Extra-Ordinary Leaders with Dolly Waddell

About Extra-Ordinary Leaders with Dolly Waddell

The extra-Ordinary Leader is a show that takes a collaborative approach to uncover what it means to be a leader in the 21st century. Through a series of open and honest conversations with a selection of top business leaders and leadership coaches, Dolly Waddell takes us on a journey to unravel the complex world of leadership in the 21st century.

Publisher

Dolly Waddell

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Aug 2023

Latest episode

17 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Dec 2025

   S4 09: Why extra-Ordinary Leaders Build the Conditions for Growth (Not Just Performance) with Sophie Bowen

   In this episode of The extra-Ordinary Leader, I’m joined by Sophie Bowen, Head of Learning & Development at COOK Trading Ltd, a business widely recognised for its award-winning culture, human-centred leadership and long-term commercial success. Sophie has spent 15 years inside COOK, embedding learning and development into the fabric of the business rather than treating it as a bolt-on or a ‘nice to have’. Together, we explore what extra-Ordinary leadership really looks like when growth, c...

2. 

   10 Dec 2025

   Dolly In My Pocket Ep8: The Chicken or the Egg: Language as Your Leadership WD-40

   If you want a high-performing team, you cannot ignore the language you use. In this episode of Dolly in My Pocket, I unpack Tactic 8 from my book extra-Ordinary Leaders and explore the link between language and performance. Do our words shape our behaviour, or does our behaviour shape our words? More importantly: is the language you use helping your team move, or quietly creating friction? I look at: → Why familiar phrases like “meeting” and “we just need to communicate better” aren’t specifi...

3. 

   8 Dec 2025

   S4 08: Leading in Context: How Adaptive Leaders Think, Decide and Perform with Roderic Yapp

   In this episode of The extra-Ordinary Leader, I sit down with my first-ever returning guest, Roderic Yapp, former Royal Marine Commando and founder of Leadership Capital. Rod brings a razor-sharp perspective to leadership in complex, fast-moving environments, and this conversation expands how we think about context, decision-making, and performance. We explore why context is the overlooked foundation of leadership, how to tell whether your world is simple, complicated or complex, and why you ...

Who has been a guest on Extra-Ordinary Leaders with Dolly Waddell

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tanya Gallagher
• Oleg Konovalov
• Julia Parker

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

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Quality

29

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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