Modern CEO – The Podcast

This isn’t about best practice. It’s about being the best leader you can be.

Just straight talk on power, leadership, and making the hard calls at the top. Power. Pressure. Presence. Strategy that cuts through.

Hosted by Joe — coach to the boldest CEOs in tech and beyond — this podcast helps you reinvent what it means to lead in the 2020s.

Season 2: Launched June 2025

The CEO’s Guide to Success (S2 Ep. 3)

Prof. Steven Kaplan on what boards get wrong, how top CEOs really succeed, and why execution (not charisma) is your real edge.

The CEO’s Guide to Being Punched in the Face (S2 Ep. 2)

Roan Lavery on the real work of leadership: how martial arts shaped his CEO mindset and why stepping back isn’t always the right move.

The CEOs Guide to Telling Your Investor to f off (S2 Ep. 1)

Season 2 kicks off with Paul Traynor. Can you lead without being liked? Why real leadership demands healthy conflict.

S1 E11 Instagram: Culture of great work with Tin Kadoic

This time I’m joined by Tin Kadoic from Instagram. Tin leads the design management team for Reels at Instagram and was previously at Airbnb.
We talk culture, unshipping and of course making better decisions.

S1 E10 Optimising for Decision Making with Selena Hadzibabic

I’m joined by Selena Hadzibabic. Selena is VP of product for the global wedding company the Knot Worldwide. You might know them as Hitched in the UK, Wedingwire in North America and India. We talk optimising decision making, decisions now or later and how to asses the competitions’ decisions.

S1 E9 Meri Williams CTO of AI healthcare startup Healx, former CTO of Monzo

Meri Williams. CTO of AI healthcare startup Healx, former CTO of Monzo, Print on demand Moo and Marks and Spencer. Chair of the fantastic lead developer conference. We talk collaboration with Product & Tech, overlap of disciplines, inputs to decision making and more.

S1 – E8 Jeff Gothelf, Author of Lean UX, Sense & Respond

Jeff is the co-author of Lean UX as well as the Harvard Business Review Published Sense and Respond. He coaches organisations to create a better culture that creates better products.

S1 – E7 Sally Lait from Farewill and Monzo

Sally is Head of Engineering at Farewill, a company who helps people deal with death, think wills and funerals. Before that Sally was acting Engineering Director / web discipline lead at UK challenger bank Monzo.

S1 E6 Christian Gonzalez YouTube

I’m joined by Christian Gonzalez. Christian leads a team of quantitative and qualitative User Experience Researchers at YouTube.

S1 E5 Martin Eriksson Product Leadership Author, Founder of ProductTank

Martin is co-Founder of both ProductTank and Mind the Product – together, the world’s largest product community. He’s also co-author of the best-selling book, Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams.