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Lead strategically with calm confidence with Estelle Read, Bestselling Author, Coach, Speaker, and guests. Optimising Leader Brilliance is the self-improvement toolkit for leaders ready to break performance ceilings and achieve next level results. Get science-backed strategies and mindset shifts to tackle imposter syndrome, workaholism, anxiety, and self-sabotage. We provide stress relief and burnout solutions to help you reduce your workload and reclaim your time. We also share tools to clarify your strategic direction and deliver the brilliant results you're capable of. Visit: EstelleRead.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchLead strategically with calm confidence with Estelle Read, Bestselling Author, Coach, Speaker, and guests. Optimising Leader Brilliance is the self-improvement toolkit for leaders ready to break performance ceilings and achieve next level results. Get science-backed strategies and mindset shifts to tackle imposter syndrome, workaholism, anxiety, and self-sabotage.
Recent episodes include "Avoid This Leadership Archetype: Are You Building or Diminishing Your Team?" (19 October 2026, 45 minutes), "Welcome to Optimising Leader Brilliance! | Podcast Trailer" (16 October 2026, 2 minutes), and "Why Willpower Doesn’t Work: Identity-Based Habits for Leadership" (12 October 2026, 41 minutes).
Optimising Leader Brilliance: Enabling Calm, Confident, Strategic Leadership publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 59 episodes.
Booking probability for Optimising Leader Brilliance: Enabling Calm, Confident, Strategic Leadership is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Optimising Leader Brilliance: Enabling Calm, Confident, Strategic Leadership requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Optimising Leader Brilliance: Enabling Calm, Confident, Strategic Leadership's contact route on record: verified email.
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Optimising Leader Brilliance: Enabling Calm, Confident, Strategic Leadership is a business show with 59 episodes published.
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Episode #90
Leadership coach Estelle Read talks with Doug Crandall aboutthe four leadership instincts in his book Building or Diminishing : builder, driver, cheerleader, and belittler. They explore how everyday interactions affect...
Optimising Leader Brilliance: Enabling Calm, Confident, Strategic Leadership
Welcome to Optimising Leader Brilliance —the podcastand self-improvement toolkit designed to unlock key leadership talent and enable calm, confident, strategic leadership. Are your current leadership strategies failing...
Optimising Leader Brilliance: Enabling Calm, Confident, Strategic Leadership
If you’ve tried habit systems and still fall off the wagon,Connie Kwan of Story Habits offers a different starting point: the values and stories behind the behaviour. Estelle and Connie discuss identity-based habits...
Episode #88
In this episode, communication coach Helen von Dadelszenreveals the biggest mistake leaders make when speaking under pressure—and how to avoid it. Learn why confidence grows through action, not waiting, and discover...
Episode #87
This episode explores the journey from burnout to recoverywith resilience coach Tracy Doyle, who bravely shares her story of overcoming profound personal challenges. Please note this episode contains discussions of...
Episode #86
Winning your first hour each morning is the secret tostaying calm under pressure—and it all starts with biology, not personality. In this episode, Dr. Robert Carter, international bestselling co-author of The Morning...
Episode #85
Why do high achievers often feel stuck despite theirsuccess? In this episode, Dr. Judith Wright, a neuroscientist and coach featured on Oprah and Good Morning America, shares her insights on the hidden patterns that...
Episode #84
Feeling invisible in rooms where your leadership should shine? This episode dives deep into leadership visibility and how to raise your profile authentically. Discover why many leaders struggle with imposter syndrome...
Episode #83
In this episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance, leadership coach Estelle Read dives into the "Overachiever" saboteur—the relentless drive to prove worth through endless achievements and output. Discover how this...
Episode #82
In this episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance, leadership coach Estelle Read explores the “Chronic Harmonizer” leadership saboteur—a pattern where leaders avoid difficult conversations to keep the peace, often at...
Episode #81
In this episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance, leadership coach Estelle Read unveils the hidden leadership saboteur known as the "Strategic Procrastinator." Discover why many leaders get trapped in chaotic busywork as...
Episode #80
Do you live in a permanent state of frantic panic — forever putting out fires, running on adrenaline, and never quite reaching the strategic work that would actually move your leadership forward? If busyness has become...
Episode #79
Do you hold yourself back from big opportunities even when the evidence says you're more than capable? If you've ever felt like a fraud waiting to be found out, you're not alone — 34% of leaders report this "doubting...
Episode #78
In this episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance , coach and bestselling author Estelle Read unpacks the Relentless Perfectionist — the leadership saboteur that currently affects 4% of leaders and quietly sits in fifth...
Episode #77
In this episode, Estelle reveals how this unconscious pattern creates a false ceiling on your leadership potential — leading to burnout, disengaged teams, and stalled projects. She shares the neuroscience behind why...
Episode #76
In this episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance , Estelle Read sits down with author and mental health advocate Bryan Sachetta to unpack high-functioning anxiety — the hidden struggle that drives so many ambitious...
Episode #75
In this powerful episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance, Estelle Read sits down with mental health speaker and former HR professional Laura Iles to explore what it really takes to move from surviving to thriving. Laura...
Episode #72
What if the biggest threat to your strategy isn't a lack of data or intelligence — but your own brain? In this episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance , I sit down with Marja Fox — ex-McKinsey consultant, PhD chemist...
Episode #73
In this inspiring episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance , leadership coach Estelle Read sits down with Lawrence Armstrong, artist, architect, bestselling author, and seasoned CEO, to explore whole-brain leadership...
Episode #72
In this heartfelt episode of Optimising Leader Brilliance, embodiment coach Maddie Brenner-Roach and host Estelle Read explore the vital connection between body awareness and leadership resilience. Discover how tuning...
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