The Smart Connector

US Author of the best selling book: You Can Be Perfect or You Can Be Happy (How to Let Go, Worry Less and Get A Life!), Karith Foster is a TV Host, Comedian, and passionate Diversity Specialist whose signature programs are impacting lives at academic institutions and corporations across America. For nearly two decades, Karith has taken her talent for entertainment and comedy nationwide - creating...

Riaz is Founder and CEO of Radiate B2B, a pioneering sales and marketing tech platform that builds relationships between key stakeholders at large, multi-location businesses. It was developed to help sales and marketing teams identify and close deals faster, combining data showing who is researching their solution today with bespoke technology that identifies the companies they should be talking t...

Over the past 2.5 years Arshad Ali has built up a Property Portfolio worth £0.5million, which generates gross £35k in revenue having raised £300k in private finance, whilst working full time as an Actuary for Scottish Widows. As an Actuary Arshad deals with risk analysis and financially modelling in Investments and Businesses on a day to day basis. Everything he does is calculated, with the long t...

Technology and Risk expert Steve Anderson is author of The Bezos Letters, a book that examines the 14 Growth Principles contained within the annual letters that the Founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos has written to his shareholders for the past 20 years. The book offers a fascinating insight into how Bezos turned an online bookstore into a trillion dollar company in just over two decades. Amazon is the...

Paul Newton is a magician, public speaker, stage hypnotist, and self-confessed thief, using his advanced mind reading skills to show people just how easily a scammer can steal their details and their money.  He makes cyber security a very real and scary subject. You know there are people trying to steal your information, you just don’t know how they do it. You may have the best security systems in...

Lakhi Singh is a prolific Mayfair networker, social media influencer, and event and media group host. He is also the director of Rescue My Properties, which has helped over 5000 clients deal with hard to resolve property problems, and is an expert on stopping repossession at Immediate Bank Claims. Lakhi loves to help businesses to sustain and gain their share in the market, and is a skilled profes...

Leading US empathy and brand expert, and author of the best-selling book: The Empathy Edge, Maria Ross discusses with Jane how empathy is the critical ‘edge’ that all businesses need to succeed. Furious customers? Missed deadlines? Failed products? The problems your business faces may stem from one issue: lack of empathy. Being empathetic in business means seeing the situation from another’s persp...

As CEO of Phase2Growth, Elliot helps his clients scale fast internationally by putting in place automation tools, recommending improved processes and showing how data can be used to increase sales. The outcome is that the sales process - whether undertaken by dedicated sales people or company founders - is much more efficient, allowing companies to scale up quicker and with lower costs.  In this i...

Tippzi is a digital marketing app utilising AR (Augmented Reality) technology and a geo-location search tool, to enable SME’s and larger businesses across all sectors to advertise deals & offers to local customers, whilst increasing the business and brand visibility to a wider audience. The app also includes data analytics on campaign performance which provides business owners with a clear and...

International speaker, entrepreneur and leadership and speaker presentation coach, Harry Sardinas is the founder of Entrepreneurs Are Leaders, Speakers Are Leaders, Millionaire Speakers Network and TopCoach. Harry has trained thousands of Property Investors, Speakers, Entrepreneurs, High Net Worth Business Owners, Gold Medallists, Authors, Coaches, Students, Teachers, young people and people from...

Social Selling Strategist & leading B2B platform LinkedIn Expert, Sam Rathling is the most sought after consultant in Europe on lead generation tactics and social selling through LinkedIn. As CVO of Linked Inbound, she has the fastest-growing LinkedIn Agency in the UK. Sam’s on a mission to generate £1 billion in sales for her clients by 2025 (currently tracking at £93.7m). She has worked with...

Multi-award-winning Entrepreneur, Debbie Gilbert has built a well-deserved reputation for being a powerful champion of UK small businesses and startups. She has built a large network of contacts in this sector. Her portfolio of businesses range from marketing support, social media training, event management, and large scale networking events. Debbie is owner of Viva Business Networking and Mums Un...

Success in today’s uncertain times requires a new approach to business. Building and maintaining the support of your most important stakeholders has become mission critical, and your reputation is now your most valuable asset. Purpose drives Reputation. Reputation drives Performance. Performance drives Impact Jessica Whitcutt Fagan’s unique #ReputationWithPurpose model provides a simple framework...

