Scale To Win with Dominic Monkhouse

Are you wondering how your business can innovate better? Are you confusing methodologies and activities with the process of actually keeping and creating a pipeline of innovation?  Then don’t miss this hugely insightful episode all about innovation, with the internationally recognised innovation expert, Pete Newell.  Pete finished his 32-year military career with a 3-year tour running the US Army’...

What have you done today that pushed you to your limits? For today’s guest, Nick Hollis, getting over COVID is testing him. But it won’t stop him from working his hardest to set a new world record for his ultimate world challenge - the 721 challenge.  Nick wants to be the fastest man to climb the world’s Seven Summits (he’s already completed this stage of the challenge), ski to the North and South...

Here's a podcast treat to be enjoyed by the fire this festive season our second look back at the glorious sunny summit we hosted in September. Our bouns episodes are bringing you the wonderful live speeches in reverse running order so today you have the brilliant Alex Barker.  Alex's invigorating talk is on the "Be More Pirate" movement that she is now spearheading following the almost unexpected...

When was the last time you met somebody who’d spent 30 years in the same company?  Meet Brian Coburn. Brian started at Stagecoach as a 16 year old trainee and went on to be their Chief Technology Officer. Today, Brian is CEO of payment orchestration service for e-commerce enterprises, Bridge.  With that information alone there are so many questions to be asked: how do you go from being the trainee...

“If your business isn't growing without sales, it may not be a sales problem, it may be a design problem with your product or a problem with your delivery.” Are you struggling to make sales? In today’s episode, we’re chatting with Justin Roff-Marsh, sales contrarian, CEO and founder of Ballistix, an LA-based international management consultancy specialising in Sales Process Engineering.  Justin wi...

If you struggle with recruitment, either as a recruiter or a job hunter, then don’t miss this week’s episode with Sam Franklin. Sam is co-founder and CEO of Otta, the recruitment company helping job seekers find roles at the world’s most innovative companies.  Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, and then Interim Head of People at Nested.com, Sam cut his teeth working on the pressing problems of thi...

If you’re struggling to get customers for your business, then Flavilla Fongang, the effervescent managing director and founder of 3 Colours Rule, an award-winning creative branding and neuromarketing agency, has written a book 99 Strategies To Get Customers .  In today’s fantastic conversation, Flavilla talks about some of her favourite strategies from the book, so grab a pen and paper and take no...

It was an absolute pleasure to have, world-renowned business growth guru and author of best-selling books, The Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't , at the Summit at Foundry Farm. He joined Dominic Monkhouse for a discussion of the latest trends he has noticed in scaling businesses and leadership teams.  Verne’s talk at the Summit feels very time...

Eli Goldratt wrote a book called The Goal, which Verne Harnish has described as one of the most important business books ever written. With such an accolade, we had to have Andy Watt, MD of Goldratt, on the show.  Andy is a founding member of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organisation (TOCICO) and a Chartered Fellow of CILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport)....

What do you do if you want to keep your business going after you exit? What processes can you put in place to ensure your business survives without you? How can you extract maximum value from your life’s work? Chris Budd is the founder and former CEO of Ovation Finance. He is also one of the UK’s foremost experts in selling your business to an employee ownership trust. Why is he an expert in this?...

If you’re wondering how you can find time from everyday business operations to do innovation, today’s guest, Tendayi Viki, is the guy you want to listen to.  He’s an award winning author and corporate innovation expert. He’s also been recognised by Thinkers50 as one of the world's foremost business strategic thinkers, and he’s the author of three books, the latest of which is Pirates In The Navy ....

If you want a point of difference with your company, if you want to be more Apple than Blackberry, then don’t miss this week’s episode of The Melting Pot with the Godfather of Category Design, Christopher Lochhead.  He self-describes as a dyslexic paperboy who got thrown out of school at 18 and with few other options he started a company. Now, Christopher is a #1 Apple Business Podcaster and #1 Am...

