The Leaders Council Podcast

Adrian Grindley is the owner of digital design agency, Pop Creative, which carried our user experience and conversion rate optimisation work for entities such as WordPress and WooCommerce. Adrian oversees Pop Creative’s work improving usability, accessibility and user interface development for clients, helping them grow their businesses online through whole new websites or optimising established d...

James Whewell is a director at Uplands Projects Ltd, the holding entity for Wyresdale Park, a farming and tourism country estate in Lancashire with a wedding venue, café, shops, spa and glamping area. Backed by years of experience in director roles within other companies, James is a director at Uplands Projects and oversees the running of the Wyresdale Park estate as a venue.

Lynn Lewis is the director of independent living at Guinness Care, a subsidiary of The Guinness Partnership. Lynn first joined The Guinness Partnership in 2015 as interim director of community services at Guinness Care. After one year of success in the role, she took up her current post as director of independent living. --- Follow The Leaders Council and have your say: Twitter: @LeadersGBNI Youtu...

Peter Ernest Williams is a qualified chartered surveyor, director and chairman at Conditionaire International Ltd, a well-established business formed in 1994. Peter is a longstanding business leader with experience in chartered surveying and directorship in various sectors, including Energy, Consulting, Hospitality and Real Estate. --- Follow The Leaders Council and have your say: Twitter: @Leader...

Ahmad Jooma is the operations director of Jooma Care Homes Limited, a care provider that runs two specialist care homes in London for adults with learning disabilities. Ahmad has over 18 years of experience in the care sector looking after vulnerable adults and has developed a compassionate understanding of their needs over that time. --- Follow The Leaders Council and have your say: Twitter: @Lea...

Andrea Murray is a director at Café Ri-An, a breakfast restaurant in Accrington, Lancashire. Andrea was officially appointed a director of the company in 2019, just over one year after the incorporation of the business. --- Follow The Leaders Council and have your say: Twitter: @LeadersGBNI Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LeadersCouncil LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-leaders-cou...

Charles Baughan is the owner of Westaway Sausages, an award-winning sausage manufacturer based in Newton Abbot, Devon. Charles has owned Westaway Sausages since 2008. The business uses the finest British Pork to make fresh and low-fat traditional butcher’s and speciality sausages. --- Follow The Leaders Council and have your say: Twitter: @LeadersGBNI Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LeadersCoun...

Phil Jones MBE is the managing director of Brother UK, the British arm of multi-national information, communication and tech manufacturer, Brother. Phil has previously served as an external governor for The Apprentice Academy in Greater Manchester [2017-2020] and served a three-year term as president of community foundation, Forever Manchester [2014-2017] and three-year term as VP of the Mancheste...

Shaz Memon is a British entrepreneur, designer, marketeer, author, thought leader and philanthropist. Shaz Memon, BSc eCommerce Brunel University London, founder of Digimax Dental in London and Charity, Wells on Wheels. Memon has been featured in Forbes, Times of India Medium, Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Business Reporter and Digital Marketing Magazine.

Michaela Weaver is the critically acclaimed executive woman’s Alcohol Coach, a best-selling author, TEDx speaker and master coach. Michaela uses The Social Secret in her approach as The Alcohol Coach, a coaching project she has been running since mid-2019. With Michaela’s honed multidisciplinary approach, she helps clients find an innate power balance away from alcohol to connect with their true a...

Amanda Meachin is the CEO of Community & Business Partners C I C [CBP], an organisation based in Blackburn providing services to both the local community and businesses across northwest England. The CIC provides a range of services including commercial business mentoring and business support, recycling and upcycling of clean waste, environmental and food waste reduction, and community engagement.

David Newman is the Director of the Guernsey Alcohol Advisory Service, providing counselling and support to anyone whose life is negatively affected by alcohol. Prior to joining the advisory service in 1993, Newman worked as an alcohol support worker in Northallerton and Morayshire. Alongside offering counselling and support, the GAAS owns a rehabilitation Dry House, offering a safe environment fo...

