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Mezzana Partners episodes

  • Building great teams - with British Rowing Coaches Nick Baker and Nicola Benavente

    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.


    42 min
  • Leading high performing teams

    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.

    30 min
  • Creating a High Performing Team

    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.

    25 min
  • Episode 10 - Emma Wiggs MBE talks to Jim Constable

    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.

    28 min
  • “I was the queen of destructive thinking!”

    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.

    26 min
  • Leadership in a hybrid world

    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.

    42 min
  • Reflections from Tokyo - Sustaining Performance under Challenge and Change with Katherine Bond

    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 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games were like no other Games in history - the uncertainty, complexity and challenge created by covid in the build up to and during the Games created a set of very unique conditions for all involved. Katherine, from her position working with the ParalympicsGB staff and leadership team in the build up to the Games, and then as part of the core team at the Games, reflects on what we can learn from the extraordinary Tokyo Games.

    44 min
  • Challenge and Complexity - how collaboration is key - with Hamish Wilson

    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.

    31 min
  • Essex TV Interview with William Winstone

    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.

    21 min

About Mezzana Partners

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Conversations on high performing teams, cultures, and what it means to be a leader in the 2020s. The Mezzana team, with their rich legacy of working in Olympic sport as well as with leading global businesses, pick the brains of highly successful leaders, coaches and athletes”