The Leadership Learns Podcast

Daniel Couto is the COO of Vedanta Biosciences, a leading microbiome company who recently completed $68 Million Series D Financing. Dan has nearly 30 years of experience starting and advancing biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing organizations to higher levels of capability, growth and productivity. Vedanta is developing a novel class of therapies that modulate pathways of interaction b...

Rana has been delivering highly valued global communications counsel to world-class tech brands and PR agencies for over 20 years. He has devised and executed creative campaigns for dozens of market leading brands including Microsoft, Admix, AppLovin, Philips, and Sony, and helped launch the hypercasual media trend in 2017.  Rana Rahman shares his journey going from a PR consultant, to launching h...

As Head of Legal at Metro Bank PLC, James is responsible for the day to day running of the legal team, overseeing, identifying, and dealing with the broad legal matters affecting Metro Bank.  James shares the ways Metro Bank have created a flexible workplace, the power of mentorship and how to motivate your team and enable them to set their own path. Metro Bank is a retail and commercial bank oper...

Murali is the CEO of RationalFX, a market leading foreign exchange and international payments company who have facilitated over $12 billion of international payments for their 180,000+ registered clients across over 170 countries. Murali was previously at TransferWise where he led execution for platform strategy with financial institutions globally, and started his career in Accenture’s technology...

Natalie is an award-winning business leader and entrepreneur, and has spent most of her career in the healthcare sector, starting in the pharmaceutical industry at Johnson and Johnson. As an entrepreneur she built a global healthcare services business and in 2020 co-founded rare disease specialist health technology company RareiTi.   Before this, Natalie took the seat as interim CEO, leading a bus...

Lisa Hau, COO & Board Member at Bidstack Group, an in-game ad platform, has 15+ years’ experience working at FTSE 100’s including WPP, where she led investor relations before joining Bidstack Group in 2020.   Lisa shares her inspiring career journey and transition from the corporate world into start-up culture and how being comfortable with feeling uncomfortable has helped her succeed.   Passi...

Punam Owens has almost 30 years’ experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries and is currently VP of Quality Management at BD, one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Passionate about inclusion and diversity, Punam is a strategic and dynamic business leader as well as a qualified coach and mentor, and is heavily involved in local community initiatives...

James Sullivan has spent the last few years working in disruptive, fast growth, early-stage companies and is currently COO & General Counsel at Ziglu, the Crypto and payments app. He previously headed up the legal team at challenger bank, Monzo during a period of rapid growth, and before that has held roles as MD of a fund administrator and COO at a Real estate investment manager. James has an...

Jason is the founder and CEO at Cynozure, a data and analytics strategy company with a mission to create a better future for all through the open and positive use of data. He is co-author of ‘Data Means Business’ and was recently featured in the DataIQ 100 Most Influential People in Data, 2020 and 2021. From running and implementing the data capability for M&S’s loyalty and membership offering...

Janet Hadfield is an accomplished healthcare professional (MBA) with over 20 years’ experience in the global business and healthcare arenas. High energy levels combined with expert clinical knowledge have resulted in a proven flair for developing and launching new healthcare concepts. Janet has an expert knowledge in the building and development of high-performance teams and is focused on the deve...

Spencer Gore is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and leader who loves innovation. Over a 20+ year period, he has launched 7 different businesses across television, publishing, recruitment, sports & healthcare.  Spencer’s main motivation is to build a team of ‘Gold Medal Winners,’ whose values are completely aligned with a determination to constantly improve themselves. He is constantly pus...

Sophie is an ERM lead for Shell, supporting over 6,000 technology and engineering professionals as part of the overall Shell technology business. Her leadership experience has taken her across the world focusing on early stage set up, local market definition, strategic WFP and in territory execution whilst building epic teams and environments. She is a self-confessed Slashy (a mix of Chief of Staf...