Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

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.

32 years in the British Army: Parachute Regiment and Special Forces; commanding on operations at every rank up to Major General (i.e. from tens to thousands of people); strategic leadership in Whitehall. Leadership is about getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Having the right idea is the easy part; its persuading your team (and sometimes your boss) that it is the right idea that is the hard part. Key to this is trust between leaders and led. A good way to build this is to know (and show you know) your people, by exploiting their strengths and protecting them from their weaknesses. No-one is perfect and people thrive when you believe in them. Another way of building trust is by sharing the problem with the team, and asking for their ideas; ideas have value not rank. Never forgetting that, as was forcibly brought home to me in the Falklands, when the pressure is on, it is still up to the leader to shoulder the responsibility of making the decisions. But the more the team own the plan, and the more they trust you, the more committed to it they will be.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Renier grew up in the Dutch countryside and, after studying computer science and a stint as an artillery battery commander in the Dutch Army, joined Arthur D Little in Brussels. After an MBA from Insead he joined Mckinsey in London and was a founding member of their India practice. He later co-founded McKinsey's first incubator in Silicon Valley. He then started the 'executive' part of his career with stints as CEO/COO at GE Capital, Barclays and CEO of Paypal EMEA. In recent years he has developed a portfolio career, chairing and advising a number of fintech start-ups, board roles with incumbent banks, and as a professor of Fintech. Renier enjoys approaching all business problems with curiosity and first-principles problem-solving. Enjoying robust debate with ample good humour, he firmly believes that the best result comes from a dialectic between leaders that can listen and practice reflection-in-action.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chip enjoyed a 33 year military career, latterly concentrating on counter-terrorism as both the Senior British Military Advisor in US Central Command to Jim Mattis and as Head of Counter-Terrorism in the MoD, prior to branching out in to media commentary and leadership development. He is a passionate believer in both vertical and horizontal cohesion with teams – between leader and led.Leadership top tip: no one was ever managed up a hill, they were led there: if you have good people and bad process, bad process wins nine times out of ten. If you get the leadership and management correct, the basis of an unbeatable team is nurtured. Chip is a Director of Quantum Resilience dealing with crisis management training for Boards/CEOs for when a crisis hit, character often becomes as important as competence in responding.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After coming to London aged 18 to study Acting followed by a short but successful acting career, Martin entered Hospitality Management in earnest twenty years ago. Following stints as a General Manager and Area Manager working with the Wok Wok, Christophers and Zizzi brands, he joined Gaucho in 2005 and spent 9 nine years working his way up the leadership ladder as the company expanded. Leaving the group and his position of Managing Director in 2014, Martin entered the world of that of the Entrepreneur and founded the multi-award winning M restaurant group which after 4 years of growth enjoyed a full circle acquisition, which saw Martin take the helm as CEO of both M and Gaucho brands in 2018.The primary role of a leader is to create and articulate an exciting, challenging but achievable vision, then to surround oneself with a talented team, who understand and live to these values and beliefs to drive ambitious success, with constant mentoring.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Caroline Goyder's global reputation as a speaker and voice coach is built on her warm, engaging, relaxed and highly practical style, and her expertise honed by her work with actors, teachers, broadcasters and the corporate sector. She worked at Central School of Speech and Drama as a voice coach for over 10 years before launching her own company. She is regularly sought after by the media as an expert in her field and her work has featured on television and in numerous national and international newspaper articles. Her extremely successful Ted Talk has had over 7.5 million views. Caroline has written three books, her most recent Find Your Voice was released in January 2020. Caroline was named by Red magazine as one of Britain’s top coaches.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter Kavanagh, CEO of LRG, which is one of the largest privately owned property services companies in the UK. Peter had an amazing mum who he credits with much of what he has achieved in life. My mum grew up in a very rural part of Southern Ireland before moving to the UK as a young woman. From a very early age she instilled into her children the importance of a strong work ethic, honesty and treating people properly. At 13 I had two part time jobs which helped me to understand that hard work pays off. At 28 I joined Romans, at the time a small but very entrepreneurial property services business. I worked with a group of great people and the business kept growing. In 2013 we sold to Bowmark Capital and in 2016 the business was merged with Leaders to form one of the largest privately owned property services companies in the UK. In 2018 Peter became CEO. My top tips, trust and empower the people you work with to make the right decisions, be brave and above all be yourself.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.