The Future of Leadership

Zoe Routh

We explore the future and ask what this means for your leadership. We tackle the big issues, ask 'what if' and 'how might we'. We bring observations of trends and events around the world, talk to leading experts in their field about a topic on the future of leadership, give book recommendations, and offer tangible insights you can put into action right away.

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The Future of Leadership

Episodes (425)

Monday 413: Stepping Back, Stepping Into: Identity Recalibration in Late Career
Feb 22nd Mattering in Midlife: Finding Significance Through Life's Transitions
Feb 16th 411: The Quiet Crisis Facing Today's Leaders with Digby Scott

The Future of Leadership

Mar 2, 2026
29¼ minutes
40 MB

In this solo reflection, Zoë Routh explores the tender, unsettling terrain of midlife and late-career transitions, a season where identity fractures, ambition recalibrates, and something new begins to form. Drawing on her own move to Newcastle, scaled-back alpine hiking plans due to injury, and the creative emergence of her new Chrysalis program, Zoë names what many leaders are feeling: exhaustion, grief, restlessness, and the quiet question, who am I now? She introduces four types of transitions, anticipated, unanticipated, non-events (fizzers), and sleepers, alongside three spheres of change: personal, physical, and professional. From menopause and andropause to...

The Future of Leadership

413: Stepping Back, Stepping Into: Identity Recalibration in Late Career

Zoe Routh

00:00 -29:13