Welcome to "Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation", the podcast where we dive deep into the art of effective leadership. I'm your host, Prof Martin Parr, a seasoned professional who has dedicated years to empowering senior leaders in achieving their business goals. Today, I'm thrilled to share my expertise as a systems thinker, guiding you on a transformative journey for your business, charity, or pet project. Throughout my career, I've developed a passion for complexity and ...
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Wales. Sport. Music. And not always in that order...Play For The Dragon is a new show where Martin, Sam, Lewis and some guests when they can get them in discuss all things Welsh sport, from football to MMA to rugby, boxing, motorsport and beyond, with a bit of music on the side to keep things interesting...Like a great man once said, “we play for the shirt and the dragon, we give everything we’ve got. That is just Wales.”To keep up to date will all the news from the podcast follow @PlayFrThe ...
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Each week host Ibarionex Perello brings in-depth, intimate and thoughtful conversations with photographers on living a photographic life. A welcome alternative to gear talk, the show provides insight and inspiration to anyone who has a passion and love for photography. A must listen.
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You are becoming someone. Question is, are you becoming someone you are proud of? At the end of the day, every man wants to feel proud of who he sees in the mirror. That's why we exist. Becoming Men is a road map for the masculine journey. We empower and equip good men to become the epic men God created them to be. Previous podcast guests include John Eldredge, Gary Thomas, Joseph Warren, Allen Parr, Dr. Joe Martin, Ryan Michler, Jason Vallotton, Jerrad Lopes, Dr. Billy Alsbrooks and more! S ...
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Welcome to Cru, a wine industry podcast. Every Monday, we feature in-depth interviews with the legends and disruptors in the wine industry. Whether you're a seasoned sommelier, a brand new business owner, winemaker with many vintages under your belt, or just starting your journey in the industry, you won't want to miss a single episode. Have the best minds in the wine business whispering their secrets and insights directly into your ear holes. Guests include Raj Parr, Steve Matthiasson, Esth ...
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I'm delighted today to be joined by Professor Jo Meehan. Jo is the Director for the Centre of Sustainable Business and is also Professor of Responsible Procurement at the University of Liverpool’s Management School. Jo previously worked for a chemical company and developed a keen interest in the power of organisations, sustainability and the enviro…
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Today I am thrilled to talk with Wayne Turmel who has been writing about how to develop communication and leadership skills for almost 26 years. Wayne has taught and consulted at Fortune 500 companies and startups around the world and is an expert in remote working. We talk about how business leaders can get the best from staff who are working remo…
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Mikko Takkunen is a photo editor at The New York Times’s Foreign desk, where he spent more than five years between 2016 and 2021 in Hong Kong as the desk’s Asia photo editor. He began taking these photographs in early 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and continued until the summer of 2021 when he left Hong Kong. Resources Mikko Takkunen W…
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Ivan McClellan is a photojournalist and designer based in Portland, Oregon. His work reveals marginalized aspects of black culture and challenges broad assumptions and myths about racial identity in America. In 2015, photographer Ivan McClellan attended the Roy LeBlanc Invitational in Oklahoma, the country’s longest-running Black rodeo, at the invi…
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Today I am delighted to bring you a podcast from Troldhaugen near Bergen in Norway, the former home of the composer Edvard Grieg. I am talking with Johannes Holtmon who is the Musical Curator of the museum and we consider what we can learn in business from the enduring legacy of the incredible and timeless music of Edvard Grieg.…
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For over 40 years, Jay Silverman has excelled as a leading Director, Producer, and Photographer specializing in award-winning films, television, digital, and print campaigns. Jay’s narrative films have been awarded numerous Best Feature and Audience Awards at festivals nationwide. His current dramatic feature ‘Camera’, stars Golden Globe, Emmy, and…
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Don't Accept the Either/Or - The Power of Integrative Thinking
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Today I will be considering why you shouldn't accept the either/or with the power of integrative thinking. A concept derived by strategy advisor and author Roger Martin, integrative thinking is a quality that is shared throughout numerous inspirational leaders to make the most effective decisions. I explore the challenges of adopting integrative th…
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The Challenges of Leading Third Sector Organisations
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Today, I am delighted to welcome my guest Kelly Jennings-Robbins. Kelly is the Executive Director of Charity Mentors Oxfordshire, board director of IAPMD and a fundraising consultant. With nearly 20 years working in the private sector and educational publishing, in recent years Kelly has transitioned into the third sector. We reflect on the unique …
