Gavin McQuillan joined the Royal Bank of Scotland at 16. Today he leads learning for 60,000 colleagues at NatWest. In this episode he joins Mindflick co-founders Sir Andrew Strauss and Dr. Pete Lindsay to talk about leading people through transformation that never stops.

In this episode:

• Why most leaders know the theory, and why it falls apart under pressure
• "You know everybody, but you know nobody": the connection paradox at work
• Moving a village-sized learning team from a federated model to one bank-wide team
• Why a crisis sometimes builds connection faster than a normal day
• Challenge and support: why getting the balance wrong either way is equally damaging
• Disagreeing without disconnecting, and why it's easier to stand against something than for something
• AI in the workplace
• The one thing Gav would tell every leader to pay attention to

Hosted by Sir Andrew Strauss and Dr. Pete Lindsay, co-founders of Mindflick, the first performance psychometric. Find out more at mindflick.co.uk.

In this episode, Dr Mark Bawden, Dr Pete Lindsay and Sir Andrew Strauss explore the evolution of psychometrics, from traditional personality profiling to a new approach: performance psychometrics.

They unpack why most psychometric tools stop at self-awareness, and why that falls short in today’s fast-moving, AI-driven world.

Instead, they introduce a more practical approach focused on turning insight into action by embedding better teamwork, communication and decision-making into everyday work.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why self-awareness alone doesn’t drive performance
• What a “performance psychometric” actually is
• Why teams are the real unit of performance

Listen to the latest episode of the Mindflick podcast now.

In this episode, we’re joined by Manoj Badale, co-founder of Blenheim Chalcot, one of Europe’s most successful venture builders, and lead owner of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Rajasthan Royals.

From building and scaling high-growth technology businesses to disrupting cricket with a data-driven approach in the IPL, Manoj has worked at the intersection of business, sport and high performance for over two decades.

This deeply personal conversation explores the turning points that shaped his life, from growing up between cultures after moving to the UK as a child, to realising decades later how those early experiences forged his drive to adapt, fit in and continuously evolve.