Beyond the Bottomline

Inspired Women: The challenges and successes of women in the boardroom and the route to getting a place there... Different types of board positions available and suitability to certain backgrounds or experience.

Beth Budd Bandler is talking to us today about the challenges and successes of women in the boardroom and the route to getting a place there. From her extensive experience working in what are considered ‘traditionally male’ industries like aerospace, diamond mining as well as luxury retail working for international corporations, she has in depth knowledge of the many aspects needed to succeed in the corporate world and help guide business, and support the workforce, in the right direction at the top.

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More about Beth:

Beth Budd Bandler is an Independent Corporate Director at Magellan Aerospace Corporation – Member of Governance and Nominating Committee: Chair of Environmental and Health & Safety Committee. Instrumental in updating governance policies and processes.

Previously she was Corporate Director and Corporate Secretary for BeaconEye Inc, and Hawker Siddeley Canada Inc.

Earlier in her career Beth was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Harry Winston Diamond Corporation.

In the Arts:

Beth is Director, Chair of Nominating and Governance Committee, member of Finance Committee for the Hamilton Fringe Festival. She is also a Producer of Canadian Plays.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-budd-bandler-c-dir-bb82451a/

Beyond the Bottomline: Having the confidence and thought management focus to transition to where we want to be - and be happy positive and successful...

Rachel Smets is today’s guest talking about how to transition successfully from corporate to something we love – the self confidence, the thought management process and the reality!

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More about Rachel:

Clarity coach, 2xTEDx speaker, YouTuber, author and online course creator.

Rachel helps unfulfilled mid-career corporates confidently plan their 9-5 escape and turn their passion into income so they can have more freedom and live life on their terms.

Life is short, start living!

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Inspired Women: Equality, diversity and acceptance start in the cradle and what better way to understand this than by illustration and example - it makes it fun too!

Today’s guest is Stephanie Green, a wonderfully talented artist, activist and entrepreneur.

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More about Steph:

Stephanie Green – Artist, Activist, Entrepreneur and Businesswoman, Stephanie Green is passionate about building lasting gender equality. At 21 she became the country’s youngest councillor in her home town of Taunton. By 25 she was Circulation Director at an international publishing house. Following her love of graphic design she opened her own successful studio KindredDesign.studio in 2010. In 2016 she founded Dauntless Daughters to create bold, diverse illustrations, stories, games, goods and services that empower girls and young women. For children seeing is believing so it is critical to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) success to provide diverse learning resources, story books and images staring female and minority characters. When my children were born we began our Waldorf journey.

Then came Waldorf Family – Stephanie says: 

"As my two strong, clever girls grew, I found myself drawing and creating pieces for them, nurturing their relationship with nature. Waldorf Family was created in October 2018 to share these products to friends and family. From these cottage industry roots Waldorf Family has grown expeditiously to sell a range of products, globally. I still work from my home studio, but Waldorf Family now has manufacturing, fulfilment and warehousing in Herefordshire and Berkshire, England. I am inspired by nature: if I could help children in the built environment connect to nature and help those who do not find a good fit in the educational system find wonder in learning then I will be doing what I was put here to do.

I believe we are all here to serve, our society, our purpose: it is our job to dig deep and discover what lights our fire: for me that is drawing and painting. This creative process led me firmly to create for children. I still remember a painting I had when I was about 6 or 7 in all the corners it had so many details I remember starring for hours at this whole other world not really sure if it was a real world – existing in that flat paper space. Last year I was in the Musée de l'Orangerie in the ground of the Louvre in the immersive space of Monet's Water Lilies, reduced to tears, in the energy held in that space. His quest to heal the pain of the war for the people of France. Art has a magic, an energy that can touch our hearts.

I want to make pictures that children love. Images of children playing, sunny days and butterflies. I want my art to stick in their hearts to make a space that reminds them to go outside a play. If we forget nature we are lost.

Beyond the Bottomline: The realities of working in high pressure sectors like investment banking. The challenges of performing well, achieving goals and managing pressure and how corporate wellness programs can help.

My guest today is Scott Robinson of Deutsche Bank and YogiBanker! We are going to be talking about the challenges of performing well, achieving goals and managing pressure and how corporate wellness programs can help with this.

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More about Scott:

Scott Robinson is a finance professional, qualified mindfulness meditation and yoga teacher, Corporate Wellbeing Advocate, and specialises in offering yoga & mediation services to finance professionals under the brand of ‘Yogibanker’.

Originally from Sydney, Australia, Scott’s background is in the financial sector in the City of London and helps to runs the employee-led mindfulness and yoga sessions at Deutsche Bank in the UK, one of the largest financial groups in the world. Scott also teaches yoga at Ten Health & Fitness, one of London’s leading boutique health and fitness providers.

One of Scott’s proudest achievements has been running Yoga for Beginners courses at Deutsche Bank, bringing yoga to many who had no prior experience of the practice, and seeing their lives transformed through yoga.

