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Discover the challenges of leading through uncertainty. Jude Jennison of Leaders by Nature interviews CEOs and leaders in organisations on their experiences of leading through uncertainty. www.judejennison.com
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Exploring the intersection between technology, humanity and leadership. This podcast features interviews with Jude Jennison and technology leaders on how technology impacts our lives and who we need to be leaders in the future to take advantage of technology and use it for our highest good. How do you use technology to enhance emotional connection and make a difference in the world? How do you ensure it does not create greater disconnection?
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107: Donna O’Toole on a strategic approach to winning awards
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Send us a Text Message. Donna O'Toole is the Founder of August Recognition, a business dedicated to helping other businesses to win awards as part of their marketing strategy. Donna and her team advise on the strategic timing of award entries, leveraging past successes, and aligning award participation with business goals. Donna also talks about he…
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106: Eman Al-Hillawi on piloting her way through business adversity and recovery
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Send us a Text Message. Eman Al-Hillawi is the CEO of Entec Si, a business change management cuonsultancy. Eman discusses the challenges her business faced during the pandemic, including the financial strain and the emotional impact of redundancies. She reflects on the importance of relationships and the need to balance business growth with nurturi…
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105: Chad E Foster on resilience and blind ambition
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Send us a Text Message. Chad Foster is a keynote speaker who became blind at the age of 21 due to an eye condition, retinitis pigmentosa. Chad had a dream as he was growing up to be in the medical field but had to change this due to his eyesight and ended up going to Harvard Business School and became the first executive to graduate from their lead…
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#107: Donna O’Toole on a strategic approach to winning awards
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Donna O'Toole is the Founder of August Recognition, a business dedicated to helping other businesses to win awards as part of their marketing strategy. Donna and her team advise on the strategic timing of award entries, leveraging past successes, and aligning award participation with business goals. Donna also talks about her own challenges as a bu…
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#106: Eman Al-Hillawi on piloting her way through business adversity and recovery
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Eman Al-Hillawi is the CEO of Entec Si, a business change management consultancy. Eman discusses the challenges her business faced during the pandemic, including the financial strain and the emotional impact of redundancies. She reflects on the importance of relationships and the need to balance business growth with nurturing the team. The conversa…
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#105: Chad E Foster on resilience and blind ambition
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Chad Foster is a keynote speaker who became blind at the age of 21 due to an eye condition, retinitis pigmentosa. Chad had a dream as he was growing up to be in the medical field but had to change this due to his eyesight and ended up going to Harvard Business School and became the first executive to graduate from their leadership programme. I feel…
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#104: Fabrice Desmarescaux on How Retreats in Nature Help Leaders Navigate Uncertainty
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Fabrice Desmarescaux is a Partner at McKinsey and works with CEO’s and their teams to increase in their performance and effectiveness. He also creates the next generation of leaders working with team members who are not yet on the executive committee. He talks about the benefits of retreats for his clients and how slowing down and being in nature c…
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#103 Daniel Astarita on overcoming adversity and innovation in retail
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Daniel Astarita is the Managing Director of Kesslers, a business that he bought when it went into administration. He’s also MD of a London-based mannequin business, having bought the assets from another business that had also gone into liquidation. He explains how he took a risk to run the business in a different way. Instead of chasing revenue and…
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#102: Wendy Dean on leading change without fear
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Send us a Text Message. Wendy Dean is the CEO of Strategi Solutions, a business consultancy offering services around people, creative and marketing. She talks about the anxiety that comes when thrust into the uncertainty of major change and how she looks for opportunities and generates new ideas to turn uncertainty into certainty. Wendy reminds us …
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#101: Todd on quitting alcohol and transforming his health
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Send us a Text Message. Graham Todd, Co-founder of Spaghetti Agency, a digital marketing company talks about his transformative journey from struggling with alcohol to adopting a healthier lifestyle. He explains the moment he realised how excessive his drinking habits were and how that realisation led him to quit alcohol. Todd explains the positive…
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#100: 100th episode of Leading through uncertainty podcast
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Send us a Text Message. Show Notes Leading Through Uncertainty podcast celebrates its 100th episode and this time I’m talking about my journey with uncertainty and why we need different skills. I share stories of how I came to talk about uncertainty, how I have led through uncertainty, some of the challenges I’ve faced and how I’ve overcome them. I…
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#99: Julie Chakraverty on using HR tech for employee feedback
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Julie Chakraverty is the founder of Runway, a platform that facilitates employee feedback in organisations. Julie explains how Runway allows employees to voice concerns either anonymously or openly, ensuring a safe space for dialogue. She explains that the platform is predominantly used by companies undergoing change, with common themes around orga…
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#98: Suzi Archer on creating a people-led culture using HR technology
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Suzi Archer is the Staff Director at Huler.io, a fast-growing HRtech company. Suzi’s creative approach to HR policies and procedures has resulted in a more human interaction with employees at Huler. By ripping apart the employee handbook, she's created a culture where people can be themselves both inside and outside of work. Suzi shows that by prio…
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#97 Anne Shaw on West Midlands transport and leading change
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Send us a Text Message. Anne Shaw is the Executive Director for Transport For West Midlands. She talks about the challenge of managing a variety of stakeholder groups, from users to transport providers, the government, as well as her own team. She explains that change can be positive or negative for people by how well we engage and include them in …
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#96 Ann Hiatt on failing to learn, insatiable curiosity and psychological safety
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Send us a Text Message. Ann Hiatt is a Leadership Strategy Consultant working with scale-up companies to create rapid growth. Ann talks about personal and professional change and the skills needed to navigate the uncertainty of change. She advocates a need for an “insatiable curiosity” and draws on her experience of working with Jeff Bezos at Amazo…
