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The voice you hear when you speak is not the one your team hears.

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David Pope is an executive voice coach based in Hong Kong for 32 years. He started in 1980s London at a Soho production company making music videos for Wham!, Dire Straits and A-ha, then joined the BBC as an assistant film editor. He founded All Voice Talent in 2010, has spent more than 30,000 hours in recording studios and coaches leaders from law firms and financial institutions in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Australia, the Middle East and London.

About 20 years ago he was told that growing his business meant leaving the studio for stages and workshops. He did, made mistakes in public and built the confidence he now teaches.

In this episode:

- The three most common executive presence faults: speaking too fast, a monotone delivery and filler words

- Why a slightly slower pace reads as authority when you present results, and rapid delivery reads as nerves

- The emphasis pause before a key figure, such as a 33% rise, so the number lands with the room

- The rhetorical question pause before the answer

- Chunking: mark a script with slash marks and stress one word per chunk, what Pope calls "audio punctuation"

- Speakers who think they paused for five seconds usually paused for half a second

- Gravitas is a balance of authority, energy and warmth, not a booming voice

- In Center for Talent Innovation research, 5% of senior leaders named appearance and 28% communication as core to executive presence; the majority named gravitas

- Pope's Voice Influence Framework: voice, presence and messaging

- Pope says charisma can be developed; Ademola argues it is largely natural

More from David Pope:

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Hosted by Ademola Odewade — chartered accountant, author of Human-Led, AI-Powered Finance (foreword by Professor Dave Ulrich), and Founder of K-Dems Consulting.

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Esther Adeogun spent over a decade in audit and assurance across KPMG Nigeria, WYZE, Sapro, PKF Littlejohn and RSM UK, working between Lagos and London. She audited multinationals with US, Canadian and Australian parent structures. She then left professional services to found Valdore Systems and Intelligence Limited (VSIL), a pre-product platform building what she calls an intelligent operating layer: financial intelligence, controls and real-time visibility embedded directly into business workflows rather than applied after the fact.

The pattern that convinced her was not jurisdictional. Across Lagos, London and multinational engagements she kept meeting the same problem. Organisations had invested heavily in software, yet finance teams still ran on spreadsheets, manual reconciliations and judgement applied outside the system. Some of her design partners begin their July month-end work in the second or third week of July in order to report to management by 4 August. That is time taken away from professional judgement and scepticism, and Esther argues the gap between activity and visibility is the thing worth closing, not the accounting concepts underneath it.

In this episode:

• The one sentence she would give a Fortune 500 CEO: an intelligent operating layer embedding financial intelligence, controls and real-time visibility into business workflows
• The exact shift from auditor to founder, moving from "what went wrong" to "why did the system allow this to happen in the first place"
• Why real-time reporting does not overturn the historical cost concept, and what she actually means by real-time
• What SAP, Oracle and Microsoft would say in response, and where the design philosophies genuinely diverge
• Where AI earns its place, and the deterministic, rules-based work that should stay conventional software
• "Consulting is largely constrained by people and time" and why that pushed her to SaaS instead of another consulting firm
• The four eras of accounting: paper, spreadsheets, ERP, and AI-assisted decision-making
• Whether the Big Four look the same in 2035, and why she thinks firms evolve rather than disappear
• Nigeria rewards technical skill, the UK rewards relationships, and what that cost her to learn
• Why she no longer believes progress is linear, and what experimentation replaced it with
• Rapid fire: the biggest misconception about AI, the biggest misconception about accounting, and the technology she is watching
• Her legacy test: not to be remembered for building software but for helping build better businesses

More from Esther:

LinkedIn (personal): linkedin.com/in/esther-adeogun-0b9118125

LinkedIn (company): linkedin.com/company/valdore-systems-intelligence-ltd

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Most transformation programmes fail because the organisation is quietly protecting the very thing you are trying to change.

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Zhanna Zhuravleva grew up in Georgia and lived through war as a child, then built her career across Russia, Israel and the UK. She completed two master's degrees — finance and human resources — followed by postgraduate study, and taught finance, management and philosophy at a university in St. Petersburg.

She started in industry as a Kaizen team leader and went on to lead HR and cultural transformation across organisations of more than 1,000 people in 40 countries. She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, has run over 3,000 sessions with leaders, and founded Awake Conscious Play, a school of conscious leadership and leadership transformation.

Early in her career she ran a textbook transformation — designed framework, defined KPIs, strong governance. Six months later almost nothing had changed. The organisation was not governed by its processes; it was governed by informal power. Everything since has been built on that finding.

The 30% improvement in employee satisfaction and 10% reduction in turnover she reports came from no single initiative — a culture hub that put interns and juniors into the improvement process, people partners trained in coaching, and one-to-ones where the feedback actually changed the next decision.

