Leaders Circle

Paul Dutnall
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The Leaders Circle is Work.Life’s invite-only community for founders and CEOs. The podcast brings those conversations to a wider audience, covering leadership, culture, self-motivation and scaling. Hear senior leaders share what’s working, what isn’t, and what they wish they’d known sooner.

Episodes

  1. 22h ago

    How to Build a High-Performing Team Without Burning It Out with Bianca Errigo, Founder of Human OS

    Paul Dutnall is joined by Bianca Errigo, founder of Human OS and a leading voice on sustainable high performance. A lot of leadership advice focuses on ambition, results and pushing for more. Bianca is interested in what happens after that and how you keep performing at that level for a decade rather than just having a good quarter. After more than 13,000 hours coaching everyone from FTSE CEOs to professional athletes, she’s seen the same thing again and again. From the outside, the people at the top often look like they’ve figured it all out. But underneath, something is usually missing. In this episode, Bianca gets into what that missing piece is, why psychological safety plays such an important role in team performance, and how leaders can build a culture where people can perform at their best without burning themselves out in the process. Key takeaways: Leaders who perform well for decades treat their week like a race with pit stops rather than one long sprint. Put recovery in your calendar and take it as seriously as your meetings, or your body will eventually force you to through burnout. Small, regular routines, like a weekly one-to-one that actually happens or protected time for focused work, do more for performance than any big quarterly push. Set the pace you want your team to follow. Psychological safety is built in small moments. The first time someone challenges you, admits a mistake or raises something difficult, how you react sets the tone. If your whole identity sits in the business, you lose the distance you need to think clearly about it. Protect something that is genuinely yours outside of work. A perfect split between work and life rarely exists. Give people the freedom to shape their own week around what they need, then trust them to deliver. One-size-fits-all wellbeing misses what people actually need. What helps someone in month one may be different by month twelve and different again from what their colleague needs. Subscribe to the Leaders Circle Podcast. Take a look at what Work.Life can offer your business here: https://work.life/

  2. 3d ago

    Why Happiness Is a Great Metric but a Poor Target with Matt Phelan, Co-Founder of The Happiness Index

    In this first episode of the Leaders Circle podcast, Paul Dutnall sits down with Matt Phelan, co-founder of The Happiness Index, to unpack findings from the newly released Global Workplace Happiness Report. Built on 11 years of research covering more than 80,000 employees across 115 countries, the report shows how people feel at work is one of the clearest signals of business performance and one of the easiest things to get wrong. Matt breaks down the true workplace priorities of younger employees, illustrates how the remote-versus-office debate overlooks the fundamental need for human connection, and outlines how investor decisions are increasingly driven by employee sentiment data. He also shares useful starting points for any leader who wants to take the subject seriously without turning happiness itself into a target. Key takeaways: Happiness is useful to measure, but once you make it a KPI, people start managing the number rather than the experience behind it. The real value of the office is the connection that happens when people are together. Without it, the informal learning and relationships that build belonging are easy to lose. Younger employees feel that loss most. Early careers depend on being around people who can teach you things you won't find in a handbook. Employee sentiment can be an early signal of business performance. Investors are already looking at how employees feel, because what happens inside a company eventually shows up outside it. AI makes every hire matter more, having smaller teams puts more weight on each person, while the strongest candidates have more choice about where they work. Daily happiness moves with life events because what matters underneath is whether people feel safe to speak up. Do they feel connected to the people around them and clear on why their work matters? Subscribe to the Leaders Circle Podcast. Take a look at what Work.Life can offer your business here: https://work.life/

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The Leaders Circle is Work.Life’s invite-only community for founders and CEOs. The podcast brings those conversations to a wider audience, covering leadership, culture, self-motivation and scaling. Hear senior leaders share what’s working, what isn’t, and what they wish they’d known sooner.

Information

  • Creator
    Paul Dutnall
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Leaders Circle
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    Leaders Circle