The New P & L - Principles and Leadership in Business

This week on The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series we speak to the amazing Vivian Acquah - Inclusive Workplace Wellness Advocate, DEI Consultant, Trainer, Strategist, and Keynote Speaker.

As an inclusive workplace wellness advocate, Vivian advises leaders and brands on how to keep their team members engaged, energised, and safe in a sustainable manner. Vivian focuses on working towards sustainable employability in a holistic way: incorporating all elements of wellness and wellbeing, including physical, mental, career, social, community, and financial wellness and as well as purposefully incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Vivian is also founder and host of the Amplify DEI conference – a global virtual seminar in September this year featuring an incredible line up of over 70 speakers and authorities on workplace wellness, the future of work and DEI.  We discussed with Vivian:

· The Amplify DEI conference, which opens on Sept 28th and features over 70 international speakers

· How CEOs can ensure cultural and social diversity and inclusion becomes part of a company’s thinking and not just part of its dialogue

· Symbolism, pragmatism and authenticity when it comes to a commitment to DEI

· What a more humanised workplace looks like

· Algorithmic bias in HR & recruiting tools

· How our siloed existence over the last 18 months may affect both the attitudes and the reality of diversity and inclusion on the workplace 

· What we need to do to understand and walk in each other’s shoes in business

· How you can build a powerful culture of positive micro-actions and small gestures

· The next generation of leaders and their approach to DEI

Exclusive offer: we have 10 tickets for listeners to join the Amplify DEI summit in September. To sign up, click the link below:

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Welcome to this week's The New P&L TO THE POINT. The New P&L TO THE POINT is a weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes each week, we break down the key elements of our weekly The New P&L conversations with industry leaders and entrepreneurs.  We offer an opinion on the key points from the conversations and how our listeners may practically apply them in their businesses.

This week on The New P&L TO THE POINT we break down and analyse our conversation with Franziska Dolak, Global Head of Digital Applications, Data-driven Services & Automation for Siemens Smart Infrastructure in Zug, Switzerland. Together with her team, Franziska researches and develops new digital innovations from a holistic and human-centric perspective. We consider:

· the need for leaders, managers, employees and entrepreneurs to ensure they are Being Intentional about the Aspirational

· the challenge of delivering mission statements and straplines in practice

· why context and experience means we all interpret corporate statements differently

·  the delicate balance between the ‘rigidity’ needed to ensure clarity of definition, purpose, vision and the flexibility needed to encourage understanding of, and commitment to the framework that underpins the message

· why it is the responsibility of the brand to first ensure that aspiration is collectively understood

· identifying the practical, intentional ways to deliver brand aspiration

· why some brands and leaders confuse guiding lights and signals with milestones

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This week on The New P&L Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series speaks to Franziska Dolak, Global Head of Digital Applications, Data-driven Services & Automation for Siemens Smart Infrastructure in Zug, Switzerland. Together with her team, Franziska researches and develops new digital innovations from a holistic and human-centric perspective. We discuss with Franziska:

- How the principles that underpin Siemen’s strapline ‘Ingenuity for Life’ play out in practise in their business

- On the basis of what data and which humans is human-centred design centred? How Siemens ensures that its future innovations don’t fundamentally reinforce some of the inherent biases that already exist in society

- Whether the intellectual awareness of the role technology plays in shaping the way society acts, reacts and interacts and how we go about our lives, is sometimes lost in the technology race for ‘smarter’ cities

- If we rely too much on data to drive innovation at the expense of human intuition in our modern approach to innovation

- Whether much of the ‘highly disruptive technological innovation’ today is more evolutionary than revolutionary

- If big technology companies like Siemens are designing for the future or actually defining the future – in other words, reacting to need or creating demand

Visit Seimens: https://www.siemens.com

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Welcome to this week's The New P&L TO THE POINT. The New P&L TO THE POINT is a weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes each week, we break down the key elements of our weekly The New P&L conversations with industry leaders and entrepreneurs.  We offer an opinion on the key points from the conversations and how our listeners may practically apply them in their businesses.

This week on The New P&L we break down and analyse our conversation with Sarah Kay – author of the brilliant new book, Brand New World: Define the Role of Your Brand to Create a Bold Future.  Sarah founder of create a bold future, a global brand advisor and the former head of global brand innovation for Nike.

Host of The New P&L TO THE POINT, Paul, discusses his views on:

· What could be achieved on a regional and global scale from a business perspective, if brands chose to work collaboratively together for the greater good

· Why the pandemic offers some hope of the possibility of some form of collective action from brands

· What happens when the collective necessity of the moment and the size and scale of the perceived challenge, meets a forceful will to do something for the collective good

· Why incredibly complex problems often invariably boil down eventually to incredibly simply solutions

· Why ‘Will’ is the incredibly simple solution

· How courage sets the foundation for Will

· Why ‘Will’ is the only true driver of real change

· What defines great leadership

· Courage in leadership

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In this month’s episode of The New P&L Business Book Review Club, sponsored by The Carroll Consultancy we speak to Sarah Kay, author of Brand New World: Define the Role of Your Brand to Create a Bold Future, global brand advisor and former Head of Global Brand Innovation for Nike.  

