Greg Hoffman turned up to Nike HQ in a borrowed van in 1992. Twenty seven years later, he left the building as a creative giant, having worked alongside the heroes of his youth at the highest level of sport.

During his time as Global CMO, he led iconic campaigns across football, basketball, tennis and athletics, always looking outside himself, always listening and always trying to do better for himself and his team.

His book Emotion By Design, distills that experience into an accessible manual for creative leaders.

In this episode he sits down with Bookomi founder Richard Kilgarriff after a Books for Breakfast members' event at Soho House in London.

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Hepzhi Pemberton has her work cut out: With a clear mission to prove that business (and society) does better when it embraces diversity, she's up against a self-harming system that starts at the top.

For instance, in March 2021 there were more FTSE 100 CEO’s called "Andy" or "Steve" than there were female CEO's and CEO's from ethnic minorities combined.

But it's not just race and gender bias that can get in the way of progress. Socio-economic barriers built up over decades still persist today.  For free guidance and advice, Hephzi recommends connecting with The Social Mobility Network . Meanwhile, The Diversity Playbook can be purchased via our independent book shop partner HERE.

This week Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with two brilliant minds: England Rugby World Cup champion, Sky broadcaster and club coach Will Greenwood and his friend of 30 years Ben Fennell, whose stellar career in advertising taught him how to learn, lead and grow at an elite level.

Together, Will and Ben have produced a book for leaders who want to blend their own personal development with the growth of the people around them.

In WORLD CLASS HOW TO LEAD, LEARN AND GROW LIKE A CHAMPION They celebrate and demonstrate the power of diverse minds, abilities and attitudes at work – as seen through the lens of hard-won experiences in sport and business.

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In Wonderworks – Literary Invention and The Science of Stories – dual trained neuroscientist and doctor of literature Angus Fletcher explains how mankind's most enduring technology makes our past, present and future worth living.

From Aristotle Poetic’s  to Mario Puzo’s Godfather, he explores why such inventions were needed, how they work on the human brain and helpfully, where you can find them to make your own life better and more meaningful.

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As the founder of Bookomi - the UK's leading independent connector of authors to audiences in clubs and companies -  I've met some of the world's most wanted minds in new non-fiction.

Bookomi celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022, and its longest running event series - Books for Breakfast at Soho House in London - was one of the first to introduce Yuval Harari and Sapiens.

Since then we've connected hundreds of other brilliant minds in great companies : From tech titans like Peter Thiel to multi-talented musicians like Tim Minchin, Bookomi has access to the deepest, widest, range of author intelligence in the world.

If you need help getting brilliant minds into your company for, events, talks, off-sites and retreats - online and offline - contact Richard on [email protected] or sign up for Bookomi's Most Wanted newsletter HERE

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This week's Bookomi title is recommended by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who says it will help you see risk in an "entirely new way."

In Choose Possibility, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy debunks the "myth of the single choice," (the belief that big decisions rule our future) in favour of making many incremental decisions which move our career (and our life) forward every day.

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This week we’re sharing OMI with the award-winning anti-racism activist, educator, entrepreneur, TED speaker, media commentator and author Nova Reid.

It’s high time, she says, for white people to confront the “ugliness of anti-blackness” in Britain’s colonial history, to own  their shame and move towards a future of “mutual transformation” and “collective healing”

Get your copy of THE GOOD ALLY from Primrose Hill Books HERE

Between 2005 and 2019 Lionel Barber led the digital transformation of the most important business newspaper in the world – The Financial Times -  taking it from the stands to the screen with over one million paying subscribers.

The Powerful and The Damned (buy your copy from Primrose Hill Books HERE) opens up the pages of his private diaries during that turbulent time, exposing off the record chats with the men and women who make and break economies around the world.

In this intimate conversation with Richard Kilgarriff, former FT Editor Lionel Barber talks candidly about his opinion of  Donald Trump (like Tony Soprano) and Dominic Cummings (viewed the British public with contempt). As FT Editor, could he, should he, have done more to prevent Brexit? Which living newspaper editor does he admire most and what does he think about the way Boris Johnson runs the country?

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Power Play was picked by Publicis UK CEO Annette King, get your copy today from our indie bookshop partner Primrose Hill Books.

Elon Musk's impossible dream - to make a desirable, sustainable, mass market electric car - has become a multibillion dollar reality in Tesla - the most valuable automative company in the world.

Today, with a market valuation of $630 billion, Tesla's shares are worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Daimler, and General Motors combined.

To many he embodies the “contemporary electric car zeitgeist” to some he is an underdog, to others an anti-hero or a conman – what’s certain is that few people understand Elon Musk and Tesla better than Wall Street tech and automotive journalist Tim Higgins, who shares his OMI with Richard Kilgarriff.

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What type of leader are you? Are you an Alpha or a Lover even? Top city journalist James Ashton has met hundreds of CEO's and has come up with nine, distinct, types that classify the species in an original, memorable and insightful way.

In this episode we hear about tycoon Richard Desmond's transition from cigars to bananas and why people don't necessarily want the leader of the country to be the same type as the leader of their company.

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