The Business Elevation Show Where Good Matters

So what is intrapreneurship and how can it improve your business performance and stop talented people leaving your organisation? My guests are business transformation expert Gareth Bullen and the UK thought leader on Intrapreneurship, Jamil Ahmed who work together at the Centre for Enterprise, helping organisations increase engagement, performance, customer service and innovation through building...

Business is certainly changing at a pace today and one of the big questions I have been asked on several occasions is - how do we navigate it? I am therefore delighted to welcome Peter Comrie to the show. Peter is an entrepreneur, lecturer, scholar and specialist in human dynamics. When I first spoke to Peter, he called me from his home in beautiful British Columbia and we instantly struck up a gr...

Are you aspiring to be or are already a seasoned thought leader in your field? If so how should you be really effectively marketing yourself? My guest David Newman knows how. He is author of the Amazon number 1 best seller 'Do It! Marketing: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits and Crush Your Competition'. He is also someone who left a real impact on me, when I saw him engage a...

Are you achieving exceptional sales numbers? If not, then it may well be that you are not selling with a noble sales purpose. Whether you are an executive, manager or aspirational sales or business leader this show will ex-plain how organizations driven by a Noble Purpose have outperformed the market by over 350% and what you need to do to get it right. My guest Lisa Earle McLeod's bestselling boo...

Are you really making a difference? During this show I will be talking with Lindsay Levin, the founder of social enterprise – Leaders' Quest and author of 'Invisible Giants - Changing the world one step at a time'. We will be discussing stories from some of the remarkable people she has met who have overcome lack of education and resources to re-energize their communities, while answering the ques...

Ever wondered how you could increase the value and financial performance of your business by offering additional high value products and services on the back end of services such as speeches, masterclasses, training events etc? If so, today I want to introduce you to someone who I would describe as a best kept secret. Simon Davies has worked with many high performing thought leaders and experts by...

How is it that some leaders are able to enter a marketplace and completely disrupt it? Take my soccer team Leicester City: last year bottom of the premier league and fighting for survival. 12 months later with great lead-ership, they might do the unthinkable and actually win it! The story of their star striker now attracting the atten-tion of Hollywood movie producers! According to my guest Terenc...

The rate of change we see in the world today is unprecedented: New innovations, products & services fade to irrelevance more quickly than ever before. The constant bombardment of the vast array of information now available can easily make us, as leaders & entrepreneurs, feel overwhelmed. We know we must change, constantly and quickly, but we lack clarity about how & why. Jared Nichols is a deep fu...

Sustainability is such an important part of the business agenda today. It is no good to just being giving the impression that you are doing good. People today look to trade and work for organizations with integrity. As we care about the environment and business 'doing good' on this show I am really keen we explore it further and unravel what it really means. About a year ago, I saw the Sustainabil...

Want to achieve greater results in your business and personal life? Then you need 'The Power To Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not)." I am delighted to welcome co-author, friend and leading follow through authority, Dr Steve Levinson. This interview, which builds on Nikki Owen's 1st Jan 2016 interview of Chris Cooper (available in the archive), will tell the story of how two consult-...

Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you've probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you'd rather not do. With many small businesses failing in their first few years, failure to do some of these things may even lead to the failure of your business. During this show host Chris Coope...

How do you keep your Top Talent? According to Dov Baron, finding and keeping extraordinary talent will determine which organizations thrive and which fade. Don't believe it? Then consider that the average company spends 1.5 to 2 x the annual salary of an employee in training and development. Meanwhile, the average employee is only looking at a 2.5 year tenure before walking off and leveraging the...

The best organizations make decisions and move forward. They are not constrained by negativity, naysayers, change blockers, or "perfectionitis." According to my guest, Steven Gaffney, they move through their change plans with velocity, achieve goals and reap the benefits. In doing so, they generate a positive news cycle that helps to power their change implementation. Steven Gaffney of the Steven...

What do smart leaders know about diversity that sets them apart? Why is it that diversity and inclusion are such hot topics today? During this show I will be talking to Dr Suzanne Doyle Morris the CEO and founder of the InclusIQ Institute which creates playful yet thought provoking tools for inclusive leadership and reducing unconscious bias. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge,...

Employee engagement is one of the hot topics of business performance improvement today. In an international survey country employee engagement levels were between 8% to 29% of the average workforce with the remainder 'disengaged' or 'actively disengaged'. When every indicator suggesting that exceptional performance gains occur with an engaged workforce, why is this so difficult to achieve? My gues...

Does your thinking ever get in the way of your progress? Join us for a very inspirational interview with Tony Burgess, who was first introduced to me as 'The Pink Bucket Thinking Expert and thoroughly nice guy who has helped many people to transform their lives'. When I read several years later that Tony's selflessness had ex-tended to donating one of his own kidneys to help someone he did not eve...

With so many charities and concerns to support today, how do you best determine your strategy for giving? How do you ensure that your giving transforms those issues that really matter to you, leaving you with a wonderful feeling about the legacy you are delivering? Rather than a drip feed of transactions with unclear impact. Kris Putnam-Walkerly is a nationally recognized philanthropy advisor and...

How would you like to develop your thinking so that your performance stands out from the crowd? If you would, then you need to listen to this show. I first met my guest Andy Gilbert 8 years ago and to be honest was in awe at the sharpness of his intellect. I still remember that meeting very clearly. Turns out he had created a Results Focused Thinking System which is now used globally by hundreds o...

The Ritz-Carlton is acknowledged worldwide for its extraordinary customer service. The company's culture of service excellence also extends to the work environment and, as importantly, beyond the boundaries of the workplace into the community. From 2001, my guest Sue Stephenson was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources and, in 2007, assumed leadership of The Ritz-Carlton social responsibili...

During this show we will be talking about F.A.S.T, a revolutionary approach to leadership that simplifies what we need to do to be successful. This approach has been used to turnaround failing projects, under-performing departments, money losing companies and help leaders to accelerate growth and profitability. Join me with my guest Gordon Tredgold who is heralded in Inc. Magazine as one of the to...

In a world of hyper competition, unprecedented challenges and constant disruption the need for innovation has never been higher on the strategic agenda. But the majority of CEOs are dissatisfied with their innovation capability and performance. So, how do you turn rhetoric into innovation-led action and behaviour? How do you build a culture of innovation? My guests are Cris Beswick and Jo Geraghty...

So you have the desire to write a book? Or perhaps you have written before and want to do an even better job next time around? But how do you best write a book? How do you then get your hard work published? And how do you elevate your business by reaching the audience who might want to buy it? Welcome to the complex and mysterious world of books. As someone who has been on this journey and is stil...

I recently had the privilege of sitting in a large packed room of delegates at one of Gavin Preston's 'Strategies for Growth' seminars in Whitehall in the very heart of London. Two things struck me. Firstly, how appropriate a location - Gavin was able to get to the very heart of the challenges that most businesses face and provide insightful wisdom that like nearby 'Big Ben' was striking a big cho...

How do you become a really engaging leader or manager? Today, most leaders appreciate the importance of 'Employee Engagement' to productivity. Yet often don't consider how engaging they are personally. When 35% of people would forgo a major pay rise to see their boss fired, then perhaps they should! Chris Cooper will share wisdom and memorable stories about increasing your personal engagement draw...

During this show, we will be discussing a no-nonsense methodology for negotiating deals, managing your time and handling crisis, all at the highest level. My guest is Jeff B Cohen one of the entertainment industry's most beloved success stories, prominent transac-tional attorney and former child actor (he played Chunk in the Richard Donner/Steven Spielberg movie 'The Goonies'). During the intervie...