Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE (Jonathan Bowman-Perks)

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Lieutenant General Sir Nick Pope KCB CBE served as Master General of the Ordnance from 2011 to 2013 and Deputy Chief of the General Staff from 2015 to 2019. He is now ready for his next stage of his career post a very successful time in the British Army.

Nick saw that he is had 3 x Parts of his career. Humorously describing himself as a "Bristol reject" who went to Jesus College Cambridge 

1. Tactical - Regimental duty with Junior Command appointments 
2. Operational - Staff appointments and getting acquainted with the MoD bureaucracy 
3. Strategic - Leading leaders 

He was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals he was then Brigade Major/ Chief of Staff at HQ 19 Mechanised Brigade. He was Commanding Officer of 30 Signal Regiment and later commanded 1st Signal Brigade in Rheindahlen in 2005 and was deployed after that to Afghanistan.

The leader who most inspired Nick was General Lord David Richards the former Chief of Defence Staff. 

David Richards' skills: 

1. Developing a team through empowerment, trust & team practices 
2. Stakeholder engagement 
3. Crystallise the key issues - mission + team + individuals 

Learning from Failure? 

Nick found he learnt the most when receiving 360 reports on his performance from all those around him

Nick said I learnt that I needed to work on the following two areas: 

1. You are arrogant.
2. You need to communicate more (tough one as a Royal Signals Officer) 

They were right! I tried to do everything myself.

Now I talk and listen to people more and make them part of the journey 

Nick’s Top tips - 

1. Stay positive (especially in the language we use) 

2. Embrace challenge 

3. Smile more

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Dame Alison Nimmo DBE is a Scottish Chartered Surveyor who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Crown Estate. For the last 8 years Alison has been inspiring and leading a very strong team to take £14.3 Bn business to record levels of employee engagement and resulting financial. performance. The Crown Estate returned over £343 million in profits to HM Treasury in 2019. Together they have grown the property portfolio from £10 Bn over 6 years ago which is a phenomenal achievement.

Alison's first job was as a planning officer with Westminster City Council from 1986, after which she worked for the surveyors Drivers Jonas followed by KPMG and Manchester City Council (1996) where she was involved in the regeneration of the city after the IRA bombing of 1996. She worked on the redevelopment of Sheffield town centre for Sheffield One (2000) and was design and regeneration director at the Olympic Delivery Authority from 2006 (interim from 2003). She became chief executive of the Crown Estate on 1 January 2012, taking over from Roger Bright.

Alison is a non-executive director of house-builders Berkeley Group Holdings, trustee of the UK Green building Council and a visiting professor at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. In 2019 Alison became a published author in a team effort creating a book called "Regenerating Cities – leadership, vision and partnerships" and wrote the chapter on "the value of partnership working".

A CBE for services to urban regeneration in 2004 and a DBE for public service and services to the Exchequer in 2019.

Alison's philosophy - "Success is a team effort". 

Tips - Work out what works for yourself. “Leave your ego at home”. 

Alison says - I’m not your archetypal leader; more of a team coach leading in a thoughtful way.

Im definitely not loud & directive - not “the big I am!” 

She has found that what works best for her is- "Set the strategy, then work to empower your team to deliver".

"Hire really good people and let them have their wings and fly." 

As a recovering perfectionist it’s quite scary to let go. However, When you do then that’s when the magic happens. 

She learnt that style from others and passed it on. 

"You get the greatest sense of achievement when you see others succeed". 

Particular she found it very important "Getting from the engine room to steering the ship from the bridge. There you can be looking out for icebergs".

"Hire and develop the very best and surround yourself with an army of giants".

Trust is a really important - both ways.

Consistency. Learning from mistakes. 

Fear of failure & trusting your own judgement. Her main regrets - is making bad hires.

Crucial to tackle White Collar Psychopaths & stop any culture of bullying. 

Top Tip – inspired in the rebuilding of Manchester by Sir Howard Bernstein. He created “the Power of Purpose” – So inspiring working for him and coming to work "on purpose"

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Major General Paul Nanson CBE is a British Army officer who serves as Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) and General Officer Commanding (GOC) Recruiting and Initial Training Command.

Paul was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (RRF) in January 1986. He became Commanding Officer (CO) of the 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 2006 and was deployed to Iraq. He went on to be Chief of Staff for 1st (UK) Armoured Division in Germany in 2008, Commander of the 7th Armoured Brigade in March 2011 and Director (Army) at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in April 2014. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for distinguished services in Afghanistan in 2015.

Paul is a talented and deep thinking officer who I met on his Coaching Programme at Henley Business school.

Paul has made the art and practice of leadership his profession and calling. 

When I asked Paul what "Leadership" means he focussed on the Fundamentals.

3 things he believes strongly make good leaders: 

1. Develop and forge strong teams to work together 

2. Problem Solving - learn how to tackle complex decisions and empower those you lead

3.Serve to Lead - lead by example and put your people before yourself.

Leaders take “Extreme Ownership” of what happens. Too often in society and Politics people in leadership positions rarely take accountability for the impact of their decisions or poor behaviour.

Paul Spoke of the crucial military philosophy of "Mission Command". Also to understand the key issues for your leader and that he can clearly encapsulate: "Commander’s Intent". Disciplined initiative is required by leaders to exploit fleeting opportunities.

Put Stress the importance of delegation and empowerment so that decision-making is given to the leader at the point where the information is. Too often in business it is given to the person with the most senior role - who doesn't necessarily know what is going on.

It is the responsibility of Leader to retain ultimate accountability - even if you give authority to others to act. He spoke of Good leaders vs Selfish individuals.

Special qualities of British Army Officers - these are even more highly relevant to Business Employers today than ever before.Especially Reserve officers. These qualities are: Leadership development, decision making, problem solving, generating high performance teams & leading teams. 

We both Discussed the Executive Coaching skills of Army officers. I know that Paul is a experienced and high calibre executive coach himself and feels that these skills are crucial for army officers to develop and employ with all those the lead and influence

Army leadership is very different from the traditional stereotypes people criticise. Less tell - more encouraging of greater self-awareness, to recognise blind spots, seek 360 Feedback, have coaches. In a recent survey of soldiers - they want more coaching & mentoring from their NCOs and Officers..

Tips – remember the basics - be yourself, never stop learning - it's a lifetime journey

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Before Philippa Snare joined Facebook as director of business marketing for EMEA, her role was all about the three Ps – people, purpose and positivity. Philippa ran all of Microsoft’s centralised marketing services, which includes its owned and operated websites, marketing communications, CRM programmes, social media and relationships with external digital agencies. Her business and consumer experience led to her becoming CMO in 2011. She joined Microsoft in 2000 and is a qualified web developer.

Philippa has worked in the internet industry for over 25 years and is a qualified web developer and MBA Graduate. She began at Scoot, building a dotcom business growing £100M in Classified Ads and then Yell as Business Development focusing on distribution with multi-national and global partners. In 2000, Philippa joined Microsoft in MSN and grew online Services by 300% in advertising revenue; she has subsequently lead PR, built a Modern Marketing organisation, driving strategic initiatives for Microsoft in the UK. In Facebook she continues her passion in building extraordinary future digital marketing impact demonstrating thought leadership and driving positive change. In her spare time, Philippa is passionate about horse riding, diving and travelling, she occasionally plays Polo.

Great leadership track record as CMO Microsoft & Global Role in Facebook. People know Philippa as Inspirational - she cares deeply about people, nature, leadership & learning. She especially values time in nature - which she finds gives her energy. When I worked with Philippa as her coach I was impressed by all she does for others and for our planet - from personally cleaning up the sea bed to coaching vulnerable girls.

She has worked for remarkable Leaders - eg Duncan McKillop technical leader at Scoot who is very values led. Judy Gibbons MSN she found was exceptional at getting ownership and working together on a mission using people’s skills & strengths. Sarah Personette in Facebook stood out for her too as a vibrant energy giver. Also very respectful of coach Mike Pegg 

Philippa cares deeply and willing contributes to society via the Inspiring Leadership Trust charity for vulnerable girls set up by Leigh Bowman-Perks. Also Blue Marine foundation & Prince's Trust International. she got great energy from involving her team designing campaigns reducing knife crime.

When discussing learning from mistakes and faults, we had a great chat. Some senior leaders don’t like too much openness or honesty. She's often got herself in trouble for “being unconventional” by being very blunt and not mincing words. However - they know where you are. the downside is leaders with a fixed rather than growth mindset feel threatened or exposed. I have been working on "Toning down" that frankness. 

Top tip - lead with your personal values and if they are continually compromised, then you have to make a decision.

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Leadership Lessons: Army Colonel to Main Board Member 

Continuing the Inspiring Leadership series with Jorge Mendonça DSO MBE: Executive Director - Grosvenor Developments (Owner Duke of Westminster).

As a Board member, Jorge is responsible for growing Grosvenor’s strategic land business, managing their developments outside central London and developing new business.

Eighteen months after joining Grosvenor Britain & Ireland in 2013 as Operations Director, Jorge became the Portfolio Director and jointly led the London estate until June 2018. Before Grosvenor Jorge was Network Rail’s Crossrail Programme Director responsible for delivering £2.5bn of railway infrastructure projects. Prior to joining Network Rail in 2008 Jorge had a career in the British Army where he held a variety of leadership and managerial appointments. Jorge was educated at RMA Sandhurst, Manchester University (BA Econ) and Cranfield University (MA Military Analysis).

Jorge was a very successful Army officer for 26 years. He was promoted at the earliest opportunities and graduated from the prestigious Higher Command & Staff Course. Jorge has seen good, bad & ugly examples in Leadership.

In his current role he says Grosvenor‘s focus is delivering lasting commercial & social benefits.

His top insights: 

1. Beware of seemingly charming people who are toxic to those below them.

2. Personal chemistry is a key ingredient in leadership and team building 

3. Following simple instructions - keep it simple- stick to the basics 

4. What is “the effect you want to have”? 

5. Avoid Death by PowerPoint- Entertain & Inform 

6. Sandhurst & Army lessons were invaluable 

7. He remembers his Father’s advice.... 

8. People join great firms, they leave poor bosses (micro-managers) 

9. Rarely need to be too directive - bullets don’t fly in business 

10. Encourage, coach & help people make own decisions 

11. Military lessons, principles & structure still serve him well (yet don’t be over structured and allow to build rapport and trust)

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RQ - Lessons on Resilience - Anna Hemmings MBE Olympian 

Anna founded Beyond the Barriers Training Consultancy in 2009 at the end of a glittering sporting career, where she won 6 World titles in marathon kayak racing and competed at two Olympic Games. Anna saw a great opportunity to use her experience at the highest level of sport to inspire people and help them overcome their own barriers and fulfil their potential; with this mission in mind, Beyond the Barriers was born. 

Since transitioning from the world of elite sport into business Anna works globally as a training consultant, executive coach, a workshop facilitator and keynote speaker. She is adept at translating the lessons that she learned in sport into the business world and has developed a reputation for helping individuals and teams unlock potential by breaking down those barriers that may prevent change and improvement. She aims to help others build personal resilience, meet challenges head on and achieve results.

I interviewed Anna Hemmings MBE, OLY who has done so much for the Inspiring Leadership Trust and the charity work of Leigh Bowman-Perks. Anna’s tale is one of triumph over adversity... After becoming a 3 time world champion she was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and told by medical experts she might never race again. But Anna battled her way to full recovery and between 2005 and 2007 she went on to win a hat-trick of three world titles in a row and compete at her second Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Anna learnt some valuable lessons about resilience which she is passionate about sharing. 

Her top advice for building resilience:  

1. Have a clear Goal to help you find a way forward despite the odds against you. 

2. Build a strong support network – it’s a valuable source of resilience

3. Balance stress and recovery – resilience is as much about how you recovery as it is about how you endure. 

Look out for: 

1. A feeling that you are working longer and harder just to keep up? 
2. You’re finding it difficult to switch off and relax
3. You lose your temper at the smallest thing and find it difficult to manage your emotions

Anna said - you WILL face demands and stresses - so how do you recover and find balance?

Like in sport you must spot when you empty your metaphorical tank. She knows from bitter experience that constant energy expenditure without rest and recovery leads to depletion of your health and wellbeing.  

It is key that you spend and recover energy. The maximum is 90-minute periods of focus with short recovery and focussed breathing in between. Disconnect from the phone for a few minutes. Find strategies to get back your energy - the compound effect will be phenomenal.

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Alistair Kett is one of PwC’s top Industrial Products Consulting Partners based in London.

His 7 years of military experience as a British Infantry Army Officer, plus his 22 years commercial experience make a powerful combination. His PwC specialties are operations consulting expertise covering: cost-based transformation, operating model design and transformation; procurement and supply chain optimisation; complex transformation programme leadership and deal support/project financing. Alistair has deep domain knowledge in the industrial products sector with specific expertise in manufacturing, oil field services. aerospace, defence, transportation and logistics. 

He was promoted in 2008 to PwC Partner at a young age had a fascinating time as a working in the Middle East in countries like Iraq and Gulf States. His earliest leadership experience was forged in the British Army as an Infantry Officer in The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (RRF). I’ve known him 20 years from our first days in PwC and find his leaders insights and practices very insightful and inspiring. He learnt from some of the finest leaders such as General Paul Nanson (Commandant RMAS) who was a fellow officer senior to him. 

