Career Success Podcast

In our latest podcast, we had the privilege of hosting Satish Jayakumar, a seasoned entrepreneur with over 24 years of diverse experience in strategic online business development. Currently serving as the COO at Increasingly, board director at Kavida.ai, and the visionary behind Future Anthem Consulting, Satish shared insights into the effectiveness of video selling. He delved into the reasons beh...

This podcast episode features Dr. Mark Young and Justin Girouard, hosts of the CPG Insiders podcast and leaders at Jekyll and Hyde Advertising and Marketing. They share their insights on navigating the US market compared to other markets and discuss the challenges and reasons why many brands that have succeeded in other countries often fail when trying to launch in the US. The conversation explore...

Join us in this engaging discussion as we sit down with Tim Moore, Chief Technology Officer, EVP of SharkNinja, to explore the fascinating realm of innovation scalability. Discover how a multibillion-dollar powerhouse can harness the agility of a startup, delving into the lifecycle of new ideas and the pivotal factors that drive their scalability. Tim Moore provides invaluable insights into mainta...

Florence Rollet, Independent Board Member for Anora Group and Arla Foods, shares insights on pursuing board work and navigating the process effectively. Emphasizing diverse skills and a strong network, she advises considering board roles at different career stages. Florence offers guidance for public and private board opportunities, highlighting the complexity of the role, requiring deep understan...

Megan Giannini, the Global Head of Talent, Development and Organizational Effectiveness at Philips, shares her practical experience in connecting business performance and culture, exploring how culture can be made tangible and effectively supported with tools and methodologies. Megan also shares how to integrate culture with talent strategy and leverage data to reinforce and optimize your strategi...

Delphine Donné, the VP General Manager of Logitech Personal Workspace Solutions shares her experience of working in the consumer electronics industry for over three decades and reflects on how the industry has evolved during this time. She specifically highlights Logitech's success in creating a highly inclusive work environment, and provides insights into effective strategies for promoting divers...

On this episode of the career success podcast, David Clutterbuck, professor, author and serial entrepreneur shares his secret behind increasing the success of retaining talent, recruitment, succession planning, and diversity management.

Elaine Bowers Coventry, Chief Customer and Commercial Officer at The Coca-Cola Company explains how we can use inclusion as a powerful tool to get better business outcomes and fully exploit the power of people. In legacy organizations, Elaine explains how can we enable new skills and capabilities to integrate and thrive.

Social responsibility is high on most company’s agendas and on this interview with Douglas Lamont, you will hear how he has been able to balance social responsibility and performance as the former CEO of Innocent Drinks and soon to be CEO of Tony's Chocoloney.

With the ever changing and unpredictable business landscape, how can managers make sure their teams are being developed in the right way with the right skill sets? Dietmar Knoess, Global Director People & Organization at Puma, highlights the importance of constant upskilling and on the job learning. Dietmar shares with us a few details about the 70-20-10 rule implemented by Puma for training their...

With ever improving technology, integration of Artificial Intelligence into processes in business has increased a lot. But at the same time should professionals completely depend on AI and forego their instincts and gut feelings?  Manos Spanos, President at L-Nutra Consumer tells us how Artificial Intelligence can be integrated and used with Human intelligence. He also highlights the importance of...

Pandemic has led to people reevaluating their lives, their lifestyles, and their careers. Its sequels are also lugged in the business world as leaders are realizing that it is more challenging now to keep their teams engaged given the pandemic aftermath on everyone’s mindset. Various perks like gym memberships, dogs in the office, and stylish decorations, were once perks that could retain employee...

We invited Roy Wentzel, the Business Lead Strategic Growth Markets Global Ecommerce at PUMA Group, and Mary Palmieri, the Director of Client Development at Tall Ridge, to discuss with us how to successfully define and execute a D2C strategy. Online D2C has experienced exponential growth over the past couple of years. Last year’s events have accelerated this even more, and in 2021 the D2C market is...

