The World Needs Magic

Florian Klaass is an accomplished, passionate senior marketing expert with over 20 years of experience and success in the development and implementation of global brand & marketing programs in the FMCG segment. Florian has spent more than 10 years at Red Bull. In his career he has done it all: SVP / VP / Head of Marketing - Brand expert | Leadership Mentor | Business Advisor - FMCG, Entertainment, Culture, Social Responsibility. In this episode we will discuss what did he learn about the secrets of building high performing teams. And what life has taught him along the way.

Enjoy a conversation with consultant and former CEO / MD / SVP, Julian March. He talks about his experience of professional burnout, digital leadership and how he "loves helping vibrant organisations do amazing things!" 🔥

Eleanor Ford is the Academy Director at Zinc VC. The Academy is the education arm of Zinc, focused on accelerating the impact of mission-driven individuals. As an innovation specialist focused on making ideas happen, Eleanor builds networks and brings people together around opportunities, and change.

In this conversation Eleanor speaks about innovation, entrepreneurship and networks. She gives great insight into her current work. She is master of the art of bringing people together around a mission and enabling them to have more impact in the world.

We are lucky enough to call Victoire a client and she was also an absolutely wonderful guest for this podcast. Victoire talked about her passion for mentoring others, having benefitted from it herself early in her career: "It was the first time someone dedicated their time to empower me to know better". 

She spoke about her early role models - a figure skater and her father. Through their experiences she learned to overcome obstacles in her own life and "knock down barriers". 

"You have to be resilient; don’t give up, keep pushing, be the best you can." -- we can't recommend listening to this conversation enough. We could've talked to Victoire for hours!

Karen Rivoire - another wonderful webinar guest of 2020. 

Karen is Competence Flow Leader at the Inter Ikea Group: "Not sure I know what my title means! It's purposefully ambiguous... But I love the notion of flow. We all battle with challenges and capabilities, at work or elsewhere. Flow is the balance between them."

Rubens and Karen's conversation went from what flow means and being a human revolutionary, to living through Coronavirus and the future of work. We closed with our usual question to guests: If you had a magic wand, what would you change? "More rebels!" came the reply 💥

Alessandra Lariu is a brand and experience consultant, co-founder of SheSays, and a SheEO activator. She's a woman helping the next generation of creative female leaders. We spoke with Ale in October 2020, with Coronavirus still very much making its presence known throughout the world. "It’s been both horrible and exhilarating" she says of 2020! 

Our conversation with Ale was very much about communities and how amazing they've been for people during the pandemic. At the end of the chat Rubens asked Ale, if she had a magic, what's one thing she would change? "More women leaders. More diverse workplaces. No pay gap. Less war. Different perspectives on big world challenges, we’d potentially make better progress with climate change"... That's more than one thing Ale, but we're not going to argue!

Jen Emery is truly multi-disciplinary. She's an author (Leading for Organisational Change), leader, thinker, speaker and last, but not least, a parent too. Rubens and Jen talked about how change needs storytelling and rituals, just like magic does. If you give people the right tools and support to navigate change, it can actually be quite magical! ✨

How do you start to feel more worthy?

We had an amazing chat with Jax Quinn on how we can rewire and rewrite our narrative to feel proud of who we are. Jax is founder of The Worth Place - empowerment coaching and career support. She's an inspiration, helping people achieve their dreams with integrity, lightness and power. 

In our conversation Jax talked about the importance of humanising the workplace - the need to go beyond performance indicators, to focus on peoples' concerns instead.

Victoria Stoyanova  is the Founder and CEO of Hito Labs, a company exploring the future of community systems. She is Strategic Partnerships Manager for Facebook’s Community Partnerships team. And she recently created the Institute of Belonging, a newsletter that talks about the practice of connection. In this episode Victoria and Rubens talk about what makes great communities, what gets on the way, what are the different levels of connection and much more.