About Unlock Your Leadership, with Dr Gary Crotaz, PhD
Meet the world’s greatest leadership thinkers with executive coach and author Dr Gary Crotaz. In each episode, Gary sits down with global experts — from CEOs to behavioural scientists, authors to changemakers — to explore the ideas shaping modern leadership.
Through deep, engaging conversations, you’ll unlock practical insights to lead with clarity, confidence and humanity.
From the creator of The Unlock Moment and The Box of Keys, Unlock Your Leadership is your invitation to think bigger, lead wiser, and grow deeper.
60 Composure Under Fire: Luisa Baldini on What Leaders Get Wrong About Pressure
What does it take to perform when there is no second take … and no margin for error?
In this episode, I speak with Luisa Baldini - former BBC correspondent and co-founder of Composure Media - about what it takes to communicate under pressure.
For over two decades, Luisa reported live from major global events, often with millions watching, producers speaking in her ear, and events unfolding in real time around her.
She shares what those moments taught her about composure, confidence and clarity … and why pressure doesn’t disappear as you progress in your career - it simply changes shape.
We explore how leaders can think more clearly, communicate more simply, and stay steady when the stakes are high.
Because composure isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you learn … when it matters most.
30 Sept 2026
59 What Immigrant-Founded Businesses Teach Us About Resilience: Neri Karra Sillaman on Building Companies That Last
Close to half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants. Eighty per cent of billion-dollar startups have an immigrant founder or executive. And businesses founded by immigrants statistically outlast the ones founded by everybody else.
Nobody had properly asked why ... until Dr Neri Karra Sillaman did.
Neri stood at a border at the age of eleven with her nine-year-old brother and her parents, who carried two suitcases and nothing else. She is now a professor at Oxford, the founder of a global luxury brand, and the winner of the Thinkers50 Radar award for the world's most promising emerging management thinker.
In this episode, Neri takes me inside the research behind her book Pioneers ... eight principles she found in the founders of Chobani, Moderna and Calendly, none of whom put profit first. We talk about why the usual paths are often closed to outsiders and what they build instead, why raising money too early can kill a company before it starts, and what happened when the war in Ukraine hit her own business ... and Prada picked up the phone.
Twenty years ago, in a seminar room in London, Neri was told that altruism is not real in business. This is what she found out.
26 Sept 2026
58 Cognitive Sovereignty: Mohan Nair on How Not To Lose Your Mind In An AI-Obsessed Era
Every day, most of us drive around the car park of our own brain looking for the closest possible space ... the easiest answer, the fastest shortcut, the machine that will do the thinking for us. Mohan Nair thinks that habit is costing us something we haven't begun to measure.
Mohan is a speaker, author and transformation leader who has spent decades working at the intersection of business, innovation and human experience, as CEO of Emerge, former Chief Innovation Officer at Cambia Health Solutions, and an adjunct professor at Kellogg. He is also a musician, a former TV talk show host, and, by his own description, the first healthcare executive to audition and lose at America's Got Talent.
In this episode, Mohan takes me inside his new book Unreachable, and his argument that insight is biological, not technological ... something a machine can describe but never feel. We talk about the three signs you have become AI-obsessed, why editing your work is a different act from creating it, what "inconvenient learning" is and why the best leaders are forged by it, and the story of a ninety million dollar contract that turned on his refusing to hear a demand literally, which is exactly what AI would have done.
It started with a teacher telling a sixteen-year-old boy he was a disgrace to his family. What Mohan did with that moment ... and what he thinks all of us must now do to stay human in an age of intelligent machines ... is the heart of this conversation.
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