Leaders with Ambition

​In this episode of Leaders with Ambition, Nicky talks to Sarah Draper, Partner and Head of People and Culture at Rider Levett Bucknall. They discuss Sarah’s journey within Human Resources (HR), the challenges she’s faced and what she has learned from her numerous HR experiences.

Sarah explains how her hard work and determination has led to her success – she realised that making a difference in others’ lives was especially important for her and HR was a perfect sector for her to flex this attribute. Finally, the two discuss how Sarah’s role has shifted as people are still working remotely during these times in the workplace and the various systems Sarah has implemented to maintain a high sense of inclusivity within her firm.

​In this episode of Leaders with Ambition, Nicky talks with Paul Davis, a Partner at the corporate recovery and restructuring firm, Buchler Phillips. 

Paul describes his experience so far as a specialist Insolvency Practitioner and highlights pivotal points in his career that defined his success as well as the challenges he has overcome.

Also discussed is the impact of the ongoing pandemic on UK businesses and the economy and Paul's take on what this means for the insolvency market.

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​In this episode of Leaders with Ambition, Nicky sits down with Katie Cramond, the current Director of Business Development Europe at McDermott Will & Emery.

Together they talk women in the workplace, being authentic in your leadership style, the importance of coaching and how Katie got to where she is today. 

Throughout their conversation, Katie shares how a chance encounter at a festival - and some gumption on her part - initially launched her career in professional services Business Development and Marketing. 

Ultimately, this episode is about the importance of making the most of opportunities and how working hard can take you places you didn’t even think possible -in Katie’s case, all the way to Singapore.

Leaders with Ambition is the podcast that delves deep into the careers of some of the UK’s most successful leaders working in professional services firms to discover the secrets behind their success, the challenges they’ve overcome and to find out what are the traits that make a successful leader.

In this episode, Nicky talks to Nick O’Reilly, Chief Operating Officer at Manolete Partners Plc, a respected veteran in the business insolvency space with more than 40 years of experience to share.  

Nick answers a broad range of questions about how he carved out a successful career in the insolvency industry and created a hybrid work model many years before Covid-19. Why? He noticed early on that most business failures occurred Monday-Thursday so he proposed a condensed four-day work week that was a win for him personally and for his employer.

Nick also talks about his career highlights, the challenges and advances he has witnessed over the course of his career and gives his view on the insolvency market and the uptick likely to occur among business insolvency cases as pandemic-related government protections ease.