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If your company culture could do with an overhaul, then who better to impart advice on this very topic than the culture transformer guru with a track

What would you do if you’ve sold your company for enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life - sail the Caribbean? Or start

If you want to improve the managers in your business, says Michael Bungay Stanier, do more coaching. You might think coaching equals being soft, but

“The journey of leadership is a journey to irrelevance. It has to be. Otherwise you're just a do-er, you're an individual contributor like everybody

How do you give difficult, impactful feedback in your workplace without offending anyone or being misconstrued? “Pause, right now, and think about

Death is such an unusual, fascinating, and emotional area to work in, however the industry hasn’t evolved much since the 1850s. But today’s guest, Dan

Leadership isn’t about you, says Frances Frei, co-author of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Leadership,

What’s your business aim? To achieve growth? To create a winning corporate culture? Deb Gabor, keynote speaker and bestselling author is on a mission

If you have a fear of pricing, or if you’re worried that if you put your prices up you’ll lose customers, then you need to listen to the Pricing Man,

If you’ve ever sat in the pub and dreamed of quitting your job to go in search of a better life, then this week’s guest, one half of Corporate Rebels,

Innovation, according to entrepreneur, author and co-founder of Strategyzer.com, Alex Osterwalder, is what your business needs for longevity and

If you’re looking for a new way to innovate your business, don’t miss this latest episode of The Melting Pot with Dennis Hahn, Chief Strategy Officer

What do you do when you’re an entrepreneur and your first two businesses go swimmingly well, so much so, you start a third and end up bankrupt? Do

These are uncertain times, and now more than ever, the success of your organisation can literally come down to its culture.  But what if you

While you will have heard of the Ritz Carlton hotel group, you may not necessarily know who founded it - meet Horst Schulze, the man, the myth, the

You’ve probably shifted your thinking from ‘how to survive the pandemic’ to ‘how to survive the upcoming recession’. In which case, you don’t want to

Are you wondering how your business is going to survive not just the remainder of the pandemic, but the looming recession too?  Perhaps you’ve

Do you drain your team or engage them? Are you wondering how to make your leadership team even greater? You need to listen to Liz Wiseman, author of

Do you recruit for ‘culture fit’? If you do, then you’re wasting your time, says Bretton Putter,  author and CEO of CultureGene, a culture

How is your company culture looking? Worried that it’s taken a hit during the ongoing pandemic? What can you do to stop your best employees

In an otherwise bleak world, today’s guest is a success story who just keeps going from strength to strength.  Martin Bysh is CEO of Huboo

Are you bored of hearing about the negatives of a recession? Well, if you listened to last week’s episode with Jack Stack, you’ll have heard him share

If you’re struggling to see how your business is going to survive the current Black Swan, then you should listen to Jack Stack, CEO of SRC Holdings

Are you an entrepreneur looking to scale up your business? Or perhaps you’re still figuring out your company’s purpose. Then you need to listen to

How should you as a business leader, respond to disruptive change in a decisive way?  As the current global crisis gathers momentum, ensuring

You may not have heard of Patty McCord directly, but if you’re in HR or recruitment, you’ll have likely heard of her work. Patty was Chief Talent

How is your branding? Do you have a branding strategy in place? Who is in charge of your branding, or have you passed it to the marketing department

With more people opting to work remotely, particularly in light of the current health issues surrounding Coronavirus, today’s guest couldn’t be better

“I believe that it's not just that we are masked, it's that we are addicted to them. And so what that requires is a solution that is similar to what

If you’re trying to deliver remarkable customer experiences that will get customers talking, then you’re trying to create Talk Triggers.  And

“We're not really evolving, the way that we work… it's no wonder that a lot of us are finding work exhausting, repetitive, wears us down.” Is your

Today’s guest is Nic Marks, CEO and Founder of Friday, the company Nic set up to track employee happiness, in order to help businesses build a more

By day, this week’s guest on The Melting Pot, Jamal Reimer, works for Oracle as an enterprise SaaS rep, helping pharma R&D squeeze every drop of

Do you know how to use LinkedIn? As in really know how to use LinkedIn? As in to generate leads, make sales, connect with meaningful prospects and

What do you do when the banks foreclose on your $6.5m loans, just as you’re trying to scale your business? And then you endure a very public

If you’re looking to sell your business, then you will be wanting to get the most out of what is effectively the sale of your life’s worth. But how do

Shannon Byrne Susko isn’t just a CEO, she’s a serial entrepreneur, business coach, keynote speaker and the reluctant author of two best selling books.

