Best Martin Parr Podcasts (2024)

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E56: Emma Harvey 20:42

11h ago20:42

20:42

I'm so happy to be joined by Emma Harvey the co-founder of The 5 Hour Club (www.fivehourclub.com). The Five Hour Club is a platform that allows working parents to find professional work that fits around their caring responsibilities. I love this concept and I am delighted that my company is one of the employers on this platform.…

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TCF Ep. 632 - Michael Rababy 1:03:33

3h ago1:03:33

1:03:33

Michael Rababy documents US American gambling culture in his new book, Casinoland - Tired of Winning. Rows of shrill slot machines, glowing billboards, and gaudy splendor appear alongside exhausted faces, tired looks, and lost games. Rababy’s realistic camera view scrutinizes the glamorous appearance of the gleaming gambling halls and exposes their…

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Learning Journeys 21:58

17d ago21:58

21:58

Today I explore learning Journeys and how important they are if we are to really change complex organisations. I consider how I have encouraged board members to change their companies and what it takes to really drive change within a busy and complex corporate world. Finally I reflect on the situation within the UK NHS and look at what I have learn…

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TCF Ep. 631 - David Hobby 1:07:05

19d ago1:07:05

1:07:05

David Hobby is the lead instructor for all X-Peditions trips. He spent 20 years as a staff photojournalist, completing more than 10,000 assignments before leaving The Baltimore Sun in 2006 to found . Over the following 15 years, Strobist grew to be the world’s most popular resource for professional-level photographic lighting education. David has t…

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Managing Personal Stress Levels 17:49

1M ago17:49

17:49

We all get stressed by different things, and stress changes us. Our personality type will highlight the likely changes that we will experience as stress increases. Once we know what these changes look like we are able to spot the warning signs and take action so that we don’t reach “grip stress”. You can find your personality type at 16personalitie…

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Engineering the Future 15:52

1M ago15:52

15:52

Join me as I reflect on my journey through the engineering profession, following my recent appointment as a Visiting Professor to the University of Portsmouth, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering. In this episode, I explore the critical role engineering plays in shaping senior leadership decisions and why it’s essential for driving innovatio…

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TCF Ep. 630 - Valerie Jardin 1:01:40

1M ago1:01:40

1:01:40

Valérie Jardin is an award-winning French photographer who has developed a unique style that is both evocative and authentic. Her work is characterized by a strong sense of narrative, capturing candid moments that reveal the human experience in all its complexity and beauty. With a discerning eye for composition and a keen understanding of light an…

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E55 Julia Bakay 26:32

2M ago26:32

26:32

I'm delighted today to introduce Julia Bakay, who is a keynote artist and visual strategist. Julia’s work involves listening to live events and drawing in real time the key points. At the end visual maps of the discussions are created which highlight the themes and ideas for people to reflect on, which untangle the complexity and give clarity in a …

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E54 Wayne Turmel Part 2 13:55

2M ago13:55

13:55

I'm delighted by the return of Wayne Turmel, author and consultant on developing communication and leadership skills with expertise in remote working. Today we build on our previous discussion on remote working. We talk about the specific advantages and challenges of remote working, how business leaders can get the best from staff who are working r…

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E53 - James Brown 21:55

2M ago21:55

21:55

I'm delighted today to be joined by James Brown, the co-founder and CEO of Super Sense Technologies. During a career break, James started volunteering for a local mental health charity, which inspired him to utilise AI to benefit those with dementia. We discuss the power and opportunity of AI when properly applied to its audience, the project Super…

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E52 – Joanne Meehan 26:38

3M ago26:38

26:38

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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TCF Ep. 629 - Rob Hammer 1:10:56

2M ago1:10:56

1:10:56

Rob Hammer is a photographer based in Denver, Colorado, who shoots for commercial clients like Nike, Adidas, Foot Locker, Fox Sports, and Smithsonian and produces other personal documentary exemplary art projects, including American barbershops, basketball culture, duck hunting, and real Cowboys in the American West. Resources Rob Hammer Websites P…

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E51 Wayne Turmel 16:23

3M ago16:23

16:23

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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TCF Ep. 628 - Mikko Takkunen 1:07:41

3M ago1:07:41

1:07:41

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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TCF Ep. 627 - Ivan McClellan 1:08:35

3M ago1:08:35

1:08:35

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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E50 Johannes Holtmon 14:22

3M ago14:22

14:22

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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TCF Ep. 626 - Jay Silverman 55:24

3M ago55:24

55:24

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 14:05

4M ago14:05

14:05

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 18:36

4M ago18:36

18:36

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 19:05

4M ago19:05

19:05

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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TCF Ep. 625 - Petronella Lugemwa 1:13:25

4M ago1:13:25

1:13:25

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 22:20

5M ago22:20

22:20

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 26:34

5M ago26:34

26:34

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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TCF Ep. 624 - Martin Parr 52:01

5M ago52:01

52:01

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 19:42

5M ago19:42

19:42

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 25:23

5M ago25:23

25:23

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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Public Sector Transformation 22:06

5M ago22:06

22:06

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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TCF Ep.623 - Alex Kilbee 1:38:51

5M ago1:38:51

1:38:51

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 23:10

6M ago23:10

23:10

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 23:03

6M ago23:03

23:03

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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TCF Ep. 622 - Jesse Lenz 1:25:55

6M ago1:25:55

1:25:55

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? 15:12

6M ago15:12

15:12

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 24:58

7M ago24:58

24:58

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 14:57

7M ago14:57

14:57

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 24:25

7M ago24:25

24:25

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? 25:24

7M ago25:24

25:24

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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TCF Ep. 621 - Chris Gampat 1:09:36

7M ago1:09:36

1:09:36

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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TCF Ep. 620 - Elinor Carucci 1:09:30

7M ago1:09:30

1:09:30

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 22:05

8M ago22:05

22:05

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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TCF Ep. 619 - Barbara Peacock 1:07:37

8M ago1:07:37

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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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Using systems thinking: An outline 20:56

8M ago20:56

20:56

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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The Ultimate Success Formula for Men 25:01

8M ago25:01

25:01

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 16:03

8M ago16:03

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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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TCF Ep. 618 - Nick Carver 1:10:28

8M ago1:10:28

1:10:28

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 23:36

9M ago23:36

23:36

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 22:30

9M ago22:30

22:30

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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Thriving as a Senior Leader in Education 25:19

9M ago25:19

25:19

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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TCF Ep. 617 - Robbie Quinn 1:33:38

9M ago1:33:38

1:33:38

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? 15:49

10M ago15:49

15:49

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 14:55

10M ago14:55

14:55

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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