Episodes

How is it that some leaders are able to enter a marketplace and completely disrupt it? Take my soccer team Leicester City: last year bottom of the premier league and fighting for survival. 12 months later with great lead-ership, they might do the unthinkable and actually win it! The story of their star striker now attracting the atten-tion of Hollywood movie producers! According to my guest Terence Mauri, it’s time to rip up the rulebook on leadership. The future belongs to a mindset that is wir...

The rate of change we see in the world today is unprecedented: New innovations, products and services fade to irrelevance more quickly than ever before.

Sustainability is such an important part of the business agenda today. It is no good to just being giving the impression that you are doing good. People today look to trade and work for organizations with integrity. As we care about the environment and business ‘doing good’ on this show I am really keen we explore it further and unravel what it really means. About a year ago, I saw the Sustainability Coach, Anthony Day articulate the is-sues and opportunities really well. Antony speaks about sus...

Want to achieve greater results in your business and personal life? Then you need ‘The Power To Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not).” I am delighted to welcome co-author, friend and leading follow through authority, Dr Steve Levinson. This interview, which builds on Nikki Owen’s 1st Jan 2016 interview of Chris Cooper (available in the archive), will tell the story of how two consult-ants 4,000 miles apart, collaborated over five years to create “The Power To Get Things Done (Whethe...

Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you’d rather not do. With many small businesses failing in their first few years, failure to do some of these things may even lead to the failure of your business. During this show host Chris Cooper interviewed by International and award winning speaker on charisma Nikki Owen will talk about the ...

How do you keep your Top Talent? According to Dov Baron, finding and keeping extraordinary talent will determine which organizations thrive and which fade. Don’t believe it? Then consider that the average company spends 1.5 to 2 x the annual salary of an employee in training and development. Meanwhile, the average employee is only looking at a 2.5 year tenure before walking off and leveraging the training into a better position with your competitor. During this show, we will discuss strategies f...

The best organizations make decisions and move forward. They are not constrained by negativity, naysayers, change blockers, or “perfectionitis.” According to my guest, Steven Gaffney, they move through their change plans with velocity, achieve goals and reap the benefits. In doing so, they generate a positive news cycle that helps to power their change implementation. Steven Gaffney of the Steven Gaffney Company is the Author of five books. He is a Certified Speaking Professional™ and highly res...

What do smart leaders know about diversity that sets them apart? Why is it that diversity and inclusion are such hot topics today? During this show I will be talking to Dr Suzanne Doyle Morris the CEO and founder of the InclusIQ Institute which creates playful yet thought provoking tools for inclusive leadership and reducing unconscious bias. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she focused on the experiences of women working in male-dominated fields. She is author of “Be...

Employee engagement is one of the hot topics of business performance improvement today. In an international survey country employee engagement levels were between 8% to 29% of the average workforce with the remainder ‘disengaged’ or ‘actively disengaged’. When every indicator suggesting that exceptional performance gains occur with an engaged workforce, why is this so difficult to achieve? My guest John Jennings has over 34 years of operational and executive board-level experience in both the pu...

Does your thinking ever get in the way of your progress? Join us for a very inspirational interview with Tony Burgess, who was first introduced to me as ‘The Pink Bucket Thinking Expert and thoroughly nice guy who has helped many people to transform their lives’. When I read several years later that Tony’s selflessness had ex-tended to donating one of his own kidneys to help someone he did not even know, I knew I had to invite him to guest on the show. Tony Burgess is a Director of the Academy o...

With so many charities and concerns to support today, how do you best determine your strategy for giving? How do you ensure that your giving transforms those issues that really matter to you, leaving you with a wonderful feeling about the legacy you are delivering? Rather than a drip feed of transactions with unclear impact. Kris Putnam-Walkerly is a nationally recognized philanthropy advisor and president of Putnam Consulting Group, Inc. Since 1999 she’s helped over 50 foundations and philanthr...

How would you like to develop your thinking so that your performance stands out from the crowd? If you would, then you need to listen to this show. I first met my guest Andy Gilbert 8 years ago and to be honest was in awe at the sharpness of his intellect. I still remember that meeting very clearly. Turns out he had created a Results Focused Thinking System which is now used globally by hundreds of thousands of people. As Founding Director of ThinkOn Global, Andy has been the driving force behin...

