Talent Smart Podcast

As founder of 50x, Gary has many years experience of helping scale businesses, and exponentially transform the way organisations do things in seemingly impossible timespans.  He is the Ex-CEO of Mator Systems and has driven exponential transformative change in organisations, like Maersk / AP Moller, SHL, Elsevier, Partnership Assurance and Camelot. Gary is also the co-founder of Hedgedog Brewery. ...

It was amazing to have the opportunity to interview Vin Walsh, a Professor of Human Brain Research and Royal Society Industry Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. I could have quite easily chatted with him for hours. He has published over 300 scientific articles, several books and specialises in the how the brain achieves all the things we take for granted: How do we se...

Asitha Rodrigo (CTO, SAPI) is a renowned innovative CTO, Prior to SAPI, he was the CTO at Seedrs. Previously Asitha was Chief Technology Officer at a number of high growth Private Equity backed businesses in the financial services and media industries. He has a passion for building and maintaining high performing technology teams. In this episode, Asitha shares with us the key ingredients that con...

In this episode, I talk with Claire about what inspired her to start a company focused on championing women in technology and Claire shares a bit about her journey and background in the tech industry. We uncover what are some of the biggest challenges women face in the tech industry today and how best to address them. We also explore trends in the tech industry regarding diversity and inclusion. C...

It was amazing to spend some time with Doug Johnson to discuss how innovation and sustainability can transform an entire industry. Doug is Founder of Mesh Energy (a Certified B Corporation), an independent and trusted provider of innovative sustainable energy services to property owners and architects looking for impartial and expert advice. During our discussion, Doug explained why experience can...

Dileep is a commercially focused, results driven executive level technology leader with nearly 20 years experience: leading strategy development and execution, successful digital transformation and delivering organisational, IT change alongside cost effectiveness (to budget), secure and high availability operational IT In this podcast we uncover what the main behaviours are that contribute to a hi...

Ade is a former technologist who now, forty years on, is focused on leadership. Is a former Financial Times columnist.  Has lectured at MIT Sloan on leadership matters.  Works with Cambridge University (Moller Institute) on leadership development.  Trained in astrophysics and has worked for the European Space Agency.  Has worked in over forty countries across the world across multiple sectors with...

Roly launched online performance management system Appraisd in 2012. Since then, it has been adopted by hundreds of businesses and is used by tens of thousands of employees around the world. Roly began his career as a Business Analyst at Goldman Sachs designing global online HR tools. It was this experience that inspired him to design and launch Appraisd. In this episode, Roly explains the term ac...

Joe is an innovative decisive, and accomplished IT Executive who delivers and embeds digital, data and technology transformation, technology architecture and project / programme management having led £100M transformation and acquisition programmes generating more than £200M revenue improvements. Business orientated strategic thinker skilled at driving technology and cyber security teams to achieve...

Cliff is a senior leader of change initiatives with about 20 years experience across multiple industries. He currently works in professional services helping clients achieve their business and tech strategies by establishing high performing teams that deliver products with excellence. To help fuel his passions, Cliff started the Change Leaders Playbook podcast and newsletter, which are growing res...

Joshua Knox is Cybersecurity Technologist specialising in Kubernetes and Kubernetes security. Prior to this role Knox was a Principal Engineer focusing on automation and application development Before transitioning to the IT industry, Knox was a High School teacher. For many years he taught python and javascript to his students. Once switching his career he has quickly moved through many roles, ga...

Rob has over 30 years’ experience leading, managing, consulting and delivering innovative solutions to businesses of all shapes and sizes. He has focused intensely on organisation transformations and helping other leaders and teams become high performance and to gain results that are longer lasting, impacting more people positively.   During this episode we uncover the key ingredients to a high pe...

It was great to catch up and chat with one of our long standing friends, Graham Smith, who is a highly accomplished and respected Strategy and Implementation Advisor. During this session, Graham shared his insights into how to successfully launch a start-up or a new product, together with offering some amazing advice for companies who have an existing product and now wish to scale up. We also cove...

