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by Julia Felton
This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist, who provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team? In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to learn
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- 4 days ago31 min
The Energy Equation: Why Team Energy Predicts Performance Before the Numbers
Julia Felton opens episode 134 by admitting she missed releasing an episode for the first time in 133 weeks, using it to illustrate how outcomes reflect “slow leaks” of earlier behavioural signals. She discusses the Center for Creative Leadership report “The Energy Equation: Renewal by Design,” arguing energy is a leading indicator of problems like burnout and attrition before they appear in metrics. She explains CCL’s model that collective energy equals the energy you bring multiplied by the energy of others, highlighting multiplicative effects where one depleted person or de-energising relationship can cancel out multiple positive ones. Citing findings such as others’ ratings being 14 times more predictive than self-assessment and widespread disagreement about psychological safety, she uses horse-based examples to show how teams read intention and relational dynamics. She closes with challenges to seek feedback on one’s energy, address draining relationships, and examine reward structures that undermine collaboration.00:49 Missed Episode Wakeup01:44 Slow Leaks and Signals03:46 Energy Equation Report05:08 Energy Beats Time06:34 Multiplying Team Energy10:01 Your Energy Blind Spot10:55 Horse Lessons on Presence14:45 Energy and Focus Matrix15:52 De Energising Relationships20:06 Collective Energy Systems20:57 Incentives and Integration Trap22:14 Uneven Load Shared Leadership24:26 Borrowed Energy and AI26:50 Observation and Safety Gaps27:59 Horses Reveal Team Dynamics28:42 Three Level Weekly ChallengeConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- 2 weeks ago28 min
Your Biggest Cyber-Security Risk Already Sits Around Your Board Table
Julia interviews Robbie Tyrie of Torridon Cyber about why cybersecurity is often undervalued by leaders of scaling businesses despite being critical to long-term success. Robbie recounts his career path into cyber from the Y2K era through roles across IT and security, including building cybersecurity functions at JP Morgan, Virgin Money, Aegon, and as global head of cyber at FNZ, and explains penetration testing and why he launched his own firm. He describes his fractional CISO service advising boards on risk, helping scale-ups that don’t need a full-time CISO. The discussion frames security as a trust-based business enabler, outlines basics like MFA, asset and risk registers, and staff awareness, recommends frequent training and phishing tests, and stresses top-down culture via security champions. They cover AI governance risks, the rise of scattergun AI-enabled attacks targeting smaller firms, the need for KPIs/scorecards and M&A due diligence, and a dentist business closing after ransomware, highlighting backups and cyber insurance.00:00 Welcome and Why Cyber Matters00:45 Robbie’s Cybersecurity Journey02:58 From Corporate to Founding Torridon04:05 What a Fractional CISO Does04:53 Cybersecurity as a Trust Builder07:44 Security Basics and Staff Risk08:40 Training That Actually Sticks10:35 AI Governance and New Threats15:36 Building a Security Culture20:13 Scaling Up and Due Diligence24:25 Ransomware Reality Check25:58 Final Takeaways and Where to Find RobbieYou can connect with Robbie at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyrie/ Connect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- 3 weeks ago25 min
Values Conflict: Understanding the Root Causes
Julia explains why teamwork is a competitive advantage, then shares a personal story about being forced to move her horses from a 24/7 grazing field to a yard requiring nightly stabling, which triggered a values conflict she initially blamed on the horses but realised was her own. Using Rushworth Kidder’s distinction between right-vs-wrong temptations and right-vs-right dilemmas, she identifies her tension between valuing her horses’ space and her own freedom, and uses Shalom Schwartz’s values circle to show how self-direction can oppose security and conformity. She distinguishes values conflict from Andrew Jameton’s “moral distress,” when circumstances remove choice. She outlines signs of values conflicts in teams and offers four approaches: name the conflict and whose it is, separate values from strategies, manage tensions with warning signs and review dates, and seek a third option via integrative thinking, linking this to designing trust-based reliance on others. 00:50 Horse Move Story 03:50 Values Conflict Defined 06:38 Moral Distress vs Dilemma 08:42 When Conditions Change 12:23 Spotting Values Conflicts 15:50 Values vs Goals Clarity 17:42 Herd Lessons on Freedom 18:56 Four Ways to Resolve 22:26 Weekly Leadership Challenge 23:32 Wrap Up and ResourcesConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Oct 4, 202635 min
The Power of Masterminds: Building Psychological Safety, Connection, and Growth with Jay Fairbrother
Host Julia Felton welcomes Jay Fairbrother (“The Mastermind Guy”) to discuss masterminding as a leadership tool for building stronger teams and businesses. Jay clarifies that true masterminds, rooted in Napoleon Hill’s concept, are not networking groups or guru-led coaching but a facilitated process that draws collective wisdom from the room to create an “invisible, intangible” force. He shares how masterminds helped him scale his first company from $1M to $10M revenue and later provided crucial financial, emotional, and spiritual support after he lost everything following the 2008 financial crisis. They explore corporate applications such as peer-to-peer learning to increase authenticity, psychological safety, retention, and leadership identification, plus key success factors: the right members, a strong “container” (confidentiality, trust, respect), skilled facilitation, vetting, and an optimal size of 8–14. Jay also addresses “Superman Syndrome” (difficulty delegating) and offers a free “Mastermind Clarity and Readiness Advisor” and an October three-day virtual boot camp to build a mastermind. 00:45 Meet Jay Fairbrother 01:23 What Is a Mastermind 04:07 Jay’s 10X Story 08:09 Masterminds in Corporations 11:08 Connection in a Digital Age 13:08 Building the Right Container 16:37 Vetting and Group Fit 17:48 Types of Masterminds 20:46 Results and Ideal Size 25:19 In Person vs Virtual 27:51 Superman Syndrome 31:55 Resources and Wrap Up You can access Jay's webinar here - https://6figuremasterminds.com/mm-advisor Or sign up for his intensive bootcamp here - https://6figuremasterminds.com/built-pricingConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Sep 28, 202627 min
