About Sam Akinluyi Sam is currently the Managing Director for Innocent Drinks (UK & Ireland). He is also an Executive Coach, Facilitator and Speaker who works with leaders, leadership teams and aspiring talent. He has worked with board/senior-level executives across the Financial Services, Legal, Creative and Consumer Goods industries. He also supports several non-profit organisations and initiatives. Sam is also the Founder of Psalt - At PSALT we believe that everyone is unique. Everyone has distinctive qualities that make them special. We are skilled in helping people move beyond labels to create a world where individuals are valued and appreciated for what they can bring to the world of work.

Sam spent 20 years in the Consumer goods industry working for Nestl, General Mills and Mars; where he led the Commercial Strategy department and was also the Grocery Sales Director for the UK. His functional experience is in strategy, commercial and organisational leadership.

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

• Conforming and fitting in as a migrant
• Appreciating people's differences without judging them
• The value of introspection even though it is not easy
• Playing rugby internationally for Nigeria
• Rising through the ranks to senior leadership
• Being a manager but a great leader
• How to handle pressure
• Moving beyond tokenistic gestures
• PSALT
• Not having everything figured out yet moving forward

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About Eartha Pond She is a former Arsenal Chelsea, Everton, Charlton Athletic and Tottenham Hotspur player who won trophies including the FA Cup and Premier League and Championships in America. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director to The FA Womens Football Board (WFB) She is also a PE teacher who progressed into senior leadership positions within education, receiving accolades including Teacher of the Year, School of the Year & selected as 1 of the Top 50 Teachers in the World across 173 countries.

She is also a local councillor for the only community council in London to have one, a campaigner known for her outstanding work with charities such as helping to raise over 100,000 for her local community after the Grenfell Tower disaster and was named a ChangeMaker in the Evening Standards: Progress 1000

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

• Forcing her way into football at primary school and playing with men
• Difference between playing football in the US & UK
• The Power & Advantage Of Being An Underdog
• Transitioning from Football to Teaching
• Schools have become a business now and students are just numbers
• How her environment has helped mould and shapes her with a different perspective -
• The unique role of a local councillor, developing community and fostering relationships with the police.
• The Grenfell Tower disaster, justice and the positive change required.
• ESP Foundation - Creating access & opportunities for young people in Education| Sports| Politics
• The importance of celebrating our young people and why we should not only celebrate academic success
• Youth Centres

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About Shola Kaye Shola Kaye is a communication and empathy specialist, award-winning international speaker and author of two books. She speaks on Empathy in the workplace, Inclusive Leadership and D&I whose work has been described as transformative, engaging, and easy to absorb. She spent the first part of her career in IT consultancy in the U.S.A., consulting at household name investment banks, and in the U.K for global clients in aviation and finance. Her experiences as a black woman in the workplace, with insights gained from working in corporates on both sides of the Atlantic, led her to develop an interest in learning to create inclusive workplaces with open, supportive communication. She is a former professional international jazz and Motown singer, performing internationally and throughout the UK and Sholas work has been featured in Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar, Forbes and on the BBC. She regularly writes for industry publications such as HR Zone, Management Today and People Management. Connect with Shola Kaye

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

• Going against her Nigerian parents wishes and going to Oxford
• Crashing out of the corporate world & going from shy and afraid to confident
• Learning to ask for what you want
• Becoming a professional musician and performer
• Hiding her performer career from her parents:
• Why we need to move beyond understanding when it comes to Empathy
• Key reasons why people struggle with Empathy
• The 3 Step Framework to being empathetic
• Inclusion, Belonging & Empathy
• Brittle Leaders
• How to show up powerfully and courageously as an Introvert
• Being empathetic at home

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About Jude JennisonJude Jennison is the award-winning founder of Leaders by Nature, a leadership and team development company developing leaders and teams through disruptive change. Jude specialises in non-verbal communication and works with a herd of horses to transform leadership and team behaviour. Jude has inspired people within some of the worlds leading organisations to create more human connection in a high-performance culture. She helps senior leaders and executive teams develop embodied leadership skills that create tangible business results. Jude is the author of three leadership books and the host of two podcasts - Innovating Humanity which explores the intersection between technology and leadership, and Rethinking Leadership where she interviews business leaders on their experience of leading change. Judes experience as a former senior leader in IBM includes managing a budget of > $1 billion, implementing a European Skills Strategy for 28,000 employees, Communications Partner for the General Manager of Services and Outsourcing Service Manager for a range of clients in diverse business sectors. Connect with Jude

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

• Learning languages to connect with other people
• Being one of 5 women in an office of 1500 men
• Trying not to lose one's sense of self.
• Stepping into the unknown
• Not everybody wants our support in the way we think they do
• Having Hard Conversations
• Being terrified of horses after a major accident and overcoming that fear
• Leadership Development & Training With Horses
• What Can Leaders Learn From Working With Horses

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Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow and my guest today Wayne Sutton has done just that as one of the early voices working to create change in Silicon Valley.

