Helping leaders grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and bring real meaning to their teams.
The Partnership Playbook is for CEOs, founders, and go-to-market leaders who want to grow without noise, scale without burnout, and build partnerships that actually matter.
You’ll hear clear thinking on:
- How to become a great CEO
- How distribution, supply chain, and product partnerships create resilience
- How leaders use partnerships to simplify strategy, not add more work
Hosted by Phil Hayes-St Clair - CEO coach and partnerships advisor with 20+ years of experience across healthcare, biotech, aerospace, and eCommerce. Each episode blends practical insight with leadership reflection you can actually apply.
New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, including:
- A weekly partnership episode
- A weekly leadership episode
- A long-form CEO conversation
If you’re looking to grow with intent, lead with confidence, and build something your team believes in—you’re in the right place.
Start anywhere. Stay for the clarity.
Learn more at philhsc.com
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251. Rugby Captain Emily Chancellor on talent, belonging and pursuing team excellence
This episode is brought to you by the CEO Room.
Six weeks, six CEOs, working through the confidential decisions that keep you up at night. Each week pairs a private session with Phil and a class session where one CEO brings their hardest problem to the group. When the six weeks end, your class keeps meeting monthly as part of the alumni membership, with access to Phil between calls and priority invitations to the annual CEO retreat.
Applications for the next class are open now. Visit listentophil.com (https://listentophil.com) to book a call.
What if the strongest leaders aren’t the loudest but the ones who make trying feel safe?
Wallaroos and Waratahs leader Emily Chancellor has spent her career performing in environments where standards are high, pressure is real and trust matters.
Her philosophy offers a powerful lesson for anyone responsible for people, partnership and growth: belonging isn’t about lowering expectations. It’s about building an environment where people are willing to stretch toward them.
In this conversation, discover how to:
Build high-performance cultures without sacrificing humanity or belonging.
Use vulnerability, consistency and small acts of connection to strengthen trust.
Create growth by making ambition, experimentation and “trying” socially safe.
Listen to discover why your environment may be one of the biggest growth levers you control.
The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to scale yourself as a leader, choose partners that help you grow faster, and turn trust, alignment, and first wins into momentum that lasts.
PS - Have a CEO guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them (https://philhsc.com/expression-of-interest).
22 Sept 2026
250. Why capable team still move too slowly
This episode is brought to you by the CEO Room.
Six weeks, six CEOs, working through the confidential decisions that keep you up at night. Each week pairs a private session with Phil and a class session where one CEO brings their hardest problem to the group. When the six weeks end, your class keeps meeting monthly as part of the alumni membership, with access to Phil between calls and priority invitations to the annual CEO retreat.
Applications for the next class are open now. Visit listentophil.com (https://listentophil.com) to book a call.
What if your team isn’t slow — what if they’re waiting for you?
When a business can’t move at market speed, the problem may not be urgency or capability; it may be that too many decisions are queuing for the CEO.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
How to spot where decisions are really waiting — and why the queue often leads back to the CEO’s calendar.
Why delegation without clear boundaries transfers uncertainty instead of creating speed.
How to use the Find, Frame, Free model to distribute authority without losing confidence or control.
Look at the last ten working days, find one recurring decision that didn’t genuinely need you, and redesign it so it never has to wait for you again.
The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to scale yourself as a leader, choose partners that help you grow faster, and turn trust, alignment, and first wins into momentum that lasts.
PS - Have a CEO guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them (https://philhsc.com/expression-of-interest).
11 Sept 2026
249. Dr Ginni Mansberg on women's longevity, leadership and saving your brain
Get the CEO Leadership Collection: Five curated conversations in a private podcast, each under ten minutes, on the decisions and pressures that define the role.
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What happens when high-performing leaders suddenly stop feeling like themselves?
This conversation with Dr Ginni Mansberg explores an under-discussed leadership challenge: midlife health can affect confidence, productivity, career decisions and the ability of experienced women to remain in senior roles.
Understand why retaining midlife women is both a leadership issue and an economic growth opportunity.
Learn how colleagues and partners can support rather than inadvertently take control.
Discover how stronger workplace partnership can protect talent, institutional knowledge and team performance.
Listen for a practical conversation about leadership, health and creating the conditions for people and organisations to sustain growth.
Learn more about:
The Women's Longevity Handbook (https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-women-s-longevity-handbook-ginni-mansberg/book/9781761500954.html)
Saving Your Brain (https://www.drginni.com.au/products/save-your-brain)
The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to scale yourself as a leader, choose partners that help you grow faster, and turn trust, alignment, and first wins into momentum that lasts.
PS - Have a CEO guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them (https://philhsc.com/expression-of-interest).
Who has been a guest on Partnership+
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Ian Whitehead
Martin Herbst
Hamid Ghanadan
Colonel Kim 'KC' Campbell
David Johnson
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YouTube views
14,116
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Spotify
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Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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YouTube
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Engagement
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