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

My guest in episode #6 “Perspectives on Leadership” is former work colleague Björn Schigt.

Björn and I first met whilst working for a Swiss based international building materials company. Subsequently, I have admired Björn's personal development and growth into the field of leadership development and executive coaching. He now offers his own practice STRATZR based in Zurich.

In this podcast, we discuss facilitative leadership, empathic leadership, authenticity, and psychological safety based on personal and observed experiences.

If you like to find out more about Björn, please visit his website: www.stratzr.com

This is episode #5 in my podcast series “Perspectives on Leadership”. My guest is Dr. Hartmut Steulten, Leadership and Organization Transformation Consultant.

I have had the pleasure of knowing Hartmut for approximately 20 years during which time we have collaborated together, and have studied the same post-graduate Master’s program on Organization Consulting. Hartmut went on to complete a PhD in the same field. 

In this podcast, Hartmut makes a refreshing and challenging distinction between Leadership (noun) and Leading (verb). The podcast also discusses standing up for what you believe in; taking courageous decisions, and the enabling skills leaders should possess going forward.

If you like to find out more about Hartmut please visit his website: www.the-leadership-practice.com

Continuing my series "Perspectives on Leadership", this episode  features Armin Sumesgutner, a senior business leader at Deutsche Telekom. I first met Armin at an annual meeting of the company's most senior leaders in 2017 when Peer-to-Peer Coaching was introduced. 

Using the framework of the 3 questions, Armin and I discussed personal leadership, observed situational leadership and the requirements of leaders going forward. Some of the points we discussed:
* Belief in the idea for change
* Embracing the idea and immersing oneself in change implementation
* Engaging hearts and minds; being fully agile and leveraging diversity
* Caring performance leadership
* Future leaders integrated horizontally into the business

My third podcast conversation is with Dr. Pete Cuozzo, Independent Management Consultant and Board Member. I have had the honour to work with Pete at GE and Syngenta - two organisations that have been wonderful learning experiences of leading major change. 

Pete shares his own situational leadership experiences, and offers his perspective on what is required of leaders in the future.
The themes we discussed include:
* Collaboration and inclusiveness
* 4E's of leadership
* Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence
* Human centred leadership

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If you haven’t heard it yet, please listen to my podcast with Jamie Harris – former Board Chairman of Interaction Associates.

The topics we discussed include  Jamie’s personal story of a leadership breakthrough; his personal observations of leadership in action that also created breakthrough, and lastly Jamie’s perspective on what’s required of leaders in the future.

Some highlights from our conversation:
·      Filling the leadership vacuum
·      Self-awareness and facilitative leadership
·      Leaders acting as signal generators