Thomas Dunn is the chairman of Orbian, a Supply Chain Finance [SCF] solutions provider. Orbian offers a collaborative, flexible solution for working capital management to meet the financial demands of an agile global supply chain. Thomas has helped instigate a transformation of the company from a struggling and heavily loss-making “minor player” into a solidly profitable, fast growing and acknowle...

David Bly is the operations director of Cornerstone Management Services, a provider of unique effective claim solutions, property damage investigations and training. David is a vastly experienced business leader, with expert knowledge in the damage, mitigation and restoration services industries. He has held his role at Cornerstone since 2009, having previously spent three years heading up operati...

Darren Woods is the CEO and co-founder of enCircle Solutions Ltd, a business which started out developing a leading-edge BPM platform that is now supporting millions of Business Process transactions across many public and private sector organisations. In 2004, while balancing his Vodafone role with IT management at RE Woods, Darren co-founded enCircle Solutions in a joint venture. Today, the busin...

Phil Brown is a director at Allan Brown, a long-established accountancy practice in Worcestershire. Phil is a business leader with over 20 years of experience in accountancy and finance. Part of his firm’s work is facilitating the drive toward Making Tax Digital, upgrading existing clients’ accounting packages to ensure they maximise their use of systems and avoid unnecessary administrative burden...

Stuart Dantzic is the managing director of Caribbean Blinds UK Ltd, a designer, manufacturer and supplier of fine external shading systems. Caribbean Blinds has been established since 1987, and Stuart has been with the company since 2001, becoming Managing Director in 2017. https://www.cbsolarshading.co.uk/

Martin Wardle is a director at Robson Laidler, an accountancy firm based in Newcastle upon Tyne and the northeast which helps businesses grow and develop. Martin has worked in the field of tax and finance for many years, starting out his career with Forrestals working as a tax adviser in the 1990s. It was in 1998 that he joined Robson Laidler as a director, which was then known as Straughans.

Barry Florida-James is director and founder of JustAccounts, a cloud-based accountancy platform designed to optimise processes for contractor accountants and Umbrella/Payroll Providers. Balancing the launch of his own business with an R&D and chief security role with GCrypt in his company’s first year, JustAccounts became Barry’s sole priority in 2011. Today, the business works with service provid...

David Ereira is Director of Property Investments and Asset Management at Ereira Mendoza, a respected full-service property practice with a strong reputation. David has led the Ereira Mendoza practice in partnership with Daniel Mendoza since 1990. In his years running the company, he has also overseen overseas development of the business in Israel and headed up its desk in the country.

Mark Tughan is an entrepreneur and investor and founder and owner of Comic Enterprises Ltd, the entity which runs The Glee Clubs. He is also a regular judge on the panel at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. Mark started out in the corporate finance industry in 1990 with Brown Shipley and Company, and later JO Hambro Magan. After four years in the sector, he founded Comic Enterprises in 1994 t...

Andy Doyle is a director at technical and creative agency weheartdigital Ltd, and co-founder of AI-based video content platform, Filmily. Andy has an extensive background in digital and has been an entrepreneur in the sector for many years, starting numerous businesses along the way.

Jayne Davies is the company secretary at Lower Swell Chemicals, a manufacturer based in Bourton on the Water which serves the hospitality and automotive sector. Jayne has held her role within Lower Swell Chemicals since 1979. She has helped lead the business through its activities over many years, with much of its work involving the manufacture of detergents and soap products for the sectors that...

Nikki Markham MBE is the head of Transferable Skills Training [TST], an organisation established to work with the individuals that have been failed by traditional forms of education and training. Markham also runs Battling On a multi-award winning organisation which supports veterans from the Armed Forces. It has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence and was awarded the Queen’s Award for Volun...

Dale Vince OBE is the founder of Ecotricity & Chairman of Forest Green Rovers. Dale kickstarted the now-global green energy movement, he pioneered the electric car, built the Electric Highway to power them and runs Forest Green Rovers – the word’s first green football club. His whole life has been a strive for change and the result of a questioning mind that doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer.