Leadership BITES

Sterling Hawkins is an author of Hunting Discomfort , investor and entrepreneur, but most importantly he is a keynote speaker and founder of the #NoMatterWhat movement. What's the essence of what he does in a nutshell? He shows people how to achieve the results they want regardless of the circumstances.  Sterling went from multi-billion dollar startup to collapse and coming back to launch, in...

Pepyn is a highly experienced and knowledgeable CEO with a 30-year track record of leading companies to create and deliver financial value to shareholders in challenging, transformational and disruptive situations.  A global CEO & executive, chairman of the board and PE expert, with a track record for fast and solid financial results in transformations of B2B companies with industrial manufact...

Andrew is Director Brand Strategy at Reach Plc . Reach are the UK's largest news publisher with titles and stations such as The Mirror The Express The Star Daily Record The People OK! New Birmingham Mail Manchester Evening News The ‘Live’ digital network and InYourArea are just some of the 120+ brands connecting with audiences nationally and locally Andrew is a researcher by trade and today h...

Professor Rob Briner does research, lectures, write, speaks and consults in a number of areas including organizational, work psychology, HR and evidence-based practice/management. Over the past 20 years his interests in practice have focused on finding ways of improving the use of evidence of various types to enhance individual and organizational decision-making. He has been named by HR Magazine a...

Professor Joe O'Maloney is passionate about helping consultants and consultancies grow. He is a Professor of Consulting at Cardiff University and CEO of Consulting Mastered , a company which helps ambitious consultancies grow profits through evidence-based advice. Joe has also provided consultancy for many of the large firms, including McKinsey & Co., IBM, Deloitte and Bain & Co, and...

Michael Solomon is an established entrepreneur with a strong desire to help people, a sharp eye for business, and a desire to make a difference. The four organizations he’s helped found — for-profit and nonprofit alike — share a common goal of improving people’s lives. He began his career working with Jon Landau Management on several Bruce Springsteen tours, followed by a three year stint at Epic...

Over the past decade, Futurist Thomas Frey has built an enormous following around the world based on his ability to develop accurate visions of the future and describe the opportunities ahead. Having started seventeen businesses himself and assisting on the development of hundreds more, the understanding he brings to his audiences is a rare blend of reality-based thinking coupled with a clear-head...

In this episode we discuss the balance between 'Entitlement and Exploitation'. I was catalysed by the heading: "Stop moaning about hours, City chief tells junior bankers on £70,000: Young mothers work just as hard, rages Xavier Rolet - who rose from sink estate" The sub heading was: Xavier Rolet, the former boss of the London Stock Exchange, who built his career in banking, sai...

Wayne Matthews is a Major in the Texas Rangers, he is part of the executive leadership team of the Texas Ranger Division, and manages operations in an assigned region of Texas.  The Texas Rangers date back almost 200 years.  As a Division of the Texas DPS, Rangers oversee and conduct major case investigations, field corruption allegations, perform border security operations, and collaborate with l...

Rachele Focardi is a leading expert on Generational Diversity and best-selling author of “Reframing Generational Stereotypes”. She is this weeks guest on the Leadership Bites Podcast. She is a thought-leader and Public Speaker on Multigenerational Workforce Dynamics, Future of Work and Employer Branding, and an expert on the Asian Talent Market. Born and raised in Italy, she spent her professional...

Craig Fenton , is the Director of Strategy & Operations at Google, UKI.  He is in essence a business person and entrepreneur, having worked in technology for 20 years. Craig is an investor, mentor and supporter of a range of businesses including several start-ups, where he finds great inspiration for his own personal and professional ventures. Making connections has always been important to Cr...

Nina Aouilk having survived childhood trauma, different kinds of abuse, and domestic violence, has found a way to work around her past, use them to live her best life now, and encourage others to be brave by sharing her life’s greatest hurts.  Surviving systemic abuse and an arranged marriage forced upon her, Nina escaped then experienced being homeless after escaping from the repeated attempts of...

