Ray Poynter chats with InnovateMR CEO Lisa Wilding-Brown about here time on ESOMAR Council and about the upcoming elections.

Ray chats with Seyi Adeoye, the Chief Executive Officer of Pierrine Consulting – a tech-first Insight Consultancy with offices in Nigeria and Kenya. Seyi is also a candidate for election to the ESOMAR Council.

Ray chats with David Smith about his recollections of dealing with inflationary times and recessions. David is one of these rare people today who has dealt with inflation before, given that we have not had to worry about inflation during the last forty years.

David is a Director of DVL Smith, a former Chairman of the UK Market Research Society and a former Vice President of ESOMAR.

Rosie Campbell shares her memories and experiences of the inflationary 1970s and 80s - focusing on the world of the qualitative researcher.

The conversation between Ray and Rosie is designed to enable today's researchers and leaders to learn from history, given that it is forty years since the West faced inflation.

Inflation is a major challenge facing managers and researchers around the world. Most of today's leaders have zero experience of inflation as we have had low rates of inflation in the West for forty years.

This is your chance to learn from leaders in our industry who have been there before. In this second podcast in our inflation series, Viki Cooke, Co-founder and Chair of BritainThinks shares her recollections of the 70s and 80s, starting with her experience in the advertising world and then market research.

Viki will also share her thoughts on what managers today should be doing, drawing on her experience of leading an organisation that wins awards for a great place to work, is a B-Corp, and has embraced employee ownership.

In the developed, Western markets the biggest economic challenge today is that of inflation. Inflation is running at levels not seen for forty years, which means most of today's leaders and managers have zero experience in leading and managing inflationary times.

To help people navigate these challenges, NewMR is putting together a series of interviews with senior people from the insights industry who have experience in dealing with inflation. People who were conducting research, leading teams, and running companies in the 1980s and, in some cases, the 1970s.

In today's podcast Ray Poynter chats with Simon Chadwick. Simon is Managing Partner of Cambiar Consulting, a change management consulting firm he founded in 2004. Prior to this, he was Global CEO of NOP World as well as of four research companies within Kantar in Europe and the U.S.

Ray Poynter chats with Priscilla McKinney, CEO of Little Bird Marketing. Ray and Priscilla look at what post-pandemic means in insights and research, the key challenges and opportunities facing us, and the rise of digital solutions.

Ray Poynter chats with Joaquim Bretcha, the immediate past President of ESOMAR and Internationa Director at Netquest. Joaquim and Ray explore the challenges and opportunities facing the world of insights.

Ray Poynter chats with Charlene Adamah a director and co-fouder of CORe (Colour of Research).

Ray and Charlene chat about why Colour of Research was needed, how it was created, its successes so far, and what still needs to be done.

Ray Poynter chats with Melanie Courtright Chief Executive Officer of the Insights Association about what is happening in the insights and research world.