Leadership Discoveries #37: Leading Change without Losing Trust with Vincent Brennan
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Leadership Discoveries™ explores how accomplished leaders exercise judgement, navigate complexity and create impact. Drawing on her experience as a senior executive, executive advisor and leadership scholar, I bring listeners inside candid conversations with CEOs, founders, board leaders and innovators. Together we explore the decisions, experiences and leadership thinking that shape organisations, careers and performance. Leadership Discoveries is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your favourite podcast platform.
Episode #37
Vincent Brennan joins Dr Shirley Kavanagh to reflect on more than four decades in banking and financial services, including senior executive roles at Bank of Ireland, his work as Transformation Director at Accenture, and his time as Deputy Chairman of the Euro Banking Association. He now works as an independent transformation advisor and non-executive director. Vincent shares candid insights into moving between leadership roles within the same organisation, navigating impostor syndrome, and building the trusted relationships that help leaders make sound decisions. We explore why leaders need to listen to constructive dissent and face inconvenient truths, how to influence without formal authority, and what changes when you move from executive responsibility into advisory and board roles.
Here's a small sample of what you will hear in this episode:
How do you find the confidence to lead in a new role?
What experience has most shaped Vincent as a leader?
How do you move things forward as a leader while managing risk & keeping trust?
What do you need to unlearn when moving into an advisory role?
How do you make courageous decisions as a leader?
Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn, and Vincent on LinkedIn.
Check out the episode and show notes below.
Show Notes
Leading Change without Losing Trust with Vincent Brennan
[0:28] Welcome back to Leadership Discoveries!
[0:38] Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn, and Vincent on LinkedIn
[1:44] What experience has most shaped Vincent as a leader?
[5:48] How do you move to a new leadership role at the same organisation?
[6:27] How do you find the confidence to lead in a new role?
[7:06] How often do men get impostor syndrome?
[7:53] How do you find belief in yourself in a new role?
[9:17] How has Vincent’s approach to leadership changed?
[13:51] How do you balance strategy & diving deep with your team as a leader?
[15:53] How do you move things forward as a leader while managing risk & keeping trust?
[22:24] How do you influence when you don’t have formal authority?
[26:45] How do you make a decision with incomplete information?
[30:46] How do you make courageous decisions as a leader?
[32:24] What are Vincent’s thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence) & tech (technology)?
[36:48] What do you need to unlearn when moving into an advisory role?
[40:49] What should leaders be paying closest attention to next?
[43:56] Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn, and Vincent on LinkedIn
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