Colin is a curator of thought-leadership events that help you develop teams, leads, relationships and ideas. With a background in the finance industry, having started his career at Deutsche Bank, then Barclays, Standard Bank, and 5 years as the MD at ABSA Group. And for the last 6 years the founder of his own business. Innovation Catalysts. Colin values education and meaningful conversations, a past deputy chair at university of cape town, he enjoys sharing ideas on leadership, innovation and st...
Aug 08, 2023•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast The World's #1 Negotiation Coach, Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author "Never Split The Difference" - which has sold over 1 million copies. Chris spent over 24 years in the FBI with 4 years as the chief international hostage and kidnapping negotiator. After working on more than 150 international hostage cases, he retired from the FBI and founded The Black Swan Group. A consultancy and trainer for businesses and individuals on negotiation skills He created and narrated a MasterClass...
Aug 04, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alisa Cohn is an Executive Coach; Angel investor, author and podcast host who has worked with C-suite executives at prominent startups (such as Venmo, Etsy, Draft Kings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch) and Fortune 500 companies (including Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein and Hitachi.) She is the author of the 2022 Independent Press Award-winning book From Start-up to Grown-up and podcast host of the same name, which provides insights and tools for the journey found...
Jun 19, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Laura went from being a lawyer to Head of Operations and Consultancy at GS Fast Growth who provide Unbeatable Fast Growth Programmes For Company Leaders Who Mean Business No BS, No Gimmicks, No False Promises, Just Great Results! If The Business Leader Is Wonky, So Will Be Their Business! Business leaders who successfully achieve growth in their businesses dont just work harder they achieve this because the way they think, act, and operate is fundamentally different from an average business. If ...
Jun 13, 2023•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jason spent 20 years as a reporter and editor, with stints at Men's health, Fast Company, Maxim and for the last 7 and a half years Jason has held the role of Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine. Author of "Build for Tomorrow". An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career. It is an action plan detailing how to navigate the four phases of change: Panic, Adaptation, New Normal, and Wouldn't Go Back Jason wants to help us reach our &qu...
May 30, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah Ratekin is Business owner and Chief Happiness Officer at Happiness Is Courage Inc. An Employee Experience Champion. She is in her happy place when making the complex simple. Especially in Belonging, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity - driving Workplace Transformation and a sort after Keynote Speaker and Author. Sarah is truly passionate about employee experience across all levels of an organization. She loves building sustainably nurturing environments where people feel valued, respected, and t...
May 16, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Currently, Ton-Quinlivan is the CEO of Futuro Health, whose nonprofit mission is to improve the health and wealth of communities by growing the largest network of credentialed allied healthcare workers in the nation. In 2013, she was named a White House Champion of Change under the Obama administration in recognition of her notable career in industry, education, and service as a community leader. Ross and Van talk about government, workforce, money challenges, data, management, creativity, strat...
May 02, 2023•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast John Sanei is not only revolutionising the way we approach the future, but he is also equipping us with the courage and determination needed to bring about lasting change. Globally renowned keynote speaker, futures strategist, 5-time bestselling author, Singularity University and Duke CE faculty member, Associate Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, Chief of Tomorrow Board Member, and podcaster at The Expansive Book - Who do we become - self evolution With a unique blend of ne...
Apr 25, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Peter is an experienced HR executive. Defining the Future of Organizations. As a People Operations and change management Expert, Peter is a sought after international keynote speaker. He has spent 25 years at the FBI. 4 years as Head of Talent Acquisition - Managing the national recruitment and hiring strategy for the FBI's special agent, intelligence analyst and professional staff employees. Created new comms/leadership strategies facilitating high performance and accountability in a remot...
Apr 18, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Patricia Bender is President of Bayley & Bender. Starting her career in fashion and marketing, Pat then spent a decade at IBM as a high performing sales and regional manage. In her first year with IBM, she achieved Rookie of the Year by selling 140% of quota and went on to claim top performance awards for the next ten years - a rare accomplishment. For four consecutive years, Pat was in the top 2% in performance at IBM and was honored with four Golden Circle Awards. Her final year at IBM, Pa...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve is a best selling author and one of the foremost thought leaders in the world of people and talent. Retained by leaders, investors, organisations and governments around the world who seek to create a better future of work. Steve is author of 'Workquake' - Embracing the aftershocks of covid 19 to create a better model of working. Steve sits on the board of many fast growth HRtech and talent companies. And back in 2009 he was Linkedin's first CHRO, where he led the company&apo...
