Connecting With Purpose

Neil Turnham takes on hosting duty for episode 10 of Connecting with Purpose, being joined by Jo Oliver who owns and runs the Jo Oliver Golf Academy and is also the lead coach for the Hertfordshire Country golf team in the UK.

Jo has been a golf professional for 25 years. A former England International, representing England in a winning home international squad, Jo then progressed in the sport, competing on the Ladies European Tour for 16 years and winning the order of merit on the WPGA, here in the UK in 2013.

Jo shares her experiences as a professional golfer in Europe, what drove her at an early age to represent her country and how she was able to translate that drive, post injury, to bring golf to all corners of society.

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Geoff shares his view on transformational leadership. How it is grounded in purpose, inspired by vision and driven by belief. Learn about how Geoff has applied this approach in his role at multi-billion dollar J.M. Smucker company in addition to through his non-profit Opening Track sharing the power of music to thousands of deserving youth.

A transformational business leader with extensive experience and a proven track record of driving top and bottom-line growth. Geoff is passionate about harnessing a 'Power of One' mentality across multiple teams and organizations to deliver incredible brand experiences throughout every touch point of the commercial funnel.

Geoff Tanner, Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer, defines his mission as championing, nurturing, and enabling every element of brand building and driving growth. To him, achieving this starts and ends with unleashing the passion, capabilities, agility and creativity of employees and strategic partners.

In his current role, Geoff oversees teams dedicated to supporting the consumer and customer experience across the commercial funnel. This includes Consumer Engagement, Innovation, Insights & Analytics, as well as the U.S. Retail Sales, Market Development and eCommerce organizations. He is responsible for ensuring the seamless integration of all teams focused on delivering world class products, marketing and sales experiences. A key element of the role is 'stitching' external agency partners to also support the 'Power of One' approach.

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A really insightful and engaging conversation with J.P. O'Brien, Founder and CEO of Black Lab Sports and Me Biosciences. Learn from JP how to build or invest in a business, on purpose. What works, what doesn't. Start with "know thyself". How to aspire, activate and enable "Thinker-Doers" to grow transformational businesses.

J.P.'s purpose is to "unleash the greatness of people around me". We explore with J.P. the domains of human potential, the application of growth mindset, intentionality, impact all backed up with real-life examples. If you are an entrepreneur, founder or investor - don't miss this!

Jean-Paul (JP) O'Brien, the CEO and Managing Director at Black Lab, is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and community builder. O'Brien is on a mission to inspire, activate, and hyper-enable scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, elite athletes, and creatives to design and build a beautiful future for all of humanity. Black Lab builds and invests in HumanTech ventures, with themes centered around Longevity, Consciousness, Community, and Environment.

J.P. is also Founder and CEO of Me Biosciences, Inc., a precision nutrition and human performance company, is President of Flywheel Project, a 501(c)3 education non-profit, is a Lead Mentor with Techstars, earned his B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University, where he played D1 lacrosse and football, and on the weekends, he can be found playing lacrosse, skiing, and trail-running the foothills of Colorado.

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This was such an enjoyable and engaging conversation with Nell, an incredible purpose-driven leader doing amazing work.

Nell Derick Debevoise is a thought partner to purpose-driven leaders, as well as speaker, author, and Founder and CEO of Inspiring Capital. Debevoise's guidance helps CEOs and CHROs expand their impact, grow their businesses, and build powerful legacies. She has lived and worked on 4 continents, and collaborated across sectors with Japanese executives, Palestinian community leaders, French high school students, and Mozambique education ministry officials among others.

Debevoise also studied leadership, innovation, and intercultural dialog at Harvard, Cambridge, Universita di Roma, and Columbia and London Business Schools. In 2011, she moved to New York and founded Inspiring Capital, a certified B Corp that offers purposeful leadership development content and programming to accelerate the movement of business as a force for good. Debevoise is a Senior Contributor for Forbes, and her first book, Going First: Find the Courage to Lead Purposefully and Inspire Action (Fall 2021) is an International Best Seller.

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Join us with David Madden, Co-Founder of Makosi for episode 6 of Connecting with Purpose. Watch this to learn more about a simple and effective approach to leadership, organizational growth and change.

David has built three businesses and his current venture, Makosi, continues to grow while disrupting the auditing industry. David's success has been purpose-driven, brought to life with a complete commitment to his values, belief in doing things better and relentless resilience.

A few quotes from David for success:

Do: "Get people talking"

Believe: "What are they doing that I can't do"

See: "People for the bigger version of themselves"

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In Connecting with Purpose Episode 5, we host Mike Geddes Chief Purpose Officer for the USA's first professional sports team to be founded on purpose - the Oakland Roots Soccer Club. Don't miss this conversation. Mike provides so many practical insights as to how the club have embedded purpose at the core of everything they do, from purpose driven stakeholders experiences, to departmental cohesion, commercial strategy and metrics. Most importantly, demonstrating care for their community who then in turn care for the team.

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What can you learn from this military leader on the power of purpose, leadership and performance?

Next up in the PurposeFused Connecting with Purpose series Neil talks with Wing Commander Matt Roberts OBE DFC. Matt is a squadron commander in the RAF's Chinook helicopter force which is has its 40th anniversary of operational service this year.

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This was a brilliant conversation with Steve Tew, former CEO of New Zealand Rugby Union- home of the most successful sports franchise in the history of sports - the New Zealand All Blacks. Included are some great insights into building a winning culture and an environment of success; how purpose ties to performance; the importance of winning and of course Steve's proudest impacts and magic moments. A few keynote segments are listed below.

This was a brilliant conversation with Steve Tew, former CEO of New Zealand Rugby Union- home of the most successful sports franchise in the history of sports - the New Zealand All Blacks. Included are some great insights into building a winning culture and an environment of success; how purpose ties to performance; the importance of winning and of course Steve's proudest impacts and magic moments. A few keynote segments are listed below.

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Connecting with Purpose brings you inspirational and insightful conversations with winners and thought leaders from multiple sectors to provide you with a 360-degree view on purpose. Our purpose – to inspire you to unlock your potential and optimize your performance and impact.

In episode 2, we hop inside PurposeFused for a 30 minute conversation hosted by Shauna Griffiths of SLG Impact, with myself (Mark Griffin) and my Founding Partner Neil Turnham. We provide context to the podcast and how it fits with our our business, in addition to exploring our general philosophy, experiences and of course - magic moments.

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Connecting with Purpose brings you inspirational and insightful conversations with winners and thought leaders from multiple sectors to provide you with a 360-degree view on purpose. Our purpose – to inspire you to unlock your potential and optimize your performance and impact.

Join us as we speak with the truly inspirational Kevin Roberts, founder of RedRose consulting and former worldwide CEO and Chairman of the incredible Saatchi and Saatchi. See notes below for Kevin's bio and keynotes from the interview.

Kevin's bio:

Kevin Roberts is an international business leader, founder, consultant and educator. His company Red Rose Consulting counsels business leaders and employees on creative thinking, marketing, and leadership.

A CEO for over 30 years, Kevin has an uncompromisingly positive and inspirational leadership style, with an ability to generate ideas and emotional connections that accelerate extraordinary value. Kevin's latest book 64 Shots: Leadership in a Crazy World (2016) offers frameworks and solutions for winning in a business world that has become volatile, complex, uncertain, and ambiguous.