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9th Oct 2026

Confrontcrastination: The Conversation Everyone’s Having Except You

There’s a difficult conversation you know you need to have. You’ve thought about it, rehearsed it, maybe drafted the message six times, and possibly discussed it with everyone except the actual person involved. Welcome to Confrontcrastination, where avoiding the conversation doesn’t make the problem disappear, it usually just gives it time to get bigger.

In this episode of Leadruption, Emma Last explores:

  • What Confrontcrastination is: postponing a difficult conversation until it becomes significantly more difficult.
  • Why we can spend so much time preparing, rehearsing, drafting, and seeking other people’s opinions instead of simply speaking to the person concerned.
  • How avoidance can allow resentment to build, patterns to continue, and a relatively straightforward conversation to turn into a much bigger process.
  • Why having conversations earlier, more clearly, and more safely matters for trust and leadership.
  • Two questions worth asking yourself: What conversation are you preparing beautifully for instead of actually having? And what is your avoidance costing the person you haven’t spoken to yet?

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Leadruption
Ever wondered whether people experience your leadership the way you think they do?

Leadruption explores the funny, frustrating, and occasionally uncomfortable contradictions hiding inside modern leadership.
Hosted by Emma Last, Informed Leadership consultant, People Director and speaker. This is leadership development with less corporate nonsense and a little more humanity.
Each short episode explores one idea, behaviour, or Leadruptionary word, from difficult conversations and decision-making to trust, culture, AI, authority, and the everyday habits that quietly shape how people experience us.
It’s for leaders of businesses, people, communities, and movements who want sharper judgement, stronger trust, and a more informed way to lead.
Expect humour, disruption, honest reflection, and the occasional “Oh heck. I do that.”
New 5–6 minute podshots every weekday morning.

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Emma Last

Emma Last is a Informed Leadership Consultant , People Director and Speaker with over 25 years’ experience supporting leaders build results with responsibility. The founder of Leadruption, creator of the Informed Leadership Standards™ and developer of The Say-Do Gap.

Before founding Progressive Minds in 2018, Emma held senior leadership roles and spent more than two decades working across people development, leadership, business development, and organisational change.

Because leadership isn't what we intend, Leadership is what people experience. If we strengthen Results With responsibility we will build trusted authority.

25+ years in leadership and people strategy | 300+ clients | DfE quality-assured work | 40+ media features