Change is possible: Your Career Transformation Guide

Hi everyone, my guest today is Paul McVeigh. He started his career in football and became a Premier League and International football player for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City, and Northern Ireland.  Paul competed with and against the best players  in the world on a daily basis , and this is what shaped his methodology of high performance.  He has a unique combination of reach...

Jay Shaw is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of  experience in the IT industry and experience on both corporate and  non-profit organization boards. He had a very unusual start to his career – he was a commercial fisherman for 10 years. After that, he became an English teacher in China. Jay  co-founded and served as CEO of NetDimensions, a technology company  acquired in 2017...

My guest today is Naveed Sultan. He is a recognized banking industry leader who built a career at Citibank spanning almost 30 years.  His career is truly amazing. He has led multi-billion dollar global businesses working with most Fortune 500 global companies, banks, asset managers, and insurance companies in over 120 countries. He was the chairman of the Institutional Clients Group in Citi,...

My guest today is Sonia Wedrychowicz . She came from a family of lawyers but didn’t want to become one herself – she wanted to travel. She found out that in the Warsaw School of Economics, there was a program called International trade, and she knew that if she studied trade, she would sign international contracts on behalf of Poland with foreign countries. That was close enough to her dream to tr...

Episode 15 of the “Change is possible podcast” is out! My guest is Rana Nawas. She is a 22-year corporate veteran who built her successful career around problem-solving, driving growth and building relationships. After graduating from Oxford with an Engineering degree, she worked in  McKinsey & Company’s London Office, the Dubai Government, and GE Capital in a variety of strategy and sales roles....

After a short summer break, Change is possible podcast is back with Episode # 14. My guest is Lenka Pinkot. Lenka is a leader in organizational transformation and strategic change. Her core expertise is building strategic transformation vision, driving complex change, creating customer value, and coaching agile teams. Lenka has 20 years long career. She started as a consultant, gained tech industr...

My guest today is Eugene Liang I  met Eugene more than six months ago to advise him on a product he was working on. I thought his career journey into banking was not  traditional. He  is someone who has spent ten years working for some of the top Asia  Unicorns, such as Lazada/Alibaba - LazGames, Grab, and OFO, to name a  few. He enjoys the zero-to-one process in establish...

My guest in this episode is Myladie Stoumbou. She  is the Regional Director for Partner Business Development in Microsoft  Corp. Myladie leads an innovative and fast-growing partner ecosystem  across 33 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. She works on new  business practices, services, and solutions that reimagine the way of  doing business. When  you tune i...

My guest in this episode is Morgan McKenney. She is the CEO of Provenance Blockchain Foundation, a public blockchain built specifically for financial services and used by over 50 financial institutions today. In this role, she is focused on helping financial services participants leverage the value of digital money, digital assets, and blockchain to transform financial services and deliver materia...

My guest in this episode is Eric Sim. A key opinion leader on LinkedIn, Eric Sim, CFA, is the author of the book Small Actions: Leading Your Career to Big Success. Previously, when based in Hong Kong, Sim served as a managing director at UBS Investment Bank and an adjunct associate professor of finance at HKUST. He founded the Institute of Life with a mission to train young professionals to b...

In this episode, I will meet you with Diana Wu David  - She  is a former Financial Times executive, author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration, and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School's EMBA Global Asia. She started her career as a management consultant and assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates in New York. When  Dian...

In this episode, I will meet you with Hannah Genton -  a Berkeley school of law graduate and a former start-up attorney turned entrepreneur. After years of practice in one of Silicon Valley's leading law firms, she realized it was never quite enough, regardless of how much she accomplished. Additionally, the extra workload she was required to take on left her sacrificing family time, esp...

In this episode you will hear from Frank Koo - Head of Asia in LinkedIn Frank started his career with IBM in Singapore after graduating from university with a business degree. He then spent 11 years in Oracle, where he headed up various business functions, including managing director for Singapore and South Asia growth economies. In 2010, Frank pivoted into the education sector, ini...

In this Episode #6, I will meet you with Lubomila Jordanova, one of the young leaders of the climate tech industry and a prominent climate activist. She is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, the German software company that builds science-based, AI-driven tools for carbon accounting, decarbonization, ESG management, and reporting. She is also co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of mor...

In this Episode #5, my guest is Mathew Howe.   He is the founder of Grobrix, a company focusing on sustainability, food security, physical health, and mental wellbeing. Grobrix is on a mission to make urban communities leaner, greener, happier, and healthier, focusing on bringing the farm and the farmer's market right to their doorstep. Before that, he spent 15 years in financial markets span...

My guest in this episode is Rachele Focardi. She is one of these people who believes that "life is a matter of synchronicity, and a matter of synergy and a matter of connections." and that "What is meant for you will always find you. We should be thankful for all these closed doors because they protect us from things that are not meant for us." She also says that "one of the benefits of going with...

In this episode, my guest is Binod Shankar. He started in industrial banking in India before moving to work for KPMG, Andersen, and Ernst and Young. He then joined Nakheel Inc, the iconic Dubai property developer, and was promoted to Finance Director. After 17 years of corporate career, Binod quit his Executive Director job as a listed asset manager to co-found and lead Genesis. Under his leadersh...

My guest is John Wood – The founder of Room to Read, an organization that has brought the lifelong gift of education to over 20 million children in 20 countries. We spoke about his time in Microsoft and how he transitioned from a corporate career to the world of non-profit for social change. “A lot of people out there will tell you that it’s crazy sacrificing your financial stability, but I think...

In this first episode my guest is Simon Ree. He had spent 25 years in banking, working for names such as Goldman Sachs and Citibank. He always had a passion for helping others learn how to use the financial markets to generate wealth. In 2017 he decided to leave the corporate world and devote all of his time to help people live more creative, joyful and inspired lives by alleviating the burden of...