It was an absolute pleasure to spend more time with Simon and Tracey West from Word Forest today. Word Forest are an environmental and education charity based in the UK that works to combat the devastating effects of global warming and climate change by planting fast growing trees in the tropics, predominantly food bearing. To assist the communities they also support women’s empowerment, build cla...

It was an absolute pleasure to spend time with Simon and Tracey West from Word Forest today. Word Forest are an environmental and education charity based in the UK that works to combat the devastating effects of global warming and climate change by planting fast growing trees in the tropics, predominantly food bearing. To assist the communities they also support women’s empowerment, build classroo...

Adrian Pagdin (Consultant, Advisor, Author and Project Manager) began his career in the Hotel industry before moving into project management and then on into the world of Learning & Development. Adrian has been a consultant and manager within some well known brand names, including Unilever, Holiday Inn and Hemsley Fraser. He is also the author of two books and the founder of Purpose Into Actio...

In 2011, at just 12 years old, Alexa started a fashion blog; A Life in the Fashion Lane. It became a platform for Alexa to express her feelings around everything relating to teens, body image and mental health.   In 2018, Alexa founded the Be Fearless Summit, and also launched her own radio show on Radio Disney called BEFearless Every Day with Alexa Curtis, which was the first of its kind and brok...

I was delighted to welcome David Callow to the Talent Smart podcast for this latest episode. Dave has been in technology for over 25 years and has been a senior leader for over 10 years. He is the Chief Information Officer for NHS Professionals who look after 60 NHS trusts and work with over 180,000 healthcare professionals to provide a flexible work force to support the NHS.  During this podcast...

In this episode we discuss what are the key recurring components of a dysfunctional leadership team, together with exploring the true cost of a dysfunctional leadership team? Paul also shares the quick ways to assess if a leadership team is working well together?   We discuss the topic of trust vs psychological safety how trust is the major contributor to how a team performs together? We uncover h...

In this episode we talk through Paul’s book, The FIRED Leader and Paul breaks down the acronym F.I.R.E.D, together with why did he decide to write this book? We discuss what are the new leadership requirements and what are the key mistakes that organisations make when defining their leadership (identification, recruitment, onboarding and developing).   We also discuss why disruption  curiosity are...

We were delighted to welcome Karen Poulter to our latest episode of the Talent Smart Podcast.   During this episode, we discussed the essential ingredients for a high performing culture, together uncovering what are “Employee networks” and how to build them. Karen also shared his insights into why is it so important that employees have a ‘voice’ and how does D,E&I contribute to high performanc...

We are delighted that Dimitrios agreed to share some time with us and discuss his thoughts and insights on how to create a building and maintaining a high performance culture within your Information Security Teams. Dimitrios is strong technology executive, specializing in business-driven security architectures and business risk control management. More than twenty years of extensive experience gai...

I was thrilled to welcome Brian Hanly, Co-Founder & CEO of Brightbeam and serial entrepreneur to the Talent Smart Podcast. Brian has a deep specialisation in the application of modern ways of working, product management and technology to help enterprises compete in the digital age and to help growth companies to gain commercial advantage with the help of AI. In this episode, we explored the co...

I am very excited that Jonathan Rivers spared some time to chat with me. Jonathan is a Visionary technology leader and “disrupter” with 20+ years of experience leading key growth initiatives in the technology, hosting, and media industries. Known as an expert in delivering innovative, high quality, cost-effective IT solutions and strategic initiatives that improve performance and reduce cost in a...

We are thrilled to be joined in this episode by Jason Nash (Founder and CPO of JAM 7) who has worked with some of the globe's leading brands—such as Barclays, Microsoft, Sony, and Travelport.   Jam 7 are growth agents, customer-centric, data-driven, outcome-focused technologists. Using AI every day to automate away the repetitive non-value-adding activities and deliver game-changing value for mone...