Helping Organisations Thrive with Julian Roberts

Today I am interviewing James Kerr who is a management consultant, coach and keynote speaker working to make a difference for businesses by helping leaders reshape the way work is done.   We explore how we can create an organisation/company that is indispensable to their clients/customer, creating a business that your customers cannot live without. Looking at strategies like doing things "right" a...

Today I am interviewing Wendy Born who is a engaging facilitator, coach, speaker and author.   We explored the whole area of creating great leaders, with an approach of using the principles of parenting in the workplace. This is not about having parent-child relationships at work, as these are not helpful but using aspects like role modeling - being aware that as a leader you are always on show an...

Welcome to this solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation.   Elon Musk has this great mindset quote 'Stop being patient and start asking yourself, how do I accomplish my 10 years plan in 6 months? You will probably fail but you will be lot further ahead of the person who simply accepted it was going to t...

Today I am interviewing Deborah Battersby who is all about transforming high-achieving entrepreneurs and business leaders, she is the owner of Success Matrix Intl., an executive coach and strategist to entrepreneurs and business leaders.   This was a very powerful and deep conversation on understanding and influencing the subconscious for helping us to be more effective leaders. Deborah shares how...

Welcome to this solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation.   As we end 2020 and look forward to 2021 it is important to take stock before we move on with purpose.   Use the holiday period to do the following, I call it the 3 R's.   1. Reflect - an important part of life it to reflect on life and use the...

Today I am interviewing Lee Houghton who is a Business improvement coach and is the co-fonder of Get Knowledge (Enabling Service Sector organisations to reduce costs whilst delighting customers & people through coaching).   We explored how we can keep our employees engaged despite the changes we may be making right now. Lee shares the 4 C's. 1. Connecting around a single purpose. 2. Converse - wha...

Today I am interviewing Dr Alkistis Agio who is a TEDx speaker, Coach/Trainer in Self Leadership and Wellness. We explored the 3 Golden Principles of Greek Philosophy for Self Leadership, 1. Ethos 2. Pathos 3. Logus. Alkistis also shared her ALKISTIS Method® as described in her book 'From Fear to Freedom' is a unique method, which integrates the ageless, time tested principles of Greek Philosophy...

Welcome to this solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation.   Perspectives! Perspective is just a point of view. If we realise that it is only that, a point of view, it will really help us in our quest to understand others better. It may appear as the truth, but really it is only true to ourselves. So if...

Today I am interviewing Adam Lewis who is the CEO & Founder of Apploi, Adam has spent a number of years in HR & Recruitment, and especially in the tech industry of these sectors.   Adam shares some valuable insights in how to keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive once you start to scale up from start-up, along with helpful strategies to motivate his team in these challenging times.   Watch the int...

Today I am interviewing Siobhan McHale who is a Culture Transformer | Author of “The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change” | Executive General Manager of People, Culture & Change at DuluxGroup | Member of Thinkers50 Radar 2020.   We explore how Siobhan has taken her years of experience as a consultant and now executive GM of People, to help and enable organistions to change their culture to enable th...

Welcome to this solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation.   Firstly, what is a thriving mode?   Thriving is living and thinking abundantly. Thriving is joyful and infectious. Thriving is having plenty of energy and inspiration.   So how to do we switch to a thriving mode? Here are some ways that will he...

Today I am interviewing Nancy Halpern who diagnoses and resolves political dysfunction in organisations; Podcast host; keynote speaker; thought leader on workplace politics. We explore that internal politics is a skillset, like negotiation, relationship building and influencing others, however the key is the intention behind any of these. Make sure the intention is to build, serve and prosper the...

Today I am interviewing Claire Chandler who is an Architect of Profitable Swagger | Business Growth & Strategic Leadership Advisor | Founder | Keynote Speaker and author of 2 books. We explored how to motivate teams in times of uncertainty, focusing on gaining clarity to your mission/purpose and use this as a GPS to help you navigate and motivate your team.  Claire shred some wonderful insights al...

Today I am interviewing Kon Apostolopoulos, Kon is the founder and CEO of Fresh Biz Solutions, LLC, a human capital management consultancy, which provides performance improvement and training solutions to help organizations develop their people, improve business results, and reap the benefits of a comprehensive talent management strategy. He is also the co-author of “7 Keys to Navigating a Crisis....

Welcome to this solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation.   Are you courageous? Are you comfortable with not knowing?  Here is a paraphrase of a Theodore Roosevelt quote. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who at the best knows in...

Today I am interviewing Alon Zaibert who is a Master of Emotional Relevance. Where we discuss ways to use 'getting personal' with your team to stand out and make an impact. During this interview Alon shared key strategies and insights along with some real examples, it was like an impromptu workshop for me - I loved it. Alon has so much energy and passion to help those make an impact in using emoti...

Today I am interviewing Rosemary Ikpeme who is the Founder and Creator at MYnd Map, a mindfulness and productivity tools to boost focus, productivity and help create a happy, fulfilled and balanced life. Our conversation explored the power of mindfulness, and how this can truly build and continual to provide resilience. Making sure you are full present and in the moment, not looking back or to the...

Welcome to this solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation.   We are all experiencing tremendous amounts of change in our personal and professional lives. Constant and long term change can make you weary, can be tiring, can be exhausting – I’ve experienced this recently myself.  So how do we overcome this...

Today I am interviewing Mark Metry who is Forbes featured keynote speaker, a podcast host of Humans 2.0 show, an Author of Screw Being Shy, and founder of GrowCasts.   Mark shared in an open and frank way how he is trying to navigate these uncertain times, by putting in some key psychological safe factors at the base of all what you do. When you are living in a time of uncertainty or instability ,...

Today I am interviewing Elia Gourgouris who is the founder of the Happiness Centre - an organisation of world leading experts in the field of Positive Psychology responsible for helping thousands of individuals. Elia gave some great insights on helping you navigate through a crisis; self-care being a high priority. Looking after ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually is the utmost importan...

Welcome to this solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation.   Not surprisingly, we know we cannot predict the future, and yet how much time and resource do we invest in trying to fathom it out? I would suggest we need to invest more into what we can control. We can control how we respond to challenges. So...

Today I am interviewing Joseph Saheb Youssef who is the Director of sales & marketing of CreateTheEdge, their mission is to help individuals and their businesses create an edge for themselves or their business. We had a conversation on why people matter to an organisation, and that leaders need to be more cognitive of people and development of their personal brand. We focused on leaders who need t...

Today I am interviewing Mark Roberts who is the founder and CEO of OTB Sales Solutions and has over 36 years of experience of helping organisations drive profitable sales growth by implementing a no smoke and mirrors framework. We discuss how to reset and grow your business profitably, ensuring you are leveraging the data you have, and making sure have an intent to serve and help your clients. Usi...

Today I am interviewing Raj Gupta who is a HR leader of 25+ years, author of 6 books and a global speaker on HR leadership. We discussed on how important culture is at this time, and building a culture of growth that stems from leadership being incredible self-aware. And being mindful of the diversity we now have due to global teams and virtually connecting around the world, ensuring we are aware...

Welcome to this new solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation. This is where I share my thoughts, insights and reflections on conversations I have had either with those I interview or work with in organisations. I will be sharing aspects of building resilience, creating leadership that will drive a empow...