We had wide discussions on: Millennials, moral integrity, authenticity, vulnerability and how to motivate people are shrewd. Toxic environments with misaligned goals, inauthenticity and lost trust are too common in various businesses. Beware business “White Collar psychopaths” – if a leader’s moral compass wavers, then you get: bullying, self-serving and dishonest behaviours. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is key when blended with Moral Integrity and then you will get fine inspiring leaders.

True mantra about “the loneliness of leadership” and often find yourself working in the dark. Is so then “ensure your moral compass has a backlight”. Alistair was frequently promoted in the Army and PwC at an early age and his advice was to balance 3 elements: The Beast, Theatre and Real-World components. Focus on real world value-adding activities.

Top Tip – remember you have choice how to interact with people, what decisions to make and be prepared to try something new.

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Born into a Military family and living and being educated in 8 different state and military schools around the globe. Brigadier James Richardson enlisted as a Junior Soldier aged 16 in the Army. Joining the Royal Corps of Signals in June 1978 at the Army Apprentices College in Harrogate he trained as an Electronics Technician. He graduated as a Lance Corporal and was assigned to 259 Signal Squadron stationed in Cyprus. At Harrogate he was identified as a potential officer and embarked on this career path part way through his first assignment, entering the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1984. 

He returned to the Royal Signals and started his commissioned career based in York. During his early commissioned years he led troops in various roles including Arctic Warfare and played rugby and athletics to Army level. He gained his MA in International Relations from King’s College London. He promoted through Command and Staff appointments, attending Advanced Staff College and Royal College of Defence Studies, including Command of 49th East Brigade, The Deputy Military Secretary and he retired from the Army as Commander of all UK Military Garrisons in Germany. He was awarded MBE after prolonged and multiple tours of Bosnia in 1997 and the US Bronze Star after his leadership in chairmanship of the Patraeus ‘Brains Trust’ and authorship of the Strategic withdrawal and stabilisation plan for Iraq in 2007.

James joined Haig Housing Trust as its Chief Executive directly on the merging of the two Haig charities in November 2013 into a single entity providing family and single veterans housing and sourcing and adapting homes for our life changing wounded.

Jim rose quickly through the ranks, like two other inspiring Royal Signals Leaders John Stokoe CB CBE & John Griffin. The motto he adopted was: “Find a job you love & you'll never work a day in your life”. His calling is helping the charity to cherish veterans and their families in housing need. His influential leaders are: Field Marshal Lord (Mike) Walker and General Sir Nick Parker then General David Petraeus US Army. His inspiring story was about David Petraeus in 2006 in Iraq during the Civil War. What was powerful was the courage in his own conviction. Jim worked closely with General HR McMaster – in Patraeus’ Brains Trust. James admired the General’s ability for holding your nerve when others are risk averse. 

Jim’s story of learning from his mistakes was a comparatively minor one. He regretted being encouraged by others to tease a soldier on his rapid promotion as a technician. He learnt that he got it wrong and didn’t do what was right. Since then he trusts his own judgement more by seeking respect and avoiding popularity. 

James’ Top tip - “Situational Awareness” - everyone needs to know what’s going on and know they are empowered to play their part with a shared common picture/ vision.

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“If you are ferocious in battle, remember to be magnanimous in victory"

Colonel (Retd) Tim Collins OBE delivered the now infamous speech to his troops of the 1st Royal Irish Battle Group on the eve of battle in Iraq, March 2003. Such was the notoriety of this particular address it is believed that a copy of the speech hung in the Oval Office of the White House. From the moment Tim Collins' speech in Iraq was made public, Collins became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike.

Tim was commissioned into the Army and joined the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers in Berlin. He took command of the 1st Royal Irish in the aftermath of the Sierra Leone hostage crisis. After completing several tours including Northern Ireland and the Falklands, he became aide to the UN Chief of Staff in Cyprus. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, Tim took on the role of Project Director for the Peace Support Training Centre in Sarajevo, before returning to HQ Land Command with responsibility for training. Tim Collins' book, Rules of Engagement, was published in 2005.

Tim is a naturally inspiring speaker, combining extensive experience of active service with broad knowledge of military and political history. An authority on teamwork, leadership and motivation, his speeches show a clear parallel between military problem solving and the challenges faced by leaders in any walk of life.

Tim's philosophy can be summed up in a handful of rules. Know what your objectives are and have a plan; pick the right team; make sure everyone has a role and that it has been communicated clearly to them; understand your responsibilities as leader but learn to trust your team.

Tim has fantastic stories & experience. He served 3 tours with the SAS and UK Special Forces.

Now Tim is a Chairman as a Business Leader providing subject matter experts around the world. He’s more inspired by US General than UK Generals. For Tim the best of inspirational UK leaders were his two COs of the Special Air Service (SAS). The first was General Cedric Delves – “a man of few words, deep intellect and a great leader who we emulated”. Also he admired General Rupert Pritchard who he said was “a man with an unfailing moral compass to stand up to politicians and who said no with courage”. 

Another inspiring leader was General John Allen ISAF Comd. “General John was a gentleman and fine leader - we so wanted to please him”. When I asked about his mistakes he was reflective. He remembered the bullies & psychopaths he worked with. A lesson for Tim was failing to see failure, or inability in others soon enough. He recalled his mistake was not stepping in early enough to confront and stop mistakes. In business his motto was “don’t be overly trusting or get taken advantage of. Don’t follow false prophets who promise work that never materialises or who use you!”

Tim’s Top Tips - know what needs to be done. Refine and clarify Purpose and Structure. Tell others, then build organisation around that clear purpose. Get the best talent you can afford behind your purpose. Spirit of ownership. Communications is vital to flow both ways. Let them get on with it. 

He ended with some hilarious tips on coping with psychopaths.

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Air Marshal (Retd) Sir Graham Stacey KBE CB is a former Royal Air Force Regiment Officer. He was the Chief of Staff of NATO Allied Command Transformation until July 2018. Prior to that, in a series of major international appointments, he was the deputy commander of NATO Joint Force Command Brunssum, the commander of British Forces Cyprus and the UK Senior Advisor to US Central Command. 

Previously he was Director Joint Warfare at the UK Permanent Joint Force Headquarters (PJHQ) and for a number of years, as a secondary role, was the lead mentor and director of the RAF’s Senior Leadership Development Programme. He commanded at every level and saw operational service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He continues to be active in the fields of leadership and organisational development, innovation, the application of emerging and disruptive technologies, C2 and decision making in multinational environments and international analysis, strategy and policy in a variety of consultant, director and NED positions.

As an RAF Regiment Officer, he served on operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. For him his first defining moment was as his very steep learning curve a young 21 year old Officer leading 38 tough RAF Soldiers. He was always prepared to volunteer for doing the different and unusual jobs; such as an exchange officer in Indonesia & NI Research Agency. His break came with being selected to join the personal staff of Carl Bildt in Bosnia - the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and a crucial special envoy and mediator. Carl was an unusual, unassuming, quiet and bright Inspiring Leader. 

In Graham’s experience leaders come in every size, shape, gender and background. It is crucial to “Be YOU”. In Kabul Graham was inspired by a colleague who worked for him called Paula – she was a young female RAF Officer running the busiest airfield in the world. Also, Graham worked for and became a close friend of Air Marshal Sir Stu Peach who became Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). Stu is now Chairman of The NATO Military Committee. Graham chose General Joe Dunford US Marines who inspires by his skills: quiet, listens, considers your views, treats everyone as special, politically astute and yet decisive. Joe had a special blend of Soldier, Diplomat, Philosopher and States-person. He was adept at handling difficult relationships and matrix organisations. 

When discussing Graham’s own mistake and learning he reflected on his time as 2 * Commander of Cyprus. His view is you learn every day and try to improve. In the Cyprus case “One of my Unit Commanders had been accusations of bullying, harassment and inappropriate treatment of his subordinates”. As he was months from the end of 39 years’ service I was encouraged, against my better judgement to allow him a dignified departure. I was in a dilemma – do I not dismiss him, but rather move him for his last few months? Ironically, he in turn was ungrateful and made slanderous accusations against me and my staff. I learnt – “Trust your instincts”.

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Episode 11 Jonathan’s Review of the First Month.

Those interviewed so far:

1. Lt General Sir Nick Pope KCB CBE - Deputy Chief of The General Staff

2. Alison Nimmo - CEO Crown Estate


3. Major General Paul Nanson CBE - Commandant Sandhurst

4. Philippa Snare - CMO Facebook


5. Jorge Mendonca DSO - Exec Director Grosvenor Developments and successful Army Officer

6. Anna Hemmings OLY MBE Olympian 25 Nov

7. Alistair Kett - Adjutant 1 RRF & Partner PwC

8. Brigadier James Richardson MBE - CEO Haig Housing Trust and former Comd 49 Brigade

Great stories. anecdotes & leadership lessons. Common themes - all have had tough jobs & careers, displayed courage, humility & Discipline. They are reflective life long learners who admit to their mistakes, act as coaches to their own teams & display impressive resilience.

Also, I shared lessons from my CEO coaching & Team coaching around Self & mutual awareness, trust & vulnerability.

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Richard Fenning is a Senior Adviser at risk consultancy. He advises a number of the firm’s long-standing clients and provides counsel to the firm’s leadership. He joined Control Risks in 1993 and was CEO from 2005 until 2019, when he was succeeded by Nick Allan. During his tenure as CEO, Richard oversaw the significant growth of Control Risks’ business, a substantial increase in the firm’s geographic footprint and a comprehensive enlargement of the range of services provided to an increasingly diverse global client base.

In 2016 Richard led the firm through a complex and successful management buy-out, establishing Control Risks as a corporate partnership and ensuring the on-going independence of the firm. He is a regular speaker and media commentator on geo-politics, international security and risk issues.

Prior to being appointed CEO, he was chief operating officer and head of the firm’s New York office. He now divides his time between Singapore and London.

Richard has an honours degree in Modern History from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and in 2004 attended the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD business school in France.

Richard is now building his skills as a Leadership Coach.

He spoke of growing up in the 1960s in Doncaster, Yorkshire. His parents were both from working class backgrounds and instilled in him clear values of hard work and self-reliance. His father served in a Lancaster crew in Bomber Command during World war two while still in his late teens although he rarely talked about it. This experience in part gave him the determination to build a successful family business. Richard has deliberately not tried to emulate his father’s tough, uncompromising management style!

Richard joined Control Risks in the early drawn by a clear fascination with how geo-politics and security impact international business. This has afforded him a fascinating insight into how senior executives approach risk: some are over cautious, others reckless while a find that right balance between sensible prudence and bold ambition.

We spoke of Brexit and the mood in the world. In particular, the lack of inspiring political leadership and why politics is now such an unappealing career. But Richard is optimistic about the next generation of leaders in business military, civil and voluntary sector – people of exceptional quality . The environmental movement suggests that there is no absence of leadership among the  younger generation with their vision and determination.

We talked about inspiring Leaders –in particular Richard’s friend Roelf Meyer, one of the architects along with now South African President  Cyril Ramaphosa of post-Apartheid South Africa. Roelf is a clear example of both clear political vison and personal moral courage. In the business world, the job of CEO was to lead from behind in good times and let others step forward. But when things don’t go so well, then you need to lead from the front

As CEO running a consultancy or professional services firm – you are acutely aware that your people are your product. Your brand and reputation relies on the quality of thousands of human interactions all over the world every single day.  And you are hiring people often not for their general business skills but for very specific individual expertise. You need to recognise that deploying this expertise is what fundamentally motivates them. They may be interested in the overall success of the firm but this is not their primary motivation. And high degrees of expertise are often accompanied by quirky personality traits!

The best example of someone who can lead a team of highly talented individuals, working against the odds as a very successful team over a very sustained period of time is Mick Jagger – not an obvious example but worth thinking about! The biggest danger to success is the myth of the super-human- CEO who can single-handedly transform huge organisations – its profoundly wrong and they can’t. CEOs who have started to believe their own cultish propaganda  should be on the top right hand corner of any risk register.

Richard’s next phase will be as a coach to senior executives honing his ability to listen with purpose mindful of the investment banking executive who remarked: “We don’t listen around here, we just reload!”

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Nathan is a 30-year-old aspiring Entrepreneur in the fitness industry. He owns a gym in Grantham, Lincolnshire and has a passion for people, building relationships and creating or providing solutions. He has been a Personal Trainer for the last 8 years. This has given him experience working in large commercial gyms, small gyms and managing small fitness facilities.

Nathan is the creator of the Ladies Only Studio - A Personal Training gym for Ladies that are put off by less personal/supportive larger gyms (founded Oct-2017). He is also the creator of Fit Pod 25 - Taking the experience of Personal Training to a level yet to be seen, 2 prototypes currently being used, seeking funding to expand. He says: “I am leadership and culture minded with a passion for designing solutions and have experience in designing and managing projects from concept to market”. 

Nathan was Personal Trainer to myself and my family. Very open about his shyness and obesity with a food addiction, working as a car mechanic. “You become like the 5 people you spend most time with throughout your life”. He was sleep deprived with no focus and discipline. No positive influences or role models until he met a friend called Lee Maples. He was a fitness fanatic and driven and Nathan was the opposite. He showed me what it was like to take care of yourself and value yourself. Took me on a bike ride after 3 years of pestering me. Nathan was 300lbs (20.5 stone) no strength or endurance. He drank 20 pints of larger a week 4 nights of drinking a week smoking 20 cigarettes a day and 3 hours of sleep. First ride was 20 miles. Lee was supportive and Non-Judgemental, and they cycled every weekend and abused his body – drinking, eating, gaming and driving cars and getting pulled over and sectioned by the police.

