Speaking Business podcast

My guest this week has been with us before but I've brought him back as at the time of recording this episode, we are going through a lockdown situation.  We are trapped at home with our families and our loved ones and this man has experienced this for himself for a long period of time. He is an entrepreneur and adventurer, he believes in challenging conventional thinking on how leaders and teams...

My guest this week has appeared with us before sharing her expertise to compete against the odds.  Today she is back to talk about Mental Toughness.  She is going to share with us how and why developing confidence, resilience, commitment and focus is critical in today's challenging business and personal environment. Motorsport and TV fans know her as the first and only woman to drive a World Rally...

My guest this week is a performance coach who specialises in supporting leaders to build personal resilience.  For the last fifteen years he has worked at the interface of leadership and wellbeing with some of the biggest brands in the world. His passion is to support leaders to play the 'inner game' of life better, so it enables them to lead themselves, their teams and their families.  At this ti...

This week I've delved into the archives again.  This particular speaker is a bit of a clever chap.  He has actually done 3 main stage TED talks and has got a brain the size of a planet.  When he speaks, he says "I want the audience to go away knowing less after I've spoken than they did before I spoke".  At first, I thought this was crazy, but he's a very clever man and what he is saying is that p...

My guest this week has done so much that it would take the entire podcast episode just to read his CV, so I've picked a few highlights He is Emeritus Professor of World Competitiveness, at IMD business school and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.  He is the Founder, of the World Competitiveness Center, and publisher of the Annual World Competitiveness Yearbooks ranking the competitiveness o...

My guest this week is Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist, award-winning comedian and author. She survived the hedonistic sixties with the inevitable round of clubbing, fashion and drugs; then she made the most of the seventies, travelling to over sixty countries whilst running a travel business. But it was the eighties that tested her to her limits. Battling depression, bankruptcy, addiction and suic...

My guest is a futurist, philosopher, and a leading expert in futurism and emerging technologies. He is a populariser, commentator, and influencer of all things futuristic. He is the host of the techno-philosophy YouTube series FUTURISTIC NOW and is listed in the top twenty must-watch futurism shows on YouTube. He has spoken at NASA's Johnson Space Centre, Boston University, The London Business Sch...

Sir Chris Hoy MBE, multiple world and Olympic champion track cyclist, is one of Great Britain's most successful Olympic athletes, with six gold medals and one silver. Chris retired from competitive cycling in 2013 and his achievements throughout his career make him Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first Briton since 1908 to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games, and one of the mo...

Claire Young was made famous by her role as the highly driven runner up of series four of 'The Apprentice' where was dubbed a 'Rottweiler' by Lord Sugar for her tenacious approach in the boardroom and drive not to quit. She beat 40,000 candidates to reach the final and this experience inspired Claire to set up 'School Speakers an award-winning business. It is the UK's No 1 speaking agency working...

I've delved back into the archives this week to bring you a very special lady. She is in fact the first and only woman to drive a world rally car.  She's got an amazing mindset and in today's competitive world when only the best will do, she has perfected the art of Psychologically-Powered performance to bring out the very best in us.  I'm bringing you again the wonderful Penny Mallory. Penny tell...

My guest this week describes himself as a very ordinary person - in fact, even more ordinary than everyone else.  For his first job, he was a geography high-school teacher, but he was so low in confidence, his kids misbehaved very badly.  He then chose to try and learn how to live a better life. He left the classroom, flew to Siberia with his bicycle, and spent three years cycling home to London,...

My guest this week came to the world's attention in January 1991, when he was captured by the Iraqis and his bruised and battered face became a potent symbol of Saddam Hussein's ruthless aggression. His war was not at all as he expected – it became a seven-week ordeal of torture and interrogation testing him to the absolute limit and bringing him close to death. During his RAF career he flew Torna...

