The Power of Balance
Episodes
The Power of Tenderness
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Surely this is an absurd idea: that tenderness can be - is ,in fact - powerful? In this episode Stephen Barden dives into the even more absurd idea ...
HOW WE OUTSOURCE OUR POWER
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Stephen Barden asks: How do we make sure that we don’t shrink ourselves when we outsource to others – to technology or to other people? How...
Speakers of Truth to Power: Lt. General (retired) Ben Hodges
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The third guest in this special series is not someone you would immediately think of as speaking truth to power. Yet retired Lieutenant General Ben Ho...
Speakers of Truth to Power: Razan
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Barden speaks to a post graduate student in Norway who, by speaking truth to power, managed to get her university in Stavanger to change a cor...
Speakers of Truth to Power: Harold Strachan
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of a new season of the Power of Balance - focusing on Speakers of Truth to Power - Stephen Barden tells the story of Harold Stra...
Fearful Power
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contact me hereFor more information about Stephen Barden and his work please visit:www. stephenbarden.orgor https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbarden/
Wherefore Art Thou - The EU
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Barden turns his "Wherefore" spotlight on the European Union to ask: Where does the EU see its highest value in its world? Can that ...
Wherefore Art Thou - the Organization
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the second in the series "Wherefore Art Thou", Stephen Barden argues that if human beings need to have a balance of meaning and value w...
Wherefore Art Thou - not the why but the wherefore
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Barden suggests that before we ask ourselves why? - to give us purpose - we could be asking "wherefore?" What is that place where we...
There's no going back to normal
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Barden follows up on the previous episode's theme of refletingContact me hereFor more information about Stephen Barden and his work ple...
Living at work
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the fact that flexible and hybrid working has been widely welcomed, there is disturbing evidence that it is leaving many people exhausted and ...
Who Moved My World?
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Barden's central theme in this series on power is that those who believe they have a balanced, manageable relationship with their world...
The Great Divide
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As a species we are probably the most aggressive, destructive and divisive that have ever walked this earth. We have destroyed countless other speci...
Lessons from a working-class, female leader: why diversity isn't enough
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sat down with financial sector leader Jenny Knott to discuss how deceptive the drive to diversity can be. How can we ensure t...
A conversation with Manfred Kets De Vries, Professor of leadership development and organizational change at INSEAD,
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I recently sat down with the author of the“CEO Whisperer” and Insead distinguished professor Manfred F.R Kets De Vries whose fascinating work focu...
David Lane Interviews Stephen Barden About Leadership
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Lane of the Professional Development Foundation interviews Stephen Barden about the research for his new book How Successful Leaders Do Business...
The myths and nonsense of leadership traits
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership coaches inundate us with advice on "What great leaders do" or "The 6 characteristics of a good leader" or "The 1...
Battles, Balance and the Fastest Kid in Florida
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 2 of the series, Stephen Barden talks to Lieutenant General (Ret) Ben Hodges, Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Centre for Europea...
Let's talk about power
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coach mentor and author Stephen Barden introduces this podcast series,"The Power of Balance". In this first episode he argues that the child...