Inspirational conversations with today‘s business leaders. Hear their challenges and how they overcame them, their tips to be an inspiring leader and tough lessons learnt along the way. Whether you‘re a manager leading a team, a business owner, or stepping into a leadership role, you‘ll hear practical advice and experiences that will inspire your own approach to leadership. Topics include: leading change, wellbeing in the workplace, self-leadership, authentic leadership, overcoming big chall ...
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#127 How to Achieve Innovation in Business - A World First Disrupting a Traditional Industry
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How To Achieve Innovation in Business: Disrupting a Traditional Industry In this episode, we delve into how two visionaries are transforming a highly traditional industry with a world first innovative product that promises both cost savings proven return on investment and environmental benefits. Episode Highlights: Meet the Disruptors: Our guests, …
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#126 Implementing Culture Change: Tips for Leaders to Start Today with Nick Jenkins
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----more----Culture in the workplace In this conversation, we discuss the importance of culture in the workplace and its impact on employee engagement, happiness, and business performance. What is company culture? Our guest Nick Jenkins who has 10 years of leading culture change, highlights the alarming statistics of employee unhappiness and diseng…
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#124 The Secrets of Workplace Happiness: How a Tech Founder Achieves It. With Richard Clarke
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Statistics point to only one-third of employees being happy at work.Yet there are considerable benefits to having a happy workforce. We welcome Richard Clarke to discuss how he's achieved workplace happiness. Richard is founder of the tech business Secret Source and has studied behavioural and well-being science. Having always been obsessed with th…
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#125 Transform Team Performance With 3 Critical Questions: Guest Todd Kuckkahn
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Why Revolutionising Leadership Matters andHow To Achieve It Welcome to an inspiring episode with Todd Kuckkahn, a renowned keynote speaker and leadership coach revolutionising leadership and culture. We delve into the critical aspects of communication and why many companies consistently get it wrong. Todd shares his unique approach to performance r…
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#123 CEO Mastery Unveiled: Scale Your Business With Impactful Leadership and Rockefeller Habits.
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Discover the principles and habits to triple profits, double cash flow, and 10X business valuation We're delighted to welcome Herb Cogliano, an international executive business coach with three decades of invaluable business experience. Herb shares a wealth of insights from growing a family business, navigating the challenges of scaling a business,…
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#122 How to Develop Your EQ Advantage for Leadership Success: With Joshua Freedman
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Elevate your Emotional Intelligence Capabilities and Increase Your Leadership Performance In this episode, #122, we're privileged to explore the wisdom of Joshua Freedman, a trailblazer in emotional intelligence in leadership. Joshua Freedman is not just an expert; he's a visionary with a best-selling book: At the Heart of Leadership: How to Get Re…
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#121 How To Communicate and Inspire Through Effective Presenting
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Business leaders and managers must have good communication skills and being effective at presenting is vital.Our guest, Andrea Pacini, the Founder of Ideas on Stage, has a compelling story. It led him to become a leading presentation coach and author of the best-selling book "Confident Presenter." His mission is to help business owners, leaders, an…
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#120 Elevate Your Sales Team to New Heights | Marcus A. Chan
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Welcome to another insightful episode of Lead To Succeed.Today, we're joined by Marcus A. Chan, a dynamic sales expert, and author of "6 Figure Sales Secrets." Marcus has a compelling journey from facing challenges in the sales world to becoming a top performer. Marcus didn’t think he was cut out for sales after working harder than any other sales …
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#119 Would You Turn Down Apple As A client? With guest Jacqueline Samira
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WOULD YOU SAY NO TO HAVING APPLE AS A CLIENT?That’s exactly what our podcast guest Jacqueline Samira did. Jacqueline is the founder and CEO of Howdy.com. Her company provides dedicated product-oriented developers with experience in over 100+ technologies and Jacqueline puts her team at the heart of the business. Jacqueline shares her inspiring stor…
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#118 Innovation and Execution are the Keys to Business Growth: Dominic Monkhouse
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Are you a business owner wondering why your team isn't performing? If you're frustrated by a lack of progress, it's time to listen to sound advice from guest Dominic Monkhouse. With extensive experience in growing two £30 million businesses, Dominic shares his views on accountability and leadership. We touch on topics such as how to avoid office po…
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#117 The Human Face of Leadership and Why Its Critical to Embrace it | Hortense Le Gentil
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Here’s a question for you, are your team the heroes in your business?Leadership has changed, the leader is no longer the hero, and a successful leader will energise their team and coach them to become the best they can be.Our guest Hortense Le Gentil is a world-renowned executive leadership coach, speaker, and author. Hortense has been ranked #5 on…
