Digital Transformation & Leadership with Danny Levy

In this episode of the B2B eCommerce Leaders series, Danny Levy and Farrukh Shad, Senior Vice President, Head of Global eCommerce at Schneider Electric, discuss rapidly changing consumer behaviour and how you can capitalise on this moment of change. Are you getting every Digital Transformation & Leadership episode in your favourite podcast player?  If not you can easily subscribe and get past episodes here. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. 

In this episode Danny Levy talks to Brian Choo, Founder, Managing Director at TheSmartLocal.com. TheSmartLocal.com is a hyper-local lifestyle publication that reaches over half the Singapore population monthly. Their main audience is the 18-40 millennial demographic. Once you're able to hold the attention of this generation, you'll find engaging any segment easy. To communicate any message, you first need attention. But our noisy digital landscape is saturated with brand messages and consumed by savvy millennials who have become desensitised to advertising. Many brands struggle to get their content seen. TheSmartLocal.com help their partners cut through the clutter through original branded content that reaches millions of Singaporeans, harnessing the virality of social media. Are you getting every Digital Transformation & Leadership episode in your favourite podcast player? If not you can easily subscribe and get past episodes here. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. 

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks with Ben Flintoff, General Manager at Baskin-Robbins Australia, about transparency and the questions that transparency raises. Your team, clients, suppliers will always tell you they crave open and honest communication. This will be right up to the point when you tell them something they don’t want to hear or more importantly, don’t know how to process the information you’ve given. Ben also shares how to create a culture of world class execution in order to future proof your business. He pioneered ice cream delivery and created a new category in the process. Delivering ice cream on demand to homes and offices seemed completely crazy until Ben cracked the reason behind why they were doing it.  If you like this episode, you'll probably also love... ...these past episodes: 100% focus and effort - How to become your best self  Agile and resilient leadership - How to develop a brilliant culture 6 leadership habits you can develop to elevate, inspire & create Are you getting every episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership in your favourite podcast player? You can find us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to subscribe.

In this episode of the B2B eCommerce Leaders series, Danny Levy talks with Farrukh Shad, Senior Vice President, Head of Global eCommerce at Schneider Electric, about what's happening in the B2B eCommerce space and how the health pandemic has caused a shift in consumer behaviors. If you like this episode, you'll also probably also love... ...these past episodes: Digital Transformation & Change Management in a B2B environment Demystifying B2B eCommerce   Retail Digital Transformation  Are you getting every episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership in your favorite podcast player? You can find us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to subscribe. 

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Sharon Gai, Director of Global Key Accounts at Alibaba Group and Christian Skaar, Global eCommerce Director at L'Oréal. They get into, ‘How to infuse eCommerce with personality and humanity to connect emotionally with your customers and secure long-term loyalty.’ Through the health pandemic we’ve seen huge damage to economies around the world and retail shops forced to close and move online to survive. As eCommerce booms some brands are thriving but sadly others are not. Mental health has also come under the microscope as employers have to make sue that people forced to work from home have the support they need. At the same time taking advantage of digital commerce opportunities has never been more important with many companies looking to build the digital skills of their teams. Danny, Sharon and Christian get into these points and discuss how to position your brand as as socially responsible and empathic, building a following of passionate brand advocates and how to build detailed consumer profiles to form deeper personalised connections.

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Felix Leong, Director of Sales (South Asia) at Vonage. They get into interactive video commerce and discuss three key points that will help you bring it successfully into your organisation. The retail experience, how to leverage AR/VR (with examples of how the technology is being used NOW) and how you can use it to drive revenue and growth. This edition is brought to you with Vonage: The global cloud communications leader, that helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation, with Unified Communications, Contact Centers, and Communications APIs.

In this featured episode from the Digital Marketing & CX Virtual Summit, Denis Sekic, Social Selling Consultant & Founder at Ceedoo.com talks to Anvesha Poswalia, Digital Marketing Lead from L'Oreal Professionnel, Narayan Keshavan, Head - Digital Analytics (Design Analytics) at Dell Technologies and Jitin Sharma, Global Digital Marketing Advisor from Shell. They get into how you can generate forward-looking insights that can be used to make operational, managerial and strategic decisions rather than just “rearview” descriptions of what happened.

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership Danny Levy talks to Mark Sutherland the Director at Transform to Digital and the Senior Head of eCommerce at the Stone Group. They get into the key pillars for a successful B2B eCommerce, why you need to focus on the ends not the means, how CRM changes the skill-sets required for your sales team, overcoming the fear of the human factor being replaced by eCommerce, driving contractual relationships instead of individual sales and how to win long term instead of short term contracts. Mark also shares his top leadership and life/career lessons.  Mark is a client-focused Digital and eCommerce Director with a track record for delivering high quality, growing and profitable digital platforms. He has developed complex digital road-maps to effect change in matrix organisations across Sales, Marketing, Operations and Customer Experience functions. Built and delivered campaigns to drive internal and external messaging to key stakeholders with measurable results.

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Tony Wilson the Head Coach, Director at Performance Lab. They talk through three points that will help you get the best out of yourself inside and outside of work.  This includes tactics to cut down the time you work by giving 100% focus and effort, doing the harder thing (deciding what NOT to do), managing physical and emotional energy, mastery of work, home, relationships and self and how to manage stress by doing the small things instead of the big ones.  Originally a performance coach for elite athletes and sporting teams throughout Australia and the USA, Tony combines his degrees in performance science (BSc) and contemporary management theory (MBA) to put a unique slant on high performance in and out of the office. With a focus on the science of high performance, Tony works with leaders around the world to help create the environment for their people to thrive, and works with individuals on managing their own performance and productivity. He is changing the way people work and lead. You should have work life balance AND performance. When you track your goals and create new habits, you set up your day to be more effective.  The Focus Planner is a new type of journal that allows you to do this - Check it out here https://www.performancelab.com.au/Focus-Planner 

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Martin Pasquier the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Innovation is Everywhere. They talk through two points that will help you fast track your digital transformation, the idea and alignment. Where you can get the best inspiration and the importance of never moving alone when you want to drive forward change.  Martin is an accomplished Entrepreneur, Consultant Lecturer and Keynote Speaker with over 12 years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies with their digital transformation across APAC. He works with a range of clients such as Executive Committees looking to understand the Chinese market, operational teams who want to build capability in design thinking or acceleration programs, and scale-ups opening their markets in APAC.