Episodes

How do we empower leaders to build a better tomorrow? My guest Lara Stein understands this challenge as well as anyone as the Chairman and Founder of Boma Global. Lara was the founder of the TEDx program at TED, and grew it into a global movement with more than 15,000 events and more than 1 billion video views. Through her work with TEDx, Lara learned the innovation power of local communities, and how to harness this power. She also learned how to build a massive volunteer network and how to sus...

How do you smash through perceived career glass ceilings and, if you are a woman, achieve this in male dominated workplaces? Jackie Chappell had a successful career in the rail industry, where she rose from a part-time employee selling tickets to become the Chief Executive of the Industry’s Training and Competence Company, making her the first ever female CEO in the industry’s history. Jackie led the company to achieve tremendous industry and government recognition, in particular National Traini...

How to become the best version of yourself is a life changing question that has the power to literally transform your life experience. I am therefore delighted to be welcoming someone who came very highly recommended as an authority on the subject: Ceil Stanford describes herself as a coach, leader, business owner, entrepreneur, investor, mom and nana. Ceil is a leader who teaches applicable and revolutionary processes for personal and professional development, helping others to develop their “i...

Are you a man experiencing challenges? Well I guess to some extent that is most of us males from time to time! My guest Mark Sephton in his soon to be released third book ‘Mark of a Man’ provides a blue print to help men navigate challenges such as divorce, mental health issues and life’s downs. A mentor to entrepreneurs his mission to help others has seen him break into global markets while working with startups and millionaire entrepreneurs around the world. Mark’s love for entrepreneurship ha...

How do you play the game of business in the right way and win? My guest Arnon Barnes is a master entrepreneurial coach and peak performance trainer. He has developed signature mentoring programs that help both aspiring entrepreneurs as well as established and seasoned ones build insanely successful businesses and become even more successful in both business and life. Arnon is a Serial Entrepreneur, Peak Performance Trainer, International Speaker and one of Europe’s Leading and most Exciting Busi...

Recently, I had the most fascinating conversation with my guest Jennifer Jordan who opened my eyes as to why data is so important when it comes to improving the world from trust and transparency to Artificial Intelligence. Jennifer, helps entrepreneurs and investors build valuable enterprises. She cold called asset managers and launched the first internet coverage at a Pacific Northwest investment bank, managed investor relations for a publicly traded software company, and invested in early-stag...

If you are honest with yourself, are you truly making your money work for you? Marcus de Maria is a very well-respected wealth educator, trader, investor and entrepreneur who transformed his £100,000 debt in to financial freedom using a proven formula for financial wealth. Marcus’s passion is helping others around the world to achieve financial independence for themselves and their families so that no one has to live a life worrying about money. Marcus has been trading & investing for over 21 ye...

How do you build a loyal tribe around your business who are connected and inspired by you, your ideas and each other? This week’s guest, Adam Strong, is a corporate productivity authority, entrepreneur, athlete, coach, speaker and trainer. He has been featured on the BBC, The Guardian, People Management, HR Grapevine and Global Woman magazines, and runs his own very successful podcast ‘The Game Changers’. Adam creates and implements bespoke productivity enhancement programmes for businesses that...

What must you change in these uncertain times to change your future? Do you have a methodology to enable you do it? Jessica Richards C.hyp MNCH (Acc) was fascinating in our first interview in 2020 so I invited her back to share her acclaimed methodology for personal transformation in more depth. Jessica has been a Clinical Hypnotherapist since 1985 and specialises in Personal Transformation and Corporate Leadership Development using her unique and highly effective ‘Changing the Groundhog Day’ pr...

Are you wise to how gender equality and diversity will enhance your business interests and create a better world? Jennifer Justice is an entertainment and live-experience executive known for building artists’ careers and businesses by marrying art with commerce. Whilst at Roc Nation, she was Jay-Z’s personal entertainment attorney for 17 years as well as Beyonce’s for a year. In 2019, JJ founded The Justice Dept. – a management, strategy and legal firm working with female (and woke male) entrepr...

After a year that has seen many of us change the way we work, it has never been so valuable to elevate your skills in effective online networking and presentations! But trying to do so through a computer screen can feel overwhelming for some and down right uncomfortable for others. Where can we step up and how far can we take it?! For the last 20 years, Will Kintish has shown thousands in the business, professional and financial communities how to become more effective and confident networkers. ...

You would probably agree that as a human being you belong to the most intelligent and dominant species on our planet. Yet as a consequence of our behaviour massive global problems of our own making exist. To solve them we need more than intelligence - we need ‘WISDOM’. Judy Robinett is one of the wisest souls I know and the perfect guest to explore this subject with. Judy has helped entrepreneurs find needed capital connecting them with venture capitalists, angel investors, family offices, and o...

