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How to Lead in Public Markets When the World Keeps Changing | Profiling UK Public Leaders
Episode 1 · 19 August 2026 · with James Norwood — CEO
James Norwood spent seven years as a Royal Navy warfare officer before moving into the commercial world and on to leading in public markets.
In this episode he shares the leadership lessons that carried across, why focusing on what you can control matters more the more senior you get, and what separates a board that genuinely challenges its executive team from one that slips into groupthink. He reflects on the new investment flowing into the defence sector and why it rewards long-term investors, and closes on how the role of a public company board is changing as AI, geopolitics and information overload reshape the job.
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