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From Harm to Healing with Leah Brown: Restorative Justice, Institutional Accountability, and Leading Through Chaos
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What if the real fix for broken systems isn’t a better press release, but a better way to heal? We sit down with mediator and lawyer Leah Brown—founder and CEO of the Wayfinders Group—to unpack how leaders can move from fire-fighting to genuine repair when conflict, crisis, or scandal hits. Leah’s journey from aspiring violinist to M&A deal-maker to boardroom mediator reveals a throughline: she’s at her best bringing order to chaos and giving people language for what they’re afraid to say.
We also get practical about leadership in the storm: how to mediate at board level without retraumatizing participants, what to do when legal and PR responses fall short, and the daily disciplines—supervision, flotation therapy, sea-air walks—that keep practitioners resourced and safe. If you care about rebuilding trust, advancing ethical leadership, and turning conflict into a catalyst for cultural change, this conversation offers both a blueprint and a nudge to act.
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Chapters
1. From Harm to Healing with Leah Brown: Restorative Justice, Institutional Accountability, and Leading Through Chaos (00:00:00)
2. Meet Leah Brown of Wales-by-way-of-UK (00:00:11)
3. Tenacity, ambition, and early obstacles (00:02:03)
4. Why law won over music (00:04:30)
5. From would-be barrister to M&A (00:06:39)
6. Birth of The Wayfinders Group (00:08:43)
7. Who Wayfinders serves and how (00:12:20)
8. Holding steady through chaos and burnout (00:14:31)
9. Listen, do no harm: a practice (00:18:15)
10. When institutions mark their own homework (00:20:52)
11. The white paper: harm to healing (00:24:54)
12. Hillsborough Law and duty of candour (00:28:19)
13. Misconceptions of restorative justice (00:31:16)
14. Personal roots in chaos and resilience (00:34:11)
15. Patterns of harm in public services (00:36:38)
16. Final reflections and survivor-centred change (00:40:05)
17. Closing credits and ways to connect (00:41:06)
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