Lead with Purpose

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Noah Miller, CEO and head of ESG Advisory Services at Rho Impact about what ESG is and what it means for business and the world as a whole. KEY TAKEAWAYS ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) refers to a management frame work – a structured approach to managing the risks and opportunities of a changing environment...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Josh Cleall, CEO of Jump – a company that helps other companies train their staff in more sustainable behaviours, about his career journey from intern to CEO, as well as behavioural change and sustainability. KEY TAKEAWAYS Our gamification tool and platform incentivises and rewards staff members and people to make tiny...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Doug Betts, an HR expert, about how founders can build more effective teams and the lessons that he has learned while growing his business. KEY TAKEAWAYS There’s a lot of things that happen on a daily basis in the corporate world that, when the pandemic happened, just didn’t make sense any more. I wanted to think about...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Elin Bergman, the circular economy queen of Sweden, to talk about her company, cradlenet, as well as her career in sustainability. KEY TAKEAWAYS I our ‘Circular Friday’ meetings we teach businesses about the latest news in the circular economy, we invite speakers, experts and scientists. It’s unique that we meet our me...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Chloe Wynn, director of Maven Design Studio, about sustainability in traditionally one of the most environmentally impactful and wasteful industries: construction. KEY TAKEAWAYS Unfortunately, the construction industry is incredibly wasteful. Similarly to fashion trends come and go quite quickly in interior design. In...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Richard Lue, a fashion consultant, about fashion and working with big, global brands   KEY TAKEAWAYS I studied accounting and finance, and I got into fashion by accident. I started modelling at 16 years old and I saw a sign in a window of a Benneton shop, so I applied and got the job as a sales assistant. The brand was...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Maria Remy about circularity and fashion. KEY TAKEAWAYS The problem in the UK is there’s often quite a long time between swapping events where you don’t know what to do with your clothes, you want to consume more because of the fast pace of fashion but you may not have the chance to do so. We created a digital platform...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Adela Mei, founder of Jackdaw Coaching, to talk about ecology, conservation, business coaching, the rainforest, and more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS I was running a bar, watching people drinking and I had this moment where I asked myself what I was doing. I ended up seeing a counselor by accident and he asked me what it was I wan...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Rebecca Ghim, founder of The Firm, a company that produces kimchi – a fermented food made of commonly discarded food byproducts to talk about her product and food waste more generally.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The work ‘kimchi’ derives from the word for ‘dunked vegetables’. It’s similar to lacto-ferments and sauerkraut but inst...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Niclas Iren, an expert within the sustainability and circularity space, about his pioneering work in this area including wireless charging of electric vehicles while they’re driving and the issues around new technologies like this. KEY TAKEAWAYS My interest in sustainability and circularity started with my interest of...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Angela Roth, an ex-police officer who is now a heart-led coach who coaches entrepreneurs in visibility and marketing to explain her journey. KEY TAKEAWAYS Policing took me to new places and parts of myself that I didn’t know existed. It stretched me in all sorts of areas and put me into contact with people I’d never ha...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to David Chenery to talk about sustainable interior design and architecture and the differences and similarities between the two. KEY TAKEAWAYS We work with existing buildings. In the hospitality world, which we serve, the average space gets fitted out every 5-7 years. We need to look at that in terms of our duty as desig...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Joshua Prieto, co-founder of Seeds of Tao, about regenerative enterprises. KEY TAKEAWAYS The regenerative movement and regenerative enterprises are working towards is that we’d like to see a circular economy in the future, one that’s just and fair and actually has a right alignment with the natural systems that are at...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Chris Desai, an award winning CEO, philanthropist and entrepreneur who is highly experienced in sustainability in the fashion industry and runs an environmental charity. KEY TAKEAWAYS Through working in music and fashion I ended up in fast fashion, which we all know is a massive polluter. 10 years into my career I star...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Lydia Brearley, a sustainable fashion advocate, about fashion, legislation, and how we can make changes together as an industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS While I was living and working in Shanghai in 2016 the Chinese government was focussing on pollution levels and a lot of the factories had restrictions imposed on them in terms...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Dr Teri Baydar, a leadership development coach & author, about her book, ‘Flip The Switch’. KEY TAKEAWAYS The book is about the 2 forms of consciousness that most humans experience (only 3-4% of us don’t). We live in a state of almost perpetual conflict, inner and outer, which I call ‘war consciousness’ and it stems fr...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Blaine Bartlett, a consultant who has impacted more than one million people globally about his role as a coach and motivator and how business can succeed by taking inspiration from nature. KEY TAKEAWAYS In nature, in my childhood, I marvel at the seasonality, the way life seems to fit together, nothing seems to go to w...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Dr Teri Baydar, a leadership development coach & author, among many other things, to talk about her journey and consciousness. KEY TAKEAWAYS My book, ‘Flip Your Switch’ is about the 2 forms of consciousness that almost all of us experience – only 3-4% of us don’t experience this. We live in a state of almost perpetual...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Vincent Avanzi, the world’s only ‘chief poetic officer’ about how being poetic can change the world. KEY TAKEAWAYS I’ve had a real passion for poetry since I was a teenager, firstly from hip hop & then to a broader sense of playing with words & being able to speak to everyone. I studied at business school, worked 5 yea...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Aparna Agarwal, a student of sustainability management to talk about life as a student as well as culture within sustainability & sustainable fashion. KEY TAKEAWAYS I have a strong interest in storytelling, I’m especially interested in social media & how brands want to communicate their sustainability & social impact s...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Kieron James, CEO & founder of the FinTech and payments company, Wonderful about his business and his journey in business. KEY TAKEAWAYS Wonderful started off as an aspirational online giving charity platform that was completely free for charities in 2016. We were looking at all these charities, donors & fundraisers do...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Gareth Benson, an IP lawyer, to talk about purpose and how he applies purpose to his work. KEY TAKEAWAYS If you are a purpose-driven business it is still a business & it has to run like one. You cannot change & save the world unless it is providing an opportunity for everyone, including yourself. So, it has to be treat...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Dr Sue Williams about exactly what quantum counselling is. KEY TAKEAWAYS Quantum counselling is based on quantum physics & epigenetics. Epigenetics deals with how generational good & bad things from previous generations such as trauma, illness, disease, talents & abilities affects us by being imprinted into your DNA &...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Darrell Irwin, founder of the Cre8ion brand marketing agency, co-founder of a software company called Di9ital and a personal development movement called HUM4NS about his journey through entrepreneurship. KEY TAKEAWAYS Most people launch out into a career, learn how to do it & begin to lead in a career which leads to th...

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Angela Roth, who used to be a police officer & now coaches entrepreneurs about visibility & marketing. KEY TAKEAWAYS Being a police officer took me to new parts of myself that I didn’t know existed. It stretched me in all sort of areas & put me in contact with people I would never have met. What it developed inside of...