Today´s episode is a bit different; it is a recording of an uncut episode that David did with Christine Mullaney, the host of the Connected Communication podcast. She is an expert in communicating across different cultures, languages, and backgrounds. Being able to adapt how you share your message to suit your audience and successfully absorb what others tell you are essential communication skills for leaders. The discussion David and Christine have in this episode will equip you to do just that...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, which is the 29th in David´s CALM leadership series he looks at the 7 qualities you need to be an inspirational leader. He explains how to develop yourself and others so that you can all reach your full potential. He looks at why listening to others is a powerful leadership tool. Leading by example, sticking to your values, the difference between management and leadership and more. Being an inspirational leader is highkly fulfilling and will give you a considerable competitive e...
Mar 22, 2024•21 min
For this episode, David is joined by Everett O'Keefe, a best-selling author who is the CEO of Ignite Press. Everett speaks about how he helps people to carry their message into the world, by authoring books. He explains why books are still the most powerful way to reach and touch others in a way that motivates them to act. Everett explains how someone who has never authored a book before can quickly do so. KEY TAKEAWAYS For centuries books have been connecting people and they are still an incred...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 1 min
This is the 28th episode in David´s CALM leadership series. For this episode, David looks at why the world desperately needs good leaders. People with purpose make a difference and how we navigate our way through this life matters. How we lead ourselves and others through this life is vitally important to the impact that we can have, so becoming good leaders is vital. KEY TAKEAWAYS Without good leadership people are lost, they do not know what to do next and waste their time and energy. Right no...
Mar 15, 2024•23 min
For this episode, David is joined by Hannah Bellamy, the MD of Charity: Water UK, whose mission is to bring clean water to the 703 million people living without it. Hannah explains how they tailor their solution to each community, and then monitor and maintain it to ensure the long-term availability of clean water. Hannah explains how using diverse funding approaches enables them to ensure that 100% of what members of the public donate is spent on installing water infrastructure. She also talks ...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr
In this episode, David continues his CALM leadership series by looking at the six styles of leadership and how each type of leader shows up and leads their teams. He explains the pros and cons of each approach, how to assess which one you are, and which styles work best for which situations. KEY TAKEAWAYS How you show up, makes a huge difference to how effective you are. A positive and strong working culture comes from people who lead by example. In most cases those who have affiliative, democra...
Mar 08, 2024•15 min
For this episode, David is joined by Dre Baldwin. He is a former pro athlete, prolific author, founder of Work on Your Game Inc., and 4-time TEDx speaker who runs a daily masterclass with millions of listeners. Dre teaches people how to master their “Game” in business, sport, and life. Doing so by developing a bulletproof mindset and learning how to deploy strategies and use tactics that enable you to adapt and be effective in a rapidly changing world. KEY TAKEAWAYS Most people know exactly how ...
Mar 06, 2024•59 min
For this episode, David looks at how to lead with presence even when you are not physically there. Working to achieve this builds strong team members who feel empowered to get on with things, which makes growth much easier. David shares seven things you can do to reach that point. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you get leading with presence right you do not have to be physically present for your team to follow your lead and get the job done. It takes time to reach the point where your team can operate effec...
Mar 01, 2024•18 min
For this episode, David is joined by Chuck Rinker the owner and CEO of PRSONAS™ by nuMedia. He is programming humanity into artificial intelligence, with a focus on the healthcare industry, which is close to Chuck's heart. They discuss the role AI has actually been playing in our lives for decades and how it will be used in the future. Chuck explains how PRSONAS™ is teaching technology to communicate effectively with humans. Doing so in a way that breaks through barriers that stop us from advanc...
Feb 28, 2024•59 min
In this leadership episode, David looks at leading with your presence, being authentic, confident, and communicating well. All of this combined works to turn you into someone that others automatically trust and see as someone they can confidently follow. Present people with purpose really do change the world. David talks you through the three pillars of presence and explains how you can actively develop each of these essential qualities. KEY TAKEAWAYS Presence is a bend of confidence, authentici...
