Steve Booth is the Straumann UK Managing Director. He is an innovative, resilient and inspirational business leader with a reputation for logical, values-based decision-making and Steve has a superpower.

In this episode, Colin talks to Steve Booth about his superpower and how that's impacted his work but also explores how that restricts him. Using the means of hiring and firing to demonstrate that there may be a better way to unleash people's superpowers and use them in the world.

'The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.' George Bernard Shaw

This is the first part of a three-part episode series where Colin explores the meaning of disagreeability in what he understands it to be. It would be nice for us to think that the people who change the world are always lovely, fluffy, cuddly people who are nice to everybody but I am sure a lot of the time that is not the case. It's just not possible to get things done.

In these three episodes, we're going to look at the possibility that we need to harness disagreeability, but I guess first we need to know what disagreeability is. 

Geordan Murphy is one of the most decorated Premiership rugby players of all time, with eight Premiership titles for national cups and two European cups for European finals. He played for Ireland and the British lions. 

Welcome to Success Story! This episode is an introduction to what's going on in the podcast through this season up until winter.

Gurmit Samra is a writer, producer, director, and creative director of his company Impress Video. He is someone we've known for a long time as the 'video guy' at the practice who produces our big videos. He has a film on Amazon Prime called Get Gone and has been courted by some big studios to make movies after the success of this.

In this chat with Colin, Gurmit talks about his atypical journey to where he has gotten to now, the extraordinary backstory to where he started, how there's a lack of diversity in British Television, and how important he believes having a mentor throughout your own journey can help you succeed massively.

Paradigms. In 1596, John Harington, the godson of Queen Elizabeth I and a Royal courtier invented the first water closet, giving the Elizabethans the chance to go to a proper toilet for the first time. So centuries on, why do men continue to stand up when going to the toilet which is designed to be sat down on?

Bravery. Courage. Leadership. Taking a stand. Do we give up on our beliefs and our values on our preplanned demonstration of how we are together as a society? Or do we face the punishment? 

In this episode, Colin explores the subject of bravery. 

Sara Symington is a two-time Olympic cyclist from The Sydney Olympics and the Olympics in Athens. She subsequently has gone on to achieve amazing things in sports management and performance directorship. Most notably, the performance director for the England national women's netball team also known as the Vitality Roses, who won gold at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Australia.

She has had many different jobs in performance sports management, but she is currently the Olympic performance director for Olympic and Paralympic results for British cycling.

In this chat with Colin, Sara tells her extraordinary story of her journey so far, how she was discovered, her time at the London 2012 Olympics, and the trials and tribulations along the way. We hope you enjoy listening!

Rony Jung is one of the most famous implant clinicians in the world. He is the Chairman of the Department of Reconstructive Dentistry at the University of Zurich, which is now graded as about the eighth best dental school in the world but is heading way into the top five and beyond under Rony's leadership. He is an implant surgeon, a restorative clinician, a periodontist by stealth, a disruptive researcher, and an amazing teacher - but this wasn't always Rony's initial plan.

In this chat with Colin, Rony talks through his various occupations whilst always remaining positive and enthusiastic about what each door opens. As well as how he uses storytelling in his teaching, how his family is his biggest achievement and how staying curious is the secret key to life.

In this episode, Colin enters into conversation with his long-time hero, mentor, and friend, John Gibson about his mammoth walk from Land’s End to John o’Groats to launch The Canmore Trust in honour of his son, Cameron, who tragically took his own life towards the end of 2019.

This will be part 1 of a part 3 series, which will reveal John's potted history of his career and his contribution to dentistry.