Helping Organisations Thrive with Julian Roberts

Today I am interviewing Debbie Hancock who is the founder of Southbourne Accountancy and Business services, who is also a chartered management accountant.   Debbie shares the importance of a healthy money mindset, whether we are a business owner or work for an organisation, in fact it affects all areas of our life. Debbie shares that our attitudes to money are developed when we are growing up, in...

Today I am interviewing Sarah Harvey who is a leadership, culture and conflict coach.   Do you have Savvy conversations? What are Savvy conversations? Savvy conversations are all about creating a re-frame on what might be those difficult and challenging conversations we might have, Sarah shares what they mean and how we can incorporate them into our everyday conversations so that we create a great...

Today I am interviewing David Henzel who is a serial entrepreneur, and has been for the last 20 years.   David's passion is to help individuals and their organisations reach their full potential, and this is reflected in the multiple businesses that he has created or invested in. David success as an entrepreneur has been down to his focus on creating healthy habits, such as gratitude exercises on...

Welcome to this leadership collaboration series with myself and Nancy Halpern, this series is streamed live on LinkedIn every Monday, 11am EST and 4pm GMT.   In this series Nancy and I tackle key leadership challenges on a weekly, these could be current to the context we are in, and some will be evergreen challenges. We wanted to share our two very different perspectives on solving these leadershi...

Today I am interviewing Natalie Schrogl who is Leadership & Management consultant who assist leaders & organisations to unlock the human element in leadership & align it with company goals.   Natalie shares how it is important to develop human connections with people which is a fundamental cornerstone to any leadership approach. So by the connection to gain insight into the people around you that...

Today I am interviewing Elsa Hogan who is the Managing Director of RHH Franks Ltd, which has been supplying the aviation, marine and nuclear industries with quality components since 1961.   Elsa acknowledges that you need to be mental strong when you are leading a business, not just because of the pandemic but to drive a business strategy forward requires mental fortitude, she also recognises that...

Welcome to this leadership collaboration series with myself and Nancy Halpern, this series is streamed live on LinkedIn every Monday, 11am EST and 4pm GMT.   In this series Nancy and I tackle key leadership challenges on a weekly, these could be current to the context we are in, and some will be evergreen challenges. We wanted to share our two very different perspectives on solving these leadershi...

Today I am interviewing Sarah Alexander who is the Managing Director of Lewis Brownlee Chartered Accountants.   Sarah shares how she led her organisation through the last 18 months of the pandemic, although there was massive uncertainty and there still is, she ensured that her focus was communication with her teams and clients. This was done on a regular basis internally with a number of opportuni...

Today I am interviewing Timothy Clark who is the founder and CEO of LeaderFactor.   Timothy shares how it is important to create a psychological safe environment to enable your people to flourish and ultimate help the organisation thrive. Timothy defines psychological safety as 'an environment of rewarded vulnerability', when our vulnerability is rewarded, we engage, contribute meaningfully, and e...

Welcome to this leadership collaboration series with myself and Nancy Halpern, this series is streamed live on LinkedIn every Monday, 11am EST and 4pm GMT.   In this series Nancy and I tackle key leadership challenges on a weekly, these could be current to the context we are in, and some will be evergreen challenges. We wanted to share our two very different perspectives on solving these leadershi...

Today I am interviewing Dave Buzanko who is a resilient coach.   Resilience is vital in any organisation and so important to develop within your people, Dave shares how his own life experiences has developed resilience. In 2008, Dave survived business sabotage from one of his largest customers. He also survived the stress induced heart crisis that followed due to years of chronic stress, mindless...

Today I am interviewing Lorena Acosta who is a personal brand evangelist, and has demonstrated how to develop a robust sustainable personal brand since she has over 1.4 million followers on LinkedIn.   Developing your personal brand is not just for the entrepreneur but also for any leader in an organisation, listen to Lorena who shares from her experience of helping many leaders develop their pers...

