The Thoughtful Leader

Ann Francke, OBE, Chief Executive-Chartered Management Institute

The Thoughtful Leader with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Episode 018 Turning Managers into Leaders with Ann Francke, OBE, Chief Executive-Chartered Management Institute

Ann Francke is Chief Executive of the Chartered Management Institute, the UK's leading professional body for management and leadership with over 150-thousand members worldwide.

During the past year, CMI completed extensive research on how and why leadership is changing because of the global pandemic. It perfectly suited Ann to lead this research based on her own leadership roles at Procter & Gamble and in senior executive positions at Mars, Boots, Yell and BSI. In 2020, Ann was awarded an OBE for services to workplace equality.

Ann is an expert on gender balance in the workplace and frequently speaks in the media and at conferences. Her book, Create a Gender-balanced Workplace, was published in September 2019. Ann holds several board positions and five Honorary Doctorates for her work in management and leadership.

In our conversation, Ann speaks about the latest CMI leadership research including:

Examples of how leadership is changing post pandemic.

People leave leaders, not organizations.

The positive results when people respect their line managers.

The past year-a health, financial and mental health crisis.

Employees are no longer putting up with poor leadership.

Being a thoughtful leader means managing with a human face.

The NIH-an example of thoughtful leadership.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Website: https://www.managers.org.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-francke-obe

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Sian Young, Founder-Sustainable Success Coach & CEO-The Centre for Sustainable Action

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Episode 017 Sustainable Health and Wellbeing with Sian Young, Founder-Sustainable Success Coach & CEO-The Centre for Sustainable Action

My guest, Sian Young is a thoughtful leader who truly uses the word sustainability correctly with her individual and community outreach programs. She is the founder of Sustainable Success Coach and CEO of The Centre for Sustainable Action, a UN and TEDx Women speaker, a multi-award-winning published author, and guest writer for Entrepreneur.com and Authority magazine.

Sian trained as a health and lifestyle coach and has helped over five-thousand women transform their wellbeing. She supports CEO/Founder mums to detoxify their homes to promote sustainable health, which helps individuals and collectively supports the planet.

Sian's philosophy is that we are all unique individuals that should collaborate rather than compete to create positive change in the world.

In our conversation, Sian shares her wisdom and knowledge on topics including:

Supporting leaders, SMEs and entrepreneurs to collaboratively lead sustainability.

Sustainable change and zero waste.

How home detoxifying and sustainability work together.

Human health and the relationship to the planet.

The change that happens when families empower the women in their home.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Website: https://www.sustainableaction.center

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

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Mindy Gibbins-Klein

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Episode 016 You Can Learn to Care with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Mindy Gibbins-Klein is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant who teaches leaders on how to be thoughtful and to create a culture of thought leadership in organizations.

The topic for this episode is caring and questioning whether we can learn to care. Mindy likes to challenge people on their thinking. And hopefully, these exercises will add to your leadership skills.

Get ready to take notes and follow the exercises that Mindy routinely practices. Highlights from this episode includes:

You need to care enough to want to care.

Are you aware of your intentions?

Bring consciousness through more than one of your senses.

Reading, reflecting, internalizing and reinforcing your intentions.

Reinforcing your care acts.

Reflecting and carrying gratitude when celebrating achievements of others.

Turning caring into habits.

Why caring for others is good for you.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Dr. Amanda Foo-Ryland, Founder-Neural Coding Academy

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Episode 015 The App in your Head with Dr. Amanda Foo-Ryland, Founder-Neural Coding Academy

Dr. Amanda is a renowned expert in Neural Coding®. She and her global team of 20 Neural Coders® ensure people can change negative thinking and beliefs quickly. Dr. Amanda is also the founder of the world's first Neural Coding® Academy, training others in these life-changing modalities.

Dr. Amanda has over 30 years of experience in Human Development, 16 years for the Estee Lauder corporation as the Clinique Director of Education for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

In our conversation, Dr. Amanda shared her incredible life journey and how she has approached the challenges. Some insights she shares include:

How the neural coding process works like an app in your head.

Understanding the brain and brain plasticity.

Looking at cancer as an adventurous journey.

Intersecting Neural Coding with her life.

Creating a life filled with balance.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Website: https://www.amandafoo-ryland.com

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Julie Cottineau, Founder & CEO Brand Twist

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Episode 014 Branding with a Twist with Julie Cottineau, Founder & CEO Brand Twist

Julie Cottineau, Founder and CEO of Brand Twist, brings a wealth of branding experience not only for her clients, but her own initiatives as well. Julie worked as the VP of Brand for Richard Branson's Virgin Group and served in executive positions at global brand and advertising agencies in the US and France.

Julie is the best-selling author of TWIST: How Fresh Perspectives Build Breakthrough Brands. She is also the Dean and Creator of Brand School, an interactive online program specifically designed for small businesses and non-profits. She has helped thousands of businesses around the world to clarify and communicate their unique TWISTS, which is key in this competitive online world.

In our conversation, we discussed:

Looking at the competition and finding the Twists to call your own.

Connecting your brand to a purpose.

Thoughtful leaders apologize quickly after making a mistake.