Are you looking for ways to fire up your marketing efforts in 2020? Then listen to David Meerman Scott, author, public speaker and advisor to emerging

This episode was originally broadcast by Startup Grind Bournemouth (UK) as an interactive and intimate fireside chat with experienced technology

Dominic Monkhouse - Scaling Up and Creating Culture Today we are turning the spotlight on… Dominic Monkhouse himself. Hearing how he used

Do you need to notch your marketing up another level? Do you run a tech start up but your story is failing to get any traction with the press? Then

Todd Palmer is the president and CEO of Extraordinary Advisors, a business that works with entrepreneurs to help them work on themselves as leaders,

What’s the difference between skippering a yacht around the world and leading a multinational organisation? Well, according to Brendan Hall,

If you want (or need) to be a great public speaker, if you want to enthral your audience and be remembered, then don’t miss this episode of The

What’s your biggest claim to fame? Is it that you coined one of the most prolific phrases in modern web lexicon? Because that’s what it is for this

If you’re wondering why your sales team isn’t converting, maybe it isn’t time to double the size of the team; maybe it’s time to rethink your whole

If you’re looking for a complete set of simple concepts and practical tools that will help the leadership team of your entrepreneurial company make

Have you ever wanted to just put a pin in your life, upsticks and travel the world with your family before it’s too late? Well, that’s just what Nigel

Dominic’s aim for The Melting Pot is to enable other businesses to optimise their business performance, to help them scale up. And so this week’s

If you’re wondering if your business could have a channel as a route to market, then you’ve come to the right place.  Are you wondering if you

Entrepreneurs are told time and again to embrace failure, to be proud of failure, to not be ashamed of failure. But failure is still something that is

Are you looking to innovate your business? To make it more agile? More effective? Then who better to receive advice from than the former Amazon

If you’ve ever wondered if this is all there is, then you need to listen to this week’s podcast with Sue Hollis, the 60 year old who, having built the

This week’s guest on The Melting Pot is considered to be the world’s foremost expert on hiring, Dr. Brad Smart. Brad is the founder and CEO of

Today’s guest is Les McKeown, founder and CEO of Predictable Success. Les has over 25 years of global business experience, including starting 42

Today’s guest on The Melting Pot is Giles Palmer, founder and CEO of Brandwatch, a company devised to help organisations find and engage with online

Spencer Gallagher and Pete Hoole work with the next generation of independent Agencies to help them scale as co-founders of Cactus. In the past eight

This week’s guest on The Melting Pot is Dean and founder of School of Communication Arts 2.0 (SCA), Marc Lewis. The SCA is currently the world's most

Today’s guest on The Melting Pot is Dutch-born Sander Arts. His list of titles is as long as your arm—Consultant, Strategic Advisor, Board Member,

This week’s guest on The Melting Pot is Gareth Chick, a former CFO, CEO and chairman of both public and private companies. An executive coach for FTSE

Today’s guest is Daniel Marcos, co-founder and CEO of Gazelles Growth Institute, based in Austin, Texas. Daniel is a lifelong entrepreneur and has run

On today’s episode of The Melting Pot we talk to Nicole Yershon, founder and CEO of the NY Collective, a leverage-model business that was created to

Today’s guest is the founder and Managing Director of creative brand agency, MadeBrave® and Executive Chairman of content production agency,

Today’s guest is CEO and co-founder of Bare Conductive, Matt Johnson. Bare Conductive is a company inventing radical new ways to interact with and

On today’s podcast we talk with Jenny Kitchen, MD of Yoyo Design, a company specialising in designing digital solutions so that every brand can tell

Today’s guest is executive change mentor Sally Henderson. With 20 years of experience in leadership development, Sally works with high performing

Today’s guest is Nic Marks, CEO and Founder of Friday, the company Nic set up to track employee happiness, in order to help businesses build a more

Today’s guest is Kevin Lawrence, author, speaker, strategic advisor and coach to entrepreneurial CEOs and business leaders around the world. With his

Today’s guests are Carla Cringle and Imogen Pudduck, co-founders of FizzPopBANG Ltd. Their tagline, “making people whistle on their way to work,” says

Today’s guest is Professor Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist and business professor at the Kellogg School of Management and the neuroscience program at

Today’s guest is Aga Bajer, better known as the Culture Strategist. She helps companies cultivate a better culture in order to bring their vision to

Today’s guest on The Melting Pot is John Housego, a proud Cornishman now living in Scotland. John’s background is in engineering and he spent 22 years

Today’s guest is Neal Gandhi, CEO of Panoply, a world-class creative technology group. Configured as a lean, fluid and ego-aside family of

Today’s guest is Tristan White, CEO of The Physio Co. For 10 consecutive years, The Physio Co has ranked as one of Australia's 50 Best Places to Work.