My guest this dedicates his life to connecting people with their own ideas. He does this via his award-winning ideas company 7billionideas, which he founded in 2012 and which operates in both the education and the corporate sector.  He made the leap from the corporate world to become an entrepreneur after spending the best part of a decade working for the technology giant IBM.  He truly believes t...

This week I've gone back to the archives again because there are some jewels in there.  Here is one of the early episodes, my guest was Caspar Craven, who is an entrepreneur and adventurer. Caspar has had oodles of experience, building teams and organisations, creating high growth strategies for business.  He's also an award-winning yachter.  He combined his business skills (leadership and teambui...

My guest this week is unusual; he is a businessperson working in energy transition who also writes books for general audiences. His next book will be published in January 2020 and will provide a short guide to each sector of the economy and what needs to be done to completely decarbonise. He was, until recently, chair of a rapidly growing electric vehicle charging company which was then sold to th...

My guest this week is one of the leading Food, Drink and Hospitality brand and marketing minds in business. He has over 20 years Brand, Marketing, Digital and Social Media experience holding senior positions at  lastminute.com , Barclaycard, YO! Sushi and Pret A Manger. He co-founded Brand and Marketing agency, WE ARE Spectacular in 2012 and now runs Premium Brand and Marketing Strategy consultanc...

My guest this week was Professor of Psychology at University College London for 26 years. He is now Principal Psychologist at Stamford Associates, an asset management company. He has lectured widely abroad and held scholarships and visiting professorships around the world. Currently he is Adjunct Professor of Management at the Norwegian School of Management. He is also prolific writer and has writ...

This week my guest has earned global acclaim as one of the world's leading experts on the financial escapades of the underworld.  There is no one with more first-hand knowledge about how international banks and businesses cater to those who own the nearly 2 trillion dollars in criminal proceeds laundered annually.  For years, in the eyes of organised crime leaders he was a highly successful mob co...

This week I've gone back to the archives again and I've pulled out one of the early episodes again. This time it's Philip Hesketh he is our go to guy on anything related to persuasion, influence and selling. Why now? In January 2020, in fact on the 20th January 2020, Phil and I will be running a full day training, we are calling it the Ultimate Sales Day for Professional Speakers and it is exactly...

My guest this week is a leader in the world of base jumping and wingsuit flying and since 1999 he has been part of the Red Bull team.   In addition to being an action sports athlete, he is a graduate of Applied Sports & High-Performance Psychology and a multi-linguist.  For years he has been providing his fellow professional athletes with a mental advantage and skillset required to reach their goa...

We're doing something a bit different on this week's podcast. You know I like to shake things up, just to make sure you're paying attention.  So, in addition to finding out more about my guest and getting a bit of an insight into his speeches we dissect his speaking business.  We find out how he got started as a speaker, how he started charging, where his paid gigs come from plus lots more.  We go...

This week we are talking about language, but first let me give you a little bit of context. Most organisations don't connect with their customers and staff half as well as they could and as a result, they're losing customers and employees at a shocking rate.    My guest is the Language Strategist, he's helped companies like Vodafone, Allianz and Google to be more human and make that connection.  H...

This week I've delved into the archives and I've pulled out an episode from the very early days in case you missed it, in case you've only just started listening recently and if you've heard it before it's actually worth listening to again. My guest is one of today's foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. He's ranked amongst the most i...

My guest this week is a millennial trust futurist, innovation strategist and speaker. His book,  The Trust Economy , champions a new lens on trust and innovation in the digital age.  Please welcome Philipp Kristian Bio Philipp Kristian Diekhoener demystifies change by looking at trust as the engine of human advancement. Without it innovation is impossible, and the future remains imagination. With...

This week's guest founded Shazam Entertainment, the world's first mobile phone-based music recognition service which was acquired by Apple in 2018 for a reported $400 million.  In 2015 the Financial Times named him one of Europe's Top 50 technology entrepreneurs. Previously he was Head of Banking Innovation at Virgin Money, responsible for developing new digital services for students in the UK. He...