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#116 Enabling Your Genius with Myles Downey
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Guest, Myles Downey is the author of three business books, "Effective Modern Coaching", "Enabling Genius", and "The Enabling Manager". We dive into what enabling genius means and how to tap into our own genius as a leader, along with how to embody our fullest potential. We discuss how to avoid being frazzled at work, and the power of visualisation …
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#115 Crack The Sales Leadership Code With Kevin Thiele
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Our guest Kevin Thiele takes us through the skills required to be a successful sales leader. We discuss personal sacrifices, mental health, and the price you pay to be an outstanding leader. With extensive sales leadership experience Kevin shares what it takes to create a winning sales team including research-backed strengths top sales leaders must…
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#114 The Difference Heart-Centred Leadership Makes To Business Outcomes | Deb Crowe
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Our guest, Deb Crowe, explains how to look at leadership differently. To focus on honouring your people, to put them first and look after them, and then profits will follow. Deb Crowe is a certified professional life and leadership coach from Canada. Her work involves helping entrepreneurs, leaders, and executives to achieve heart-centred leadershi…
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#113 Be The Resilient And Joyful Leader Who Achieves More In Less Time
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Our guest, Barbara Waxman is passionate about building leaders’ personal and professional skills so they thrive with more energy and increased effectiveness. Barbara, is the founder of Odyssey Group Coaching and takes a holistic approach to helping clients lead and communicate authentically. To sustain high performance and expand their influence an…
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#112 How To Increase Your Opportunities For Success | Chuck Knabusch
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Get ready to take back control of your business and become the leader you were meant to be! In this episode, our guest and author Chuck Knabusch shares his 28 years of corporate operational experience, as well as a wealth of knowledge from his time in the Army and National Guard. Chuck gives practical insights on how to stay in control of your busi…
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#111 The Essential Ingredient To Sustainable Growth | Drew Neal
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The Essential Ingredient To Sustainable Growth Welcome to today's podcast episode where we dive into the topic of creating a valuable human exchange within an organisation. We are excited to have Drew Neal, a thought leader, and expert in breaking barriers and adaptive change, join us. Drew shares his extensive experience in creating emotionally in…
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#110 How To Create A High Performing Team | Andrew Jenkins
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What Does It Take To Create A High-Performing Team? Our guest, industry leader Andrew Jenkins provides an invaluable opportunity to gain insight into the strategies to unlock and cultivate high-performance teams in businesses. With his vast experience and knowledge, he demonstrates how to build better businesses through teamwork excellence. Busines…
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#109 Why Leadership Excellence Starts From Within | Vijay Mistri
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What does it take to be a successful leader in a world of significant change? Guest, Vijay Mistri shares his personal leadership journey and how success changed his leadership style. Vijay talks about modern leadership skills and the challenges that many leaders face. He shares practical tips from his extensive experience, which includes coaching o…
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#108 How To Captivate Your Virtual Audience | Jack Milner
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Guest Jack Milner is an expert in communication. He teaches professionals how to move and speak in such a way that captures attention and communicates their message to different audiences. But, as we know, the world has changed and many meetings, presentations, and events are now virtual. This means we have to adapt our delivery style to communicat…
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#107 | Lead With Questions And Become A Better Listener In 8 Seconds | Bob Tiede
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Bob Tiede shows us how to lead with questions Bob's view is that leadership is not so much about knowing the right answers, as it is about asking the right questions. Bob explains how one book changed his approach as a leader, from being a benevolent teller and setting direction to becoming a leader that leads with questions. Now he has written num…
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#106 | If You Don’t Let Go You Don’t Grow | With Johnny Pearce
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What can we do with the oceans of plastic on our planet? Find out how Johnny Pearce, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Oltco, has turned waste plastic including food packaging, into domestic driveways, patios, pathways, balconies, and pool surrounds. As co-founder, he has built a successful business from HQ in Cornwall and now plans to expand globall…
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#105 Leadership Insights From The Worlds Most Admired Companies
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Adrian Simpson, of Wavelength shares hugely valuable leadership insights from the world's most successful companies. Over the last 20 years, Adrian Simpson, co-founder of Wavelength, has taken leaders into the boardrooms and shop floors of globally revered, successful, and innovative companies. The purpose is to understand what makes them successfu…
