Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

Prior to his current role, Nando served as President of UPS International. He led the company's business operations in more than 220 countries and territories outside of the U.S. Prior, Nando served as president of UPS’s European operations. While there, he led UPS Europe to record business performance during the company’s five-year investment program into the region’s technology, network and infrastructure, which was designed to further improve speed, capacity and reliability.Before his assignment as president of UPS Europe, Nando served as president of the Asia Pacific Region. While in Asia, he expanded UPS’s presence in vital emerging markets and China. He led strategic projects to accelerate intra-Asia transit times for key trade lanes connecting growth markets and launched new products including Trade Management Services, and China-to-Europe rail freight.Nando received an MBA from Heriot Watt University - Edinburgh School of Business. He is a member of the executive committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, and also serves on the boards of the U.S.-India Business Council and the World Affairs Council of Atlanta.Global e-commerce creates tremendous opportunities for businesses large and small. But many small-to mid-sized retailers are having a hard time capitalizing. The problem is that often it’s not all that easy to ship their goods across borders.- NANDO CESARONENando Cesarone Top Leadership Tip - You can't be everywhere so surround yourself with Top Talent Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melanie Richards holds a range of board roles. She is a Non-executive Director of Morgan Stanley International, a member of the boards of the Royal National Theatre and The Invictus Games Foundation and Chair of The Eve Appeal (which funds research and raises awareness of the five gynae cancers). She sits on the advisory boards for both the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at the National University of Singapore Business School and the UK Government’s National Leadership Centre (supporting cross sector leadership and collaboration). With large-scale general management, board and advisory experience, Melanie was until September 2020 the Deputy Chair of KPMG UK, with a period as Acting Chair during the pandemic. Melanie was heavily involved in its continuing transformation in areas such as risk, culture, diversity and inclusion, reputation and ESG. Melanie was awarded a CBE for her contribution to business and to the diversity and inclusion agenda in 2019. She is a founding member of the 30% Club Steering Committee, sat on the Steering Group of the Hampton Alexander Review and won the Outstanding Contribution to Social Mobility Award in 2018. She is an Honorary Member of the ICAEW and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business and Administration from Oxford Brookes University. Melanie’s Top Tip: “Calibrate don’t catastrophise” - keep things in perspective and avoid extrapolating to the extreme (and often unlikely) scenarios.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With over twenty years’ experience in the Sports Industry, having built operations, companies and platforms across multiple territories and jurisdictions, Daniel Bernard is currently focused on strategic investments into startups and early stage companies in the sports and sports technology sector. Born in London in the UK, Daniel has lived in France, Spain and Italy before settling in Israel in 1999. Working in television for the Sports Channel offered a broad entry into the industry, and he worked from the ground up through logistics and production to deal with broadcast rights acquisitions. In 2004, Daniel founded the Israel-based Sports Data agency that was to become Redwood International Sports. Redwood was a first mover in advanced analysis of player and team performance always adopting innovative technologies to increase the company’s capacity to deliver quality data and insights for its customers. Daniel turned his focus in 2015 to the Sports Betting industry and created brand new platforms for emerging markets, dealing with everything from compliance and regulation to product and IT delivery. As part of this journey, he founded Suntech Innovation in Kyiv, Ukraine, delivering fully customized and turnkey product for the specific market.Daniel wholeheartedly believes in servant leadership. At the center of his core values are a dedication to hard work, high energy, an entrepreneurial spirit and creating teams that embrace diversity of thought as much as they embrace diversity of background. He is a strong advocate for gender equality and believes that, beyond being morally and ethically correct, it is also extremely wise commercially. Feeling grateful to continue working in a sector he enjoys so much, Daniel is connected with a number of Venture Capital funds with a global reach into the Sports Industry and works with selected companies to bring value through strategic, operational and business development partnerships. Beyond his professional career in the Sports Industry, Daniel is passionate about building long-term, sustainable bridges between Israel and the UAE, and further to additional countries in the GCC. The Abraham Accords have provided an historic opportunity for peace in our region and Daniel is proud to be part of this vision in any way possible, whether it be through commercial, social or cultural partnerships and objectives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yilmaz Erceyes is Premier Foods' Chief Marketing Officer and has been a core part of the Executive Leadership Team that turned around the company behind a clear business strategy focusing on brand building and innovation. Premier Foods is one of UK’s biggest branded food businesses with a growing international presence. Yilmaz has responsibility for all Marketing, Consumer Insights & Analytics, R&D and Innovation. He joined the Company in March 2015 