In the mid-80’s, I worked in London for the Midland Bank Group (later acquired by HSBC). When I was working in Head Office, I had the fortune to meet some great and promising HR Management Trainees including Neil Hayward. When the Midland Group created a new Personal Financial Services Division, Neil joined my team. Our careers subsequently took different paths but I recently re-connected with Neil to invite him to my podcast series. I found Neil’s stories about leadership very compelling and the insights into vulnerability when you’re the Chief People Officer charged with a high profile mandate at short notice! Another great example of leading and learning in the moment.

I had the pleasure of working with John  Murabito when he was SVP HR Head and I was part of his leadership team at Monsanto back in the mid 1990's. Subsequently John went on to become CHRO for Cigna.
So it was a pleasure catching up with John and listening to his perspectives on leadership. John chose examples at different times in his career that provided the following learnings:
* Standing up for your beliefs in the face of adversity
* Making critical decisions based on fact and analysis not emotion
* Setting stretch goals and the support to achieve such goals
* A leader's role is to make people feel valued and listened to.

I invite you to check out this video.

I am pleased to welcome Mayank Jain as my latest podcast guest. Mayank has a background in commercial finance and business transformation and is a specialist in workforce transformation planning and analytics. Today he runs his own company based in the US called People Transformation Group.

During our podcast we touched on the following topics:
* Taking personal initiative
* Maximising people capabilities on a team
* Vulnerability
* A leader's role in bringing people along