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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 Développement commercial et entrepreneuriat Entrepreneurship Gestion et leadership Sciences sociales Économie
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  • Reputation, purpose, and the mess of leadership | Tania Rhodes-Taylor

    Reputation, purpose, and the mess of leadership | Tania Rhodes-Taylor
    Nov 27 2025
    Stewardship in an Age of Noise.

    Executive Director of Communications

    “When leadership goes wrong is when people cling to the baton — and you have to peel their cold, dead hands off it."

    In this episode, I sit down with Tania Rhodes-Taylor, Executive Director of Communications and External Affairs at King’s College London, and Chair of the World 100 Reputation Network, to explore what it really takes to lead in a purpose-driven institution in turbulent times.

    She shares her origin story, being the first in her family to go to university, her experience and perspective gained from working in multiple industries and countries, and what drives her personally.

    Central themes are the importance of reputation, purpose, and stewardship in an age of noise. She says that "reputation is our currency" and that leader should be stewards rather than trying to be main character heroes.

    Tania also share about the importance of art in providing a window into society and culture.

    Key insights:
    💡 Begin every decision with purpose and ask the right questions before deploying solutions.
    💡 Treat reputation as currency as it enables the opportunities of tomorrow.
    💡 Stay human and connected as leadership in complex institutions demands networks, trust and vulnerability.
    💡 Embrace agility and honest institutional conversations about impact, differentiation and identity.
    💡 Prioritise stewardship over personal spotlight and glory as your legacy should be an institution ready for the future.

    If you enjoyed this episode, please share with a colleague, subscribe to Messy with Daniel Atlin, and leave a review to help others discover the podcast. As ever, getting through the mess is easier with friends and colleagues. Connect with Tania on LinkedIn · Tania's firm: Otus Advisory · Website · Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn
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    41 min
  • 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
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