In this one-off special of the Core Insights Podcast from Warwick Business School, we’re doing something a bit different. Core Insights has teamed up with the Lead Out Loud team to dig deep into one of the most talked-about — and often misunderstood — topics in business today: leadership.

Marking the release of the Core Insights Magazine: Leadership Edition, we brought together two leadership voices who bridge academic theory and real-world experience:

· Associate Professor Dimitrios Spyridonidis, an expert in leading change at Warwick Business School

· Sanjiv Patel, chair of the WBS UK and Europe Alumni Network and founder of Sanjiv Speaks, a platform for leadership coaching and mentoring

Together, they explore what it takes to lead with impact in today’s fast-moving world — and why traditional ideas of leadership don’t always hold up.

They cover:

· Why leadership isn’t about having all the answers, but asking the right questions

· How meaningful change starts beyond the boardroom

· The mindset shifts that help leaders navigate uncertainty and inspire action

Whether you're leading a team or looking to make a difference, this episode offers practical insights and fresh thinking.

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Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jonothan Neelands, Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School, about his that work helped Coventry to develop its winning bid to become UK City of Culture in 2021.

The City of Culture programme, and events such as the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham in 2022, are seen as individual successes. However, the UK currently lacks a major events strategy to maximise the benefits of future events.

Professor Neelands reveals how a framework for measuring the impact and the value of major events can help to make events more inclusive, maximise the benefits for the UK economy, and ensure a lasting cultural and sporting legacy.

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Five steps to improve the impact value of major events

Why measuring social impact is good for business

Increase the odds of success in digital transformation

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In the final episode of this seven-part series in conjunction with the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology we are looking at Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and how they will work alongside cryptocurrencies. It has been argued in some quarters that the introduction of CBDCs will spell the end of cryptocurrencies. And that day seems to be drawing closer with CBDCs up and running in China and other central banks working out their own solution. Sure, it might make cryptos less relevant as a form of payment, but are they really that anyway? Most are so volatile as to be useless as a currency and are treated more as an investment asset. This episode will explore what the future will look like with CBDCs in operation and cryptos flying around. Will there be a crypto winter and cryptos disappear? Or will they work alongside each other and how? Host Natasha de Terran is joined by David Skeie, of the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology, and Rhomaios Ram, CEO of Fnality International, a consortium of banks exploring applications for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology.

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Read more on the subject:

Are cryptocurrencies any closer to ending central banks' control?

Five ways a digital pound could change our world

Why would central banks want to issue digital currencies?

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