Lead To Succeed

Mateusz is co-founder of Sellizer. We discuss the challenges of managing and leading a remote team and the importance of values in leadership success. We also discuss: ✔️ Fast and slow decision making ✔️ Why having a mastermind group is making a big difference ✔️ One of the most important questions to ask new recruits  ✔️ Leaving your ego behind to be an effective leader ✔️ Tips for dealing with t...

Our guest Kay Kukoyi is the founder of Purposeful Group, author, speaker, and lecturer. Kay shares her leadership lessons and why she doesn't want members of her team to be heroes. Kay considers leadership to be daily work in progress and shares very practical steps for managing difficult conversations.  We discuss: ✔️ Why self-reflection is essential to growth ✔️ Managing difficult conversations...

Ahmed is an entrepreneurial leader on a mission to make healthcare fairer and patient-centric. We discover the leadership challenges of scaling a start-up business with a new product in a risk-averse industry. We discuss: ✔️ Why courage comes first ✔️ The importance of patience ✔️ Strong self-awareness for leadership performance ✔️ Essential considerations for good decision making ✔️ Managing diff...

Connecting how to your why and your purpose. This is at the heart of our discussion with guest Brenda Rigney. Brenda is a leadership and business coach working with entrepreneurs. Join us for a lively and informative discussion. We discuss: ✔️ Practical tips for coping with challenging times, in Brenda's case, leaving corporate life and going through a divorce ✔️ Great leadership traits ✔️Why we n...

Nick is the founder of Sempre and he shares openly the challenges of leadership, from recognising that despite being the founder, he was part of the problem of developing the business and learning to leave your ego out of the equation.    We discuss Always be defining what good looks like. What to do when the data and your gut feeling are giving 2 different messages. Why he regrets not investing i...

Our guests, Leigh and Paula are leaders of a global digital business. Their mission is to put to bed the myth that you can't have a successful business as an artist. They want everyone who has a creative passion and artistic talent to step into it and grow a hugely successful company. We discuss: ✔️Why customer-centricity is at the heart of their business ✔️Helping their clients to see and value t...

'We don't use the word failure' - explains Anuj, CEO and founder of  I8Labs. Instead, Anuj's focus is on experiments and having a good number of them. We kick off by asking Anuj what complex leadership problems he has faced, and how he has learnt to hand over control to others as the business grows. With 15 minutes of daily self-reflection, Anuj shares his leadership principles, we discuss: ✔️Aski...

The importance of humbleness and encouraging your team to flourish. These are just two of the leadership topics we cover with guest Kieren Windsor.  We discuss: * What makes a great leader * Is leadership a mindset? * Taking responsibility for the company vision * The importance of introspection   * Learning from leaders you admire * Lessons learnt from starting a new business in challenging times...

A big dose of leadership inspiration from guest Tim O'Brien. Tim has faced many challenges in growing his family business to $8m in revenues since 2010 when he opened his first store, The Healthy Place.    We discuss: ✔️Tim's biggest leadership lesson  ✔️Setting his business apart from your competitors ✔️How he stayed true to his vision even when the numbers were pointing in the wrong direction ✔️...

Guest Nikki Hill shares her views on leadership, defining great leadership as seeing the potential in others that they don't see in themselves. "Leadership is a constant evolvement, it's like a first date," and Nikki is an advocate of sharing vulnerabilities and being authentic as it brings the human dimension to leadership. We discuss ✔️Keeping yourself re-energised to be able to lead ✔️Being bot...

Creativity is an aspect of leadership that is often overlooked. Our guest Tii Ricks shares her views on this and explains why it matters, along with other leadership insights. Tii has evolved her career from directing films to leading sales teams at a variety of companies and we discuss how creativity can make a difference to people and outcomes. We talk about imposter syndrome and why it's comple...

Tom Peters is a world-renowned author of 19 books including In Search of Excellence, and an international speaker on leadership and management. He shares his experiences, wisdom and views on what is needed to be a leader during tumultuous times.   His latest book, Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism is packed with practical actionable steps, a checklist for leading both teams and businesses. We discu...