Feb 23, 2024•20 min
For this episode, Carol Sanford again joins David. She has played a significant role in transforming hundreds of individuals, organisations, companies, and society as a whole. She challenges the idea that most people need to be told precisely how to live and accomplish tasks. A damaging belief that has led to a society that does not enable people to think for themselves. Carol explains how each of us can break that negative cycle, retake control, and lead ourselves and society to a better life a...
Feb 21, 2024•54 min
For this episode, David talks about leading with SPIRIT, a way of ensuring that you are preparing yourself to lead effectively and sustainably. The S in spirit stands for self-leadership, which David has covered in the last few CALM episodes. This time he talks about the P – Presence, how you show up and the energy that you bring and making sure that you are focusing and being present. David shares several exercises and techniques you can use to do this. KEY TAKEAWAYS Those who are present have ...
Feb 16, 2024•27 min
For this episode, David is joined by Fares Hatoum who is known as The Property Optician. He's an investor and business leader who also helps other investors to uncover better deals and generate better returns. Fares is applying what he learned from Tony Robbins about taking massive action while helping others to shorten their entrepreneurial journey to success. KEY TAKEAWAYS Invest in yourself. Keep learning and share what you learn. Be the candle to light up the candles around you. Serving othe...
Feb 14, 2024•56 min
This is the 4th episode in David´s self-leadership series that looks at how to lead yourself effectively so that you can lead others well. He has already covered managing your thoughts, tapping into your intuition, and understanding your values. This week´s episode is all about the 4th pillar of self-leadership – your vision of your future self. Understanding who you want to be and the impact you want to have. He shares a simple technique that anyone can use to identify what that is and then use...
Feb 09, 2024•16 min
For this episode, David is joined by his longtime personal friend, educator and golf coach, Marc Radford. He was diagnosed with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) in the 90s. Marc explains what it was like growing up with ASD, which at the time was not very well understood and shares the impact it has had during adulthood. Including what teaching in a modern UK school is like, why he left teaching for a period and what it has been like working in retail and for the Royal Mail. Marc also explains how...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr
In this episode, which is the 22nd in David´s CALM series. It is all about the role your values play in your ability to lead yourself, which in turn has a significant impact on your ability to lead others. He explains how to identify yours and the way the order in which you rank your values impacts the way you act and your direction of travel through life. David shares a really simple way to identify your values, and what matters to you most. Then, use them to reset your compass so that you alig...
Feb 02, 2024•21 min
For this episode, David is joined by Marc Champ who is the Managing Director of WHARF Financial. He helps property investors and developers secure the capital they need to create magic so people can live and work with joy and freedom. While enabling these investors and developers to improve their own lives too. There are many ways to borrow or save the money you need to become a property investor. You can get started with a fairly small amount of money. Marc explains how, the broker's role and m...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Today, David follows up on the episode about examining your thoughts, understanding them, and learning how to flip those that do not serve you. Today, he explains how doing this enables you to be able to trust your intuition. When you can do that, it becomes far easier to recognize the right path, follow it and lead others down it. To be able to tap into the power of intuition, you need to understand the connection and differences between thoughts, emotions, imagination, creativity, ego and your...
Jan 26, 2024•15 min
For this episode, David is joined by Gareth Evans, who is the CEO and founder of VECKTA, an organization that helps businesses make the transition to a more sustainable way of operating without sacrificing their bottom line. Gareth explains how he helps companies to work out which energy efficiency and environmentally friendly options are available and practical for them. Once the business decides which option is right, VECKTA use their expertise to help them with implementation. He and David di...
Jan 24, 2024•52 min
In this episode, which is part 20 of David´s CALM leadership series, he talks about managing your thoughts, an incredibly important part of leading yourself successfully. If you cannot lead yourself, it will never be possible to lead others effectively. David shares 4 simple steps you can take to control your thoughts, which create your feelings and emotions that play into the decisions you make, and the actions you take. Controlling your thoughts is the key to everything, so this is a particula...
