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Messy with Daniel Atlin

Messy with Daniel Atlin

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 Make Sense of the Mess of Leadership. Today’s leaders are facing unprecedented challenges. It’s a messy, complex world that requires a different approach and mindset to get things done. This is where you'll find conversations on how leaders in complex organizations navigate and make sense of the mess they find themselves in.Solid Gold Podcasts and Audiobooks Economie Management Management et direction Sciences sociales
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    • Changing the narrative - regreening a community | Lynn Wells

      Changing the narrative - regreening a community | Lynn Wells
      Nov 12 2025
      Leading through renewal and reinvention.

      What does it take to lead after an institutional trauma and how to do this work without making it about you?

      Dr. Lynn Wells, President and Vice-Chancellor of Laurentian University, traces a steady path from crisis to renewal: changing a damaging narrative, rebuilding trust, and putting “student-first” at the centre of every hard call.

      Drawing on her earlier chapters at other institutions, from reconciliation work at First Nations University of Canada to student-centred leadership at MacEwan and pandemic decision-making at Brock — Lynn shows how process, patience, and humility become anchors when the ground keeps shifting.

      Lynn is candid about the human work beneath the headlines: helping a community heal, rejecting doom language, and choosing to lead alongside rather than from the front. She unpacks Laurentian’s tricultural identity, the deep bond with the city of Sudbury, and a powerful metaphor for recovery is the city’s decades-long “regreening,” a science-led restoration that mirrors the university’s rebuild.

      Along the way Lynn addresses why good governance beats quick fixes, how to keep purpose intact under political and financial pressure, and the disciplines that keep leaders steady: clear boundaries, exercise, and grace for human fallibility.

      This conversation is a grounded reflection on hope, discipline, and the long game of rebuilding step by step: one honest process, one student-first decision, and one reframed story at a time. About Laurentian University · Regreening Sudbury story · Website · Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn
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      51 min
    • A foot in two different worlds | Daniel Sharaiha

      A foot in two different worlds | Daniel Sharaiha
      Oct 29 2025
      Balancing heart and mind.

      This “Messy” conversation is a bit of a departure from previous episodes as I talk to a bank executive in the Middle East who also works with NGOs and charities.

      Daniel Sharaiha grew up and lives in Jordan with one foot in business and the other in the NGO world. That tension, he says, keeps him humble: his head and heart never quite fit neatly into either sector, and that’s exactly why he sees complexity and the mess of leadership clearly.

      From welcoming millions of refugees in a water-scarce country to championing women’s participation in the workforce, Daniel frames leadership as service rooted in empathy, justice, and hope. He argues that empathy isn’t “soft” but rather it’s a strategic requirement that fuels organisations. His empathy stems from his identity as being an outsider, which provides a unique vantage point. He views influence and trust as the essential commodity for leadership in any organisation.

      In a world where “the unusual is now the usual,” Daniel leans on humour, improvisation, and resilience. He believes that we are in a world that requires generalists, and the ability to cross-train and build complementary skills the way a runner swims to become a better runner. He’s candid about failures (including a teenage hair-tonic misadventure that left him bald) and why leaders must bridge what seems as polar opposites: head and heart, profit and purpose, certainty and curiosity.

      Underpinning Daniel’s leadership is “hope”, and a desire to make the world a better place: building tables (sometimes literally) where people can gather, argue, laugh, and keep going together.

      Key lessons:
      • Empathy as an edge: it strengthens your leadership impact
      • Humour lowers defences: laughter opens the “window”
      • Improv is survival: change is “business as usual”
      • Cross-train your strengths
      • Dialogue over monologue: making meaning together Daniel Sharaiha's LinkedIn profile · Daniel Sharaiha's Convocation speech at HEC Paris · Website · Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn
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      34 min
    • Lead with purpose, not position | Dr Diana Beech

      Lead with purpose, not position | Dr Diana Beech
      Oct 15 2025
      Navigating the mess to find opportunities.

      In a messy world, leadership doesn’t come with a roadmap — it comes with questions, courage, and relentless purpose.

      In this rich and reflective conversation, Dr. Diana Beech, inaugural Director of the Finsbury Institute at City St George’s, University of London, explores her unconventional career path across academia, government, and policy and what it teaches about leading in complex, purpose-driven organisations.
      Her story is one of adaptability, curiosity, and moral purpose, offering a grounded view of what leadership really looks like in the “mess” of public life and higher education.

      Our conversation touches on:
      • Her winding journey from academia to policy and back, taking a combination of serendipity, risk-taking, drive and hard work
      • The challenge of building something new, the Finsbury Institute, from the ground up
      • Why universities are struggling not just financially, but in public legitimacy
      • Lessons from failure, resilience, and self-belief and recognizing there is no shame in failing and the need to share our failure stories too.
      • Her guiding leadership principle: “Lead with purpose, not position”

      This conversation is for anyone trying to lead in messy systems — especially in higher education, government, or public service.

      She also shares her appreciation of an opportunity to talk about the mess of leadership and making sense of complex institutions. The Finsbury Institute at City St. Georges, University of London · Dr. Diana Beech on LinkedIn · Link to the HEPI report: Unboxing Higher Education · Website · Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn
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      34 min
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