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Your first day at a new job. Sounds exciting, right?Now imagine it's at a major bank in crisis, fresh off a £40 billion taxpayer bailout. Oh, and you're in charge of sports sponsorships – an easy target for public outrage.That's exactly where Louise Johnson found herself. What did she learn from that experience? 'You must be a master of yourself during uncertain times.'To hear the story behind that lesson, along with many more lesson-filled stories from throughout her career, I talked to Louise Johnson, Global CEO, Fuse [https://fuseint.com/].Fuse is part of Omnicom, which reported $14.7 billion in revenue in 2023. Johnson is a Board Director at Omnicom Media Group UK, and manages a team of 400 at Fuse.Stories (with lessons) about what she made in marketingInstill emotional disciplineYou must be a master of yourself during uncertain timesBe restless and challenge the status quo“You cannot fail unless you quit” Ignore purpose at your perilSay it how it is from the very beginningDiscussed in this episodeJoin us for How to take a conversion marketing approach to Agentic AI and RAG (with zero tech skills) [https://meclabsai.com/Conversion] on February 12th at 2 pm ESTAuthentic Brand Storytelling: Embed creative within your business model (podcast episode #105) [https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/authentic]An Inspirational Guide for Uncertain Times: 7 ideas and resources for marketers and business leaders to help spark your next great success [https://marketingsherpa.com/article/case-study/inspirational-guide-in-uncertain-times-for-marketers-business-leaders]Marketing Chart: How a customer experience #fail affects brands [https://marketingsherpa.com/article/chart/customer-experience-fails]Get more episodesSubscribe to the MarketingSherpa email newsletter [https://www.marketingsherpa.com/newsletters] to get more insights from your fellow marketers. Sign up for free if you'd like to get more episodes like this one.For more insights, check out...This podcast is not about marketing – it is about the marketer. It draws its inspiration from the Flint McGlaughlin quote, “The key to transformative marketing is a transformed marketer” from the Become a Marketer-Philosopher: Create and optimize high-converting webpages [https://meclabs.com/course/] free digital marketing course.Apply to be a guestIf you would like to apply to be a guest on How I Made It In Marketing, here is the podcast guest application – https://www.marketingsherpa.com/page/podcast-guest-application

Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, former CEO of Virgin Money, discusses transitioning from running a major financial institution to founding a startup, working with Sir Richard Branson and why in fintech, there's too much emphasis on tech over finance.  Gadhia has held numerous prominent roles throughout her career, including CEO of Salesforce, retail managing director at the Royal Bank of Scotland and founder of Snoop. She discusses overseeing the acquisition of Northern Rock during the financial crisis of 2008 and why women in high-powered roles still earn less than their male counterparts.

The aftershock from the PPI scandal that engulfed banks almost 20 years ago are still being felt. In this case two claimants queried the deadline for claims. https://uklawweekly.substack.com/subscribe Music from bensound.com

