Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

Andy has always had an abundance of energy, drive and enthusiasm which has culminated in an amazing career. Coming from a disadvantaged background had a humble beginning as an apprentice electrician in the ESI and rose to the dizzy heights over 47 years to become a Director of a 1Bn Euro company.Working as a transformational leader in the Electrical Contracting, Servicing and Manufacturing industries putting the customer and its people at the heart of any decision in which he has role modelled through his day to day behaviour and attitude.One thing that has been fundamental in his success is ability to spot talented people at an early stage and nature them through to fulfil their potential. In doing so he is a firm believer that if they become successful, the business grows from strength to strength on the back of it and both over time are rewarded accordingly. A strong diverse management team that has the freedom to challenge will always knock down walls.Tip: The welfare of a company rests on the welfare of its people even more now than ever.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emma is an entrepreneur and highly experienced charity trustee. She specialises in creating positive change through communications, an industry in which she has over 30 years’ experience. Today she is Chief Executive of Newgate Communications, part of the international communications group, SEC Newgate on whose board she also sits as Deputy Group CEO. Her clients include business leaders, household brands and international organisations. She is Chair of the UK’s largest ovarian cancer charity, Target Ovarian Cancer, and of Europe’s largest multi arts centre, the Barbican Centre Trust; she is also a board member of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.Outside her business and philanthropic interests, Emma is an avid sculptor and passionate about jazz and opera; she started out life as a tenor saxophonist. She was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2017.Her business top tip is to listen – you don’t learn anything by speaking.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Scott Parazynski is a highly decorated physician, astronaut, best-selling author (“The Sky Below”) and tech CEO. He is a widely sought-after keynote speaker on innovation, risk management, mentorship and leadership under extreme adversity. Scott has lived and travelled all over the world, spending many of his grade school years in places such as Senegal, Lebanon, Iran and Greece. A graduate of Stanford University and Medical School, he went on to train at Harvard and in Denver for a career in emergency medicine and trauma. In 1992 he was selected to join NASA's Astronaut Corps and eventually flew 5 Space Shuttle missions and conducted 7 spacewalks. Mission highlights include a global ozone mapping flight; leading the first joint US-Russian spacewalk while docked to the Russian space station Mir; serving as Senator John Glenn's crewmate and "personal physician"; and assembly of the Canadian-built space station robotic arm. In October 2007, Scott led the spacewalking team on STS-120, during which he performed 4 EVAs. The final EVA is regarded by many as one of the most challenging and dangerous ever performed. The tremendous coordinated effort in orbit and on the ground by Mission Control has been likened to the Space Shuttle and Space Station era's "Apollo 13 moment." He was inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2016. In addition to being a diver and accomplished mountaineer, Scott is also a commercial, instrument, multiengine and seaplane-rated pilot. On May 20, 2009, he became the first astronaut to stand on top of the world, the summit of Mount Everest. As a life-long explorer, he and a colleague set the first bootprints adjacent the world’s youngest lava lake, inside the crater of Massaya Volcano in Nicaragua.He is a prolific inventor/product developer, and serves on the Boards of several companies. He is Founder and CEO of Fluidity Technologies, focused on the development of revolutionary input devices powered by machine learning to intuitively move through physical and virtual space.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jim has worked in the search engine advertising industry in the UK since 2000 - the very birth of the industry and has led a variety of successful businesses in that industry including stints working for the search engines and on the agency, technology provider and client side. He has led four businesses to successful exit and spends most of his time as Exec Director at Brainlabs. His previous successes include outstanding technology lead agencies The Search Works and I Spy Marketing.Jim loves to define a vision and a plan and to surround himself with smart, hardworking people who deliver brilliant outcomes for the clients he works with. Jim's top tip - work hard, be nice to people and to learn from your experiences both good and bad.  #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over the last 15 years, Charlotte has been a director of 7 public companies, including three appointments as chair. During that period she has taken part in a complete restructuring of NTR Plc, the sale of Renewable Energy Generation Plc to BlackRock and, as Chair, overseen a $8bln Merger of FTSE250 Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate Plc with its US NYSE listed parent. Charlotte also has board experience with a range of unlisted companies including international engineering firm Laing O’Rourke, BT Pension Fund and as the National Chair of Institute of Directors U.K.Before entering the field of governance, Charlotte worked in finance, where she has over 35 years’ experience. Her career included stints with Societe Generale, BNP-Paribas, and S.G. Warburg. Charlotte is a corporate governance expert and a keen advocate for diversity in the boardroom, underpinning this advocacy with action by founding Board Apprentice. This not-for-profit organisation provides individuals hands-on experience at the very top of business, and has been cited in the U.K. Government’s reviews on ethnic and gender diversity in UK boardrooms as a resource for bringing about real change. Charlotte believes in purposeful leadership underpinned by personal values. This makes for inspirational and powerful leaders who build trust and resilience within the organisations they lead.