Breaking The Chain

The history of the cannabis industry is riddled with many changes, however there is a shift in perspective about the cannabis industry.  In this episode, our host Nathaniel Chapman speaks to the President at Cann Strategy & Co-Founder at Leafsheets.com, Juliana Whitney about how Leafsheets.com is helping businesses navigate the ever-changing landscape of the cannabis industry. Juliana Whitney,...

Welcome to Breaking The Chain: The Leadership Series, hosted by Director of Career Coaching and Leadership Development at Impel Talent, Terentia Browne. In this episode, Terentia sits down with   Lamia Fikrat to speak about the true definition of unconscious biases and how our individual backgrounds and experiences influence the way we react to certain situations. They also delve deep into how unc...

Welcome to Breaking The Chain: The Leadership Series, hosted by Director of Career Coaching and Leadership Development at Impel Talent, Terentia Browne. In this episode, Terentia sits down with Dr Kumi Naidoo as they speak about how to successfully resolve conflict situations in the workplace. Dr Kumi is currently a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy and Honorary Professor o...

Michaela Pontiki is the Founder and CEO of Arapina, an award winning healthy lifestyle bakery. Lady M is a qualified architect with a passion for sustainability, the environment and  harmonious healthy living, values that are at the heart of her projects. She's also a motivational public speaker, with her portfolio including exhibitions in museums, galleries and universities across Europe. In...

Welcome to Breaking The Chain – The Leadership Series, hosted by Director of Career Coaching and Leadership Development at Impel Talent, Terentia Browne. In this episode Terentia sits down with Michelle Williams-Swartz,  Global Head of Quality Systems and Performance at Johnson and Johnson. Together they talk about Michelle's journey throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and her experience in grow...

Welcome to Breaking The Chain – The Leadership Series, hosted by Director of Career Coaching and Leadership Development at Impel Talent, Terentia Browne. In this episode Terentia sits down with Damen Tolley, HR Director at OneWeb Satellites. Together they talk about the power of coaching and mentoring and how Damen has incorporated the training programs lead by Terentia at OneWeb satellites. They...

In this episode Terentia sits down with Charmaine Reid, Vice President of R&D Europe at Takeda, to talk about the value of investing in yourself as a leader throughout your career. They speak about resources and creative ways you can continuously learn and how to role model this behaviour for your team. Being open to learning and being teachable are the traits that set great leaders apart from...

In this episode Terentia sits down with Jody Lodge, Managing Director at Johnson & Johnson as they talk about the power of leadership through his own career journey, his biggest fears, biggest achievements and greatest lessons learnt.  They deep dive into how developing ones emotional intelligence helps you be a better leader.  They also talk about how Jody has led many teams across different...

Hear how Maciej Grajewski & Richard Rushby became Co-Founders of SG Papertronics, a business dedicated to creating testing devices that help with quality control assurance and controlled innovation of projects.  With a focus on their latest product the 'Beer-o-meter' learn the story behind an innovative device that democratises lab grade quality control to maintain consistency in the...

James Kerslake is the Founder behind luxury cocktail business Tom Savano. After graduating at the age of 20 from Auckland University with a bachelors in Computer Science, he spent two decades working in finance before dabbling in the world of cocktails. Between 2011 and 2018, James flirted with a number of different ideas such as BarPanda (an app to order drinks in a bar and split the bill with fr...

John Vickers is the mastermind behind Blue Abyss, the worlds very first commercial training centre for Astronauts and space explorers.  We talk about what it takes to pioneer the future of space exploration and the hurdles that as a Founder, John has had to overcome to get to where he is today.  Follow Impel Talent LinkedIn: Impel Talent Twitter: @ImpelTalent Facebook: @Impel Talent Instagram: @Im...

5 years ago, Lora Haddock Di Carlo was set on the path of being an award winning entrepreneur after having a mind-blowing orgasm. Her curiosity surrounding it lead to the creation of an incredible piece of tech for women. Join us as we explore her story, discuss how her product was banned from CES (Consumer Electronics Show), and learn about her company's vision to bring equality to sex throu...

Alex Cooke is building a business with a mission to bring next-generation treatments to market faster and save patients' lives by providing top tier talent for scaling biotechs. We talk about his journey from being a musician, to working at Disney, which then lead him into the world of recruitment and headhunting.  Follow Impel Talent LinkedIn: Impel Talent Twitter: @ImpelTalent Facebook: @Im...

In this episode we discuss the growth and professionalism of esports and the opportunities it is providing new businesses. We also explore Saad Sarwars own personal and professional journey that lead him to create Level 99, along with their work of bringing some of the biggest names in esports to life.  Follow Impel Talent LinkedIn: Impel Talent Twitter: @ImpelTalent Facebook: @Impel Talent Instag...

We are joined by CEO and Co-Founder of The Last Game Board, Shail Mehta. As a child and immigrant to the United States, Shail first connected with new friends and built a passion for table-top gaming as a child. As an adult and as a mother, that passion has fostered into a mission to revamp board games and bring people back together by introducing technology to board games.  Learn about her journe...

We speak with CEO and Co-Founder of Force Impact Technologies, Anthony Gonzales. Anthony has been bringing the hustle towards the mission of making sports safer, without actually changing the sports themselves. Join us as we explore his 7 year journey to bring to market a product that will change the world of contact sports, the Fit Guard. Follow Impel Talent LinkedIn: Impel Talent Twitter: @Impel...