The HOW of High Performance

For years, leadership books have been fixated on WHY? This is no longer enough. Whether you succeed or fail, thrive or burn out all comes down to HOW you lead when the pressure is on, HOW you manage your energy, and HOW you show up when the stakes are high. When you reach senior level, you’re expected to have leadership nailed: clarity on your role, emotional regulation, sustainable drive and a leadership style you've actively future-proofed. In reality, you’re a work in progress. And you’re busier than ever: how do you even start to fill the gaps? Sally Henderson, High-Stakes Leadership Mentor, guides you through The REAL Method, a toolkit created from 25 years of real-world research and used by C-suite executives to master how they lead. Accelerate your growth, gain true clarity, greater inner confidence and set work-life boundaries that work. You’re a high performer, but even the best can get better. Master your HOW.

The HOW of High Performance is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #17

  Sally Henderson with Nishma Patel Robb on pressing the big red button on her life and why reinvention is the highest stakes act of all

  Aug 12, 202626 min

  Nishma Patel Robb spent 30 years in marketing and media, the last ten as Senior Director of Brand and Reputation Marketing at Google, before walking away to build Glittersphere and co-found Hera, the UK's first female led podcast network. In this episode of The How of High Performance she talks about the YouTube brand safety crisis that put her on the front pages and the choice she made in that room that defined her leadership, and why she traded financial security, prestige and a path well trodden for a feeling and an instinct that she chose over everything life had taught her to hold on to. Nishma shares what she's learned about the difference between being polished and being prepared, and her advice to fellow senior leaders is rooted in something most people in positions of power get wrong every day. About the Show The How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders. Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent. Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure. Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show. Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops. Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.

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  Episode #16

  Sally Henderson with Cath Bishop on coming ninth at the Olympics when she expected to peak and the complete rethink of success that changed how she leads

  Aug 5, 202633 min

  Cath Bishop is a world champion and Olympic silver medallist rower, former diplomat who specialised in conflict negotiations, and author of The Long Win. In this episode of The How of High Performance, she talks about what happened when she came ninth at her second Olympics, a result she experienced as the most public failure imaginable, and how the 18 months of questioning that followed completely reshaped her understanding of success, identity and what it really means to perform under pressure. Cath draws on all three chapters of her career to explore why trust in high stakes negotiations only moves forward through relationship not logic, and what she's learned about helping leaders see the real culture in their organisations rather than the one written on the wall. About the Show The How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders. Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent. Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure. Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show. Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops. Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.

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  Episode #15

  Sally Henderson with Marg Jobling on why "the worst they can do is sack me" is the mindset that has shaped how she leads through every high stakes moment

  Jul 29, 202617 min

  Marg Jobling is Group CMO at NatWest, having held senior roles across Unilever, Sara Lee, Cadbury, Birdseye and Centrica, spanning blue chip, private equity and regulated business. In this episode of The How of High Performance, she shares why she gets her energy from figuring people out and how that skill has been the difference in every high stakes boardroom moment of her career. Marg talks about the philosophy that has kept her grounded through decades of leading at the top, what she's learned about managing your own energy when you're the person everyone else is reading, and why she believes that if you back yourself and get on with it, people will follow you. About the Show The How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders. Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent. Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure. Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show. Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops. Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.

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  Episode #14

  Sally Henderson with Mark Evans on why the smartest leaders figure out how to achieve success and significance at the same time

  Jul 22, 202623 min

  Mark Evans spent a decade at Mars, nearly eleven years on the executive at Direct Line Group and has been made redundant four times, which is why he says high stakes is about going hard or going home because you only get one shot. In this episode of The How of High Performance he talks about the walk around the block with his CEO three weeks before the biggest campaign of his career went on air, what he chose to say in that moment to keep everything alive, and how the trust he had built over years was the only thing he had to pull on when it mattered most. Mark shares the speech a friend's father gave on graduation night that changed his entire worldview on success and significance, and his advice to fellow senior leaders is deceptively simple but something most people talk themselves out of every single day. About the Show The How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders. Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent. Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure. Please follow or subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other senior leaders find the show. Sally's book The How of High Performance is available at amazon.co.uk and from all good bookshops. Visit sallyhenderson.co.uk or connect with Sally on LinkedIn.

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  Episode #12

  Sally Henderson with Andrew Powell on why high stakes always comes down to people and the leadership lesson the Special Forces taught him that still holds

  Jul 1, 202629 minS0

  <p>Andrew Powell joined the British Army at 16, spent six years with the Special Forces and walked away at 27 to start again in business. Now Group Chief Commercial Officer at Robert Walters, he has led across private equity, corporate, start up and scale up environments.</p><p>In this episode of The How of High Performance he shares what happened when he was handed a global restructure affecting several hundred people's livelihoods and why the way he approached it with total transparency still defines how he leads today.</p><p>Andrew talks about being always on stage as a leader...

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