The Human Performance Podcast

On the podcast this week is Jonathan Pritchard who is a highly sought after consultant and speaker specializing in the area of applied psychology in life and business. His client list includes Fortune 500 companies like BP, State Farm, United Airlines, and more. He is the founder of the international consulting company "The Hellstrom Group" which has trained teams to improve their sales, negotiation, and presentation skills on six of the seven continents. His expertise comes from his background traveling the world as a Mentalist, a unique type of entertainer specializing in mind reading tricks. The applied psychology he uses on stage in Vegas, on TV, and online gives him an edge off stage as well. He is the author of several books focused on psychology, motivation, self improvement, and more. He currently lives in Chicago where you can find him practicing Wing Chun Kung Fu every morning.

Alex and Jonathan discuss how psychology can help businesses and individuals, how to improve communication and how to communicate remotely via VOIP effectively.

On the podcast this week is Dr James Somauroo. James is the founder of somX: the healthtech communication agency which supports the best healthtech companies in the world. He covers healthtech for Forbes as a contributor and also hosts The Health-Tech Podcast, which has listeners in >100 countries. He is an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training, has held roles in leadership, management and innovation at NHS England, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and previously directed two healthtech accelerators; DigitalHealth.London, which provided startups with market access to the NHS, saving £48M for the UK health service and HS., which built, scaled and invested in deep technology companies. He has degrees in medicine, biomedical sciences and education and is a guest lecturer on healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship at academic institutions around the world.

Alex and James discuss the role of innovation for corporates, emerging technology in healthcare and the importance of education in workforce development.

Joining us on the podcast this week is Dr Alex Aquilina. Alex is a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon who played for England Rugby at Under 18 level. Alex is also a clinical research fellow with multiple academic publications in trauma and orthopaedic surgery and a PhD student at the University of Oxford where he is investigating patient reported outcomes as part of the NDORMS Musculoskeletal Research Unit. In addition Alex is a Health Education England simulation fellow and has undertaken research into remote training in rural Ethiopia using immersive technology. Alex discusses patient outcomes and communication in healthcare together with deploying remote training in resource limited environments.

On the podcast this week is Peter Kozodoy. Peter is the award-winning author of Honest to Greatness, an Inc. 5000 serial entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and business coach who works with organizations and their leaders to help them overcome self-limiting bullsh*t and use honesty to achieve greatness. His articles on leadership and entrepreneurship have appeared in Forbes, Inc., HuffPost, PR Daily, and more. He holds a BA in economics from Brandeis University and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and lives in Fairfield.

Alex and Peter talk about how honesty can improve the performance of individuals, teams and organisations and how to embed honesty in your organisational or team culture. 

This week's guest is Ian Gatt who is Head of Performance Services & Lead Physiotherapist for Great Britain Boxing 🥊🥊🇬🇧 and is part of Team Anthony Joshua 🥊🥊. 

Ian has been a sport physiotherapist for over 15 years, with a considerable period spent managing the medical services for the Great Britain Boxing Program. He has attended all major competitions with boxing supporting elite athletes on their path to success through the London and Rio cycles, and current Tokyo 2020 cycle. Apart from his expertise in boxing injuries in these specific areas, Ian is a consultant with the prestigious English Institute of Sport (EIS) providing an advisory role to both Olympic and Paralympic sports on injury management in these areas.

Ian is also a visiting lecture at University College London (UCL) and is currently undergoing a PhD in wrist Biomechanics at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). Further he provides regular national and international educational workshops/conferences/webinars specifically on areas linked to the Hand, Wrist and Elbow.

Alex and Ian discuss human performance in boxing, staying humble and always learning and the power of empathy in leadership.

This week's guest is Chris Baird Senior Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Loughborough. Chris holds a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science and an MSc in Strength and Conditioning. He is also UKSCA accredited and has over seven years of experience in the field. Providing strength and conditioning help to athletes from many sports, including football, rugby, swimming and weightlifting, Chris has also worked with Castleford Tigers and Peterborough United Academy.

Alex and Chris discuss the use of technology in sports and performance and how technique and multi-disciplinary coaching can lead to improvements in performance. 

