Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

Richard Thorpe is Director of Rugby of a National 1 Rugby Club, and Performance Coach to professional athletes, executives, entrepreneurs & family office Next-Gen. Richard began his career in rugby when he joined the London Irish Academy at the age of 18. His subsequent professional career boasted over 150 Premiership rugby games for London Irish, Leicester Tigers and London Welsh. He played in the 2009 Premiership Final for London Irish, and was a part of the Leicester team that won the Premiership in 2013. A near career ending injury saw Richard leave Leicester after winning the Premiership and join London Welsh whom had just been relegated. He went on to win the Championship with London Welsh the next season, gaining promotion back into the Premiership. Richard was also a Canadian International Rugby Player, and represented Rugby Canada at the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England. Following his retirement from professional rugby in 2016, Richard moved into business. Having invested in property throughout his rugby career, he initially transitioned into Operations Director at RDT Invest (a principal real estate lender). Alongside this role he also became a Director of SBL Capital, his family’s private office. But it was his ongoing work with professional athletes that first moved him into coaching. Early on after his retirement, Richard began coaching professional   athletes struggling with their transition into the ‘real world’. He joined Harley Street Institute, Cognacity in 2017 as an Executive Coach, and in 2018, he wound down his other business interests and established his own Performance Consultancy. He now coaches across sectors but focusses mainly on professional athletes, executives and Next-Gen. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Richard stepped back into rugby as Director of Rugby at National 1 Rugby Club Chinnor RFC Thame. Whilst a semi-professional club, Chinnor have some big ambitions, and Richard’s leadership framework is influenced by his experiences in professional rugby, business, Executive and Performance Coaching. Richard combines this role with his Performance Consultancy, and his young family in Buckinghamshire. Richard has also been a Player Representative for the Rugby Players Association, and is currently Ambassador for the Global Next-Gen Community (the successors to the Global Family Office Community). Leadership tip – Ask yourself everyday: “how can I get the best out of my people?” #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🎙Jonathan Coaches CEOs. He solves their practical problems and helps them to build Inspiring Leadership, Inspiring Teams & Inspiring Results. 🏔 Message him for your 🆓 “Top Tips for Inspiring Leaders” 📚 Practical tips for your business & life success 🎯 🎖 Trusted Leadership Coach to CEOs Chairmen 💼 & Executive teams 🎤 Host of Inspiring Leadership Podcast 🏆 Rated Top 2% of 🌎 Podcasters. British ⚔️ Army Officer & 💼 PLC Managing Director Jonathan said: 💎 “I learnt so much from my mistakes & the 💪 strength that comes through vulnerability. My values= HIT: Honesty Integrity & Transparency. The tragic deaths of my 🛩 Fast-jet Royal Navy Pilot⚓️ Father & my 👩‍👦 Philanthropist Mother led to me living, writing & teaching “Inspiring Leadership” He went on to say “My Calling is to inspire YOU & your team to: find & live your 🧭 “True North”, 🔓 unlock your 🧨 potential, leave a legacy ✅ & make a difference via your 🏦 business. Email me NOW to Grow & Inspire others.” Jonathan takes us through a review of the first 147 different podcasts particularly calling out 145 with Joe Foster, 142 with Brian Ashton MBE, 141 with Dr Margaret Casely-Heyford CBE, 138 with Jeff Nischwitz, 131 with Patrick Kane, 126 with General Sir Mike Jackson, 124 with Paz Avalos, 121 with Derek Redmond OLY and 120 with Captain David Marquet. So, what makes an inspiring leader? He spots themes such as diverse experiences, humility humanity, heart and humour, that they are all referred by other people and not self-referrals and people who seek self-aggrandisement. #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I thoroughly enjoyed my interview with Brian and find him one of the most open authentic and powerfully vulnerable leaders that I have met. We had a fascinating and powerful conversation on many topics including mental health where he was refreshingly open. Brian joined Lansdowne Partners in January 2021 as Co-Managing Partner and is the Chair of the Management Committee. Brian has over 30 years’ experience in global financial markets, investment banking and asset management. He joined Lansdowne Partners from HSBC Asset Management, where he was the Global Head of Institutional Business. Before that he spent a decade in senior management roles in Global Banking and Markets at HSBC; his last role was Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group. Before joining HSBC in 2006, he had senior client management roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan. Brian obtained a MA in Economics from Cambridge University. In addition he is the Chair of The City Mental Health Alliance, which operates in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. The CMHA is a corporate membership organisation dedicated to the promotion of awareness and improvement of employees’ mental health in the workplace. His Leadership tip : Don’t be afraid to be your true self, be vulnerable or ask for help. #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dom is a strategic communications expert, who most recently has been helping SYKE – the world’s foremost legal tech consultancy - tell its story. Since leaving Asda in 2016 and setting up his own consultancy (Why Social) Dom has been fortunate to work alongside some great consumer brands including: L.L.Bean, Superdry, Betsafe, Accolade Wines (Echo Falls, Hardys, Kumala), and N Brown Group (Simply Be, JD Williams, Jacamo). He’s also advised B2B clients like NSF International, G4S, and Sun Branding Solutions helping them define or adapt their social media strategies. In 2018 he teamed up with fellow ex-Asda director John Buxton to launch Salts Huby. Together they are helping brands reach new audiences, and grow their existing businesses through a disruptive approach to sales and marketing, be that pop-up retail, experiential marketing or harnessing social media.  