Purpose To Performance

In her engagingly direct style, Marina talks about how she discovered her passion for working in the entrepreneurial environment of start-ups. Discussing the pivotal events that shaped her formative career and fuelled her success in the customer success space. Marina speaks about the art and science of teamwork and its importance in driving performance, especially in young, dynamic businesses.

We also discuss how coaching helped her plan and execute a successful career transition. Marina explains how she felt stuck and needed some help to unlock her thinking and challenge her mindset to gain clarity about where she wanted to take her career. She describes the process of reflection and introspection facilitated by the coach's questions and observations. Finally, Marina comments how the coaching also enabled her to develop self-awareness of her value and then how to use this to negotiate the right entry conditions for her chosen post.

In the final part of the pod, Marina explains how Mentorloop provides a digitally enabled mentoring platform that allows global enterprises and NGO's to make mentoring available across their organisations. This includes traditional, reciprocal, reverse and peer-to-peer mentoring. She explains the impact of democratising mentoring and learning across companies, especially for diversity and inclusion.

For more information about Mentorloop, check out their website or contact Marina:

https://mentorloop.com/

[email protected]

With my ex-colleague and long-time friend, Matt Cheetham, in the chair, we revisit my early career and the meteoric rise of the multi-billion £ travel conglomerate Airtours plc, tracking it from a small owner-managed business in to a global market leading public company. We discuss what it was like developing a career in a start-up that became a global market leader. 

Along the way, we explore a host of topics, including:-

Entrepreneurial instincts;

Leadership styles and behaviours;

Career-development, mentoring, and professional training;

Building high performance teams;

Managing exponential growth;

Diversifying culture;

The power of belief, action, and adaptability.

Join Matt and me as we dissect part one of my professional career, 18 years of fun, challenge, learning and growth.

In a remarkably candid interview Chiara talks about how she followed her curiosity and used her values to guide her early career decisions. Discovering that the start-up environment provided the mix of creativity, challenge and opportunity for her to perform at her best. She talks about taking ownership of her career, seeking out knowledge and learning by doing, as the keys to her early success in a series of leadership roles in several tech start-ups.

Chiara speaks passionately about the power of organisational culture, highlighting the important role it played when she joined US tech company SendGrid, allowing her to feel part of the global team from day one. She explains what it was like to go through an acquisition and how well the giant communication platform, Twilio, handled the integration of SendGrid through a process of consultation and adjustment to the "Twilio Magic" to embrace the nuances of the acquired company.

In the second part of the show Chiara discusses her experience of being coached, openly sharing her preconceptions, the reality and the results of her recent coaching programme. She offers advice to other Millennial's who may be considering coaching, including her thoughts on how to find the right coach.

Finally, Chiara talks about the voluntary work she does as a mentor for The Girls Network, a charitable organisation that provides mentors and professional female role models to support and inspire girls from the least advantaged communities in the UK.

Purpose To Performance opens with an interview with my oldest friend, a fellow MBA, multi-disciplined leader, business coach and now author. Our conversation starts by reviewing Mark's professional career from coal-mining to sports wear, exploring his major inspirations, decisions and learnings. From there we move on to his successful business coaching practice discussing the common challenges SME business owners face in today's volatile, uncertain and dynamic socio-economic environment. We discuss how he blends traditional coaching skills with his proven business methodologies to help leaders deliver profitable growth. Finally we take a dip in to his first book, "Your Guide to Building a Successful Business", a comprehensive, practical and highly readable reference source aimed at entrepreneurs and business owners. 

https://www.markdyble.com/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Guide-Building-Successful-Business/dp/1838451307/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mark+dyble&qid=1631519845&sr=8-1

The 30 second trailer that describes the show's purpose, audience, format and content.