Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

E 198 Exorcise Your Insecurity with More Resilience with Russell Harvey

Russell Harvey · August 8, 2023

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Interview with Russell Harvey

E 198 Exorcise Your Insecurity with More Resilience with Russell Harvey

Podcast: Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

August 8, 2023

It sure feels like there are unprecedented levels of turmoil on the economic/social/political landscape, with potentially legitimate concerns of how AI will change our work. Resilience is your fast track ticket to facing adversity, working with annoying people, and pivoting…

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Key topicsLeading Well When the World Won’t Slow DownChange is no longer something leaders navigate occasionally - it is the environment they lead in every day. Russell explores the difference between leaders who are simply surviving relentless change and those who can genuinely say: “There’s a lot going on, and I’m good.” Drawing on nearly two decades specialising in resilience, Russell offers a practical perspective on what resilient leadership actually looks, sounds and feels like when the pressure is real and the uncertainty isn't going away.Before You Add AI to Your Team, Fix the Human OneOrganisations are racing to adopt AI, but Russell believes leaders need to ask a more fundamental question first: what makes our team work brilliantly together? Only then can they understand where AI can genuinely improve performance. With deep expertise in leadership, resilience and navigating persistent change, Russell offers a refreshingly human perspective on AI: the biggest challenge may not be the technology, but how well we lead the people using it.Off the Record — What Leaders Admit in Coaching and Never Say in the BoardroomRussell Harvey has coached leaders to board level for over 6,000 hours, and the same admissions come up in private: they are guessing, they are tired, and they can say neither out loud. Most organisations treat that silence as strength and reward the executive who never wavers, which is how confident-looking teams commit to decisions nobody in the room believes in. Drawing on 18 years with organisations from the NHS to Novartis and Kerry Group, he describes what changes when a leader finally gets one place to think honestly: how they pressure-test a decision before announcing it, and how they pass that same permission down to their own team. Listeners leave able to hear what their leadership group is not saying, and knowing what to do once they hear it.View all topics →

About Russell Harvey

The Resilience Coach | Resilient Leadership Expert

100,000+ People positively affected6,000+ Executive coaching hours£12M+ ROI delivered by RWE npower leadership programme20+ years Learning, leadership and organisational development

Russell Harvey is The Resilience Coach - a resilient leadership expert, executive coach, facilitator and keynote speaker who helps leaders and organisations perform at their best when the world refuses to stand still.

With more than 20 years in Learning, Leadership and Organisational Development, 6,000+ hours of executive coaching and over 70 published podcast appearances, Russell is an experienced and engaging voice on resilience, leadership and navigating persistent change. He has worked with leaders across organisations including Novartis, the NHS, AB World Foods, Kerry Group and The Co-operative Group.

Russell’s work goes beyond helping people simply cope with pressure. He believes true resilience isn’t about “bouncing back”, being tougher or pretending everything is fine - it’s about springing forward with learning and becoming better equipped to lead because of the challenges you’ve faced.

His approach connects the human side of leadership directly to what matters to organisations: engaged people, stronger cultures, better decisions and improved performance. His work has delivered measurable results, including a leadership programme that returned £12 million to the business and a Resilient Leader Programme that achieved more than 1,100% ROI.

In August 2025, Russell achieved his long-held purpose of positively affecting 100,000 people.

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If you haven’t already, it’s so important for you to know what your strengths are so you can lean on them to work with more energy. You not only want to leverage your own strengths, but help those around you to know and use their strengths, to build the entire team’s engagement and performance. Russell goes through the Resilience Wheel to deconstruct this key concept into its component parts.

Of course your communication skill level mirrors your current level of resilience. If you look carefully into any conversation, you can pretty accurately assess their level of resilience and respond accordingly.

Fortify your leadership with resilience, using these life-altering insights:

🔥The reasons you need more resilience right now (i.e. what you’re up against!)

💎 The connection between your strengths and your level of resilience

✅ How to look at working with your strengths against banking the money you want

🔑 Your reality-based purpose goes beyond your goals and is another big source of resilience

🦏 Exorcize your Imposter Syndrome by leaning into your strengths

🎯 Realize that the way you get promoted affects your confidence in the role

📣 Identify the strengths of each team member without the use of psychometrics.

ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:Russell Harveyis THE Resilience Coach, based in the UK. He supports leaders who are “wading through treacle” (aka slogging through) to rediscover their mojo in 6 months.

Russell is an approachable and open minded executive coach specializing in helping senior leaders. Russell's approach empowers individuals to reflect on their own behaviors and assumed ways of working to achieve positive changes at both strategic and personal levels.

Find Russell Harvey on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/russelltheresiliencecoach/

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