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Reflections on the Systems Thinking Apprenticeship
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Today I'm delighted to be joined by Elise Grint, who is the first person to pass the new Level 7 Systems Thinking Apprenticeship in the UK and will be opening up about what it was like to study within the apprenticeship and what systems thinking brings to her career. Elisse has a degree in project management but started her earlier career off as a …
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Petronella Lugemwa is a storyteller, speaker, educator, and Creative Director of Petronella Photography – an award-winning destination wedding and family photography studio based out of the New York area. She specializes in helping multicultural, interracial, or mixed couples celebrate their love in a modern way and believes that what makes you dif…
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Managing risks in the external labour market
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Today I am delighted to chat with the founder of Red Wizard, Jules Barrow Reed and her business partner Colin Yoshoka Smith. We will be exploring the challenges we face in the external labour market and how we can best manage these risks. Jules talks about educating managers, highlighting that de-risking business through education is a first step.…
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Governing Strategic Systems: Excelling in complex environments
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I'm delighted to welcome Mark Baker for a second podcast exploring governing strategic systems. Mark talks about balancing the conversation at senior levels between risk and opportunity. Practical application of foresight and linking this with organisational purpose. We talk about methods and applications for anticipating outcomes of decisions. Doe…
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Martin Parr CBE (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist, and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects, which take an intimate, satirical, and anthropological look at aspects of modern life. He particularly documents the social classes of England and, more broadly, the wealth of the Western wor…
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Establishing Healthy Conversations About Risk
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Today I am very happy to be joined by Mark Baker. Mark is a scholar practitioner who has links into industry, academia, commerce. Mark also runs his own consulting business. Mark talks about his journey into systems consultancy. Mark has spent a lot of his career solving complex problems for large companies and international businesses. Mark talks …
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An antidote to organizational inefficiency
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Today I am talking to Mary-Beth Hosking, who is a global CIO working in the CEO space. Mary-Beth’s new book is Not Another Digital Transformation which looks at how organisations can really do well, about how they can maintain the pace and efficiency of a startup as they grow. Transformation isn’t just about going digital. Transformation could be a…
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Today I am talking to Benjamin Taylor who is Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy and Managing Partner of Red Quadrant. I asked Benjamin about what led him into consultancy and we talk about his first job as coordinator of a youth development program, aiming to fill places on exciting expeditions, which would have been more …
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Alex Kilbee has over 20 years of professional photography experience. He received his formal education in South Africa at the prestigious Pretoria Technikon Photography School. He runs The Photographic Eye, one of the most respected photography YouTube channels. Resources Alex Kilbee’s The Photographic Eye YouTube Channel Alex Kilbee’s Instagram We…
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Helping People to Find a Way though Complexity using Systems Thinking
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In this episode I talk to Houda Boulahbel about her journey towards finding ways of dealing with complex projects. For people who are new to this area there is always the difficulty of where do you start when the problems that you see are complex and the systems methods take time to master? It all feels overwhelming. Houda has founded the Institute…
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Creating Data Driven Change in our Public Sector
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I this episode I am delighted to continue my conversation with Adam Townsend, founder of Viewit DataLabs Limited. Today we look beyond the data and consider the drivers for improving patient outcomes in hospital. We consider why is the system driven away from improving patient outcomes before people get to the hospital. One of the metrics that we t…
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Jesse Lenz is a self-taught photographer and multidisciplinary artist. As an illustrator he has created images for the most well-respected publications around the world, including TIME, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many others. He is the founder and director of Charcoal Book Club, Charcoal Press, and the Chico Hot Sprin…
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Getting to the truth: What is Going on with our Public Services and What Motivates these Behaviours?
