Empowering Leaders
Empowering Leaders is a TV show on Seven. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 48 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2026.
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36:00Empowering Leaders
Resilience researcher and author Dr Lucy Hone shares the deeply personal story behind her life's work, revealing the practical mindset shifts that helped her navigate unimaginable loss. Together, she and Luke explore grief, leadership, self-compassion and why our greatest strugg...
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51:00Tom Allen shares insights from his extensive career in high performance sport. You’ll hear leadership lessons from his time at football clubs like Aston Villa and Arsenal, innovative team-building stories, and principles for effective leadership and culture building.
39:00Former Socceroo Bruce Djite has successfully navigated one of the toughest transitions in elite sport - building a thriving career after football.
43:00In this insightful interview, Chris Lendrum, a high-performance leadership expert with over two decades of experience in elite sport, shares his principles for building winning cultures, leading through adversity, and evolving legacy in a rapidly changing world. Discover how connection, vision, and self-awareness drive suc...
31:00In this episode, intensive care paramedic and author Sally Gould shares insights from her 15-year career on the front lines of emergency medicine. She discusses how calmness, decision-making, humour, and leadership are vital in high-pressure situations and how these lessons can be applied to leadership and everyday life.
40:00Bryony Cole is one of the world's leading voices on technology, intimacy and human connection. In this conversation with Luke, she explores what AI is already doing to our relationships, from the way couples navigate arguments to how children are seeking companionship, and why human connection is becoming the new luxury.
49:00Luke sits down with his co-founder and great mate Matt Wadewitz to reflect on eleven years and 250 episodes of Aleda - from its origins in a South Australian classroom to a global community of more than 700 leaders across 20 countries. They cover the friendship that started at 14, the sliding doors moments that shaped both...
45:00Brad Johnson played 364 games for the Western Bulldogs, was named All Australian six times, and is one of the most genuinely positive people Luke has ever known. In this conversation they talk about parenting kids chasing big dreams, building a business from scratch, facing a cancer diagnosis, and the premiership they neve...
46:00Timmy Bristow survived a near-death at nine, carried the weight of institutionalised child sexual abuse in silence for twenty-one years, and turned all of it into a life of relentless service.
28:00Lexi Edmondson ran towards the chaos at Bondi Beach as a first responder - and in the weeks that followed, found love, clarity, and a completely rebuilt sense of what matters. A conversation about courage, community, and choosing hope.
1:03:00Former SAS operator and psychologist Harry Moffitt joins Luke to explore human performance, stoic philosophy, the Ben Roberts-Smith case, and what it means to lead with character under pressure.
45:00World-leading consultant psychiatrist Dr Phil Hopley - the man behind the London Olympics mental performance program - reveals the science of sustainable high performance and why daily recovery is your greatest leadership edge.
43:00Alex Carey went from AFL hopeful to Australian cricket's most trusted wicket-keeper - via two delistings, a finance job, and a lot of hard-won resilience. Luke Darcy sits down with the South Australian skipper for a rare, honest conversation about setbacks, leadership, and what it really takes to chase a second dream.
22:00Two-time Olympic gold medallist Jakara Anthony joins Luke Darcy to talk about the mindset, planning, and resilience behind becoming Australia's greatest Winter Olympian and the fear that never goes away.
37:00 47:00From the AFL to the NHL and back again, Ian McKeown reveals why the greatest leaders aren't the loudest ones, and why composure is the ultimate superpower.
52:00One of the world's most celebrated winemakers, Adam Wadewitz, opens up on the pursuit of excellence, the craft behind world-class wine, and what great leadership looks like from the hills of South Australia to the cellars of France.
44:00Dr Kyle Daigle is a functional neurologist whose clinic in Louisiana serves families and athletes from over 78 countries. In this companion episode to Luke Tunnecliffe's story from last week, Kyle unpacks the science behind his approach to complex neurological conditions, the remarkable parallel between neurodiverse childr...
45:00Luke Tunnecliffe shares his son Jack’s nonverbal autism journey, the years-long search for answers, an unforgettable moment with Ed Sheeran, and the breakthrough that brought hope back to their family.
49:00Olympic gold medallist Cate Campbell joins Luke Darcy for a conversation that goes well beyond the pool - covering resilience, body image, failure, team culture, and what it really means to find identity and purpose when elite sport is over.