Having spent nearly 20 years in the world of communications, 18 of those in-house for Green Flag, Direct Line and Asda, Dom has built up an extensive network of trusted individuals and agencies who he can call on to help in almost any situation.  In addition to his background in public relations and strategic communications, he has a personal passion for social media, and helps companies define their strategy, up-skill their in-house teams and recruit new talent. He also provides ecommerce consultancy, general retail consultancy, business management, coaching and mentoring.  As a volunteer, Dom chairs the management committee of an award-winning community radio station in his adopted home city of Bradford called BCB 106.6fm.  He is an early investor in his brother's med-tech start-up Tiny Medical Apps, and the host of a weekly podcast called Legal Tech Made Simple.  My top tip How to win friends and influence people - a timeless book written nearly 100 years ago, but as profound and important today as it was then. Every chapter has an important insight into how people tick, backed up by great stories that make those lessons memorable, and practical tips that enable you to put the theory into immediate practice. #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joseph William Foster (Joe Foster) was born in 1935 in Bolton England with the same birthday 18th May, as his grandfather, also Joseph William Foster who had died 18 months earlier. Joe’s grandfather was the founder of J W Foster & Sons (Athletic Shoes) Ltd and the inventor of the Spiked Running Shoe and the Trainer (Sneaker). Joe and his late brother Jeff were born into the J W Foster & family business, but on their return after 2 years away from home on National Service, they asked questions. The year was 1955 and the brothers saw a business still rooted in the 1930’s. Their Father and Uncle were now operating the business and very much like another Sports Shoe company, spent more time feuding than collaborating. The result was that in 1958 Joe and Jeff left the Foster business to set up a new Sports Shoe company. The brothers founded Mercury Sports Footwear, which after 18 months they changed its name to REEBOK. Joe had been advised to protect their company’s name by registering it. By 1965, Joe was on his way to the NSGA (National Sporting Goods of America) Show in Chicago, which was the start of many Global adventures and experiences that after 15 years brought him together with Paul Fireman and later many Stars of film and television. As the surviving Founder of Reebok, Joe still welcomes the opportunity to travel and recount those early stories from start-up to becoming World No. 1. Joe has written a book documenting the history and his journey. The book is published on 1st October and signed copies with an extra gift can be ordered from http://www.jwfosterheritage.com#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roman Roberts is a business consultant and podcast host, of the Real Talk with Roman Podcast. Roman focuses on helping businesses and individuals improve their communication leveraging the skills and mistakes he made around communication in foster care, interrogation, business, and his daily life.  Roman served as a U.S. Army Interrogator and deployed multiple times with special operations teams and has also supported intelligence agencies, foreign special operations teams, diplomats, among others. Throughout his time as an interrogator, he conducted thousands of interrogations and wrote reports that were used at all levels of the military, and even the White House intelligence committee.   Upon leaving the military Roman found that despite having all the communication skills he was not communicating honestly and effectively with himself and those around him. This lack of communication almost cost him his marriage and his life and is the driver behind his podcast and his focus on effective communication.  Roman has also worked with various manufacturing, financial, non-profits, small businesses, and fortune 500 companies as a leader and consultant helping them improve their communication and operations to become effective business In this episode, Roman dives deep into effective communication, how it relates to leadership, and how his past experiences and traumas helped him become the communicator and leader he is now.  Roman provided many great tips in this interview, but as a former interrogator and consultant focused on communication, his top tip is to get comfortable with the fact that effective communication is not a skill most are born with, so get comfortable with honing, growing, and evolving your communication to be the effective communicator you, your family, your business, and the world needs.  This is an amazing episode you do not want to miss.