Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

207: Over the past 41 years I & Management 2000 have worked with over 1,650 companies who use franchising as their primary growth strategy. Management 2000’s clients exist in: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Ireland, UK, and Germany.  We bring Performance Management Systems & Processes to our clients. These systems have two parts which need to work together. One is the dynamics of business, which is beliefs lived. The second is the mechanics of business which is systems implemented and technology utilized. Every business needs a Vision Statement and then must know its top priorities for achieving the Vision. For companies using franchising those top priorities are: (1) locations open, (2) successful franchisees, and (3) very satisfied, loyal, frequent user, promoter customers. Theme: My job, role, function and purpose in my business life is to help people discover how to think the ways they need to think so their enterprise will be successful. In addition to my work in Management 2000 I have been a franchise of five Brands and the CEO of one Brand. Value for the listener: Discover the difference between thinking and having thoughts. Focusing on achieving results versus doing activities. Being an influencer. Getting people to inspire themselves. Top Leadership Tips: 1. Personal goals drive business goals. 2. Don’t make something matter that doesn’t matter. 3. Words matter. 4. Live the life you sing about. 5. Keep commitments, or they are not commitments. 6. If everything is a priority, then nothing is. 7. Integrity is a luxury until it is tested. 8. The difference between good and great is discipline. 9. Performance is more important than rhetoric. 10. Have an unwavering commitment to results. Two Books: 1. Peter Drucker - The Effective Executive. 2. Edgar Schein – Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Martin Wilson is CEO of Digital Identity Net, a growing Fintech business regulated by the FCA and founded with a social purpose to deliver the first privately funded public service. It aims to make the internet a safer place by enabling people to verify who they are by calling on their bank to vouch for them. DIN’s OneID platform is secure and simple and shares only the information required to enable a safe interaction online with the consumer always in control of their personal data.Martin is passionate about the topic of Digital Identity which led him to first invest and then go on to lead the business, with a desire to create a better way for people to operate online. He is an experienced CEO, NED and board level director specialising in business transformation with a proven ability to develop business vision and strategy. He has a demonstrable track record of delivering large scale, mission critical programmes and culture change within highly regulated environments. Martin has held many Executive and Non-Executive Director roles over the last 15 years, including a NED on the Faster Payments Board (FPSL) and special Advisor and NED to E-Serve (the Scheme delivery arm of OfGem). He has also run his own consultancy service since March 2010. He is a natural leader with strong management skills, leading companies to deliver to challenging targets. His interpersonal skills enable him to influence key decision makers at the most senior levels and his market experience spans public sector, Financial Services, M - and E-commerce and IT in UK, Europe, Middle East, Australia, and East Africa. Martin’s last role was as Head of Change for Payments at RBS/ Nat West, leading a £200M change portfolio. He has been a VP at HP, running a €300m global programme for a leading investment bank and as CEO of a mobile international money transfer start-up he launched a £multi-million platform servicing money flows from the Middle East to the Indian sub-continent and the far east. As Chief Commercial Officer for BACS, Voca and VocaLink, Martin led the company from a domestic not-for-profit, mutual organisation (BACS) to a successful international commercial and profitable enterprise. He successfully re-developed the UK payments IT infrastructure and delivered an ambitious strategy for growth, including the successful launch of the UK Faster Payments Service. Martin led Strategy and Innovation within the Business Development function, driving a product and marketing strategy across three global regions and sat on several JV Boards during this time. Prior to that Martin was a senior civil servant responsible for the development and maintenance of all IT systems in the UK Department of Social Security. Martin lives in the Lake District with his partner Barbara and 4 trail hounds. He has 3 grown up sons. When he wants to be active, he is a keen mountain walker and when he wants to relax, he is a keen follower of all forms of cricket (although that’s not always a relaxing past time!).Top tip: “If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs and blaming it on you”. A leader must always strive to find ways over, through or around problems and issues and guide their teams past them, keeping a calm head when all around may be doubtful. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prior to his current role, Nando served as President of UPS International. He led the company's business operations in more than 220 countries and territories outside of the U.S. Prior, Nando served as president of UPS’s European operations. While there, he led UPS Europe to record business performance during the company’s five-year investment program into the region’s technology, network and infrastructure, which was designed to further improve speed, capacity and reliability.Before his assignment as president of UPS Europe, Nando served as president of the Asia Pacific Region. While in Asia, he expanded UPS’s presence in vital emerging markets and China. He led strategic projects to accelerate intra-Asia transit times for key trade lanes connecting growth markets and launched new products including Trade Management Services, and China-to-Europe rail freight.Nando received an MBA from Heriot Watt University - Edinburgh School of Business. He is a member of the executive committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, and also serves on the boards of the U.S.