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There is a lot of discussion about what is happening with our public services, a lot of newspaper columns are dedicated to attention grabbing headlines, but in this episode we dig into what is really going on. I am very pleased to introduce Adam Townsend, founder of Viewit DataLabs Limited. We talk about what the data really tells us, and from the …
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Adding Value using Project, Programme and Portfolio Management
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Today I am very privileged to be joined by Lindsay Scott and Eileen Roden who are co-founders of the House of PMO, a professional body for PMO professionals working to support Project, Programme and Portfolio Management (P3M). We talk about the need to brigade multiple projects underneath a programme level, the ways that portfolio management can en…
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Cutting through complexity with human centric data
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Today I am joined by Donnie MacNicol who is a director of Team Animation LTD. Donnie is an advisor to the UK Major Projects portfolio and has led an innovative approach to cutting through the complexity with human centric data. Donnie talks about the challenges that people face in a transformation activity and how it is important to get underneath …
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Encouraging and Empowering Change in times of Complexity
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Today I am thrilled to introduce Suzana Barbosa as my guest. Suzana encourages people to change in her work as a facilitator of a popular method known as Psych-K, which aims to change limiting beliefs – things that people are usually unaware of and limit or hold them back. Suzana talks about her own journey of change and her experience of complex s…
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Getting public services back on track: Why do we so often blame the wrong people for system wide failings?
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Welcome back to the Evolving Enterprises podcast. I have just returned having spent some time with my family at Easter. In almost every consultancy assignment I have worked on people usually start by blaming the wrong people for the situation. Why is this? I will look at what drives people to do this and how this helps us to improve our public serv…
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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational p…
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Elinor Carucci (born 1971) is an Israeli American photographer and educator living in New York City. She is noted for her intimate portraits of her family's lives. She has published four monographs: Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013), and Midlife (2019). She teaches at the in New York. Shortly after RBG’s passing in September 20…
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Using systems thinking to build an Auto Consultant: Initial Planning Work
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Working from the approach that I suggested in the previous episode, Sophie Jackson and I work on planning the early stages of the Auto Consultant project. We look at how we can structure a complex business problem so that we can find a way forward using a systems approach.By Martin Parr
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Barbara Peacock is a photographer and director living in Portland, Maine. Since having started American Bedroom in 2016, she has won the Getty Editorial Grant, the Women Photograph/Getty Grant, three LensCulture Awards, four Top 50 Critical Mass Awards, and was named one of the Top 100 Photographers in America 2020. American Bedroom is an unfiltere…
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In this episode I look at how systems thinking get help to deal with a complex and unbounded problem. I look at the ways that we can view the problem and the different stakeholders that are involved. This leads on to next week’s episode in which we will apply some systems thinking approaches to structure a business problem.…
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On this episode of The Becoming Men Podcast, Ray De La Nuez sheds light on the common struggles men face in achieving success and provides two practical steps that you can take to begin on your own success journey. Want to meet with Ray One-on-One on a FREE coaching call? Click here to book our Zoom Call! Check out MasterMyPur…
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The rise of Systems Thinking within the UK
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Today I will talk about the rise of systems thinking and how an increase in demand for systems thinking and increase in supply of systems staff has changed the way in which complex projects are delivered in the UK. This change has been gradual and there is a big difference from when I started using systems thinking 20 years ago. Now systems thinkin…
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Nick Carver is a working photographer and photography instructor based in Southern California with over eighteen years shooting experience and a professional career spanning more than a decade. Although his teaching and commercial work hinges primarily on digital photography, his passion is fueled by a love for analog film and creating fine art pri…
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Enabling Strategic Decision Making with Operational Research
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Today I am joined by Seb Hargreaves, the Executive Director of the Operational Research Society (ORS). Seb talks about the recent highlights in the journey of supporting strategic decision making using scientific methods. There is great news. Some of the society’s journals are becoming open access, meaning that it will be much easier for busy profe…
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Finding your place in a complex business landscape
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I am so pleased to welcome Orian Mendes a business development manager with a vast experience of evolving businesses in Europe and Africa. Orian has worked in engineering, publishing and the clothing industry. We talk about what makes a business grow, how businesses evolve to match market need and the continual pushing and pulling of demand in the …
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I am delighted to welcome Ani Magill as my guest. Ani has provided inspirational leadership as CEO of a growing Multi Academy Trust, and in her previous roles as head teacher and “super head", turning around failing schools. Ani's journey as a transformational leader in education illuminates invaluable lessons for CEOs and aspiring leaders across s…
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Robbie Quinn is an award-winning, New York–based commercial photographer specializing in environmental portraits. His work, which has brought him to more than a dozen countries, speaks to current issues, including race, immigration, gender identity, and sexual orientation, with an emphasis on promoting diversity and inclusion. In a world where stor…
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Does Systems Thinking work for everything?
