Episodes

Peter Russell has spent more than fifty years at the intersection of science, consciousness, and the revolution that's happening inside the human mind. He studied theoretical physics at Cambridge - with Dr Stephen Hawkins as his supervisor, then travelled to India to study meditation under some of its greatest teachers, and came home to take up the first research post Britain had ever offered on the psychology of meditation. His books, including The Global Brain, Letting Go of Nothing, and his m...

This summer, millions are meeting Homer's Odyssey through Christopher Nolan's retelling. Phil Cousineau has been living inside the real story for forty years. In this conversation, he separates the myth from the movie: what Nolan's film gets right, what it leaves out, and why a 2,800-year-old poem about the long way home might be the sharpest leadership text we have. Phil Cousineau worked with Joseph Campbell on The Hero's Journey, has consulted with Hollywood studios including Warner Bros., Pi...

What if the biggest mistake founders make when raising capital is assuming investors know better than they do? In this episode of The Sacred Art of Leadership, Del and Dip sit down with Ari Helgason, co-founder of Transition, the venture capital firm backing founders building the technologies that could reshape energy, AI, industry and the future of the planet. Ari has lived on both sides of the table. He built companies before becoming an investor, and that experience gives him a blunt view o...

What does leadership look like when you’ve spent twenty years thinking about art before you ever tried to build something? Tom Trevatt is a headshot and portrait photographer, a Goldsmiths PhD, a former DJ, and an accidental business leader. In this episode, Tom talks about the sleepless night that changed his life — and his mum buying him his first camera. About spending twenty years on the outside of something before finally doing it. About building a business from values up, pricing from co...

Sam Clark: Leadership Forged in Crisis When Sam Clark moved to Sri Lanka in 2004 to start a travel company, he didn't expect to spend his first year running a disaster relief operation instead. The Boxing Day tsunami hit weeks after he arrived — and what followed became the unlikely training ground for everything he knows about leadership. In this conversation, Sam takes us inside the moments that actually shaped him: the motorbike rescue missions, the £150,000 charity that emerged almost by ac...

Athene Parker walks into this conversation having had three hours sleep. She's been running on empty for a long while now and she tells you that in the first five minutes, without apology or performance. What follows is one of the most honest conversations we've had on this podcast. Athene is a 27-year advertising veteran, a CTI-trained coach, and the founder of the emPower Breakfast — a gathering she created for the creative industries when she realised that people were silently drowning in ...

There is a comfortable story a lot of organisations tell themselves about people-first leadership. That if you care enough, listen enough, create the right culture, the results will follow. Kate Thrumble believes that story is only half true. And the half that's missing is where most leaders quietly fail. Kate has spent 20 years in the rooms where the real work happens, redundancies, restructures, the difficult conversations that don't make it into leadership books. She has seen what happens w...

Barny Wright co-founded No.8 London and is seven and a half years sober. In this episode he talks about what sobriety actually revealed, what it cost him to get there and so much more about founding and operating a business from the heart. Episode Summary Barny has built award-winning businesses, run marathons, and made bold creative bets for over two decades. He's also spent the last 2,682 Days sober (accurate at the time of publishing) In this episode, Barny talks about what sobriety reveale...

Jane Gomez has spent 25 years in the room where it actually happens. Not on the stage — in the circle. Chairing forums, steadying founders, asking the question nobody else thought to ask. In this conversation, Jane brings something rare: a view of leadership from the inside out. Why the best leaders are often the ones who say "I don't know" — and mean it. And what happens when an entrepreneur won't get out of the way of the very team they hired to help them grow. She also turns the lens on her...

Before interviewing their first guests, Dip & Del reflect on the first few episodes and answer some audience questions, including "how do you spot a poor leader", "what do you do if you're promoted before you are ready", and "what's one thing that you've never spoken about that made you the leader you are today?". They also delve into the sensitive topics of mental health in leadership, imposterism and self-love. Links: Awareness - Anthony De Mello https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Opportunities...

Dip & Del discussing what the show is all about.

In this next episode, it’s Dip’s turn to put his co-host Derek Moore in the ‘hot seat’. He explores the journey behind the business: the humble beginnings, the unexpected leadership, and why Del has come to believe that the world doesn't just need better creative work, it needs a fundamentally different kind of leader. One who leads from awareness, not authority. Del didn't set out to run a company. He started as a craftsman, an editor, a visual effects artist, working his way up from the cutti...

The Sacred Art of Leadership is a podcast for people who carry responsibility and are quietly questioning what it really means. Hosted by executive coach, Dipak Davé and founder CEO, Derek Moore, each episode is an honest, unhurried conversation exploring leadership as a human experience, beyond titles, performance, and the noise of expectation.

In this episode, Del turns the mic on co-host Dip, who spent over 30 years moving through investment banking, management consulting, fashion retail, and start-ups before realising the most important work was happening not in the boardroom, but inside himself. This is the conversation behind the podcast: who Dip is, what shaped him, and why he believes that leadership isn’t an act of doing, it's a state of being, and how the world, now more than ever, doesn't need better leaders, it needs bolder ...