Corey-osity Unleashed
Corey-osity Unleashed
Podcast Description
Corey-osity Unleashed isn’t your typical leadership podcast - no corporate fluff, no HR jargon. Just raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about how we can (and should) treat our people in today’s messy, complex workplaces.
With our guests, we get curious by challenging the norm and questioning the status quo, exploring and unleashing bold new ways to think and act about people and work.
Expect tough truths, honest insights, a few laughs, and maybe even a well-placed swear word or two—because let’s be real, our people deserve better, and our businesses can’t afford to keep getting it wrong
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as coaching culture, leadership development, and employee engagement with episodes covering topics like challenging the status quo in coaching, creating high-performing teams, and building trust within organizations.
Corey-osity Unleashed isn’t your typical leadership podcast – no corporate fluff, no HR jargon. Just raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about how we can (and should) treat our people in today’s messy, complex workplaces.
With our guests, we get curious by challenging the norm and questioning the status quo, exploring and unleashing bold new ways to think and act about people and work.
Expect tough truths, honest insights, a few laughs, and maybe even a well-placed swear word or two—because let’s be real, our people deserve better, and our businesses can’t afford to keep getting it wrong
Hope is a Strategy: Why Leaders Must Learn to Cultivate It
What do people all over the world want most from their leaders? According to Gallup's research presented at the World Government Summit, the answer is hope. Not strategy. Not vision decks. Hope. And yet almost no leadership development programme teaches it.
Ian Pettigrew has spent years researching exactly this gap. In this conversation, he unpacks what hope actually is — and why it's not the same as optimism, positivity, or wishful thinking. Hope, by his definition, is a belief that the future can be better combined with knowing what you can do to make it so. That small distinction changes everything about how leaders show up, how teams perform, and why some people find a way through the hardest circumstances while others don't.
This episode goes deep on the practical side: Ian's Hope Play Sheet (free at hope.tips), why toxic positivity actively undermines hope, what the Fyre Festival documentary teaches us about silencing concerns, and why some leaders have already scuppered their ability to inspire hope before any tactic can help. Ian also brings his own story — recovering from a trimalleolar ankle fracture during lockdown and training to cycle the height of Everest on an indoor bike — as a lived demonstration of the framework he teaches.
If you lead people and you've ever been told to ”give your team more hope” without any guidance on how to actually do it, this is the episode that fills that gap.
Keywords: Ian Pettigrew, Hope, Leadership, Realistic Optimism, Hope Play Sheet, Positive Psychology, Employee Engagement, Workplace Culture, Strengths, Resilience
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Ian Pettigrew
05:40 The Everest Challenge: A Journey of Hope
13:32 Ian's Life Journey and Career Path
23:58 Exploring the Concept of Hope
28:32 Practical Tools for Cultivating Hope
33:21 The Balance of Realistic Optimism
38:43 Practical Steps for Leaders
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