Why Modern Leadership Requires an Energy-Led Approach

This exclusive interview with Bianca Best was conducted by Tabish Ali of the Motivational Speakers Agency.

Business leaders are operating in an environment defined by sustained uncertainty, rising performance pressure, and accelerating burnout. Traditional productivity models built on constant output are increasingly proving ineffective, forcing organisations to reassess how impact, leadership, and performance are truly sustained over time.

Bianca Best is a female inspirational speaker known for her work on energy-led performance and integrity-driven leadership. Her perspective challenges conventional push culture, focusing instead on how individuals and organisations can operate in alignment with natural energy rhythms, values, and decision-making frameworks that support both commercial outcomes and human sustainability.

In this exclusive interview with the Female Motivational Speakers Agency, Bianca Best discusses why energy is the real currency of impact, what it means to build profitable businesses with integrity, and how leaders can help teams remain grounded and effective in an era of constant disruption.

Question 1. Why has energy become one of the most critical drivers of sustainable performance and impact in modern organisations?

Bianca Best: “Modern society’s created this wonky, distorted relationship with productivity where we’re chasing perpetual output and we’re breaking ourselves along the way.

“So my work goes against the push culture and invites individuals to tune back into natural energetic rhythms and energy cycles, to learn how to expand, to understand what depletes energy, and to feel satisfied that actually we can create all the energy we need to achieve everything that we want to achieve in life.”

Question 2. How can businesses balance authenticity and integrity with commercial performance and long-term profitability?

Bianca Best: “Well, it comes down to operating in the business world in true integrity. I believe we will never individually and collectively feel fulfilled unless we’re honouring our own integrity.

“When we tune in to our values and we’re honouring our values in terms of our behaviour, our relationships, our decisions, and how we run our businesses, then we tend to create more positive results.

“It impacts the bottom line as much as it impacts morale and productivity, and it all comes back down to integrity.”

Question 3. In an era of constant disruption, how can leaders and teams stay grounded, focused, and effective under ongoing uncertainty?

Bianca Best: “Well, we need to recognise that uncertainty is the new norm. It is not going to change. There will be perpetual disruption, and change is the new constant.

“The way we can ground ourselves through all of this uncertainty is to firstly learn how to manage our own energy, tune back into our natural bioindividual rhythms, form a different relationship with time that isn’t chronological but is more around flow and focus time, and then step into a place of action with integrity.

“When we master those three dimensions of self and work, we find ourselves able to perform, to produce, and to be happy.”

Question 4. What core message do you want leaders and organisations to take away from your work on energy, productivity, and performance?

Bianca Best: “I really hope I inspire a sense of pragmatic optimism, because I really believe that life shouldn’t be the struggle that it is today. None of us have ever been taught at school how to self-manage in this realm of frenetic productivity and this push culture that the world has normalised today.

“I hope I can inspire a sense of, “This is how to manage it. This is how I can saw. It doesn’t need to be a struggle, and I’m ready, motivated, and optimistic about the future.”