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Hosted by Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 168 episodes
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Are you a business owner, executive, leader, team leader, aspiring future leader, leadership junkie, a scientist, a design thinker, or simply the leader of your own life? If you are, then you are a leader, and as such, you should be experimenting! Welcome to The Experimental Leader, a podcast where we tackle the ways leaders are experimenting in their own work. Hosted by Melanie Parish and Dr. Mel Rutherford, we dive into the most interesting questions about leaders and get into real-life conversations about how people might be experimenting with their leadership. What they are trying? How they are leading and managing their flow of work and throughput? How are they managing bottlenecks, mission, vision, strategic, operational, and tactical intents? How do they organize experiments? How do they succeed? How do they fail? How do they collect data? The loneliness of leadership can be overwhelming, especially when a leader gets promoted and doesn’t hav
Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford hosts The Experimental Leader, a business show with 168 episodes published.
What if feeling overwhelmed isn’t really about your workload but your thought load? In this episode of The Experimental Leader , Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford sit down with leadership expert Liane Davey to explore th
Are you hiring people who truly fit the role or simply people who feel familiar? In this episode of The Experimental Leader Podcast , Mel Rutherford and Melanie Parish explore one of the most common leadership traps: hir
Unclear expectations can quietly undermine even the strongest teams. Miscommunication, frustration, reduced accountability, and stalled growth often stem from one overlooked leadership challenge: a lack of clarity. In th
What if your biggest leadership challenge becomes your greatest opportunity? In this episode of The Experimental Leader Podcast , Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford explore how unexpected setbacks can become "lucky disast
In this episode of The Experimental Leader Podcast , Melanie Parish speaks with Dr. Mel Rutherford about leading through crisis, identity, and organizational transformation, drawing from his book The Glass Cliff: One Tra
In this episode of Traps and Tricks , Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford explore two leadership challenges that often go hand in hand: criticism and emotions. Why do leaders become defensive when receiving feedback? What
Welcome to Skill Up, the newest segment of The Experimental Leader Podcast, where Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford break down practical leadership skills that help leaders grow, develop teams, and create lasting impact.
In this episode of The Experimental Leader Podcast, Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford are joined by Jacob Chase, CEO of Infin, for a strategic exploration of leadership, accountability, and the future of human performanc
What makes people truly engaged at work? In this episode of The Experimental Leader , Dr. Roz Cohen joins the conversation to explore the power of connection, belonging, and human-centred leadership in today’s workplace.
Burnout is not the cost of leadership. It is a signal. In this episode of The Experimental Leader , we explore a more sustainable way to lead by moving beyond either or thinking and learning how to manage competing prior
In this episode of The Experimental Leader, the show explores a trauma-sensitive perspective on leadership, examining how early relational experiences shape executive behaviour, emotional triggers, and decision-making pa
Start 2026 with a fresh take on leadership. In this episode of The Experimental Leader , Mel Rutherford and Melanie Parish are joined by designer and community builder Paulo Gregory to explore leading through collective
This episode dives into how leaders can use experimentation to navigate the intensity of the December season with more clarity, efficiency, and humanity. The conversation explores practical strategies for running purpose
In this episode, Dr. Torben Noerby—CEO of People & Performance, author of The Contextual Leader , and creator of the Contextual Leadership AI Bot (CLAI)—explores how leaders can adapt to their organizational context to d
In this month’s episode of The Experimental Leader Podcast , we explore what it takes to build leadership that lasts. The conversation covers the essentials of self-leadership, aligning words with actions, and the role o
In this episode of The Experimental Leader podcast, hosts Melanie Parrish and Mel Rutherford speak with Col. Bree Fram , one of the highest-ranking out transgender officers in the U.S. Space Force. Together, they explore
In this episode of The Experimental Leader Podcast , hosts Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford are joined by executive coach and ADHD expert Frankie Berkoben to explore how executive functioning and systems thinking can el
In this Pride Month episode of The Experimental Leader Podcast , hosts Mel Rutherford and Melanie Parish are joined by Dr. Liz Cavallaro, executive coach and author of Forging Queer Leaders . Together, they explore how L
Celebrate International Coaching Week 2025 with this insightful episode exploring coaching’s evolving role in leadership. From AI advancements to maintaining a pure coaching mindset, this conversation offers practical ti
Celebrate a remarkable milestone with The Experimental Leader Podcast as we mark five years of exploring leadership through innovation, curiosity, and authenticity. In this special anniversary episode, podcast founder Me
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The Experimental Leader is hosted by Melanie Parish and Mel Rutherford. The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 168 episodes.
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