The SHIFT with Danny Levy

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership Danny Levy talks to Mark Sutherland the Director at Transform to Digital and the Senior Head of eCommerce at the Stone Group. They get into the key pillars for a successful B2B eCommerce, why you need to focus on the ends not the means, how CRM changes the skill-sets required for your sales team, overcoming the fear of the human factor being replaced by eCommerce, driving contractual relationships instead of individual sales and how to win long term instead of short term contracts. Mark also shares his top leadership and life/career lessons.  Mark is a client-focused Digital and eCommerce Director with a track record for delivering high quality, growing and profitable digital platforms. He has developed complex digital road-maps to effect change in matrix organisations across Sales, Marketing, Operations and Customer Experience functions. Built and delivered campaigns to drive internal and external messaging to key stakeholders with measurable results.

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Tony Wilson the Head Coach, Director at Performance Lab. They talk through three points that will help you get the best out of yourself inside and outside of work.  This includes tactics to cut down the time you work by giving 100% focus and effort, doing the harder thing (deciding what NOT to do), managing physical and emotional energy, mastery of work, home, relationships and self and how to manage stress by doing the small things instead of the big ones.  Originally a performance coach for elite athletes and sporting teams throughout Australia and the USA, Tony combines his degrees in performance science (BSc) and contemporary management theory (MBA) to put a unique slant on high performance in and out of the office. With a focus on the science of high performance, Tony works with leaders around the world to help create the environment for their people to thrive, and works with individuals on managing their own performance and productivity. He is changing the way people work and lead. You should have work life balance AND performance. When you track your goals and create new habits, you set up your day to be more effective.  The Focus Planner is a new type of journal that allows you to do this - Check it out here https://www.performancelab.com.au/Focus-Planner 

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Martin Pasquier the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Innovation is Everywhere. They talk through two points that will help you fast track your digital transformation, the idea and alignment. Where you can get the best inspiration and the importance of never moving alone when you want to drive forward change.  Martin is an accomplished Entrepreneur, Consultant Lecturer and Keynote Speaker with over 12 years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies with their digital transformation across APAC. He works with a range of clients such as Executive Committees looking to understand the Chinese market, operational teams who want to build capability in design thinking or acceleration programs, and scale-ups opening their markets in APAC.

In ‘Part 2’ of this special edition of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy continues his conversation with Warren Hayashi, President of Adyen Asia Pacific and Jheeva Subramanian, CFO of the Singapore department store BHG. They get into how to build an A-grade and agile team, why genuine connections are so important in a time of remote working, the importance of providing real-time feedback, continuous learning and improvement, how to get your team outside of their comfort zone, the best ways to look after yourself and their top productivity hacks. This edition is brought to you in partnership with Adyen - the platform built to simplify and accelerate global payments. To find out more visit www.adyen.com

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Warren Hayashi, President of Adyen Asia Pacific and Jheeva Subramanian, CFO of the Singapore department store BHG. They get into the key pillars for a successful retail digital transformation, how to turn the data you gather into actionable insights, how to build a successful unified commerce business, what it takes to master customer experience, the change in consumer expectations and what technologies you should be using to delight them now and in the future and why experiential retail is so important.  This edition is brought to you in partnership with Adyen - the platform built to simplify and accelerate global payments. To find out more visit www.adyen.com 

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Farrukh Shad the Senior Vice President, Head of Global eCommerce at Schneider Electric. They get into the key pillars for a successful digital transformation, why building an A-grade team is crucial to driving forward innovation, how to build the right digital culture and what to look for when you recruit, overcoming the insecurity of technology change and why you must have skin in the game. With a career dedicated to B2B and B2C, Farrukh earned his retail & eCommerce grades at British Petroleum and then Philips before joining Schneider Electric in Hong Kong over 6 years ago.

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership Kris Odland, Managing Director at Field Service News moderates a panel discussion with Anila Fredericks, Head of Customer Service Operations at Telstra, Jan van Veen, Founder & Managing Director at moreMomentum and Danny Levy, Managing Director APAC at Worldwide Business Research and WBR Insights. The panel get into the impact of the pandemic on their respective organisations, the importance of an agile mindset and the ability to pivot, the DNA of an organisation and how this relates to pivoting successfully, the shift to ‘good enough but quick’ instead of ‘fully road-tested but slow’, how leadership has evolved in the last 5 months and what effective leadership looks like now.

In this episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy & Keith Carter talk through 3 steps that will help you think differently, implement a data strategy that actually works, and why the new economy will radically alter how you think and learn (YEP, there's a bonus 4th step in there for you as well). Keith is Associate Professor at the prestigious National University of Singapore School of Computing, and Affiliate Professor with NUS Business Analytic Centre. Passionate about bringing real-life into the classroom he regularly engages students to broaden their experience before they graduate. Keith is also the author of "Actionable Intelligence: A Guide To Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast!" It answers questions like "How long will the IT department take to deliver effective, usable reports?" "After investing millions in systems, WHY are our people still using Excel?" And, "Why do people with good facts make bad decisions?" As part of his service mandate with School of Computing, he consults companies on Innovation, Customer Centricity, and Actionable Intelligence.

In this episode Danny shares his thoughts on his own podcast journey, what he's learnt so far and the benefits of hosting a podcast. He gets into four tactical points including, how to humanize your brand, accelerate your subject matter knowledge, expand your professional network and skyrocket your content generation. 

In this episode Danny talks to Dr Mario Hardy the CEO of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), a non profit public/private sector organisation acting as a catalyst for the responsible development of the Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry. He is also the Managing Director of MAP2 | Ventures, an investment fund with a wide portfolio of technology centric businesses in the field of CleanTech, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence. Danny and Mario discuss 6 ways you can innovate within digital to future proof yourself and your business. The two discuss these 6 key pillars in detail and Mario shares his top leadership and career lessons.