Wayne Sutton is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the Icon Project, he is also the co-founder of Change Catalyst and its Tech Inclusion programs (Over the years we introduced 11,700+ job candidates to tech companies, hosted events with over 28,000 attendees in 50+ Countries). He is a mentor and advisor to early-stage startups, one of the first 1000 people on Twitter and a leading voice for diversity and inclusion in tech which has seen him featured in TechCrunch, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, USA Today, Mashable, Black Enterprise, and various online media outlets. Connect With Wayne Sutton:

Some topics we cover in this episode:

• Being intentional about creating an inclusive event for all intersectionalities
• Childhood experience connected to trauma and how that drove him to change the tech world
• The reality of trying to change an industry that does not want to change
• The impact besmirching words from people you look up to can have on you
• Impacting one person in a positive way
• The truth about working with his wife and where the can difficulties arise from
• Interracial relationships and dealing with bias and stereotypes
• The power of self-awareness & how to develop self-awareness
• Addressing mental health and professional development needs for black and brown men in tech.
• The mental health benefits of riding a bike

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Why is curiosity so important? This is what I explore with my guest Dr. Alison Horstmeyer as we explore the importance of curiosity in our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguousworld. Dr. Alison Horstmeyer is a former Fortune 500 business development executive who now works with executives to operationalize and harness curiosity and to enable agile leadership, innovation, agile experimentation and healthy team dynamics. She is considered one of the pioneering humanistic researchers in workplace curiosity working with clients such as Hulu, Verizon Media, Dolby, Vanguard. Her work is published in various domestic and international leadership and L&D publications including peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Organizational Change Management, Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, and Strategic HR Review as well as mainstream business publications such as Forbes and CEOWorld Magazine. Alison also serves as the Director of Client Development and adjunct faculty for University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Executive Education and is the inaugural Research Fellow appointed to the USC Annenberg Center for Third Space Thinking contributing to evidence-based soft skills development. Connect with Dr Alison Horstmeyer

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

• Why CEOs/Founders should be careful of cognitive biases
• 4 Obstacles to Creating a Culture of Curiosity
• The important for leaders to develop an explorer mindset
• How to recognise and tackle self-preservation mode
• Practical tools to develop your curiosity
• Reflection, Leadership and Curiosity - How Leaders get off the treadmill
• The Relationship between your values and curiosity
• Moving between the Plateaus and Plane Of Possibility
• Having too much curiosity and how Leaders can help with this
• Why understanding the different types of curiosity leads to innovation and execution
• Curiosity: A key to Authentic Leadership

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About Omar L HarrisOmar L Harris is the founder of Intent Consulting and TYMPO.io, prior to that he has 20+ years of global pharmaceutical senior leadership executive experience building teams in 4 continents (U.S., Middle East, Asia and Latin America) for Pfizer, Merck, Schering-Plough and more. He was the youngest senior marketing director in Schering-Plough history. He is also a Gallup certified strengths coach, speaker, award-winning bestselling author of 5 books, including:

• Be a J.E.D.I. Leader, Not a Boss: Leadership in the Era of Corporate Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
• The Servant Leaders Manifesto
• Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams

He is passionate about leading teams, high-performance coaching, and inspiring the future leaders of today and tomorrow to adopt the servant leader mindset and stop toxic leadership behaviours.

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https://www.omarlharris.com/ https://www.intentconsultants.co/about

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

• Johari Window & Self Awareness
• Dealing with unexpected language roadblocks that defined his mindset
• How being people first can overcome cultural barriers for leaders
• The importance of modelling the behaviour you want to see
• How to deal with the resistance leaders will inevitably face when making change positive changes to the culture.
• Trust equation and why it is so important to your leadership credibility
• Balconies and Basements (Strengths & Weakness Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin)
• How a rejection led to an opportunity 10 years later
• The distinction between a boss and a leader and how that has lead to the great resignation
• J.E.D.I. Leadership (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion)
• Organisations dedicated to holding businesses accountable
• Why leaders need to change the way they lead
• Powerful leadership lessons from his mum

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About Judy Samuelson Judy Samuelson is the founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and vice president at the Aspen Institute. She previously worked in legislative affairs in California and banking in New Yorks garment centre and ran the Ford Foundations office of program-related investments. Author of The Six New Rules of Business: The rules of business are changing dramatically. The Aspen Institute's Judy Samuelson describes the profound shifts in attitudes and mindsets that are redefining our notions of what constitutes business success. She also writes regularly for Quartz at Work and is a Bellagio Fellow and a director of the Financial Health Network. Connect with Judy

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

• The design of how decisions are made
• Incentive systems that are driving the behaviours we are seeing with leaders and why we need to change them.
• Learning from real-life stories that leaders can apply immediately.
• Why companies are not good or bad
• How to build resilient robust cultures that get the best out of people and care about their people
• Employees are the new accountability mechanism
• Listening versus Hearing

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