The Impromptu Game Plan

We chat with Philip about creating a more meaningful and fun career with his partner Keith,  cheese making, and learning to dance like Beyoncé.  We laughed so much, our faces were hurting by the end of recording the podcast. 

https://wildescheese.co.uk/

Nikki Swan talks to The Impromptu Game Plan about how her search for a more meaningful, creative career took some twists and turns before she realized that the perfect alignment of her strengths, experiences, values, and passions lay in helping others reconnect with their passion for work.

The Impromptu Game Plan talks to our dear friend, and long-time collaborator Bruce Rowling. Catherine & Sarah first met Bruce when we hired Bruce to teach drawing to the participants in the leadership development program we worked on. He'd never taught drawing before but said yes anyway. That agility and adaptability was the beginning of a beautiful friendship and collaboration that included quite a few years of world travel, laughs, and adventures together. 

Dave Ford talks to The Impromptu Game Plan about how he accidentally became an environmentalist while trying to find more meaning in his career. He now runs the Oceans Plastic Leadership Network,  which works with environmentalists to create sustainability-focused programs and practices that actively engage global leaders in industry to create change at both speed and scale.

https://opln.org/the-network/

Ian Duncan talks to The Impromptu Game Plan about his 35-year career as a Brand & Marketing Strategist, redefining all his roles to be more interesting and finding his purpose within the corporate world by helping organizations find their purpose. Ian shares his current reflections on his next steps and to what extent he might choose to follow his passion and interests.  

After many years in the corporate world (plus a stint as a baker of scones), Eric finally aligned his experiences, strengths,  and passion for technology and innovation with his values and started his own company, Otocast, the mobile audio guide. https://www.otocast.com/

We chat with Ken Yuille, who has gone from small business owner in Australia to James Spader's hand-double in NYC in order to support his wife Jane's career.  Ken has become a career explorer, open to opportunities, not ready to retire. What will he do next? Whatever it is, it better involve leaving time to bring Jane her nightly G&T!

After a lifetime of corporate roles that rarely brought her joy and work-life balance, Geesha has found a way to align her strengths, passions, and values to create a sustainable Sri Lankan food services business in Germany. We talk to her about her career journey and, along the way, find out that she's the number one super fan of one of our previous podcast guests!

We chat with Krishna,  Cardiologist, VP at Abbot Vascular, Ted-ED speaker, author of YA fiction, & now beginning his new side-career as a movie executive producer. Where does he find the time and energy? Krishna is another great example of how you don't have to give up a successful day job in order to align your strengths, passions, and values and find a meaningful career. 

We talk to Andy Woodfield about how he's managed to align his passions, strengths, and values within the day job.  Andy talks to us about showing up authentically in his life and career (and helping others do the same), becoming a gin distiller, and baking cakes (though not from scratch).