultant and Coach based in Beirut, Lebanon with 20 years of professional experience. She designs and facilitates learning experiences to help organizations and teams in becoming, and building, spaces for innovation and positive impact. Darine has a successful 13-year track record in the corporate world where she held several leadership positions in marketing, operations, and medical relations in multinationals in the pharmaceutical and FMCG industries (Novartis, L'Oreal). She holds a Master’s degree in Change Leadership from the Said Business School at Oxford University (UK) and HEC (Paris).

In this episode Lee discusses the challenges leaders face in making the really tough decisions that often affect many people's lives. What is important about how we make these decisions? How should we communicate these decisions? What do we do if we were not part of the decision process, or if we don't agree with the decision, but still have to take responsibility for it?

This conversation is in two parts - Episode 7 and 8.. enjoy!

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