In this episode:

• Change fluency — why transformation is not a project with a start date and an end dateThe "inner game": why a fintech's people-first programme stalls because the tension is giving leaders their identity
• Three signals that tell you inside a week whether a culture is healthy — quality of disagreement, speed of bad news, and the gap between the official story and the underground story
• Diagnosis before prescription: the first 30 days run across Ken Wilber's four quadrants, not a rush to launch programmes
• Three types of values — declarative, conscious, unconscious — and which layer actually decides
• Why Meta making AI token consumption a performance metric produced engineers burning tokens instead of better decisions
• WEF Future of Jobs: 170 million roles created against 92 million displaced — recalibration, not replacement"AI is electricity with intelligence" — why this is an electricity moment rather than an internet one
• The 4D Compass for building trust: self, soul, soft, spiritWhy engagement surveys measure compliance — a purple, tribal culture scores high on engagement and low on trust
• What she protects if the HR budget is halved: leader development, and a culture diagnosis every year
• The mistake founders make at 100 employees — still leading as though there are 20Zhanna's recommendation for every CEO is Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan.

Her conscious leadership programmes — including Lila, the transformational game she has adapted for leaders and runs offline and online — are at: ⁠⁠https://awake-play.co.uk/⁠⁠

Upcoming cohorts: ⁠⁠https://awake-play.co.uk/upcoming⁠⁠

Connect with Zhanna on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhanna-zhuravleva-chartered-fcipd-03a0a622a/⁠⁠

Hosted by Ademola Odewade — chartered accountant, author of Human-Led, AI-Powered Finance (foreword by Professor Dave Ulrich), and Founder of K-Dems Consulting.

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Why Transformation Programmes Fail | Zhanna Zhuravleva | Diary of a CFO

Most transformation programmes fail because the organisation is quietly protecting the very thing you are trying to change.

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Zhanna Zhuravleva grew up in Georgia and lived through war as a child, then built her career across Russia, Israel and the UK. She completed two master's degrees — finance and human resources — followed by postgraduate study, and taught finance, management and philosophy at a university in St. Petersburg.

She started in industry as a Kaizen team leader and went on to lead HR and cultural transformation across organisations of more than 1,000 people in 40 countries. She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, has run over 3,000 sessions with leaders, and founded Awake Conscious Play, a school of conscious leadership and leadership transformation.

Early in her career she ran a textbook transformation — designed framework, defined KPIs, strong governance. Six months later almost nothing had changed. The organisation was not governed by its processes; it was governed by informal power. Everything since has been built on that finding.

The 30% improvement in employee satisfaction and 10% reduction in turnover she reports came from no single initiative — a culture hub that put interns and juniors into the improvement process, people partners trained in coaching, and one-to-ones where the feedback actually changed the next decision.

In this episode:

Change fluency — why transformation is not a project with a start date and an end dateThe "inner game": why a fintech's people-first programme stalls because the tension is giving leaders their identity

Three signals that tell you inside a week whether a culture is healthy — quality of disagreement, speed of bad news, and the gap between the official story and the underground story

Diagnosis before prescription: the first 30 days run across Ken Wilber's four quadrants, not a rush to launch programmes

Three types of values — declarative, conscious, unconscious — and which layer actually decides

Why Meta making AI token consumption a performance metric produced engineers burning tokens instead of better decisions

WEF Future of Jobs: 170 million roles created against 92 million displaced — recalibration, not replacement"AI is electricity with intelligence" — why this is an electricity moment rather than an internet one

The 4D Compass for building trust: self, soul, soft, spiritWhy engagement surveys measure compliance — a purple, tribal culture scores high on engagement and low on trust

What she protects if the HR budget is halved: leader development, and a culture diagnosis every year

The mistake founders make at 100 employees — still leading as though there are 20Zhanna's recommendation for every CEO is Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan.

Her conscious leadership programmes — including Lila, the transformational game she has adapted for leaders and runs offline and online — are at: ⁠https://awake-play.co.uk/⁠

Upcoming cohorts: ⁠https://awake-play.co.uk/upcoming⁠

Connect with Zhanna on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhanna-zhuravleva-chartered-fcipd-03a0a622a/⁠

Hosted by Ademola Odewade — chartered accountant, author of Human-Led, AI-Powered Finance (foreword by Professor Dave Ulrich), and Founder of K-Dems Consulting.

The King Dems Podcast. Growth Mindset, Leadership, AI and Business Insights. Ranked in the global top 2% of podcasts.

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Mark Mills OBE started Cardpoint plc from scratch in 2000. Two years later it floated on AIM at a £7 million valuation. By 2006 it was turning over £100 million a year on £19.8 million of EBITDA, and he exited in 2007 at £175 million.

