Leading Beyond the Framework 🧭 — with Richard Hughes-Jones

Today’s sponsor is Intent by Augment.
Intent is a developer workspace built for orchestrating agents: it starts with the living spec that updates as agents make progress, so every task stays aligned with no manual coordination. Try it for yourself at https://www.augmentcode.com/product/intent

Listen now:
YouTube | Apple | Spotify

Today’s guest is Richard Hughes-Jones, a professional executive coach with more than 20 years of experience.

With Richard, we talked about:

• how to coach tech leaders through uncertainty;

• everything that’s going on with AI, how to navigate it, how we should think about our role, and what it means to step outside of the framework;

• how to leverage AI for coaching, how to blend human and AI advice to get the best of both worlds.

---

If you like the podcast, please give us a rating on your platform of choice! It means a lot to us — that’s how other people discover the show! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

---

🥇 Interview Summary

If you are a 🔒 paid subscriber 🔒 you will find my own summary of the interview below.

It’s the 5-minute takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.

Here is the agenda:

1. 🧭 From strategy consulting to coaching tech leaders

2. 🌀 Leading through uncertainty and complexity

3. 🧱 Going post-framework

4. 🪞 Inner work, polarities, and safe-to-fail experiments

5. 🤖 Leveraging AI for coaching

Let’s dive in 👇

---