Thoughtful leadership-being invested in helping bring out the best in others.

How the past year has given Julie and her clients opportunities to innovate.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Julie:

Website: https://www.brandtwist.com/

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Carol Stewart, Executive and Career Coach, Founder-Abounding Solutions

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Episode 013 Quietly Visible with Carol Stewart, Executive and Career Coach, Founder-Abounding Solutions

Carol Stewart is known as the Coach for High Achieving Introverted Women. Carol is the founder of Abounding Solutions, where she coaches women who are senior leaders to be visible, exude presence, influence, and make an impact. She also works with organisations providing training, workshops and webinars on career, leadership, and personal development.

A female senior leader may not appear to need help given the accomplished success in their careers. However, there are challenges that often prevent women from being eve more impactful and influential as they would confidently like to be.

Carol and I talked about her work and her passions for creating a more inclusive world for women. In our conversation, Carol shares her insights on:

The challenges introverted women face.

Shutting down the internal thinking of the imposter syndrome.

Promoting social justice for women.

As a leader, are you promoting and including opportunities for women?

The need to promote women to senior leadership.

The importance of confidence and self-awareness.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Carol:

Website: https://aboundingsolutions.com

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Thomas Power, Thought Leader, Independent Director

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Episode 012 Humans and Technology with Thomas Power, Thought Leader and Independent Director

An Independent Director is a non-executive director of a company who helps the company improve corporate credibility and governance standards. More and more investors and pension funds are requesting independent directors to work in the best interest of shareholders to present unbiased, informed and independent opinions.

Thomas Power serves as an Independent Director and mentor to well-known names including Jay Shetty, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and the Apprentice's Lord Sugar. Thomas is also co-founder of Ecademy, a social business network.

Thomas has a passion for understanding Humans and Technology, and where tech needs to improve to better support people.

In our conversation, Thomas gives insights on tech and people including:

Favorite tech includes Tweet Deck and Clubhouse.

Thoughts on mentoring Jay Shetty.

Thoughtful leaders put ideas in the context of humans, and it's missing in politics.

The need to teach empathy and listening skills.

Information and data needs to be contextualized for the ordinary person.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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WhatsApp +447875695012

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Mindy Gibbins-Klein

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Episode 011 Let's Talk about Respect with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Mindy Gibbins-Klein is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant who teaches leaders on how to be thoughtful and to create a culture of thought leadership in organizations.

The topic for this episode is RESPECT. To the thoughtful leader, the topic may be top of mind because it's a characteristic. So, the actual issue is dealing with disrespect and even non-intentional disrespect in behaviours directed at you.

Mindy shares her insights on how she handles disrespect, including:

Understanding our own behaviours.

The importance of self-awareness.

Not procrastinating those difficult conversations.

The difficulty of respecting people who don't respect others.

It's not about judgement. It's about caring.

Having boundaries and the necessity of calling people out.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Tony J. Selimi, Living your Best Life

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Episode 010 Living your Best Life with Tony J. Selimi

It was a privilege to have a conversation with Tony J. Selimi, an internationally recognised leader in the personal development field. At 20, Tony moved to London from Yugoslavia. He was penniless but driven by the conviction that each of us has unlimited abilities and the potential for excellence. His experience of learning to heal as a young child led him to merge science, spirit, psychology, technology, business, and life experiences to create tools he uses in his coaching and business consulting.

Tony's list of credits includes co-creating the award-winning documentary Living My Illusion. He was awarded The Most Visionary Entrepreneur 2020 and has made appearances on SKY, ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX networks. He helps people running six to nine figure businesses in his five-day immersive workshops. His new book is The Unfakeable Code, Take Back Control, Lead Authentically, and Live Freely on Your Terms.

There are so many lessons to learn from my conversation with Tony. Some topics we discussed include:

Being a thought leader includes being heartful-when your heart rules your head.

Embracing curiosity.

Thoughtful leadership includes all areas of your life.

25 principles to help people break through addiction.

Listening to your true intention and values.

The importance of alignment.

This is a conversation where you'll learn new things every time you listen to it. I hope you enjoy it. And here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Tony:

Website: https://tonyselimi.com

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Evan Le Clus, Dare to Scale

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Episode 009 You are Not Alone with Evan Le Clus, Dare to Scale

Evan Le Clus is a hands-on business mentor for SME CFOs looking to take their businesses to the next level. Evan partners with his wife, Warsha Joshi, deploying their signature programs, Scalability Quotient Acceleration and Elevation, in their company Dare to Scale.

Warsha Joshi was a recent guest on this podcast. It's great to hear from her partner, the wealth of knowledge and different perspectives they each bring to SME leaders.

In my conversation with Evan, we discussed:

Helping business owners with financial literacy.

Understand your cash conversion cycle.

The importance of keeping aligned with your strategy.

Thoughtful leaders understand the contributions of your team.

Know that you are not alone in this journey.

Use a coach, mentor, and a peer group for different perspectives.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Evan:

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

LinkedIn Dare to Scale: www.linkedin.com/company/daretoscale/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DareToScale

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DareToScale

Instagram: www.instagram.com/daretoscale/

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