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#95 Gillian Bailey from Maintel on hybrid working and stabilising change
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Send us a Text Message. Gillian Bailey is the Operations Director for Maintel, a technology organisation. We talk about the backdrop of the pandemic, as well as economic and political uncertainty and how all of these impact employees as well as business. Gillian explains how Maintel is handling hybrid working and the challenge of balancing the need…
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#94 Tony Langham on reputation management and changing behaviour
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Send us a Text Message. Tony Langham is the Executive Chair and co-founder of Lansons, a reputation management and public relations firm based in London and New York. We discuss the importance of approaching reputation management as the way people perceive each other and companies. With an increased focus on ESG, Tony explains how companies need to…
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#93 Tara Rule on curiosity, coaching and positive mindset
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Send us a Text Message. Tara Rule is the Senior Director of Commercial Strategy Go to Market and Operations at Adobe, responsible for looking at how Adobe make smart commercial decisions. Tara manages to juggle her full-time role as a director in a fast-paced global business with launching a leadership programme, being a working mum as well as a pr…
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#92 Dr Mersha Aftab on design management and emotional intelligence
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Send us a Text Message. Dr Mersha Aftab is the co-host director for MA Design Management courses at Birmingham City University. She specialises in design leadership within large organisations, exploring how designers design and lead strategically in business. We discuss how designers have a voice and a platform to give them the agency to lead even …
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24: Josh Winfield on technology, talent and innovation
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Josh Winfield is Head of Talent Visa for Tech Nation. Josh works closely with the government and tech businesses to support the immigration of tech talent to drive growth in UK tech businesses. I know Josh from a few years ago when he coached me on the Natwest Entrepreneur Accelerator programme. Josh is smart, forward-thinking and innovative and he…
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Jane Fallon is Head of Digital for the Midlands for a consultancy firm called Methods that creates human-centred design for the public and private sectors. She talks about the need to start with understanding the needs of the user in order to create digital services that work for humans. Our use of digital is growing exponentially so it’s great to …
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22: Roland Emmans on the uncertainty of disruptive change
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Roland Emmans is the UK Tech Sector Head for HSBC. Roland talks about the uncertainty of disruptive change. He explains that humans are evolving and developing new skills to lead in a digital age, without being technologists themselves. Roland shares his three key skills for the future of leadership and explains the importance of being able to coll…
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#91 Phill Elston on inspiring teamwork, collaboration and radical change
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Phill Elston is Operations Director of Brompton Bicycle and is responsible for leading the manufacturing organisation in the production of the famous Brompton bicycles. Phill joined the company because his values were aligned, and he felt able to express himself. He talks about the importance of being driven not being at the expense of having joy a…
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#90 Sarah Foster on confidence and the environment
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Sarah Foster is the Managing Director of Comply Direct, an environmental consultancy and compliance business. She is also the author of Yabba Dabba Do It, a book on self-confidence. Sarah shares her three steps to self-confidence – Prepare, Do and Review. We also talk about the environment, of course, Sarah’s business is based on it but we also dis…
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21: Chris Blackwell on leadership, technology and the pace of change
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Chris Blackwell is the Founder and CEO of Purpose Led Performance, a consultancy business that works with medium-sized businesses on leadership, growth, performance and sustainability. He is also the co-lead for a tech accelerator, helping technology startups scale and grow as part of Birmingham Tech. Chris is honest about not being a tech native b…
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#89 Rich Horth on the great resignation and recruitment
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Rich Horth is Operations Director for Adecco, a large recruitment agency with 80 offices throughout the UK. Rich talks about the great resignation, how that creates a candidate-led market and what that means for employers. With the highest number of vacancies ever seen, Rich talks about the importance for organisations to look after their employees…
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20: Mike Bristow on technology disrupting the property investment market
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Mike Bristow is CEO of Crowdproperty, a company using technology to disrupt the property investment market. Mike and his two co-founders were frustrated with how long it took to get investment for property development projects so they created a technology solution to resolve the problem. He explains how they are using technology to drive disruptive…
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#88 Cathy Brown on purpose, connection and communication
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Cathy Brown is the Chief Executive of i-SE, a social enterprise that provides business support services for social enterprises in the West Midlands. Cathy brings a wealth of experience from both the commercial sector as well as social enterprises and social movements. We discuss the importance of having a strong sense of purpose in an organisation …
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#87 Bella Lewis-Smith on setting up an employee owned business
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Send us a Text Message. Bella Lewis-Smith is the founder and MD of Salad, a design and digital agency based in Dorset in the UK. Bella talks about the process of selling her business to become a 100% employee-owned business and the challenges she faced along the way. She explains how selling the business into an employee-owned trust enabled her to …
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#86 Jane Huntington on agile working and technological change
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Send us a Text Message. Jane Huntington is the Head of Application Development for Guide Dogs. I’ve worked with Jane and her team and I have some understanding of the complexity and volume of technological change that they are leading. Jane talks about using an agile way of working to lead change, continually taking the next step forward, reviewing…
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#85 Sope Agbelusi on inclusivity, race conversations and authenticity
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Sope Agbelusi is a leadership consultant and coach and founder of the business Mindset Shift and the podcast host of Everyday Leadership. We discuss the need for courage and vulnerability in order to be authentic and have an inclusive workplace. Sope outlines the steps needed to create an inclusive workplace and is clear that the conversation is ju…
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