We're starting the new season with a very special edition of our Building Back Better podcast. Normally it's our host, Luke Murfitt, who's asking the questions - but this time, he's the one in the hot seat! 

Coach & Development Consultant, Amantha King, is the interviewer this week - and she does a great job in helping Luke to share his inspiring story!

Luke embodies all the values we hold dear at Awards International, and it's always a privilege to hear him outline his unique perspective on business - and life.  Click below to listen for yourself!

In this week’s podcast, Luke has been building up the Dons by interviewing two key players in the Awards Ceremony: Mark Colbourne, our host for the day, and Sam Moinet, our keynote speaker. They discuss the importance of resilience in both life and business, and what we can expect at the awards on Thursday! 

In this week's episode, Luke has a very special guest: Roger Camrass, Research Director of CIONET UK. At MIT in the 70s, Roger was one of the early designers of the internet, and since then, he's been helping organisations explore the possibilities of the digital world. Find out his predictions for where the tech revolution will go next!

In this week's Building Back Better podcast, Luke speaks to his most precocious guest yet! Mehul Chopra is a young entrepreneur who started out selling confectionery at his school. Now, aged just 16, he's founded TEIYU UK, an organisation helping aspiring entrepreneurs develop essential skills and take the risks required to succeed. His is a fascinating story - click below to listen! 

Would you like to know the three steps to use when looking at emerging technologies and to identify the opportunities and risks they pose?  Based on his experience over several years as an independent consultant, Gary Nuttall shares his journey that led to the development of his simple Educate – Explore – Evaluate framework:

• Educate – Learn the basics about how new technologies work
• Explore – Understand where the technologies are already being used
• Evaluate – Explore the risks and opportunities for your industry or firm that the technology offers

Building Back Better Podcast host Luke Murfitt discusses with Gary the coping strategies we need in order to understand and utilise the technologies that are changing faster and faster in our commercial and personal lives.

Join Luke Murfitt and the Building Back Better podcast as we talk to Success Coach, Amantha King. You'll learn about :

• The 4 zones of action and how you move through them to grow your business.
• Why your customers need to know your values and how you bring them to life.
• The power of your brain and how you can use your strengths to overcome obstacles.
• The 3 areas that every business owner /leader needs to know. 

Hear how Amantha uses simple tools and techniques to enable her clients to build world-class teams and businesses that build back better. And how you can too.

How can we use the future to build back better?

Renowned futurist Rohit Talwar is interviewed by Global Ambassador of Awards International Luke Murfitt. 

Topics explored:

• The key drivers of change that leaders need to be aware of. 
• Why we need future-focused leaders (FFL)
• The key attributes of FFL
• How to develop FFL
• How can FFL stay on top of a changing world?
• How to bring future insights back into the organisation?
• Key challenges FFL face when trying to deliver change and how to overcome them. 
• Four key takeaways/advice for those who want to become FFL. 

Rohit Talwar is an award-winning global futurist, business advisor, writer, and professional speaker.  His clients range from global businesses and SMEs to governments and international institutions.

He advises businesses of every size on how to anticipate and prepare for the critical factors that could shape the future and explore how they might interact to create different possible scenarios. 

He then helps those organisations develop strategies and leadership abilities that prepare them for a range of possible Futures. 

He believes that the pandemic and its aftermath have highlighted the importance of developing future Focused leaders.

Rohit is the author and co-editor of 6 books on the emerging future.

He is currently focused on delivering programs to create future Focused leaders and helping them prepare for major disruptions such as the rise of the crypto economy, artificial intelligence, and the fundamental disruption of every industry sector.

The Global Ambassador of Awards International, Luke Murfitt, interviews Rohit Talwar on we can all build back better. 

Mitali is a seasoned business leader and runs her own business coaching practice from London. She works with startup founders, SMEs and business leaders at large corporates in business growth and leadership development.

With over 20 years of rich and versatile experience in Strategy, Sales & Marketing Operations, Process Excellence, IT consulting, and Program Management, Mitali is a coach who has a proven track record. The majority of the work experience is with global companies like PwC, Microsoft, GE & GoDaddy, where she has been a high potential talent and has held senior leadership roles across India, UK and EMEA. She has been instrumental in building scalable processes to support business growth and leading and coaching teams to deliver results and customer impact.

Mitali is the recipient of the London Coach Award– for Best Client results 2017 & 2019 and won the UK Coach of the year for Best Client results. Her success story has been published in leading publications like Daily mail and BFA.

Out of 18,000 business coaches, Mitali Chopra is part of the World’s No.1 Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches program, an elite group of international coaches being mentored by Marshall himself.

Mark Colbourne MBE is no ordinary international keynote speaker ! Because he is also a former World & Paralympic Cycling Champion.

Luke Murfitt talks to the olympian for the Building Back Better Podcast on what proves to be a inspirational interview!

Mark overcame a near fatal paragliding crash and went on from breaking his back in 2009 to breaking world records on the velodrome track at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

What is it like to be the CEO of Awards International right now? Building Back Better, this week Luke welcomes back Neil Skehel, CEO of Awards International for an update on how the UK Business Awards is going how Awards International survived and thrived and their plans for the future. Find out Neil’s words of advice for business; 1. There is no problem to which we cannot find a solution. 2. The importance of trust and 3. Embracing change.