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ann Pickering is an Advisor to KPMG LLP, appointed in June 2020. She recently stood down from her role as Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief of Staff at Telefònica O2 UK, a role she had held since 2008. She was also a member of the UK Executive Team, Global HR Executive Team, as well as Chair of the Pensions Committee and Responsible Business Forum. Ann’s long career at Telefònica O2 began in 2004 as Head of HR Customer Service becoming Human Resource Director in 2008, a role she held for 10 years. In 2017 she took on the dual role of HR Director and Chief of Staff. In her early career Ann held HR roles at Xansa PLC (now Steria PLC) Fidelity Investments Services Ltd and Marks & Spencer PLC.    Ann was voted ‘UK’s Most Influential HR Director’ in 2018, and Top 5 ranking prior and post this; in 2019 she was recognised in the  HERoes global top 50 Women Role Model list. (‘Women who are ‘leading by example and driving change to increase gender diversity in the workplace’)   Ann currently has a number of non executive and educational interests. She is a trustee of Breast Cancer Now, as well as Step Up To Serve, a social action charity for 10-20 year olds. She is a visiting professor of HRM and Employability at Sheffield University Management School and also chairs the school’s Advisory Board.    Ann is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Development and holds a BA in English from the University of London. She was a CBI nominated Employment Tribunal member between 1995 and 2008.   Her Leadership tip – Start by Starting #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brian is an ex-schoolmaster and Head Coach of Bath, Ireland and England Rugby. After a successful playing career, including touring with England and playing in France and Italy, Brian began to focus on refining his Teaching / Coaching styles. Originally a Command Control practitioner he transformed over the years into a Mission Control People centred approach. In the past 12 years Brian has mentored in the fields of sport and education. Whilst Rugby Union is his main sporting expertise, he has also worked with coaches from; Rugby League, Premier League Football, England cricket board, England Netball. During this period Brian has been the only Northern Hemisphere Coach to work in the International Rugby Academy of New Zealand, helping to develop coaches from around the world. He has been described in the media as; Visionary with a Touch of Steel; Messiah or Misfit; The Lost Prophet of England Rugby. His Leadership tip - Status Quo - a great rock group but an ineffective way to live and lead in life.   #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margaret Casely-Hayford was appointed Chair of Shakespeare’s Globe in January 2018, the same year in which she was appointed Chancellor of Coventry University. She has been an elected member of the Board of the Co-op Group since 2016.  She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Honours list, for services to charity and for promoting diversity, in 2018, upon ending her term as trustee and Chair of international development Charity ActionAid UK., and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of her former University college: Somerville, Oxford. She’s a trustee of the Radcliffe Trust, which supports the development of skills in classical music and traditional arts and crafts.  She chaired a diversity review of the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards for CILIP (the Libraries Association); and served on a panel that oversaw the 2018 strategic review of the British Council, making recommendations to the Foreign Secretary.  She was Director of Legal Services and Company Secretary for the John Lewis Partnership for nine years. Before that she worked for twenty years with City law firm Dentons where she had been a partner and jointly led an award-winning team in planning and development work), she’s now retired from executive roles. Her portfolio includes advising young entrepreneurs, and supporting and advising organisations on governance and advising those, in particular women and BAME or LGTBQ+ people, who wish to embark upon board careers. She is passionate about establishing diversity on boards and is an ambassador of Board Apprentice.  She champions better governance and democratic processes, and this year, was appointed to the Institute of Directors’ Governance Advisory Board, and made a Fellow of the Institute of Public Impact. Her passion for education sees her also as Chair of the Advisory Board of award-winning Ultra Education, an enterprise which provides teaching of entrepreneurial skills to primary school children; and as Patron of the John Staples Society a body created across the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools, to develop social mobility by providing opportunities and access. She is also a member of the Rhodes Commission looking at the future of the statue of Cecil Rhodes and the impact of his legacy.  Top Tip- leadership strapline would be: Redress the imbalance, and all else will follow#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

’m on a mission to raise the consciousness of humanity by sharing wisdom, truth, venerability and positive vibes from some of the world’s most inspiring people. I started my first business aged 19 with a loan from The Prince’s Trust and by the time I was 28 had achieved a level of success I could never have imagined. 3 years later I was cleaning toilets in a factory for minimum wage. A humbling experience. Until I started Nugget I was one of those people who built my dream and then continuously ended up losing it. By the time you get to your mind 40’s those lessons that keep repeating should have been learned. So I started asking people for one thing I could do to improve, their Nugget. From that spawned an incredible adventure. #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.