Every Saturday in the midst of this poor lifestyle he went riding with Lee – Nathan didn’t want to let him down. Don’t give up on people – mates. Cycled for 5 years from 19 onwards every weekend. Then started going to the gym. Many give up after 2 months in the gym – low stamina and discipline.

As a trainer now Nathan doesn’t want to let his clients down and they don’t want to let him down. Kept a promise to himself and a little bit of belief. Stay patient and stay the course – something better will happen. James Clear Atomic Habits compounding improvements.

Nathan was addicted to various things and it shifted from food and alcohol and smoking to gym training. Instantly dropped fat and felt better – clothes less tight. Treadmill running made him pant so he couldn’t run and pressure to sort out at 19. Feeling good yet still didn’t have sufficient belief that anyone will like him. In pit “I don’t believe in myself so why would anyone else?”

Obesity in UK – Obese rates from 1988 14% grown to 2019 - now 37%.

Nathan traded one addiction for another – obsess about gym body and more committed than others. Muscle bound body - could run and lift but still didn’t like himself.

You can control your own thoughts and actions – you can’t control anyone else’s.

Never complain - never apologise!

Never read any books – watched videos on brain and health and fitness.

Away from and towards motivations.

From Mechanic to Personal Trainer

Mr Burrows at school wrote Nathan off. Now teachers encourage students

FAIL = First Attempt In Learning

Motivation – if your overcome a hurdle – Reticular Activating System – spot it elsewhere

Helping others. Working all day long and buzzing from a sense of Purpose.

Trainer and now Ladies only Studio

Great stories and advice for us all

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Jonny Gray is a Senior Partner at Control Risks (one of the world’s leading business risk consulting companies) having had a fast stream, highly successful military career & left after commanding The 1st Battalion The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders with action in the Iraq War. As a result he was awarded the Queens Commendation for Valuable Service (QCVS) in 2004.

He found that a lot of adjustment and learning was needed to transition from the military to a Professional Services Firm (PSF) in 2005. Since this interview Jonny has been selected to be the first CEO of the global Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) from February 2020. He looks forward to working with all involved in world tennis to grow and develop the TIU into a broader-based integrity organisation for professional tennis.

In Control Risks he had leadership consulting roles in EMEA & the Americas based in LA. He was then Head of Sales & Marketing for the Americas and finished up as Global Head of Sports and Major Events based back in London. 

For Jonny he admires Inspiring Leaders like General Sir David Richards (Lord Richards now) & General Sir Nick Carter plus former Control Risks’ CEO Richard Fenning. He learnt to thrive in a complex matrix management structure with reporting lines by function, geography and client. Having done an MPhil at Cambridge in the Army, Control Risks invested in sending him to Harvard Business School for two PSF courses. Also training at the UK Institute of Directors helped him to “be less rough around the edges”. Leading in a PSF is about normally leading from back and only occasionally from the front - depending on circumstances.

He learnt to create the environment for others to succeed. The challenge is to “Empower & Enable” your teams (sometimes 3,000 miles away) and yet you understand them and what it takes. He realised you need a lot of humility.

What Jonny got wrong in leadership. It’s about constant learning. Jonny said - my DNA was to lead and be at front - that is often NOT what is required. Rather to be “a producing manager” who sells and leads by example while empowering others to stretch for success. 

Top tip - You lead people; you manage resources. 

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards

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Paul Monekosso Cleal acts as an advisor, board member or mentor to organisations and individuals who want to make positive change happen. He brings a wealth of experience in leadership and strategy gained from 30 years working in both private and public sectors.  

During 16 years as a partner at PwC, the global professional services firm, he held a range of leadership positions including at main board level in both the UK and Africa practices. He’s led and grown successful businesses within PwC such as the Government & Public Sector practice and Africa Business Group. Alongside his client work in corporate finance and consulting Paul also led PwC’s Human Resources function through a period of substantial change.  

Paul has been widely recognised externally for his work promoting diversity in business and as a senior role model and been a member of the Government’s Social Mobility Commission, among other non-executive roles which currently include Kingston University (Vice Chair of the Board), National Citizen Service Trust and Sainsbury’s Foundation Advisory Board. He’s also a member of the Premier League Equality Standard Assessment Panel and has a variety of other informal advisory and mentoring roles. He holds an MBA from London Business School. Paul’s latest appointment is as a NED at Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust which is the most significant NED role he’s had. Its special as that was where his father did his medical studies from 1948 to 1955.

Paul Monekosso Cleal is highly successful by anybody’s standard - promoted at 40 onto PWC main board as People Partner. Deputy Chair, University of Kingston & Board Member, National Citizen’s Trust - community, social mobility & higher education. 

Paul’s Leadership Tenets: 

1. Integrity - being honest with people. Is there a good reason not to share information? 

2. Clarity - Create & communicate the vision so everyone understands 

3. Inclusive Leadership. Stop exclusion. Teaching Diversity, Equality & Inclusivity Premier League.

4. Lack of Understanding. People who don’t think like you do.

Paul has great courage & humility. Looking back on when he got it wrong & he could have communicated better:

1. I should have checked - do they really understand and have you listened?

2. Making it logical doesn’t account for people’s emotional reactions to change.

Paul and his wife Suzanne Cleal use mentoring & coaching. Paul‘s Inspirational father was a leader & key figure in Africa’s World health organisation (WHO). Paul got advice from his Father before he died – “always take people with you”.

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Inspiringleadershiptrust #InclusiveLeadership #Diversity

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Ashok Gupta- has accrued a wealth of experience as Chairman, CEO & NED to Insurance & Tech start-ups. He has played key roles in building several highly successful financial services businesses, both traditional (The Phoenix Group, Old Mutual Wealth, SJPC) and digital (EValue, propertyfinder.com, Rocketer). He has also been highly influential in the turn-around of several large organisations (Scottish Amicable, Old Mutual Asset Management). As a result, his expertise is increasingly drawn-on by policymakers to advise on and in helping to effect change to industry sectors (Bank of England, PLSA). 

Ashok said – “Life shaped me – I had an unusual childhood as 1 of only 2 x Asian men in a very bigoted town in Northern Ireland (my father was the other). I had a very isolate childhood, so I struggled to find role models from my local community to learn from. So I was drawn to people like Gandhi & Mandela. In my business career I worked with some fantastic successful leaders - Mark Weinberg & Mike Wilson (created Allied Dunbar & St James Place). Also with Hugh Osmond (created Punch Taverns, Pizza Express & Phoenix Group), Andy Haldane Chief Economist Bank of England, Paul Bradshaw (created Skandia).

Paul & I shared the view that there are 2 types of entrepreneurs: 

1. Those who want to build a great business that delivers something customers really value, and through this make money 

2. Those who just want to make money. 

The difference between the two is huge

Learning from Mistakes – I made the same one twice. Unforgivable. Confronted situations in too assertive, emotional & uncompromising a way. It was totally counterproductive. 

Top Tip - CEO shine a light beam those they interact with – this can have either a positive or negative impact. What impact do you want yours to have?

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards #Diversity

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Alex Knigge is SVP Corporate Communications, Marketing & Brand (Digital) at Emirates Group. Alex brings a wide diversity of culture background and global experience. He is a passionate and experienced B2C Business Growth Leader with broad experience from building a start-up in Australia to helping large global brands building B2C capabilities. Alex is enthusiastic about building high-performing teams and about fostering cross-functional collaboration to achieve ambitious & transformative business goals, in particular revenue growth and customer satisfaction / NPS. His key domain experience includes Online Revenue Growth, Brand & Marketing, Advanced Analytics, Marketing effectiveness, Marketing Technology and Omni-channel User Experience Design & Optimization. He has extensive international work experience and has spent the past 16 years in Australia, Singapore, South America and the Middle East. 

Alex admired his Father who was courageous, rejected arrogance & big egos – he was high ranking inspiring leader in the German Government.

I met Alex through The Marketing Academy CMO Fellowship programme with Katherine Tulpa and Sherilyn Shackell.

Alex highlighted the importance of humility – to be smart and passionate with experience, yet not arrogant.

Bringing on others is key – ‘great leaders develops great leaders’

Create your alumni network by developing those you lead - many of those who worked for Alex over the past 14 years have achieved their career objectives and are now in great jobs, sometimes “passing” him into even more senior and demanding roles.

Alex’s mistakes – being over-anxious about the ethics & impact on decision on other’s lives.

Alex’s advice to emerging leaders - trust your gut on leadership decisions. Do what is right for the company & strategically. It is tough laying people off, but sometimes good - forced them to make a much-needed new start.

Top Tip: Be courageous, trust yourself & focus on developing your people. 

Be more in the backseat than always in front seat.

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Marketing #Boards

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Jonathan shares his review and learning from 8 inspiring leaders in the last month:

Colonel Tim Collins OBE - CO R Irish, SAS Officer & Author

Air Marshal Sir Graham Stacey KCB CB QCVS MBE RAF - Comd Brit Forces Cyprus

Richard Fenning - Advisor & Former Global CEO Control Risks

Nathan Newton-Willington - Fitness & Nutrition

Jonny Gray - Senior Partner Global Head Sport & Major Events Control Risks + CEO Tennis Integrity Unit

Paul Cleal - Former Board Member PwC

Ashok Gupta - Chairman and CEO of multiple Insurance & entrepreneurial businesses

Alexander Knigge - SVP Marketing Comms and Digital Emirates Group  

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Inspiringleadershiptrust #InclusiveLeadership #Boards #Diversity

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Alison Hutchinson CBE is the CEO of Pennies, an award-winning fintech charity making digital giving affordable, sustainable, and feel-good.

Previously, Alison spent 15 years at IBM running a European consortium of banks & leading the global business for ecommerce solutions for the financial services sector. She next joined Barclays Bank where she was the first CEO for a small digital subsidiary joint venture with Accenture, & latterly Marketing Director at Barclaycard. 

Prior to Pennies, Alison was Chief Executive of FTSE financial services company Kensington Group plc. She currently holds Non-Executive Director positions at Yorkshire Building Society, LV= & DFS.

Alison was very inspired by the values and upbringing of her parents; especially her Mum “Aunty Betty”. She learnt a hard work ethic, how to start multiple businesses in the West Coast of Scotland & putting back to charity & the community. She’s inspired by everyday people & what they do in their lives. She spoke on the advantages of Executive Coaching.

Learning from mistakes – her style was sometimes to be over positive, strong & that can be overwhelming - coming over as aggressive & she needed to dial back. She learnt - let others talk first & understand them - put yourself in the receiver’s shoes.

Top Tip – How you do things more than what you do. How you make others feel. “Sorry”

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  

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James Knight is now a Financial Advisor with St James Place. Previously he served as a Royal Marine officer. One notable event was whist leading a 30-man platoon as a commander in Iraq with 1 PWRR. They got pinned down for 8 hours under constant fire - surrounded by a far larger force. They had small-arms, MG & rocket fire constantly in-coming, but held their cordon. The Military Cross (MC) award for gallantry was awarded to James in 2007 for the platoon working together & collaborating under danger & great drama with no losses.

James tells an inspirational story about a RM Corporal in the Aegean Sea rescuing migrants drowning. Sadly, a number of them had already drowned & he took on the gristly job to pull out the dead bodies. That was not a task that anybody willingly takes on, but he & his team did it, without complaint, leading the way for the other more reluctant members of the ship to do more too.  

The Corporal was a natural leader. He repeatedly went above & beyond his duty to do things that others were not willing to do. Quiet & modest - Huge respect for doing the jobs others wouldn’t do. James himself I found to be a humble leader who learn from getting it wrong. “As a troop commander I was mistakenly trying to win the popularity of those I led. Actually I eroded my own authority & boundaries by trying to be their friend & too popular. Instead what I should have sought is respect which is crucial. We all need boundaries”.

Top Tip - “Beware over-control as a leader. Let go to the point where you start to feel uncomfortable - that’s the right amount of autonomy!” 

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards 

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Fiona has had an amazing leadership upbringing & knew from the age of 11 she wanted to be a fashion designer. So after studying fashion at university she began working with George Davies at NEXT then moved with him to set up George at ASDA With a focus on Women’s fashion Fiona is now MD at Harpenne as part of the River Island Group.

River Island caused a media flurry when it recently unveiled a new womenswear brand Harpenne, which aims to fill a gap in the market with 120 different ethically-sourced items designed to suit all body shapes.

The importance of decision making rather than indecision and living with the consequences. Also so important to not try and fit into others moulds and play to your own strengths.

In her extra session she spoke of her speciality – helping people focus on what would you want your legacy to be? For her it’s about being passionate about great Product design and she recognises the positive impact clothing can have on how people feel about themselves. Passionate about developing people to the best they can be.

She has won many awards as a leader for innovation, inspiration and mentoring.

She likes and is now comfortable being different – doing the job she loves - the more you love a job the better you will be at it. Talking on bosses who avoided personal accountability. She feels risk taking and decision making is especially crucial in fashion – it’s inevitable you will make mistakes but be able to adjust and move on. 

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  

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Garry Hearn is running a Masters Programme for all mid-level Army Officer (Majors) – focussing on strategic leadership trends in the world.

Gary is Inspired at 3 levels - strategically & personally by Nelson Mandela. 

Then inspired at an operational level by his CO Colonel Roger Thompson R Signals who led him during Falklands War, believed in him as a soldier & helped him become an Officer. 

Then tactically & personally inspired by one of his Majors on the course - John Parks who had a tough upbringing in a family of Irish Travellers & became an inspiring leader.

Top Leadership Tips - Leaders are everywhere

Diversity of people gives diversity of thinking

Mistakes & having the humility to learn from them. Example of poor decision and personal bias colouring his decision. 

John Adair’s: Task, Team & Individual

Another example restructure organisation chart - “it’s perfect & therefore brittle because it’s not future proof”.

Leadership is about others - getting them to do things to the best of their ability. Know your people really well

Garry Hearn is a Colonel in the British Army he was recently responsible for the programme management of the UKs largest Defence Technical Training Transformation Programme, focussed on transforming training and through life learning for up to 40000 students per annum. He is now engaged in delivering leadership and professional learning to the Army's emerging leaders. He is a CIS Engineer with over 35 years’ experience in a variety of military roles including, leading organisations, Strategic Human Resource, Organisation Development, as well as training and education.  

In a previous role he was the Principal of the Defence College of Communications and Information Services and his efforts in transforming the College were recognised with him being appointed as an Officer of the British Empire (OBE). He has a BSc (Hons) and three Masters level degrees comprising an MBA, MA in History, and an MSc in Strategic HR as well as being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Chartered Management Institute (CMI), and the Learning Performance Institute (LPI). He has also recently completed his first book offering an insight into 35 years of leadership and the lessons he has learnt. Garry completes his military service next year before entering an as yet to be defined, new chapter on his journey.

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards

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David was appointed Group CEO of Wilton & Bain in May 2017, following a Group-wide MBO in partnership with Beechbrook Capital. Prior to this, David spent 20 years, building, leading & pioneering highly successful interim management businesses aligned to the Global Technology & Digital markets.

He has been regularly quoted in leading media (Forbes, Huffington Post, FT) for his opinions on the rise of interim management, gig economy and alternative consulting models. In his youth, David was a passionate Rugby Player.  We talked about his upbringing in “middle England”, through private education at Uppingham, and how he has taken inspiration from his father’s success “against the odds”. An avid reader about leaders in sport, military and business, David is a life-long learner. 

Spoke on “mis-leaders and expiring leaders” – who suck the life out of you, and create “a not invented here” environment. Learnings from being a talented schoolboy rugby player, to the unforgiving environment of the Youth Team, at his beloved Leicester Tigers. Working as a team, to deliver a shared goal – Success is rarely about “one great man/woman”.  

The Management Buy Out (MBO) of his business.

David has learned how to balance the objectives of his Private Equity investors & shareholders, with the objectives of his team; it is a demanding place to be, but the demands are not unreasonable. 

Founders & Chairman – very clear from the outset, that they wanted to create and share wealth by building a business they could sell. Taking the “Founder” culture borne on the core values of “generosity and reciprocity” and building on that; making it systemic. A team of teams. Do the right thing; take accountability.

Consequential value – building a strong business is about other people. That responsibility outweighs the contribution of any one individual. It is about driving value from the sum of the parts. Leaving a legacy better than you found. 

David is building an inclusive business; with diverse thinking giving everyone a voice – He encourages ideas to come from all over the business especially from the quiet voice in the room, and has begun implementing the concept of reverse mentoring, in areas like technology, where people with less “experience” have much more knowledge, and are closer to the “action”. As often described in rugby, David wants Wilton & Bain to be a business “for all different shapes and sizes”.

Wilton & Bain trebled in size from 30 to 100 over a period of 3 years. To keep growing, need to bring people along. Be consistent and reliable.

Tip – be decent to people, be humble and be decisive (get the order of events right).

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards

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Tim Wilson OBE is CEO of MSI Global Alliance, a 30-year-old association of 260 independent law & accounting firms in over 100 countries. He leads a small team based in London which facilitates networking opportunities worldwide for MSI’s members.

Before becoming CEO of MSI, Tim worked in the charity sector. Before that was an Army officer serving on several operations worldwide, receiving an OBE for leadership in Iraq.

He is married with 3 children and is a keen sportsman; he bob-sleighed & played rugby & polo in his youth & now cycles & runs.

Inspired by being Military Assistant to General Sir Sam Cowan Royal Signals - an original thinker, unorthodox, not afraid to challenge status quo and change the culture. A legend. Worked for General Sir Mike Jackson in UK Division deployed to Bosnia. Huge moral courage dealing with warring parties. Fun to work for & gave huge commitment for him. Gave appreciation & congratulations. CO of Queens’s Dragoon Guards QDG - cavalry Regiment in Iraq. 

Learning from Mistakes - On reflection he could have been less directive & controlling (C2) - to have “Let Go” more & empowered rather than mistrust. C2 vs Environmental Control to help Leaders flourish & grow. Be more collegiate. Beware the Bullies. Now Tim needs to influence firms globally without having power over them.

Top Tip - Collaboration & “socialise an idea” to get buy-in. Then frame vision, explain, check ongoing buy-in. Innovate & challenge status quo.

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards

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He says “I help people to think, debate, decide and then do good work”

Since 1998, Roger has helped thousands of leaders around the world to re-discover their purpose, their humanity and their integrity with significant improvement in sustainable profitability. Clients have included Barclays, BP, Citi, Clifford Chance, EY, HSBC, Nationwide, NHS Trusts, Openreach, PWC and RBS. 

He has also advised regulators, law enforcement and other government agencies. He is the author of "ethicability" and "Thinking outside the inbox"; and co-designer of the MoralDNA Profile. 

He has been described as a "disruptive", "provocative" and "world-class" keynote speaker on leadership, culture and ethics.

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards

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Lieutenant-General Tim Evans CB CBE DSO - Wartime SAS/ SBS Special Forces (SF) Officer to Strategic Commander

Tim Evans epitomises inspiring Leadership - having begun after Public School as a Private soldier for 6 month he ended up as a 3 *** Lieutenant-General. He achieved a rare feat of being a Troop Commander in 22 SAS in the Iraq War, Commander of Royal Marine’s special boat squadron plus The SF Operations Officer.

Tim served with distinction behind the lines in the Gulf War, as a Strategic Brigade Commander in the Iraq war & Afghanistan war. For a man who has achieved so much & inspired so many he is remarkably humble & modest without being self-deprecating.

As Commander Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) he led multiple nations with different cultures & agendas. He never forgets his time as a Private & so leads by example epitomising “serve to lead” - especially as Commandant of world-famous Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Now CEO of the Saudi Arabian National Risk Unit.

Inspiring Role Models: Father - Headmaster - Gen De La Billiere - Gen Sir Richard Sheriff Trust your gut. Bad news doesn’t get better with time.

Top tip: “Mission - Team - Self” Lead by example & set a high bar.

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards

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Jonathan reviews:

19. Alison Hutchinson CBE - CEO Pennies  

20. James Knight MC - Royal Marines Officer and St James Place Financial Advisor

21. Fiona Lambert - MD Harpenne fashion 

22. Colonel Garry Hearn - Divisional Director, UK Defence Academy

23. David Heron Group CEO Wilton and Bain

24. Colonel Tim Wilson OBE - Ex QDG CEO MSI Global Alliance (legal & Accounting)

26. Roger Steare - Corporate Philosopher -Ethics

26. Lt General Tim Evans CB CBE DSO- Comd ARRC & SAS/SBS Special Forces Officer

Louts 30 year reunion

“Work with friends not colleagues”.

Giles Neville & Simon Treadgold

Bright Leaders - CEO on Risk Register

Asset & Liability

“Man is pushed by drives, but pulled by values”

Victor Frankl

“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, then the end is near” .

Jack Welch

Marcus Aurelius’s rule was: Blame yourself—or blame no one.

The only place to look for approval is within yourself.

The same goes for disapproval and fault-finding. A

s soon as you try to get it from other people, you’ve compromised your integrity.

You’ve handed over your power.

So either don’t blame anyone...or blame yourself.

For whatever happens.

For everything that happens. Those are the options.

Can’t vs Won’t (don’t want to)

Stoic philosophy “You DON’T control what happens to you in life.

but you DO control how you respond”

LET IT GO!

Control is the master addiction

My father’s killing in action at age 35

“Alive & thrive beyond 35 Every day is a bonus!”

#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards

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Sir Peter Estlin - Leaders Giving Back to Society

He is the 691st Lord Mayor of London an Alderman of the City of London, Sheriff for 2016–17. Peter is an advisor to Barclays plc. Educated at King Edward's School, Witley & the University of Bristol. Accountant & Partner with Coopers & Lybrand. He was CFO for Salomon Brothers Asia, & Citigroup. Joined Barclays bank & was Group CFO. Peter was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to international business, inclusion & skills.

Peter Estlin's 4 Life pillars: family, civic, business career & inclusion. Key roles in Trust for London & Future.now. His pace of life is accelerating. Mother died when he was young & at boarding school met the Lord Mayor of London Sir Kenneth Cork. At 17 had a burning ambition to follow his footsteps - Accountant then Lord Mayor. Mistakes - we don’t stop learning & continue to make mistakes. Ian McCluskey inspired him as Partner - beware too much ambition - risk of not taking people with you. Develop EQ Tip - Ask for forgiveness not permission. Appropriate risk & push boundaries for yourself & others. Nurture & encourage. Balance - not too cavalier nor too cautious.

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She is a passionate people manager with experience leading performance, engagement, learning and development. Katherine has been an aviation professional for 25 years working with a number of airlines and alliances. She has been based in different countries gaining an insight into both cultural and corporate ways of operating. Her background includes British Airways based in London working as cabin crew, training and recruitment. She relocated back to Melbourne with Ansett Australia as part of the start-up team for the international operation culminating in the GM Operations and In-flight Training. 

She was selected as Director of Training and Development for Star Alliance based in Frankfurt Germany. Then she moved from Star Alliance to Gulf Air in the Middle East as Head of Training and Development. She is now currently in Dubai working with Emirates Airline as SVP Cabin Crew Training.

Specialities: People and performance, learning and development, change management, human resources, employee engagement, leadership, coaching and recruitment. Experience in airline start-up with breadth of knowledge across many functions within an airline operation such as in-flight crew, product, marketing, and brand engagement. 

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Chris is passionate about building diverse teams and creating an environment where people can realise their potential. As a consultant he has been fortunate to have worked with a number of fantastic CEOs, predominantly in listed companies but also extensively with private equity owned businesses. He has learned a good deal from them and hopes that he has helped them in return.

He is currently the Chairman of Arca Blanca a next generation consultancy powered by data science, and an advisor and investor at Pillar-app.com which is an intelligent and connected coach on mobile - for any active person.

As Managing Director and one of the founders of Boxwood, a specialist business transformation consultancy, he was privileged to build and grow a team of outstanding and diverse professionals. The business was acquired by KPMG in 2015 and grew by over 40% during the earn-out period.

He has direct experience of the retail, telecoms, media, software, property, construction and oil and gas industries, and is particularly interested in the strategy and leadership of complex organisations.

In his early career he was a qualified military and commercial pilot and held leadership roles in aviation and information and communication technology organisations. Latterly, he was the Head of Global Operational Information Systems for the Armed Services. Chris was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire during his military service. He is a keen skier, regular visitor to Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and is currently learning to fly the Magni Autogyro. www.magnigyro.it

Specialities: Leadership, particularly in the context of large-scale business and technology transformations. 

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Nousheh is an experienced commercial leader in the Financial sector where she has enjoyed a 19 year career within American Express. During this time she has held numerous Sales, Business Development positions; initially as an individual contributor and in the past 10 years in various leadership roles. 

Currently she is the Vice President and General Manager of American Express’s Foreign Exchange and International Payments business in the UK. Nousheh comes from a scientific background where she studied Biochemistry, and then obtained an MSc(Eng) in Biochemical Engineering. She holds an MBA specialising in online branding.

In her spare time she enjoys any sporting-related activities especially tennis, cycling and running. She has completed two marathons and an Olympic distance triathlon where she raised significant funds for various charities. 

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Educated at Marlborough College, James Bashall was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1984. By 2002 he had become Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment serving in Afghanistan.

He commanded 1st Mechanized Brigade based in Basra in Southern Iraq during Operation Telic in 2007. He was appointed Director Army Division of the Defence Academy at Shrivenham in January 2009 and went on to be Chief of Joint Force Operations in December 2009: in this capacity he masterminded the covert Special Air Service rescue operations across war-torn Libya in early 2011. He became General Officer Commanding 1st (UK) Armoured Division in April 2011, Chief of Staff, Operations at the Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood in August 2012 and Commander Personnel and Support Command in June 2015 (his role was re-designated Commander Home Command in May 2016). Bashall retired from the British Army on 27 October 2018. He has recently become president of the Royal British Legion

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Mike Still YPO & Advisor: Put back into Society Mike Still has over 30 years of experience in the risk management & insurance industry serving a broad range of clients by size & business sector. Mike cares passionately about making a difference to people, businesses and communities and has been a long time supporter of YPO, The Princes Trust & Business in the Community (BITC). Inspired by his Mum, Dad, Scouts & Bank Manager with Youth club. He also admired De Clerk & Mandela. All had empathy & understanding to lead & coach and see other’s perspectives. 

