Fresh from leading the GB Para-Rowing team to 3 golds and a silver at the Paris Paralympic Games, Nick and Nicola share their experiences and principles for building great teams.

Leading a team of 10 Paralympic athletes and their wider support staff is demanding. Different types of boat, different disabilities, mixed gender crews, and all under extended pressure to deliver at the Paralympic Games. Nick and Nicola reflect on their learning so that you can apply these principles, whatever your walk of life.

Sibling relationships, team identity and creating the conditions are three key ingredients in “making the magic happen” in this latest Mezzana Partners podcast on leading teams, featuring two Australians. Jo Markham is an experienced executive with extensive automotive experience and Mezzana Partners MD Jonathan Males.

Katherine Bond talks with Ross Davidson and Reshentha Beeby from the Aztec Group about how to create and sustain high performance in your team. Full of practical tips, the podcasts also focuses on how leaders from Aztec have implemented the tools from a leadership and team development programme with Mezzana with their teams.

The most recent podcast from Mezzana Partners features Paralympic canoeist Emma Wiggs MBE. Emma talks about high performance but also her work in the corporate world – the parallels, her learning and the transferable knowledge, skills and attitudinal aspects.

Emma Wiggs, 9 times world champion, 3 times Paralympian, double Paralympic gold medal winner, talks to us about how she’s learned to cope psychologically, prepare for upcoming challenges, use comparisons and maintain her motivation even now.

Gary speaks with two founder entrepreneurs, Jackie Salvidge, CEO of Innovate Healthcare and Alice Bagnall, MD of The Apprentice Academy to consider questions of how we emerge from covid, attract and retain great staff all whilst also keeping one eye on the future.

Top business CEO, Simon Grosse discusses leadership in a hybrid world. "We aim to have a true feedback culture that enables us to listen- to adapt quickly, but that no matter what we do by way of comms the chances are we could be doing more".

Listen to the full podcast to find out how Simon leads this culture at FSP, that has just been voted #1 medium business in U.K. ranked by Best Companies.

The sixth episode is with Mezzana Partners' Katherine Bond, who reflects on her role working with ParalympicsGB in the build up to and at the Tokyo Paralympics Games.

The fifth episode in our podcast series focuses on complexity and collaboration.

We talk to Hamish Wilson, director of Wasifiri, a consultancy, institute an inucabator which aims to help tackle some of the world’s most complex problems, from conflict to climate change. Hamish’s has a fascinate and diverse background, and we really enjoyed hearing how he brings his knowledge and skills to working in high challenge, conflict and complex environments. He has a practical perspective which can be applied to problem solving in any sector and situation.

Whats the secret to Essex's phenomenal success over the past 5 years? Mezzana Founding Partner and Essex Performance Psychologist William Winstone is interviewed by Essex TV  William explains how he tries to give the players that extra edge whilst they’re on the field, as well as how the structure of the Club has changed and why he feels this Essex side is so successful.