-India Business Council and the World Affairs Council of Atlanta.Global e-commerce creates tremendous opportunities for businesses large and small. But many small-to mid-sized retailers are having a hard time capitalizing. The problem is that often it’s not all that easy to ship their goods across borders.- NANDO CESARONENando Cesarone Top Leadership Tip - You can't be everywhere so surround yourself with Top Talent Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melanie Richards holds a range of board roles. She is a Non-executive Director of Morgan Stanley International, a member of the boards of the Royal National Theatre and The Invictus Games Foundation and Chair of The Eve Appeal (which funds research and raises awareness of the five gynae cancers). She sits on the advisory boards for both the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at the National University of Singapore Business School and the UK Government’s National Leadership Centre (supporting cross sector leadership and collaboration). With large-scale general management, board and advisory experience, Melanie was until September 2020 the Deputy Chair of KPMG UK, with a period as Acting Chair during the pandemic. Melanie was heavily involved in its continuing transformation in areas such as risk, culture, diversity and inclusion, reputation and ESG. Melanie was awarded a CBE for her contribution to business and to the diversity and inclusion agenda in 2019. She is a founding member of the 30% Club Steering Committee, sat on the Steering Group of the Hampton Alexander Review and won the Outstanding Contribution to Social Mobility Award in 2018. She is an Honorary Member of the ICAEW and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business and Administration from Oxford Brookes University. Melanie’s Top Tip: “Calibrate don’t catastrophise” - keep things in perspective and avoid extrapolating to the extreme (and often unlikely) scenarios.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With over twenty years’ experience in the Sports Industry, having built operations, companies and platforms across multiple territories and jurisdictions, Daniel Bernard is currently focused on strategic investments into startups and early stage companies in the sports and sports technology sector. Born in London in the UK, Daniel has lived in France, Spain and Italy before settling in Israel in 1999. Working in television for the Sports Channel offered a broad entry into the industry, and he worked from the ground up through logistics and production to deal with broadcast rights acquisitions. In 2004, Daniel founded the Israel-based Sports Data agency that was to become Redwood International Sports. Redwood was a first mover in advanced analysis of player and team performance always adopting innovative technologies to increase the company’s capacity to deliver quality data and insights for its customers. Daniel turned his focus in 2015 to the Sports Betting industry and created brand new platforms for emerging markets, dealing with everything from compliance and regulation to product and IT delivery. As part of this journey, he founded Suntech Innovation in Kyiv, Ukraine, delivering fully customized and turnkey product for the specific market.Daniel wholeheartedly believes in servant leadership. At the center of his core values are a dedication to hard work, high energy, an entrepreneurial spirit and creating teams that embrace diversity of thought as much as they embrace diversity of background. He is a strong advocate for gender equality and believes that, beyond being morally and ethically correct, it is also extremely wise commercially. Feeling grateful to continue working in a sector he enjoys so much, Daniel is connected with a number of Venture Capital funds with a global reach into the Sports Industry and works with selected companies to bring value through strategic, operational and business development partnerships. Beyond his professional career in the Sports Industry, Daniel is passionate about building long-term, sustainable bridges between Israel and the UAE, and further to additional countries in the GCC. The Abraham Accords have provided an historic opportunity for peace in our region and Daniel is proud to be part of this vision in any way possible, whether it be through commercial, social or cultural partnerships and objectives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yilmaz Erceyes is Premier Foods' Chief Marketing Officer and has been a core part of the Executive Leadership Team that turned around the company behind a clear business strategy focusing on brand building and innovation. Premier Foods is one of UK’s biggest branded food businesses with a growing international presence. Yilmaz has responsibility for all Marketing, Consumer Insights & Analytics, R&D and Innovation. He joined the Company in March 2015 and worked across a number of brands as Category Director before being promoted to Marketing Director in April 2018, and shortly after promoted to his current role as Chief Marketing Officer in October 2019. Yilmaz featured in Marketing Week’s Top 100 Marketers as well as Campaign Magazines Power 100.Prior to joining Premier Foods, he was at Procter & Gamble for 13 years in several senior brand management roles across different geographies, having started his career in Procter & Gamble as Process Engineer.Yilmaz has extensive experience in leading diverse teams in multiple geographies