The Business Elevation Show Where Good Matters

How often as leaders and managers are we caught out when making assumptions about the needs and desires of our employees? My guest this week, Paul Burton, is an entrepreneur whose passion is having a positive impact on people. He has taken his 30 years' of experience in turning around business performance to create a disruptive personal and professional development platform with data-driven insigh...

An effective network is essential to the efficient and profitable running of any organization. Not only this, they have completely transformed communication and business across the globe. My guest Peter Goodman is co-founder and CEO of Aventus a cloud based Platform that enables MGAs, brokers and insurers to create a seam-less buying experience for their insurance products. Peter started his journ...

How present are you? One of the most important skills in business and life in my opinion is presence. According to my guests Michael Landers and Tim Dukes, presence enhances your creativity, productivity and performance on every front. Michael Landers, M.A. is the founder and president of Culture Crossing, Inc., a global consulting company dedicated to finding innovative solutions for groups and i...

Retaining great employees is a challenge for many organizations and particularly young talent that can be more transient. Clint Pulver is a professional keynote speaker, author, musician, pilot, and workforce expert. Known as the leading authority on employee retention, Clint has transformed how corporations like Keller Williams, AT&T, and Hewlett Packard create lasting loyalty through his work an...

How do you become so highly referable that you become as popular as a Broadway show? My guest Michael Roderick is the CEO of Small Pond Enterprises which helps thoughtful givers become thought leaders by making their brands referable, their messaging memorable, and their ideas unforgettable. His frameworks have been featured in Forbes and Business Insider and many popular podcasts. Michael is also...

How do you navigate this strange new business world when dynamics such as hybrid working and the need to embrace diversity have shifted the leadership landscape? My guests this week, Carroll Macey, Sebastian Fox and Bob Shearer are all part of Team Coaching Studio and are all highly experienced team coaching experts who are not only masters of their craft in supporting leaders and teams in the wor...

How do we empower leaders to build a better tomorrow? My guest Lara Stein understands this challenge as well as anyone as the Chairman and Founder of Boma Global. Lara was the founder of the TEDx program at TED, and grew it into a global movement with more than 15,000 events and more than 1 billion video views. Through her work with TEDx, Lara learned the innovation power of local communities, and...

How do you smash through perceived career glass ceilings and, if you are a woman, achieve this in male dominated workplaces? Jackie Chappell had a successful career in the rail industry, where she rose from a part-time employee selling tickets to become the Chief Executive of the Industry's Training and Competence Company, making her the first ever female CEO in the industry's history. Jackie led...

How to become the best version of yourself is a life changing question that has the power to literally transform your life experience. I am therefore delighted to be welcoming someone who came very highly recommended as an authority on the subject: Ceil Stanford describes herself as a coach, leader, business owner, entrepreneur, investor, mom and nana. Ceil is a leader who teaches applicable and r...

Are you a man experiencing challenges? Well I guess to some extent that is most of us males from time to time! My guest Mark Sephton in his soon to be released third book 'Mark of a Man' provides a blue print to help men navigate challenges such as divorce, mental health issues and life's downs. A mentor to entrepreneurs his mission to help others has seen him break into global markets while worki...

How do you play the game of business in the right way and win? My guest Arnon Barnes is a master entrepreneurial coach and peak performance trainer. He has developed signature mentoring programs that help both aspiring entrepreneurs as well as established and seasoned ones build insanely successful businesses and become even more successful in both business and life. Arnon is a Serial Entrepreneur...

Recently, I had the most fascinating conversation with my guest Jennifer Jordan who opened my eyes as to why data is so important when it comes to improving the world from trust and transparency to Artificial Intelligence. Jennifer, helps entrepreneurs and investors build valuable enterprises. She cold called asset managers and launched the first internet coverage at a Pacific Northwest investment...