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#104 | From Losing You Biggest Client To International Growth | Tajinder Banwait
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Tajinder Banwait founder and managing director of Urban Apothecary London shares her inspiring story of leading and growing a successful business. Tajinder speaks with passion about her team and the culture she has created. Her team loves working in the business so much that they don’t want to take their holidays as they feel they are missing out! …
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#103 | The Importance Of Play In Leadership | Steve Rix
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Steve Rix brings energy and passion to the importance of play in leadership. Steve asks a poignant question. Are you more likely to find the qualities of timeless energy, emotional safety, high levels of imagination, and connectivity with others, in your workplace or in the playground? Often it's the playground, and as such traits are valuable at w…
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#102 Lead Yourself First | With Jeremy Ryan Slate
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Why Leadership Starts With You Guest Jeremy Ryan Slate, the founder of Command Your Brand, talks about growing a business and the challenging aspects of leadership. Jeremy candidly shares his thoughts on the art of delegation and how challenging it can be for a business owner. You’ll enjoy his three core principles for leadership, starting with han…
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#100 | Your Leadership Mindset | With Christina Beauchemin
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Have you ever considered your negativity bias or if you react or respond? In this episode with the author, NLP Practioner, and mindset coach, Christina Beauchemin we explore the impact of mindset on leadership and team building. We also discuss: The role of observance in leadership How to create a calm and fun work atmosphere Useful NLP techniques …
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#101 | Growing A Business With A Servant Leadership Style | With John Horn
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Discover the impact of a servant leadership style on business growth John and the team have grown the business by adopting a people-centric approach, ensuring that the team is invested in the business's future success. We discuss Learning to listen to what is under the radar Why you need to be prepared to say goodbye to clients and team members who…
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#99 | The Consequences Of Fear In Business | With Mark Minukas
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The impact of fear is neglected in business, perhaps because it is considered weak to talk our fears. The impact of fear is significant, it causes procrastination and prevents innovation, it can stop us in our tracks from taking bold steps forward. Fear is a basic human emotion, causing a flight or fight response. But in the context of business, ho…
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#98 | Take Sprints For Business Growth | with Simon Severino
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Whilst I.T. and design departments are familiar with sprints, Simon explains how they can be highly effective for managing and growing a business. Simon is the author of Strategy Sprints a blueprint for business growth and a TEDx speaker. Simon recommends 7-day sprints to unblock a business bottleneck and to achieve 10X more. In this episode, he sh…
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Episode 97 | Why Your Leadership Must Be Energised | With Simon Alexander Ong
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How energised is your leadership? Does this mean being extremely energetic or slowing down? In this episode, author, keynote speaker, award-winning life and executive coach, Simon Alexander Ong, explains why it's both. Simon's view is that an outstanding leader is a great coach. Simon refers to Project Oxygen where Google determined what makes a ma…
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Episode 96 | The Power Of Story Telling In Leadership | With Richard Newman
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Richard Newman, founder of Body Talk and author of You Were Born To Speak, shares his leadership experiences and the power of business storytelling for impact and engagement. Many of Richard's clients are leaders who are expected to improve their communication skills. This could be to inspire their team, meet with important clients, be an ambassado…
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Episode 95 | Executive Loneliness | With Nick Jonsson
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Guest Nick Jonsson, author, co-founder, and managing director of EGN shares his views on leadership and executive loneliness. We discuss the smiling depression felt by executives and experienced by Nick himself. This is when you appear happy and successful at work but inside it's a very different situation. In his book, Executive Loneliness, Nick s…
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Episode 94 | Growth Happens At The Bottom Of The Pit | With Patrick Cootes
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Leadership lessons from Patrick Cootes are firmly rooted in humility and in acknowledging the skills of others. Patrick has transitioned his career from teaching to tech, as Head of Product at Mindstone Learning. He firmly believes in earning the respect of his team and having a culture that allows for fearless feedback to each other. To help achie…
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Episode 93 | Why leadership has to be personal to be effective.| With Paul Glover
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Our guest Paul Glover, author, and no B.S. Work Development & Resilience Coach has challenging views on the future of management. Paul considers the role of managers to become extinct with the advancement of AI, and he’s pleased about that. Find out why Paul feels strongly about this, his rationale, and the future he sees for leadership. His forthr…
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Episode 92 | Business Leadership Under Fire | With Pepyn Dinandt.