On this celebration show, Chris Cooper will reflect and share insights from over 400 Business Elevation interviews to date. This will be with the help of special guest host, Dr. Karen Y. Wilson-Starks the President and CEO of TRANSLEADERSHIP, INC. Dr Karen has more than 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor and partners with her clients to select and retain the best people, create high performance teams, and develop cultures that get rapid innovative results. She is the 2021 recipient of t...

How do you grow your business and maintain the energy needed to keep moving forward even when the going is tough? Roger Masterson is a serial entrepreneur with a big reputation for helping business owners to think differently. A disruptive thinker, he is the founder of Celtic Castles, the award-winning online castle-booking company, based in Yorkshire, England. Known affectionately as the ‘Castle Man’, there is nobody in the world who knows more about staying in castles than Roger! In October 20...

Are you the face of your own business or expected to be an ambassador for the organization you work or your profession in your work? If so, how you come across to others can make the difference between success or failure. I first met Alex Owen-Hill in Edinburgh whilst attending my first Robbie Burns night (a famous annual Scottish tradition). Alex was master of ceremonies and although he describes himself as an introvert he completely lit up the room. I decided there was something special about ...

Living through such turbulent times it is easy to appreciate why business professionals could find themselves in situations of disagreement. The risk though is that it is often easy to view conflict as an energy drain and the natural reaction is often to avoid it and store up potentially complicated legal issues for the future. Glenn F. Meier brings significant experience as a trial attorney, litigator and dispute resolver into helping people discover agreements out of disagreement. As a busines...

Who is acquiring vast ownership in financial markets today and why is this causing a major shift in global economic power and competition? Recently I had the privilege to talk to Winston Ma about his extensive experience whilst gaining a sense of how sovereign funds are literally reshaping investment in the digital economy. Winston is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. From my experience a highly accomplished and engaging thought leader with the t...

What is personal and business purpose, why are they so important and how do you discover your own? During this show my guest Steve Morris and I will discuss these important elements which can provide the fuel for enormous personal and business success. As both Steve and I have individually helped hundreds of business people to define their purposes we will both share our insights. Steve is a highly successful brand and culture advisor, multiple author, and speaker. His latest book The Beautiful ...

With monumental shifts in what we see as ‘normal life’ how do you elevate your thinking and thrive in 2021? In 2004, working scientist and professional physicist Tom Campbell predicted that if the planet suffers much more damage then mother nature would get even! As business and the world faces huge challenges Tom’s extensive wisdom and trilogy ‘My Big TOE (My Big picture Theory Of Everything)’ are providing highly acclaimed insight and solutions. Tom spent 10 years as a senior analyst in milita...

Are you wanting to make a difference in today’s vast sea of confusion? Do you want to live a life of meaning, with greater resilience, and with joy? Dr Ginny Whitelaw, a Zen Master and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership, sharing with you how you can master the principles of resonance to live your most significant life. A biophysicist by training, she combines a rich scientific background with senior leadership experience at NASA, and more than 25 years developing global leaders. At NASA...

According to Daniel Wood there are 25 ways to raise capital for your business projects or financial investments. So what are they and when is it sensible to borrow funds? Daniel started out as a property investor, investing from his home country in Sweden into the United Kingdom. Over time he and his wife Gisela were able to build a property portfolio that allowed them to leave their jobs. Since they have gone on to found the Swedish Wealth Institute and Momentum Property Education where they su...

How do you access your own Everyday Peace to empower you, to not only feel calm and whole during today’s unsettled times, but also to create the life you’ve always dreamed of? My guest Dr. Dravon James is the founder of Everyday Peace. An author & motivational speaker, Dravon’s goal is to educate, empower & inspire others to build the life of their dreams no matter what shows up in their lives- good, bad, or otherwise. Her journey began in poverty on the South Side of Chicago through to becoming...

We are living in a momentous period of history with great divides in ideology, high anxiety and isolation as our homes, families, networks, and livelihoods are disrupted by the global pandemic. There is a need for positive leadership to end prejudice, rebuild economics and personal and planetary wellbeing, creating unification and utilising technology and wisdom to resolve the many issues we face. Rarely in most of our lifetimes has there been a greater need for positive high integrity leadershi...

During this interview we will discuss why you must design your marketing like a bucket and how to turn high quality leads generated into high quality business. Barnaby Wynter has spent his whole career dedicated to making sense of how marketing impacts your business. He founded The Brand Bucket Company in 2010 to extend his impact on corporates to start-ups. Having owned a Top 200 integrated London advertising agency for 10 years, Barnaby led a team to develop a foundation system for marketing y...