The Leaders Council Podcast

Tony Westington is the managing director at Secure Innovation. The conpany solves a growing crime problem around cash-in-transit thefts. Today, Westington heads up a business turning over £12 million per year that protects billions of pounds in cash around the world every day, and its solutions have become more sophisticated and expanded to other areas. He is also passionate about education and ha...

Kate Cooper-Fay is an established business leader, board advisor, media personality and professional speaker. She is the group CEO of the CXY Group of Companies, a business and cultural transformation consultancy. Part of Kate’s approach to future-proofing businesses has involved shaping ESG strategies that are both compliant and deliver profit to the bottom line, benefiting businesses and the wid...

Simon Biltcliffe is an award-winning CEO, international public speaker and business expert. He is the founder of national print services agency Webmart, and the world’s first digitally driven print platform, Trade Print Management. Simon is widely acclaimed for delivering talks on his Marxist/Capitalist business model, as well as presentations on employee motivation and running a thriving organisa...

Shalene White is a professional beauty therapist and business owner. She is the founder of Sha Sha London Health & Beauty and education and services provider, The KW House. Having worked in the women’s hair and beauty industry for over a decade, Shalene launched The KW House in early 2021, a charitable concern aimed at raising awareness and knowledge of women’s health.

Sonia Trigueros is a former University of Oxford Nanoscience professor and the founder of NIVD World, a medical equipment manufacturing company that is developing pre-symptomatic diagnostic technology for diseases, which works by utilising nano-sensors. In 2008, Sonia co-founded the Oxford Martin Programme on Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, researching how chemotherapy could eventually be replace...

Kevin Browning is the Founder and Managing Director of Global Tunnelling Experts, a company which provides specialised construction personnel to a wide range of infrastructure projects across the globe. Browning was born in the Falkland Islands in 1964. He travelled to the UK with returning British forces after the conclusion of the Falklands War. In 2007, following several years working in the tu...

Adam Botterill is an experienced consultant and executive coach. He is the owner of The New Perspective, a consultancy which works to advise on strategy, instigate business growth and profitability. It has worked across multiple industries including manufacturing, construction, textiles, training services, contracting, equestrian, fabrication, commercial kitchen design, and more. Prior to moving i...

James Potten is the founder and CEO of Amplified Futures, an entity that helps founders of consultancies, service providers and tech businesses scale-up. James launched Amplified Futures on the back of a proven track-record of scaling-up several businesses, leveraging technology to drive efficiency. Through Amplified Futures, James coaches leaders to successfully undertake the scale-up process and...

Ian Dibb is the CEO and founder of Keylu, an online platform that helps users capture and securely store digital assets that are important to them. This can include personal photos and videos, personal documents, legal and financial files and more. He established his own business Keylu, following two family tragedies in the space of two years. After personal experience with the difficulty around d...

Lily Patrascu is the founder of Brand for Speakers a ghostwriting and copywriting services provider for luxury influencers, CEOs and thought leaders. She is also a proficient public speaker who handles a number of speaking events targeted toward leaders. Since 2012, Lily has managed the Purple Stone Rooms business and its academy arm. Purple Stone Rooms provides accommodation services for young pe...

Justin King is a financial coach and chartered financial planner. He is the owner of retirement planning specialist MFP Wealth Management and offers training services through the Kinder Institute of Life Planning. Since 2017, Justin has offered training services through the Kinder Institute of Life Planning, offering workshops and intensive trainings to financial professionals across the globe.

Scott Brown is the founder and managing director of Heriot Brown In-House Legal Recruitment, a market leader in recruiting legal professionals in the in-house legal market. He established Heriot Brown alongside other lawyers who were experienced in private practices and in-house to opportunities for lawyers to find better fulfilment in the careers they choose in-house. The company is now a market...

Sarah Cronie is a young manager who today works in the café facility at Inspired Community Enterprise Trust Ltd, a charity based in Dumfries, Scotland which trades as The Usual Place. The organisation is a training provider which offers young people with additional support needs employability skills and opportunities in the Hospitality, Front of House, Retail and Facilities Services sectors.

Jamie Cater is senior policy manager for employment at Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation. Make UK represents more than 20,000 employers across UK manufacturing and engineering, and Jamie leads the organisation’s policy work on labour market and skills issues.

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...

John JB Russell is the managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Staffing Future, a firm which custom designs and builds high-performance integrated recruitment websites & technology stacks, which help increase return on investment and achieve revenue goals. He has held his role at Staffing Future since 2019, overseeing its EMEA operation designing and building websites to he...

Richard Summers is an urban designer and director at Boyle & Summers, a SME architecture and master planning practice based in Southampton. After 24 years working as an urban designer for multiple practices, Richard co-founded his own practice (Boyle & Summers) in 2014 with business partner Tony Boyle. He has accumulated experience over the years designing regeneration master plans, urban...

Peter Dickinson is the founder and managing director of KUB Ltd, a hybrid digital marketing agency and business coaching provider helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses. He also runs another of his own businesses, Vision2Success, a services provider designed to help business leaders successfully grow their firms using a wide range of digital marketing tools.

Carolyn Hodbey is a multi-published author, media commentator and HR, operations and change expert. She is the founder of The Midlife Mistress, an organisation helping leaders instil positive change in their business cultures, and works part-time as the COO of Brilliant, which aims to change the face of the recruitment sector. As an international speaker, Carolyn talks a lot about midlife crises,...

Scott Cowley is founder of The Sales Mastermind, a community for founders of Software as a Service [SaaS] providers to grow their sales. He is also the vice-president of sales at Custify, a customer success platform designed for B2B SaaS businesses. In 2019, Scott launched The Sales Mastermind to function as a community for founders of SaaS providing companies. It was in the same year that we also...

Mandy Evill is a mindset and high-performance coach who helps business leaders improve their mindset and ultimately their business performance. She is the founder of The Infinite Mind Company, her own leadership development, training and coaching business. Mandy first launched herself into the leadership coaching world in 2001 with the establishment of her first business, Key Moment Ltd. She worke...

Tony Craddock is director general of The Payments Association, a group for payments firms which helps them navigate the complexities of regulation and form profitable partnerships. Tony is an established business leader with a background in business development, marketing, planning consulting and management consulting.

Adam Kilshaw is a former Royal Engineer in the Armed Forces, current IT systems specialist and founder of Luvajob, a business which is looking to shake-up the recruitment process for the recruitment industry. Having joined the Royal Engineers in 1996, Adam’s military career took him on tours of Belize, Iraq, Germany, Kosovo and Northern Ireland. When a 12-year career in the forces came to an end,...

Jenny Leggott (pen name JT Scott) is the owner of Transcend Zero Copywriting, the entity behind the Sammy Rambles and Bumper & Friends book series. Jenny herself has written over 30 children’s books and co-authored two business books. She is also the founder of Dragonball Sports Ltd, a company which has taken the fictional sport in the Sammy Rambles books and applied it to real life, providing...

Bev Wood is the owner and creative director of BWD Ltd, a company which offers imaginative ways to utilise space and works across all areas of the design sector from commercial interiors to outdoor spaces. Outside of her work, she has spent time carrying out work as a student support consultant and visiting lecturer for local educational institutions such as Preston College and the University of C...