Today we talk to Andy Fletcher, a chartered accountant with a MBA from London Business School, who is also responsible for making spectacular family

Today’s guest is Danielle Chiel, an Australian entrepreneur who founded KOCO (Knit One Change One). Danielle, through KOCO, is seeking to change lives

Husband and wife team Caspar and Nichola Craven are an intrepid pair of entrepreneurs. Caspar is a long-time entrepreneur and former managing director

David Hieatt, CEO of Hiut Denim, is best known for giving purpose (and their jobs) back to the jeans makers in Cardigan, Wales. 400 Grandmasters (as

Chris Baréz-Brown is the Founder of Upping Your Elvis, trainer, speaker, and author of such books as “Wake Up” and “Shine”. In his work, Chris helps

Guy Rigby has been working with entrepreneurs for decades. He’s an accountant who takes a unique approach to the service by working directly with the

Spencer Gallagher and Pete Hoole work with the next generation of independent Agencies to help them scale as co-founders of Cactus. In the past eight

Henry Stewart believes people should find joy at work. And it’s not just a nice idea, it’s good business. And as the Chief Happiness Officer at Happy

Today I am talking to Barnaby Lashbrooke, founder and CEO of Time etc, an award winning virtual assistant service that helps entrepreneurs and leaders

Alexandra (Alex) Eavis is the co-founder of three distinct businesses that are tied by a common theme: harnessing technology to make life better, in a

Adam Fairhead is an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded the Fairhead Group which serves cause-driven companies with the mission of

Today’s guest is Simon Biltcliffe, CEO of Webmart, a print management business in Bicester. Simon’s on a mission to make print more affordable for

For the last 10 years, Elise Keith has been on a mission to fix the thing that most people spend the most time doing at work: meetings. Who hasn’t

Peter Czapp loves what he does. He’s the co-founder of The Wow Company, an accountancy firm that helps you grow your business, not just fill in your

There is a “war for talent” going on, according to Alexander Kjerulf. Companies are finding it harder to hold onto qualified talent, so they’re

Verne Harnish has helped around 40,000 companies scale up. He knows business and he’s made a big impact on my life, so it was a pleasure to chat to

Today I’m interviewing Mike Tobin, former CEO of Telecity. Mike has over 30 years of experience as a tech entrepreneur and he’s now working with a

At the age of 27 Chris Donnelly already runs a very successful business, Verb Brands. He’s the founder and managing director of the digital agency

Today I’m talking to Stephen Sacks, the author of Reboot your Business, a step-by-step guide to reinventing your business for maximum growth.

Roland Siebelink is a 25+ years veteran of Internet business, entrepreneurship and digital marketing. He is a former landslide winner of the Silicon

My guest this week is Craig Fletcher, the founder and former Chief Exec of Multiplay. Multiplay is a video games industry and events & online

Today I’m talking to Tony Pandher, Head of Operations at Macquarie Cloud Services. This episode is the second and final part of the Macquarie Telecom

Today I’m talking to a soft-spoken Irishman, Fionán Mc Donnell, who is the NSW New Business Manager at Macquarie Telecom Group. This episode is the

Nikki Gatenby is the Managing Director and Co-Owner of Propellernet, a marketing agency that has consistently been named as a top UK workplace by the

At 29, Liz Robinson was the youngest headteacher in England. She took on a pretty rough inner city school (Surrey Square Primary School) which she

At the age of 27 Chris Donnelly already runs a very successful business, Verb Brands. He’s the founder and managing director of the digital agency

Peter Czapp loves what he does. He’s the co-founder of The Wow Company, an accountancy firm that helps you grow your business not just fill in your

Nick Earle has spent over 35 years in tech. He’s currently the Chairman and CEO of Eseye — a leading company in the Internet of Things Market. He was

How to mix social impact with profit — and whether that is actually possible How you should always employ people who are smarter than you! The pain of

In my podcast this week I speak to Dr. Jack Kreindler, a leading expert in health optimisation. He does amazing work to advance medical treatments and

It won’t be long until cash disappears — it’s so much easier paying by card, or even by phone these days, and the figures are backing that up. We’ve

  Verne Harnish has helped around 40,000 companies scale-up. He knows business and he’s made a big impact on my life, so, it was a pleasure to chat to

  There is a “war for talent” going on, according to Alexander Kjerulf. Companies are finding it harder to hold onto qualified talent, so they’re

Shannon Byrne Susko knows business. She has more than 20 years experience building and leading high-growth technology companies and her strategies are

  Many entrepreneurs are driven to fill a gap in the market, because of their own experiences. Cate Murden is one such person. She was in a job she no

  How happy are you at work? How happy is your workforce? Maybe it’s not something you actively think about, or you don’t have enough time to think

Did you know 8,000 times more energy hits the surface of the planet everyday from the sun than we actually use? Just think about the possibilities if

  How can we attract Millennials to our business? What do graduates want from jobs these days? In this week’s episode of my new podcast CEO of

  The Melting Pot is hosted by business coach Dominic Monkhouse. In this series he talks to entrepreneurs who are doing things differently, pushing