Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

CEO Virgin Money, SVP Global Digital & Marketing EMI, Digital & Financial Services Director Asda, Group Marketing & Digital Director HMV, multiple Private Equity leadership / interim CEO roles covering Garden Centres, Care Homes and Restaurants.Mark has had a truly cross sector career leading transformations across financial services, media, retail, leisure, care, restaurants and now the charity sector.  He loves driving an organisation with the customer / those you serve right at the centre – leading to impact, growth and turnaround. He always starts and ends with the customer at the heart of everything he does.  It is easy when you are at the top, to start to assume you are the most important person in the organisation and to forget why you are there and who you are there to serve – your customers. Sectors often require strong technical expertise and Mark recognises that he can never be the lead expert, but he has become practised at asking the simple questions that people start to forget to ask and hopefully lead to new insights and innovation.  One more thing he believes is central to being a good leader and that is the people. This has been a common theme across different sectors. A well-developed, engaged and agile team is far more valuable than one leader!TOP TIP: Always remember you are a customer sample of one!#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Embedding social good and helping people to think and believe better things about themselves.James is a serial-founder with ventures ranging from publicly traded companies with hundreds of people through to micro-businesses. Many were started with only modest amounts of capital and several achieved millions in sales. He's a Trustee of The Silver Line a national charity helpline for older people and supports younger people starting their own ventures. His latest enterprise, Alertacall, has won national awards and has celebrity endorsement. Based on an invention inspired by his own grandmother it now helps tens of thousands of older people as well as many organisations who house and support them. James is an advocate for personal coaching and therapeutic support, believing that what people think and feel about themselves has a critical role to play in their personal success and that of the venture. He's also come to learn that it can take some people longer than others to adapt to a new vision, and the importance of taking time to get their understanding and buy-in.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Bashall brings a huge amount of leadership experience to this programme. He has spent much of his Army career on operations – 12 tours in all; and over 5 years overseas on operational service. Following 9/11 he took command of 2 PARA and led them on 3 successive operational tours to Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and Iraq in the space of 2.5 years. He then commanded a Mechanised Brigade in Basra during the most dangerous and violent period of the Iraq campaign. He also led a Joint Task Force into Libya in the early days of the Spring Uprising in order to extract UK citizens trapped by the civil war. He lives by the code of empowerment, trust and delegation. And his principal leadership tip is to know your people; and to understand what makes them tick as human beings, recognising that we are all different. He believes deeply in leading by example and being seen by those you command. He worries too many senior leaders over use social media; and have lost the touch of visiting in person to communicate directly.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE shares some of his leadership tips and advice from the different leaders, quotes and best books he has read in the middle of this coronavirus crisis and the economic impact on the businesses that he works with. A variety of practical down-to-earth tips and techniques that you can apply now to help yourself.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a Music graduate from Durham University, a former Territorial Army Royal Artillery Officer, a chartered accountant, a certified organisation development practitioner and former PwC Partner, one word that is often used to describe Tracey is ‘unique’!  Tracey’s career is made up of leadership roles in many guises, from being Head Girl at school to leading global financial crime remediation programmes focusing on ethical conduct, culture and behaviours, and empowering and inspiring women in the workplace.Through her own advisory business, Intelligent Ethics, Tracey works with leaders to unlock high performance and talent, accelerate sustainable growth, and drive innovation directly aligned to the execution of strategic business goals by acting as a trusted business advisor, a corporate executive educator and a passionate keynote speaker and panellist. A Financial Times Champion of Women in Business and winner of the Variety Catherine Award for Consulting, Tracey brings a unique blend of business process, commercial understanding, consulting and organizational change management skills to whatever she does. Tracey’s top leadership tip?  Never give up – there is no such word as can’t.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Cresswell is CEO, Bibby Line Group and speaks to a core theme of focus and determination.  John has enjoyed a successful career in high-profile roles including Chief Operating Officer, ITV plc, Interim CEO, ITV plc and, CEO Arqiva Limited.  