The Herron Perspective
Conversations on Leadership, Culture & Technology
Born in December 2025, this podcast brings you fascinating conversations with a full range of guests – from sporting legends, business world titans, entrepreneurs and big thinkers.
Michael curates the podcast from start to finish, ensuring it is worthy of your time and attention, and you’ll take something from each of our 30min episodes.
We’ll be bringing you an episode every two months.
Enjoy the pod wherever you are and let us know what you think.
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About the podcast
Rt Hon Jim Murphy, Founder and Executive Chair, Arden Strategies
As political conference season draws to a close, Michael speaks to the Rt Hon Jim Murphy about leadership lessons from business and politics, the role of values in shaping success and navigating geopolitical and technological uncertainty.
Drawing on his experience of serving two British Prime Ministers – Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – Jim compares their leadership styles and considers parallels with recent changes in the Labour Party.
He also challenges the broad but shallow understanding of the AI revolution across the public and private sectors, examining the behaviours and skills leaders need during upheaval, from building resilience and opportunity to recovering quickly from failure.
A practical, thoughtful conversation for business and technology leaders managing public-private relationships in a volatile operating environment.
About the guest
A member of His Majesty’s Privy Council, Jim is one of the UK’s most experienced government Ministers. Having served as a Labour MP for over two decades (1997 – 2015), Jim has held multiple Ministerial portfolios, including as a Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 until the 2010 General Election.
Jim was also previously Leader of the Scottish Labour Party and played a key role in the leadership team of the all-party Better Together campaign, touring Scotland for 100 public street meetings during the Scottish Independence Referendum.
During Labour’s time in Opposition, Jim also served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (2010 – 2013) and Shadow Secretary of State for International Development (2013 – 2014).
Jim founded Arden Strategies in 2015, and the company has expanded rapidly since. Arden aims to provide authentic advice and insights to leaders and organisations on the political and policy landscape across all four nations of the UK using the unique experience of its team of strategists and advisers drawn from the worlds of politics, government, media and business.
