The Business Simplicity Podcast

Mick is a passionate entrepreneur in heart and soul. Creativity and the Dutch art of flip-thinking is his nature. After more than 25 years of entrepreneurship, he is sharing his knowledge and experience with his environment.   In our conversation, Mick talks about how creativity and flip-thinking are the fuel to move forward, binding people,  empowering them and staying simpatico as a brand.   Lea...

Jyotish Patel is a regenerative health care practitioner, facilitator of transformation and a wholeness guide, inspired by the emergence of new approaches for expanding consciousness that integrate ancient wisdom with modern insights for growth and transformation. He has pioneered the application of Energy Medicine into the world of business to complement organizational learning and development pr...

Jonas Tornquist is a leader, innovator and agent for change. He enjoys coaching teams to overcome complex issues and growing through continuous improvement. He particularly likes businesses that need growing, changing or restructuring and likes to make sure that work is also fun. He is an all-rounder with a natural ability to create and lead diverse teams through a low-ego servant leadership appro...

Mark van den Brom is an engineering manager at DASH. In this role he supports the growth, learning and improvement of development teams and individuals.   In a previous step in his career, Mark was an Agile management consultant and helped many organisations in adopting agile ways of working, often by applying kanban principles and practices. Mark loves to figure out why things are working the way...

Karen De Boeck is agile coach and organization coach, supporting people, teams and organizations to maximise their impact and deliver results in a human way.  Her passion is to help them actively realize their ambitions, positively define feasible steps, find balance between a guiding structure and space for selforganisation. To collectively and humanly deliver results they are proud of. During th...

Mohammad Hassan is a software engineer with 13 years of experience, delivering enterprise grade products to Fortune 100 customers.  Living in Cairo, Hassan leads engineering at Tactful AI, building its AI-Powered, Omnichannel Customer experience platform.  His passion is building software that improves users productivity and simplifies their workflow.   Mohammad will discuss his experience with Pe...

Michael Chang Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that has helped thousands of aspiring leaders ethically leverage power and politics to breakthrough – and ascend. His contrarian views have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and he is the author of Get Promoted: What You’re Really Missing at Work That’s Holding You Back. Prior to becoming an executive coach, Michael served 20 years bringing b...

Mohamed is an engineer and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience building technology products that made their way into hundreds of millions of people’s lives. In previous posts, Mohamed managed world-class teams and complex technology programs across multiple continents.   Mohamed’s latest role with the CEO and co-founder of Tactful AI which is a UK technology startup specialising in customer e...

Marco Visser is a managing director who uses authenticity and passion for people to help teams use their drive to accomplish their goals. He thinks that goals are more than just KPI's. What is it that makes people tick? He has experience in running a staffing business and was managing director for a data engineering company.   Through his years of experience, he has learned that passion and fun ar...

Michelle Seiler Tucker shares the ‘GPS Exit Model’ to help business owners prepare for a successful sale of their company.     Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. She holds the M&AMI (Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary) title, as well as Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Professional (CM&AP) and Certified Senior Business...

Laurent Silvestri shares his winning approach to creating long-term, empathetic, partnerships based on his 20+ years of being a successful entrepreneur. Laurent Silvestri has been an entrepreneur in the telecom industry for the last 25 years. He has founded multiple companies, surfing on the different waves since the deregulation of the French telecom industry. In 2005, he founded a French telecom...

Bob Smith shares his insights in how to use OKR’s (Objectives & Key Results) to create the ‘Countability Culture’ instead of a culture of frustration based on accountability.   Bob’s passion is helping companies scale the implementation of OKRs for fast growth.  He uses Objectives and Key Results to keep the company and teams inspired, focused and aligned on great outcomes.  He is an expert in...

Michael Smits shares how a global community of inspired doers has created the Purpose Manifesto and how this can inspire everyday actions to make the world a better place.   We talk about the Purpose Manifesto. Why 50+ authors and 100+ collaborators from around the world felt the need to come together now from all corners of the world to write the guidelines to inspire everyday actions for a bette...

Jen Dumitrescu shares some tactics on how to simplify your life for self-employed people and real-estate agents in particular.   After 15 years of experience as a real estate agent, she wanted to simplify the process for other agents. We all got into business with a dream to work less. Be your own boss and make unlimited sums of money. For most, the reality has been different, but there’s no time...

Nick McRoberts shares how choosing what not to do has enabled him to succeed throughout his life as a composer and coach.   Nick studied piano, composition and conducting at the Melbourne Conservatory, the Victorian College of Arts, the CNSM in Paris and the Ecole Normale. He studied conducting with Robert Rosen, Jorma Panula and Dejan Savić. Today he is based in France. His works include operas,...

Karim Benammar shares his insights about how investigating and challenging our assumptions can enable us to think and act differently.  This can greatly simplify our life, give us more control over it, and make it a lot more fun.   Karim is a philosopher specialising in transformative thinking - thinking that makes people do things differently. He gives lectures and workshops for companies and org...

Kristjan Knigge shares his insights about how preparation is the key to success. Kristjan believes that a great strategy to create simplicity is thorough preparation. Being well prepared allows for mental and creative freedom by providing a solid foundation for any endeavour. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/preparation-is-key/ The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their...

Chris shares the background of the new format of the podcast - the Business Simplicity Podcast - the new version of the Simplicity Toolkit and an explanation about his moustache. See the Movember.com page to learn more and you can still support financially after the month of November! See: https://movember.com/m/chrisparkernl?mc=1 Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/simplicity-podcast/  

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Chris Parker, the host of the podcast series... Chris shares why this is the last episode of the Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere series, and teases a little about what is coming up after the summer! Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/the-last-episode/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Sonia Lewis, the Anti-racist Impact Strategist from the United States. Sonia shares her journey from observing racial inequity as a child through to her starting an educational consultancy to ensure, “the future is anti-racist.” Her company, Ascribe Educational Consulting, works with leaders in education and corporate organisations around the worl...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Martin de Roode, the IT Supply Manager from the Netherlands, sharing his experience with the recent Sustainability Sprint. Martin shared his journey recently from being inspired as the IT Supply Manager to organise a Sustainability Sprint with many of his colleagues.  He shares where his interest and passion in sustainability comes from, and how V...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Jessica van Beek, Simon Brod, Wim Lubberson and Chris Parker, speaking about the Sustainability Sprint. They share their experience of conceiving, preparing and delivering the first Sustainability Sprint. This enterprise service is a five-half-day experience that uses the power of the Simplicity Scan to enable management teams to achieve clarity,...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Ajit Vahadene, the Founder of Bloodyfast, from India. Ajit shares his journey from running various businesses to working closely with his brother to save lives in India. Their solution – Bloody Fast – is an app with over ten thousand downloads that connects people with blood donors and other life-saving support. They focus on bringing help to your...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Mischa Muntinga, the Strategic Change  Consultant, from the Netherlands. Mischa shares his journey from a tax expert to a strategic change consultant with financial institutions. We have a fascinating discussion based on his experience directing change projects with large, complex and often siloed organisations.  He shared the four perspectives of...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Saskia Vos, the Coach and HR Professional, from the Netherlands. Saskia shares her journey which has enabled her to help people as a coach and HR professional. We have a fun conversation about how she has a unique perspective coaching people in career transition while also helping the HR teams which employ these people. Having met each other almos...