Sustainable Tech Leader

About Sustainable Tech Leader

The Sustainable Tech Leader isn’t just another leadership podcast. Tech leaders face unique pressures, fast-paced change, relentless delivery cycles, managing up while supporting teams, and constant disruption. Most advice is either too technical or too generic. This podcast fills the gap with honest conversations on the highs and lows of leadership, and practical ways to excel without burning out. For leaders who want balance, resilience, and lasting impact.

Publisher

Mita Patel

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Oct 2025

Latest episode

5 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Nov 2026

   Charles Haworth - AI can give leaders back time. What we do with that time is up to us.

   On the Sustainable Tech Leader podcast, host interviews Charles Haworth, co-founder of Converge Hybrid and COO/CTO of Madassa Energy, about improving renewable power reliability and affordability and building companies to solve that problem. Charles describes pivoting away from green hydrogen after 12–18 months when he couldn’t make the commercial case work, applying a “strong beliefs loosely held” mindset and comfort with being wrong. He discusses leading beyond his expertise (including a CFO role without finance training) by relying on experts, asking “dumb” questions, and focusing on strategic direction rather than technical detail, and notes his imposter syndrome decreased at senior levels. He explains embedding AI agents into operations by building custom databases, dashboards, and a CRM, creating role-based agents (finance, project management, PA, PR/comms) using OpenClaw, and using AI to help secure servers. He emphasizes curiosity, experimentation, and combining industry experts with students, while managing boundaries for student workloads. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 02:16 Pivoting When Evidence Changes 04:00 Strong Beliefs Loosely Held 04:51 Leading Beyond Expertise 07:39 Imposter Syndrome Lessons 09:08 Building AI First Operations 12:30 Designing Role Based Agents 14:06 Security and Human Oversight 14:50 Curiosity as a Core Skill 16:41 Sustainable Work and Boundaries 18:18 Students in the Startup Mix 19:46 Leadership Takeaways and Closing “This audio track is used under the Pixabay License, which allows free commercial use with no attribution required. The track has been modified for podcast intro purposes only.”

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Leading AI Transformation: From Technical Excellence to Human-Centered Influence

   On the Sustainable Tech Leader podcast, host Mita interviews Tamojit Saha, a senior technology and AI transformation leader with 15+ years in healthcare and software engineering, about human-centered AI leadership. Tamojit contrasts technical excellence with influential leadership, emphasizing that leaders prioritize the right problems, connect technology investments to business outcomes, align stakeholders, and create environments for teams to produce great answers. He argues AI changes the economic value of human contribution by shifting differentiation from task execution to critical thinking, creativity, systems and ethical judgment, and business insight. He highlights key leader capabilities: strategic thinking, learning agility, business acumen, AI governance balancing innovation with risk, privacy and compliance, and stronger human leadership fundamentals. He expects administrative work to drop off via automation, enabling deeper strategic focus, supported by broad learning, small experiments, transparency, curiosity, open communication, and elevating human capabilities alongside AI. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 01:23 From Tech Expert to Leader 04:17 Doers vs Thinkers in AI 06:51 Skills for AI Era Leaders 11:42 What Leaders Can Stop Doing 13:48 Learning Fast with Experiments 16:59 Leading Teams Through Change 19:06 Open Door Leadership Presence 20:40 Sustaining Yourself as a Leader 22:13 Final Advice and Wrap Up “This audio track is used under the Pixabay License, which allows free commercial use with no attribution required. The track has been modified for podcast intro purposes only.”

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Sanjay Mistry on AI Adoption, Communication, and Building Sustainable Tech Leadership

   On the Sustainable Tech Leader podcast, host Mita interviews Sanjay Mistry (Group CTO at PM Connect, advisor at Build It, and executive coach at CTO Academy) about recurring challenges for technology leaders. Sanjay highlights three themes: miscommunication (listening to understand and using customer/value language), strategic alignment amid rapid AI-driven change (slowing down, returning to organizational basics and customer needs, and thinking across time horizons), and value creation (beyond cost cutting, including revenue and margin opportunities). They discuss shared responsibility across executive functions to treat “tech as the business,” responsible AI adoption, governance, data/digital sovereignty concerns, and the risk of “people debt” from automating entry-level work that builds judgment. Sanjay advocates pairing juniors with seniors running “AI factories,” delegating to trusted lieutenants, zooming in/out, building strong foundations, creating environments for people to excel and learn, and improving communication structures; he recommends the book "Surrounded by Idiots." 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 01:43 Three Leadership Themes 05:31 Tech and Business Alignment 07:40 AI Adoption and Talent Pipeline 13:30 People Debt and Long Term Value 15:48 Training Juniors with AI Factories 19:43 Sustaining Yourself as a Leader 25:23 Practices That Stick 29:51 Personality Types and Communication 30:56 Final Thoughts and Responsibility “This audio track is used under the Pixabay License, which allows free commercial use with no attribution required. The track has been modified for podcast intro purposes only.”

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