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Send us Fan Mail Brace yourself for leadership lessons that are as impactful as they are practical. We're joined by Jason Tooley, EMEA Sales Leader and Board Member of techUK,  who shares what he has learnt from his 35 years of experience in the tech industry. Strap in for a journey through the challenges and strategies of leading transformations, especially within the backdrop of EMEA.  We&a...

Send us Fan Mail Discover the ripple effects of interest rates on the tech industry as we sit down with Paul Wiefels from the Chasm Group. Our enlightening conversation traverses the current challenges faced by tech firms, especially in the bustling hub of the San Francisco Bay Area. From the precarious dance of hiring to the tough decisions on layoffs, Paul unpacks the ways companies are striving...

Send us Fan Mail If steering a sales team to greatness has ever felt like herding cats, you're in for a treat.  In this episode, we chat with Andy Wills, EMEA Sales Enablement Director at Dynatrace. Andy tells us when a business has all the ingredients to be successful it is the people that will make the difference, yet businesses very often neglect to invest in leadership skills. We share la...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered what propels a high-performance team? Vic is on this special Amplified only podcast, with co-host Pippa Hutchinson to give you an insider's view.   We dig deep into the dynamics of highly productive teams, who are not just aligned and collaborative, but also exhibit a strong sense of belonging.  If you’re struggling with team productivity,  being asked to do mor...

Send us Fan Mail What a thought provoking session Sam and I had with the highly engaging and incredibly energising Ben Pearce. Ben has two decades of tech go to market under his belt with Microsoft. The later 10 years, as a leader he realised he didn’t need to coach his team on the tech stuff, but the critical human skills needed to influence both internal stakeholders and customers. Packed with p...

Send us Fan Mail How do we make space in our work life for everyone to have a voice? What better person to speak to than Mark Murphy, Director of Global Partner Marketing at Cisco. Mark shares his experience of fostering and supporting a culture of inclusivity at Cisco. One of Mark’s many great roles involved co-leading the Cisco Pride and LGBTQ+ global community. His story is not just about leade...

Send us Fan Mail How do you cope with stress in the workplace?  Do you ever feel like your stress is managing you rather than the other way around?  ​We came across a wonderful sketchnote by Dr Hayley Lewis and knew we had to get her back for a chat on Get Amplified to delve into this some more.​ ​Stress can affect all of us at different times. Hayley is quick to point out that not all stress is b...

Send us Fan Mail How strategic is HR within your organisation?  In this episode, Chris Woodward, a workforce transformation consultant,  joins  the conversation  with Sam and Vic around moving from a resource-based view of managers to a talent-based view where everybody has potential.  We need to ensure the value of strategic HR is known. We need to think about how to maximise the potential of peo...

Send us Fan Mail After a Get Amplified break we're back with a flurry of exciting new guests. We kick off September by looking outside of the tech industry to see what we can learn from the Pharma industry.  Not only are both industries affected by high attrition, particularly through Covid, but both share the same challenges of time to market – of people being pulled in different directions,...

Send us Fan Mail We had such fun recording this podcast, it is relevant for everyone. Andy Hunt gives us a sneak peek into the conversations and insights he focuses on as a CEO coach. The lessons Andy shares are not just for CEOs, but for any leader or aspiring leader.  We touch on a wealth of topics such as: 1) How the best leaders are coaches. 2) Why culture is a vehicle for scale (it's a m...

Send us Fan Mail We’re writing a book! We have the structure and contents – we just need some real-life stories to support each of the chapters to bring the book to life.  And that’s where you come in . . . we’d love you to be part of what we’re doing.  About the book Title: Finding your TeamX™ - Why leave teamwork to chance when there is a proven process?  If only there was a way to take all the...

Send us Fan Mail Diversity - hot topic or over used word? Whatever your view on this, so many of us are guilty of hiring who we know. It’s hard to disagree with Lee when he says we all need to build more diverse networks.   Lee Higgins, Founder of Diverse Talent Networks, shares with us why we should think ‘culture add’ instead of ‘culture fit’ and why thinking value aligned will allow for more di...