Mike values resilience & the accumulation of his 35 years varied experience - rather than just the same 1 years’ experience repeated 35 times. Learning from mistakes - Mike said “with my passion I push myself & others too hard, running too fast & might be seen as unreasonable”. He uses the 3 perspectives - myself, another & an independent 3rd party’s views. Always - Stop, challenge your thinking & choose your actions.

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Lord Mayor of London William Russell - Tradition & Modernisation Now the 692nd Lord Mayor, began as an Investment Banker in Merrill Lynch (equity sales). There Jack Gibbs inspired him in a laid back way & the late John Owen. Cajoling rather the forcing people in the way you lead them.

Father died when William was 1 & Mother was an inspiration as he grew up - values focus on giving back. In one year his mother raised £365k for charity. Nice mix of history & technology- 5 of his family have been Lord Mayors. Educated at Eton college - now champions FinTech & UK FS globally.

Sometimes stressed & competitive but William never looses his temper.

Learning from mistake - admitted he made many & some investment mistakes.

His wife Hillary met him at Durham university & she is a wise advisor and council to him. Always have some one you can bounce ideas off - who will be honest with you.

Tips - always remember please & thank yous - be polite and bring out the best in people. Sir Anthony Seldon focussed years ago on health & wellbeing - its critical

If you are asked to any event - always go - you never who you might meet. It could change your life & certainly someone else’s life.

Apply Soft convening power.

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Stefan Barden - CEO of multiple businesses and now business advisor.

I have known Stefan for some years now and seen first hand his highly analytical mind honed in Mckinsey & Co to cut through business challenges. He has been CEO of Heinz UK, Northern Foods, Brakes Brothers and Wiggle. 

He has a great sense of fun combined with a talent for turning around businesses and the best of a bad situation. 

Noe he is using that experience of what does and doesn’t work as an advisor to CEOs and Boards.

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Jonathan Reviews month 4 episodes 28-35:

28. Alderman Sir Peter Estlin -The Late Lord Mayor of London

29. Catherine Baird - SVP Emirates Cabin Crew Training

30. Chris Wakerley - KPMG Partner and Business Owner Ex-Army CO 2 Sig Regt  

31. Nousheh Paris -VP American Express

32. Lieutenant General Sir James Bashall CB CBE – Commander, Advisor & Sailor

33. Mike Still - Chairman YPO Scotland & Multiple NED roles  

34. The Lord Mayor of London William Russell

35. Stefan Barden - Advisor, Portfolio NED and CEO of various Businesses 

36. Month 4 Review with Jonathan - Episodes 28-35

“All Leaders are Readers but not all Readers are Leaders”

Listened to / Read Books:

1. Stand Up Straight – Maj General Paul Nanson
2. Gut reactions - Joshua & Erica Sonnenberg
3. Lifespan - Dr David Sinclair
4. The End of Alzheimer’s - Dale Bredesen
5. GCHQ - Richard Aldrich
6. Talking to strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
7. Rebel ideas: The power of diverse thinking - Mathew Syed
8. Thinking outside the in Box - Roger Steare
9. Peter the Great - Robert Mass
10. A shortest History of Germany -James Hawes

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I always wanted to be a physiotherapist, to help others. Arthritis in my back stopped that, so whilst taking a ‘year out’, I trained as an IT Systems Programmer. I progressed into broader IT roles, then moved to a new credit card company, MBNA Europe. I took every opportunity presented (IT, Contact centres, Underwriting etc). When I left MBNA 16 years later, I was on the main Board and we were the largest issuer in Europe. I moved to Lloyds Banking Group and undertook a variety of leadership roles: Supporting 14,000 colleagues in Customer Operations, overseeing Bank of Scotland (Retail Bank) and, as CEO of Lloyds Bank Private Banking Ltd, leading a talented team of Wealth Advisors.

I chose to conclude my executive career in 2018 to progress a portfolio of Non-Executive roles. I currently work with 3 organisations (Old Mutual Wealth Ltd, Leeds Building Society and GlobalData plc).

Genuine people that lead with integrity inspire me. My key leadership tips would be: 1) Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right 2) Take every opportunity 3) Learn how to let go and stop ‘doing’.

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Robert has had the pleasure and privilege of over 40 years’ service in the Regular and Reserve Armed Forces of the UK leading young men and women in organisations from around 30 strong to over 10,000. Leadership approaches have varied from the ‘follow me’, through traditional hierarchical command and control to rather more nuanced approaches of ‘nudge’ and influence. The opportunity to observe the approach to leadership of much more senior people at close quarters has proved invaluable. He has no time for those who rant, lack humour and do not possess a thirst to improve their professional competence – no affected dilettantes. His key observation is that leadership is not something that is ‘done’ by one person to a group but rather a complex ecosystem of context, the leader, the led and the mission: John Adair would have recognised this. The prize goes to the leader who is acutely aware and has the flexibility of mind to adjust. This is well described in Stan McChrystal’s latest book, Leaders, Myth and Reality, with some fascinating case studies.

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At the age of 7 Barry watched Seb Coe break the 800m World Record at that point he knew he wanted to be the best at what he did, the journey of building resilience and courage to become a great Business leader had started.  Barry is MD of Playdale Playgrounds, the UK’s leading Manufacturer of Outdoor Children’s Playground Equipment, he has led them into 49 countries covering 57% of the global population. Playdale and Barry have won multiple national awards in Export, Manufacturing and Leadership, personally receiving an MBE for services to International Trade and Exports.  In 2018 he was named IoD North West ‘Global Director of the Year’ as well as ‘Cumbria Businessperson of the Year’. He was recently made an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University Management School as well as featuring in The Telegraph’s Top 50 Most Ambitious UK Business Leaders and inducted into The Manufacturer Top 100 people in the UK Manufacturing Hall of Fame. He lives his Leadership top tip of ‘make every day count!”

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Mark shares very personal stories - both of learning from family financial hardships and from beginning at the bottom of an organisation and working his way up. He earnt from other’s success and financial wealth and from working his way to becoming an entrepreneur and owner of his own business. Aston Chase is a boutique property business - finding beautiful properties at the top end of the market, then selling, buying and letting them. He shared his lessons from how as entrepreneurs you can overstretch yourself and how you need to have a nose for realising when you’ve got something wrong. He’s a great believer in giving back to society and has raised millions for charities and very deserving causes making use of the kindness of his friends and contacts who also want to make a difference for those less fortunate than themselves.

He is a great believer in constantly developing your team and yourself as leaders and as people. As part of his charitable fundraising he is an enthusiastic cyclist and has thrown himself at some of the biggest challenges in the cycling world to raise money for others less fortunate than himself. Family and friends pay a very big part in his life and he is very proud of all that they have achieved too.

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Fiona is the CEO of Women on Boards UK, Non-Exec Director of the gender pay gap company Spktral, and advisor to Peel Hunt a mid-cap stockbroker.

In 2012 Fiona launched Women on Boards to support women, and men, make the right connections and career choices to get to board level within their own company or to take on a non-executive board role. Since launch, WOB has supported over 1800 individuals get onto boards and has advertised over 16,000 board.

Fiona’s top tips are look around you and enjoy life to the full whilst at the same time think big. Don’t let landmines get in your way. Understanding influence is vital if you want to succeed in business, how decisions are really made in your organisation, in and out of meetings, so work on how you influence and how others are influenced around you. And finally understand the boardroom early on in life and consider a community board because it will give you an opportunity to truly enhance your leadership and strategic skills. 

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As Steve Jobs says, you can only join the dots when you look back.

I started straight from University as a trainee journalist at BBC Radio Wales interviewing everyone from heavyweight champion of the world Lennox Lewis, to leader of the opposition Neil Kinnock. I now feel life's come full circle as I'm back in the audio space, helping leading brands & entrepreneurs tell their stories through the power of podcasting. In between I'd had my head turned & left to see the world with Virgin Atlantic Airways.

Then Inspired by my boss, Sir Richard Branson, I left Virgin to set up my own business.

I'm now the founder of the Screw It, Just Do It podcast agency. From initially launching my own show and receiving two downloads, to last year getting a #1 rated business show from the UK to Uganda and downloaded in 140+ countries, I passionately believe that everybody deserves to be heard & everybody should have their own voice. Podcasting is a great enabler in this regard. 

More than anything, it has been about the people I have met. Great leaders of hugely successful businesses such as Innocent's Richard Reed, Ted Baker's Ray Kelvin CBE, Not On The High Street's Holly Tucker MBE. People I would have never got to have met without my podcast, and who have grown my network immeasurably.

In hindsight, I wish I'd asked Richard more questions as we used to see a lot of him in the early days of the airline.

When I re-joined Virgin, in the guise of his not-for-profit Virgin StartUp, helping entrepreneurs get funding & mentoring, he was living on Necker Island!

My biggest takeaways when it comes to leadership was seeing how well he recruited people who had skills he didn't. How he empowered them by giving them autonomy, by delegating, and by creating an incredibly positive company culture.

I am also an advisor for global startup-generator and VC, Antler.co, whilst I also chair the Accelerate Event Series for British American Business - the US Chamber of Commerce in the UK.

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Nick Borwell is Principal of the Civil Service Leadership Academy (CSLA) delivering programmes predominantly to senior Civil Servants from all departments. Until 2019 he was the Director of the Government’s Project Delivery Profession within the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) which is part of the Cabinet Office. During this time Nick transformed the Government’s project delivery capability. A key plank of this success was the development of the Major Projects Leadership Academy (MPLA) delivered by Said Business School.

In the years prior to joining the Cabinet office, Nick was variously programme director, chief operating officer or transformation director in Mott MacDonald, Serco and BT. In 2011 he gained an MSc in Major Programme Management from Said Business School, University of Oxford, where he is now an Associate Fellow. 

Nick left the British Army in 2005 having served a full career in the Infantry and as a staff officer principally in operations and planning. He was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment and went on to command it from 1999-2002 for which he was awarded an operational OBE.

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Matt is the Co-founder & CEO of Remitly, the largest independent digital money transmitter in the US, whose vision is to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial services on the planet. Matt’s passions an d leadership have been influenced by the environment he was raised in. Generations of his family, including his father, have been entrepreneurs. His mother, an art therapist, role modelled introspection and emotional intelligence.

After graduating from Dartmouth with a BA in psychology, and receiving his MBA from Harvard Business School, Matt eventually took an opportunity with Barclays Bank in Kenya. There, the inspiration for Remitly was born. Matt saw first-hand the difficulty of sending money overseas and recognised the global impact his business could have. Since launching Remitly in 2011, he has drawn from the influences of his family and experiences to lead a high-performing team. For Matt, foundational elements to effective leadership are leaning into your strengths, awareness of your weaknesses, self-care, and investing in your team. He lives by the motto that “it will all work out."

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The Marketing Academy, is a unique non-profit organisation dedicated to the development of leadership talent in the world of marketing, media & advertising.

Sherilyn launched the Academy in the UK in 2010, Australia in 2014 and USA in 2018,bringing together some of the world’s best known & popular brands to provide world class learning for all levels of talent from emerging leaders to CMOs.

She is a lifetime trustee of The Marketing Academy Foundation, a stand-alone charity providing marketing apprentices hips for young people from challenging backgrounds.

She is also a Board Advisor to Grace Blue (CMO Practice) and WeAreFearless.

A highly popular and engaging keynote speaker she’s also in demand as a business coach and you’ll often find her delivering lea

dership development programmes. When she gets the chance, she writes about talent engagement & development and all things ‘leadership’

featuring in many articles in The Sunday Times, Telegraph, Marketing Week, Marketing Magazine, Management Today and CMO.com.

She is on the Top 50 list of most powerful influencers in Australia.

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Commissioning just 4 days after his 18th birthday, Alastair is one of the youngest officers to have graduated from RMA Sandhurst in modern times. Since then almost half his working life has been in leadership positions. He sees as equally important that for the other half he has followed. Whether it be tactical or humanitarian operations, inside Whitehall or on Government Major Projects in Defence, Construction and more recently the Nuclear sector, the fundamentals of his leadership style are just that - fundamental. Talking about the mistakes he’s made, the ups and downs and the basics of what works for him, Alastair reflects on his ongoing 40 year career of leading, teaching how to lead and of course following. 

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Peter is Executive Director of LAMDA, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, which he joined in 2018 after many years’ experience of delivering strategic change in public and private education in the UK. He has held senior positions at London South Bank University, the University of Cumbria, the University of Salford and Regent Education Group, and carried out numerous consultancy assignments. Prior to 2000 Peter was in the British Army for almost 20 years. He specialised in field communications but occupied a wide variety of roles and for five years had the privilege of serving with Gurkhas. He is a graduate of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, MBA and a Governor of the London Film School.

As he steps out on a fascinating partnership with LAMDA’s new Director, renowned UK theatre director Sarah Frankcom, Peter reflects on ideas harvested from a career in change.   

Top Tip: When people bring ideas, something’s going right.

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Peter Kavanagh, CEO of LRG, which is one of the largest privately owned property services companies in the UK. 

Peter had an amazing mum who he credits with much of what he has achieved in life. My mum grew up in a very rural part of Southern Ireland before moving to the UK as a young woman. From a very early age she instilled into her children the importance of a strong work ethic, honesty and treating people properly. 

At 13 I had two part time jobs which helped me to understand that hard work pays off. At 28 I joined Romans, at the time a small but very entrepreneurial property services business. I worked with a group of great people and the business kept growing. 

