Ep34: What Leaders can Learn from Teachers

In this episode of Rethink: The Podcast, Nicki Hambleton explores what leaders can learn from teachers.

Drawing on her own experiences in the classroom, including a tough period working with disengaged students, Nicki reflects on the parallels between classrooms and boardrooms — and why disengagement looks different, but feels the same, in both.

Nicki highlights five powerful teaching strategies for leaders that can transform the way meetings, workshops, and presentations are run using visual thinking in the workplace to engage teams in collective problem-solving.

Backed by cognitive science and illustrated with real-world examples from her facilitation work, Nicki demonstrates how these simple classroom strategies for business can shift meetings from passive listening to active collaboration. Whether you’re an educator, a leader, or simply someone tired of “death by meeting,” this episode offers practical tools to bring clarity, curiosity, and engagement into every conversation.