Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

Anna Baird, Director of Cocoon Advisory Google, LinkedIn, CEB, Macquarie and PwC Never have people said 'that leader is too human for my liking' or 'that business was too helpful to me' Anna has always been rooted in customer experience work, whether it be the burgeoning era of CRM technology systems or true-data-driven-future product development...every part of her career has included three key e...

Early on in her career, Anita was hired as one of PayPal’s first employees in the UK and tasked with building the business from the ground up. She played a key role in launching its merchant services business and establishing PayPal as a brand in its own right outside of its parent company, eBay. She then went on to hold various leadership roles within Barclays, where she was appointed as the firs...

Raised in a violent ghetto environment in Kingston, Jamaica, Devon Harris is a graduate of the prestigious Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in England. He served as an officer in the Jamaica Defence Force, retiring as a Captain. He is a founding member of the first Jamaican bobsled team which competed in the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada. Their exploits inspired the Disney movie Cool Runni...

Angus has enjoyed a career in senior academic leadership across a number of leading British universities, including Loughborough and Lancaster where he served as business school Dean. The Dean’s role is endlessly fascinating and challenging. While business schools underpin the financial performance of contemporary universities they are frequently regarded as intellectual inferiors by many traditio...

Theme – I love business and people – and I believe you can create an environment and practises that means everyone can learn, grow and be successful for them personally as well as for the business. You don’t have to be an arsehole to be successful! Philippa has worked in tech all her career, and has been lucky to be able to follow her purpose by realising the benefits that tech brings to enhance s...

Leigh shares the story of her life experiences and how that has shaped her to become the CEO of the Inspiring Leadership Trust charity. She has achieved this whilst also developing her skills as a Director of her own business supporting, challenging and inspiring as leadership coach, team coach, motivational speaker, author and podcaster. A very open authentic and heartfelt story whilst also shari...

Paul’s parents set up a bio-technology company when he was at school. The experience of helping with the early funding, the challenges of growth, the first Queens Award for innovation, the successes and the ultimate sale was inspirational. Paul is now a successful entrepreneur, board director and investor with over 25 years of experience working with growth companies in the media, information and...

The most senior UK officer wounded in Afghanistan, David served for 26 years and commanded on operations at all levels up to and including Battle Group before losing 10cm of his right femur to a Taliban bullet during a firefight north of Musa Qaleh in June 2008.   After four years of reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation he was medically discharged and joined Help for Heroes where he crea...

Josh joined LinkedIn - the world’s largest professional network - in 2011, and is now Country Manager for the UK and VP of their Marketing Solutions (advertising) business in EMEA and Latin America. In his role he is responsible for driving member growth, strategic partnerships and revenue across all lines of business in the UK, and leads sales teams across the EMEA and LATAM regions as they help...

From the very beginning my professional life has centered around vocational careers, "believing wholeheartedly in what you are doing is fundamental to success", as a professional photographer for national and international clients across all sectors, as a manager in Royal Mail deliveries, through state ownership to private entity where people mean everything, to my current role as the Clipper Roun...

Nick has specialised in employment law for about 30 years and advises both businesses and senior individuals. He had a varied career which commenced in merchant banking before becoming a police officer in the Metropolitan Police in London for seven and a half years. During this time, he completed a law degree and then qualified as a Barrister and practiced for a couple of years before transferring...

General Sir Rupert Smith, is a retired British Army Officer of 40 years' experience. He commanded forces at every rank from Second Lieutenant to General in all five continents. On three occasions in the 1990s, he commanded formations of some 20,000 people and 750 fighting vehicles and airplanes to achieve strategic goals: in the Gulf War 90/91, in Bosnia 95 and in Northern Ireland 96-98. Additiona...

Cath walked into an army recruiting centre when she was 18, only to walk out again 5 minutes later disappointed and confused at the apparent lack of interest from the male recruiting sergeant, dismissing all thoughts of a possible military career. 25 (ish!) years later she now leads recruitment for the army. In the last two years, alongside her army counterpart, she has overseen the turnaround of...

