The Sacred Art of Leadership

Dipak Davé (Dip) and Derek Moore (Del).
  • 5.0 (2)
  • Entrepreneurship

Most leadership conversations start with what you do. This one starts with who you are. The Sacred Art of Leadership goes to the places most leadership podcasts quietly avoid. Identity, doubt, loneliness, purpose, and the real cost of carrying influence in a world that's changing faster than anyone can keep up with. It's not about frameworks, productivity hacks, or polishing your leadership brand. It's about your inner landscape: what's going on beneath the title, behind the meeting room, and after the applause. Hosted by Dipak Davé, executive coach and leadership thought partner to CEOs and founders and Derek Moore, co-founder and ex-CEO of Coffee & TV, a B Corp-certified global creative studio, each episode is a real conversation. Relaxed, curious, and unscripted. The kind that usually happens between close friends, late at night when the noise has quietened and you finally let yourself think out loud. We explore questions like: Who are you beneath the role? How has your definition of success changed and at what cost? What does it feel like to lead in an age of AI and constant change? And what does leadership ask of us when we strip away the performance? We don't show up as experts with answers. We show up as two people who find this stuff genuinely fascinating. Holding a posture of curiosity, not certainty. This podcast is for you if: You carry responsibility, formally or informally, and rarely have space to reflect on itYou sense that success alone isn't the full answerYou feel the weight of leadership but rarely name it out loudYou're willing to question who you're becoming, not just what you're achieving You don't need a title to belong here. You just need to be you. Title music courtesy of Minor Mishap Marching Band: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7hV6sCtfu3HGpqxUxobCDK?si=cJGWeZnbSTmyCnnCa8EunA

Episodes

  1. Episode 6 "Strong Enough to Break" with Barny Wright.

    May 22

    Episode 6 "Strong Enough to Break" with Barny Wright.

    Barny Wright co-founded No.8 London and is seven and a half years sober. In this episode he talks about what sobriety actually revealed, what it cost him to get there and so much more about founding and operating a business from the heart. Episode Summary Barny has built award-winning businesses, run marathons, and made bold creative bets for over two decades. He's also spent the last 2,682 Days sober (accurate at the time of publishing) In this episode, Barny talks about what sobriety revealed: not triumph, but the removal of everything he'd been using to avoid himself.  The grief that cracked him open.  The emotions he'd been numbing for twenty years that suddenly had nowhere to go.  The year he describes as the hardest since he got clean.  And the slow, ongoing process of finally figuring out who he is, including the parts he's only just beginning to name and understand. There's real honesty here about leadership too. About what it costs to always be the one who grafts hardest. About the moment he had to stop controlling everything and trust the people around him. About why admitting I don't know is a skill, not a weakness. And about what he believes every leader in every industry needs to hear: that you can be strong and empathetic.  By the end, this stops feeling like a leadership conversation and starts feeling like a reminder that the most important work any of us will ever do happens on the inside and that the leaders brave enough to do it tend to change everything around them, not just themselves.

    48 min
  2. Episode 5: The raw truths from inside CEO forums, with Jane Gomez

    May 8

    Episode 5: The raw truths from inside CEO forums, with Jane Gomez

    Jane Gomez has spent 25 years in the room where it actually happens. Not on the stage — in the circle. Chairing forums, steadying founders, asking the question nobody else thought to ask. In this conversation, Jane brings something rare: a view of leadership from the inside out. Why the best leaders are often the ones who say "I don't know" — and mean it. And what happens when an entrepreneur won't get out of the way of the very team they hired to help them grow. She also turns the lens on herself. The loud voice and big personality that belies the self-doubt underneath. The three personal values that finally gave her a compass. And the quiet realisation that she gets more from helping others than almost anything else — which might be why she's so good at it. Honest, warm, and full of the kind of wisdom that only comes from being in the circle of trust for eighteen years.