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Today we look at the important topic of Systems Thinking. Is it useful for most problems and why? What does systems thinking do to help us move complex project forward? Hope does it help us manage risks and opportunities?By Martin Parr
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The Post Office Horizon System: The biggest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history
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In the UK the Post Office is being investigated after the system that it introduced to 18,000 branches in the 1990s was found to be faulty and did not report the correct figures. Between 1999 and 2015 the Post Office prosecuted 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses. Another 283 cases were brought by other bodies including the Crown Prosecution…
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Now you see it … now you don’t – A journey into Metrics and Business Performance – how to use metrics well
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I am very happy to welcome Professor Mike Bourne, who is well known to anyone in the field of Business Performance and Governance within the UK. Mike is based at Cranfield University and is Director of the Project Leadership Profession Programme (PLP). Mike shares insights into his journey in the metrication of organisations, exploring the challeng…
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Do you want to fail comfortably, or succeed uncomfortably?
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I had a really interesting conversation with Sophie Jackson, a seasoned systems thinker with a biology background, bringing profound insights into the world of strategic thinking and organisational change. We also talk about: Challenges of Strategic Thinking: The common struggle with strategic thinking, identifying biases and evolutionary traits th…
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Rachelle Steele is a Master Photographer based out of Northern California. She is most known for dynamic black and white environmental portraiture and her ability to fill a single frame with design elements of intense storytelling and passionate compositions. Her unique background brings depth and power to her images, communicating something from t…
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A look back on 2023 using a Systems Thinking Context and some soundbites from the 2024 podcast series
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Happy New Year. In this episode I will look back on how some of the interviews from 2023 fit within the context of Systems Thinking. We will particularly look at learning journeys and how we can use good systems approaches to change people, and therefore change organisations. I will also look forward to 2024, to my discussion with Professor Mike Bo…
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Joel Meyerowtiz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. Celebrated as a pioneer of color photography, he is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards and The Royal Society’s Centen…
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The transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge – A seasonal look at a transformation from 1843
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you. For the last episode of the year, I am exploring a timeless classic – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. What does this have to do with Evolving Enterprises? Well making changes involves changing people. It is really worth considering how was the transformation of Scrooge so effective, and so quickly …
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4 Powerful Ways to Finding Purpose & Meaning In Life
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On this episode of The Becoming Men Podcast, Ray De La Nuez shares four key pathways to finding your God-given purpose and how it can change your life. Want to meet with Ray One-on-One on a FREE coaching call? Click here to book our Zoom Call! Check out MasterMyPurpose.com to reserve your spot for our new LIVE virtual course. Th…
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Georgina Wilson, the CEO who is Implementing Holistic Change Every Day
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Georgina is one of the most passionate and empowered people I have met. Georgina shares the story of the beginnings of her journey towards becoming CEO of BUD Leaders. Georgina began by understanding the people and the market place that BUD would one day work in. Based on this immense knowledge of the marketplace, Georgina found her passion for ins…
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Kirsten Elstner is the founder and director of National Geographic Photo Camp, whose mission is to work with youth from diverse communities worldwide, guiding them as they use photography to tell their own stories and develop meaningful connections with others. Since 2003, she has worked in over 35 countries and designed over 145 programs, intendin…
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How To Be More DISCIPLINED: 7 Rules Every Man MUST Master
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On this episode of The Becoming Men Podcast, Ray De La Nuez shares seven of the most powerful rules he's learned as a Marine Corps Officer to forge unstoppable self-discipline. Want to meet with Ray One-on-One on a FREE coaching call? Click here to book our Zoom Call! Check out MasterMyPurpose.com to reserve your spot for our new LIVE…
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Engaging an audience and helping them to change
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Today I am immensely pleased to introduce Ruby Lyon a famous actress on stage and the small screen. Ruby was a core cast member of the popular New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street, playing the role of Ashley Whitley. Moving organisations forward involves changing people’s view of a situation. This is exactly what an actor does – during a perform…
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