Impactful Conversations
Impactful Conversations is the leadership podcast for people leading when the stakes are real.
Hosted by Nejmi Alexander, founder of Careeryse, and Dr Glenn Wallis, each episode explores what it actually takes to lead through growth, transformation, uncertainty, and change.
Drawing on conversations with executives, leadership experts, coaches, and practitioners, the podcast goes beyond leadership theory to uncover practical insights on strategy, high-performing teams, organizational culture, trust, communication, and sustainable performance.
If you're responsible for delivering results through people, Impactful Conversations helps you close the gap between leadership intention and leadership impact.
Episode list
Ep 22 - Mastering the 3 Pillars of Decision Velocity
How do leaders make decisions at the right speed? Nejmi and Glenn's answer: decision velocity is a function of clarity, commitment and speed - judged decision by decision, not maximised across all of them. They diagnose the traps that stall leaders, from activism to risk aversion, and share five practical tools, from saturation and the 80/20 rule to fear setting and the reversible-versus-irreversible test.
Ep 19 - Empowering Leadership through Delegated Authority
Delegated authority has to be deliberately created: a leader willing to release control, trust built through delegated tasks, and precision in why, what and how. It is fragile, eroded fastest by inconsistent signals and blame. Get it right and the bottleneck of decisions queuing at the top begins to loosen.
Ep 25: What is the 2026 leadership reality check?
Three signals define the first half of 2026: a leader burnout crisis driven by ambiguity and shrinking autonomy, AI adoption that rewards doubling down on the human element, and a credibility gap in which only around 10% of leaders see themselves as others experience them. The answer runs through both levels: fix the system, and lead yourself deliberately.
Ep 16: What should leaders prioritise in 2026?
The defining leadership challenge is the business of busyness, and the answer is not slowing down but consciously creating space for depth, so leaders close the gap between the impact they intend and the impact they have. Nejmi and Glenn make the case for impactivity over productivity, presence as a deliberate identity, and leadership as the operating system of the organisation.
These conversations sit behind the work we do at Careeryse. If you want to see how leadership is landing across your own business, start with the free Execution Drag Diagnostic