“Inside the Decision” is a podcast about what leadership really feels like when the pressure is immediate, the stakes are high, and everyone is counting on you.
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It is about the story you tell—internally to yourself and externally to others—when experience, instinct, and responsibility collide. When logic wrestles with intuition. When innovation challenges tradition. When everything rides on what you do next.
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Hard decisions don’t just appear. Leaders forge them over years of experience, failures, insight, and luck. Inside the Decision explores the path that leads up to defining moments: the values that guide them, the lessons that shape them, the pressures that frame them, and the methods—both explicit and intuitive—that drive them.
This show is for leaders who want to lead not just with skill, but with soul, clarity, and narrative power.

Alex McPhail is the CEO of The EXA Consulting Group, widely regarded as Canada’s premier firm specializing in capture strategy and complex proposal leadership. With a professional history that spans across four decades with multi-billion-dollar pursuits in the defence, aerospace, and advanced technology sectors, Alex is no stranger to high-pressure, high-consequence projects that shape the futures of companies, industries, and national capabilities.