In 2013 we sold to Bowmark Capital and in 2016 the business was merged with Leaders to form one of the largest privately owned property services companies in the UK. In 2018 Peter became CEO. 

My top tips, trust and empower the people you work with to make the right decisions, be brave and above all be yourself.

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Caroline Goyder's global reputation as a speaker and voice coach is built on her warm, engaging, relaxed and highly practical style, and her expertise honed by her work with actors, teachers, broadcasters and the corporate sector. She worked at Central School of Speech and Drama as a voice coach for over 10 years before launching her own company. She is regularly sought after by the media as an expert in her field and her work has featured on television and in numerous national and international newspaper articles. Her extremely successful Ted Talk has had over 7.5 million views. Caroline has written three books, her most recent Find Your Voice was released in January 2020. Caroline was named by Red magazine as one of Britain’s top coaches.

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After coming to London aged 18 to study Acting followed by a short but successful acting career, Martin entered Hospitality Management in earnest twenty years ago. Following stints as a General Manager and Area Manager working with the Wok Wok, Christophers and Zizzi brands, he joined Gaucho in 2005 and spent 9 nine years working his way up the leadership ladder as the company expanded. Leaving the group and his position of Managing Director in 2014, Martin entered the world of that of the Entrepreneur and founded the multi-award winning M restaurant group which after 4 years of growth enjoyed a full circle acquisition, which saw Martin take the helm as CEO of both M and Gaucho brands in 2018.

The primary role of a leader is to create and articulate an exciting, challenging but achievable vision, then to surround oneself with a talented team, who understand and live to these values and beliefs to drive ambitious success, with constant mentoring.

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David is a business leader and mentor with Thales and served 30 years in the British Army, including four tours with Special Forces. He ended his military career at Sandhurst where he was responsible for redesigning leadership training based on his operational experience and was credited with the biggest change to the Sandhurst course since the Second World War. With knowledge gained from his MBA at Cranfield University, he created a modern learning culture at Sandhurst that prioritised the learners’ needs over those of the institution. He realised that the focus needed to shift to developing people who knew how to think, not what to think. He believes that a leader must be able to think, decide, act and inspire, whilst under pressure (and often when scared) in a complex, changing or dangerous environment. These conditions of course exist beyond the military. David is inspired by apprentices and graduates just starting out. He believes traditional ‘heroic’ leadership styles are outdated and that a new collaborative and enabling style is needed for the information age.

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Chip enjoyed a 33 year military career, latterly concentrating on counter-terrorism as both the Senior British Military Advisor in US Central Command to Jim Mattis and as Head of Counter-Terrorism in the MoD, prior to branching out in to media commentary and leadership development. He is a passionate believer in both vertical and horizontal cohesion with teams – between leader and led.

Leadership top tip: no one was ever managed up a hill, they were led there: if you have good people and bad process, bad process wins nine times out of ten. If you get the leadership and management correct, the basis of an unbeatable team is nurtured. Chip is a Director of Quantum Resilience dealing with crisis management training for Boards/CEOs for when a crisis hit, character often becomes as important as competence in responding.

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Renier grew up in the Dutch countryside and, after studying computer science and a stint as an artillery battery commander in the Dutch Army, joined Arthur D Little in Brussels. After an MBA from Insead he joined Mckinsey in London and was a founding member of their India practice. He later co-founded McKinsey's first incubator in Silicon Valley. He then started the 'executive' part of his career with stints as CEO/COO at GE Capital, Barclays and CEO of Paypal EMEA. In recent years he has developed a portfolio career, chairing and advising a number of fintech start-ups, board roles with incumbent banks, and as a professor of Fintech. Renier enjoys approaching all business problems with curiosity and first-principles problem-solving. Enjoying robust debate with ample good humour, he firmly believes that the best result comes from a dialectic between leaders that can listen and practice reflection-in-action.

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32 years in the British Army: Parachute Regiment and Special Forces; commanding on operations at every rank up to Major General (i.e. from tens to thousands of people); strategic leadership in Whitehall. 

Leadership is about getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Having the right idea is the easy part; its persuading your team (and sometimes your boss) that it is the right idea that is the hard part. Key to this is trust between leaders and led. A good way to build this is to know (and show you know) your people, by exploiting their strengths and protecting them from their weaknesses. No-one is perfect and people thrive when you believe in them. 

Another way of building trust is by sharing the problem with the team, and asking for their ideas; ideas have value not rank. Never forgetting that, as was forcibly brought home to me in the Falklands, when the pressure is on, it is still up to the leader to shoulder the responsibility of making the decisions. But the more the team own the plan, and the more they trust you, the more committed to it they will be.

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In a career spanning over 35 years, Andreas rose from being a banking apprentice at Deutsche Bank and graduate trainee at SG Warburg, to CEO of Allianz Global Investors, a role he relinquished on 1st January, 2020. He is currently Advisor to the firm. Andreas’s core beliefs and leadership principles were born of his life experience: Born in Belgium of German immigrant parents, losing his father suddenly at barely 12 years of age; gaining 2 years' work experience after his Baccalaureate and before University studies, having to work every day to finance these; immigrating to the UK  and building a career with no contacts there. Andreas had no real career plan – rather he was keen to work in an environment that furthered intellectual curiosity, interacting with interesting people and a maximum of individual freedom. Building on his personal experience, Andreas led by example and built and environment of trust, based on integrity, mutual respect and the concept that decisions, however difficult, needed to be seen as ‘fair’. He is particularly proud of that fact that no-one who ever worked for him directly resigned from their position.

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Danny Payne is CEO of the high performing FCOS team who support the Government abroad especially our Foreign Office Embassies & their staff in the crucial role to represent Great Britain abroad - however tough the challenges. Inspiring Leadership is crucial throughout any organisation - its not just at the top. How do you approach challenges? From complexity to resolution. Difficult situation: lots of uncertainty & anxiety. Families involved too. Helping our people abroad when they had to leave the host country at short notice. Amazing support beyond the call of duty - highly inspiring. When Major IT Programmes go badly wrong & what to learn from it. They often do - give people space to sort it out. Explain & translate highly complex technical issues into clear language, explanations plans & lessons learnt. After action reviews. AAR - what to do differently next time? Keep calm - Don’t frighten people

Top Tip - Don’t get bored - find a career where you love the work you do.

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Paul has been on a leadership journey with the British Army for the past 34 years.  He has served in a variety of roles and in a number of different environments. His most challenging have been on operations, from Northern Ireland to the Gulf, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

His talk is about ‘leading in a crisis’ and the importance of the 3 ‘stages.’  First, ensuring you prepare yourself and your team for that crisis before it hits – ensuring resilience.  Second, how you respond to the crisis as a leader – how you give direction and hope.  And lastly, how you recover from the crisis, caring for your people and learning the lessons – resetting for the next one! 

Leadership is about the journey and how you learn and develop. We never stop learning, as this current crisis is showing us all too clearly. Faced with unprecedented challenge, your people will follow you, not just because of your rank or position in the company, but because they believe in you. That takes hard work, dedication and trust – not the product of a 3-day course.

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John Cresswell is CEO, Bibby Line Group and speaks to a core theme of focus and determination.  John has enjoyed a successful career in high-profile roles including Chief Operating Officer, ITV plc, Interim CEO, ITV plc and, CEO Arqiva Limited.  As well as serving on the boards of Liverpool FC and Capita plc as a Non Exec Director.

John joined the media sector as a newly qualified chartered accountant. He has provided strategic and authentic leadership for six world-class media organisations spanning broadcasting, content and technology. More recently he has led teams in retail and financial services.

 John places enormous emphasis on organizational culture and values.  He believes a primary task of leadership is to direct attention.  His favored triad of focus is customers, colleagues and cash. John believes organizations succeed best when teams are collaborative and able to confront the realities about their position and then set inspiring goals.   He likes to challenge his own thinking and encourages his team and employees to do the same. It helps to look at situations more holistically and to examine situations from all perspectives, which in turn yields ideas for more creative outcomes.

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As a Music graduate from Durham University, a former Territorial Army Royal Artillery Officer, a chartered accountant, a certified organisation development practitioner and former PwC Partner, one word that is often used to describe Tracey is ‘unique’!  Tracey’s career is made up of leadership roles in many guises, from being Head Girl at school to leading global financial crime remediation programmes focusing on ethical conduct, culture and behaviours, and empowering and inspiring women in the workplace.

Through her own advisory business, Intelligent Ethics, Tracey works with leaders to unlock high performance and talent, accelerate sustainable growth, and drive innovation directly aligned to the execution of strategic business goals by acting as a trusted business advisor, a corporate executive educator and a passionate keynote speaker and panellist. A Financial Times Champion of Women in Business and winner of the Variety Catherine Award for Consulting, Tracey brings a unique blend of business process, commercial understanding, consulting and organizational change management skills to whatever she does.

 Tracey’s top leadership tip?  Never give up – there is no such word as can’t.

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Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE shares some of his leadership tips and advice from the different leaders, quotes and best books he has read in the middle of this coronavirus crisis and the economic impact on the businesses that he works with. A variety of practical down-to-earth tips and techniques that you can apply now to help yourself.

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James Bashall brings a huge amount of leadership experience to this programme. He has spent much of his Army career on operations – 12 tours in all; and over 5 years overseas on operational service. Following 9/11 he took command of 2 PARA and led them on 3 successive operational tours to Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and Iraq in the space of 2.5 years. He then commanded a Mechanised Brigade in Basra during the most dangerous and violent period of the Iraq campaign. He also led a Joint Task Force into Libya in the early days of the Spring Uprising in order to extract UK citizens trapped by the civil war. He lives by the code of empowerment, trust and delegation. And his principal leadership tip is to know your people; and to understand what makes them tick as human beings, recognising that we are all different. He believes deeply in leading by example and being seen by those you command. He worries too many senior leaders over use social media; and have lost the touch of visiting in person to communicate directly.

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Embedding social good and helping people to think and believe better things about themselves.

James is a serial-founder with ventures ranging from publicly traded companies with hundreds of people through to micro-businesses. Many were started with only modest amounts of capital and several achieved millions in sales. He's a Trustee of The Silver Line a national charity helpline for older people and supports younger people starting their own ventures. His latest enterprise, Alertacall, has won national awards and has celebrity endorsement. Based on an invention inspired by his own grandmother it now helps tens of thousands of older people as well as many organisations who house and support them. James is an advocate for personal coaching and therapeutic support, believing that what people think and feel about themselves has a critical role to play in their personal success and that of the venture. He's also come to learn that it can take some people longer than others to adapt to a new vision, and the importance of taking time to get their understanding and buy-in.

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CEO Virgin Money, SVP Global Digital & Marketing EMI, Digital & Financial Services Director Asda, Group Marketing & Digital Director HMV, multiple Private Equity leadership / interim CEO roles covering Garden Centres, Care Homes and Restaurants.

Mark has had a truly cross sector career leading transformations across financial services, media, retail, leisure, care, restaurants and now the charity sector.  He loves driving an organisation with the customer / those you serve right at the centre – leading to impact, growth and turnaround. He always starts and ends with the customer at the heart of everything he does.  It is easy when you are at the top, to start to assume you are the most important person in the organisation and to forget why you are there and who you are there to serve – your customers. Sectors often require strong technical expertise and Mark recognises that he can never be the lead expert, but he has become practised at asking the simple questions that people start to forget to ask and hopefully lead to new insights and innovation.  One more thing he believes is central to being a good leader and that is the people. This has been a common theme across different sectors. A well-developed, engaged and agile team is far more valuable than one leader!

TOP TIP: Always remember you are a customer sample of one!

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David is Vice President of Client Development for the EMEA region with Management Research Group, a leading global developer of advanced psychological assessments. He is an executive coach and faculty member at IMD Business School in Switzerland, and speaks regularly to international audiences of many aspects of leadership.

David is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and is a member of the European Association for Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP) and the British Psychological Society (BPS). He is also Past President of the Institute of Business Consulting & Analysis. He holds postgraduate and advanced research degrees in Cognitive Linguistics.

This focus of David's coaching work focused on the uniqueness of the individual and what that means in terms of awareness, bias and intrinsic motivation. He builds upon the ability of any person to observe themselves more completely and objectively and then to observe others beyond their own assumptions and biases. This leads to a wider perspective and the ability to make more calibrated and relevant behavioural choices.

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During his forty year military career, Nick has seen how the Army, and Defence, accommodate change both in peace and war. In the latter capacity, he commanded a brigade during operations in Afghanistan, and was the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Strategic Communication Officer during the Libya campaign. 

As a strategic leader he implemented a transformational re-design of Defence, focussing on delegation of responsibility and accountability from the MOD to the front line commands.

He became Deputy Chief of the General Staff in the rank of Lieutenant General 2015. In this post he was the Chief Executive of an Army of 80,000 regular and 30,000 reserve soldiers and 10,000 civil servants. He was responsible for manpower planning, personnel strategies, strategic planning and programming, performance management and international relations. His focus was on creating and delivering a complex portfolio of change initiatives to make the Army more effective, but also to drive down costs.

Top tip. Work out what good looks like. And never forget task, team and individual.  

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Oliver Johnston, coach, facilitator, teacher, a retrospective view after a career in coaching senior executives (with special interest in inspiring leadership).

