The Bleeding Edge Podcast

In this episode we speak to Arn Terry about how to make a living off social media.  Arn is a career recruitment consultant for the IT Contract market.  When he found that his business disappeared overnight as a result of C-19 he put a plan in motion to build a sustainable income through social media.   After a few short weeks, Arn was pulling in $360 per day and he is well on his way to understand...

Mat Silver is the head of the Shaftesbury High School, Director of MBA for the National College of Education.  He is working towards his PHD in Positive Psychology. Mat talks to us about his latest pater 4D - Leadership in education and coming up with a new model for students, teachers and parents.   We are living in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, with the globalisation...

Lorna Corbyn has been helping retailers improve their merchandising and and supply chain operations since the late 90's (as she reminds us).  We talk about the potential of autonomous  supply chains, AI and the new cool that is Analytics and Data Science and how these new tools are changing the way we approach buying, merchandising and supply planning. Connectivity is key and we talk about the new...

In this Episode we speak to Stuart Hazel, co-founder and Chief People Officer at the Food Supply Network, a marketplace that streamlines communication and trade between all Manufacturers, Distributors and Buyers.  This innovative platform provides restaurants, hotels and retailers the opportunity to join a marketplace where producers of food and beverage goods make their product available to mover...

In this episode we focus on some of the headline stories in Retail with Victoria Ward.  Victoria is a retail consultant and specialises in helping retailers transform their operating models with a focus on merchandising.  Victoria has been responsible for sales targets of 180m p/a and she knows the opportunities and pressures that retailers are facing right now. There are some exceptional retail s...

Welcome to the Earth Day Special with Francesca Shirley.  Francesca joins us on the 50th celebration of Earth Day and talks to us about her latest solar project with Namene changing air quality for millions.  Eradicating kerosene lamps is her mission and the Namene light is the solution. On the show she makes a big commitment to scaling the number of led lamps that she wants to distribute and we s...

We talk to Dr Alan Watkins about what happens next.  Alan is a polymath, top leadership development coach and author of 7  books including his latest one Change the workplace change the world...the HR (R)evolution.   The world is accelerating and getting more and more complex with cycles running faster and faster.  Everything that can happen is happening and COVID-19 has accelerated 10 years. Fear...

Pieter is a serial sustainability warrior that always gets involved with game changing sustainability ventures. He talks to us about 2 sustainability ventures from Portugal…HullCare is an innovative hull wrap that does not kill marine life and lasts for more than 5 years, at least. ChaZeMo provides the most sophisticated and economically scalable electric vehicle charging solutions. Pieter wrote a...

We talk to Gestur Palmason, top cop and leadership development coach in Iceland.  Gestur is currently leading a response team doing C-19 contact tracing in Iceland.  With a population of 365k people Gestur and the task force he works with are mobilising the country in tracking, isolating and managing those infected with the virus through the various stages of the infection.  In his normal life as...

In this episode Steve Coomber speaks to us about the power of communication and it's ability to move whole nations and indeed worlds.  Steve is a Media and Communications specialist who spent 12 years in the Cabinet Office working on national campaigns at the centre of government. delivering the communication agenda for many national projects.   He now works with clients to apply his skills and th...

Matt Silver is the Head Teacher of Shaftesbury High School for complex needs children.  He sets out the problems that this marginalised group of children face as they end their schooling and move into the job market.  While most students face the prospect of never being employed, Matt and his team have found a way to turn this model the right way around with an approach that could put 95% of the c...

In this episode we talk to Dr. Danish Mishra about Organisational Newtwork Analysis ONA.   The ONA is a new way to look at how companies work and it reveals the hidden dynamics of the networks that drive performance.  DR. Mishra's work in Formula One identified that teams that leveraged their network performed better than the teams did not.  The best network wins but there is always a catalyst at...

In this episode we explore what the bleeding edge is.  There are 2 short examples of AI Digital Employees and the Virtual Classroom Revolution.   We also here from our panel of experts and their take on what the Bleeding Edge is to them.  On this Episode Dr. Danish Mishra, a data scientist looking at high performance human networks in organisations, Matt Silver, head teacher and educational pionee...

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