What fuels ambition? What gets in the way? And what does breakthrough leadership really look like?
Join Gemma Toner as she sits down with leaders, experts and changemakers to uncover the stories, lessons and insights behind extraordinary impact.
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What if our fear of failure is the very thing holding back our potential? In this episode of Ambition. Unleashed., Gemma sits down with educator, neuroscientist and leadership advocate Katie Wiens to explore what happens when we stop treating failure as something to avoid and start seeing it as a pathway to growth. From her upbringing in rural Kansas to her work developing future leaders, Katie shares powerful lessons on resilience, confidence, neurodiversity and the importance of creating en...
6 Aug 2026
Building a Life of Purpose with Naomi Ballantyne
What really makes a leader? According to serial entrepreneur and industry pioneer Naomi Ballantyne it isn't a title, status or authority. It's whether people choose to follow you. In this episode, Naomi shares lessons from a lifetime of building businesses, overcoming adversity, leading with authenticity, and finding the courage to keep going when the path ahead is uncertain. A powerful conversation about leadership, resilience, compassion, and what truly matters in the end.
23 Jul 2026
Soft Power, Strong Results with Julia Robertson
After a short hiatus, Ambition. Unleashed. returns with a conversation that couldn't be more fitting for our relaunch. Our first guest is Julia Robertson, former Group CEO, Chair, NED and trusted advisor to organisations navigating growth, change and uncertainty. Together, we explore what ambition really means, the role of trust in leadership, how cultures are built (and protected), and why the future of leadership may be more human, not less. Julia shares candid reflections from a career lea...
14 Dec 2023
From Certainty to Seeking Exploration - with Margaret Heffernan
In this episode of Ambition. Unleashed. Sara Moore and Guest host Justin Temblett-Wood look into how leaders can take an approach of seeking exploration over the need for certainty. A willingness to believe in planning, but not plans, will free leaders from self-imposed prisons that restrict their ability to act and react in uncertain times. It requires bravery to step away from apparent certainty, and insight to understand that certainty is built on context and interpretation rather than rea...
28 Nov 2023
From Managing Problems to Embracing Setbacks - with Sylke Poeling
In this episode of Ambition. Unleashed. Sara explores how leaders can embrace setbacks and ultimately create a culture where failure is productive. Leaders are beginning to come to terms with the fact that setbacks are inevitable. ‘It’s okay to fail’ is a good starting point, but that attitude alone is not enough to reconnect us to the sense of high possibility that a breakthrough commitment requires. In principle, we know that if we’re going to take a car on the road, we can’t drive it forev...
7 Sept 2023
From Being a Victim to Choosing Agency
In this episode of Ambition. Unleashed. Sara looks into how often we catch ourselves saying “things have gone well considering the circumstances”. Blaming circumstances, the competition, the people around you or even just bad luck are all indicators that a victim mindset is lurking. Victim is a bold word. We are not talking about victims of crime, or abuse, or health conditions – these are true victims with whom we must stand and support. The leaders’ victim mindset is the acceptance of a lac...
27 Sept 2022
From Preserving to Decoupling Identity - with Liberto Pereda
In this episode we introduce two profiles of human consciousness: “reactive” and “creative.” Todays world is calling for the ambitious to be less reactive and more creative in our way of “being". Seeing ourselves AS our identity versus simply HAVING an identity is often what gets in our way because if we are our identity we need to preserve it to survive instead of play full out.Wayne and Sara explore this topic with Liberto Perada to find out how we can make this sometimes-difficult separati...
28 Jul 2022
From “playing not to lose” to “playing to win” with Bob Anderson
In this episode of Ambition. Unleashed. Sara and Wayne discuss the natural tension we all hold as humans between staying safe and striving for a bolder vision, mission or purpose. Lots of commentators talk about “leading with purpose”, but this is easier said than done. Striving for our true purpose often comes with inherent risk – livelihoods, relationships, our sense of identity, our ego. This leaves many of us “playing not to lose” versus “playing to win.” It can be toxic to the soul ...
16 Jun 2022
From Knowing to Curiously Learning - with Beatrice Bigois
In this episode of Ambition. Unleashed. our hosts Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander dive into the mindset shift of ‘Knower to Learner’ They are joined by Beatrice Bigois of EDF Trading, a female Chief Executive in the male dominated wholesale energy sector who has made this belief core to her leadership philosophy to deliver phenomenally successful business turn arounds.Together they explore why loosening the grip of “knowing” to endlessly cultivate “curiosity”, in yourself and if you are a lead...
12 May 2022
Stop predicting, start declaring - with Neil Rodgers
The mindset shift we explore this week is from “predicting the future” to “declaring the future.” Bold declarations are the foundation of great leadership and are hugely powerful. In the previous episode of Ambition. Unleashed. our hosts Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander helped listeners understand how they can make the shift from limited to unlimited possibility – to help you first identity a new future filled with possibility. But this is only the beginning. Declaring that possible future in a...
14 Apr 2022
From limited to unlimited possibility - with Stephen Carver
In this episode we explore the first mindset shift we believe all ambitious, or ‘like to be more ambitious’, people should make if you want to at first identify your biggest, boldest, most breakthrough ambitions. In this week’s episode we show you why, how and what you can do to shift from a mindset that may limit your sense of possibility to one that un-limits your sense of possibility. With the help of Stephen Carver – a superb storyteller as well as a Change and Project Management Consulta...
14 Apr 2022
Redefining ambition
Most people if asked to define an ambitious person would say something like “a person who knows what they want and where they’re going”, perhaps with a big, hairy, audacious goal in mind - probably motivated by money or notoriety. But Ambition is less about knowing where you’re going, but the size of the possibility you can see and would be willing to commit to for yourself and/or your business. This podcast is certainly for the self-identified ambitious, but it's also for those that feel the...
1 Feb 2022
Introducing...Ambition Unleashed
This is a taster of Ambition Unleashed, a podcast to help you realise your biggest, boldest, most breakthrough ambitions yet. Join hosts Wayne and Sara as they unpack conventional leadership wisdom and examine it through the lens of breakthrough thinking leadership philosophy.Follow the podcast in your favourite podcast app and begin the journey from resilient living to breakthrough leadership.
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