He now sells other people's businesses. One owner was told his company was worth £3 million. Mark sold it for just over £10 million. Nothing changed in the accounts — what changed was who the business was presented to, and why they needed it.

In this episode:

- Why bids from strategic buyers don't resemble a multiple of EBITDA

- The £3m-to-£10m sale, and the buyer maths that produced it

- Rule one of any business model: recurring income — learned from a payphone business that died in the 1991 recession

- How Mark and his CFO reverse-engineered £100m of revenue onto a sheet of paper, then landed within 2%

- Why "in three years" is a useless target and "by 31 August 2029" is not

- Solving a working capital problem by finding a bank with too much physical cash

- The one metric he never ignores when assessing a company for sale

- FARM — why people work for Fun, Achievement, Recognition, then Money, in that order

- Selling to strangers, and why referrals cannot scale a business

- What AI actually changes about client acquisition and KPI monitoring

- Realistic exit timelines: 12 to 30 months, not six

Mark's book is Making Your Mark: How I Built a Fortune From £1.50 — and You Can Too.

He offered listeners a free signed copy — email him at ⁠[email protected]⁠ with your address and he'll send one out.

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What happens to financial judgement when AI, cognitive bias, uncertainty and executive pressure collide in the boardroom?

In this episode of Diary of a CFO, Ademola Odewade sits down with Dr. David Rock, Co-Founder and CEO of the NeuroLeadership Institute and originator of the field of neuroleadership, for a powerful exploration of the neuroscience behind executive decision-making.

This conversation goes beyond accounting and financial strategy.

It examines the brain behind the numbers.

Dr. Rock explains why even highly intelligent executives can make poor decisions under pressure, why recognising your own cognitive biases is harder than most leaders realise and how AI can either strengthen human judgement or encourage cognitive surrender.

One principle captures the conversation perfectly:

“Human in the lead, not human in the loop.”

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why leadership creates three major cognitive challenges: capacity, self-regulation and social cognition
• How pressure and uncertainty can affect executive decision-making
• Why technical competence does not eliminate cognitive bias
• How CFOs and finance leaders can use AI without outsourcing critical judgement
• Why accountants, lawyers, marketers and other executives can interpret the same business information through completely different mental models
• How the SEEDS framework helps teams identify patterns of bias
• How the SCARF Model explains Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness and Fairness
• Why stronger decision processes can matter more than relying on individual objectivity alone
• Why one of the most important jobs of a modern leader is simply to create clarity

About Dr David Rock

Dr. David Rock is Co-Founder and CEO of the NeuroLeadership Institute and the originator of the term neuroleadership. His work applies cognitive science to leadership, organisational behaviour and human performance. He is the author of Your Brain at Work and the forthcoming Good with Humans, which explores the neuroscience behind human motivation and the SCARF model.

Connect with Dr David Rock

NeuroLeadership Institute:
https://www.neuroleadership.com/

NILES AI:
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Ashley Stahl believes the future of work will not simply be about AI replacing humans. The bigger risk is being replaced by someone who knows how to use AI better than you.

In this episode of Diary Of A CFO, Ashley Stahl joins Ademola Odewade for a powerful conversation about career reinvention, artificial intelligence, leadership, personal branding, intuition, entrepreneurship and finding meaningful work.

Ashley’s own career has been anything but linear. She moved from national security into career coaching, entrepreneurship, authorship and helping experts turn their ideas into powerful signature talks. Her journey demonstrates why the skills developed in one chapter of your career may become your competitive advantage in the next.

One of Ashley’s central ideas is simple: you cannot think your way into career clarity. You have to explore your way into it. Careers are experiments. Reinvention requires the willingness to test, learn, fail, recalibrate and move again.

We explore:

• Why successful careers are no longer linear
• How to know when your career is genuinely misaligned
• The difference between your values and your skill set
• Why career transitions should not automatically be feared
• How Ashley moved from national security into entrepreneurship
• Why a TEDx talk transformed her career
• How storytelling can create business opportunities
• Why intuition matters in leadership and business decisions
• The difference between intuition and impulsiveness
• How executives can create space for better decisions
• Why clarity comes from experimentation rather than overthinking
• How transferable skills can power career reinvention
• How AI will reshape careers
• Why employees who learn to leverage AI could outperform those who resist it
• Why follower count may be one of the most overrated personal-brand metrics
• How executives can build authority through ideas rather than virality

Ashley explains that her TEDx experience became a major catalyst for her new career and showed her the commercial and professional power of developing a signature message.

And on AI, her message is especially important: AI still requires strong prompts, strategic thinking and people who understand how to deploy it effectively.

