The Community Leadership Coach | Creating the space together for human brilliance in business & life

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Adam Bower is The Community Leadership Coach. The authority on collective performance & meaningful change, Adam partners with purpose-driven leaders to guide C-suite, corporate & government leaders, system-change makers, founders & coaches. Master conversations shifting mindset & behaviour to build capacity, capability & skills for organisational transformation, high-impact culture, strategic planning & client experiences. Grounded in Adam's formula: Community = Connection x Safety x Drive x Energy. Supercharge your learning experience with the Free Coach Book released each episode. Discover expert insights on leadership coaching, culture, and growth. Learn how to break through challenges, build capacity, and unleash potential at leadwithcommunity.com.

Episodes

  1. Aug 23

    Psychological Safety at Scale: Show up, Be Dumb and Engage Everyone (Even Your Biggest Brad)

    Show Notes: The Community Leadership Coach. Episode 1: The Peter Durand Principle: Show up and be willing to be the dumbest person in the room. Host: Adam Bower (The Community Leadership Coach) Guest: Peter Durand (Graphic Facilitator & Strategic Visualiser) Episode OverviewIn this inaugural episode of The Community Leadership Coach, Adam Bower sits down with Peter Durand, a veteran visual facilitator who has spent over 25 years in boardrooms, healthcare systems, and global enterprise environments deconstructing how groups solve complex problems. From large-scale SAP implementations to critical healthcare alignment, Peter shares actionable insights on facilitation design, psychological safety, and the strategic power of visual learning. Key Takeaways for Executive & Change LeadersVisual Facilitation as a Strategic Accelerator: Live scribing and visual mapping serve as a third point of engagement. It bridges the gap between individual processing and collective alignment, turning passive listeners into active co-creators.Intentional Process Design vs. Arbitrary Activities: Artifacts and visual output are only as good as the underlying facilitation architecture. Change leaders must design clear pathways, powerful questions, and psychological containers rather than applying surface-level workshop tactics.Engaging 'Brad in the Back of the Room': Sceptical or disengaged team members are often high-care individuals whose trust has been broken by poor leadership in the past. Creating psychological safety and inviting their perspective unlocks crucial system insights.The Power of the Framed Shredded Rag: True psychological safety allows anyone at any level to raise concerns or pause operations when things go wrong. High-performing cultures reward early detection and systemic transparency.Courageous Vulnerability and Discernment: Effective leadership requires the courage to admit when you do not have all the answers. Making space for collective discernment allows authentic alignment to emerge naturally. Chapters 00:00 The Power of Engagement and Memory03:21 The Shift to Co-Creation and Community04:03 The Role of Leadership and Humility05:23 Community and Personal Growth33:08 The Impact of Recovery and Possibility Get your Executive Leadership Journal Questions, Tools and Frameworks which work as a companion to the episode. Connect with Peter: Website: alphachimp.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/peterdurand Think Visual! Houston: First Friday, The Ion, Houston (hosted by Impact Hub Houston) Connect with Adam website: leadwithcommunity.com Learn about the Lead with Community Install

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    Trailer: The Community Leadership Coach

    What if the most effective leadership move you could make had nothing to do with your expertise? Every leader I meet is carrying too much. The weight of the decisions, the culture, the results. Doing more, moving faster, trying to hold it all together alone. And somewhere in every room they walk into, there's a Brad. Arms folded. Checked out. The person everyone notices and nobody talks to. Brad isn't the problem. Brad is the signal. I'm Adam Bower, The Community Leadership Coach. ICF Professional Certified Coach, former Chief Community Officer at a €37.8B global enterprise, and someone who has spent over a decade partnering closely with more than 5,000 purpose-driven leaders across every kind of system — from ASX-listed corporations to government agencies to innovation labs. What I've learned is this: the leaders who create the brilliant results are not the ones with the best answers. They are the ones who know how to build a space where the best answers can emerge together. That's community leadership. And it is the human edge that no algorithm can replicate. This podcast exists because the world is full of brilliant leaders doing this every day, in boardrooms, in communities, in systems most people never see. People I call diamonds. And the conversations they carry deserve to be heard. Each month I sit down with one of them. We get curious, we get tangible, and we learn together. No rehearsed takes. No recycled frameworks. Just real conversation with real leaders who have stopped trying to be the hero and started unleashing what becomes possible when people lead together. Every episode is paired with my Executive Coaching Journal — a hand-crafted coaching companion designed to turn what you hear into what you actually do. Because most podcasts inspire you for a moment. You hear something brilliant, think "I need to implement that," and by the time the next fire starts, it's gone. The Executive Coaching Journal changes that. Practical questions. Applied frameworks. A structured space to gain deeper insight, discern how to create more impact, and execute your learnings with your team, your organisation, and your clients. Do it solo. Share it with your team. Build collective momentum sooner. The formula underneath everything I do: Community = Connection x Safety x Drive x Energy. Multiplicative, not additive. Any bucket at zero and the whole thing collapses. Leadership is what fills the buckets. And leadership here is a mindset, not a management position. Anyone can choose it. Anyone can spark meaningful change. This is The Community Leadership Coach. New episodes monthly. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. And claim your free Executive Coaching Journal at the link below — a new edition drops with every episode. When you get the right people in the right space and have the right conversation, the right outcomes always emerge. Come wonder with us. Subscribe: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Music Executive Coaching Journal: leadwithcommunity.com Work with Adam: leadwithcommunity.com LinkedIn: Adam Bower, The Community Leadership Coach Newsletter: Community-Inspired Impact on LinkedIn

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Adam Bower is The Community Leadership Coach. The authority on collective performance & meaningful change, Adam partners with purpose-driven leaders to guide C-suite, corporate & government leaders, system-change makers, founders & coaches. Master conversations shifting mindset & behaviour to build capacity, capability & skills for organisational transformation, high-impact culture, strategic planning & client experiences. Grounded in Adam's formula: Community = Connection x Safety x Drive x Energy. Supercharge your learning experience with the Free Coach Book released each episode. Discover expert insights on leadership coaching, culture, and growth. Learn how to break through challenges, build capacity, and unleash potential at leadwithcommunity.com.

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  • Creator
    Adam Bower
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Adam Bower