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sir Richard Shirreff was born in Kenya in 1955 where he spent his early years. Educated in England, he graduated from Exeter College, Oxford (Modern History) before being commissioned into the British Army.  In his 37-year career, he commanded soldiers on operations at every level from platoon to division. This has included combat in the Gulf War of 1991 as a tank squadron leader and again in Iraq as a divisional commander, together with other operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Bosnia.  In addition, he had extensive staff experience at brigade, Army HQ and in the Ministry of Defence. He commanded NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps and his final military assignment was NATO’s 4 Star Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR).  In February 2016 he co-founded Strategia Worldwide Ltd, a company which builds resilience and protects value by understanding, testing and managing risk. In 2016 his novel ‘2017: War with Russia’ was published in the UK and USA. It became a best seller and has been translated into eight languages. He is an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Top leadership tip: understand and communicate.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David started Arachnys because he thought it was obvious that banks should be using better data to make decisions about compliance and risk. He used his investigative background to find the best data sources and combined it with cutting-edge technology to invent new ways of harvesting and mining data. Eight years of working with banks have given him a lot of hard learnings, including why you shouldn't assume that the problem you think is easy is in fact already solved, the business model challenges that working with large organizations cause, and the leadership learnings that have come from having to scale an organization from a shared office in Cambridge to an international company supporting customers in every timezone.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will has always strived to keep “purpose” front and centre through 3 distinct careers. After working in an inner-city youth club and completing his degree, he was an Officer in the British Army, serving in places like Bosnia and Northern Ireland. His second career, in the Corporate world, was at Procter & Gamble where he was the HR Director of a Global Business Unit. His third professional experience is his current role, where he has built an organisation of roughly 50 consultants who have worked with more than 70 Global companies. In these 3 very different contexts, his single-minded, consistent focus has been to help others to find and unleash hidden potential: put differently, his purpose is to help individuals and teams to find their purpose so that they can leave their unique, positive footprint. Having participated in ultra-marathons and having been through life-threatening surgery, his simple conviction is that the higher and clearer your sense of purpose, the more resilient and effective you are.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David has had leadership roles within the Parachute Regiment, as Platoon Commander, numerous command positions in the Metropolitan Police Service and more recently over 3 Editions of the Clipper Round the World Race, where he has Skippered 3 Teams. As a police officer, he represented the MPS at COBR, served as the Chief of Staff for the Public Order Branch and was the Deputy Operational Commander for the policing of the London 2012 Olympics. His passion is forming teams and seeing them thrive, whilst dealing with fast, dynamically changing situations. A strong advocate of an “active leadership” style, utilising members in decision making whenever possible. He believes that teams have the ability to overcome overwhelming odds, because if you invest in team members they deliver beyond expectation. David gets to know his team members, so he understands their drivers and skills/interests outside the current task. His principles are to: motivate, empower and coach individuals. The four building blocks for a dynamic team are: Trust, Empathy being Accomplished and an agreed Mission.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Daron Seukeran is the Group Medical Director at the SK:N Laser Clinics . He is a Consultant Dermatologist in the NHS at the James Cook University Hospital Teesside.Dr Seukeran’s research has been in the area of lasers and acne and was involved in development of national guidelines for photodynamic therapy and Rosacea.As one of the UK’s leading experts in acne scarring, undertakes dermatology and laser surgery. SK:N has grown over 20 years from 7 to over 100 clinics . There has been limited access to laser surgery and one of his main goals was to enable access to laser treatment for patients with rare medical conditions on the NHS. He has put at the centre of SK:N the need for ensuring the highest standards of care and safety for clients and ensuring that the systems for safety are greater than the individual. This was highlighted by the Covid Crisis where as a leader one has to ensure the safety of both patients and staff. It is essential that every individual feels valued and heard, appreciating that the best ideas can come from someone you may least expect.Top tip: Expect the unexpected.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.