Nick Wallis is a TV, radio and online journalist. His main area of expertise is the Post Office Horizon scandal . He recently fronted a ten-part series for BBC Radio 4, a BBC Panorama documentary and I co-wrote a Private Eye Special . And runs the website Post Office Trial . The British Post Office scandal is a major British business, legal, ethical and political scandal involving the prosecution...

Cheryl Stokes is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles ’ New York office and a member of Heidrick Consulting. For more than 25 years she has helped leaders effectively address challenges in the global business environment. She has designed and delivered numerous senior level programs, facilitating face-to-face and virtually in the areas of leadership, strategy, inclusion, productive dialogue, syst...

Rich Diviney is a 20 year veteran  Navy SEAL commander. He completed more than 13 overseas deployments, 11 of which were to Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance . As the officer in charge of training for a specialized command, he spearheaded the creation of a directorate that fused physical, mental, and emotional disciplines. He led his...

In 2007 at the age of 24, Michele Graglia moved to Miami Beach from Italy in order to expand his family’s floral business in the United States, but, within a week of his arrival, a modeling agent discovered him on the street and convinced him to pursue a career in modeling. Enriched but unsatisfied by the profession, Michele walked off of the runway in 2012, shortly after stumbling upon a book abo...

Don Schmincke , began his career as a scientist and engineer. After graduating from MIT and Johns Hopkins University he became fascinated with how people organize and perform in groups, and even more intrigued by the high failure rate of management consulting and leadership theories. With more than two decades of research using anthropology and evolutionary genetics, he discovered that most manage...

Craig founded Veterans For Child Rescue (V4CR) , a nonprofit organization in April 2017 to help raise awareness of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and create a non-permissive environment for child exploitation in the United States. Through his efforts with V4CR Sawyer began production on Contraland a documentary feature-length film to highlight the challenges of NGOs and of law enforcement in the f...

On May 30, 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Flint, Swanson received national attention when he removed his riot gear and marched with the protesters. However, Chris is much much more than a moment in time, he is embodiment of a life that is dedicated to service. Chris is a three-time author, including a recent children's book that highlights memories from his own childhood. In additi...

Amy C. Edmondson is an American scholar of leadership, teaming, and organizational learning. She is currently the Novartis Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School . Amy is the author of seven books and more than 75 articles and case studies. She is best known for her pioneering work on psychological safety, which has helped spawn a large body of academic research in management, healthca...

In this episode The Professor & The Coach  look at Afghanistan. It's one heck of a topic right now and can be hard to watch. How have things gone so badly wrong? This is not about whether the decision to be there or to leave is the right one, that's someone elses podcast. This is about the human issues and how it could be so wrong for those in such vulnerable positions. Is it a lack...

Dan Norenberg develops leaders and within that process executive teams. I connected with Dan and straight away saw a like minded thinker and straight shooter. On this episode we discuss Dan's thinking and how he works with senior leaders. We discuss among other things: The Oxygen Mask Rule Why all leaders arent great leaders, as they should be ny now Dan's book, Executive Ownershift, is...

How do you stay connected to the people in your organisation when the reality is you have climbed so high up the hierarchy that you in truth don't have a finger on the pulse? Join myself and David Pendleton DPhil Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School. They say the queen thinks the world smells of paint as there is someone 3 metres in front of her making sure she thinks the world i...

Trusted brands command higher prices, generate greater customer loyalty and are driven by a more enthusiastic workforce. I welcome the elegant Graham Hall to this episode. Graham along with Ian Noble and Andy Purnell created the Saturn Project  and launched the idea of 'Trustonomics'. They focus on the belief that marketing isn’t about ‘pushing messages’ anymore. Successful brands know t...

Nick Shackleton-Jones began his professional life as a psychology lecturer & author, since worked in consultancy, Siemens, BBC & BP and is now the HR Director, Talent & Learning at Deloitte UK . This is a great conversation that spans Affective Context Theory, 5Di, Super Learning, Emotional Regulation and we even hear Nicks Top Reads. Nick is the author of How People Learn , it sets ou...