The Courageous Leaders Podcast
The Courageous Leaders Podcast aims to inspire leaders to step into their courageous zone, be the leader they know they can be and discover the mindset skills and behaviours to take their leadership to the next level.
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Who is Joanna Howes?
Joanna Howes is an award-winning international coach, behavioural expert, specialising in leadership and performance coaching and No 1 best selling international co-author.
Her focus is to help individuals and teams activate their full potential, so they can step into their courageous zone to maximise their influence, build their resilience and take the action needed to become high performers and future-ready leaders.
Joanna is a unique phenomenon within her industry, with over 20 years’ experience working internationally with some of the world's most awarded advertising agencies and leading them to operational and leadership success. Her blend of both innovative operational and transformative change solutions empowers organisations to create environments that are supportive and fearless for their employees.
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The Courageous Leaders Podcast
AI, Emotion & The Death of Advertising | Orlando Wood Breaks It Down
Why modern marketing is broken and how you can fix it, as a leader.
Orlando Wood, Chief Innovation Officer at System1 and author of Lemon, Look Out, and Advertising Principles Explained, reveals why advertising has lost its soul and how the shift from right-brain to left-brain thinking is hurting creativity, leadership, and human connection. If you’ve felt that marketing is becoming more mechanical, and leadership more rigid this episode will make it click.
We Cover:
00:46 – Why today’s marketing is losing impact
01:04 – The bold idea behind Lemon and why it shocked the industry
06:42 – Why advertising lost its human touch
13:27 – How grief changes your leadership lens
19:30 – The truth about creativity: how it really happens
22:03 – Small habits that activate your creative thinking
22:54 – Leadership today: why emotional connection matters
25:56 – Will AI revive creativity or kill it?
30:02 – The hidden value of learning from the past
35:57 – How to push bold ideas through doubt and resistance
40:18 – What Orlando would tell his younger self
41:46 – Final thoughts
Don’t miss out on this powerful episode.
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