Insights into authentic leadership Join us with guest Piers Mummery, who shares insights into authentic leadership and why shifting your energy provides greater awareness, increased quality of life and new opportunities.  We discuss ➡️ Reaction V response to challenging situations ➡️ Catabolic and Anabolic states and the impact they have ➡️ How to manage challenging situations ➡️ 3 key leadership...

Business ethics, market-driven decisions and the importance of the human dynamic in leadership. Our guest Misch Dohler is a serial entrepreneur with 5 companies, a professor in Wireless Communications King's College London, and a composer & pianist with 5 albums on Spotify/iTunes. Mischa is a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence and a policy advisor to Governments on issues re...

If you have your own Mount Everest to scale, whether that's as an entrepreneur,  leader or executive, you will get incredible insights and ideas from this episode with entrepreneur, author and mountaineer, Erik Severinghaus. We discuss: ✔️How leading a business is more challenging than climbing Mount Everest ✔️Why pushing forward all the time to achieve more isn't always the answer ✔️Lessons learn...

Our guest is Ian Hogg - Chairman and CEO of fastPAYE With over 40 years of leadership experience, starting in the Navy and now leading a team and growing a business, Ian shares lessons learnt and how he's adjusted his leadership as a result.  We discuss: How Ian receives critical feedback from his team for ongoing leadership development  Essential leadership traits Practical leadership tips Servan...

Leadership is unselfish and trust has to be earnt. Today our podcast guest is  Nuno Soares , author and owner of Clear IT solutions.  Nuno's view on leadership is that it's not a title, you need followers to be a leader and earn trust, you can't simply ask people to follow you. It's not a LinkedIn title.  We discuss Leadership traits Why there are huge opportunities for SME businesses that leverag...

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is more highly valued by employers than IQ.  We explore what it is and why it's such an important leadership trait. Callum and I shine a spotlight on emotional intelligence. We discuss what it is and its role in leadership. We review the various aspects of EQ, what it entails and how leaders can exhibit this highly valued trait in order to have positive working relation...

Justin's Roethlingshoefer shares his perspectives on the key to success, not just in leadership, but in all areas of life.  We discuss: High Performance High performance has become an overused term, describing everyday things such as bed linen to clothing and even habits! Justin seeks to enhance conscious leaders as he takes us through sports analogies to share his perspectives on leadership today...

Welcome to a new style episode where we take a leadership topic and discuss its importance and relevance in business today. In this episode, Callum and Rebecca discuss the impact of company culture on performance and results. Callum shares his perspective from working in an organisation and Rebecca shares hers in growing a business where the majority of the workforce were out based. We discuss: 1....

Our podcast guest is   Kiki Stanton , of Kiki Kirby Consultancy.  A very heartfelt, open and insightful discussion. Kiki talks about humility, being humble and leading from the heart. Being open as a leader and willing to be open to criticism and to show vulnerability. Kiki first learnt about leadership by not doing it right, focusing on action, striving for success around money and status.  Kiki...

Our guest this week is Bryn Ible - Regional Managing Director of Advantedge Commercial Finance. Bryn shares his experiences in his first leadership-oriented role, where he applied his learnings from previous mentors and managers.  Bryn talks about how he sees the two aspects to leadership; the financial aspect - ensuring the numbers align on the P&L statement, what drives the business and the depa...

Our podcast guest is -  Evan Carmichael - author of Built to Serve, founder of Evan Carmichael Communications, Inc top 100 leadership speakers, Forbes top 40 Social Marketers.   An inspiring conversation, we discuss: Why leadership is an endless mountain to climb but help others climbing behind you Why it's important to do things that scare you and give you a boom, boom moment! Help others get whe...

This week our guest is Danny Matthews, the Founder & Creative Director of Danny&co. Danny has had significant experience in two different industries, the financial sector and creative graphic design and shares insights on leadership and entrepreneurship. Danny kicks things off by sharing a  leadership analogy he remembers from a picture he once saw, a pack of wolves climbing a mountain, but being...

Our review episode with guest Jordi Ferrer of ServiceNow.  Original podcast description Our guest this week is Jordi Ferrer, VP & GM ServiceNow - UK & Ireland, one of the fastest-growing global SaaS companies.    We talk about what traits make an effective leader and this comes down to the ability to listen to your team, seek to understand them and enabling a sense of trust. Jordi shared an analog...