The Leaders Council Podcast

Naomi Timperley is an award-winning consultant and advisor on growth, strategy, and innovation. She is the co-founder of Tech North Advocates and Growth Strategy Innovation. Over her career, Naomi has worked with scale-ups, start-ups, innovative businesses and entrepreneurs to help develop their enterprises and boost digital skills. She is the co-founder of Tech North Advocates, a collection of te...

Dr Arthur Krebbers is the head of corporate, climate and ESG capital markets at NatWest. Part of his role involves publishing research in a range of ESG trends, such as sustainable treasury strategies and the green halo effect. Krebbers supports NatWest Markets’ global client base in structuring sustainable debt instrument; constructing socially responsible investment portfolios; formulating and b...

Mark Middlemas is the CEO and founder of The Athlete Media Group [AMG], a sports agency which helps brands grow by connecting them with athletes using meaningful ideas. Mark is buoyed by a background of over 20 years working in the media and marketing sphere, as well as in the technology, sport and charity industries. This has seen him work for numerous businesses including BLM Quantum, UM London,...

Judith Germain is known for creating clear thinking and decisive leaders who can thrive in complex, constantly changing environments. She is an Executive Mentor working with the C-Suite and senior teams, a consultant, author, speaker and trainer. Judith is HRZone’s Leadership Columnist and her expert opinion has been sought by BBC radio, National and trade press.

Alastair Kerr is the founding director of Acre Properties (1988) Ltd, a property sales and lettings company based in Chiswick, west London. Kerr is passionate about fighting homelessness and helping the local community. Writing in The Parliamentary Review in 2019, he urged the government and property sector operators to look at tweaks to landlord taxation to help those in need, and the introductio...

Ross Stocker-Drew is a registered manager at Autism Unlimited. Autism Unlimited exists to support and empower autistic children, adults and their families. They partner with them to find solutions and provide educational and life skills training. From bespoke education for children, to independent living skills and career guidance for adults.

Matthew Jensen is a project director at Fraiserline Architectural & Design Services, a firm providing multi-channel project services for the residential, hospitality, commercial and cruise ship industry sectors. Jensen has been active at Fraiserline for over six years. His early career began as a trainee quantity surveyor specialising in Siemens power generation, ME systems, civil engineering...

Graham Wilson is the founder of Successfactory, a company specialised in leadership development to help unlock the potential of business. As well as working in business for several decades, Graham has also enjoyed a career in the military and carried some of his lessons from leadership learnt in the Forces into his civilian life. Graham’s work is primarily in the realms of strategy, innovation, ch...

Shaffiq Din is the founder of Hidaayah Consulting, a company set-up to deliver bespoke consultancy solutions across all sectors enabling organisations to engage more effectively with Muslim communities, clients and staff. Shaffiq is also operations director at the Al-Emaan Centre, an organisation which seeks to unify communities despite faith and cultural differences. He is also a trustee at The W...

Kerry Tottingham is a Chartered Management Institute certified coach and mentor. She is the founder of Brilliant Thing, a coaching and design-thinking practice which works with charities, public sector teams and companies with social aims in order to navigate change, avoid burnout and build better organisations. Prior to establishing Brilliant Thing in 2021, Kerry’s background lay in Arts co-ordin...

Al Tepper is a marketing specialist and founder of TepFu, a business which helps directors, partners and founders overcome their biggest marketing challenges. After starting out in publishing, Al soon moved across into a marketing role which kickstarted a stellar career in the industry. Occupying senior marketing roles in businesses including Caspian Publishing, Natural Collection, Future of Sourc...

Rod Turner is the founder of the Income Through Property Group (ITP Group), a property development and investment business that helps achieve strong return on investments through property. Rod is a business leader with a proven track record of starting and growing businesses and operating in senior roles. The establishment of ITP Group came in 2015, with Rod continuing to own the business today.