Inclusion and diversity, two topics in the business world that often get discussed about, but lack noticeable outcomes for the companies. How to address them without jeopardising performance? In this video, Leendert den Hollander, the current Vice President & General Manager Northern Europe at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, shares with us how they tackled and managed I&D, addressing them as a phi...

Myriam Riedel Kienzi is currently the Marketing Director Yoplait and Head of yogurt Business Unit France at General Mills. Myriam is joining us today to share with us how Yoplait renewed its model to a new, mainly digital, brand. Topics covered: - The need for the digital transformation - Biggest challenges in this FMCG category - Launching this product during Covid - The future for the brand; dig...

Olivier Gianina and his team was able to embed digital into traditional sales force, driving a culture and business model shift, to create the conditions to win online. Olivier has been developing an interesting career with adidas through Sales, SCM, Tech and Business Development in Germany, France and last 6 years in Latin America. Olivier is passionate about exploring new business models and sha...

Today we have invited Amit Singhal to discuss with us how he and his team were able to Successfully Set Up a Subscription E-commerce Business. Amit is a Digital Commerce leader experienced in developing and driving revenue opportunities in Fortune 500 Consumer goods companies with expertise in all things digital – eCommerce, Direct-to-Consumer, B2B & Commercial Analytics. He led the creation of th...

The way individuals are forming their careers and their expectations of companies are changing. On this episode of the career success podcast I have invited Jonathan Reeves the Corporate Vice President of New Business at Henkel and Maya Berna who graduated from her under grad in 2017 and masters in 2020 to discuss how new generations are coming into the workforce and how companies and the leaders...

On this episode of the career success podcast we will be joined by Luisa Franzone the Head of Global Supply Chain at Bayer Consumer Health. Luisa is an experienced leader within the FMCG industry with a track record of consistent delivery of business targets through a number of diversified technical and business roles which in this occasion will be sharing with us her insight on how senior leader...

Megan Berry is currently the VP of Octane AI, an all-in-one platform for data collection, personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation targeted towards retail and eCommerce brands. She is a guest blogger at Mashable and The Huffington Post and is an expert managing remote teams, especially global ones, having worked with remote teams for more than 9 years of her career. Today she is joining...

Sarah Hofstetter is currently the President of Profitero, a leading eCommerce software provider helping thousands of brands improve their eCommerce ROI. She is also a member of the board of directors for Campbell Soup Company. Because of her work, Sarah has been recognized by Ad Age’s “40 Under 40” and Adweek 50 but she also has taken the stage at Cannes Lions Creativity Festival and Fortune Most...

Today we have invited Sylvie Moreau, who after 23 years at P&G and 4 years as president of Coty Professional Beauty shares her personal story on how to identify your personal leadership style. In this episode she explains the three H's leadership and how she uses them to become a more impactful leader. Topics covered: - Three tips on how to dial up your impact as a leader - Suggestions for those t...

Mark Williams (commonly known as ‘Mr. LinkedIn) is widely regarded as one of the world’s top LinkedIn experts. Following a career spanning 20 years in the recruitment industry, Mark set up ETN LinkedIn training in 2008. Since then he has trained thousands of LinkedIn users from a diverse range of industries and roles. In this episode of the Career Sucess Podcast, Mark will give us some insight on...

On this episode of the Career Success Podcast, the founder of EGI Group Ronan Bardet is an expert in the Retail Digital Transformation industry. With 15 years of experience in this field, he is specialized in connecting Top Retailers to Digital Commerce Tech solutions. In this episode of the Career Sucess Podcast, Ronan will give us some insight on the key MUST-HAVES you need to know to set up you...

On this episode of the Career Success Podcast, we have invited Gill Whitty-Collins. Gill started her career in Procter & Gamble, where she led global brands, such as Olay and Max Factor. She quickly moved up the ladder to Marketing Director, General Manager, and finally Senior Vice President. Her story and vision will inspire you to join the force to fight inequality. Topics Covered: What motivate...