The Leader's Kitbag

In these ‘Shorts’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes. This one comes from Episode 65 and my interview with Meredith Bell, the co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. In this clip, she talks about the importance of learning how to receive feedback from others. 

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https://www.ben-morton.com/meredith-bell-how-to-be-a-better-listener/  

SHOW LINKS

Meredith’s Website: https://growstrongleaders.com  

Meredith’s latest book, Connect With Your team: https://amzn.to/3eThw5Z

Tom Fairey is the Founder and Head Coach at Stakester. Operating in the video game space, he took an idea from a scribble on a napkin to being worth over £50 million in just over two years. Now they are one of the biggest in the world at what they do. To help fund the growth of the business, he raised $1.3 million investment from a single LinkedIn post. 

Alongside this, Tom hosts the Back Yourself Show, a show with over 1 million listens, on which he speaks to investors, founders, and experts in the start-up field. 

Tom talks to us about how his leadership style has evolved through working in a number of very different environments, his three key leadership habits and how to build real, self-awareness. 

Tom also has a fantastic new book out – ‘How Not To F**k-Up Your Start-Up’ – and we have two copies to give away to listeners via the link in the show notes. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:  

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasfairey/?originalSubdomain=uk  

Stakester: https://www.stakester.com  

Tom’s book: https://amzn.to/3HiObke  

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https://bit.ly/FREEleadershipmini-course  

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In these ‘Shorts’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes. This one comes from Episode 61 and my interview with Ron Carucci, the co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. In this clip, he talks about the steps we can take to be more honest.

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Ben’s website: https://bit.ly/BenMortonLeadership 

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https://www.ben-morton.com/ron-carucci-leading-with-truth-justice-and-purpose/   

SHOW LINKS

‘To Be Honest’ by Ron Carucci: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1398600660/  

‘Crossing the Unknown Sea’ by David Whyte: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1573229148

This week, I’m super excited to bring you a second interview with one of the world’s foremost leadership researchers and authors, Jim Kouzes. 

You can listen to the original episode (#64) here.

Jim is the co-author of ‘The Leadership Challenge’, now in the seventh edition following the latest round of global research. 

I first had the pleasure of interviewing Jim on episode 64 of the show, and if you’ve not listened to that episode, please listen to it right after this one. 

This episode has been planned for many months and it is going to be invaluable to you. We get to hear, directly from Jim, what people really want from a leader. He also shares with us how this has changed over the past few years as a result of Covid. 

The FREE 10-4-10 Leadership Programme: https://bit.ly/FREEleadershipmini-course

 The Leadership Challenge 

 Book: https://amzn.to/3WjQacs  

 Website: https://www.leadershipchallenge.com  

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In these ‘Shorts’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes. This one comes from Episode 58 and my interview with Christiane Wuillamie OBE, the co-founder of Pyxis Culture Technologies, a company that is quantifying the linkage between corporate culture, leadership and business results. In this clip, Christiane talks about building an environment of personal development. 

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Ben’s FREE 10-4-10 Leadership Programme: https://bit.ly/FREEleadershipmini-course 

Ben’s website: https://bit.ly/BenMortonLeadership 

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https://www.ben-morton.com/christiane-wuillamie-operationalising-culture/   

SHOW LINKS

Pyxis Culture Technologies: https://www.pyxisculture.com 

This week it’s my pleasure to introduce you to Sarah King who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Obu, a platform for women looking to raise investment and the women who’d love to invest in them. 

It’s a platform that looks to solve a very real need as women make up just 14% of angel investors in the UK, and 57% of these angels are based in London and the south-east.  

In this episode Sarah and I both talk about the resilience and tenacity required to build a business and work as a senior leader. We also both talk about our individual experiences of burnout or coming close to it; Sarah’s was several years ago, and mine has been in the past few months. 

Connect with Sarah  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahlking/  

The FREE 10-4-10 Leadership Programme: https://bit.ly/FREEleadershipmini-course  

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Whether it’s a leadership question for Ben, some feedback on the show, or a guest suggestion, we’d love to hear from you. Whatever the reason for getting in touch, you can easily do it by clicking the link below that Ben will personally review.  

https://www.ben-morton.com/feedback/ 

Mentioned in this episode:

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In these ‘Shorts’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes. This one comes from Episode 37 and my interview with Vikki Barnes, a Clinical Psychology Doctor, happiness and wellbeing consultant, positive psychologist, speaker, author, humanitarian and adventurer. In this clip, she shares about the need for psychological safety and why leaders need to understand the concept of ‘holding’. 