25 years coaching senior executives, Director of Leadership Consulting, Penna plc. First leadership role was founder of The Ramoan Centre, Save the Children Fund - the first direct alternative to custody for serious and persistent young offenders in Northern Ireland (1978-81).

Top Tip - As a leader you can’t inspire anyone, but you can create the environment in which they can find their own inspiration.

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In his own words, Joe was doing an 'elongated graduate scheme for 13 years', before he started Acast in the UK. He moved from medium to medium in various sales jobs, including Global Radio, ITV, Pearl & Dean & Sky, holding out a belief this would all be for a reason one day. Then the opportunity arose, Acast was born, and this was a chance to channel all previous experiences into this new baby. From 3 people in one small room in Kings Cross, Acast a medium from scratch (no-one was advertising in podcasts yet), and Joe oversaw the journey from the first £5k booking to see Acast become the largest podcast company in the world. Culture was always the No. 1 priority above everything else, and Joe assembled a team 60 strong in the UK, with an aim of everyone citing Acast as the best job they ever had. 

Top Tip: Ensure people do what they are best at. And that we can all poke fun at ourselves. 

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Major General Sharon Nesmith was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1992. She spent much of her early years at Regimental Duty in Germany, serving in the Electronic Warfare Regiment and 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment, during which time she completed 3 tours in the Balkans. Major General Nesmith commanded 1st Mechanized Brigade Headquarters and Signal Squadron (215), over the period of the Brigade conversion to Bowman and deployment on Op TELIC 10. She later commanded 22nd Signal Regiment as the Regiment re-roled to provide command support to Headquarters ARRC, and led on the introduction of FALCON into Service. She also commanded MOD Stafford. 

Following the Advanced Command and Staff Course (2001/03), Major General Nesmith’s black bag appointment was within the Directorate of Capability, Resources and Scrutiny in the Ministry of Defence, where she provided affordability advice to senior officers and Ministers at key investment decisions for equipment programmes. She subsequently served as SO1 Capability in Army Resources and Plans. On promotion to Colonel she served as the Assistant Director Capability Plans, leading on the delegation of capability development to the Army Headquarters in support of Director General Capability, and attended the Higher Command and Staff Course (2014).  

Major General Nesmith commanded the 1st (United Kingdom) Signal Brigade from August 2014 to July 2016, supporting Headquarters ARRC and the UK JTFHQs. She was then Head of Manning (Army), before being appointed Director Personnel in March 2019. 

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Martin Dougherty, Chief Operating Officer Wellcome Sanger Institute Genome Campus. Core theme of operation leadership in the scientific or research setting.

Martin’s career spans four sectors: academic, commercial, charity and public. He had a successful academic research career in tropical medicine. He then formed a company with colleagues working in pharmaceutical medical communications. After capitalising on this experience, he went to go on to lead a healthcare research group, at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, developing clinical and cost effectiveness guidelines for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. He went on to become Executive Director at the Royal Statistical Society, a learned and professional body supporting statisticians, developing statistical science and promoting the appropriate use and understanding of statistics. Latterly, Martin held the role of COO at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology during the completion of the new Institute laboratories on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, successfully lead, and completed the transition programme in to the new facility. 

Top Tip: Never forget People are at the heart of any operational process 

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A passionate retail and supply chain professional with over 20 years' experience leading large-scale transformational change programmes with both Private Equity and PLC businesses. Jon's experience extends to leading operations of 15000 employees with operating budgets of up to £750 million. His current role requires him to build and execute the logistics strategy for the Asda business. The core purpose of the logistics strategy is “to serve our customers better than anyone else, but always at the lowest possible operating costs!” Jon has a passion for inspiring and motivating teams and building a culture of innovation and empowerment that enables the sustained delivery of both personal and strategic business objectives. Jon has a passion for developing the leaders of the future and plays a very active role in business mentorship and the diversity and inclusion programme within the business. 

Jon's mantra....”To serve my our customers better than anyone else!” 

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 Jim is currently the CEO of Haig Housing Trust after retiring from an Army career spanning 35 years from the age of 16. He lives Mark Twain’s maxim ‘Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life’. This journey took him through life as a soldier, grasping every opportunity presented and seeking to use and develop his talents in pursuit of service and commitment to his country and community. He led units and formations up to Brigade level and was involved in many of the Army’s operational deployments since 1980 including chairing General Patraeus’ Brains Trust in Iraq 2007.

His leadership theme is to trust your own judgement in any situation you face as long as you have learned and lost along your journey you will not be far wrong. His top tip is the need for shared situational awareness; making sure all the team work to a common purpose understanding their role in achieving a goal and to understand the criticality of their part while also understanding the bigger picture.

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Chris Leek, 33 from Orpington, Kent, tackled the infamous Enduroman Arch 2 Arc challenge, an unparalleled triathlon consisting of an 87-mile run from London’s Marble Arch to Dover followed by a 21-mile swim across the English Channel, and a 181-mile bike ride from Calais to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Only 34 individuals had ever completed the entire challenge solo, while only four individuals have completed it on their own without wearing a wetsuit for the Channel swim – an exclusive group Chris not only joined but did so in a World record time for a non-wetsuit solo effort in 69hrs 29 mins.

An amateur athlete with no professional training, Chris took on this challenge for his father Dennis, who has both Parkinson’s and Lewy Body Dementia and is cared for full-time by Chris’ mother Linda. Aiming to raise awareness and £1 million in sponsorship for three charities; Parkinson’s UK, Lewy Body Society and Orpington’s Saxon Day Centre.

The Enduroman A2A usually takes three years to train for, however Chris attempted the mammoth challenge with only eight months of training. With this being said, between cold water swims in Dover Harbor and 50-mile weekend runs around Kent, Chris’ training is still no small feat.

Despite the intense training regime, Chris still managed to lead a balanced lifestyle: helping to care for his father while splitting his remaining time between his wife Charlotte & dog Parker and his job at Budweiser Brewing Group, and still managing to find time to share a beer or two with his close circle of friends.

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Garry, by his own admission, drifted into leadership and yet forty years later was awarded an OBE in 2012 for innovation and leadership.  He has led teams of three to twelve-hundred, recently mentored leadership to a generation of Army officers and is currently designing a future strategy for Army education.  He seeks new activities shortly having had fun with a purpose.

Garry has studied leaders for many years learning to retain the ‘nature’ of leadership but adapt the approach to the context; a lesson for today and COVID.  Garry also offers we over-concentrate on the leader and not enough on the eco-system of leadership. This is manifesting itself in tensions around control in the current crisis, which he has experienced personally.  Moreover, he feels there are linkages between what needs to occur during C-19 and the emerging impact of Artificial Intelligence on leaders and leadership. He has long held a view we should turn the organisational diagram upside down and always think of the impact of our decision on the individual lest we end up with dislocation of expectation.

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Appointed CEO of BNP Paribas Ireland and Head of Country in April 2015. BNP Paribas currently employs in excess of 600 people in Ireland across multiple Businesses and Regulated Entities. Derek has Executive responsibility for CIB in Ireland, in addition to having oversight of the Group as a whole, particularly in the areas of Regulation, Compliance and Control, Group Representation and Development, Clients and Organisation. He Chairs the Boards of Greenval Insurance, Darnell Re and BNP Paribas Vartry Re. He also serves as a non-executive Director of BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland, BNP Paribas Fund Administration Services Ireland and the France Ireland Chamber of Commerce. Derek is also currently Chairman of the Federation of International Banks in Ireland and a Board member of the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland. Prior to taking over as CEO Derek held several senior roles in BNP Paribas Global Markets business in Trading and Sales. Derek graduated from UCD with an Honours Degree in Economics in 1987 and worked as a fixed Income Specialist in a number of Institutions before joining BNP Paribas in 2002.

Top Tips: Communication, Respect, Honesty, Integrity. Realistic goals.

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Multiple VP leadership roles in marketing and sales at Verizon across wireline and wireless – including Brand & Creative Strategy for New Product Innovation, Distribution & Sales Acquisition Strategy, Northeast Area Marketing & Sales, New Product Development and Marketing Operations.

 With 19 years at the leading telecom brand in the world, Angie has had the opportunity to be part of leading multiple transformations in technology, growth and company culture. Never one to be good at sitting still, the constant change and competitive landscape has kept her enthusiasm and passion, with a focus centred on customers and the dynamic organization she leads. She believes in fuelling her team’s instincts and blue-sky thinking, yet is an ardent user of insights and data to ground their decisions. As for her leadership journey, it is said that you’ve reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity. So, she’s still a work in progress…

Top tip: Think bigger – and play beyond your position.

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After graduating from the University of Reading, Richard became a commercial developer with John Laing Property in 1999 and then Kier Property. In 2005 he moved to a private family office where he led the business through the aftermath of the 2008 GFC, generating a 50% increase in portfolio value and reduction in gearing by 30% over 8 years. He is now managing director of Martin’s Properties, a privately owned property company with a prestigious multi-sector portfolio and core assets in Chelsea. He is embarking on an ambitious strategy to substantially grow the business over the next 5 years. 

Richard is a team orientated leader who tries to lead through inspiration and example. He is highly driven and competitive, as evidenced by recent ultra-marathon challenges! He believes leaders have a responsibility to get the best out of people and that teams need clear goals and focus. He regularly shares with his team the vision and mission statement, allied with business KPI’s. He believes each member of the team should be able to see their individual and collective input towards business objectives.

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From financial services to schools to charities, for nearly 15 years, William has been leading organisations from a vast range of sectors. Moulding to fit the sector you lead is a core principle of William’s leadership, recognising that what works in business, does not necessarily work for leading public sector organisations. Whichever leadership hat he is wearing, William believes kindness and understanding is paramount for getting the best out of any team. In November 2019, William took up his most recent leadership position as Lord Mayor of London. He will be continuing in this role until November 2021 to ensure stability during the Covid-19 crisis. He will be the first Lord Mayor to serve a two-year term in 158 years. 

Top Tip: You can never over communicate with your team – don’t assume they know what you’re thinking!

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James was a soldier for 30 years. He joined as a private soldier in 1982. After Oxford and Sandhurst, he commissioned into The Black Watch in 1987. Aside from regimental duty, he served in the MOD with responsibility for planning the Kosovo operation and was MA1/CGS from before 9/11 until the invasion of Iraq.

He commanded The Black Watch in Iraq in 2004 during fighting in Basra, and later for the battle for Fallujah. He was back in Iraq in 2006‐07 for Operation SINBAD.

In 2007 he set up 11 Brigade, and took command of Task Force Helmand, serving in Afghanistan in 2009‐10. He was subsequently Head of Counter Terrorism planning the Olympic security operation. He was then GOC 3rd Division.

James is now CEO of The HALO Trust. HALO has 8,500 staff in 26 countries. At a time of unprecedented crisis, HALO’s humanitarian mission has never been more important.

He is married to a hospital doctor with three children. He has been Colonel of his Regiment and chairman of The Black Watch.

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David is a business leader and mentor and served 30 years in the British Army, including four tours with Special Forces. He ended his military career at Sandhurst where he was responsible for redesigning leadership training based on his operational experience and was credited with the biggest change to the Sandhurst course since the Second World War. With knowledge gained from his MBA at Cranfield University, he created a modern learning culture at Sandhurst that prioritised the learners’ needs over those of the institution. He realised that the focus needed to shift to developing people who knew how to think, not what to think. He believes that a leader must be able to think, decide, act and inspire, whilst under pressure (and often when scared) in a complex, changing or dangerous environment. These conditions of course exist beyond the military. David is inspired by apprentices and graduates just starting out. He believes traditional ‘heroic’ leadership styles are outdated and that a new collaborative and enabling style is needed for the information age.

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Globally noted as a leader in financial services, Deanna Oppenheimer has spent a dynamic career helping companies going through turnaround and inspiring game changing growth. Deanna continues to serve on several global public and private boards, from established trend-setters to industry disruptors.  She founded the advising firm, CameoWorks, helping innovative organizations and their leaders grow and thrive in uncertain times.

Deanna also is the founder of BoardReady, a non-profit focused on improving diversity on corporate boards. Founded on the premise that diversity drives better results for business, BoardReady works with boards on their strategy and succession planning, elevating the conversation around board diversity. BoardReady relies on analytic data to craft succession strategies and offers access to a deep pool of exceptional, diverse candidates through its TalentVault in order to help organizations become more diverse, more innovative, and more resilient. @boardready, info@boardready.io

Leadership Tip: “Give a Chance, Take a Chance.”

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Alistair started his professional career in the Armed forces as an Infantry Officer, on transitioning to the commercial sector he established an advisory business to work with airlines in the risk and crisis management domain and subsequently joined PwC in 2000. Over this past 20 year he has developed a deep domain knowledge of the Industrials Sector and has designed and delivered complex transformation programmes within a broad and global client base and he now works with some of the world's largest and most complex organisations to deliver increased shareholder returns. Alistair's belief system is driven by a simple principle. Do the right thing - your morale compass is the best navigational support; Build a team of teams - everyone must know their position and be energised and incentivised to deliver; Stay humble, stay hopeful and stay hungry.

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Richard Fenning is a partner at Manchester Square Partners specialising in leadership, career management and succession.

Before joining Manchester Square Partners, Richard spent 32 years in professional services, principally with the risk consulting firm, Control Risks which he joined in 1993. He was Global CEO for 14 years from 2005 until 2019 leading the firm through a period of significant growth and international expansion including a complex and innovative management buy-out in 2016. Richard has lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Japan, Singapore and the United States and has advised numerous global corporations on the impact of geopolitical uncertainty and high-stakes problem solving, often in volatile parts of the world.

