Handson Coaching: Inspiring Conversations

Happiness at work is not a slogan. It is a question worth asking.I host conversations with leaders, thinkers, and the occasional brave human who is willing to talk about what actually makes work feel human. We dig into listening, belonging, purpose, and the small decisions that shape how people treat each other at work.No fluff. No corporate sparkle. Just honest stories, useful insights, and a steady reminder that Want to be a guest on Inspiring Conversations? Send Hedinn (Héðinn) Sveinbjörnsson a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/hedinn_inspi

Handson Coaching: Inspiring Conversations is a business podcast hosted by Hedinn (Héðinn) Sveinbjörnsson, with 92 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Hedinn (Héðinn) Sveinbjörnsson hosts Handson Coaching: Inspiring Conversations, a business show with 92 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  Victoria Pelletier - The Iron Maiden Who Became a Turtle

  Oct 1, 20261h 3mS4

  When Strength Becomes Armour Strength gets rewarded. We admire the people who keep going, who handle pressure, who bounce back, who seem almost unstoppable. But what if the qualities that helped us succeed eventually become the qualities we need to question? On October 1st, I’ll be joined on Inspiring Conversations by Victoria Pelletier , an award-winning executive, board director, author and speaker who has spent more than two decades leading through transformation, growth and change. Victoria’s story includes reaching the executive ranks remarkably young, becoming a COO at 24, a president by 35 and a CEO at 41. Along the way, she built a reputation for toughness, performance and turning things around. But our conversation will not really be about titles. I want to explore what sits underneath them. When does resilience become armour? When does the instinct to push through stop serving us? What happens when the version of ourselves that helped us survive is no longer the version we need to lead, connect and live? And perhaps the hardest question of all, who are we when we no longer have to prove how strong we are? Join Victoria and me for an Inspiring Conversation about strength, resilience, vulnerability, identity and the courage it sometimes takes to put the armour down. #InspiringConversations #Leadership #Resilience #Vulnerability #AuthenticLeadership #PersonalGrowth #podmatch

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  Episode #6

  Si Elliott - When Connection Becomes a Transaction

  Sep 24, 20261h 6mS4

  When Connection Becomes a Transaction We have never had more ways to connect. Customers can reach businesses instantly. Brands know more about their audiences than ever before. AI can personalise experiences, automation can remove friction, and almost every interaction can be measured, analysed and optimised. And yet, genuine connection can still feel surprisingly difficult to find. On September 24th, Si Elliott joins me on Inspiring Conversations to explore what happens when our pursuit of efficiency begins to change the relationships we are trying to build. Si has spent more than 20 years at the intersection of marketing, customer experience and human behaviour. He is the co-owner of creative agency Diversity, founder of customer experience consultancy Fabricx, and author of Customer Experience Thinking, where he brings behavioural science into the question of how organisations can understand and serve people better. But I want to take the conversation beyond customer experience. Have we become better at knowing about people without necessarily understanding them? Where is the line between using behavioural science to serve people and using it to influence them? What gets lost when every interaction becomes something to optimise? And as AI becomes increasingly good at sounding human, how will we recognise the difference between an efficient interaction and a meaningful one? Perhaps the question underneath all of this is quite simple. When does connection stop being a relationship and become just another transaction? #InspiringConversations #CustomerExperience #HumanConnection #BehaviouralScience #Leadership #AI #podmatch

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  Episode #5

  Toni McLelland - When Compassion Has to Make the Hard Call

  Sep 17, 20261h 7mS4

  When Compassion Has to Make the Hard Call Compassion sounds easy when everyone agrees. It becomes much more interesting when the decision is difficult, the stakes are high, and someone is going to walk away disappointed. On September 17, Toni McLelland returns to Inspiring Conversations . Toni describes herself as the “Queen of Compassion,” but her experience has been built in places where compassion has had to survive contact with reality. Criminal justice, safeguarding, organisational turnarounds, regulatory pressure, and major public incidents. So this time, I want to explore the harder side of compassion. Can you genuinely care about people and still make a decision they will hate? When does kindness become avoidance? When does compassion require confrontation? And if people truly matter, does that sometimes mean giving them honesty rather than the answer they want? Toni has spent four decades working at the intersection of people, purpose, performance and difficult decisions. I am curious about what those years have taught her about the difference between being nice and actually caring. Because perhaps compassionate leadership is not about making every decision feel good. Perhaps it is about how we treat people when it cannot. #InspiringConversations #CompassionateLeadership #Leadership #PeopleMatter #WorkplaceCulture #Purpose #podmatch

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  Episode #3

  Barry Moline - When Leadership Gets Out of the Way

  Sep 3, 20261h 21mS4

  When Leadership Gets Out of the Way We spend a lot of time talking about how leaders should lead. How they should communicate, influence, motivate, make decisions and bring people together. But what if good leadership sometimes means becoming less central? On September 3, I'll be joined by Barry Moline for an Inspiring Conversations session about what happens when leaders stop trying to be at the centre of everything and start creating the conditions for people to connect and work well together. Barry brings an interesting perspective to that question. After 29 years as a CEO, including leading organisations responsible for essential energy and water services, he thought he understood how to bring people together. Then, while writing his book CONNECT!, he began questioning some of his own assumptions. One in particular stood out. The leader leading the meeting isn't necessarily the best way to build collaboration. Because perhaps the strongest teams aren't the ones where everyone looks to the leader. They're the ones where people know, trust and respect each other enough to work together because they genuinely want to. We'll explore connection, trust, influence and what leaders may need to give up if they want their teams to become less dependent on them. And perhaps we'll come back to one deceptively simple question: What if one of the most important things a leader can do is create the conditions for people to stop depending on the leader? #InspiringConversations #Leadership #Teamwork #Collaboration #Trust #WorkplaceCulture #LeadershipDevelopment #podmatch

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  Episode #2

  Divya Raviraj - What Success Can't Teach You

  Aug 20, 20261 hourS4

  What Success Can't Teach You Most of us spend years becoming better at what we do. We study, practise, solve problems, and build expertise. We assume that if we become technically excellent, leadership will naturally follow. But for many people, that's where the real challenge begins. On August 20, I'll be joined by Divya Raviraj , an Agile and EQ Leadership Coach whose own career took an unexpected turn when she discovered that no amount of technical knowledge could replace understanding people. We'll explore why expertise alone rarely creates trust, why emotional intelligence is often misunderstood, and what happens when leadership becomes less about having the right answers and more about asking better questions. If happiness at work is the byproduct of knowing that who you are and what you do matters, then perhaps leadership begins with recognising that people don't simply want to be managed. They want to be understood. Join us for what promises to be an honest conversation about growth, leadership, and the lessons success alone can never teach. Live on LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, and Spotify #InspiringConversations #Leadership #EmotionalIntelligence #LeadershipDevelopment #AgileLeadership #WorkplaceCulture #HappinessAtWork #EQ #SelfAwareness #podmatch

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