Award-winning young entrepreneur and Asia/Pacific scaleup business advisor and coach, Ariya Chittasy, discusses the excitements and challenges of fast growth tech businesses in this fascinating interview with Jane.  With 4 startups in the last 8 years, including one awarded Fastest Growing Company Asia-Pacific (Business Excellence Awards 2014) and another growing into a 55+ person company in under...

Co-Founder & MD of Experiential Events Agency The Park, Jack Lamacraft, discusses Covid-19’s huge and devastating impact on the global events industry and how he and his partners have ‘pivoted’ their services and working practices to embrace the ‘new normal’.  Like Jane, Jack started off in ‘agency land’, and was lucky enough to work at some of the best around where he was taught about the pow...

Rachel Hayward is the leading consultant for Ask the Chameleon, a company that helps other businesses, of all sizes and sectors, develop and grow by writing funding bids, tenders and business award applications. Following an exceptional career in HR, organisational development, new service development, bid writing and delivery, in the private, voluntary and public sectors, Rachel has gone on to se...

Kate Strong is a Leadership Coach, World Champion triathlete, TEDx speaker, and author, who is currently training for 2 x World Records and world firsts in cycling and adventuring. One day, Kate decided to remove the glass ceiling on her potential and discover what was truly possible for her. This inspiring interview between Jane and herself explores the defining moment that led to this decision. ...

Max Branstetter is a New York based podcaster, Social Media Influencer, and Host of the Wild Business Growth Podcast, where he interviews a new entrepreneur or innovator every week who’s turning Wild ideas into Wild growth. Podcasts are a phenomenal way to grow your brand, share your expertise, and meet fascinating people. But they take time to make - way too much time for most entrepreneurs – mak...

Divorce rates amongst entrepreneurs are statistically extremely high compared to other groups. (as much as 50% according to some surveys.) This interview between Jane Bayler and Donna Hart, a Family Lawyer & Director/Shareholder at The Family Law Co, looks at the reasons why, as well as what to do in the event of an entrepreneurial marital breakdown.  Donna specialises in divorce and the finan...

ITunes #1 Podcast Host of 'Focus on Why', Mastermind Host, Speaker and Property Investor Amy Rowlinson dedicates her time and efforts to inspiring and empowering people from all walks of life to discover and realise the vision they always dreamed of. In this powerful interview, Jane and Amy discuss how, without a compelling WHY, entrepreneurs lack clarity or the ability to make informed choices an...

Nick Coleman is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Snaffling Pig, a Buckinghamshire (UK) premium food and drink brand, and the most popular food brand to have ever been crowdfunded - with £1.3m raised from over 1,940 investors. Nick founded Snaffling Pig, which is a savoury snack based on pork crackling, in 2014 with just £500. In 2016 he took part in the 14th Season of BBC2 Dragons Den, winning fun...

Ryan Foland is a California based personal brand expert, motivational speaker, consultant, podcast host, and author of an award winning book: 'Ditch the Act'- about how you can get ahead in business simply by being human. In this interview, Jane and Ryan discuss how he helps people build intentional personal brands that are relatable, authentic, and influential. His process and methods have been d...

Gamification Nation was created by An Coppens, an award-winning speaker, learning and development expert, business and executive coach and author, with over 15 years experience in creating behavior and organisational change through creative and innovative (tech) gaming solutions.  As a leading expert in gamification for employee engagement, An’s company won the Outstanding Gamification Agency Awar...

27,500 member meetup Entrepreneurs In London is one of the most successful meetups globally, and was founded by network marketing expert Patrick Powers. Patrick is also an expert in pitching, presentation, sales copy and funnel conversion... how to influence and persuade with words. This interview delves into Patrick’s fascinating and moving story, and discusses the power of networking and marketi...

International Mindset & Resilience Coach, Best Selling Author, Dynamic Speaker, and Healthy Living Mentor, Sydney based Pix Jonasson, affectionately known as The Couragepreneur, has overcome significant life-threatening and life- altering challenges, and is still an ever positive, disciplined, focused, fun-loving, community-minded leader and entrepreneur.  Pix consistently works on herself to...