The Independent Minds

Adam Mokhtar runs Diogel an architecture company in North Wales. But Adam has had a very varied career, ranging from preacher to playing guitar in a rock band that performed at the Manchester MEN Arena. As you would expect in a conversation about the transferability of skills Adam and host Michael Millward discuss a wide range of subjects as they explore how understanding the skills you have can o...

Barry LaBov is the marketing expert who has developed a proprietary Brand Re-Engineering process that will help any organisation discover and maximise the value of their brand. In this episode of The Independent Minds Barry explains to Michael Millward the difference between being different and having a differentiation that customers can identify and buy into. Before you can win market share expla...

Rob Spence is the founder of Paragon Sales Solutions , a Leicester based sales and marketing services provider and author of the best-selling book, Relationship Selling. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Rob tells explains what Relationship Selling is to host Michael Millward. Rob describes how the process of selling creates the negative experiences that many buyers hav...

David Fradin has been building successful products and services since 1969, at organizations including at HP as well as Apple, where he was at the same management level as Steve Jobs. Now he has used all his experience to create the S.P.I.C.E Catalyst. S.P.I.C.E Catalyst is on a mission to help aspiring and experienced product professionals and to build insanely great products and services that de...

You have just had a long hard day at work. You are exhausted. You could take the short walk home. Instead, you take the longer route through the park. Somehow you arrive home not feeling as worn-out as you did when you left work. The question is why. In this episode of The Independent Minds Michael Millward finds out from London’s Green Space Coach Karen Liebenguth of Parcival coaching why being i...

In this episode of The Independent Minds Michael Millward meets Stuart Davis, joint founder of the comfortable and super sustainable children’s shoe brand Dubs Universe . During lockdown Stuart became a stay-at-home Dad to his young daughter. He was struck by how rapidly she was growing both mentally and physically. Like every parent he also saw how quickly she grew out of clothes and shoes. Stuar...

Have you got a will?  If you haven't you could be creating work for people like Ryan Gregory. Ryan is the International Director at Finders International who are probate researchers. He spends his time at work tracing heirs to estates, property and assets. His job made him a star of twelve series of the BBC TV programme Heir Hunters .  In this episode of The Independent Minds Ryan explai...

Next time you are involved in a buying process you might experience a different selling approach from the salesperson. How that new approach will look is explained in SELLING IS SERVING : which author Nick Staab describes as a Master The Art Of Selling Ethically With Confidence And Conviction. In this first episode of The Independent Minds with two guests, Nick explains to Michael Millward what se...

There can not be a parent of a school age child who does not want their child to do better at school than they did. Every parent wants to play an active role in supporting their child to do well in every aspect of their school life not just their academic attainment. But our memories of what school was like are not always happy ones, and the way schools teach even the most basic aspects of English...

Regardless of when someone leaves full time education, entering the world of employment is the real 21st Century rite of passage. You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job.  Only the biggest employers have the resources to provide training for people entering the workforce. As a result, getting a foothold on the career ladder can feel like an impossibl...

Heather Holmes is the founder and CEO of Publicity for Good , a North Carolina based PR consultancy that helps businesses achieve their corporate social responsibilities. In the episode of The Independent Minds Heather explains to Michael how any organisation, regardless of size or type can help create a change in their society. It all depends says Heather on making sure that the activity not only...

Christina Inge is a Technologist for Good. Christina is the founder of Thoughtlight a Digital Agency, in Boston Massachusetts; the author of two bestselling books a b and a and an Instructor, in Professional & Executive Development, for Harvard University Division of Continuing Education. In this interesting episode, of the Independent Minds Christina explains to host Michael Millward why mark...

In this episode of the Independent Minds host Michael Millward is captivated as Juan Campoo explains inner acceleration model and his book The Mind Canvas. The most important possession of any human being, says Juan is their mind, yet very few understand how it works and how to manage its different moods. Juan explains to Michael how by learning how to ask the right questions anyone can manage the...

Join host Michael Millward as John Couper explains his “Four Minds” concept of inner communication. More than simply talking to yourself, understanding our four minds and how they influence our behaviour and interactions with other people can result in a happier life. John explains to Michael how the Four Minds model provides both personal insights and an intuitive, practical path to self–transfor...

Jack Skeels never wanted to be a manager, but when his career inevitably led to a management role, he decided that he had to find a better way than simply following the established norms of command and control. That eventually led to the establishment of Agencyagile a California, USA based consultancy that focuses on supporting agencies to manage people better and be more productive and profitable...

The Independent Minds is the podcast where we don’t tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think! The Power of Remote The world wants to work remotely, but not many employers, of any type or size, nor their employees have really worked out how to make remote working work.  Many managers struggle to adapt to managing people they cannot see immediately. One manager who has worked ou...

Hutton Henry is the man who can increase the sale value of your technology, digital or creative business.  He provides venture capitalists and angel investors with assessments of the invest-ability of your business. The value of your tech business is based on the value your tech team delivers. In this conversation with Michael Millward, Hutton explains how he conducts his assessments and how...

PASKpartnership invited more than 100 senior HR professionals, including Michael Millward to contribute to research, conducted by occupational psychologists into what a competency framework solely dedicated to hr leaders would look like. The result is the Paskpartnership People Leadership RADAR®. PPL RADAR® provides an opportunity for HR leaders to identify and track their development needs for to...

It was a fascination for patterns that attracted Alex Naslund to day trading stocks and shares. Aged 17 without using real money he learnt how stock markets work. At 18 he started day trading on the live market. At 21 he launched Dilutional.com a service that warns day traders of companies that are intending to dilute their stock. In this episode of The Independent Minds, Alex explains to Michael...

A sales director once told me that the fastest way to get something done is to motivate the laziest person you know to do it. Why is that I asked? Because explained the sales director, they will want to do it quickly so that they can get back to doing what they really want to do, and they will get it right first time so that they don’t have to do it again. There is some logic in that! It is the so...

Chris Norton is the founder and managing director of one of the largest PR consultancies in the North of England, Prohibition PR .  In this conversation with Michael Millward of Abeceder Chris explains why companies and brands use Public Relations Consultancies. He also explores how the role of public relations is changing to meet the needs of both businesses and their customers as the techno...

In his book Throttle UP: How to Accelerate the Impact of 21st Century Leadership John Dentico asserts that leadership in the 21st Century is different to leadership in the past.  Traditionally leaders were seen as special, people who were born not made, because they possessed traits that could not be learnt by lesser human beings.   What, were seen as an exercise of the abstract ostensib...

Storytelling is much more than a buzzword, it's a true superpower especially in the social network era. Tovit Neizer of Yellow Bricks Consulting specialises in helping companies that sell to other companies (B2B) to tell their story in a way that builds their business, by building relationships with their customers. Tovit explains to host Michael Millward of Abeceder how Companies can create stori...

How the space in which we work is designed will impact the way in which we work in that space. It may seem obvious that elements like heating, and lighting will impact how we feel about being in a space, and consequently how we feel about the activities we are required to undertake in that space. Which means that if we don’t like the space we are in, we will be less productive than if we are in a...

The law exists to protect people and help them to achieve justice when they have been wronged by the actions of another person or an organisation. Billy Smith of a law firm headquartered in Glasgow which trades as both Complete Clarity Solicitors and Simplicity Legal believes that accessing the law, for many people, means instigating legal action. Billy says that legal action should not be a foreg...