#GetSocial - The Connected Leader Podcast

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader Podcast, I'm delighted to interview Jack Parsons. Jack is an award-winning young entrepreneur, public speaker and subject expert on youth, publicly known as the UK's Chief Youth Officer. Jack's been honoured with a number of awards over the years, including Young Digital Leader of the Year, The 100 Faces of a Vibrant Economy, Most Connected Young Entrepreneur, 50 Top Kindest Leaders, and Top 10 Young UK Entrepreneurs to Watch. Jack is currently the CEO of The Youth Group, which is building the world's largest, most connected marketplace and community for young people, with the sole aim to help improve the odds for those young people across the commonwealth to achieve their full potential in work. So Jack Parsons, it's great to have you here on the Connected Leader Podcast.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader Podcast, I'm delighted to interview Robert Baker. Rob is the founder and director of Tailored Thinking an evidence-based positive psychology, well-being, and HR consultancy. Prior to this, he has held a number of senior HR leadership roles at the University of Melbourne and University of Sheffield, as well as consultancy positions at RBT Connect and PWC. Rob's work, ideas, and research on how people can personalize work and bring their whole and best selves to the workplace has been presented at academic and professional conferences around the world. Rob is the author of Personalization at Work, published this year, 2020, with Kogan Page.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader Podcast, I'm delighted to interview Simon Kingsnorth. Simon is a digital marketing expert with 20 years experience across all areas of digital and most offline channels too. He is the author of the international bestseller, Digital Marketing Strategy, now in its second edition. He's also a strategy expert and experienced consultant who has helped many leading brands develop and implement winning strategies across digital transformation, growth, branding, proposition development, campaign management, marketing, communications, loyalty, and much more.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader podcast, I'm delighted to interview Abby Dixon. Abby is the founder and director of award winning marketing and capability consultancy, Labyrinth Marketing. She has led the growth of many household brands across multiple sectors, both while client side and as a consultant. She's a fellow charted marketeer and course director for the Chartered Institute of Marketing and was awarded Independent Consultant of the Year for Women in Marketing in 2019. She's passionate about supporting and empowering the people behind their brands and businesses using both her skills as a marketeer trainer and as accredited coach.

In this episode of the Get Social: Connected Leader Podcast I'm delighted to interview Ollie Sharp. Ollie has an extensive leadership background in the technology space. He is known for developing high performing sales teams with a strong focus on fostering talent. Ollie is currently the VP of Revenue, EMEA at SalesLoft, following a tenure leading successful teams at LinkedIn in the UK. Ollie is passionate about the art and science and sales, delivering exceptional customer experiences and shaping culture in hyper-growth businesses. His record of success in disruptive technology environments has confirmed Ollie as an expert in the B to B sales strategy.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader podcast, I'm delighted to interview Matt Crabtree. Matt is the founder and principal partner of Positive Momentum. He's an unusual combination of farmer turned corporate guy. After spending the first 20 years of his life in the world of agriculture, he significantly changed direction and started a corporate career that accelerated quickly, achieving his first executive board position running sales function of a 500 million telecoms company at just 28, and then went on to become the youngest senior executives at Barclays Bank at only 31.

In this episode of the get social connected leader podcast, I'm delighted to interview Sarah Walker Smith. Sarah is the CEO of Shakespeare Martineau. She is the first female non-lawyer CEO in the legal top 50. A trained accountant, having worked with PWC and Deloitte. Sarah puts people at the core of everything she does, as well as the marketing and branding experience gained whilst at Boots PLC. Sarah looks to challenge the norm in the legal sector and wider business world. She's passionate about leveling the playing field, encouraging everyone to bring that authentic selves to work. She strongly believes that good business is both purposeful and profitable often with one leading to the other.

