Leadership Discoveries® explores how accomplished leaders exercise judgement, navigate complexity and create impact. Drawing on her experience as a senior executive, executive advisor and leadership scholar, Dr Shirley Kavanagh brings listeners inside candid conversations with CEOs, founders, board leaders and innovators, exploring the decisions, experiences and leadership thinking that shape organisations and careers.
In this special solo episode, Host Shirley Kavanagh explores the skill of leading yourself. Hear why we don’t spend nearly enough time on self-leadership, why leaders stall, how to choose growth over the comfort of the familiar, how to exercise bravery & openness as a leader, and how to keep learning throughout your career. Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn
21 Sept 2026
When Intuition Stops Scaling with Julia Payne, Go-To-Market Strategist & Fractional CMO
For 20+ years, Julia Payne has helped founder-led B2B companies sharpen their market position, improve commercial performance, and build systems for sustainable growth. She’s worked with 500+ organisations as a Founder, CEO, Board Director, Advisor, and Fractional CMO/GTM Lead. Today, she helps ambitious B2B companies reduce founder dependence, strengthen go-to-market capability, and build commercial organisations that scale without relying on individual heroics. Hear why the founder’s intuition stops scaling, how to get functional roles to come together to support growth, how to keep the strategic view as a leader, the leadership lessons Julia has learned from her competitive sailing background, and her advice for founders as they scale up. Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn, and Julia at Julia-Payne.com and on LinkedIn
31 Aug 2026
Building What Matters as a Leader with Ben Beckley, CEO of RevHealth
Ben Beckley is the CEO of RevHealth, a full-service agency that partners with progressive healthcare companies to communicate cutting-edge science, launch novel therapies, and help life-changing treatments reach the patients who need them the most. He has over 20 years of experience in healthcare marketing & communications. Hear how to make yourself redundant as a leader, how to be a builder as a leader, how to deliver clarity for your team, how to make sure your values truly get adopted by your team & clients, and his hopes & fears when it comes to AI in the workplace. Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn, and Ben at RevHealth.com and on LinkedIn
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