The Leaders Circle is Work.Life’s invite-only community for founders and CEOs.
The podcast brings those conversations to a wider audience, covering leadership, culture, self-motivation and scaling. Hear senior leaders share what’s working, what isn’t, and what they wish they’d known sooner.
A Founders Take on Flexibility vs Commitment, with Ryan James, Founder of Rocket SaaS
Ryan James is the founder of Rocket SaaS, a demand generation marketing agency for B2B SaaS companies. He spent his first eight years in business industry agnostic, and growth stayed largely flat throughout that time. The turning point came when he niched exclusively into B2B SaaS. From there, Rocket SaaS scaled to £7m ARR and 70 employees in five years. Ryan now hosts a top-rated SaaS marketing podcast alongside running the agency. Ryan talks openly about what happened when he closed Rocket ...
23 Sept 2026
Scaling a Team Without Losing It, with Sanjay Mackintosh, Founder & MD of Roretti
Sanjay Mackintosh grew Roretti from four desks to nineteen in eighteen months. Hiring the right people from the public sector was one thing. Keeping them feeling like one team, rather than a collection of talented individuals he'd gathered, was the harder job. In this conversation with Paul, Sanjay is honest about his team pushing to find a shared space because something was missing when the only time together was online, at home, or on a client site. He talks about the twice-weekly hub that ...
22 Sept 2026
Why Your First 50 Hires Define the Culture Forever with Alex Ayin, Founder of Tomorrow's Potential
Paul Dutnall is joined by Alex Ayin, founder of Tomorrow's Potential. Alex helped grow Social Chain out of an early Manchester office into a global agency alongside Steven Bartlett, then joined the executive team at THG through the country's largest ever tech IPO at £5.4bn. What comes out of the conversation is how much of Social Chain's early growth came down to environment. The team filmed the office and put it on YouTube and Instagram so candidates could see the atmosphere before ever walk...
18 Sept 2026
How to Build a High-Performing Team Without Burning It Out with Bianca Errigo, Founder of Human OS
Paul Dutnall is joined by Bianca Errigo, founder of Human OS and a leading voice on sustainable high performance. A lot of leadership advice focuses on ambition, results and pushing for more. Bianca is interested in what happens after that and how you keep performing at that level for a decade rather than just having a good quarter. After more than 13,000 hours coaching everyone from FTSE CEOs to professional athletes, she’s seen the same thing again and again. From the outside, the people at...
15 Sept 2026
Why Happiness Is a Great Metric but a Poor Target with Matt Phelan, Co-Founder of The Happiness Index
In this first episode of the Leaders Circle podcast, Paul Dutnall sits down with Matt Phelan, co-founder of The Happiness Index, to unpack findings from the newly released Global Workplace Happiness Report. Built on 11 years of research covering more than 80,000 employees across 115 countries, the report shows how people feel at work is one of the clearest signals of business performance and one of the easiest things to get wrong. Matt breaks down the true workplace priorities of younger empl...
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