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Episode Description

In this episode, Julia is joined by Liz Bloomfield to begin a new exploration into Energy and its role in leadership. Liz explains that leadership is, at its core, about energy, both the kind we generate and the kind that drains us. She challenges us to recognise how different energies shape our leadership, from the frustrations that hold us back to the empowering moments that drive us forward.

The conversation explores how leaders can become more aware of the energy they bring into spaces, how to sustain energy in times of challenge, and how to create environments where energy is shared rather than depleted.

This episode invites us to rethink leadership through the lens of energy and to consider how tuning into it can transform the way we lead.

About the Guests

Liz Bloomfield

Liz Bloomfield is an experienced humanitarian leader with a background in military service, business and non profit work. She is a Leadership Coach, equipping mission-driven people and organizations to accelerate their performance, resilience, and leadership by reconnecting with their purpose. Passionate about sustainable leadership, Liz focuses on how energy, resilience and emotional intelligence shape impactful leadership.

About the Host

Julia Middleton

Julia Middleton is the host of the Women Emerging podcast and a best-selling author of “If that’s leading, I’m in” as well as two previous books: “Leading beyond Authority” and “Cultural Intelligence”. She is deeply committed to helping people from all backgrounds to find their own approach to leading.

In 2020, Julia launched Women Emerging and in 2022 she lead an expedition of 24 women to find ‘an approach to leading that resonates with women’. She now leads expeditions with women all over the world based on 4Es methodology, discovered in the first expedition.

Prior to that, Julia was founder and, for over thirty years, Chief Executive of Common Purpose, which grew to become one of the biggest leadership development organisations in the world.
Julia is also an Ambassador for the Aurora Prize based in Armenia, on the boards of Alfanar Venture Philanthropy in the Arab World and Equality Now, which operates globally, and on the Advisory Councils of Fundacao Dom Cabral in Brazil and Synapse in Pakistan.

Born in London and brought up in New York, Julia was educated at French Lycées and graduated from the London School of Economics. She is married, with five children and lots of grandchildren.