Sarah believes that brands exist to benefit humanity, not the other way around so we need to make brands work harder for us. She specialize in futures thinking, and often partners with CEOs and CMOs to help them define the role of their brand in creating a bold future for humanity and the planet. We discussed: 

· Whether purpose can be retrofitted back into an organisation

· How you encourage some leaders to effectively work against what seems to be their own best interests in the short to medium term when they are rewarded on the basis of short to medium term performance

· If consumers have abdicated their personal responsibility for social and environmental issues to brands

· The barriers enterprise leaders highlighted when it came to implementing creative thinking in businesses

· The leadership that is needed at the top of industry to ensure actions are taken for the collective good

· Where the line is between symbolism, pragmatism and true authenticity when brands claim to act in the public interest

To order a copy of Sarah's book, please go to: https://amzn.to/3CbZt5z

The New P&L Monthly Business Book is sponsored by Carroll Consultancy Group: dramatically developing people, performance and profits. If you want to accelerate your business growth in 2021, go to www.carrollconsultancy.com to check out the programmes and initiatives they offer, or email [email protected] to book a time to discuss.

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Welcome to this week's The New P&L TO THE POINT where we break down our conversation with Susan Sly. Susan is a tech investor, best-selling author of seven books, keynote speaker, trainer and entrepreneur. Susan is also Co-CEO, and co-founder, of Radius AI – a Silicon Valley and Phoenix based AI company, founder of Agency 8 – a digital agency for start-ups, and CEO of Crimson Phoenix Marketing. Our host, Paul discusses:

· The two key entrepreneurial character types – the dreamer and the doer/deliverer

· Why we need to fall in love with the dream and the delivery of that dream

· The scarcity mindset that many entrepreneurs have

· The paradox at the heart of the entrepreneurial dreamer / doer dichotomy

· Why we sometimes don’t take on the big tasks that will move us forward

· Whether some entrepreneurs sub-consciously also fear same success they crave a

· How we may be sabotaging ourselves in the delivering of our dream

· How our thinking can work against us in terms of achieving what we believe we are destined to achieve

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This week on The New P&L – Principles & Leadership Podcast Series we speak to the inspirational Susan Sly. Susan is a tech investor, best-selling author of seven books, keynote speaker, trainer and entrepreneur. Susan is also Co-CEO, and cofounder, of Radius AI – a Silicon Valley and Phoenix based AI company, founder of Agency 8 – a digital agency for startups, and CEO of Crimson Phoenix Marketing which focuses on wellness products in the B to C space. We discuss with Susan:

· The Dreamers and Deliverers/doers characteristic in entrepreneurs

· How Susan rebuild her business and life after her ‘never again’ moment

· What self-aware and vulnerable leadership looks like for Susan

· The primary ambition for Radius AI

· Ethics and bias are big topics in AI

· How business owners and leaders can manifest and then harness the resilience and inner strength they have built as a result of their experiences over the last 18 months

· How a business maintains strict adherence to a core set principles in tough times

· How business leaders today find the right balance of passion and reason in their decision-making process

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Welcome to this week's The New P&L TO THE POINT we break down and analyse this week’s conversation with Simon Squibb - serial entrepreneur, angel investor and founder and Chief Purpose Officer at The Purposeful Project. Simon’s mission is to help 10,000,000 entrepreneurs start and grow businesses by offering them free access to a wide range of services and advice to support them and help them on their journey. We consider:

· Why some entrepreneurs want to pay it forward

· Entrepreneurial empathy

· Encouraging entrepreneurs to find their purpose and embrace it

· The All Blacks rugby team’s ‘better people make better all blacks’ philosophy

· Bringing your whole self or burning out

· What the Purposeful Project and other similar platforms offer the individual as well as the business

· The deep paradox at the heart of entrepreneurialism

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This week on The New P&L – Principles & Leadership Podcast Series we speak to Simon Squibb - serial entrepreneur, angel investor and founder and Chief Purpose Officer at The Purposeful Project. Simon has started 19 companies, invested in over 70+ start-ups and has mentored hundreds of founders. 

Having sold his award-winning branding and digital agency, Fluid, to PwC, in his role Chief Purpose Officer at The Purposeful Project Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating and guiding both budding and experienced entrepreneurs by sharing his personal experiences, insights, ideas and tips. His mission is to help 10,000,000 people start and grow a business of their own by offering them free access to a range of services to help them on their journey as an entrepreneur.  We discuss with Simon:

· How Simon defines purpose and what it means for him in a business context

· What a brand looks like when it has truly embraced purpose

· Creativity as a key characteristic of entrepreneurs

· The growing number of ‘intrapreneurs’ within business

· Why Simon has an ambition is to assist 10 million entrepreneurs to start and scale their businesses

· Assessing risk as an entrepreneur

· How entrepreneurs embrace the current chaos and find the motivation to transform their business

· Defining a difference between an ‘entrepreneur’ and a ‘business owner’

Web: www.purposefulproject.com

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Welcome to this week's The New P&L TO THE POINT. The New P&L TO THE POINT is a weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes each Friday, we break down the key elements of our weekly The New P&L conversations with industry leaders and entrepreneurs.  We offer an opinion on the key points from the conversations and how our listeners may practically apply them in their businesses.

In today’s The New P&L to the point we break down and analyse this week’s conversation with the brilliant Stephen Steers. Stephen is President of Keysan Group, a respected international Sales Confidence Trainer for B2B sales teams and global keynote speaker.  Stephen has advised and led sales and revenue generation workshops for more than 250 companies right across the globe, helping clients generate millions of dollars in revenue in the process.

We discuss what businesses need to do to realign and redefine their sales process: focus on the three core stories; the three core brand narratives - Mission, Vision and Milestones and how they lead to clarity, consistency, engagement and ultimately, sales success. 

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