This week’s guest on The Melting Pot is Gareth Chick, a former CFO, CEO and chairman of both public and private companies. An executive coach for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 CEOs, and now founder and managing partner of Collaborative Equity.

After 40 years in the corporate world, Gareth has poured his extensive knowledge into two books and carved out his dream career at Collaborative Equity, as he is an acknowledged expert on corporate cultures and corporate psychology.

Today Gareth shares with us how he got into business at the tender age of 12, because it was his dream to be out the front of a grocer’s shop serving customers. At 16, psychometric testing told him he should go into accounting, so he did, and never looked back. A CFO at 24 and CFO for a PLC subsidiary at 28, Gareth is the first to admit he was incredibly successful, very driven, but also controlling and arrogant.

It took a leadership course he didn’t want to attend to make him change his ways. It didn’t just change his attitude towards work—it changed his life entirely.

On today’s podcast:

How a leadership course 34 years ago changed his life
Our unconscious controlling habits (OUCH)
Why most managers need a deeper level of emotional intelligence
The three prime unconscious controlling habits of managers
Why managerial behaviours typically come about by learned experience
What we should learn from three-year-olds

Links:

E51 | Developing corporate emotional intelligence with Gareth Chick