Scott’s yoga practice is based on a style of dynamic vinyasa flow, whilst at the same time emphasising steadiness and good space in each yoga class. At the other end of the spectrum, Scott also offers classes in yin yoga, providing students the opportunity to find a different, more quiet side to their yoga practice.

With his mindfulness meditation practice, Scott brings a calm-abiding approach to each session, allowing students to experience stillness through mindfulness of breathing.

You can find Scott’s group classes here: https://www.yogibanker.com/classes

Or to work privately with him: https://www.yogibanker.com/yoga-classes-city-London/

Social media:

IG: @yogibanker

Facebook: @yogibanker2

Twitter: @yogibanker1

To receive Scott’s newsletter (and receive his free guide, ‘5 Things You Need to Start Your Yoga Practice’) Http://eepurl.com/daLhRf

Inspired Women: Elaine Slatter - The development of women's entrepreneurship, the qualities and strengths needed for successful leadership - and how women leadership communities help you thrive.

It is always a great pleasure to talk to Elaine Slatter and hear her wisdom, experience and expertise on corporate leadership as well as entrepreneurship – particularly relating to women and how they can thrive. Today not only will be be talking about women’s entrepreneurial skills but also about creating women’s leadership communities and how incredibly supportive and successful they can be.

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More about Elaine:

Never one to take the easy path, Elaine Slatter left the UK at 19 to pursue adventure in Canada.  Not satisfied with staying in the admin pool and with a burning desire for a career, she started taking university courses on a part-time basis while at the same time raising two children.

A graduate of McMaster University in Hamilton and Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Elaine has an extensive corporate resume spanning over 30 years of experience in the manufacturing, retail and distribution sectors.   This experience includes product launches, branding, trade show execution, IT projects, website development, e-commerce websites, international customer service set up and bonded warehouse experience.  Elaine was CEO of the Canadian operations for a US manufacturer.  In this capacity, she was responsible for sales, finance, customer service, marketing, warehousing operations and the bottom line.

Life can throw unexpected curves. Elaine was the reluctant owner of retail business after the death of her husband.  During a three year period Elaine managed to run this business and package it for sale, while still continuing to work in an executive position for a global welding manufacturer.

After leaving the corporate sector, Elaine became the founder and CEO of XL Consulting Group.  This consultancy is a small business advisory, specializing in entrepreneurial startups and businesses that are not experiencing their full potential. Clients can engage XL Consulting to improve their business strategies, plan for growth or business loans or execute marketing optimization in both the traditional and social channels.  Branding and website development are key pillars we use to help small businesses grow their market presence.

Some of Elaine’s other links:

Website: https://independentwomeninleadership.com/

Meetup community.  https://www.meetup.com/Independent-WOMEN-IN-LEADERSHIP/

Fabulous Fempreneurship Podcast: https://fabfempreneurship.com/podcasts/

Beyond the Bottomline:

Alice Beveridge - Developing Holistic Leaders

Developing holistic leaders, and positive psychology and how this can be applied practically. Approaches to build resilience and signature strengths.

Alice Beveridge of Tree of Knowledge is my guest today. We are talking about developing holistic leaders, and particularly about positive psychology and how this can be applied practically. Also about approaches to build resilience and signature strengths; and what action we can take for personal motivation and improved mindset to enjoy a better environment around us in the workplace.

We also explore how the corporate world has different visions on wellbeing and how to implement this.

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More about Alice:

‘Hilarious and Engaging’

‘Simply Fantastic’

‘She has a contagious Energy’

Alice is a truly unique speaker. Psychologist, teacher, director and keeper of chickens she brings a wealth of knowledge, personal experience and energy to everything she delivers. Alice is an expert in all things leadership, wellbeing and Mindset. As a positive psychologist she challenges the way people sees themselves. She has a true passion for helping people realise that they are in control of their lives and by introducing people to a range of positive psychology theories and interventions, through fun and laughter, Alice helps them ignite their spark.

To find out more about Alice and how she can support your business visit https://treeof.com/tok-business/

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Ruth Sacks - Women Entrepreneurs in Tech and Finding Investor Funding

Boardrooms and the evolution of the number of women on FTSE boards. Women entrepreneurs and founders, changes and trends for them and seeking funding in tech. What are investor expectations.

As the Principal Consultant of Boardroom Focus, working on leadership effectiveness initiatives for start-ups, scale-ups as well as more established businesses, Ruth advises women founders of tech start-ups on how to stride forward and build their success. She has delivered a range of leadership and change projects in the UK, Europe and the USA.

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More about Ruth:

Ruth Sacks is Principal Consultant, Boardroom Focus.

Ruth creates and delivers bespoke initiatives for start-ups, scale-ups as well as more established businesses. to encourage leadership effectiveness across the organisation. She works with individuals and teams to strengthen and enhance their skills and competences.

Ruth is currently advising women founders of tech start-ups, encouraging them to stride forward and build their success.

She has recently designed and facilitated on-line workshops on Dealing with Imposter Syndrome, Managing your career from your Back-Bedroom and Working through Organisational Politics.