Mar 28, 2023•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tugba Yanaz is the founder of LEAD + VISION, a vision-based Leadership Coaching and Consulting firm. Tugba is a PCC-certified Leadership Development Coach by the International Coaching Federation and a former Fortune500-Executive. Her vision-based coaching approach helps executives and emerging leaders overcome limiting beliefs and build inner confidence and a future vision that fuels leaders every day with passion and purpose. Building from almost 2 decades at Flex, a manufacturing and supply c...
Mar 21, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Donna is CEO, Founder at "No Ceiling, Just Sky Institute. She is a Global Speaker, TED Fellows Coach, Author & Organizational Accelerator. Starting her career as a Coach to Long Term Care Patients & Families of Terminally Ill Cancer Kids in the 80's and 90's. Donna is the creator of the Shadow Coaching methodology and has taught it around the world. Ross and Donna talk about rare conditions, experimental surgery, dealing with patients, paralysis, coaching, studying, fear, ...
Feb 28, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Emily is the Founder & CEO of Emily Harman Coaching and Consulting. Podcast host, and the U.S. Government Account Director for Positive Intelligence. Her career started with 34 years in the Navy, including 10 years in Naval Air Systems command, as Director at the office of small business programs. She helps employees build mental fitness so they can fulfil their true potential for happiness and contribution to mission success. Ross and Emily talk about The Navy, service, putting yourself fir...
Feb 21, 2023•52 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Zach is a coach, facilitator, and a sort after Keynote Speaker. He is an award-winning leadership and talent development expert. With 15 years of experience in start-ups, Fortune 500, and global private companies there are few leadership challenges he hasnt faced. Holding senior roles across well known brands like; Bloomberg, and Bloomingdales. Having lived in Singapore, spent a decade in New York, and from his humble roots of Salt Lake City, Zach brings a global approach with a localized sensib...
Feb 07, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joel Monk is a leadership coach, educator, facilitator and entrepreneur. Back in 2009, He co-founded Coaches Rising, a company on the cutting edge of online coach training with a community of nearly 50,000 coaches. Coaches Rising programs regularly include participants from every continent on the planet and they have collaborated with some of the leading minds in the field of human development and coaching. I personally loved the 'Neuro Science of Change' a 14 week program I took part ...
Jan 31, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is ranked the #1 Top Global Thought Leader and Influencer on Entrepreneurship. He is the Father of Soft Leadership and the Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, in India He is an International Leadership Guru with forty years experience as an exec coach. A prolific author, amassing fifty books including the award-winning See the Light in You An inspiring book in which the Holiness Dalai Lama wrote the foreword This book, Enlightens readers to lead every moment of their...
Dec 13, 2022•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pratik is founder of several tech companies inc Webzoly a customer support, sales and marketing agency, & Testlify, a talent assessment platform. Pratik received the Indian Achievers' Award in 2021, now living in Israel, he is Israels #1 LinkedIn Influencer, a TEDx Speaker, and was featured in the Times 40 Under 40 and has 193,725+ Followers on LinkedIn. "Now I help Israeli tech companies grow in India and Asia-Pacific (APAC) by providing the local team, capital and drive the marke...
Dec 06, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris is a Writer and Keynote Speaker, in Project Management, Time Management, and Negotiation Skills Chris thinks and writes about management - he makes on-line videos, speaks at conferences, and runs management training courses in Project Management, Time Management, sorting out problem teams, being a good boss, Negotiating, Happiness, and Presentation skills He has over thirty-five courses on LinkedIn Learning (his Negotiating course has had over half a million learners) Ross and Chris talk a...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Catherine is a Non Executive Director (NED), Board Advisor, Executive Coach, Global CHRO and currently the MD People Perception Ltd (for the last 5 years) Catherine describes herself as in the portfolio stage of her career blending Non Executive Director roles, consultancy and coaching. As a Chief People Officer worked at board level on organisation transformation and people strategy. With board level experience within Plc, Private Equity, Public Sector and Charity sectors. Catherine also has a ...