and worked across a number of brands as Category Director before being promoted to Marketing Director in April 2018, and shortly after promoted to his current role as Chief Marketing Officer in October 2019. Yilmaz featured in Marketing Week’s Top 100 Marketers as well as Campaign Magazines Power 100.Prior to joining Premier Foods, he was at Procter & Gamble for 13 years in several senior brand management roles across different geographies, having started his career in Procter & Gamble as Process Engineer.Yilmaz has extensive experience in leading diverse teams in multiple geographies with a track record of exceptional business and organisational results. His particular strengths are creating bold visions, winning strategies and building high performing teams that consistently deliver well above industry average growth rates as proven throughout his career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DLRichard Dannatt was a soldier for forty years concluding his military career as Chief of the General Staff – the professional head of the British Army. Since retiring from active duty in 2009, he was Constable of the Tower of London until July 2016. In 2011 he became an independent member of the House of Lords and is a member of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. He is a frequent commentator on defence and security issues in the media and columnist for The Daily Telegraph. He is passionate about welfare issues relating to both serving and veteran members of the Armed Forces. In 2007, he co-founded Help for Heroes with Bryn Parry and is closely involved with several other military charities.Lord Dannatt has wide experience at Board level in the private, public and charitable sectors. Currently he is Chair of the National Emergencies Trust and of the Normandy Memorial Trust and on the International Advisory Board of Photonis. Previously he was Chair of the Royal Armouries and Cadence Consulting, and on the Board of Historic Royal Palaces and a Trustee of the Windsor Leadership Trust.Lord Dannatt divides his time between London and his family home in Norfolk where he runs the family arable farm. He chairs the Norfolk Strategic Flooding Alliance, is a past President of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association and is President of the Norfolk Churches Trust, YMCA Norfolk and Veterans Norfolk. He published his autobiography: “Leading from the Front” in 2010, and a second book: “Boots on the Ground – Britain and her Army since 1945” in October 2016. His wife, Philippa, was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk in 2019. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of both Greater London and Norfolk.Richard Dannatt’s top leadership tip is to remind aspiring leaders that success is defined by two considerations – character, which determines whether others want to follow you – integrity, which will determine the level of enthusiasm with which others will follow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prashant is leading innovation using technology at x·enabler - a successful IT innovation company, where he has digitally transformed a number of Australian businesses using innovative technologies. Over the last 15 years, Prashant has founded a number of successful businesses from the ground up. He is a trusted advisor, business partner and mentor for a range of business-minded people in his group. Through his technical expertise, Prashant has led some of Australia’s biggest development teams across a range of industries and technologies. He is also leading technical committees such as SIPBN, Chamber of Commerce Sydney and various other business networks.Prashant is also the host of the podcast “Enabling the World with Tech” where he explores strategies and lessons from leading tech entrepreneurs and tech experts, focusing on scaling effectively. Prashant has been on many journeys throughout his career and has had to reinvent himself a multitude of times; from learning various types of programming languages and skills beyond technology to adapting his business strategies in not only the technology industry but also in retail and food services. Prashant believes that it is important to always be learning and is who he is today by learning from his past experiences, where he has lost and gained everything. While Prashant is passionate about all things business, technology and innovation he has also mastered the perfect balance between his work and personal life. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, nature walks, poetry and motorcycling. Prashant loves his attributes of continuous learning and innovation and his goal is to help businesses succeed with his intensive experiences, knowledge and unique ideas. Prashant aims to inspire others to always be innovative, believe in themselves and never give up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard Browning is Founder and Chief Test Pilot of Gravity Industries which designs, builds and flies Jet Suits, pioneering a new era of human flight. The company was founded in March 2017 to challenge the perceived boundaries in human aviation and to inspire others to dare to ask “What if?”. It now scales towards an International Race Series.Prior to founding Gravity, Richard was a Royal Marines reservist for six years and an Oil Trader with BP for 16 years where he discovered and implemented major new technologies winning the BP Group innovation Award.When he is not flying around the world, Richard is in Salisbury with his wife Debbie and their two children, Oliver and Thomas, kayaking and camping amongst other thingRichard says: "I am the Founder of Pioneering Aeronautical Innovation company, Gravity. Launched in March 2017 Gravity has invented, built and patented an 'iron man like' flight system.The dream was to reimagine an entirely new authentic form of human flight learning on an elegant collaboration of mind and body augmented by awesome technology. Gravity has to date been experienced by over a billion people globally with video views alone running at more than 60m within 7 days of launch. In the first 24 months Gravity executed 96 flight events across 30 countries including 5 Ted talks.The team and I are delivering on the vision to build Gravity into a world class aeronautical engineering business, challenge perceived boundaries in human aviation, and inspire a generation to dare ask 'what if...' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Dean is a Director and Co-Founder of Avamore Capital, an institutionally funded development and bridging lender, which was started in 2015. Avamore Capital is dedicated to providing outstanding service by understanding the constantly evolving needs of developers. As such, Avamore were the first ever lender to introduce the award-winning Finish & Exit product to the market which was designed to support borrowers which have run out time and money on their part-completed schemes.To date, Avamore Capital has lent c.£400m to SME property developers across England and Wales, funding the construction of over 1,000 new homes. Michael also co-owns Chartfield Homes, a strategic land and housing development company which specialises in delivering planning permissions and new homes that maximise value and customer satisfaction. Michael began his career as a Commercial Surveyor at Cushman & Wakefield, he then moved to real estate private equity where he specialised in debt restructurings and financed the development of a £210m mixed use development. Following which, he joined a family office where he enabled the family to exit a number of businesses and redeployed that capital successfully into commercial investments which were successfully asset managed and traded on. Whilst running the family office portfolio, Michael met co-founders Zuhair and Nick and Avamore was born. Outside of work, he has strong interests in strategic investments in agriculture, technology and renewable energy. Michael is an avid sports fan with an Arsenal season ticket. He is keen cyclist and tennis player, three young children who he shares with his wife Andrejka. When he is not watching his children play football or rugby, Michael is playing on the dad’s cricket team or is out on country walks with his dog Axel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Barry Habib is an American entrepreneur and frequent media resource for his mortgage and housing expertise.  ·      Amazon #1 bestselling author for his book “Money in the Streets”·      Frequent appearances on CNBC and FOX·      CEO of MBS Highway – the industry’s most highly regarded and recognized tool for transforming salespeople into advisorsNotable Awards·      Three-time Crystal Ball Award Winner for 2017, 2019 and 2020 by Zillow and Pulsenomics for the most accurate Real Estate forecasts out of 150 of the top economists in the US   ·      2019 Mortgage Professional of the Year by National Mortgage Professional Magazine ·      2019 Finalist for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year ·      Named to the esteemed Mortgage Global 100 list for 2020, and 2021 by Mortgage Professional As an innovator, Barry has founded many successful businesses across different verticals: ·      Mortgage Market Guide·      Healthcare Imaging Solutions·      Certified Mortgage Associates  ·      Founding partner in Social SurveyDuring his mortgage sales career, Barry personally originated over $2 billion dollars.Lead Producer and Managing Partner for “Rock of Ages” – the 27th longest running show in Broadway history.  Produced Criss Angel’s “Mindfreak” at Planet Hollywood in Vegas.Highest rated speaker and trainer for over 25 years in mortgage and real estate.Barry's Certified Mortgage Advisor (CMA) course is renowned for elevating the level professionalism and mortgage knowledge in the industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leppard MBE. Headmaster of The British School Al Khubairat, Abu Dhabi.Mark is a successful and ambitious school leader of an outstanding British international school. In 2015 Mark was awarded an MBE for his services to education and has an M.Ed in Educational Leadership. His focus is on team building, in terms of motivation, personnel and structure, ensuring that the students benefit from these developments. He has a lifelong passion for learning and ensures that the student is at the heart of all decisions that are made. Holistic education is fundamental to Mark's philosophy and he believes that learning should not be restricted just to the formal classroom.Mark has a track record of success, having led schools through 5 'Outstanding' school inspections and accreditations. He is a trained school inspector and has inspected a variety of schools around the globe. Mark has experience of developing and delivering an agreed vision, as well as leading schools through a rebranding process.Mark is a member of The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), Chairman of British Schools in the Middle East (BSME) and a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teachers.Mark is a passionate sportsman and has successfully captained teams at various levels. He gained international honours representing the Arabian Gulf at rugby, is an Honorary Life Member at Doha Rugby Club, a Vice President of Harlow Rugby Club, an avid Spurs fan and now trains regularly to keep fit. Mark is very happily married and has three children.When listening to Mark you will hopefully feel his enthusiasm and positive outlook, appreciate his honest analysis and enjoy seeing how through inspiring leadership, anything can be achieved.His Leadership Top Tip; Be honest and stay true to yourself. Anything less will be unsustainable, found out and ultimately lead to failure and disappointment. The best way to reach the summit or destination is to soar like an eagle, gallop like a thoroughbred horse or glide like a dolphin and you can only do this if you are always genuine and true to yourself Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.