Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast

Move away from command-and-control style of leadership that stifles creativity and innovation. It's  stressful, leads to burnout, and changes little in your teams. Worse still, it disengages us, creating fear, silos and toxic behaviours.

Welcome to the Leaders Who Coach™ podcast, where we tackle these pressing leadership challenges head-on.
Join your host Sehaam Cyrene as she reveals how coach-leadership can transform your approach, empowering you to move beyond traditional management. Together with her guests, you can discover practical strategies to foster genuine engagement, ignite innovation, and build that high-performing team.

Stop doing all the heavy lifting and start leading with influence, clarity, and impact. Tune in and take away one thought, one strategy, one technique to reclaim your time, energy and true potential.

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Enjoy previous episodes and guests

Leading with Quiet Confidence - Nisha Kagdadia, FS Executive. What changes when leaders stop carrying it all and allow others to think? 

Culture Meets AI - Dan Dunton, Dir. AI & Transformation. How do leaders stay grounded, relevant and human when AI is changing  work so quickly?

Navigating AI's Rapid Evolution - Darcy Peters, Sr. CAM. How do leaders stay human, clear and connected when AI is changing work so quickly?

Leading with Accountability and Care - Kate Lawson, Fractional CHRO. How do I hold someone accountable without damaging trust?

Leading with Clarity - Caroline Mascarin, COO. What does it take to lead people where the pace is high and clarity matters every day? 

The Power of We - Jon Freedman, Fractional CTO. How do I get my team aligned without telling them what to do?

Listening Beyond Words - Aditi Agarwal, Fractional CTO. How do I get my team to speak up and tell me what they really think?

Leading with Values - Laura Shrives, VP Engineering. How do I become more visible as a leader without feeling like I’m showing off?

Honesty Builds Trust - Simon Curry. How do I stop solving all my team’s problems for them?

What do I do when someone on my team doesn’t want to be coached?

How do I know what my team actually needs from me in the moment?

How do I stop my meetings going round in circles?

How do I get my team to buy into a different way of working?

How do I use humour as a leader without losing credibility?

When should I coach my team, and when should I just tell them what to do?

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Be my guest

I bring my audience two types of exceptional guests who embody and share a passion for bringing out the best in leaders and their teams:
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In-the-Trenches Leaders & Executives: These are the practitioners who, in real-time, apply grounded leadership and emotional connections to empower their people. They demonstrate how to build accountability and course-correction within their teams, effectively stopping the cycle of carrying all the heavy lifting by fostering genuine capability and capacity.

Complementary Experts & Founders: I love to feature pioneers from parallel fields - be it negotiation, AI adoption, decision-making under uncertainty, behavioural psychology, or team dynamics. These experts offer practical, real-world tools that enhance a leader's ability to grow awareness, design and agree actions, and ultimately, make them more effective in coach-leadership.

What I would love you to bring:

  • Practical Value Over Theory: Instead of  abstract lectures, you have market-tested frameworks, actionable tools, or specific conversational techniques that my audience can immediately integrate into their leadership practice.
  • Very Human: You champion the belief that modern leadership is about lifting human capability, building genuine trust and creating adaptability. You get why command-and-control doesn't work, and you embrace presence, empowerment, and agency.

What I'm unlikely to accept:

Generic PR pitches, promotional book tours without leader-focused substance, or hard sales pitches for products/services.
Leaders Who Coach™ have this magic of drawing people towards them.

They are very intentional in how they connect with us, how they create emotional commitment in us, and how they build our confidence to do more with the skills and passions that we have.

— Sehaam Cyrene

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About the Podcast

Coach-Leadership is where you as a leader or people manager use powerful coaching techniques with your people to help you and your team meet your responsibilities, change and upheaval, targets and deliverables, often under pressure. 
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Coach-leadership is how you get reliable results and have substantive impact that benefits ALL the stakeholders in your organisation, including yourself. 

I'm here to show you:
  • How to start coaching, how to adapt core coaching skills and techniques for your leadership role at work.
  • How to get the balance right between directing, managing and coach-leading.
  • How to (ONE) be strategic and (TWO) grow the capability of your people — your 2 most important responsibilities!
  • How just one question or phrase can change the trajectory of your conversations and relationships.
  • How techniques move your exchanges from pointless, costly and stressful escalations to strong and healthy working relationships, even when you disagree, even when you’ve got a history of friction, and even when you’re under pressure and battling through a crisis situation.
  • How to move away from the limiting and stressful command-and-control style of leadership that stifles creativity and innovation because it disengages us, creating fear, silos and toxic behaviours.
  • How to replicate what masterful executive coaches do to unlock ideas, remove resistance and diffuse escalations.
  • How you can do less heavy-lifting in leading and in fact why you need to stop trying so hard, why you need to be less responsible for how your people perform. YES! When you create space for your direct reports to grow, they become less dependent on you and more accountable for themselves.

Doesn’t that sound great? Wouldn’t you like to go on holiday and know that your team is not going to be pinging you every few hours while you’re trying to have fun with your family and friends…? So you can properly switch off and recharge? Right?

These coaching skills can’t just be for coaches — there’s a bigger play here.

You know, I wish this podcast was around for me earlier in my career because I’ve made plenty of mistakes.

Leadership can be so rewarding and way less stressful if we know how to show up. Honestly, leadership is a privilege.

Join me, Sehaam Cyrene, on the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast.
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