Today I am interviewing Kenneth Bombace who is the CEO of Global Threat Solutions.   Kenneth shares how he has lead in the very uncertain times we have all had in the last 18 months, where he has not stranger to uncertain times since he has led all Protection Operations for one of the largest police departments in the United States and as an Army Intelligence Officer he led policing and Counter In...

Today I am interviewing Andrew Deutsch who is the CEO of Fangled Technology.   Andrew shares how it is important of having advocates in your organisation, so that they share beyond the workplace of the positive views of the company, we also looked at how we can develop them to have a positive impact on the business. Andrew shared that you need to ensure you reward employees, make sure they know wh...

Today I am interviewing Chris Wallace who is the Co-Founder & President of InnerView Group.   Chris shared how we should create alignment of who we stand for as a brand in an organisation with the employees, and ensuring that there is engagement in this process. Chris emphasised that engagement is vital, if you can engage employees in dialogue, they’ll start representing your brand and products in...

Today I am interviewing Amy Lynn Durham who is the CEO of "Create Magic At Work" and a U.C. Berkeley Certified Executive Coach.   Amy shared how to create magic at work with spiritual intelligence, although it is important to be holistic in our approach, since we have PQ (physical intelligence), IQ and EQ as well, and making sure that these areas are also growing and developing throughout our live...

Today I am interviewing Todd Cherches who is the CEO & Co-founder of Big Blue Gumball.   We dived into the power of visual thinking and communicating within leadership, and we looked at how to create a compelling vision and making sure that you are aware of 2 aspects of what people will be thinking (thought bubbles), one is 'Why should I care?' and the other is 'How will I benefit from this?'. Tod...

Today I am interviewing John Buglino who is the Director of Marketing for Optessa.   It was great to hear how John leads with empathy in all that he does, and how leading in this way has such an impact on your team and ultimately creates a better environment for building relationships which leads to better productivity and creativity. John also shares that business is only the third priority at be...

Today I am interviewing Cheryl Dixon who is a seasoned Chief Communications Officer.   This episode is packed with so much gold around communicating within organisations, as Cheryl shares her wisdom around leadership and communication skills for hybrid work environments, best practices for fostering a positive culture, creating agreements for effective organisational communication, message cascade...

Today I am interviewing Michelle Gibbings who is a Workplace expert and keynote speaker. We explored how we can take a bad boss conflict and turn it into a positive impact in our teams and organisations. Michelle shares her wisdom drawn from decades in corporate leadership, personal stories and much more. Her key approach is in these 5 key ways: 1. Determine where the problem really lies, 2. Ident...

Today I am interviewing Mike Maynard who is the MD of Napier Partnership Ltd.   Mike shares his passion for recruiting and developing young people in his organisation, whether they are graduates or on an apprenticeship scheme. He likes the idea that they bring differing perspectives which challenge the norms, they develop fast and create a lot of high energy. Mike also shares the challenge of not...

Today I am interviewing Rishon Blumberg and Michael Solomon who founded 10x Management.   We explored how to optimise and maximise your talent in your organisation with Rishon and Michael, and what I love about these guys, is that they are walking the talk with all what they are doing. Since they shared how they have managed throughout this tough year of the pandemic with their own company and sta...

Today I am interviewing Paul Unwin who is the Smart Motorways Programme Regional Lead Sponsor in the UK.   Paul shares his passion for developing emerging leaders in his organisation, and how this so resonates for him in trying to unlock the potential of individuals. Paul explains how he goes about this, using mentoring as the fundamental building block of support, where he not only speaks into th...

Today I am interviewing Madeleine Evans who is an investor and entrepreneur driving transformation and growth across corporate and startup companies, she is also the CEO and Founder of Levell.   In this episode we explored more about burnout, how to recognise it and also provide ways to not only minimise it but eliminate it, Madeleine shares from her own personal experience that led her to create...

Today I am interviewing Alain Hunkins who is the CEO of the Hunkins Leadership Group.   In this episode we explored the science of leadership, and before we got into that we discussed how a lot of leadership is based on high performance in a specialism like sales, then promoted to sales director, and often without the skills of leadership or self-awareness in how they might be being perceived. Ala...