Ruth has delivered a range of leadership and change projects in the UK, Europe and the USA. Clients have included HSBC, Barclays, Swissport, the NHS, Cadbury Trebor Basset, and The United Nations. She lived and worked in Paris for 14 years and speaks fluent French.

Website  https://www.boardroomfocus.co.uk

Beyond the Bottomline:

Nicolas Taisne - Coporate Wellbeing and motivation

Corporate Wellbeing and Motivation as effected by 'practical' philosophy on meaning of life. Public and private sector vision of wellbeing and success.

We will be talking about Corporate Wellbeing and Motivation as effected by ‘practical’ philosophy on meaning of life. A lot of what we hear about the philosophy of the meaning of life is idealogy and theory but which is more difficult to be really down to earth practical!

Nicolas will be talking about his extensive experience of both public and private sector and the views commonly found on productivity, motivation as well as on wellbeing and quality of life.

Including some ideas on what employees can do to positively change their vision to more holistic goals that take in every aspect of their life as part of their vision of success and not just focus on professional targets.

More about Nicolas:

Nicolas says that “A manager should act as a sports coach and sparring partner: always positive, set ambitious goals, committed, human and resilient”

Nicolas has an extensive 23 years of experience in sales and team management in complex environments in the IT sector for private and public clients as Public sector director and VP in IT Consulting and Software Cie.

In a sector that is constantly evolving and facing a major manpower shortage, Nicolas develops, experiments and researches the best management methods to attract, motivate and retain talents.

LinkedIn: Nicolas Taisne

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Jutta Jerlich - Development as Motivation and Inspiration

Development as motivation and inspiration, particularly in tech and engineering. The art of collaboration and co-creation and how it can inspire creative confidence and entrepreneurial thinking.

Jutta Jerlich is my guest today on Inspired Women talking to us about development as motivation and inspiration. Jutta works mainly in tech and engineering so we will also be covering the following:

A very interesting interview!

More about Jutta:

Jutta Jerlich – Educator with an e-Learning DNA, teaching & learning expert and innovation consultant with 25 years living and working in 14 cities across 7 countries in 3 continents at the intersection of academia, business and non-profit organizations.

Jutta has always been passionate about bringing things to life, she is an expert in creating spaces where creativity flows and people feel safe to allow new ways of thinking. Her students, partners and clients love her creativity and the unconventional ways she approaches challenges. It is her superpower to transform failure into learning because she believes that there is no success or failure but there are answers to questions or results from experiments. She is eager to share how this can also work for you bringing your ideas to life – because your ideas first need that fertile ground in you.

Get Jutta’s newsletter here – https://bit.ly/collabcocreateinspiration 

And her free upcoming course – https://bit.ly/collabcocreateonimoox

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Alexis Costello - Dealing with Emotional and Informational Overload

How we can deal with the emotional and informational overload that is so increasingly present in our daily lives - plus some practical exercises that we can use to help reduce stress and pressure.

Alexis Costello is a holistic health practitioner and specialised kinesiologist who as well as showing us some practical exercises that we can use to help reduce stress and pressure will also be exploring the topic of how we can deal with the emotional and informational overload that is so increasingly present in our daily lives.

We will be talking about what we can do to practically change these issues to give us a better – and happier, more positive, lifestyle both in our personal and out professional lives.

We are also going to dip into the fascinating world of epigenetics and how we can use this to improve our and our children’s lifestyles.

Click here for the upcoming Epigenetics Course Alexis talked about in the interview.

More about Alexis:

Alexis Costello has been a Holistic Health Practitioner for more than 20 years and has served on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Specialized Kinesiology (IASK) as well as national associations. She has been a Touch for Health Instructor since 2007 and is now an Instructor Trainer and Assessor for the International Kinesiology College (IKC). Alexis is one of the few Stress Indicator Point System (SIPS) Instructors of levels 1-8, BAP (Body Alignment Protocol), and VIP (Virus Immune Program) certified by Ian Stubbings and travels around the world teaching this modality, training new instructors, and serving as the Chief Operations Officer for SIPS International. Alexis is constantly growing and developing her professional experience and knowledge.

Alexis Costello uses Neural Organizational Technique (N.O.T), Brain Formatting, K for Kids Playshops and other techniques. In her practice Alexis employs Bach Flower essences, herbology, aromatherapy and massage. She is also the editor and publisher of the KinesioGeek Magazine. You can find all its issues online on www.gemskinesiology.com and it’s absolutely free.

The GEMS program currently consists of four classes and is intended for practising kinesiologists and muscle response testors who have taken Touch for Health 1-4 and who want to keep on learning and grow in helping people and become better practitioners. This GEMS Flow is based on the information from the Touch for Health synthesis and allows a practitioner to easily move between modalities and include all the knowledge they have, while the Business, Nutrition and Elementals classes are available to anyone using muscle response testing and wishing to level up as a practitioner.

Proud KinesioGeek: alexiscostello.com

Read the magazine: gemskinesiology.com

Holistic Freedom: A KinesioGeek Workbook