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.
Selected episode list
How can my leadership team make decisions faster without increasing risk?
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.
Why does everything still come back to me even though I've delegated it?
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.
We’re in so much uncertainty right now, how do I keep my team’s trust?
Ep 27 - How Leaders Can Earn Trust When Certainty Fails
When uncertainty is high, trying to project certainty you don't have can erode trust faster than admitting what you don't know. Nejmi Alexander and Dr Glenn Wallis explore why transparency, consistency and being genuinely interested in the people you lead matter more than having every answer — and why extending trust to your team is one of the fastest ways to become more trusted yourself. Trust isn't built through a big leadership moment; it's accumulated through the everyday behaviours people experience from you.
Why does leading feel harder right now, even for experienced leaders?
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.
I'm constantly busy as a leader but I don’t think I'm always working on the things that matter — what should I change?
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