    51 min

  3. May 1

    Episode 4 - Q&A

    Before interviewing their first guests, Dip & Del reflect on the first few episodes and answer some audience questions, including "how do you spot a poor leader", "what do you do if you're promoted before you are ready", and "what's one thing that you've never spoken about that made you the leader you are today?". They also delve into the sensitive topics of mental health in leadership, imposterism and self-love. Links: Awareness - Anthony De Mello https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Opportunities-Reality-Anthony-Mello/dp/0385249373 Clan Mothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakoyaner

    33 min

  4. Trailer

    The Sacred Art of Leadership Trailer

    Dip & Del discussing what the show is all about.

    1 min
  5. Episode 3 - Who's Del?

    Apr 2

    Episode 3 - Who's Del?

    In this next episode, it’s Dip’s turn to put his co-host Derek Moore in the ‘hot seat’. He explores the journey behind the business: the humble beginnings, the unexpected leadership, and why Del has come to believe that the world doesn't just need better creative work, it needs a fundamentally different kind of leader. One who leads from awareness, not authority.  Del didn't set out to run a company. He started as a craftsman, an editor, a visual effects artist,  working his way up from the cutting rooms of MPC with no grand plan and no startup playbook. What became Coffee & TV began with four friends who believed they could do things differently. What followed was over a decade of building something rare: a world-class creative studio that grew to multi-million revenues and was eventually acquired by Omnicom in 2023. All the while staying true to its values.

    47 min
  6. Episode 1 - Introduction. What's all this about anyway?

    Mar 29

    Episode 1 - Introduction. What's all this about anyway?

    The Sacred Art of Leadership is a podcast for people who carry responsibility and are quietly questioning what it really means.  Hosted by executive coach, Dipak Davé and founder CEO, Derek Moore, each episode is an honest, unhurried conversation exploring leadership as a human experience, beyond titles, performance, and the noise of expectation.

    29 min
  7. Episode 2 - Who's Dip?

    Mar 29

    Episode 2 - Who's Dip?

    In this episode, Del turns the mic on co-host Dip, who spent over 30 years moving through investment banking, management consulting, fashion retail, and start-ups before realising the most important work was happening not in the boardroom, but inside himself. This is the conversation behind the podcast: who Dip is, what shaped him, and why he believes that leadership isn’t an act of doing, it's a state of being, and how the world, now more than ever, doesn't need better leaders, it needs bolder humans who choose to lead differently.

    46 min

Trailer

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
2 Ratings

About

Most leadership conversations start with what you do. This one starts with who you are. The Sacred Art of Leadership goes to the places most leadership podcasts quietly avoid. Identity, doubt, loneliness, purpose, and the real cost of carrying influence in a world that's changing faster than anyone can keep up with. It's not about frameworks, productivity hacks, or polishing your leadership brand. It's about your inner landscape: what's going on beneath the title, behind the meeting room, and after the applause. Hosted by Dipak Davé, executive coach and leadership thought partner to CEOs and founders and Derek Moore, co-founder and ex-CEO of Coffee & TV, a B Corp-certified global creative studio, each episode is a real conversation. Relaxed, curious, and unscripted. The kind that usually happens between close friends, late at night when the noise has quietened and you finally let yourself think out loud. We explore questions like: Who are you beneath the role? How has your definition of success changed and at what cost? What does it feel like to lead in an age of AI and constant change? And what does leadership ask of us when we strip away the performance? We don't show up as experts with answers. We show up as two people who find this stuff genuinely fascinating. Holding a posture of curiosity, not certainty. This podcast is for you if: You carry responsibility, formally or informally, and rarely have space to reflect on itYou sense that success alone isn't the full answerYou feel the weight of leadership but rarely name it out loudYou're willing to question who you're becoming, not just what you're achieving You don't need a title to belong here. You just need to be you. Title music courtesy of Minor Mishap Marching Band: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7hV6sCtfu3HGpqxUxobCDK?si=cJGWeZnbSTmyCnnCa8EunA

Information

  • Creator
    Dipak Davé (Dip) and Derek Moore (Del).
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Dipak Davé (Dip) and Derek Moore (Del).
  • Show Website
    The Sacred Art of Leadership

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