Send us Fan Mail We are constantly being asked if it is possible to build trust in teams that are not in the office together. The short answer is YES!  But don’t hear it from us, in this episode of Get Amplified, Sam and Vic are joined by Tony Roberts a Customer Success Leader at Okta who shares how investing in time to not only introduce his team to the Five Behaviours but how turning into team m...

Send us Fan Mail As many organisations try to figure out how and when to use their office space, we thought it would be great to hear from the experts!   Sam and Vic are delighted to be joined by Allison English, Deputy CEO at Leesman, to talk about the Leesman Index and super relevant work Leesman are doing to measure and analyse employees workplace experience. This podcast is very timely as on t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Series 4 - What a treat we have for you here - Thank you Darren! We have been asked many times by clients to help them with change management. Whilst it is a well known fact 70%  of change initiatives are not successful and success rates can improve from 30% to 80% if you put an equal focus on the people as well as what you are trying to change,  we knew we had part of...

Send us Fan Mail If this title doesn’t appeal to you because you have meetings nailed - we want to talk to you! There isn’t a person or company we speak to that isn’t feeling the pain of meeting gridlock in this post pandemic hybrid working world. It is for this reason we were thrilled to have Dr Carrie Goucher join us and share what she has learnt during her PhD at Cambridge University on this ju...

Send us Fan Mail Matt Piercy, joins Amplifiers Lewis Gee and Lindsey Moore  to bring to life our New Hire Productivity Report: ‘Move over great attrition, bring on great engagement.’  We hope you enjoy this discussion as we look at the impact of the ‘great attrition’ on the tech industry. Organisations and sales leaders are under huge pressure to hit their quarterly revenue targets but in today’s...

Send us Fan Mail We are finding cross team collaboration is the new big headache organisations face since COVID impacted where we work. The challenge has now become so big for organisations, it is hard to know where to start. Thanks to Paul Wiefels from the Chasm group we were introduced to Jamie Thomas from Cophi, which is a super simple diagnostics tool to help you measure and identify where to...

Send us Fan Mail Wow what a conversation. It’s fascinating hearing former combat helicopter pilot & squadron leader, Sarah Furness, share her experience and learnings around how we can all fly higher. There are some great tips and reminders of how we can improve the way we work, starting with understanding our own minds. Sarah tells us that we are never too old to learn, we can always train ou...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome back Andy Bryars Director of Customer Success EMEA at Okta to share the secrets of his team’s success and shine a spotlight on one of his brightest stars.  Moving from an individual contributor to manager role is one of the biggest changes we experience in our career.  Jamie McDonnell from Okta’s EMEA Customer Success team shares his experience of the step up. We also g...

Send us Fan Mail What a treat it was  for Sam and Vic to record this with Tim. It will be clear listening to this why Tim is such a great addition to the Amplified Group family. Tim is clearly a people and team first sales leader.  The real magic of this podcast is all the practical and pragmatic best practices that Tim shares about how he has learnt to set his teams up for success, recognising th...

Send us Fan Mail Herve Renault Vice President  of Cloud Sales for VMware EMEA joins Vic and Sam for as Sam delightfully wraps it up as 'a canter through the role of the sales specialist, value selling and the transition to the cloud. Herve talks from the heart on subjects he is clearly passionate about, and his passion is infectious!  He also moves us on from recommending a book to recommendi...

Send us Fan Mail Denise Sangster is recognised  in the top 10 most influential women in tech, working as CEO of Global Touch Denise consults with many leading tech companies on their partner strategy. Denise joins Vic and Sam to talk about the future of partners in the era of consumption. Denise is a wonderful advocate of this critical route to market which often is the ‘under dog’ to enterprise s...

Send us Fan Mail What a treat you are in for! Darren joins Sam and Vic to share his vast experience and learnings through the transformations he advises on.  The breadth of content on this podcast is everything from learning how to be the best version of yourself, through to implementing Geoffrey Moore’s Zones model.  The underlying message throughout is no matter how much change technology drives...

Send us Fan Mail We miss Sam in this episode of Get Amplified, but instead Vic is joined by Lindsey Moore and Pippa Hutchinson to discuss the findings of our Tech Leaders Survey. As you will hear there are some real positives to how the Tech Industry has fared through the Pandemic, but we also believe we get to the heart of why everyone in tech is feeling the ‘heat’. We hope you find it as insight...