The Ritz-Carlton is acknowledged worldwide for its extraordinary customer service. The company’s culture of service excellence also extends to the work environment and, as importantly, beyond the boundaries of the workplace into the community. From 2001, my guest Sue Stephenson was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources and, in 2007, assumed leadership of The Ritz-Carlton social responsibility program, Community Footprints. Reporting to the company’s President and COO, she is expanding the...

During this show we will be talking about F.A.S.T, a revolutionary approach to leadership that simplifies what we need to do to be successful. This approach has been used to turnaround failing projects, under-performing departments, money losing companies and help leaders to accelerate growth and profitability. Join me with my guest Gordon Tredgold who is heralded in Inc. Magazine as one of the top 100 Leadership and Management Experts and Speakers, #2 on the Top 15 Must Read Leadership Blogs an...

In a world of hyper competition, unprecedented challenges and constant disruption the need for innovation has never been higher on the strategic agenda. But the majority of CEOs are dissatisfied with their innovation capability and performance. So, how do you turn rhetoric into innovation-led action and behaviour? How do you build a culture of innovation? My guests are Cris Beswick and Jo Geraghty. Cris is Founder & CEO at niche innovation consultancy The Future Shapers and has coached, advised ...

So you have the desire to write a book? Or perhaps you have written before and want to do an even better job next time around? But how do you best write a book? How do you then get your hard work published? And how do you elevate your business by reaching the audience who might want to buy it? Welcome to the complex and mysterious world of books. As someone who has been on this journey and is still learning, I thought it was time we explored this important way to elevate your work on the show. I...

I recently had the privilege of sitting in a large packed room of delegates at one of Gavin Preston’s ‘Strategies for Growth’ seminars in Whitehall in the very heart of London. Two things struck me. Firstly, how appropriate a location - Gavin was able to get to the very heart of the challenges that most businesses face and provide insightful wisdom that like nearby ‘Big Ben’ was striking a big chord with the audience. Secondly, what a great initiative by the HSBC bank to invest in bringing a lea...

How do you become a really engaging leader or manager? Today, most leaders appreciate the importance of 'Employee Engagement' to productivity. Yet often don’t consider how engaging they are personally. When 35% of people would forgo a major pay rise to see their boss fired, then perhaps they should! Chris Cooper will share wisdom and memorable stories about increasing your personal engagement drawn from extensive experience and research with highly engaging international business experts, high a...

During this show, we will be discussing a no-nonsense methodology for negotiating deals, managing your time and handling crisis, all at the highest level. My guest is Jeff B Cohen one of the entertainment industry’s most beloved success stories, prominent transac-tional attorney and former child actor (he played Chunk in the Richard Donner/Steven Spielberg movie 'The Goonies'). During the interview we will be discussing the lessons from his book ‘The Dealmaker’s Ten Commandments: Ten Essential T...

There is one thing in life that is just inevitable, we are all going to die. However, the thought of your death and the legacy you wish to leave behind can be a hugely motivating driver for business and life success.

How do you transform your dreams into reality, irrespective of where you come from? My guest Patty Aubery will tell you that permission is granted! During this show we will discuss some key principles of building a very successful life and career from someone who has done just that. Patty went from PA to being President of The Canfield Training Group. She has overseen day-to-day operations alongside Jack Canfield for over 24 years. During that time she published over 200 titles, became a New Yor...

Ever wondered what life must be like establishing and leading your own charity? My guest Will Travers OBE is an internationally renowned wildlife expert who has dedicated his life to wildlife issues, since he lived in Kenya while his parents, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, made the film Born Free (1966). In 1984, he co-founded the wildlife charity now known as The Born Free Foundation, which works to stop individual wild animal suffering and protect threatened species worldwide. Will is Pres...

Why is it that some organizations like the US Marine Corps can gain consistently strong results in highly complex operations with a highly diverse work force. During this show we are going to explore lessons from military high level strategic leadership and people engagement which can translate directly relate to enhancing performance in the business world. My guest John Boggs is a retired Marine Corps Officer whose wisdom and insight from many years of senior military operations service is toda...

A new generation of business leaders is turning to mindfulness as a cutting-edge leadership tool and research suggests that such a practice can help us gain clarity, reduce stress, optimize performance, and develop a greater sense of well-being. I am delighted to welcome back Michael Carroll the author of Awake at Work, The Mindful Leader and Fearless at Work to the show. Over his 30 year business career he has held several corporate executive positions and as the COO of Global Coaching Alliance...