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We can all cite examples where business leadership has come under fire. Understanding the reasons behind it, such as why it happened, and how to avoid it, is the topic of our conversation with Pepyn Dinandt. Pepyn has 30 years of experience in leading the restructuring and transformation of companies in challenging situations, he is the author of L…
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Episode 91 | Disrupting a traditional market with an unorthodox leadership style | Benjamin Lancaster
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Benjamin Lancaster, co-founder, and owner at VCL Vintners is continuing to disrupt the traditional market of whisky cask investment. In just 13 years his company has around £80 million pounds worth of whisky under management. With a small team of 13, Ben describes his leadership style as unorthodox. Ben's determination and steely-minded approach, s…
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Episode 90 | Will Your Change Initiative Pay Off? | With Brendon Baker
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When it comes to leading change, our guest, Brendon Baker is a leading expert in the field, having consulted on over $10 billion in key transformation projects. His mission is to help change leaders drive real value under the mantra of keeping it simple. In this episode, we discuss the fundamental questions that must be asked when leading change. I…
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Episode 89 | The Need For Diplomacy In Effective Communication | With David Klaasen
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Clear communication is so much more than what you say. Our guest David Klaasen has transitioned his career from Michelin Star restaurant Chef to Leadership Development and Executive Coach. His Clarity Matrix considers 4 four key areas; people clarity, people performance, business clarity, and business performance. One of the key topics we discuss i…
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Episode 88 | Creating Psychological Safety | With Jason Marc Campbell
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In a new era of Leadership, our guest, Jason Marc Campbell talks about the importance of creating psychological safety for teams and the role of the leader as coach. We live in turbulent times, and the importance of creating the right environment at work continues to be a high priority for top-performing leaders. In this episode, we take a deeper d…
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Episode 87 | Does being an authentic leader improve financial results? | With Amanda Coulson
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Find out if being an authentic leader and showing a degree of vulnerability brings improvement in financial performance. Amanda Coulson founded her successful business over twenty years ago and has learnt a lot about leadership during that time. In her early days of leadership, she was told that vulnerability was not a good trait to show. When she …
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Episode 86 | How Not To Lead | With guest Nicolas De Swetschin
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How A Poor Leadership Experience Shaped Nicholas's ApproachNicholas leads remote sales teams and provides practical leadership tips on this. He shares what he learnt from an unsatisfactory leadership experience, and how he is using that to be a better leader. We also discuss; Setting team expectations Correlations between a team spirit in sport and…
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Episode 85 | Grow A Saleable Business | With Michelle Seiler Tucker
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Start with the end in mind when launching your business This is the advice of Michelle Seiler Tucker, a merger and acquisition specialist who has sold over 500 businesses. Michelle considers leadership to be everything when it comes to growing a business and a good leader gets to really know their team. With Michelle's extensive experience of helpi…
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Episode 84 | Top Tips For Leading Remote Teams | With Brett Trembly
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What does it take to successfully lead a remote team, regardless of whether you employ that team directly or not? Brett has a passion to help managers hire teams, delegate, and be a great person to work with. We talk about the challenges of leading a growing business, the importance of having an earn it mindset, and why leaders should focus on thei…
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Episode 83 | Leading Teams - What You Need To Know | With Matt Schlegel
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Leading Teams - what makes a successful team for outstanding performance? Our guest is Matt Schlegel, author of Teamwork 9.0. We discuss the importance of knowing your team and their personality dynamics to achieve high levels of team resilience and performance. However, as Matt explains the starting point to leading successful teams is having a hi…
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Episode 82 | Neuroscience - What Can It Teach Us About Leadership? | With Tom Flatau
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Our guest, Tom Flatau, is an accredited brain and behavioural specialist and CEO of Twi. Tom works with business leaders and teams globally to improve business performance by understanding how we can change our brain to become more effective leaders. Tom’s interest and understanding of neuroscience started at an early age when he was told that his …
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Episode 81 | Embrace Failure, It Is Crucial To Success - with Tamer Shahin
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There is a revolution in business, which is turning on its head, the old adage of getting it right first time, to getting it wrong first time. Instead, fail fast and learn from it. Our guest Tamer Shahin has an incredible business story to share. He has experienced growing a business to over $100 million and losing it all overnight, and then becomi…
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Episode 80 | How Huge Success Emerged From Failure - With Reg Rix
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Reg Rix is the co-founder and CEO of CarFinance 247. We hear his extremely down-to-earth and pragmatic approach to leadership, and growing a business. Reg has experienced many business challenges, including facing the responsibility of putting a previous business into administration. This didn’t stop him; he used that experience as massive learning…
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Episode 79 | What Makes An Outstanding and Inspiring Leader?
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With over 70 inspiring and successful leaders sharing their insights, thoughts, and experiences on our podcast, we summarise the key themes, messages, and characteristics that make them successful and outstanding leaders. From creating a vision, authenticity, emotional intelligence, decision making, leading in challenging times to adapting to the s…
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Episode 78 | Curve Bender Business Relationships - with David Nour
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Our guest David Nour is a top thought leader on business relationships, he shares how Curve Bender relationships can dramatically alter your growth trajectory. A prolific author, David talks about the 15 forces that are reshaping the world and heavily influencing what we do. Join us to find out why you should run fast in the opposite direction from…
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