Nov 22, 2022•47 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast Vaclav has been with T-Systems for over 8 years. T-Systems has around 28,000 employees worldwide and is one of the leading providers of digital services. It is a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary is headquartered in Germany. Vaclav holds a Masters in Psychology, is HR Enthusiast and Innovator; a Keynote Speaker; Author, and a SHRM Senior Certified Professional Over the last 2 decades Vaclav has held positions at Skoda, Interoute, and served as a university lecturer Teaching "Personnel Management&...
Nov 15, 2022•44 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast Suzie is Managing Director at Transform for Value, Podcast host of "Let's talk Transformation" podcasts and an Executive coach. Susie spent almost two decades at Airbus - holding various senior roles, from digital transformation, Head of leadership learning, and head of diversity & inclusion. Suzie describes her quest is to constantly bridge the gap between digital and human and create more inclusive and collaborative cultures in organisations. Suzie and Ross talk about coachi...
Nov 08, 2022•53 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast Stacey is a highly experienced leader who has helped build high-growth tech companies by converging a data-driven and heart-led approach to people operations. Working in talent for some of the biggest and fastest growing tech companies on the planet, like google, logicmonitor and Toast. At Toast - Stacey Led the Go-to-Market hiring function for this global software company in hyper-growth; responsible for hiring over 3,000 people per year. Built out several new people analytics dashboards in ord...
Nov 01, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast As keynote speaker, Anita shares insights and perspectives about the future of work and pay, including the changes that web3 and the metaverse will bring. "I am the founder of HRTechRadar , where I support HR Leaders and investors in evaluating the latest solutions. And I help emerging HR Tech companies reach their full potential". Ross and Anita talk about innovation, influencing, HR, leadership, insights, emerging trends, publishing a book, payrolls, asking the right questions, advic...
Oct 25, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alan is Global Head of Organizational Effectiveness at S&P Global, a public company employing over 35,000 people - Who Accelerate Progress in the world by delivering Essential Intelligence that's critical for decision-making. Alan is an experienced talent and organization strategist who is focused on building collaborative #peoplefirst strategies Prior to S&P Alan built his career in various HR leadership roles, inc almost 10 years at Fannie Mae. With a degree in communications and ...
Oct 18, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Easley is an Author, Executive Coach, former CEO and soon to be Therapist He spent almost 22 years as CEO at Powder River Energy Corporation. Prior to joining PRECorp, Mike had worked for various other electric cooperatives in the USA. Mikes most recent book is The No-s of Leadership. The No-s introduces a new model of leadership built around empathy and self-awareness and inspires the reader to begin a journey towards being a Leader Worth Following. Ross and Michael talk about his book,...
Oct 11, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Navid helps executives de-risk & accelerate their career transition. Author of the international bestseller Mastering Executive Transitions, a global keynote speaker, and HRs Most Influential Practitioner in 2022. He has spent time as a University Lecturer, and has held multiple senior HR roles in FTSE 500 companies like adidas, GE, BAT and most recently as Group Head of HR at vodafone - London So, having spent 26 years in blue chip multi national companies, Navid considers himself to be inc...
Oct 04, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Richard started as in intern in Gillette, followed by a couple of years in HR at a media and marketing company, before joining Shawmut almost 16 years ago, Shawmut is a $1.3B Design and Construction firm, which is 100% employee owned - by over 1000 employees. Richard has a unique ability to streamline training strategies and enhancing work performance, employee morale, and HR best practices. "I pride myself in my expertise developing innovative HR initiatives to restructure processes/progra...
Sep 27, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tomeka - is a Senior Principal, of Workforce Strategy and Analytics at Mercer - A People Analytics Expert | Data Scientist Lead | PhD Economist | Speaker | and Author. Mercer is a firm with over 25,000 employees in over 130 counties who are helping redefine the future of work, reshape retirement and investment outcomes, and unlock real health and well-being. I am a Senior Principal at Mercer who works directly with client stakeholders in identifying and understanding what drives employee outcome...
Sep 20, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Phil is an executive coach who has been assisting executives and organizations to bet on themselves by developing their emotional intelligence. Helping Executives Achieve Career, Personal & Corporate Success, Master of Business Leadership Program and Emotional Intelligence Pattern "Spotter" with a Career Revenue of $1.5 Billion. MBL program alumni are in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Japan, Germany, Bosnia, Africa, Australia, the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. Ross and Phil talk about...
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