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Leading with integrity: Leadership talk

Leading with integrity: Leadership talk

David Hatch 247 Episodes Sep 16, 2026

This podcast is aimed at new leaders, managers, and first-time founders in specialist-driven businesses and teams who want to become more effective, people-first leaders. Each week, host David Hatch talks with leaders, leadership experts, entrepreneurs, and business owners about practical strategies, mindsets, and steps for ethical, authentic, and engaging leadership. Occasional solo episodes and group discussions add variety. The show also invites guests to appear via PodMatch.

Episodes

Ep.248: NLP, Imposter Feelings, Leadership and How to Get the Most From Your Own Brain, with Vanda Varga | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.248: NLP, Imposter Feelings, Leadership and How to Get the Most From Your Own Brain, with Vanda Varga | Leadership Podcasts Sep 16, 2026 1:23:55 If you've never heard of NLP, or if you have but you don't know what it means, or if you know exactly what it means but you want to learn more about it, then this is the right episode for you. Because we're going to hear all about it from this week's wonderful guest, Vanda Varga. Vanda also shares her journey from neural rehabilitation to becoming the Tour Guide to Your Mind, we explore how NLP ca
Ep.247: Why Burnout is an Organization Design Problem, Not a Resilience One and How to Fix it, with Ashley C. Gibson | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.247: Why Burnout is an Organization Design Problem, Not a Resilience One and How to Fix it, with Ashley C. Gibson | Leadership Podcasts Sep 9, 2026 1:25:14 What if the reason you're burnt out isn't about your personal resilience? This is the question being explored in this episode of Leading with Integrity, as I'm joined by my next guest, Ashley Gibson. Ashley is a psychotherapist and former marketing executive, she is a Licensed Resident in Counseling and the Founder of Meaning in Practice, as well as being an expert on burnout and identifying the p
Ep.246: How To Lead like a Great Teacher and Why Changing Your Approach Matters, with Dr Katie Trowbridge | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.246: How To Lead like a Great Teacher and Why Changing Your Approach Matters, with Dr Katie Trowbridge | Leadership Podcasts Sep 2, 2026 1:10:00 Here's a potentially surprising concept for you: great leaders are a lot like great teachers; curious, adaptable, focused on helping others feel seen, heard and trusted so they can think boldly and do their best work. This week Dr Katie Trowbridge joins me to discuss this parallel between great teachers and effective leaders. We talk about the 'thought crisis' and why valuing thinking in the workp
Ep.245: From Preacher to Breacher: Human Nature & the Key to Effective Leadership, with Eric Robinson | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.245: From Preacher to Breacher: Human Nature & the Key to Effective Leadership, with Eric Robinson | Leadership Podcasts Aug 26, 2026 1:09:16 Do you truly understand your people? Or any people? How well you understand human nature and how people work both as groups and individuals is an aspect of leadership we regularly touch on, but rarely is it a lesson learned through such a unique set of experiences or such highly demanding circumstances as the ones we'll be hearing about this week. Because my guest is recently retired FBI Agent and
Ep.244: The Top 10 Indicators of a Broken Workplace Culture & How to Avoid What Creates Them, with Natalie Holder | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.244: The Top 10 Indicators of a Broken Workplace Culture & How to Avoid What Creates Them, with Natalie Holder | Leadership Podcasts Aug 19, 2026 1:19:07 What is it about a workplace, a company or an employer that makes you feel like you fit in, like the culture is the one for you? For a lot of people, it's down to trust, and you can easily make the argument that this where a good culture begins. I'm joined by employment law & culture strategist, Natalie Holder to help unpack what good and bad cultures look like, the signs to look for and what
Ep.243: Freelancer to Founder; Leadership Lessons from Leading for the First Time, with Benas Leonavicius | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.243: Freelancer to Founder; Leadership Lessons from Leading for the First Time, with Benas Leonavicius | Leadership Podcasts Aug 12, 2026 1:23:53 This week we're exploring the journey of the first time leader as I'm joined by Benas Leonavicius, a founder currently growing his first business, hiring and leading a team for the first time. Benas shares his journey from freelancer to founder, we talk about his technical expertise in SEO and about his company, a personal branding agency called Avium.Benas is very candid about his journey and the
