The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we're doing a little experiment with my friend and regular guest Tom van der Lubbe. Tom is a fellow traveller seeking to humanise the workplace. He's also a historian with a huge brain. He is Dutch, but let's not hold that against him. Tom and I review one of the most influential books...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Perry Marshall, a man who runs several companies, has written a string of best-selling books and who founded the world's biggest science prize. If you want to get the essence of building a life where you make an extraordinary impact, this could be the episode. It gets a little repetitive, but his m...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A very Happy New Year to you all. We kick off 2021 with a brief message. I share a few thoughts on where to focus to show this year and a call to action.  In the episode, I talk: - Food as medicine - Community - Taking Being Human to a new level Enjoy! To your humanity, Richard

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ I hope that you're all enjoying your Christmas break. This week my guest is Anna Liebel. Anna is a on mission to empower professionals to thrive by helping get into what she calls one's Zone of Genius. This particular episode is a special one, as it has an addendum where Anna goes into detail with a subject close to m...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week we turn the tables and I become the interviewee. Jan Ake Johnsson is my interviewer. He's the star of episode #64 and a man who cured himself of epilepsy through trauma release work. Jan is 80 and still in excellent health - an inspiration to us all. In the episode, we talk: - Preparing for interviews - Chil...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ If Management 1.0 was how we managed how factories functioned in the Industrial Age, then what’s management for a Knowledge Economy, or even a Transformation Economy?  Enter Management 3.0 – an approach that represents a major cultural shift, empowering team members to take on more decision-making responsibilities, wh...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ If you're a frequent listener of the podcast, you're probably familiar with our guest this week, Tom van der Lubbe. For those of you who don't know him, Tom is the Lead Link of Dutch mortgage broker Viisi, one of the companies that have implemented the radical business operating system  Holacracy  to create an extraor...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In 2008, my guest this week Ed Evarts was unexpectedly laid off from his job as a senior HR director at records management giant Iron Mountain. In the middle of a recession and with no network outside his former employer, he set about building his own coaching practice Excellius. It’s now thriving and Ed tells us how...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, David Chislett, dropped out of private school in South Africa to become a rocker. From playing punk to managing bands he ultimately made his way to Utrecht in the Netherlands to become a self-proclaimed Weapon of Mass Creation. He teaches people how we can put creativity at the heart of our armoury...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Warwick Business School and author of the recently published book, Janus Strategy.  After serving as an advisor to major international companies for years, he started to observe that some companies got a competitive edge when adopti...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Remy Bertrand, a Frenchman in London and an improvisation facilitator. Kicked out of school at 15, Remy worked a succession of jobs that never quite fulfilled him. Nearing 40, he realised that improv was his passion and it was time to plunge in and build a business around it. With a loan from the...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Julian Wilson, CEO of British engineering firm Matt Black Systems and author of "500%: How Two Pioneers Transformed Productivity". Along with his business partner, through a series of counter-intuitive steps, he experimented his way to a 500% gain in productivity. The change saw his staff triple...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Bruno Cignacco, international speaker, coach and author of 'The Art of Compassionate Business'. Bruno is committed to putting love at the centre of our business relationships. First and foremost, Bruno is an advocate of what he calls The Human Oriented Enterprise, a type of business that prioriti...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Mike Ettore, leadership coach and ex-infantry officer with the US Marines. He's the author of 'Trust-Based Leadership', where he explains how he adapted and applied military leadership concepts while serving as a business leader.  After leaving the Marines, Mike has served as a top executive for...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Sam Conniff Allende is back on the show. Last time Sam had just hoisted his Jolly Roger to the world in the form of his breakthrough bestseller 'Be More Pirate'. This week he's back on Being Human with his Right-Hand Pirate Alex Barker. Alex joined Sam in 2019 to turn a book of culture-busting ideas into a movement. A...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Alain Hunkins, a veteran leadership coach. He's worked with over 2,000 groups of leaders in 25 countries, and he's author of the just-published 'Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Leaders'. Alain was raised by a mother and grandmother who were both Holocaust survivors. Their...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, Pete Walker, is a man who has travelled far physically and metaphorically. A Vietnam War veteran, he sought spiritual salvation in India before finally confronting his inner grief at an Encounter group workshop. Learning to feel and grieve deeply set Pete on a path to dealing with his Complex PT...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Perhaps the phrase 'A Man of Many Hats' was created for my guest this week. A Google Exec, investor, record label boss, YouTuber, I give you Kiwi-in-London Craig Fenton. Craig began life as a barrister, then switched to consulting before landing as Director of Strategy and Operations at Google in the UK. We talk:  - P...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this week's episode, I speak with therapist Theresa Sheppard Alexander, author of 'Facing The Wolf: Inside The Process of Deep Feeling Therapy'. Theresa shares her story of finding Primal Therapy in her early twenties and how she helps clients climb down ‘the staircase of feeling’ to experience their deepest pain,...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Lisa Gill, host of the ground-breaking podcast Leaderphormosis. She’s also co-author of the just-released 'Moose Heads on the Table: Stories About Self-Managing Organisations from Sweden'. Lisa has helped businesses across Europe to let go of their boss culture. Her approach, along with fellow li...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My return guest this week, Alex Goldfayn, is back with a new book '5-Minute Selling', which is already an Amazon bestseller. Now, I hate sales. I've always hated sales and yet it's an absolutely critical skill in my business life. In fact, it's crucial even if you're not a proper salesperson, but someone who needs to...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest, John Hagel, is a 40-year veteran of Silicon Valley. John co-founded the Center for the Edge in 2007. The Center has brought insights that have helped me to understand the megatrends in the economy throughout my career. He was the first to identify the growing 'topple rate', i.e. how when large compa...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ From his cabin on an island off the coast of Sweden, Henrik Kniberg, author of the viral 'Spotify Culture' video, joins me in this week's episode to share what he learned as a top Agile Coach at Spotify. Henrik is a creative powerhouse with prodigious talent as a musician, coach, author and developer. He brings these...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode's guest, Rich Sheridan, was a VP in a successful software firm in Michigan when he brought his daughter to work. She was impressed. She figured her Dad must have been very important, as for anything to get done, he had to give his say so. He was "The Answer Man". And yet for Rich, this was a devastating m...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Nicknamed "The Gentle Giant from Denmark" from his time resolving conflicts in a troubled part of Asia, my guest this week, Lars Kure Juul, is a gifted facilitator. With his book 'Organizational Happiness', Lars is on a mission to improve our experience of working life - and especially how to sell happiness to your CF...