This interview features JoJo and Alastair Levy, who shares perspectives on leadership from his 35-year career as an orchestral and operatic conductor, government advisor, Global Director of Risk at McKinsey & Company, and now as a leadership advisor and executive coach. They discuss how conducting is an almost pure form of leadership, in which a conductor’s role is to bring together up to 100 individual musicians to perform as one … without making a sound. They then explore Alastair’s research into the attributes of the best conductors – and the relevance of these attributes to leaders across sectors. Key Discussion Points 1. Leaders across sectors can have greater impact if they apply six attributes of the best conductors. Three of these attributes relate to what a leader brings into a new role, project or meeting: preparedness, humility and purpose. The other three relate to what leaders do when they get there: create a space where things can happen, provide a path forward, and listen and respond with their mind, body and soul.  2. These attributes are even more relevant in an era of increasing volatility and change – in which leaders need to bring wide-ranging groups of people together to address challenging tasks, guide them through new and uncertain terrain, and enable them to perform in a way which meets exacting expectations. 3. Each of us has the opportunity to foster and combine the six attributes, make them an integral part of the way in which we lead, and use them bring their colleagues and organisations to achieve greater impact and meaning. Read more: The discussion builds on Alastair’s article ‘Making music without making a sound’, published by world-renowned executive coach training firm Meyler Campbell (link: https://www.meylercampbell.com/insigh...)