AI and Cultural Debt: The Hidden Trust Risks Shaping Your Organisation
This episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast argues that AI is changing organisational culture whether leaders intend it or not, and that the biggest risk is cultural debt—unaddressed behaviours, tensions, and unwritten rules that compound over time. Drawing on Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends survey, it highlights that 42% of workers say their organisation rarely evaluates AI’s impact on people, and 80% of leaders worry colleagues use AI to appear more productive. The host outlines five trust risks: blurry ownership and accountability (including 41% using AI to automate work without employers knowing), “performance productivity” and work slop, fairness in evaluating output versus effort, reduced human connection as AI replaces interactions, and erosion of judgment (with 42% of executives concerned about over-dependence). Leaders are urged to surface new trust questions, clarify accountability, define fair-use principles, deliberately protect connection, and model transparent AI use.00:46 AI Shaping Culture02:20 Cultural Debt Explained05:16 Unwritten Rules Shift06:54 Trust Risk One Ownership08:59 Trust Risk Two Work Slop11:05 Trust Risk Three Fairness13:07 Trust Risk Four Connection15:35 Trust Risk Five Judgment18:05 Design Human Machine Partnership19:39 Five Leader ActionsConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Sep 21, 202626 min
Are We Automating Away Our Humanity? The Leadership Question AI Cannot Answer
This episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast explores whether organisations are “automating our way out of humanity” as AI accelerates.Julia highlights rare agreement among AI leaders—Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk—on the need to pace AI development, noting Amodei’s argument that governance and safeguards are lagging behind capability.The episode argues the biggest AI leadership challenge is human, not technological: efficiency can become a dangerous addiction, and outsourcing friction may also outsource connection, trust, empathy, and wisdom.Drawing on King Charles’ comments about “emotional excellence” and nature’s balance, plus lessons from horse herds, it proposes leaders anticipate what AI changes, intentionally design what AI handles vs. what remains human, and implement through experimentation while measuring impacts on connection and thinking.00:55 AI Moving Too Fast03:10 Wisdom Over Efficiency06:42 Harmony And Humanity09:35 Horses And Connection12:13 The Great AI Paradox15:07 Reinventing Leadership Teams18:30 Implementing AI Wisely21:09 Nature Seasons And Pause21:59 Three Leadership Questions23:20 Deliberately Human FutureConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Sep 14, 202628 min
The Environment You Create Impacts The Candour In Your Business
Host Julia Felton argues that silence on leadership teams is often a rational response to the environment leaders create, not a lack of courage, and that psychological safety is built continuously through everyday interactions. Citing Kurt Lewin’s idea that behaviour is a function of the person and their environment, she describes Amy Edmondson’s hospital findings that better teams report more errors because admitting mistakes is survivable, warning that “clean” error logs may signal suppression. Using horse-based examples and Nokia’s 2005–2010 smartphone decline research, she shows how fear and misaligned pressure distort information flow and decision-making. Julia highlights four environmental design factors: leaders’ first three-second reaction to bad news, what happens to information after it’s raised, reward structures that discourage experimentation, and what happened to the last truth-teller. She closes with a “Cafe moment” story illustrating how shared frameworks change conditions and enable feedback.00:46 Why Leaders Miss Bad News02:03 Rethinking Psychological Safety03:05 Leadership Quote And Environment05:38 How Reactions Shape Silence07:34 Behavior And Environment Research08:47 Amy Edmondson Error Reporting11:26 Horses Tell The Truth12:53 Horse Lessons For Teams15:46 Nokia Fear And Failure18:51 Four Environment Components22:14 Cultural Zones And Modes23:41 Steve Cafe Moment Story25:16 Weekly Challenge Reflection26:17 Wrap Up And Next StepsConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
- Sep 7, 202634 min
Learning From Failure: How Psychological Safety Helps us Build Innovative Teams
On the Impactful Teamwork podcast, host Julia Felton interviews Rachel Franco, founder of Fail Smarter, about why teamwork and learning from failure are competitive advantages.Franco shares how her Fortune 500 innovation enablement work and a Northwestern capstone on barriers to learning from failure led her to focus on helping leaders and teams overcome fear of failure so they can innovate.The conversation emphasises psychological safety—making it safe to speak up with ideas, concerns, and mistakes—through leader role-modelling, thoughtful responses, and measurement using Amy Edmondson’s Fearless Organization Scan.Franco cites data linking high psychological safety to lower turnover and higher engagement, productivity, learning agility, and skill application, and notes Google’s Project Aristotle finding it is the top factor in team effectiveness.They discuss practical blockers like lack of time, incentives, cross-team communication, weak user-centered thinking, rushed postmortems, and poor follow-through on ideas, plus experiential learning via the “failure toy” workshop and Fail Smarter’s quiz.00:45 Meet Rachel Franco01:27 Why Fail Smarter04:59 Fear of Failure Culture06:43 Psychological Safety Basics09:00 Measuring Safety and Incentives12:31 Stats That Prove It17:06 AI Era Needs Experimentation18:58 Why Projects Fail21:05 Everyone Can Innovate23:39 Ideas Need Follow Through26:20 Failure Toy Workshop29:34 Accountability and Smart Risk31:03 Where to Find RachelYou can connect with Rachel at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/Connect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify
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This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist, who provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team? In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to learn
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