Join me to hear Guy’s journey from being a 15-year-old boy not keen to go onto further education to the CEO of a large quarrying business at the frontline of the construction and infrastructure industries.

Guy talks about how pushing himself out of his comfort zone coupled with great mentors and coaches led to an amazing life!

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Join me as I talk to Erica Mandryko, a company lawyer who describes how two years after attending a leadership development programme she is still feeling the benefits of a deepening understanding of how the mind works and in both her professional and personal life. 

If you are a in a C-Suite role and wondering whether to commit to personal development and coaching, have a listen to this podcast with Adam Powell, COO for the insurance company Policy Expert.  We talk about his own wake-up call to find a better work life balance led him on his THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® journey.  He describes it as having ‘struck gold’ and more useful than any learning he has had to date including attending a globally recognised management school.’

Adam Powell - Chief Operating Officer, Policy Expert

Adam Powell | LinkedIn

If you ever find yourself in Battersea Park (London) and spot a dad and daughter longboarding duo it is probably my next guest Ian Earnshaw.  In his professional life, Ian sits on the Executive Team as Global Commercial Director for the fashion and luxury brand Mulberry, well known for their beautiful handbags. Ian provides insight into his THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®  journey which has become his passion over the past 8 years and how it has given his mind a “new upgraded operating system”.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianearnshaw/

Jenny joins me in talking about her journey into THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® and understanding how the mind works.  She describes this experiences as having been provided with a tool kit that is permanently available yet not having had to learn anything new! She describes how trying to overthink problems does NOT lead to the best solutions and how this new found quieter mind has made a profound difference to her work and personal life.  Learning how the mind works has allowed her to take a step back and provide her with a calm confidence in her own ability.

 Jenny Close FPFS, BA (hons) | LinkedIn

Ben Scoggins, CEO of the digital marketing agency Organic talks to Jonathan about walking the talk when it comes to his business being only as good as its people.  Ben’s journey started when he wanted to develop a high performing leadership team and the route to achieving this goal was not what he expected.  It turned out to be much easier than he expected and far more useful.

https://theorganicagency.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-scoggins-53407722/

Eilish Hardiman is the Chief Executive of Children’s Health Ireland which is responsible for a huge country wide healthcare transformation programme valued at over 2 billion euros.  This is the biggest public sector capex spend in the history of the country.  Leading it is a sizeable role with a lot of moving parts.

In our podcast Eilish took time out of her busy schedule to discuss how she approached getting the absolute best performance from her teams.  She notes that the key to making this happen across the organisation is to support people in not getting caught up in the mental noise and interference that so many of us carry around.  With knowing this people can then deliver to their real potential.

Eilish discusses how people need to be in the best mind space to be able to think clearly and actively listen.  She has realised that investing in leadership development and coaching gets the best out of her teams. 

She explains how it is the team at the top who set the tone and the culture of an organisation and therefore how they need to be a well-oiled unit.  And this comes with the right mind set, clarity of thinking and a reduction in the distractions of mental noise. 

On her own journey of learning about THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®, Eilish noticed that having less mental noise or greater clarity of thought allows her to have the capacity for new ideas and creative solutions. Two qualities at the heart of effective innovation and change.”

Web:  www.newchildrenshospital.ie

Eilísh Hardiman | LinkedIn

Twitter:  @CeoHardiman

Experienced Change Director Phil Welsh talks to us from sunny Bahrain where he is transitioning to a new opportunity in healthcare transformation in the region.  Here he talks to us about his previous role at Children’s Health Ireland where he was Director of Strategic HR, Organisational Development and Change Management reporting into the Group CEO.  He managed the Change Programme integrating 3 children’s hospitals across the Dublin area into the new large Children’s Health Ireland. 

He talks about how he

• Established an organisational design to allow all three organisations to integrate
• Managed the change programme to aid a smooth transition

Phil discusses:

• why Change Management, OD and winning the hearts and minds is so important to help to take people along the journey
• how you can never do enough comms when you are involved in large change programmes
• how regardless of the change programme, that everyone wants to know what it means for them personally, so organisations need to develop excellent change leaders within their Executive Team
• how he helps people to understand how to see what the change means for them and how to be present which can reduce any anxieties
• how the more you take staff along the journey by involving them it helps people to adjust to periods of uncertainty
• how psychological safety is key to allow employees to grow
• how he loves a challenge!

www.LinkedIn.com/in/Philwelsh

In this episode I speak with Jim Coleman who is UK CEO of we are social a global agency focussed on using the power of social media to support business growth.  They have brands on their books including Adidas, Google, Netflix, Aldi, Disney and many  others. 

In this podcast

• Jim provides an insight into his role as the UK CEO of we are social and about being lonely at the top
• He talks about how he relies on a team he can really trust
• Jim talks about how developing his understanding of how the mind works has helped him not get so caught up in the dramas of work life and has allowed him to take a step away from the day to day and provide a helicopter view
• Plus how not overthinking or trying to predict what others may be thinking releases him to trust his own judgement and to being more present and listen better, less critical and more compassionate

We also cover

• How to remain clear headed by keeping priorities in perspective and compartmentalise work and home life
• How self-doubt and over thinking limits so much human potential
• What the organisation would be like if self-doubt was removed
• How he has seen more demand within the business for personal coaching during the past 12 months

If you are thinking of developing yourself, Jim would urge you to take the time to start the journey of how the mind works as it will help you to take a step outside of the work rhythm and look at it and understand it in a different way.  It will give you a difference perspective on life which has got to be positive!

Jim Coleman

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jicoleman/

Billy is the Global Chief of Staff for an IT and digital organisation of over 4000 people.  He has a team of 350 working across 15 countries.  In this podcast, we explore how understanding how the mind works (THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®) has helped Billy lead his fragmented global team through a period of great uncertainty and ambiguity.

After trying many of the leadership techniques out there which just weren’t sticking, the THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® journey was the standout approach which he describes as simple, logical and has had a lasting impact.

Billy talks about:

• How the THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® journey has been so profoundly effective

• How he has been able to put a whole new context around the life he lives

• The sense of empowerment he now experiences knowing the ‘noise’ in his head no longer needs to always take centre stage

• Having seen the positive effects THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® has had on his own life, Billy invited his Global Leadership Team on the THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® journey as well which provided huge value for the company

• The advantages of having his whole team speaking the same language and with the same understanding

• How it has helped him to guide his team

Have fun listening to this podcast and check out the others on the site.

William (Billy) Campbell | LinkedIn