If you are honest with yourself, are you truly making your money work for you? Marcus de Maria is a very well-respected wealth educator, trader, investor and entrepreneur who transformed his £100,000 debt in to financial freedom using a proven formula for financial wealth. Marcus's passion is helping others around the world to achieve financial independence for themselves and their families so tha...

How do you build a loyal tribe around your business who are connected and inspired by you, your ideas and each other? This week's guest, Adam Strong, is a corporate productivity authority, entrepreneur, athlete, coach, speaker and trainer. He has been featured on the BBC, The Guardian, People Management, HR Grapevine and Global Woman magazines, and runs his own very successful podcast 'The Game Ch...

What must you change in these uncertain times to change your future? Do you have a methodology to enable you do it? Jessica Richards C.hyp MNCH (Acc) was fascinating in our first interview in 2020 so I invited her back to share her acclaimed methodology for personal transformation in more depth. Jessica has been a Clinical Hypnotherapist since 1985 and specialises in Personal Transformation and Co...

Are you wise to how gender equality and diversity will enhance your business interests and create a better world? Jennifer Justice is an entertainment and live-experience executive known for building artists' careers and businesses by marrying art with commerce. Whilst at Roc Nation, she was Jay-Z's personal entertainment attorney for 17 years as well as Beyonce's for a year. In 2019, JJ founded T...

After a year that has seen many of us change the way we work, it has never been so valuable to elevate your skills in effective online networking and presentations! But trying to do so through a computer screen can feel overwhelming for some and down right uncomfortable for others. Where can we step up and how far can we take it?! For the last 20 years, Will Kintish has shown thousands in the busi...

You would probably agree that as a human being you belong to the most intelligent and dominant species on our planet. Yet as a consequence of our behaviour massive global problems of our own making exist. To solve them we need more than intelligence - we need 'WISDOM'. Judy Robinett is one of the wisest souls I know and the perfect guest to explore this subject with. Judy has helped entrepreneurs...

On this celebration show, Chris Cooper will reflect and share insights from over 400 Business Elevation interviews to date. This will be with the help of special guest host, Dr. Karen Y. Wilson-Starks the President and CEO of TRANSLEADERSHIP, INC. Dr Karen has more than 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor and partners with her clients to select and retain the best people, create high perfo...

How do you grow your business and maintain the energy needed to keep moving forward even when the going is tough? Roger Masterson is a serial entrepreneur with a big reputation for helping business owners to think differently. A disruptive thinker, he is the founder of Celtic Castles, the award-winning online castle-booking company, based in Yorkshire, England. Known affectionately as the 'Castle...

Are you the face of your own business or expected to be an ambassador for the organization you work or your profession in your work? If so, how you come across to others can make the difference between success or failure. I first met Alex Owen-Hill in Edinburgh whilst attending my first Robbie Burns night (a famous annual Scottish tradition). Alex was master of ceremonies and although he describes...

Living through such turbulent times it is easy to appreciate why business professionals could find themselves in situations of disagreement. The risk though is that it is often easy to view conflict as an energy drain and the natural reaction is often to avoid it and store up potentially complicated legal issues for the future. Glenn F. Meier brings significant experience as a trial attorney, liti...

Who is acquiring vast ownership in financial markets today and why is this causing a major shift in global economic power and competition? Recently I had the privilege to talk to Winston Ma about his extensive experience whilst gaining a sense of how sovereign funds are literally reshaping investment in the digital economy. Winston is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the glo...

What is personal and business purpose, why are they so important and how do you discover your own? During this show my guest Steve Morris and I will discuss these important elements which can provide the fuel for enormous personal and business success. As both Steve and I have individually helped hundreds of business people to define their purposes we will both share our insights. Steve is a highl...

With monumental shifts in what we see as 'normal life' how do you elevate your thinking and thrive in 2021? In 2004, working scientist and professional physicist Tom Campbell predicted that if the planet suffers much more damage then mother nature would get even! As business and the world faces huge challenges Tom's extensive wisdom and trilogy 'My Big TOE (My Big picture Theory Of Everything)' ar...