Nottingham Business School Business Leaders

Episode 59 SUMMARY David Edwards – Leadership and luxury in the watchmaking industry David Edwards is Managing Director of Seiko UK. He has been a senior leader in the British watchmaking industry for more than a quarter of a century, with brands including Seiko, TechnoMarine, Swatch and luxury Swiss timepieces Richard Mille. In Episode 59 of the Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ podc...

Episode 58 SUMMARY Dan Maher – Leadership in the construction industry, where public and private sectors meet Dan Maher has spent more than four decades in and around the construction industry. He is now MD of both Via East Midlands and Arc Partnership, two companies providing services for Nottinghamshire County Council. But he started his career as a teenage apprentice at Sheffield City Council....

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 57 SUMMARY Sue Hayes – modernising a 174-year-old financial institution Banker Sue Hayes is the first woman CEO of the Nottingham Building Society in its 174-year history. She arrived in Nottingham via senior leadership roles at GB Bank, Aldermore Bank, Barclays and Santander. In Episode 57 of the Nottingham Business School’s Business...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 56 Bal Bansal – Global technology strategist and local community leader SUMMARY Bal Bansal – Global technology strategist and local community leader Bal Bansal is Director of Global Technology Strategy at IHG Hotels & Resorts – a company with 6,000 hotels and 350,000 staff, around the world. He is an innovator and digital transform...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 55 Leadership roundtable: How small businesses can become more sustainable SUMMARY Small and medium businesses account for half of Britain’s turnover, 60 per cent of UK employment and 99 per cent of all our business enterprises. They also generate around half of Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions. But according to research by Santander...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 54 Sean Bowles – Keeping calm and building resilience in a frontline construction business SUMMARY Sean Bowles – Keeping calm and building resilience in a frontline construction business Sean Bowles is a Managing Director at construction company Morgan Sindall – an organisation that employs 3,000 staff and turns over one billion pounds...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 53 Pete Markey – Why Marketing can be a force for good SUMMARY Pete Markey is Chief Marketing Officer of Boots UK. He has also been hailed as the finest marketer in Britain. He has held leadership roles with a clutch of stellar brands, including TSB, AVIVA, The Post Office, RSA and More Than. He has also won five national Marketer of t...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 52 Alison Swan Parente MBE - Founding the School of Artisan Food, at the age of 60 Summary Alison Swan Parente MBE is founder of the pioneering School of Artisan Food and the Welbeck Bakehouse. She set them up as second career, sixteen years ago, when she was 60. In Episode 52 of the Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podca...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 51 Nadeem Raza - leading a management buyout, then floating on the stock exchange. SUMMARY Nadeem Raza is CEO of transport technology company Microlise. He joined Microlise in the 1980s as a young software engineer and over the next three decades worked his way up through the company. In 2008 he led a management buyout – and in 2021 th...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 50 Nick Beighton - The e-commerce pioneer who turned ASOS into an international success story Summary Nick Beighton transformed ASOS into a global e-commerce powerhouse. When he walked through the front door to take up the role of Chief Finance Officer in 2009, the company was a fledgling online fashion retailer, with 200 staff and £16...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 49 Ajay Sethi: Mr Tweezerman UK – the public face of a global beauty brand Summary Tweezerman is one of the world’s best-known beauty accessory brands – and Ajay Sethi is MD of Tweezerman UK. Ajay set up his business in the back bedroom of his family home, exactly twenty years ago. He became a joint venture partner with Tweezerman in 2...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 48 Matt Wallace: Building your own business – and knowing the value of a good podcast Summary Fifteen years ago, entrepreneur Matt Wallace was an iMovie hobbyist in a university press office, trying to persuade his boss of the value of video. Today he runs his own company, Janno Media – making videos, creating podcasts and live streami...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Episode 47 Darren Cassidy: Leading digital transformation in a global brand built on paper and print Summary Darren Cassidy has been with global print tech giant Xerox for 33 years – in 18 different roles. He’s now the company’s MD in GB and Ireland – and President of its operations in Western Europe. But in Episode 47 the Nottingham Business...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Andy Bostock - Leadership and career development insights from KMPG Episode 46 Summary Andy Bostock manages more than 1,000 staff as a senior partner with one of the world's Big Four audit companies KPMG. He also leads the annual audits of some of the biggest local councils and hospitals in the Midlands (of the UK). In discussion with Honorary...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Leadership roundtable: The future of business education Summary To mark the opening of Nottingham Business School’s new Postgraduate and Executive Education Centre, three experts come together to discuss the future of business education. They are, the President of the European Foundation for Management Development Professor Eric Cornuel, the C...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast. Episode 44 Mary Storrie – Turning a tragedy into something positive Introduction • Mary Storrie is CEO of international charity The Rosie May Foundation. • She and her husband Graham set up the Foundation after their daughter Rosie May was suffocated at a Christmas party near their home in Bottesford, Lincolnshire, in December 2003. • A 17-ye...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Lorna Holder – How successful leaders reinvent themselves Episode 43 Introduction… • Lorna Holder is the Managing Director of the Full-Spectrum and Tuareg Productions companies. • She was born in Jamaica, raised in Nottingham, and became the first black fashion graduate of Nottingham Trent University in 1975 • Lorna started her career as a des...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Charlotte Henshaw MBE – Learning from your failures Episode 42 Introduction Charlotte Henshaw was born and brought up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. She was born with the condition bilateral tibial hypopplasia, which meant her lower legs were underdeveloped. When she was 18-months-old, her parents decided to have her legs amputated. Charlotte...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast Rob Swann – From trainee to MD, leadership in an SME Episode 41 Introduction Rob Swann joined SME Termate as an engineering apprentice in 1989, when he was 16. Termate manufactures electrical insulating products at its factory in Nottingham, for customers all over the world. Rob graduated from Nottingham Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast José Luiz Rossi: Staying relevant in a rapidly changing world Episode 40 Introduction José Luiz Rossi was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s and started his career as a mechanical engineer. He is currently MD of Experian in Britain and Ireland – and previously ran the company’s operations in Latin America. In 1986 he created a cons...