Robert Craven is an experienced executive coach and a keynote speaker on growing digital agencies. He is the founder of GYDA [Grow Your Digital Agency], a consultancy that helps digital agency leaders grow their businesses. Robert has worked in marketing and growth strategy for many years, with his work having been widely published and implemented by thousands of businesses. His advice has helped...

Daniel Kirby is the founder and CEO of The Tech Dept, a plug-in tech team for impact-led start-ups headquartered in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Kirby is the host of ‘Honey, I blew up the business’ a podcast series expoloring the highs and lows of business running. Outside of his business activities, Daniel is actively involved in charity fundraising. In March 2022, he completed the infamous Marath...

Claire Dimpfl is the owner and head of Tadpoles Nursery School in Chelsea, west London. Dimpfl founded Tadpoles Nursery School back in 1976, after having spent three years as a teacher. Today, Tadpoles Nursery welcomes teams from Estonia, China, Singapore and Sweden among other countries to learn about best practice in Early Years. All Dimpfl’s experience in early years’ education has helped creat...

Chris Burt is an experienced strategy advisor, digital and cyber consultant and risk thought-leader. He is the principal at City of London-based boutique governance consultancy, Halex Consulting, and co-founder of the Risk Coalition, a not-for-profit, risk management think tank that aims to improve the effectiveness of risk management practice within UK plc. aving co-founded the Risk Coalition, Ch...

Nella Pang is a chartered surveyor, commercial property advisor and managing director of Omega RE, a business which provides property solutions to landlords and tenants and helps with all aspects of commercial acquisition and disposal across the south of England. Nella leads the business in helping businesses navigate the complexities of commercial real estate, so they can achieve their business o...

Nina Alag Suri is an entrepreneur and engineer. She is the CEO and co-founder of X0PA AI, an AI powered SAAS platform that helps enable smart hiring by using data to match candidates to job descriptions. Nina has a demonstrated history of working in senior positions. Even before starting her own business, she worked in managerial positions for ICIM and IIS Infotech before founding NASTRAC Group Lt...

Max MacGillivray is an award-winning expert speaker, MC and facilitator in the international agri-business and fresh food sectors. He is the founder of Beanstalk Global, a media enterprise for the international fresh food industry, and Redfox – which specialises in executive recruitment for leading clients in the fresh foods/fresh produce, agri-business and retail sectors on a UK and international...

Elliott Herrod-Taylor is the founder of The Bunch, a start-up business seeking to change how students and letting agencies approach bills by overhauling how they’re managed, while removing unnecessary liability. Elliott holds a Certificate in New Ventures Leadership issued by the MIT Sloan School of Management, following completion of the school’s Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp as well as a Youn...

Paul Williams is a senior executive within numerous businesses. He is the founder of Elysian Partners, a firm which provides services for high-net-worth clients looking to relocate to the UK. Paul’s role involves providing non-executive and interim director advice to a portfolio of companies, specialising in finance, funding, investment, business acquisition, property development finance and conci...

John Kirk is a school governor with many years of experience in education and is responsible for the development of partnerships with schools at Good News for Everyone. John oversees Good News’ work with the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education [NATRE] to produce curriculum-based material for schools. Under his guidance, the organisation also trains its members to be able go int...

Per Ottosson is the CEO at Artificial Solutions, a multinational technology company that develops technology for conversational AI systems. He has previously worked as director of the Western Europe Software Division at Hewlett-Packard, vice president for Northern Europe and France at BMC software and country manager for Sweden at EMC.

Marcin Kierdelewicz is the founder and CEO of BIAMI.io , a business that works with founders and C-level executives within rapidly growing businesses across the globe. BIAMI.io helps businesses devise ad execute strategies that increase business performance improvement in value proposition, operations and growth tenfold, through AI and intelligent automation at scale.

Russell Dalgleish is a serial entrepreneur, investor and global network builder. He is the founder and managing partner of full service business advisory practice Exolta Capital Partners and co-founder of the Scottish Business Network. As managing partner for Exolta, which he established in 2012, Russell manages partner development and delivery of services to clients. This role involves working wi...