Mike first came into the media industry reasonably late, at the age of 26, after having spent some time in Denmark working out what he wanted to do with his life. He joined Zenith Media as a graduate trainee TV buyer (buying TV advertising space on behalf of clients), and then worked at a number of agencies and media owners before coming to Pearl & Dean, where he has been Enterprise Director f...

Lucy Giles was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Transport in 1992 after studying at Exeter University.  Regimental duty in the newly formed Royal Logistic Corps included postings within Germany, UK and South Africa with deployments to Bosnia (1994, 1997, 1999), East Timor and Sierra Leone.  She commanded 47 Air Despatch Squadron, enabling operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, followed...

Leila has been at Facebook for over 9 years, initially leading B2B marketing efforts in the UK before taking on responsibility for Northern Europe. She’s had the privilege of growing into a senior leadership role while at Facebook. Prior to Facebook she spent almost 6 years at PayPal, where she was responsible for B2B acquisition marketing, with a focus on large enterprise businesses and top...

James is currently responsible for executive development, high potential programs up to senior executive level and driving strategic initiatives that will evolve Walmart to meet future challenges, the scale is the challenge, 1.3 million associates in the US, 2.3 million world-wide. His career before Walmart was six years of risk and business consultancy and a 26-year military career. After an...

Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer operates at the nexus of finance, technology and regulation, passionate about creating the digital financial ecosystem of the future. After a distinguished career of over a decade with Citi, Ruth is now an independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Permanent TSB and Digital Identity Net as well as a Partner at Gauss Ventures. She is a Strategic Adviser of the European T...

Isabel Fox is one of just a handful of female General Partners in the UK, who manages an early stage deep-tech fund focused on human health (healthcare, life sciences, agriculture, food and wellness). At Luminous Ventures, Isabel has the opportunity to indulge her passion for innovation, investing in visionary founders with frontier technologies and supporting them to commercialise to scale. ...

Kate Oliver is a motorcycle tour leader and leads tours in the High Himalaya in India, Sikkim and Nepal. She is also a qualified stone mason, a poet, writer and a member of Kellogg College Oxford Alumni where she studied for her Masters in Creative Writing and critical practice. Although she has received no formal leadership training she has been required to show inspirational leadership to take h...

Chuka has had a varied career which has involved being a public figure for much of the last 10 years. The common thread running through his two-decade career, first in corporate law, then in public policy, and now back in business has been desire to build a better and more responsible capitalism in which all citizens have stake. The son of an entrepreneur, from a mixed heritage family, h...

Stepping Out is a specialist consulting practice. We help businesses and individuals to get top team off boardingright. For the individual—Stepping Out is acoaching practice that provides senior executives with a route-map and atravel guide to help think, plan, and execute stepping out from the top team and onward to new adventures. For the company—we offer policy and best-practice advice, interna...

Richard Fenning is a partner at Manchester Square Partners specialising in leadership, career management and succession. Before joining Manchester Square Partners, Richard spent 32 years in professional services, principally with the risk consulting firm, Control Risks which he joined in 1993. He was Global CEO for 14 years from 2005 until 2019 leading the firm through a period of significant grow...

Alistair started his professional career in the Armed forces as an Infantry Officer, on transitioning to the commercial sector he established an advisory business to work with airlines in the risk and crisis management domain and subsequently joined PwC in 2000. Over this past 20 year he has developed a deep domain knowledge of the Industrials Sector and has designed and delivered complex transfor...

Globally noted as a leader in financial services, Deanna Oppenheimer has spent a dynamic career helping companies going through turnaround and inspiring game changing growth. Deanna continues to serve on several global public and private boards, from established trend-setters to industry disruptors .   She founded the advising firm, CameoWorks, helping innovative organizations and their leade...