If you are a CFO, finance leader, executive, entrepreneur or ambitious professional wondering how to remain relevant as AI transforms work, this conversation is for you.

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How can CFOs and business leaders turn AI investment into measurable financial value?

Oluchi Ikechi-D’Amico, Founder and CEO of Fully Bossed, joins Ademola Odewade on Diary Of A CFO to explain why successful AI transformation requires more than purchasing technology. Organisations must change behaviours, strengthen leadership capabilities and connect AI adoption to measurable outcomes such as revenue growth, cost reduction, operational efficiency and return on investment.

Oluchi spent nearly two decades advising CEOs, boards and major financial institutions. Her experience includes senior roles at Accenture and EY-Parthenon, more than 30 transformation and M&A programmes and transactions with a combined value exceeding $15 billion.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why many organisations invest billions in AI without achieving the expected ROI
• How CFOs can measure the business value of AI adoption
• The difference between adopting AI and enabling behavioural change
• How AI can reduce costs, improve efficiency and create new revenue opportunities
• Why transformation programmes fail without effective leadership
• How to define the right KPIs before investing in business transformation
• Why human judgement, storytelling and executive presence remain essential
• How Oluchi evaluated the risk of leaving an EY partner role to build Fully Bossed
• What major M&A and organisational transformation programmes involve
• Why leadership is defined by impact rather than job title

Oluchi’s message to finance leaders is clear: AI can generate the report, but it cannot replace your ability to challenge the assumptions, defend the analysis and influence decisions in the boardroom.

This conversation is essential listening for CFOs, finance directors, CEOs, founders, investors and transformation leaders seeking to generate measurable returns from AI.

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Eric Chu, CFA, CEO and co-founder of TradeDesk Securities, joins Diary Of A CFO to explain how busy professionals can use AI to research investments more efficiently without outsourcing their judgement.

For professionals with investable income but limited time, this conversation offers a practical framework for thinking about AI, financial regulation, risk management and long-term investing.

Eric built his career across investment banking, hedge funds and data centre development before co-founding an SEC-registered broker-dealer designed specifically for working professionals in their 30s and 40s.

His experience during the 2008 financial crisis, including receiving a job offer from Bear Stearns that disappeared when the firm collapsed, shaped the disciplined approach to risk that now underpins TradeDesk Securities.

You will learn in this episode:

• Why AI’s biggest advantage for investors is time, not information (23:11)
• What happens inside a data centre when you send an AI prompt (20:38)
• Why Eric describes the Bear Stearns collapse as his first real lesson in humility (14:27)
• The regulatory requirements TradeDesk Securities follows as a FINRA and SIPC member (18:17)
• Why individual investors may have a structural advantage over professional fund managers (28:03)
• How Eric and his team build trust in a highly regulated financial industry through direct expertise (31:44)
• Where AI in finance could go next, including sector-specific AI engines (33:58)
• Eric’s honest and non-committal perspective on cryptocurrency as an asset class (38:07)

Guest:

Eric Chu, CFA, is CEO and co-founder of TradeDesk Securities, an SEC-registered broker-dealer created to help working professionals invest using AI-powered insights and portfolio tools.

He holds an MBA from NYU Stern and has spent almost 20 years working across investment banking, hedge funds and public company finance. His experience includes senior roles developing and financing data centre platforms across Asia.

Links

• Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-chu-cfa-7159567/
• Guest company: https://www.tradesk.co/

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What separates leaders who achieve success from those who create lasting impact?

In this episode of Diary Of A CFO, host Ademola Odewade sits down with Lameen Abdul-Malik, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, transformation advisor, lawyer and former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) leader, to explore how leaders build systems, develop future leaders and create impact that lasts for generations. From Nobel Peace Prize-winning work to Africa's development, healthcare transformation and leadership, this conversation is packed with practical lessons every executive can apply.

Drawing on more than 25 years of international leadership, Lameen shares lessons from helping establish Zambia's first cancer hospital, contributing to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning work of the IAEA and advising governments, CEOs and institutions across Africa. He explains why great leadership is measured not by titles or recognition, but by the lives transformed and the systems left behind.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why impact matters more than outputs and activity
• How world-class leaders build systems instead of chasing recognition
• The leadership lessons behind the Nobel Peace Prize journey
• Why succession planning determines whether leadership truly succeeds
• How to measure qualitative impact alongside quantitative metrics
• Why mindset always comes before skillset and toolset
• Lessons from building Zambia's first cancer hospital
• The biggest opportunities for Africa's future development
• How to define success on your own terms instead of society's expectations
• Why humility, service and courage are competitive advantages for modern leaders

Guest Links:

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lameen-abdul-malik/
📖 Book: IMPACT Framework

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