Ep.242: Third Spaces, Team Culture, Leadership and Building Human Connections, with Talia Rosenblum | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.242: Third Spaces, Team Culture, Leadership and Building Human Connections, with Talia Rosenblum | Leadership Podcasts Aug 5, 2026 1:14:10 When was the last time you truly connected with someone without having your phone in your hand? Whether that be virtual or in person, it's a question a lot of people struggle to answer. We're going to tackle this and other questions about connection and community in this week's episode of Leading with Integrity; and if you don't know what a 'third space' is, then listen now to find out!To help (by
Ep.241: Work Culture, Wellness, Health and Nutrition; Are Your People Looking After themselves, with Amanda Whitehead | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.241: Work Culture, Wellness, Health and Nutrition; Are Your People Looking After themselves, with Amanda Whitehead | Leadership Podcasts Jul 29, 2026 1:12:28 What's one thing that links our health, stress, productivity an even happiness at work? The answer may surprise you (it did me)... There's been a recurring theme of health, mental health & wellbeing this year on Leading with Integrity, and this week we're continuing that trend from a slightly different angle as I chat with Amanda Whitehead, founder of Purposefully Nourished and expert in nutri
Ep.240: Finding Your Core Values and Why Scaling the Business Starts with Scaling it’s Leader, with Frank Gessner | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.240: Finding Your Core Values and Why Scaling the Business Starts with Scaling it’s Leader, with Frank Gessner | Leadership Podcasts Jul 22, 2026 1:20:43 What's your North Star? What values or principles guide you as an individual and (by extension) in your career or business? Not having clarity on these can make every work decision more complicated and difficult. Sounds simple, but it's not always so easy and perhaps this is why so many of us struggle with it, especially when first starting out. Enter this week's guest on Leading with Integrity, F
Ep.239: Organizations Under Pressure, Failing AI Strategies and the Lessons for Leaders, with Patrick Bell | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.239: Organizations Under Pressure, Failing AI Strategies and the Lessons for Leaders, with Patrick Bell | Leadership Podcasts Jul 15, 2026 1:24:34 What does 'AI' look like when it's implemented well? What are the benefits to businesses and (more importantly) the end user? To help us try to find the answers, this week I'm joined by Patrick Bell, an AI transformation partner and doctoral AI researcher. We (mostly Patrick) dissect the operational friction behind corporate artificial intelligence adoption, why so many technical rollouts fail int
Ep.238: Fashion Tech, Sustainability and the Founder’s Journey; Pulling the Threads of Leadership, with Lacey Cadieux-McLean | Leadership
Ep.238: Fashion Tech, Sustainability and the Founder’s Journey; Pulling the Threads of Leadership, with Lacey Cadieux-McLean | Leadership Jul 8, 2026 1:07:22 A key topic of this week's episode is sustainability in fashion, fair to say, I'm about the least fashion-conscious person you know. So I'm opening this description with a thank you to this week's guest, Lacey Cadieux-McLean, for 1. patiently answering my silly questions on the subject, and 2. teaching me quite a few things I didn't know and had never thought about when it comes to something as si
Ep.237: Leadership in a Micro Company and Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Business Growth, with Joel Miller | Leadership Podcasts
Ep.237: Leadership in a Micro Company and Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Business Growth, with Joel Miller | Leadership Podcasts Jul 1, 2026 1:07:18 Today we're testing a few of the assumptions of entrepreneurship and leadership, from "fail fast" to "leaders have all the answers" and more, we might even be debunking and refuting some of these ideas, and discussing why they're actually a little bit toxic. I'm joined by guest, Joel Miller, co-founder (with his twin brother) of The Sky Floor, LLC. A marketing agency of two, which has a slightly c

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