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast. Episode 39. Brendan Donnelly: Manufacturing on the side of a mountain – small business leadership in a remote corner of England. Introduction Brendan Donnelly and his wife Cherry own the Coniston Stonecraft slate-carving company, based in Victorian workshops, in the foothills of Coniston Old Man. The mountain stretches 2,600ft above them. The...

Nottingham Business School Business Leaders’ Podcast Penny Briscoe OBE – Paralympics GB team leader Episode 38 Introduction Penny Briscoe will lead Paralympics GB at this summer’s Paris 2024 games, as the team’s Chef de Mission. She was previously Chef de Mission at the Tokyo 2020 and Rio 2016 games, when the team finished second in the overall medals table. Early in her career, Penny represented...

Nottingham Business School Business Leaders Podcast Kathryn Wasteney - Leadership, fraud and the importance of being nosey| Episode 37 Introduction Fraud now accounts for 40 per cent of all crime in Britain, making forensic accountancy an increasingly important business. Forensic accountants have played a crucial role in exposing hundreds of financial frauds - including the Enron Scandal and Berni...

Nottingham Business School Business Leaders Podcast Maggie Alphonsi MBE - Leadership insights from a World Cup winner | Episode 36 Introduction: Maggie Alphonsi MBE is the First Lady of English Women's Rugby and a pioneer and leader in the international game. She was World Rugby Personality of the Year in 2011 - then won the World Cup with England in 2014. Her tough tackling, all-action style made...

Nottingham Business School Business Leaders Podcast Michael Hayman – Why our business leaders need purpose | Episode 35 Introduction Entrepreneur and broadcaster Michael Hayman MBE founded London-based Seven Hills , one of the best-known corporate communications consultancies in the country With a reputation as a thinker and a leader, he has also been described as one of the best-connected men in...