Still Loading: A podcast all about Leadership for the Digital Age

This week on the pod is HR wizard Emilia Montiglio. Driven by her passion for people and the way they do things, Emilia has followed her natural leadership inclinations into a career as Head of People at Workana moving from the corporate world into a scale up that is remote first in every sense. Working for a scale up which has workers distributed all across Latin America, Workana is an online por...

Self proclaimed “accidental technologist” Rosa Wang is our featured leader this week. Rosa has just published her first book Strong Connections: Stories of Resilience from the Far Reaches of the Mobile Phone Revolution. It is a fascinating and touching read about the impacts and uses of technology in developing nations and is sprinkled with her own experiences and self-reflections. In this episode...

My guest this week is Daphnee LaForest. As a Distributed Workplace Strategist and long-time remote worker, Daphnee uses her expertise and experience to provide support for leaders who are transitioning their work environment to the digital realm. Daphnee shares her tips for successful remote working setups including the importance of creating a strong workplace culture and how leaders must cultiva...

In this episode I share my insights of what I have learned from my guests about leadership for the digital age and my own learnings from doing a podcast! I’ve learnt so much from my guests, and in this episode I distill the three key skills that I think leaders for the digital age need to harness right now in order to be effective leaders that we need. Plus I share what I have learned from being a...

In this episode I am chatting with Stewart Bewley who is the Founder of Amplify.me and is a passionate advocate of storytelling and getting people to share their stories brilliantly. Did you know that according to research by Stanford University a story is 22 times more memorable than a presentation? This is what Stewart does. He works with leaders from Microsoft and Google and has coached people...

This weeks guest is Michelle Gyimah who is a pay gaps strategist and she specialises in supporting HR Directors to close their pay gaps in a sustainable way. A key aspect of her work with organisations is to provide training on how to hold better pay and progression conversations as a key tool to closing pay gaps. In this episode Michelle talks us through her passion to help her clients to get cle...

In this episode I am chatting with Nick Elston, an Inspirational Speaker, Transformational Speaking Coach, 'In Your Corner' Mentoring and Unique Mental Health Engagement Specialist from Bristol. Nick's mission is to empower people to truly be heard personally, professionally - even in their relationships. After a lifetime of Mental Illness, Mental Health challenges, crippling Anxiety and being an...

In this episode I am chatting with Eli Edlund, a singer songwriter, composer and music creator from Canada who has created the worlds first collaborative music platform for Canadian country music artists. The idea formed as a response to Covid-19 and has since formed a fantastic community across Canada to connect artists to bring about more collaboration and innovation to the country music scene....

This weeks guest is the fantastic Anne Ditmeyer, a woman who wears many hats, some may call her a “slasher” – designer/writer/traveler/consultant/coach. Others would say she has a portfolio career or even a multi-passionate entrepreneur. One thing is for certain she is not afraid to write her own rules. An American living in France, Anne runs the hugely successful blog Prêt a Voyager (translation:...

In todays episode I am joined by Kathleen Fullerton who is an educator, juvenile justice advocate, and community organizer. Kathleen had been working as an educator for over 20 years. For the last 11 years she has been the Project Coordinator for Hope Partnership which is a youth created and youth driven organisation who work with young offenders in a correctional facility. They bring in community...

In this episode I share some journal prompts that I use to help me reflect on my year as we close out 2021 and head into 2022. Short and sweet and see you soon! Link to the video https://youtu.be/k2UkodPRdgU

Suzanne Murdock is the co-founder of The Hub Newry, an award winning network of flexible working spaces in Northern Ireland. Suzanne is passionate about helping her clients have the best office space for them and her co-working space is connecting to a global network of flex spaces to learn best practices and share with her clients. Suzanne consults with businesses and organisations as they reimag...

In this episode I am chatting to Beth Collier who is a Creativity, & Leadership Consultant. Beth works with clients to improve their communication, creativity, and leadership skills, which then improves their performance, relationships, and lives. After spending 15 years in the corporate world in New Zealand, Beth transferred her skills acquired in the creative industries to help leaders be more c...

Angela Hamilton is the Lead Social Venture and Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of British Columbia and is also the founder of Lane Editorial which provides story consulting services for entrepreneurs, artist and visionaries. Angela also founded Quupe a community rental platform for people to share resources in their local community. Need a drill, go on Quupe and find someone nearby who...

Still loading is back for season two and I cannot wait to share with you some of the incredible guests we’ve been chatting to all about leadership for the digital age. Have a listen for a sneaky peak into three of the guests we have coming up this season.

In today’s episode I reflect on how ‘No’ is a complete sentence and why it is so hard for us to do. The power to say no and to practice saying no to things that are not for us allows us to make space for things that are. Plus we have to overcome some deep rooted psychology to please others which is a natural response in order to say no. It’s a vital skill especially in our digital age as we have a...

In this weeks episode I am chatting to Alison Coward who is the Founder of Bracket , who work with a diverse range of companies to help them discover the perfect balance between team creativity, collaboration and productivity. Alison is a strategist, trainer and workshop facilitator. With over 15 years’ experience working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about...

In this episode I am chatting to Julia Middleton, Founder of Common Purpose an NGO devoted to developing leaders who can cross boundaries. Between geographies, generations, sectors, specialisations, backgrounds and beliefs. Both at work and in society.  Her new initiative, Women Emerging from Isolation is the her new initiative to connect women from different cultures, backgrounds, faiths, and bel...

In this episode I will be chatting with Matt and Parul who are founders of the London Writers Salon which hosts an online writers hour, 4 times a day across different timezones! We discuss how they got started and how they have built this amazing community of people over the last 18 months through the power of writing and connection through the internet. Matt and Parul also share their own journey...

In this episode I will be chatting to Mo Nawari who is not only a Product Owner at Bose and a passionate Agile coach but also has co-founded his own sustainable pop brand Super Soda who's mission is to 'craft the most exquisite pop on the planet by saving unwanted fruit and veggies from limbo' and co-founded  Productowners.org a platform that connects Product Owners to develop their profession to...

In this episode we mix things up a bit where I share with you a story from my own leadership journey and what I did to help me overcome some challenges and how using neuroscience can help support your own leadership development. We learn about how using affirmations and the Reticular Activating System and how these two small things can make a big difference to you and your own perception on realit...

In this episode I am joined by Adam Ambrozy, co-founder of MakeTeamWork a consultancy that focuses on creating great culture for Series A start ups. Adam is a serial entrepreneur and very experienced consultant and his new company was set up just before the pandemic hit creating an opportunity for him and his team to innovate alongside many fledgling start-ups.  We talk about the top things he has...

In this episode, I will be chatting with Mohsin Memon who designs games for leadership development and is a passionate advocate for games and play in helping people learn and develop. We explore Mohsin's own leadership development journey from child Bollywood actor, to his pivot into games design and the work he does with clients now, and what he thinks the impact of Covid-19 will be on virtual ga...

In this episode I am chatting to Andy Melia , CEO of Heart of the City, a charity that aims to bring responsible business into the Heart of the city. They support SMEs to be a force for good, through workshops, masterclasses and expert mentoring and their foundation programme will help you look at how your business can support your local community, reduce your environmental impact, build a more di...

In this episode I am chatting to Jane Bertch, Entrepreneur, Consultant and Founder of La Cuisine Paris a French cooking school in Paris offering a variety of cooking classes in English, anything from Croissant Classes, Macaron Classes, Traditional French Pastry Classes, Technical Skills Classes, and a French Cheese Workshop in addition to Food Tours in Paris and Versailles! She runs a small i...