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Ben’s FREE 10-4-10 Leadership Programme: https://bit.ly/FREEleadershipmini-course 

Ben’s website: https://bit.ly/BenMortonLeadership 

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE

https://www.ben-morton.com/episode37/  

SHOW LINKS

Find out more about Vikki’s work: https://www.drvikkibarnes.com/   

The Psychology Behind Effective Crisis Leadership – HBR: https://hbr.org/2020/04/the-psychology-behind-effective-crisis-leadership

Debra Corey is a highly experienced and award-winning HR leader, consultant, world-class speaker, and five-time best-selling author who has been named as one of the top 101 Global Employee Engagement Influencers and HR Most Influential Thinkers. 

After 20+ years working for global companies such as Gap Inc, Merlin Entertainments and Reward Gateway, she now inspires and ‘pays it forward’ by helping others develop and deliver HR strategies in a rebellious way, pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo to truly drive employee engagement.  

Debra has a new book out called ‘See it, Say it, Appreciate it’.

With 65% of employees saying that they don’t feel appreciated, and 75% of employees who quit their job citing a lack of recognition as the key driver, clearly something’s not working. Debra’s book is written as a call to action and how-to-guide for managers who want to get it right. 

She has also kindly given us two copies of the book to give away to listeners of the show for free. All you need to do is click on the link in the show notes below.

Win one of two copies of See it, Say it, Appreciate it.

 https://mailchi.mp/ben-morton.com/debracorey   

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Connect with Debra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debracorey/  

The FREE 10-4-10 Leadership Programme:

https://bit.ly/FREEleadershipmini-course  

We want to hear from you! 

Whether it’s a leadership question for Ben, some feedback on the show, or a guest suggestion, we’d love to hear from you. Whatever the reason for getting in touch, you can easily do it by clicking the link below that Ben will personally review. 

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Mentioned in this episode:

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In these ‘Shorts’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes. This one comes from Episode 28 and my interview with Brian Dow, the Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, and the Managing Director of Mental Health UK. In this clip, Brian unpacks how to be able to stop, listen and pause – and embrace that leaders don’t have all the answers.  

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Ben’s website: https://bit.ly/BenMortonLeadership 

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https://www.ben-morton.com/episode28/ 

SHOW LINKS

‘Extreme Ownership’ by Jocko Willink: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0739PYQSS 

Clic: https://clic-uk.org  

Mental Health UK: https://mentalhealth-uk.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwrsGCBhD1ARIsALILBYpAuuuEpaue5jZAkpZ8cqF0DaMdm5VhcCOWgjR9TOku8Iu7BVMlyTwaAnf9EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds  

ReThink Mental Illness: https://www.rethink.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwrsGCBhD1ARIsALILBYrLNxY45k4D1hT-1EnzsQWIFSUCSWL4qPVDQmfeO7IBhOPmQUJ4sRAaAkYcEALw_wcB 

Mark Miller is the co-author of ‘Legacy in the Making: Building a Long-Term Brand to Stand Out in a Short-Term World’. He is the founder of The Legacy Lab, a thought leadership and consulting practice that explores how brands can build modern legacies; and he is also Chief Strategy Officer at Team One, Publicis Group’s global luxury and premium brand agency.

Recently, Mark and his strategy team at The Legacy Lab published a pioneering study. It reports on the rare breed of leaders and brands writing history every day, the people they inspire to bring the past forward, and the physical or digital products and experiences they create to build lasting legacies in a short-term world. 

Traditionally, “legacy” refers to the past. This important study examines legacy as a still-vital part of today. The resulting book, ‘Legacy in the Making’, has been endorsed by Simon Sinek as “a must-read for anyone who wants their work to last beyond their lifetime.” It was a #1 new release on Amazon and a bestseller on the Washington Post list and other places.

I get sent many books as a result of hosting this show, and this is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. As a result, this is an incredibly rich podcast interview where Mark shares some incredible stories of truly great leadership at remarkable businesses; there are some that you will have heard of, and others that you probably haven’t.

Mark had kindly given us two copies of the book to give away to listeners of the show for free. All you need to do is click on the link in the show notes below.

Win one of two copies of Legacy In The Making:

https://mailchi.mp/ben-morton.com/markmiller 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Connect with Mark Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-miller-a39bb65/  

The FREE 10-4-10 Leadership Programme: https://bit.ly/FREEleadershipmini-course 

We want to hear from you!

Whether it’s a leadership question for Ben, some feedback on the show, or a guest suggestion, we’d love to hear from you. Whatever the reason for getting in touch, you can easily do it by clicking the link below that Ben will personally review:

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Mentioned in this episode:

The FREE 10-4-10 Course

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