Kiko Thiel began her professional life as a management consultant. And she was extremely successful. But, as she climbed higher in the consulting ranks, her sense of altitude sickness increased. She began to question whether striving for excellence was a good enough goal:

“Excellence is really about staying within the status quo and striving harder, whereas extraordinary is creating a new paradigm. Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Walt Disney… there are certain individuals who just find their own way and ask probing questions. They don’t take anything for granted. These people see things differently”. 

Kiko has devoted the last ten years to researching this phenomenon. Focusing on the mindsets, motivations and behaviours of extraordinary people she has now become a sought-after speaker and PhD mentor to business leaders. In this podcast, she reveals why some people are driven to trade excellence for exceptional. Why they view life through a different lens to get an entirely different perspective on possibilities. 

Today Robert chats with Nick Harmer VP of EMEA for Vantiq. Vantiq create applications that integrate and orchestrate – in real-time – data-streams from any source… from IoT and mobile devices to existing enterprise systems and, of course, people.

Created by industry veterans from the database and distributed apps space, this is not another dashboard from a cloud or hyperscale vendor. Vantiq is a holistic solution that addresses all the hidden challenges of building and operating mission-critical, real-time apps.

The Vantiq software platform combines low-code development tools with an application deployment and run-time system. It delivers real-time applications at unprecedented speed, accelerating time to value and customer return on investment.

The topic for today’s Podcast is ‘Scaling human expertise’. To help us all understand this concept, may I introduce you to James Duez who is the CEO of Rainbird, probably the leading player in this field

The topic for today’s Podcast is 'Customer Lifecycle Intelligence' with Andrew Yates the CEO and co-founder of ‘FullCircl’ – a company dedicated to helping regulated industries harness the power of Customer Lifecycle Intelligence. With more than 600 institutional clients including seven of the nine CMA banks, Andrew has a wealth of knowledge to share. 

The topic for today’s Podcast is 'Digital Twins' with Richard Ahlfeld – the founder and CEO of Monolith AI. Four years ago, this specialist team was spun-off from Imperial College London to pioneer business applications for digital twinning. And their work is already having huge – sometimes game-changing – impact on many key sectors of industry.

The topic for today’s Podcast is 'Accurately forecasting sales' with Andy McDonald, CEO - Cloudapps a leading player in this vital area.

The topic for today’s Podcast is 'Protecting People and Buildings' with Charles Paumelle , Co-founder, Microshare a leading player in this increasingly important space

The topic for today’s Podcast is ‘Innovating with SAP’. 

To help us understand what's possible I talk to Chris Chittock - the CEO of leading SAP consultancy Pivot.

The topic for today’s Podcast is ‘Net Zero’. 

• What are the big business challenges of Net Zero?
• Where and who are the best Net Zero exemplars? 
• How can you achieve your Net Zero ambitions?

To help us all understand how to achieve this I talk to Subject expert, Ben Murray – the CEO of leading sustainability consultancy Avieco

The topic for today’s Podcast is ‘Innovation at scale’. To help us all understand how to achieve this may I talk to Simon Hill who is the CEO of Wazoku, a leading provider of Innovation Management tools and services