0:00 -- Intro.2:08 -- Start of interview.2:45 -- Alison's "origin story". 5:07 -- Her experience in management consulting with McKinsey & Co and Kearney.5:49 --  Her experience as CFO at Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock) and with private equity as the managing director of Belvedere Capital, focused on investing in US banks and financial services firms. The challenges of banking post-financial crisis and Dodd-Frank (2010).9:26 --  Her pivot to fintech and blockchain investing. Since 2014 she's been investing in crypto. She co-founded Blockchain Coinvestors with her husband Mathew Le Merle.11:57 -- Her take on the future of blockchain "I think that it's completely inevitable that fully digital assets and fully digital payments are coming, it's just a matter of time [but timing is everything if you're an investor]." "There is no doubt in my mind that blockchain technology is a massively important component of the next generation of our global digital economy." "We will have fully digitally enabled payment and assets as part of our next generation web [some referred it as Web 3.0]."13:38 -- On her experience with public company board service. Her first board was in 1998 with Dispatch Management Services Company [Founded in 1994 by Linda Jenkinson and Greg Kidd. DMSC was a publicly traded company that handled point-to-point delivery services]. At the time she was CFO at BGI. Since then, she has served on 22 corporate boards, over half of them public companies, the others in private companies. "It's been fascinating and I really enjoy [this work] enormously."16:51 -- In 2011 she was invited to join the board of the Royal Bank of Scotland. That was her introduction to U.K. corporate governance. She was on the board for 9 years, because there are term limits in the U.K. [after 9 years, a director is no longer considered 'independent'].20:25 -- On dual-class share structures adopted in the UK (against the long standing "one share, one vote" principle).21:24-- On the role of the board in strategy and innovation. "When public companies lose a lot value, 80% of the time it's because of strategy missteps."25:51  -- How should boards deal with crisis management. "From the crisis that I've experienced as a director, ~40% of them have been due to exogenous factors, and ~60% have been due to self-inflicted wounds (such as bad culture, personality clashes, single person failure, etc)." In the latter case, a lot of them could have been spotted earlier by a really engaged board that was connected enough to the company to understand that these things were arising."28:21  -- On whether having more inside (executive) directors on boards impacts at all the governance of the company.29:54 -- On the idea of having employee representatives on corporate boards of directors. "We explored this seriously at RBS, but we decided instead that a sub-committee of the board spend time on 'employee listening sessions' and we created a workers' council to connect on these matters." "I think that U.S. boards could really benefit from more listening sessions with key stakeholders."32:47 -- On the evolution of sustainability and ESG. Her experience with Barclays Global Investors, and the vision of then CEO Patty Dunn, who questioned the idea of companies having great short term value but leaving a wake of damage that later society and/or tax payers had to pay. She posited having a more active role as stewards of long term capital for a more sustainable future. The case of RBS, going from darlings of Wall Street to almost the world's biggest bank failure. "That was a wake up call." "I am a big fan of ESG broadly defined." "I am really excited that [big institutional investors] have leaned in and are tipping this discussion."38:58 -- On the growing influence of large institutional investors in corporate governance: "The [beneficiaries of large index funds] do not want short-term high profit at long-term costs to the economy and people's lives." "I'm very supportive of large institutional investors focusing on broader societal issues and the health of capitalism." "Can capitalism retain the trust of the people that live in a capitalist system?" "I mean, you could democratize the whole thing and say everyone has a vote but your average person is not investing the time to get really educated on these issues."41:35 -- On the books that she's co-authored with her husband Matthew Le Merle: Build your Fortune in the Fifth Era,Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era,Blockchain Competitive Advantage, andThe Intelligent Investor – Silicon Valley.44:55 -- No specific books "that have changed her life", but she's a big reader of The Economist.45:42 -- Who were your mentors, and what did you learn from them? Patty Dunn, ex CEO of BGI. "She touched my heart, as well my [mind]. She was a great leader and was very inspirational."Ross McEwan, ex CEO of RBS47:26 -- Are there any quotes you think of often or live your life by? From Desiderata (1927): "With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy." 48:32 --  An unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love: "Making jam with my husband, we make a killer Lemoncello and apricot jam"!49:14 --  The person(s) she most admires: entrepreneurs from the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (she's a board member of this organization).Alison Davis the Co-Founder and Chair of Blockchain Coinvestors & Fifth Era, a leading VC firm investing in blockchain and Web 3. She currently serves as an independent director at Silicon Valley Bank, Fiserv, Janus Henderson Investors, Collibra and Pacaso. She also serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board for Blockchain Capital LLC, advisor to Bitwise Asset Management and board member of the NACD Northern California Chapter.__ You can follow Evan on social media at:Twitter: @evanepsteinLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/ Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/__Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

Welcome to The Royal Bank Scotland Business Show. Today's insights for tomorrow's challengesWhether you're an aspiring start-up, a savvy small business, or leading an established enterprise, we'll aim to bring you inspiring stories and fresh knowledge to help you grow with confidence. Our host Angellica Bell catches up with successful entrepreneurs and leaders to find out how they've overcome obstacles and grabbed opportunities to grow a thriving business. Join our Extra Show to get powerful business know-how as Holly Mackay and Eshita Kabra-Davies talk to experts on the trending issues facing businesses everywhere.Subscribe now, as we talk about today's insights for tomorrow's challenges. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Struggle for Law Firms to Get Technology Right: Kenny Robertson, the In-House Lawyer of the Year at the 2018 Law Awards of Scotland and the 2019 Scottish Legal Awards and “Individual of the Year” for Outsourcing Strategy at the 2019 Legal 500 Awards, heads the Outsourcing, Technology & IP legal team at the Royal Bank of Scotland. He has led on some of the largest technology outsourcing projects in the UK and speaks candidly with host Richard Levick of LEVICK about what law firms get right and get wrong in their effort to be more technologically savvy and how they can improve their services to clients. He spoke at the Law Firm Marketing Summit in London. 

In this episode we will be talking to Jeremy Viner from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Jeremy takes us through a journey of change at the bank, retiring legacy systems and replacing with new standards, process and tools to increase the impact of EA at the bank. But we don't just talk software, instead Jeremy talks us through the change process he undertook within the context of the Kotter change model. 

We caught up with some of the team involved in the skills and data science side of Royal Bank of Scotland in our latest episode. RBS is at the forefront of the banking world and have jumped at the opportunity presented by data science. We learn from their experiences in what it takes to pull together a great data team and how they maintain their staff through constant upskilling. 

