Andy and Frances are back for the fifth season of Unlocking Aliveness in Leadership Podcast. In this episode, they explore leadership values: not just what we say matters, but how we live it through our behaviour and decisions.
Leadership values
What is your relationship with values as a leader? Do you ever pause to consider your values?
Are your values expectations handed down from elsewhere and displayed on a wall? Or have you made them your own, using them to guide how you behave as a leader?
In this episode Frances and Andy get under the bonnet of values as a leader and share some insightful thoughts of the values that they hold dear.
What values do you hold as a leader? We think that values are a foundation block of leadership, how you think, behave and make decisions. How we embody our values support how we show up and act as a compass (North Star) for consistent, clear ways of being as a leader.
There are values in values for both individuals, teams and organisations providing the fundamental principles of how we are going to work like around here. The trouble comes when the lived experience of behaviour mis matches with the espoused values on the wall.
When we work with individuals, we explore values which become the ground in which they can stand on as a leader.
In his Psychology Today article “The Five Core Values That Direct Your Life” (30 November 2025), John A. Johnson describes five broad dimensions of human values. These offer a framework for reflecting on what motivates us, including in our leadership:
Frances and Andy delve into these and share stories about how their values have played out in their leadership careers.
We hope that you enjoy
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