Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

In a career spanning over 35 years, Andreas rose from being a banking apprentice at Deutsche Bank and graduate trainee at SG Warburg, to CEO of Allianz Global Investors, a role he relinquished on 1st January, 2020. He is currently Advisor to the firm. Andreas’s core beliefs and leadership principles were born of his life experience: Born in Belgium of German immigrant parents, losing his father suddenly at barely 12 years of age; gaining 2 years' work experience after his Baccalaureate and before University studies, having to work every day to finance these; immigrating to the UK  and building a career with no contacts there. Andreas had no real career plan – rather he was keen to work in an environment that furthered intellectual curiosity, interacting with interesting people and a maximum of individual freedom. Building on his personal experience, Andreas led by example and built and environment of trust, based on integrity, mutual respect and the concept that decisions, however difficult, needed to be seen as ‘fair’. He is particularly proud of that fact that no-one who ever worked for him directly resigned from their position.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Danny Payne is CEO of the high performing FCOS team who support the Government abroad especially our Foreign Office Embassies & their staff in the crucial role to represent Great Britain abroad - however tough the challenges. Inspiring Leadership is crucial throughout any organisation - its not just at the top. How do you approach challenges? From complexity to resolution. Difficult situation: lots of uncertainty & anxiety. Families involved too. Helping our people abroad when they had to leave the host country at short notice. Amazing support beyond the call of duty - highly inspiring. When Major IT Programmes go badly wrong & what to learn from it. They often do - give people space to sort it out. Explain & translate highly complex technical issues into clear language, explanations plans & lessons learnt. After action reviews. AAR - what to do differently next time? Keep calm - Don’t frighten people Top Tip - Don’t get bored - find a career where you love the work you do.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

32 years in the British Army: Parachute Regiment and Special Forces; commanding on operations at every rank up to Major General (i.e. from tens to thousands of people); strategic leadership in Whitehall. Leadership is about getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Having the right idea is the easy part; its persuading your team (and sometimes your boss) that it is the right idea that is the hard part. Key to this is trust between leaders and led. A good way to build this is to know (and show you know) your people, by exploiting their strengths and protecting them from their weaknesses. No-one is perfect and people thrive when you believe in them. Another way of building trust is by sharing the problem with the team, and asking for their ideas; ideas have value not rank. Never forgetting that, as was forcibly brought home to me in the Falklands, when the pressure is on, it is still up to the leader to shoulder the responsibility of making the decisions. But the more the team own the plan, and the more they trust you, the more committed to it they will be.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Renier grew up in the Dutch countryside and, after studying computer science and a stint as an artillery battery commander in the Dutch Army, joined Arthur D Little in Brussels. After an MBA from Insead he joined Mckinsey in London and was a founding member of their India practice. He later co-founded McKinsey's first incubator in Silicon Valley. He then started the 'executive' part of his career with stints as CEO/COO at GE Capital, Barclays and CEO of Paypal EMEA. In recent years he has developed a portfolio career, chairing and advising a number of fintech start-ups, board roles with incumbent banks, and as a professor of Fintech. Renier enjoys approaching all business problems with curiosity and first-principles problem-solving. Enjoying robust debate with ample good humour, he firmly believes that the best result comes from a dialectic between leaders that can listen and practice reflection-in-action.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chip enjoyed a 33 year military career, latterly concentrating on counter-terrorism as both the Senior British Military Advisor in US Central Command to Jim Mattis and as Head of Counter-Terrorism in the MoD, prior to branching out in to media commentary and leadership development. He is a passionate believer in both vertical and horizontal cohesion with teams – between leader and led.Leadership top tip: no one was ever managed up a hill, they were led there: if you have good people and bad process, bad process wins nine times out of ten. If you get the leadership and management correct, the basis of an unbeatable team is nurtured. Chip is a Director of Quantum Resilience dealing with crisis management training for Boards/CEOs for when a crisis hit, character often becomes as important as competence in responding.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After coming to London aged 18 to study Acting followed by a short but successful acting career, Martin entered Hospitality Management in earnest twenty years ago. Following stints as a General Manager and Area Manager working with the Wok Wok, Christophers and Zizzi brands, he joined Gaucho in 2005 and spent 9 nine years working his way up the leadership ladder as the company expanded. Leaving the group and his position of Managing Director in 2014, Martin entered the world of that of the Entrepreneur and founded the multi-award winning M restaurant group which after 4 years of growth enjoyed a full circle acquisition, which saw Martin take the helm as CEO of both M and Gaucho brands in 2018.The primary role of a leader is to create and articulate an exciting, challenging but achievable vision, then to surround oneself with a talented team, who understand and live to these values and beliefs to drive ambitious success, with constant mentoring.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Caroline Goyder's global reputation as a speaker and voice coach is built on her warm, engaging, relaxed and highly practical style, and her expertise honed by her work with actors, teachers, broadcasters and the corporate sector. She worked at Central School of Speech and Drama as a voice coach for over 10 years before launching her own company. She is regularly sought after by the media as an expert in her field and her work has featured on television and in numerous national and international newspaper articles. Her extremely successful Ted Talk has had over 7.5 million views. Caroline has written three books, her most recent Find Your Voice was released in January 2020. Caroline was named by Red magazine as one of Britain’s top coaches.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter Kavanagh, CEO of LRG, which is one of the largest privately owned property services companies in the UK. Peter had an amazing mum who he credits with much of what he has achieved in life. My mum grew up in a very rural part of Southern Ireland before moving to the UK as a young woman. From a very early age she instilled into her children the importance of a strong work ethic, honesty and treating people properly. At 13 I had two part time jobs which helped me to understand that hard work pays off. At 28 I joined Romans, at the time a small but very entrepreneurial property services business. I worked with a group of great people and the business kept growing. In 2013 we sold to Bowmark Capital and in 2016 the business was merged with Leaders to form one of the largest privately owned property services companies in the UK. In 2018 Peter became CEO. My top tips, trust and empower the people you work with to make the right decisions, be brave and above all be yourself.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter is Executive Director of LAMDA, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, which he joined in 2018 after many years’ experience of delivering strategic change in public and private education in the UK. He has held senior positions at London South Bank University, the University of Cumbria, the University of Salford and Regent Education Group, and carried out numerous consultancy assignments. Prior to 2000 Peter was in the British Army for almost 20 years. He specialised in field communications but occupied a wide variety of roles and for five years had the privilege of serving with Gurkhas. He is a graduate of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, MBA and a Governor of the London Film School. As he steps out on a fascinating partnership with LAMDA’s new Director, renowned UK theatre director Sarah Frankcom, Peter reflects on ideas harvested from a career in change.    Top Tip: When people bring ideas, something’s going right.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Commissioning just 4 days after his 18th birthday, Alastair is one of the youngest officers to have graduated from RMA Sandhurst in modern times. Since then almost half his working life has been in leadership positions. He sees as equally important that for the other half he has followed. Whether it be tactical or humanitarian operations, inside Whitehall or on Government Major Projects in Defence, Construction and more recently the Nuclear sector, the fundamentals of his leadership style are just that - fundamental. Talking about the mistakes he’s made, the ups and downs and the basics of what works for him, Alastair reflects on his ongoing 40 year career of leading, teaching how to lead and of course following. #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.