In this episode of the Connected Leader Podcast, I'm delighted to interview Nilema Bhakta-Jones, Chief Operating Officer at Farillio, and founder of the highly successful Courageous Leader Event. At Farillio, Nilema's on a mission to smash away barriers to key information and core materials that small businesses need to start, grow, and thrive. Through her Courageous Leadership Event, she's empowering leaders to find the courageous leader within. The event, through a foundation set up in honor of her mother, and working with Plan International UK, supports an education project for adolescent disadvantaged girls in Zimbabwe.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader podcast, I'm delighted to interview Tim Hughes. Tim is universally recognized as the world leading pioneer of social selling, and he's currently ranked number one by Analytica as the most influential social selling person in the world. He's also co-founder and CEO of Digital Leadership Associates, and co-author of the bestselling books Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers, and Smarketing: How To Achieve Competitive Advantage through Blended Sales and Marketing, both published by Kogan Page.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader podcast, I'm delighted to interview Carlos Gil. Carlos is the author of The End of Marketing, recently published by Kogan Page. He's also an international keynote speaker and award winning digital storyteller with over a decade of experience leading social media strategy for global brands, including LinkedIn, Winn Dixie, Sav-A-Lot, and B&C Software. He's the CEO and founder of Gil Media Co., a full service digital marketing firm based in Los Angeles, and his expertise has been featured by CNN Money, Harvard Business Review, Social Media Examiner, and Inc. He's also a regular contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader podcast I'm delighted to interview Amanda Downs. Amanda is director of Commercial Leadership at Uspire where she challenges and supports leaders in organizations of all sizes to energize their people, making sure that their impact and what they intend to achieve literally bursts out at the end of the pipeline for customers. In these unprecedented times, this time of lockdown and social distancing, Amanda brings her thoughts on how to stay close to your team and customers so they are still with you when we're all through this, focusing on how you can still show up.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader Podcast, I'm delighted to interview Tim Williams. Tim has over 15 years experience connecting brands with their key influencers across political, traditional media and social media channels. He joined Onalytica in 2012 and became CEO in 2014. Tim has personally led the influencer program strategy and implementation for brands such as Microsoft, Barclays, IBM, Coca-Cola, Thomson Reuters, The Gates Foundation, The British Heart Foundation and RSPB, helping them to incorporate social influencer relations into their marketing and communications strategy

n this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader podcast, I'm delighted to interview Ian MacRae. Ian is a psychologist and author of four work psychology books including "High Potential", "How to Spot, Manage, and Develop Talented People at Work", and "Myths of Work: The Stereotypes and Assumptions Holding Your Organization Back". He has a BA in psychology from the University of British Columbia and an MSC from University College London. He developed the high potential traits indicator, a personality assessment, which predicts workplace potential and it's been completed by over a hundred thousand people around the world. He is a work psychology consultant and speaker.

In this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader Podcast, I'm delighted to interview Kate Collins. Kate has worked in UK charities for nearly 20 years, and joined Teenage Cancer Trust in 2009, initially to lead fundraising, then becoming a director in 2013. And in March 2018, chief executive. Teenage Cancer Trust has led the way in the creation of world-class cancer services for young people, providing life changing care and support. And Kate is leading a strategy to ensure the charity can reach all young people with cancer in the UK, and is ensuring that young people and their needs remain at the heart of everything the charity does.

On this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader podcast, I'm delighted to interview Paul Frampton. Paul is the EMEA CEO for travel tech startup, hi inc, and also leads B2C strategy globally including for Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan. Previously, Paul was CEO of Havas Media Group where he oversaw a $100 million pound business with 900 staff and 10 operating companies. He's an active supporter of the startup community, and [inaudible 00:00:59] mentor to some of the leading lights at the entrepreneurial space and over the years, he's received a number of accolades. Recently voted disruptive tech leader of the year by Media Tele MAGFest. Named one of Europe's top 100 B2B marketing leaders by Hot Topics, listed in the Evening Standard's Progress 1000 brand builders, voted the fifth most influential person in UK digital in the Drums Digerati League, and gifted the lifetime achievement award by Twitter.Paul is also a passionate ambassador for diversity and inclusion, and was one of just 30 men recognized in Management Today's Male Agents of Change Awards in 2018, and last but not least, he's an active voice for youth as chair of Big Youth Group, an organization designed to improve the odds for young people globally.

My guest on this episode of the Get Social Connected Leader Podcast is Grant Pierrus. Grant is the founder of Interior Style Hunter, an award-winning blog where he showcases his keen interest in design, art, travel and business in the interior design sector. He's collaborated on projects with Christie's, KitchenAid, Muji and lots more. Building communities is a central theme to Grant's work and through his online platforms, public speaking, interviews, charity initiatives and set-to-specific design tools, the focus is always on bringing people together within the interior design community. His marketing consultancy, Pierrus Limited, works with some of the finest UK interior designers and architects, building bespoke digital communication campaigns to grow their businesses.

Michelle Carvill Speaks to Chris Bartley about the challenges and benefits of embracing digital technology to tune in,connect and communicate.