Oro is the personalised health and fitness app created by the coaches behind Olympic athletes. They have created a fitness and nutrition programme that adapts to you, week-by-week.

This week's guest is Brad Chesham. Brad is a nurse educator and VR evangelist and founder of Bundle of Rays an Australian Education company. Brad has worked in acute specialties with a focus on intensive care.  This has been consolidated through a variety of international projects involving the British Army in Afghanistan, Australian Federal Police in Papua New Guinea and a multitude Oil & Gas projects across Mexico, Guinea and Norway for companies such as Exxon and CGG veritas and Commissioning new and revised services at two hospitals in South-East Queensland.

His mission is to provide innovative education to health professionals, using the latest immersive technology.

Alex and Brad discuss healthcare education, technology in learning and returning to the new normal.

On this week's episode Alex is joined by Professor Greg Whyte OBE. Greg received his OBE for his services to Sport, Sport Science & Charity, and was voted as one of the Top 10 Science Communicators in the UK by the British Science Council. Greg is an Olympian in modern pentathlon, and is a European and World Championship medalist. He is an expert in the field of sports and exercise science. Graduating from Brunel University, he furthered his studies with an MSc in human performance in the USA and completed his PhD at St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London. Greg is currently a Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moore’s University and Director of Performance at the Centre for Health and Human Performance at 76 Harley Street, London. Greg's former roles include Director of Research for the British Olympic Association and Director of Science & Research for the English Institute of Sport.

Greg is the preeminent authority on Exercise Physiology and Sports and Exercise Performance in the UK. An internationally recognised expert in the field, Greg has extensive professional experience assessing, treating and improving the performance of patients, sporting enthusiasts and athletes ranging from cancer sufferers to celebrities attempting their first mountain summit to Gold medal seeking Olympians.

Greg is well-known for his involvement in Comic Relief, since 2006 Greg has applied his sports science work to assist various celebrities in completing some of the toughest challenges. 

As a result of his work, Greg has helped raise over £45million for charity.

Greg and Alex discuss human performance, achieving impossible challenges and lots more

This week Alex is joined by Paul Fifield who is the founder and CEO of Sales Impact Academy a live learning platform for sales and marketing.

Paul is a ‘been around the block’ entrepreneur with 18 years’ experience in founding and scaling global companies. Over the last 7 years he has grown two international technology businesses from zero to $70M in combined sales as CRO and $100s of millions in value. Paul has also raised over $100M of investment across all stages from seed to growth, VC and debt.

Paul and Alex discuss why sales is part of everyone's daily life, why lifelong experiential learning is so important and hoe to learn and grow when thrown into extreme environments.

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This week Alex is joined by Russell D. Metcalfe-Smith, FHEA, MSc, NRP, CHSE-A, CHSOS, who is the director of the Women's Guild Simulation Center For Advanced Clinical Skills at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA. Russell leverages his years of innovative healthcare leadership within some of the world's largest hospital systems to help healthcare systems make bold strategic decisions, reduce costs and improve patient care.

As a senior leader, he has developed and put into practice transformative services in the international healthcare sector. From his early days as a registered paramedic and a head of resuscitation services in the United Kingdom, he learned how to maximize outcomes with few resources and little time. This fueled extensive research into more effective solutions, processes and procedures. He gained experience within-hospital acute care, mental health, primary care and emergency care in Europe—and more recently in the U.S.

He then delivered innovative training programs to international healthcare officials and clinicians, developing a world view of healthcare. Such exposure broadens perspectives, offering innovative approaches to change. At Cedars-Sinai, he provides the strategic, operational and program leadership for the Women's Guild Simulation Center, which brings experiential learning experiences to 25,000 physicians, nurses and allied healthcare professionals annually. He was involved with the simulation center from its early stages.

From day-to-day operational leadership and education, to fundraising events where he educates senators and business leaders on the center's efficacy, Metcalfe-Smith is devoted to making the simulation center transform patient care and discover new best practices and evidence-based research opportunities. He is one of the few people internationally to hold the CHSE-A certification demonstrating leadership in simulation. He holds multiple positionson international committees and boards.

Alex and Russell discuss the importance of simulation in healthcare, the need to collect unique data on learner performance and how organisation reacted to COVID-19.

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