A podcast for Deputy Principals, and frankly anybody in a leadership role, who are done waiting for a show that actually speaks to them! Hosted by Nelson — DP, GCI coach, and DISC Flow trainer — From the Deputy's Desk combines behavioural profiling and growth coaching to give leaders practical, immediately usable tools for the most human parts of the job: coaching teachers, navigating conflict, driving change, and building a leadership legacy that outlasts any strategic plan. Eight episodes. Three signature segments per episode. Zero generic advice.
From the Deputy's Desk
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A podcast for Deputy Principals, and frankly anybody in a leadership role, who are done waiting for a show that actually speaks to them! Hosted by Nelson — DP, GCI coach, and DISC Flow trainer — From the Deputy's Desk combines behavioural profiling and growth coaching to give leaders practical, immediately usable tools for the most human parts of the job: coaching teachers, navigating conflict, driving change, and building a leadership legacy that outlasts any strategic plan. Eight episodes. Three signature segments per episode. Zero generic advice.
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4/14/2026
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June 29, 2026
S1e09- Your Leadership Legacy
<p>In the Series 1 finale of The Human-Centred Leader, Nelsonbrings together all nine episodes in a meditation on leadership legacy: What it is, how it is built and why the Deputy Principal is the most important architect of it in a school. The episode includes the three-word leadership brand exercise, the DISC Legacy Map (natural legacy, shadow risk, and intentional shift for each profile), a full 90-day leadership presence plan, adeeply personal letter to the Deputy Principal and the final DISC Diagnostic imagining what staff might say in a staffroom after their Deputy moves on, in two versions, intentional and unexamined. The series closes with a reflection on the Tuesday morning as the place where legacy is actually built and an invitation to Series 2.</p><p></p>
June 13, 2026
S1e08: Feedback That Lands, Not Feedback That Stings!
<p>In this episode, Nelson unpacks why most feedback in schools misses its mark and delivers a practical, DISC-differentiated framework for feedback conversations that actually produce growth. Drawing on coaching principles, he introduces three foundational moves: strength before stretch, observation before interpretation and question before prescription. The episode discusses a DISC feedback matrix that describes how each profile filters feedback, what they need, what to avoid and an opening line calibrated to their style. Its a framework for building a genuine feedback culture rather than just a feedback practice. He includes a candid From the DP Desk reflection on the feedback conversation Nelson is most ashamed of and what it taught him about the difference between being technically right and humanly wrong!</p>
June 6, 2026
S1e07: You Can't Lead From Empty
<p>In this episode, Nelson turns the lens on the person most often missing from the school wellbeing conversation: the Deputy Principal themselves. Drawing on DISC Flow profiling, he maps out how depletion, risk behaviour, and restoration look fundamentally different across the four DISC styles and why generic wellbeing advice fails school leaders. The episode includes a DISC Wellbeing Map covering depletion signals, risk behaviours, and restoration strategies for each profile, a framework for the four boundary types most critical for DPs, a deep exploration of modelled wellbeing as a leadership act and a personal From the DP Desk reflection on the collegial conversation that reconnected Nelson to themeaning underneath his work. Includes the DISC Diagnostic applied to a Term 2, Week 8 depletion scenario, One Powerful Question, and the coaching question that might be the most important one in the series!</p><p></p>
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