Richard has tried to live by the mantra that leadership is about leading from behind when things are going well, only leading from the front during difficult times. 2020 has seen this philosophy tested to the limit as many organisations have faced unprecedented challenges not just from Covid 19 and its economic consequences but also from how businesses are responding to the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and other issues that challenge the social fabric of the world in which they operate.

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Stepping Out is a specialist consulting practice. We help businesses and individuals to get top team off boardingright.

For the individual—Stepping Out is acoaching practice that provides senior executives with a route-map and atravel guide to help think, plan, and execute stepping out from the top team and onward to new adventures.

For the company—we offer policy and best-practice advice, internal capacity building, top team masterclasses andcompany keynotes to enable successful top team off boarding.

For society—we challenge the old and outdated 3-stage model i.e. education—work—retirement. We are part of agrowing campaign to recognise the multiple stages of modern life/career in the emerging world where lifeexpectancy is fast moving beyond 90 years.

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Chuka has had a varied career which has involved being a public figure for much of the last 10 years. The common thread running through his two-decade career, first in corporate law, then in public policy, and now back in business has been desire to build a better and more responsible capitalism in which all citizens have stake. The son of an entrepreneur, from a mixed heritage family, he has observed how he would not have had the opportunities he had were it not for the power of enterprise. Not afraid to try new enterprises in politics and to challenge group think and tribalism, he was one of a number of MPs who left the main parties to set up the new party, Change UK. He switched to the Liberal Democrats before leaving politics. For any organisation to thrive, Chuka believes internal challenge is vital, as is an understanding that success is not all about any one individual but a group. But any group needs a leader to lead and bring decisions to a head.

Top Tip - Draw up a strategy – which will always evolve - and then focus laser like on the tactical execution of it, whilst having a ‘Plan B’ if ‘Plan A’ doesn’t work out.

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Kate Oliver is a motorcycle tour leader and leads tours in the High Himalaya in India, Sikkim and Nepal. She is also a qualified stone mason, a poet, writer and a member of Kellogg College Oxford Alumni where she studied for her Masters in Creative Writing and critical practice. Although she has received no formal leadership training she has been required to show inspirational leadership to take her customers on two week tours in the Himalaya on Royal Enfield Motorcycles where altitudes of up to 18 000 feet, meltwater crossings, rock falls and landslides are the norm. Coupled with altitude sickness, egos and ad hoc teams of strong willed but sometimes low skilled riders, she has learnt to be empathetic to enable her customers to put their egos aside, express their fears and overcome the considerable challenges they encounter. She is not inspired by any one person in particular and is wary of perpetuating the myths surrounding some of the ‘great’ leaders. Her leadership abilities have come from a variety of people she has encountered and of course by solving the people-problems she regularly faces on adventure motorcycle tours.

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Isabel Fox is one of just a handful of female General Partners in the UK, who manages an early stage deep-tech fund focused on human health (healthcare, life sciences, agriculture, food and wellness).

At Luminous Ventures, Isabel has the opportunity to indulge her passion for innovation, investing in visionary founders with frontier technologies and supporting them to commercialise to scale. 

Her portfolio includes; Synthace, Mahana, Phenomic, Temporall, Hadean, Optellum, Ellipsis, Vital Health, Huma, OxfordVR and many more. 

Before venture capital, Isabel founded two corporate communications firms focused on the venture ecosystem (two exits), co-founded two software start-ups (one exit) and been an active angel investor in the UK and US. 

Leadership tip - Find something you love and dream big. Be resilient and don't give up.

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Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer operates at the nexus of finance, technology and regulation, passionate about creating the digital financial ecosystem of the future. After a distinguished career of over a decade with Citi, Ruth is now an independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Permanent TSB and Digital Identity Net as well as a Partner at Gauss Ventures. She is a Strategic Adviser of the European Third-Party Provider Association (ETPPA) and Adviser at Coinfirm. Until recently she has served as independent Non-Executive Director on the Board of the London Stock Exchange Group and Pendo Systems Inc.

Ruth was named 2010s ‘Rising Stars’ by Financial News; named in Management Today’s 2011 ‘35 Women under 35’, identified as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance 2012 by Treasury Risk Magazine. She received the ‘Women in Banking and Finance Award for Achievement’ in 2015 and in 2016, 2017 and 2018 she was named on the global ‘Women in Fintech Powerlist’ of Innovate Finance. She is a 2018, 2019 and 2020 Top 10 Global Fintech Influencer (Fintech Power 50).

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James is currently responsible for executive development, high potential programs up to senior executive level and driving strategic initiatives that will evolve Walmart to meet future challenges, the scale is the challenge, 1.3 million associates in the US, 2.3 million world-wide. His career before Walmart was six years of risk and business consultancy and a 26-year military career. After an Infantry (Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment) career up to battalion command his last appointment before retiring early was as Assistant Director Counter Terrorism in the British Ministry of Defence. In 2007 he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty the Queen for that role, an award that he should probably now give back as he is now a US citizen! A key lesson he has learned since leaving the military is that vulnerability is strength.

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Leila has been at Facebook for over 9 years, initially leading B2B marketing efforts in the UK before taking on responsibility for Northern Europe. She’s had the privilege of growing into a senior leadership role while at Facebook. Prior to Facebook she spent almost 6 years at PayPal, where she was responsible for B2B acquisition marketing, with a focus on large enterprise businesses and top tier SMEs.

Leila believes that to be a truly effective leader, you must lead by example, not command and control. In her experience, the best leaders do not whip their team into shape from the back of the pack. They lead the charge, while carrying their share of the weight.

Top Tip: Listen more than you talk. And unless you are literally saving lives, always remember it’s ‘PR not ER' – perspective is essential.

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Lucy Giles was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Transport in 1992 after studying at Exeter University.  Regimental duty in the newly formed Royal Logistic Corps included postings within Germany, UK and South Africa with deployments to Bosnia (1994, 1997, 1999), East Timor and Sierra Leone.  She commanded 47 Air Despatch Squadron, enabling operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, followed by an appointment as an instructor at the Joint Services Command and Staff College.  As Commander of New College at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst she received an entry into Debrett’s People of the Day, and won the inaugural Defence ‘Inspirational’ and ‘Woman of the Year’ awards.  She is an ambassador for First Women UK and is part of the Girls School Association teachers’ mentoring programme.  She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Exeter University in 2017 for services to the military.  Married to Nick and mum to Jess (16) and Alex (12) she is President of the Army Officer Selection Board in Westbury.

Top Tip: Be comfortable in your own skin, get the small things right and never stop learning!

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Mike first came into the media industry reasonably late, at the age of 26, after having spent some time in Denmark working out what he wanted to do with his life. He joined Zenith Media as a graduate trainee TV buyer (buying TV advertising space on behalf of clients), and then worked at a number of agencies and media owners before coming to Pearl & Dean, where he has been Enterprise Director for the last 14 years. During his time at Pearl & Dean they have been through three changes of ownership and have had to face many challenges along the way. As we face the biggest challenge of our lifetime, Mike still believes in the mantra of focussing on the things that you can do and not getting bogged down in the things that you cannot change or influence. It means being prepared to be flexible and fleet of foot and this is only possible if you have a solid and supportive team around you.     

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Cath walked into an army recruiting centre when she was 18, only to walk out again 5 minutes later disappointed and confused at the apparent lack of interest from the male recruiting sergeant, dismissing all thoughts of a possible military career. 25 (ish!) years later she now leads recruitment for the army. In the last two years, alongside her army counterpart, she has overseen the turnaround of a famously broken recruiting operation and private / public sector partnership between the Army and Capita.

In the intervening period, following a sports science degree, Cath has led a series of large scale corporate recruitment operations in the UK and Europe before completing the circle begun at age 18.

Cath’s most important leadership advice is to be utterly authentic. By which she means, be yourself. Don’t think that you need to pretend to be more serious, more intelligent – or even less intelligent – than you really are. Don’t pretend you know things when you don’t. Don’t keep quiet when you have a contribution to make because you think others around you are better, or more qualified. She spent several years earlier in her career thinking that she needed to project a layer of gravitas that she didn’t really feel. She also thought that as she got into leadership roles she needed to know all the answers. To all the questions. All of the time. Clearly that’s ridiculous. The real art of leadership is understanding what you don’t know, assembling a diverse team around you who complement your weaknesses with their strengths, and empowering them.

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General Sir Rupert Smith, is a retired British Army Officer of 40 years' experience. He commanded forces at every rank from Second Lieutenant to General in all five continents. On three occasions in the 1990s, he commanded formations of some 20,000 people and 750 fighting vehicles and airplanes to achieve strategic goals: in the Gulf War 90/91, in Bosnia 95 and in Northern Ireland 96-98. Additionally, from 1999 until 2001 he was the Deputy Commander of all NATO forces engaged in operations in the Balkans, notably Kosovo. On each occasion the objectives, the politics, the theatre, the opposition and the forces were different and often multinational. He found in exercising leadership at this level it is well to remember that: fame has no present and popularity no future.

Based on this experience he will talk about leadership, particularly strategic leadership.

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Nick has specialised in employment law for about 30 years and advises both businesses and senior individuals. He had a varied career which commenced in merchant banking before becoming a police officer in the Metropolitan Police in London for seven and a half years. During this time, he completed a law degree and then qualified as a Barrister and practiced for a couple of years before transferring to be a Solicitor. He uses this diverse experience for the benefit of clients. 

Nick advises small to large businesses on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues, including High Court restrictive covenant actions; tribunal claims - complex unfair dismissal, sex, race and disability discrimination cases; redundancy and restructuring advice, outsourcing and TUPE, performance management and ill health issues.

Nick also advises managers and senior executives particularly in respect of their contracts of employment, negotiation of termination packages, employment tribunal claims and High Court actions.

Nick is a keen sailor, a Yacht master and has sailed the Atlantic. He is a competent skier (described by an Austrian as “not bad for an Englishman”) and also enjoys golf, photography, networking and fine wine. He has four children and a house in Italy and enjoys all things Italian!

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From the very beginning my professional life has centered around vocational careers, "believing wholeheartedly in what you are doing is fundamental to success", as a professional photographer for national and international clients across all sectors, as a manager in Royal Mail deliveries, through state ownership to private entity where people mean everything, to my current role as the Clipper Round the World Race Skipper of team Dare To Lead, facilitating the hopes and dreams of a diverse team in the challenging wilderness of the world's oceans.

Top tip: It's not about you!

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Josh joined LinkedIn - the world’s largest professional network - in 2011, and is now Country Manager for the UK and VP of their Marketing Solutions (advertising) business in EMEA and Latin America. In his role he is responsible for driving member growth, strategic partnerships and revenue across all lines of business in the UK, and leads sales teams across the EMEA and LATAM regions as they help marketers identify, target and engage with the world’s largest network of over 690 million professionals.

Before joining LinkedIn, Josh held roles at Electronics Arts (EA) and Microsoft. Prior to that he founded the world’s first in-game advertising agency, JAM International, which was acquired by Massive Inc.

Josh is a passionate advocate for diversity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace. He has been featured on the Financial Times Top 50 LGBT Leaders list, is a founding member of the advocacy group ‘Open For Business’, a Special Advisor to Founders4Schools, a member of Stonewall's Development Council and a Commissioner on the HIV Commission.

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The most senior UK officer wounded in Afghanistan, David served for 26 years and commanded on operations at all levels up to and including Battle Group before losing 10cm of his right femur to a Taliban bullet during a firefight north of Musa Qaleh in June 2008.   After four years of reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation he was medically discharged and joined Help for Heroes where he created their recovery services for wounded, injured and sick service  personnel, veterans and their families from scratch.  After working as a leadership advisor and coach, during which he co-founded Worldmaker International, which works with communities and businesses to help them build human resilience, he was appointed as the first Director of the Office for Veterans’ Affairs in the Cabinet Office.  Leadership across all these roles has had some common themes: articulate a compelling vision your team can align with, stay focused on the outcome and don’t be distracted by the bump and grind of day to day work, build trust and belief in your team through delegation, know when to follow and keep smiling.

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Paul’s parents set up a bio-technology company when he was at school. The experience of helping with the early funding, the challenges of growth, the first Queens Award for innovation, the successes and the ultimate sale was inspirational. Paul is now a successful entrepreneur, board director and investor with over 25 years of experience working with growth companies in the media, information and technology sectors. 

He is the founder of Clarity, which during his 15 years of directorship grew to be the leading mid-market corporate finance advisory firm. His ability to quickly understand issues, appreciate different perspectives and create cohesive workable solutions for all stakeholders is highly valued. Paul believes that great outcomes are achieved by teams and it’s important to recognise that teams are made up of individuals. Successful leadership is about bringing that team together and allow individuals to work to their strengths. Make sure your team owns the purpose and values. Take the responsibility for managing the emotional state of your team.

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Leigh shares the story of her life experiences and how that has shaped her to become the CEO of the Inspiring Leadership Trust charity. She has achieved this whilst also developing her skills as a Director of her own business supporting, challenging and inspiring as leadership coach, team coach, motivational speaker, author and podcaster.

A very open authentic and heartfelt story whilst also sharing some tips and techniques which have helped the leaders that she has worked with and will be a benefit to you as well.

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