Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Emma Stroud . Emma is a podcaster, author, speaker and clown!! Em co-founded a business that offered interactive stress management workshops, leadership programmes and coaching. In 2020, she branched out on her own to deliver workplace talks, events and coaching to address staff happiness and wellbeing. Drawing on he...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Duncan Goose , founder of One Water .  There are one billion people in the world without access to clean drinking water. Duncan knew he couldn’t change one billion lives at once, so instead he started improving access to water for one person at a time. One Water is one of the biggest water brands in the world and a p...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Jamie Waller . Jamie is an East London boy done good who left school at 16 without any qualifications and suffering dyslexia. Jamie got into debt collecting and turned an industry on its head.  Jamie reveals how his motivations have shifted considerably throughout the course of his career – from simply making money,...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Sam White , CEO of Freedom Services Group . Sam cares passionately about diversity, equality, innovation and above all, making business human. Motivated by a desire to change the insurance industry for the better, Sam is a vocal advocate for levelling the playing field for women and championing female leaders within...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Julian Hall who is founder and CEO of ULTRA Education , an organisation which teaches entrepreneurship in schools.  Julian created a superhero persona to get kids interested in business and now teaches kids across the country. He set up his first business when he was 18 years old and believes entrepreneurs are made,...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Karen Holden , founder of A City Law Firm . She established the firm to provide experienced and dynamic solicitors in the City of London, who could think outside the box, whilst delivering at competitive costs. Karen was invited and given freedom of the City in 2019 for her work in Equality as such is part of the Gui...

Hi I’m Jeff Dewing and I’m really excited to announce a brand new season of Doing the Opposite:  Business disruptors In season one, you heard from some exceptional leaders from the world of banking, marketing, sport, media and more and they shared some of the means in which they disrupted the commonly accepted “way things should be done” and made big differences to their businesses.    This time,...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to footballing legend and TalkSPORT host Alan Brazil. Alan reveals how a playground rule at his school that limited ball size, ultimately led to an illustrious footballing career with Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United among others, as well as playing internationally for Scotland. His football career...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to David James Drake . David started out in banking for the Bank of Boston and Lloyds Bank, moving into the chemical industry in the early 90s.  Since then, he has been at the forefront of his industry and is now President of the Brazilian Cleaning Association. David explains how, as an American-Irishman he ‘did the opp...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks Diana Morato Feliciano who is Chief Growth Officer at Sensei, a tech company that operates autonomous shopping stores. Most notably in her extensive career, Diana was responsible for the roll out of Deliveroo to 35 cities across Spain and has been recognised in the Top 100 Female Business Leaders in Spain as well as one...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Pat Murphy , founder of advertising production consultancy MurphyCobb which works with global brands including Cadbury, Pepsico and Ikea. Hear how Pat defied his family expectation by heading to art school, and was only accepted by his father after landing a role at Saatchi and Saatchi. Pat describes his business as...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Jeroen Van De Waal , Founder of OrcaNation. Jeroen is a multi-award winning campaigner for the oceans as well as an author and keynote speaker. Jeroen is building a network to do good. He is focused on bringing like-minded people together to turn the tide on destruction and pollution, and start putting the oceans, pl...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to cricketing legend Graham Gooch OBE. In a career spanning nearly 3 decades Graham has captained both Essex and England and was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation. In 2009 he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame and has worked as a coach at Essex, before becoming England battin...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Linda Green, Founder and Director of Green Square Communications . Through a series of personal tragedies, Linda maintained her passion and enthusiasm to succeed.   Linda works as a mentor to young people, to support them in finding their own path and appreciating their social value.  Linda is a volunteer for a numbe...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to musician David Philp. David rose to fame in the UK after forming his punk band The Automatics in 1976, even reaching No 1 with their track ‘When the Tanks Roll Over Poland Again’. As punk popularity faded David moved to LA before getting a call from Japan in 2000 when everything changed again… David reflects on the t...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Royal Air Force pilot Mandy Hickson. Mandy was the first female fast jet pilot in a Tornado squadron. She’s amassed over thirty years experience in aviation, completing three tours of duty and 45 missions over Iraq during that time. In this episode Mandy describes how failing at a critical point in her career empower...

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Sir Clive Woodward. Clive was a rugby union player and coach, most famous for coaching England during their 2003 World Cup win. He is also a businessman and has been Director of Sport for Team GB during 3 Olympic Games. In this episode Sir Clive shares his secrets to running great teams and how great teams are all ab...

Have you ever sat in a meeting where you’ve been throwing around ideas, only to be told  “That’s not how we do things around here” or   “No one has ever dared to try that before, that won’t work” . The question is, did you listen, or did you push on regardless and get disruptive with your business or life strategy? Jeff Dewing is the the CEO of Cloudfm Group - launched in 2011 with the goal of fix...