As well as serving on the boards of Liverpool FC and Capita plc as a Non Exec Director.John joined the media sector as a newly qualified chartered accountant. He has provided strategic and authentic leadership for six world-class media organisations spanning broadcasting, content and technology. More recently he has led teams in retail and financial services. John places enormous emphasis on organizational culture and values.  He believes a primary task of leadership is to direct attention.  His favored triad of focus is customers, colleagues and cash. John believes organizations succeed best when teams are collaborative and able to confront the realities about their position and then set inspiring goals.   He likes to challenge his own thinking and encourages his team and employees to do the same. It helps to look at situations more holistically and to examine situations from all perspectives, which in turn yields ideas for more creative outcomes.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the age of 7 Barry watched Seb Coe break the 800m World Record at that point he knew he wanted to be the best at what he did, the journey of building resilience and courage to become a great Business leader had started.  Barry is MD of Playdale Playgrounds, the UK’s leading Manufacturer of Outdoor Children’s Playground Equipment, he has led them into 49 countries covering 57% of the global population. Playdale and Barry have won multiple national awards in Export, Manufacturing and Leadership, personally receiving an MBE for services to International Trade and Exports.  In 2018 he was named IoD North West ‘Global Director of the Year’ as well as ‘Cumbria Businessperson of the Year’. He was recently made an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University Management School as well as featuring in The Telegraph’s Top 50 Most Ambitious UK Business Leaders and inducted into The Manufacturer Top 100 people in the UK Manufacturing Hall of Fame. He lives his Leadership top tip of ‘make every day count!”#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul has been on a leadership journey with the British Army for the past 34 years.  He has served in a variety of roles and in a number of different environments. His most challenging have been on operations, from Northern Ireland to the Gulf, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.His talk is about ‘leading in a crisis’ and the importance of the 3 ‘stages.’  First, ensuring you prepare yourself and your team for that crisis before it hits – ensuring resilience.  Second, how you respond to the crisis as a leader – how you give direction and hope.  And lastly, how you recover from the crisis, caring for your people and learning the lessons – resetting for the next one! Leadership is about the journey and how you learn and develop. We never stop learning, as this current crisis is showing us all too clearly. Faced with unprecedented challenge, your people will follow you, not just because of your rank or position in the company, but because they believe in you. That takes hard work, dedication and trust – not the product of a 3-day course.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a career spanning over 35 years, Andreas rose from being a banking apprentice at Deutsche Bank and graduate trainee at SG Warburg, to CEO of Allianz Global Investors, a role he relinquished on 1st January, 2020. He is currently Advisor to the firm. Andreas’s core beliefs and leadership principles were born of his life experience: Born in Belgium of German immigrant parents, losing his father suddenly at barely 12 years of age; gaining 2 years' work experience after his Baccalaureate and before University studies, having to work every day to finance these; immigrating to the UK  and building a career with no contacts there. Andreas had no real career plan – rather he was keen to work in an environment that furthered intellectual curiosity, interacting with interesting people and a maximum of individual freedom. Building on his personal experience, Andreas led by example and built and environment of trust, based on integrity, mutual respect and the concept that decisions, however difficult, needed to be seen as ‘fair’. He is particularly proud of that fact that no-one who ever worked for him directly resigned from their position.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Danny Payne is CEO of the high performing FCOS team who support the Government abroad especially our Foreign Office Embassies & their staff in the crucial role to represent Great Britain abroad - however tough the challenges. Inspiring Leadership is crucial throughout any organisation - its not just at the top. How do you approach challenges? From complexity to resolution. Difficult situation: lots of uncertainty & anxiety. Families involved too. Helping our people abroad when they had to leave the host country at short notice. Amazing support beyond the call of duty - highly inspiring. When Major IT Programmes go badly wrong & what to learn from it. They often do - give people space to sort it out. Explain & translate highly complex technical issues into clear language, explanations plans & lessons learnt. After action reviews. AAR - what to do differently next time? Keep calm - Don’t frighten people Top Tip - Don’t get bored - find a career where you love the work you do.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.