In this episode of Unlock Your Leadership, Dr Gary Crotaz speaks with Hortense le Gentil — executive leadership coach and author of The Unlocked Leader: Dare to Free Your Mind and Discover Your Best Self. Hortense shares her profound insight into what it means to “unlock” as a leader — to recognise and release the inner narratives, fears, and expectations that limit our authenticity and connection. She and Gary explore how courage, empathy, and self-awareness create the space for genuine transformation — and why true leadership starts not with strategy, but with humanity. Through moving stories and practical wisdom, Hortense reveals how to move from control to trust, from fear to freedom, and from leading with the mind to leading with the heart. It’s a graceful, powerful conversation about what happens when you stop performing leadership — and start becoming the leader you really are. Originally recorded for The Unlock Moment podcast.