Jan 19, 2024•21 min
For this episode, David is joined by Helen Pollock. She helps people share their stories via books. Helen works with both men and women, but Her Next Chapter venture focuses on helping successful women overcome their lack of confidence and the bias they face to share their stories. Helen and David discuss how the way society treats women holds them back. She also talks about living with an abusive partner. Explaining why it took her a long time to realise she was an abuse victim and how she fina...
Jan 17, 2024•57 min
This is the 19th episode in David´s leadership series. In it, he shares his SPIRIT approach, which provides you with a framework to turn yourself into a stronger and more effective leader. SPIRIT stands for Self-management, Presence, Inspiring others, Relationships, and Influence. This episode provides an overview of the system but also contains some examples of how to improve these important aspects of leadership. KEY TAKEAWAYS Leadership is important whether you lead a team or are on your own ...
Jan 12, 2024•18 min
For this episode, David is joined by Yemado, North America´s foremost teacher of Boabom, which is a Tibetan system of meditation and martial art. Yemado has been practising it for almost 25 years. He has just launched an app called Your Boabom Journey to enable people across the world to learn this powerful art without having to attend physical classes. Yemado explains how Boabom simultaneously enables you to exercise, breathe better, meditate, and build mental and emotional resilience. Boabom e...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 8 min
In this episode, David speaks about how to supercharge your SMART goals and to do so even if you are someone who hates setting goals or someone who does set them but regularly misses the mark. There is something for everyone in this transformational episode. Set smart goals to make a difference in your life and to make a difference to the people around you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Setting goals might sound like a chore to you, but it is worth doing. Lots of people find setting goals and achieving them dif...
Jan 05, 2024•18 min
How’s joined by Sharekh Shaikh who is the founder of Clever X, which is a platform that helps research teams access a network of expertise and build a community that enables them to grow their businesses. This enables companies to conduct instant research, which is a great way to understand what potential clients really think and want. Sharekh Shaikh shares how the Clever X self-service platform works, including customisation. He also shares the details of his entrepreneurial journey. KEY TAKEAW...
Jan 03, 2024•57 min
In this episode, David rows back to take a timely re-look at a self-care episode he recorded last year. Sharing how you can reset to just create a better you, at the start of the year. The process he shares consists of 5 deceptively simple things anyone can do to greatly improve their well-being and performance. In the 2nd part of this episode, he walks you through making a life plan. An essential step everyone needs to take to be able to reset their life. KEY TAKEAWAYS Taking care of yourself i...
Dec 29, 2023•36 min
For this episode, David is joined by Jules Turner, a coach who helps people, in particular senior managers, to turn redundancy into their greatest opportunity by landing their perfect next role. They discuss how to be ready for redundancy, which happens to most people at some stage so that they are prepared for that situation. Being familiar with how the redundancy process works and having a plan in place is the best way to turn being made redundant into a massive opportunity. KEY TAKEAWAYS Redu...
Dec 27, 2023•51 min
In this episode, David talks about using “the wheel of life” process to lead yourself properly, so that you are in a strong position to lead others. When you understand what your priorities are, and which areas need improving you become more focused and effective in all areas of your life, including leadership. KEY TAKEAWAYS If you want to lead others at work, in your family life or in other circumstances, you first need to lead yourself effectively. The wheel of life enables you to focus on wha...
Dec 22, 2023•22 min
In this episode, David is joined by Philip Holt, who has over 30 years of experience in working with industry giants such as GKN Aerospace, Phillips, Gillette, and Travelport. He has built a reputation for being a global expert in Lean thinking, but also in lean doing and in lean being. Leading Lean by Living Lean, which is also the title of his new book Philip explains how to use Lean tools to improve the workplace and the chances of success. He does this by sharing several real-world examples....
Dec 20, 2023•57 min
This is the 18th episode in David’s CALM leadership series. In this episode, he shares 4 ways to transform your team members into new leaders. Enabling you to develop people who are capable of leading their colleagues. Then, at a later date, taking the baton from you and continuing to drive your organization forward. David explains why doing this is essential for success and shares 4 steps any leader can use to identify and develop those with the potential and will to lead. KEY TAKEAWAYS People ...
Dec 15, 2023•20 min
