Episode 1
What is ‘Resilient Leadership’ about?
Peter and Seth discuss what inspired the 'Resilient Leadership: Learning from Crisis' project, their reflections on what to expect over the next few weeks, and how this project could add value to our understanding of resilience - both during the Covid-19 crisis as well as long-term.
Episode 2
Insights from Rounds 1 and 2
Reflecting on insights from the first two rounds of interviews, including how trust influences decision-making in city government and corporations, and how the crisis is revealing different facets of leadership during emergencies.
Episode 3
Insights from Round 3
Seth and Peter discuss how city governments and corporations are adapting to uncertainty and the speed of change during this crisis, the difficulties involved in making ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ work, and some emerging lessons for future preparedness.
Episode 4
Insights from Round 4
This week, Seth and Peter discuss how our participants are managing some of the harsh realities associated with this crisis, both personally and professionally. Other topics include approaches for communication, emergin challenges around re-opening, dilemmas around grasping the opportunity for re-invention, and Peter’s ‘yoga mat’.
Episode 7
Comparing Notes
Peter speaks to Lauren Sorkin, Acting Executive Director of the Global Resilient Cities Network (GRCN) about their network of 98 Chief Resilience Officers and the work they are doing to build resilience in cities around the world.
Episode 8
Emerging Insights: Underlying Conditions
We kick off a special five-part series of episodes on ‘Emerging Insights’ – reflections and lessons on leadership during the Covid-19 crisis, distilled from the last eight weeks of interviews with our twelve participants. Seth and Peter discuss insights that relate to the theme ‘Underlying Conditions’ – the strengths and weaknesses in in our social, institutional or infrastructure systems have been revealed during this pandemic.
Episode 9
Emerging Insights: As the Wave Starts to Break
In the second of our five-part special series of episodes on ‘Emerging Insights’, Seth and Peter discuss insights on leadership during the early phase of crisis response, distilled from interviews with our twelve participants in the first eight weeks of the project.
Episode 10
Emerging Insights: Leadership and the Personal Perspective
Seth and Peter discuss Emerging Insights distilled from eight weeks of interviews with our twelve participants, focusing on how they’ve led their teams while grappling with the emotional and mental impact of the crisis.
Episode 11
Emerging Insights: The Turbulence of the Breaking Wave
In this penultimate episode of our five-part special series on ‘Emerging Insights’, Seth and Peter discuss our twelve participants’ reflections on changes to leadership and management styles as the Covid-19 crisis has deepened or widened.
Episode 12
Emerging Insights: Recovering Better
We close out our five-part special series with Emerging Insights around recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. Seth and Peter discuss our participants’ reflections from the last eight weeks on the future of cities and businesses.
Episode 13
Insights from Round 7
Seth and Peter resume normal programming with a discussion on insights from Round 7 of interviews, including reflections on personal and organisational responses to a widening and deepening crisis, how the pandemic is revealing different mechanisms for building and losing trust, and conscious lessons for the future.
Episode 14
Insights from Round 8
Seth and Peter discuss our participants’ reflections on the impact of the anti-racism protests in the USA on their organisations and countries, a possible return to ‘business as usual’ with respect to Covid-19, and where to look for leadership in the future.
Episode 18
Insights from Round 12
This week, Seth and Peter discuss our participants’ reflections on individual attributes that have sustained them through a long crisis, what does transformation really mean and who can help deliver it.
Episode 21
Comparing Notes with Gareth Morgan, City of Cape Town
Peter speaks to Gareth Morgan, Director of Resilience of the City of Cape Town (CoCT) about a similar reflective learning exercise he has been leading within the CoCT management team since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis.
Episode 22
A Glimpse Behind the Curtain
The project team get together to summarise the process of distilling insights from weekly interviews, and discuss their personal takeaways and lessons from the sixteen week process.