The New P & L - Principles and Leadership in Business

There is real power in true diversity in business – it motivates minds, creates competitive advantage and builds brands with brilliance, relevance and longevity. It is, and must be, a critical component of a business’s strategic and commercial tool kit to ensure it both represents society it resides within and crucially, also understands the needs, desires and emotional triggers of the customers it serves.

In this special edition of The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business Roundtable series, our guest host, cultural strategist and diversity consultant, Leonie Annor-Owiredu leads a conversation with some of the most exciting minds in the UK’s creative scene.

The panel discusses how more diverse cultural, gender and social representation at every level within business leads to the creation of a more dynamic, creative and purpose-led culture of innovation, aspiration, and ultimately, commercial success.

www.principlesandleadership.com 

The New P&L TO THE POINT is a new weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes each Friday, we break down the key elements of our The New P&L weekly 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, we analyse our The New P&L podcast discussion with former professional football manager, now High Performance Coach and founder of The Leaders Advisory, Tony Walmsley. We consider self-awareness and authenticity as characteristics of a great leader; the core components of high performance and the role culture plays in underpinning performance; as well as the responsibility brands have today to speak out on social, societal and environmental issues and the importance of following words with actions when doing so. 

To learn more about The New P&L go to: www.principlesandleadership.com 

So much of leadership is about the ability to perform at the highest levels - under pressure, day after day, commercially, mentally, emotionally.  Key to this is the skill that lies in intelligently anticipating and rapidly adapting to an everchanging environment. High performance athletes are masters at this - anticipating and reading the game as it plays out and quickly adapting their game plan, strategy and playing style to meet the new challenges they face at any given moment in time. 

This week, The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series speaks to former professional football manager, now Performance Coach, Board Advisor and CEO of The Leaders Advisory, Tony Walmsley. After two decades managing high performance athletes on the football field, Tony transferred the considerable skills he had honed and applied them to the board room, working with CEOs, board members and senior management teams to help increase their business performance. We discuss with Tony the psychology of high performance; the effect of the 'always on' culture in business and what leaders need to do to build greater trust, authenticity, and transparency with their key stakeholders.

https://www.theleadersadvisory.com/

The New P&L TO THE POINT is a new weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes each Friday, we break down the key elements of our The New P&L weekly 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 we analyse our The New P&L podcast discussion with business strategy coach and host of The Resilient entrepreneur, Michelle Mercier, where we received a deep understanding of Michelle’s entrepreneurial journey so far, including the trigger point that started it; the trials, challenges and opportunities she has encountered and how her definitions of success have changed along the way.

The entrepreneurial journey can be richly rewarding in many ways. It can also be challenging and filled with self-doubt as the entrepreneur battles both the external and internal voices that question the worthiness of their entrepreneurial idea and their ability to successfully deliver it. 

This week, The New P&L speaks to Business Strategy Coach and 'The Resilient Entrepreneur' podcast host, Michelle Mercier. Four years' ago and with a young and growing family, Michelle made the bold decision to step out of the relative comfort of a senior role at a Fortune 500 company - with all the consistency and financial security that offered - and into the brave new world of entrepreneurialism. 

We discuss with Michelle the trigger point - the moment at which she knew she had to take that first bold step to becoming an entrepreneur; the trials, challenges and opportunities along the way and how her definition of what entrepreneurial success looks like has changed along the way. 

To find out more about Michelle and The Resilient Entrepreneur podcast go to: www.createhonesty.com 

The New P&L TO THE POINT is a new weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes each Friday, we break down the key elements of our The New P&L weekly 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 guest host, Kelly Bewers joins host Paul Spiers on the show to discuss The New P&L 'Reimagining Entrepreneurship' Roundtable she hosted earlier this week. Paul and Kelly discuss the challenges in the many definitions of entrepreneurship, the unequal access to funding and whether there might be new ways to create the conditions for entrepreneurship that are much more inclusive and sustainable over the longer term.

There's a lot of talk about "build back better" with business leaders, organisations and think tanks contributing ideas and concepts to paint the picture of a better future. However, we also need to focus on the doers - those taking action, and willing to fail, in pursuit of the reimagining of business today. In particular, at times of crisis, these entrepreneurs are seen as leaders who can emerge with new solutions and innovations that play their part in transforming society. 

This week on The New P&L  'Reimagining Entrepreneurship' Roundtable Panel Discussion, Sana Shafi, Founder of STRIVE; Bayo Adelaja, CEO at Do it Now Now and Alice Moxley, Founder of Pivot join our guest host, social innovation leader, Kelly Bewers to explore what it means to be an entrepreneur today; who 'gets to be one'; the challenges of, and imbalances in, access to finance and funding; and if there might be new ways to create the conditions for entrepreneurship that are much more inclusive and sustainable over the longer term. 

Guest websites:

www.striveconsultants.co.uk

www.doitnownow.com

www.makepivot.org

The New P&L TO THE POINT is a new weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes each Friday, we break down the key elements of our The New P&L weekly 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 we spoke to Kazuhiro Gomi, president & CEO of NTT Research, the research arm of one of the world’s largest telecommunications and technology companies. It was a fascinating insight into Kazu’s views on innovation, the challenges around data privacy and how technology companies can play their role in designing and defining the future.  

Successful technological innovation is a fundamental tenet of the continued evolution of society. However, ongoing advances in technological innovation rely on several critical factors to ensure that this innovation is balanced, fair, effective, and crucially, that it works for all the members of the society it needs to serve.

This week, The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series speaks to President & CEO of NTT Research, Kazuhiro Gomi. We discuss with Kazuhiro Gomi how to innovate for the future when the present is so unpredictable; whether today’s technology disruption is evolutionary rather than revolutionary; how to balance innovation and privacy concerns; and what role global technology innovators like NTT can play in both defining and designing a better future for humankind.

Resilience in a crisis is a critical asset for a leader and the need for leaders to make calm, rational and clear decisions has rarely been more important than right now for many businesses, as they wade through multiple challenges faced by the pandemic and the uncertain future it has created.

This week on the New P&L, we speak to resilient leadership specialist and Canadian Armed Forces veteran, Sean Bacon, who used his leadership experiences in the Canadian Armed Forces as the basis for The Warrior Mindset – a methodology that helps build more resilient, dynamic and agile leadership. We discuss with Sean how businesses can positively leverage disruption and chaos; the roles trust and intuition play in a resilient mindset and how leaders can identify whether the decisions they are making are based on emotion and fear rather than rationale and reason.

To learn more about what Sean and the Warrior Mindset methodology, please go to: https://www.dynamic-shift.com/