Do you know what your company’s nine touch points are? The things that are the most important to your clients? Could you say, off the top of your head, what is most important to your customers pre-sale, during the sales process and after sale? Do you even have touch points that are so remarkable that people continue to talk about you long after the engagement? Meet Hilary Corna, author, speaker an...

In November 2013, Alex Lewis was rushed to hospital with just 30 minutes to live. He was 33 years old. Leading up to his hospital admittance, he’d been suffering with a cold and a sore throat.  Within hours of being admitted to hospital he was on full life support and was given less than 3% chance of survival. What had brought this otherwise healthy man to his knees? Strep A, Toxic Shock Syndrome,...

If you have bucket loads of content that you regularly share with your audience across your social media platforms, but it’s not getting any traction, or if you don’t have content and you need some, then you need Beck Power.  Beck is the queen of repurposing existing content to keep you front of mind for your audience.  Today’s conversation isn’t about how to be globally strategic with an author,...

Everyone’s heard of WD 40 company, it’s been a dependable staple of every garage and DIYer for over 50 years. The distinctive blue can with its yellow label and red cap has been oiling and lubricating homes across the globe for half a century, creating memories and lasting relationships.  But it isn’t the spread of this product that CEO and chair of WD 40 company board, Garry Ridge, is renowned fo...

What did Steve Jobs and Blackbeard have in common? According to Sam Conniff, they were both pirates. Why would Sam know this? Because he wrote the bestselling book - Be More Pirate in 2018, and was amazed when it inspired a global movement.  From Tate & Lyle to Mercedes Benz, financiers to farmers, CEOs to students, some of the biggest brands around the world, including our very own NHS, have take...

If your company culture could do with an overhaul, then who better to impart advice on this very topic than the culture transformer guru with a track record of making workplaces better, Siobhán McHale? “We've got to move beyond the framing of culture purely in employee experience terms. It’s about how to create more agile, innovative, and commercial cultures that can be sustainable over time.” Sio...

What would you do if you’ve sold your company for enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life - sail the Caribbean? Or start over.  Today’s guest, Jonty Slater, Manager Director at Blue Globe Innovation is in the latter camp. Jonty decided to create a business and to give back at the same time. Blue Globe Innovation is like no other company, it’s an organisation that solves amazingl...

If you want to improve the managers in your business, says Michael Bungay Stanier, do more coaching. You might think coaching equals being soft, but you couldn’t be further from the truth.  “When I'm asked to talk about my philosophy of coaching I've got two words, and the words are Fierce Love.” Michael wrote the book on coaching, literally. The Coaching Habit is the biggest book on coaching this...

“The journey of leadership is a journey to irrelevance. It has to be. Otherwise you're just a do-er, you're an individual contributor like everybody else.” The problem with military command is that when you say ‘jump’, your subordinates are supposed to say ‘how high?’, regardless of the danger or the stupidity of the order.  L. David Marquet realised there was something fundamentally wrong with th...

How do you give difficult, impactful feedback in your workplace without offending anyone or being misconstrued? “Pause, right now, and think about that moment in your career when someone told you something that stung a bit at the time, but stood you in good stead for the next 10 years. That is radical candour.” If you just do one thing this week, listen to Kim Scott, co-creator of an executive edu...

Death is such an unusual, fascinating, and emotional area to work in, however the industry hasn’t evolved much since the 1850s. But today’s guest, Dan Garrett, CEO and co-founder at Farewill, is on a mission to change that - to bring wills, probate and funerals into the 21st century.  “[Will writing] is the most amazing industry because it's basically the biggest consumer industry that's been unto...

Leadership isn’t about you, says Frances Frei, co-author of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Leadership, according to Frances, Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School, depends on how well you unleash the potential of other people.  Frances has not only carried out extensive research investigating how leaders create t...

What’s your business aim? To achieve growth? To create a winning corporate culture? Deb Gabor, keynote speaker and bestselling author is on a mission to inspire 1 million brands to create irrational loyalty.  Yes, that’s also the name of her latest book, Irrational Loyalty, but the premise behind it should strike a chord with anyone who owns a business - not least because the subtitle is - Buildin...