We delve into technology within the Public transport industry this week with Tony Healy, Group Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Ticketer Group. Tony shares how to build simplicity for the customer, keeping fresh and innovative through collaboration, and building leadership in the hybrid working model. He explains why as a leader, you need to know your team is more important than yourself.

Tony is currently Group Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Ticketer & FARA AS, where he provides overall technical vision and innovative strategies as to how technology will be used in the company and leads the Software Engineering, IT and DevOps, and Security teams.

Tony has worked within high-growth global industries such as Distribution, EdTech, Pharmaceuticals, Insurance, Transportation and Technology, where he has performed as a visionary leader building high performing teams and built business-enhancing systems and services. Tony believes in establishing teams with core values of hard work, respect, and trust while encouraging them to see the bigger strategic picture and driving reality and fact over perception and opinion. Tony is noted for his love of mentoring and coaching people, helping them realise their full potential.

David sits down with Aris Manshor, Engineering Manager at RELX, to discuss dealing with the ups and downs of leadership and providing consistency and support as a leader. They touch on how to ensure data compliance and data relevance, the ever changing world of energy, and creating a team where everyone has input.

Aris Manshor is a Software Engineering Manager at RELX, a Global Fortune 500 company providing business information to customers. Prior to working with RELX he has held senior positions at MasterCard, EE Mobile and Idenprotect. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading technical teams to deliver mission critical applications and platforms especially with new best of breed technologies and architecture in order to improve customer experience and drive new revenue growth through innovative products. He discusses leadership difficulties and challenges during critical periods of delivering complex technical products.

We have two awesome guests on for our 20th episode of Season 2! Adriele Parker, Career Coach and Cofounder of Adriele Parker, LLC. and DEI In a Box, and Caren Young, President and Cofounder of The Professional Adult and DEI In a Box. They cover the DEI journey and how to begin it, making sure the DEI journey is not a tick list but a cultural change, and asking yourself “why” DEI is important and how you will judge success. Both ladies stress the importance of communicating and listening to people inside the organisation and share their experience starting a business as a partnership. You'll also learn some tricks on how to build a training platform like a software product and how to develop HR projects in an agile way.

Adriele Parker helps leaders, teams, and organizations improve cultural competency and build more equitable & inclusive spaces for all. She also helps mid-level professionals of color [re]discover their passion(s) and gain clarity on how to reach the next chapter of their careers. She started her journey in career development in 2008. Since then, she has helped numerous individuals think strategically about their personal and professional lives, helping them find clarity, set goals, and take action. In 2015, she began working in the tech recruiting space, and in 2018, after having managed several diversity-related programs and initiatives, she transitioned into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) full-time.

Caren Young is the Founder and President of The Professional Adult, a consultancy focusing on building solutions, people and teams through training, coaching, workshops and strategic development while integrating diversity, equity and inclusion into all facets of our work lives. Using her background in Advertising, Product Management and People Management, Caren is able to drive data-driven solutions while honoring all of the intersections that are brought into the workplace.

Chris Burrell, CTO at LANDBAY, joins us for this week's episode! He talks about building a strong lasting culture from the beginning of your business and what true Agile is and its advantages and disadvantages. He also shares their experience of having everything automated, working in a chaos testing environment, and the importance of people in a fast-paced agile tech environment.

Chris joined Landbay, a best in class buy to let mortgage lender start up as the lead software engineer and then became its CTO. With 10+ years’ of commercial experience, he designed, developed and continues to deliver the microservice architecture that was built from the ground-up to 50+ microservices. Prior to working with Landbay, his most recent roles involved helping architect and develop some of the largest UK customer-facing platforms in the UK, such as the EE online shop, Three, The AA, Vodafone, etc. Outside of his work life, Chris develops some open-source Bible study software.

Ben Putley from Alkimi Exchange joins us for today's episode! As CEO & Co-founder of the world's first decentralized ad exchange, he explains building blockchain organisations as a disruptor, “saying yes before you say no” from a true entrepreneur, and selling new technologies into entrenched business models. He also shares his experience leading in a collaborative organisation and working with a vision while focusing on the day-to-day activity of starting a business - and making sure you get the balance right.

Ben has spent the last 10 years working in the advertising technology space; and has worked with the world's largest publishers to help them create and deliver effective digital ad products.

Listen to Chief Sales Officer of GDS Group, Tanya Thomas, share how she adapts to handle business crises. She also explains how using communication to drive change can be effective (including the importance of over-communication), what it's like taking risks and travelling new paths, and her experience building a new platform during the pandemic.

Tanya joined GDS Group as CEO in 2018 moved to the U.S in June 2020 to take the lead in navigating our transformation to a Digital First event portfolio and scale the U.S commercial business. Currently trading +76% on pre-pandemic revenues. Previously, she was Group Sales Director for UBM PLC.

Niamh Muldoon joins us this week as Global Data Protection Officer and Senior Director in Trust and Security from OneLogin. We learn about the importance of having the confidence to drive projects and take on challenges as a leader, how data can be gold and how to secure and benefit from it, and the innovative products that allow data to work for the customer. She also touches on working with other female tech leaders and the uses and problems with GDPR.

Niamh Vianney Muldoon, award-winning information security thought leader with extensive expertise in creating and leading global security initiatives across multiple industries. Muldoon is OneLogin's Global DPO and Senior Director in Trust and Security, Based in Dublin, Ireland, Muldoon heads-up all things trust, security, and privacy for OneLogins EMEA operations.  This includes driving sales, engineering and customer service activities across the region.

We catch up with Robert Elliott Smith from StrangeMap this week! This was a really interesting conversation, with topics of discussion including AI being used to support decisions rather than make decisions, understanding the strengths of humans alongside technology and the power and dangers of algorithms as a leader, and realising the importance of solving the customers problem. Robert also shares his experience in having an academic background as a business leader.

Dr. Robert Smith is a technologist, complexity scientist, and entrepreneur. He has been working in AI for 30 years, for clients across the private and public sectors. He is also the author or Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All, which was shortlisted as UK Best Business Book of the Year.

This week, we discuss being an entrepreneurial thinker, surrounding yourself with the right people, and understanding that no leader has all the answers with Andy Lord from WAWWA. He also touches on being a leader through attitude and value and changing the world of virtual learning using mixed reality platforms.

Andy is a consultant in disruptive and immersive education, a serial entrepreneur, and professional ambassador for exciting brands.

Andy Grzess, Chief Technology Officer at Smarttech247, is our guest for this week! We discuss with Andy the process of building a team based on innovation and ideas, his personal experience as a leader, not following stereotypes when hiring, and using cybersecurity as an enabler.

Andy is an experienced CTO with a passion for cybersecurity. In his role at Smarttech247, Andy leads the delivery of next generation cyber defence technologies and services to global enterprise customers. Andy dedicated the last eight years of his 20-year IT tenure to cybersecurity, advising clients and peers on policy, technology, trends and architecture associated with security.