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The Secret Life of Great Leaders
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The Secret Life of Great Leaders explores the behaviours and inner disciplines that actually improve performance, accelerate learning, and create great workplaces.
Hosted by Michael Bunting, Founder of TripleGoal, this podcast goes beyond leadership theory to examine what truly drives measurable change: self-regulation, accountability, psychological safety, and values-based action.
Drawing on adult development, neuroscience, and over 30 years of leadership research, each episode unpacks what separates reactive leadership from transformational leadership—especially under pressure.
You’ll hear honest conversations with senior leaders and practitioners who have faced their blind spots, challenged their habits, and built cultures that deliver the Triple Goal of:
- Great Performance
- Great Learning
- Great Workplace
If you want your leadership to show up not just in intention, but in measurable outcomes, this podcast is for you.
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The Missing Ingredient in Sustainable Organisational Change
Most change efforts fail quietly. Skills improve, but behaviour doesn’t shift. Sustainable cultural change begins when leaders outgrow the patterns shaping how they see, decide, and relate.
The Secret of High-Performing Teams: Drive Accountability
Neither the leader nor the team alone can be blamed for dysfunction and poor performance. Everyone shares responsibility, and everyone must take full accountability.
Why Mindful Leadership Matters More Than Ever
The ultimate objective of mindful leadership is not some goal “out there”; rather, it is to become the best kind of person who creates and supports the best kind of organisations.
How to Strengthen Your Leadership by Training Attention
Your attention is constantly pulled to targets, emails and next steps. Yet when you lead on autopilot, people feel it. Presence shapes trust, judgment and the quality of every decision you make.
Why Leadership Training Fails Without Self-Awareness
You invest in leadership development, yet familiar patterns keep resurfacing. Real change begins when you question the identity you’re protecting—and build the self-awareness that allows you to grow beyond it.
How to Create an Innovative Organisational Culture
You’re expected to drive innovation while protecting results. When every initiative must succeed, learning shuts down. Reframing work as experiments changes how your team handles risk, failure and truth.
Why Self-Awareness is Essential for Leadership Training
You invest in leadership training, yet under pressure you still react on autopilot. Self-awareness expands the gap between trigger and response—shaping wiser decisions, steadier relationships and real change.
The Hidden Habit Undermining Your Leadership
You move from meeting to meeting, yet your mind rarely stays put. When attention drifts, judgment blurs, and trust thins. Leadership presence begins by noticing when you’ve quietly left the room.
How Mindful Leadership Reveals Your True Self
You work hard to improve, yet still feel something is missing. Real leadership maturity isn’t about adding more skills, but removing the protective layers that quietly shape how you show up.
Why Transformational Leadership Demands Courage
Sooner or later, every leader faces the tension between being liked and being true. When values are internalised rather than performed, trust deepens and authority becomes steadier under pressure.
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