What’s one of the biggest threats to your organisation’s future? Not the competition – it’s the absence of a strong leadership culture.
In this first episode of The Essentials of Leadership Series on Leaders for Life Radio, I sit down with Matt Freedman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Professional Services APAC at Salesforce, to unpack how great companies deliberately build leaders at every level, not just at the top. Their focus is on internal promotions wherever possible.
Matt’s an energiser – entrepreneurial, people-first, and right on the edge of what’s next in customer and employee experience. Together we explore the mindsets and rituals that turn individual leadership into a lived culture: growing talent, using feedback as fuel, making the tough calls, managing complex stakeholders, and staying future-fit as AI, agentic systems and new ways of working reshape our world.
Listen if you want to:
- Move from leadership as a person to leadership as a culture
- Coach for presence, gravitas and real results
- Handle big stakeholder moments under pressure
- Turn feedback and accountability into everyday habits
- Ready your high potentials for what’s coming next
Matt provides practical, human, and immediately useful ideas – leadership you can apply before your next meeting.
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Happy Listening.
Until Next time…
Find the passion.
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Make the numbers.
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Paul Mitchell
“APAC’s most respected transformational leadership performance coach”
Paul Mitchell (@Paul_S_Mitchell) is a speaker, author, transformational leadership coach and founder of the human enterprise. Through leadership coaching, leadership development programmes, keynotes and facilitation, Paul works with organisations to build cultures where everybody leads.
