For the twenty-ninth episode of The Work Healthy Podcast, we had the pleasure of welcoming back Dr. Alan Watkins!

Dr. Watkins is recognised as an international expert on leadership and human performance. Over the past 24 years, he has been a coach to many top business leaders and worked with the GB Olympic squad, coaches, and athletes before London 2012 and Rio 2016. Originally trained as a medical doctor at Imperial College in London, he worked for 11 years in the UK’s National Health Service, in primary care in Australia, and for a year in academic medical research in the USA. He ended up in Neuroscience research before leaving medicine to work with global business leaders.

He founded Complete in 2004, drawing on his background as a physician and neuroscientist. Since it began, Alan and the Complete team have helped thousands of leaders, teams, and organisations to grow with transformational coaching and development programmes.

Dr. Watkins has recently added to his impressive portfolio in writing the book “Step Change: The Leader’s Journey”. With change being such a topical discussion point that has fascinated so many at the moment, there was no better time to invite him back to delve into a fascinating discussion.

Our conversation delved into areas including why we avoid change, why we need to get better at making people comfortable with change, resistance and the imposition of change, the nature of change, the four phases of change in our lives, getting out of your comfort zone, the disease of meaning, and how to upgrade yourself in creating a more effective and sophisticated version of ourselves.