Speaking Business podcast

My guest this week began his career as a professional actor, before training as a director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He's worked with some of the UK's most well-known actors, appearing on the London stage, BBC period dramas and most famously played Virgil Tracy in the Hollywood film adaptation of Thunderbirds. He now empowers businesses, sales teams and leaders to increase th...

My guest this week specialises in helping clients to harness the power of the virtual platform to grow their credibility, visibility and reputation.  Using his years of experience in broadcasting his mission is to encourage leaders to improve their credibility by throwing away many of their traditional communication methods and embrace this opportunity with visual technology to raise engagement ac...

My guest this week is an expert in the field of conflict resolution, a trained mediator and facilitator.  She is the Chair of the Board of Management of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is a former director and board member of the Civil Mediation Council of England and Wales. She helps organisations in times of change, challenge and crisis to stay ahead of the curve in transforming confl...

My guest this week is also known as The Pitch Whisperer, and shares the lessons learned from his award-winning sales career at Conde Nast. Through his "Better Selling Through Storytelling," sessions he shows companies' sales teams how to become irresistible so they are magnetic to their ideal clients.  He has a best-selling book by the same name and is also the host of "The Successful Pitch" podca...

My guest this week has been called a world authority on remote teams.  She is an expert in Virtual and Hybrid Leadership and is the author of the best-selling book 'Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams'.  Her experience of virtual and hybrid teams began when 9/11 forced her to run a major programme virtually. More recently she set up h...

Even before this global disruption wreaked havoc on all our lives, my guest this week had been studying, writing and speaking on the topic of resiliency … a topic area that has fascinated her for decades.    Since 1980, she has helped organisations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count. She b...

My guest this week is a management thinker and a leader of the new world order. He is an award-winning entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling author and a 2-time Emmy nominated media visionary. He has helped raise hundreds of millions in capital for start-up companies as well as taking a company to a 6 Billion market cap IPO. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Creati...

My guest this week is a broadcaster, honeybee farmer, award-winning author and Behaviour Expert. He is known for his energy, humour and passion. Growing up in the countryside, he discovered his love for nature and the environment early in life. In 2017, he moved to a small decommissioned farm, turning it into the world's first certified Carbon Neutral honey farm, home to the native British honeybe...

My guest this week has been obsessed with high performance for over twenty years.  He's been looking for answers to questions such as: What differentiates high performers from good performers? What helps one person to achieve great results when another is merely average? What skyrockets one team to be more motivated, more productive and make more sales when another wallows in mediocrity? The answe...

My guest this week is a futurist and scenario thinker who featured the pandemic in 4 out of his 5 books.  He is probably best known as a maker of highly provocative maps and data visualisations intended to stimulate deep debate.  The Financial Times  called these maps "Brave", while  Business Insider  said they might "Blow your mind".  He has worked with the Tech Foresight Practice at Imperial Col...

My guest today is an International Talent Development expert, Speaker and Author, who specialises in Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace. Her programmes have won the ATD Gold Award for Excellence in Training, and, she has a Leadership programme listed as one of the top 5 Leadership Programmes in the world by HR.com.  Currently she is a sought-after expert in leading and working in this new COV...

My guest this week is the former MD of Google's $5Bn UK business.   He spent the dot.com crash in Silicon Valley, the financial crisis leading Google UK, and the past 6 years building some of Europe's top fintech start-ups.  He has learnt a lot about how to drive success and even more about how to fail. While he was MD at Google, he came across pretotyping a novel approach to validating ideas for...

My guest this week is an award-winning author and regarded as one an exciting new business thinker challenging leaders to own the future rather than be disrupted by it. His thinking has featured in The Economist, Forbes, Reuters, The Huffington Post, CNN, and Wired Magazine.  He has been described as 'an influential and outspoken expert on the future of leadership' by Thinkers50, the global rankin...

My guest this week is currently CEO of The Marketing Society, a global network of progressive leaders and former CEO of The Caffeine Partnership, a unique business consultancy which helps leaders to work with purpose and pace. She is an experienced business leader, entrepreneur and brand specialist. She is constantly curious about how to speed up success, she hates wasting time and believes impati...

My guest this week is a Future-Ready Innovator. She has led transformation for Adobe, Autodesk, LiveNation as well as founding two Silicon Valley companies. Today she is building the Executive Growth Alliance, a global community of open curious and brave leaders collaborating to drive change in environment, transportation, health and consumer services.  She is here to share her journey to future-r...

A rare opportunity to hear from the man behind the speaker bureau that the International New York Times called the only global Speaker Bureau. Tom Kenyon-Slaney co-founded London Speaker Bureau 25 years ago and has grown it from one office in London to 25 offices around the world.  Now with a turnover of almost US$40 million it is by far the largest speaker bureau outside of North America and by f...

My speaker this week has been helping people for the last 16 years to believe in themselves and their potential. She has been through multiple transformations herself and knows what it takes to make deep rooted changes that stick, and to get through tough times and emerge stronger and wiser. She helps people to leave behind self-doubt, disempowering patterns and overwhelm in favour of new ways of...

My guest this week is the Co-Founder of the public speaking training company - Speaker Express.  He knows what it takes to build great stage presence and how to use speaking as a transformative business growth tool.  He has used speaking to help build 3 successful businesses himself.  He is passionate about stretching speakers to their full potential, enabling aspiring speakers and business owners...

My guest this week is a cognitive neuroscientist, specialising in the unconscious processing of emotion and behavioural change.  She is also an experienced entrepreneur having owned 3 businesses.    She works with senior leaders and their teams helping them to better understand the science of change and development and harness this power through heightened awareness of how their brain works.  She...

My guest this week works with Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs to help them to recognise the unique value they bring to the workplace and to lead with confidence and purpose.  Tapping into her experience as a Theatre Sister in Open Heart Surgery where team engagement and collaboration were paramount to life changing outcomes, she is quick to spot dysfunctions in leaders and teams and to address...

In an increasingly chaotic and disruptive world of technology our guest today is one of 2019's 100 Global Leaders and a Top 10 Global Internet of Things innovator.  She doesn't just predict the future she engineers it. She has positively impacted the lives of over 1/3 of the world's population. 34 million citizens globally collaborate in her cutting-edge research. She is also appointed to the G20...

Drawing upon 20 years' experience consulting on innovation pathways for billion-dollar blue chips, my guest this week provides road-tested insights on the technological and human innovations that will change the shape of business over the next five years.   As founder and CEO, she is the chief storyteller at GDR Creative Intelligence, a business futurist and strategy consultancy working with an im...

At this time, it strikes me that we have an opportunity to look at our lives and our businesses in a new way and maybe get creative about what the future can bring.  So, I thought it would be good to talk about creativity and get some techniques and advice from my guest this week, BAFTA award-winning comedy writer and creativity expert, Tim Reid. Bio Tim Reid is a multiple award-winning comedy wri...

At the time of recording we have just heard in the UK that British Airways will be making 12,000 people redundant. Oasis, Warehouse and Carluccio's amongst other household names have gone into liquidation.  Our country is in its second month of lockdown and many businesses find themselves unable to trade and are doing their best to just keep themselves afloat. My guest this week is an expert in le...

My guest this week is coming back for a second visit, he is going to help us while we deal with the Coronavirus. He was Professor of Psychology at University College London for 26 years and is now Principal Psychologist at Stamford Associates, an asset management company  Like Noel Coward, he believes that work is more fun than fun and considers himself to be a well-adjusted workaholic. So today w...