I always love conversations that go beyond the usual strategy frameworks and dig into the human side of leading and this one with Jordanna Eyre does exactly that.

Jordanna is a leadership and transformation expert known as the Chief Sorceress of Life & Business and founder of Spiral Growth Systems, where she empowers executives and organisations to integrate personal authenticity with strategic impact. Drawing on an eclectic career path that began in social work and education, Jordanna has developed and refined a distinctive framework for conscious leadership that blends metaphysical insight with practical business application, having guided more than 4,200 leaders across six continents and industries including technology, education, and enterprise. Her work focuses on helping individuals unlock deeper self-awareness, align inner purpose with professional performance, and cultivate meaningful fulfilment in both life and work.

What We Explore

- The Hidden Emotional Load: Why leaders often carry the weight of ambiguity, human complexity, and tough calls and how to share it without dropping the ball.

- From "Making It Work" to "Letting It Flow": Jordanna's take on shifting from force-fitting solutions to creating space where things naturally align.

- Building Human-Centred Organisations: Practical ways to weave empathy, vulnerability, and real connection into your team because strategy without heart doesn't last.

Jordanna's wisdom is a quiet reminder that great leadership isn't about having all the answers – it's about holding the space for better questions. If you're feeling the weight of it all, this episode might just lighten the load.

If so much has changed around us, why does so much inside organisations feel stubbornly the same?

In this special episode of Strategy Hero, we bring together three voices from Season One - Fredrik Fjellstedt, Pascal Dennis and Philippe Guenet to take stock of what has actually changed in strategy over the last two years, and what has not. Since we last spoke, AI has gone mainstream, decision cycles have accelerated, and uncertainty has become a constant. Yet as we explore together, many organisations are still struggling with the same internal challenges they faced in 2023.

Rather than revisiting theory, we use this conversation to reflect honestly on lived experience: how strategy is really playing out inside organisations today, where AI is helping, where it’s actively getting in the way, and what leaders are still getting wrong when it comes to execution, engagement, and adaptability.

What We Explore

Has Anything Fundamentally Changed? We challenge the assumption that AI has transformed strategy itself, arguing instead that while tools have evolved rapidly, many organisations have yet to adapt their behaviours, structures and leadership practices.

AI: Powerful Servant, Dangerous Master: We unpack the rise of “AI slop” - polished but meaningless outputs and contrast it with situations where capable teams use AI to accelerate learning and experimentation without outsourcing judgment or intuition.

Strategy as an Infinite Chessboard: We reflect on why business strategy can’t be solved like a closed system. Unlike games with fixed rules, organisations operate on an infinite, multi-dimensional chessboard shaped by people, culture, power and constant change.

Execution, Engagement and the Human Question: Again and again, we return to execution - not as a mechanical rollout, but as a human process. Strategy only works if people understand it, accept it, and can answer the question: what’s in this for me?

As we close, one insight stands out clearly: strategy today is no longer a static plan or an annual exercise. It is a continual, living process - balancing direction with emergence, execution with creativity, and technology with deeply human leadership.

What do you do when the worst thing imaginable happens to your five-year-old, and the support you desperately need is 50 miles away?

In this episode, Simon welcomes Odette Mould, founder of Harry’s Rainbow. When her son Harry died suddenly from an asthma attack, Odette didn’t set out to build a charity - she simply refused to let other families face the same lonely void. Fourteen years later, Harry’s Rainbow is a thriving Milton Keynes lifeline offering respite breaks, peer support, and emergency grants to hundreds of bereaved children and their families.

We trace the journey from a mother’s heartbreak to an MBE at Buckingham Palace, the relentless focus on gratitude that keeps her going, and the quiet strategy that turned personal tragedy into systemic change.

What You’ll Learn

- From Heartbreak to Mission: How one family’s unimaginable loss became the driving force behind a charity that’s supported hundreds of grieving children.

- Gratitude as Strategy: Why Odette chooses to “switch a positive from a negative” every single day and teaches her children the same discipline.

- Building What’s Missing: The practical steps (and sheer determination) it took to create local, accessible bereavement support where none existed.

Odette is living proof that the most powerful strategies aren’t born in boardrooms - they’re forged in the crucible of love, loss, and an unbreakable refusal to look away.