Chloe Milligan runs a florist company called MUD Urban Flowers. Unlike a traditional florist, MUD operates solely online and this innovative, contemporary take on the trade soon became a great success. MUD Urban Flowers has now expanded into Edinburgh and has plans to continue growing UK wide via franchises from early 2019.In a landmark year celebrating 100 years since women were granted the vote, I teamed up with Royal Bank of Scotland to bring together Scotland’s most inspiring, like-minded and motivated women at a series of four networking events across the country to encourage businesswomen to connect, support one another and thrive together. The events were held in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The events come on the back of a report commissioned by Royal Bank of Scotland that revealed the challenges facing women in business and what they do to overcome them.*This episode is part of a paid partnership with Royal Bank Of Scotland.* See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrick Eltridge, CIO at RBS, discusses the ways in which digital innovations are making their customers' lives easier and more efficient.

Può apparire bizzarro, ma più che di Grexit bisognerebbe parlare in questi giorni di Eurexit. E' l'Europa (o meglio i vertici di questa Europa, Merkel Juncker e Draghi) che sta rischiando di abbandonare se stessa, di lasciarsi andare alla deriva. E' l'Europa che esce da se stessa, se così si può dire. Altro che Grecia che rischia di uscire dall'euro! Da qualunque parte la si guardi è difficile trovare una giustificazione - di quanto sta accadendo in questi giorni - nella ragione sociale dell'Europa vista fin qui, così come l'hanno definita nei decenni i vari Spinelli e Prodi, Schuman Delors e Mitterand oppure Adenauer Schmidt e Kohl. Eppure, di queste “icone dell'Europa” (tutte al maschile), Merkel Hollande Juncker & Co. si sentono eredi politici. Ma evidentemente non basta. La Grecia – e la sua sfida politica contro l'austerità – sta provocando un'amnesia continentale: ai leader di oggi è svanita la memoria degli ultimi 70 anni di storia dell'Europa. L'Europa uscita distrutta dalla guerra e l'Europa spezzata dalla cortina di ferro. A Memos oggi sono stati ospiti Alberto Gallo, direttore dello “European Macro Credit Research”, il centro studi della Royal Bank of Scotland, una delle principali banche mondiali; e Luca Fantacci, economista all'Università Bocconi, studioso e analista critico del capitalismo finanziario di questi ultimi anni.

Può apparire bizzarro, ma più che di Grexit bisognerebbe parlare in questi giorni di Eurexit. E' l'Europa (o meglio i vertici di questa Europa, Merkel Juncker e Draghi) che sta rischiando di abbandonare se stessa, di lasciarsi andare alla deriva. E' l'Europa che esce da se stessa, se così si può dire. Altro che Grecia che rischia di uscire dall'euro! Da qualunque parte la si guardi è difficile trovare una giustificazione - di quanto sta accadendo in questi giorni - nella ragione sociale dell'Europa vista fin qui, così come l'hanno definita nei decenni i vari Spinelli e Prodi, Schuman Delors e Mitterand oppure Adenauer Schmidt e Kohl. Eppure, di queste “icone dell'Europa” (tutte al maschile), Merkel Hollande Juncker & Co. si sentono eredi politici. Ma evidentemente non basta. La Grecia – e la sua sfida politica contro l'austerità – sta provocando un'amnesia continentale: ai leader di oggi è svanita la memoria degli ultimi 70 anni di storia dell'Europa. L'Europa uscita distrutta dalla guerra e l'Europa spezzata dalla cortina di ferro. A Memos oggi sono stati ospiti Alberto Gallo, direttore dello “European Macro Credit Research”, il centro studi della Royal Bank of Scotland, una delle principali banche mondiali; e Luca Fantacci, economista all'Università Bocconi, studioso e analista critico del capitalismo finanziario di questi ultimi anni.

It's bash-a-banker time. As the former RBS boss Fred Goodwin loses his knighthood, his successor at the bank has handed back his bonus. Nils Pratley and Jill Treanor discuss

John Gapper and Jill Treanor discuss a new report into the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland. Plus: we look at the history of rogue traders. What makes some bank employees risk everything when they seem to have so little to gain?

In this special episode of Amnesty TV, film maker Chris Atkins blows the lid on UK Banks investment in cluster bombs. 98% of cluster bomb victims are civilians and 30% are children. Despite the UK being signed up to an international treaty banning cluster bombs, last year alone the Royal Bank of Scotland provided over $80million in funding to companies involved in their production. We want that to stop. Find out more at www.amnesty.org.uk/clusterbomb

Our expert panel discusses the mis-selling of payment protection insurance to millions of customers and the debt crisis facing Greece and threatening the euro

Robert Cole, Tony Greenham, Jesse Norman and Heather Stewart join Aditya Chakrabortty to discuss the reforms they think should have been included in Sir John Vickers' Independent Commission for Banking report this week