with a track record of exceptional business and organisational results. His particular strengths are creating bold visions, winning strategies and building high performing teams that consistently deliver well above industry average growth rates as proven throughout his career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DLRichard Dannatt was a soldier for forty years concluding his military career as Chief of the General Staff – the professional head of the British Army. Since retiring from active duty in 2009, he was Constable of the Tower of London until July 2016. In 2011 he became an independent member of the House of Lords and is a member of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. He is a frequent commentator on defence and security issues in the media and columnist for The Daily Telegraph. He is passionate about welfare issues relating to both serving and veteran members of the Armed Forces. In 2007, he co-founded Help for Heroes with Bryn Parry and is closely involved with several other military charities.Lord Dannatt has wide experience at Board level in the private, public and charitable sectors. Currently he is Chair of the National Emergencies Trust and of the Normandy Memorial Trust and on the International Advisory Board of Photonis. Previously he was Chair of the Royal Armouries and Cadence Consulting, and on the Board of Historic Royal Palaces and a Trustee of the Windsor Leadership Trust.Lord Dannatt divides his time between London and his family home in Norfolk where he runs the family arable farm. He chairs the Norfolk Strategic Flooding Alliance, is a past President of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association and is President of the Norfolk Churches Trust, YMCA Norfolk and Veterans Norfolk. He published his autobiography: “Leading from the Front” in 2010, and a second book: “Boots on the Ground – Britain and her Army since 1945” in October 2016. His wife, Philippa, was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk in 2019. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of both Greater London and Norfolk.Richard Dannatt’s top leadership tip is to remind aspiring leaders that success is defined by two considerations – character, which determines whether others want to follow you – integrity, which will determine the level of enthusiasm with which others will follow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prashant is leading innovation using technology at x·enabler - a successful IT innovation company, where he has digitally transformed a number of Australian businesses using innovative technologies. Over the last 15 years, Prashant has founded a number of successful businesses from the ground up. He is a trusted advisor, business partner and mentor for a range of business-minded people in his group. Through his technical expertise, Prashant has led some of Australia’s biggest development teams across a range of industries and technologies. He is also leading technical committees such as SIPBN, Chamber of Commerce Sydney and various other business networks.Prashant is also the host of the podcast “Enabling the World with Tech” where he explores strategies and lessons from leading tech entrepreneurs and tech experts, focusing on scaling effectively. Prashant has been on many journeys throughout his career and has had to reinvent himself a multitude of times; from learning various types of programming languages and skills beyond technology to adapting his business strategies in not only the technology industry but also in retail and food services. Prashant believes that it is important to always be learning and is who he is today by learning from his past experiences, where he has lost and gained everything. While Prashant is passionate about all things business, technology and innovation he has also mastered the perfect balance between his work and personal life. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, nature walks, poetry and motorcycling. Prashant loves his attributes of continuous learning and innovation and his goal is to help businesses succeed with his intensive experiences, knowledge and unique ideas. Prashant aims to inspire others to always be innovative, believe in themselves and never give up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard Browning is Founder and Chief Test Pilot of Gravity Industries which designs, builds and flies Jet Suits, pioneering a new era of human flight. The company was founded in March 2017 to challenge the perceived boundaries in human aviation and to inspire others to dare to ask “What if?”. It now scales towards an International Race Series.Prior to founding Gravity, Richard was a Royal Marines reservist for six years and an Oil Trader with BP for 16 years where he discovered and implemented major new technologies winning the BP Group innovation Award.When he is not flying around the world, Richard is in Salisbury with his wife Debbie and their two children, Oliver and Thomas, kayaking and camping amongst other thingRichard says: "I am the Founder of Pioneering Aeronautical Innovation company, Gravity. Launched in March 2017 Gravity has invented, built and patented an 'iron man like' flight system.The dream was to reimagine an entirely new authentic form of human flight learning on an elegant collaboration of mind and body augmented by awesome technology. Gravity has to date been experienced by over a billion people globally with video views alone running at more than 60m within 7 days of launch. In the first 24 months Gravity executed 96 flight events across 30 countries including 5 Ted talks.The team and I are delivering on the vision to build Gravity into a world class aeronautical engineering business, challenge perceived boundaries in human aviation, and inspire a generation to dare ask 'what if...' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.