Today’s guest is not just a social business leader, he is also a policy wonk, a tech entrepreneur, and a crossbench (non political) Peer. Born and bred in Wakefield, Victor dropped out of school and worked as a road sweeper before branching into council housing management and getting his first CEO role aged 24. He ran increasingly complex social en…

Today’s guest has spent her entire career dealing with leaders before becoming one herself. She joined Europe’s largest Executive Search firm straight from university, fell in love with the industry and never left. After 20 years at Egon Zehnder, where she ran the Research teams in London and India, she founded her own firm and now focuses on ident…

On International Women’s Day we are delighted to welcome our first woman leader on the programme: Helen Steers, senior Partner at Pantheon, a global private equity firm based in London. Trained as an engineer, Helen fell into the world of finance via a detour in Canada. We discuss her career as a leader in private equity and how she decided early o…

For our third episode we travel from the near West (Dorset) and to South Asia (Sri Lanka). Paul Oliver has left the big corporate life as well as the dreaming spires of Oxford to help make health and care for old people better. He sees food as an integral part of social bonding and a dignified later life. Nothing destined Paul to appreciating and c…

In the run-up to the holiday season I thought it would be appropriate to have a spiritual leader... Jim has one of the most interesting jobs at the LSE: formally he is the Chaplain, but he is also the director of the all-religions Faith Centre as well as a professor in the department of International Relations. Recently, his time has been consumed …

Andy has been on a fascinating food journey: from working class Liverpool to meat-centred rugby playing, to systematically studying the science of food and health. This eventually took him to veganism, in a very reasoned way… You could say Andy is a National Treasurer – he was the Group Treasurer at Nationwide Building Society for many years… He no…

Welcome to Leadership Recipes, my name is François Moscovici, and I'm a partner at leadership consultants, White Water Group. I spend most of my week working with leaders, their teams and their boards, but I have another passion - food. I trained as a professional chef and I have always been fascinated by all aspects of food, be it historical, scie…