If you are an expert who needs to persuade others who do not share your technical background, this podcast is for you. One of my biggest frustrations is seeing people with great ideas not get the traction they should. I invite you to meet an incredible group of experts. They share how they have engaged others at the top, their peers, direct reports and outsiders in complex ideas. Scroll down to find actionable insights to help you cut through in your own world.
E14 - Paul Ichilcik - How to match your method with your message
Paul Ichilcik discusses combining structured thinking, design thinking, and storytelling to create communications that gain approval and champions across organizations in an interview with the host.
3 Jun 2025
E13 - Dan Auerbach - Overcoming your team's resistance to coaching
Executive coach Dan Auerbach shares his innovative framework for coaching resistant leaders, drawing from his background as a clinical psychotherapist and CEO, in an interview.
22 May 2025
E12 - Russell King - Implementing unpopular decisions with minimal political damage
Discover how policy expert Russell King masterfully implements unpopular decisions with minimal resistance by strategically "preparing the ground" before announcements—a skill that transformed transportation systems across two continents and can revolutionize your approach to organizational change. Show notes: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/e12-post Connect with Russell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-king-transport-leader/ Subscribe Russell's Newsletter: https://transportlc.org/sub...
25 Apr 2024
E11 - Introducing my 2 new books: Elevate and Engage with Dan Musson
Dan and I talk about how my new books, Elevate and Engage, help teams collaborate to better engage senior leaders and Boards.
Learn more: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/books
5 Apr 2024
E10 - Alexa Chilcutt - How to make your presentation butterflies fly in formation
Having conversations is a natural and often delightful part of work and life.
Yet making formal presentations can give even seasoned presenters butterflies.
What if you could merge the two?
Dr Alexa Chilcutt shares practical ideas for doing just that.
Visit https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast for more.
27 Jul 2023
E9 - Lisa Carlin - Practical strategies and case studies to help you turbo charge your transformation
Seventy plus percent of transformations fail says McKinsey and Harvard Business School and yet Lisa Carlin has a 96 percent strike rate.
What’s her secret?
Lisa share her top 3 ingredients for making transformations work and offers some resources to Cutting Through listeners, download them here: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/e9-post
17 May 2023
E8 - Adam Bennett - Communicating during great change
Adam shares his experience in engaging a largely paper-based organisation as it digitised its operations.
Learn more at https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast
26 Apr 2023
E7 - Cerise Uden - How to hit the ground running in a big new role
Cerise explains how she prepares for a new role where she needs to engage senior decision makers from Day 1.
Learn more >> https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast
29 Mar 2023
E6 - Carolyn Noumertzis - How to help a senior leader come back from a misstep
Alongside plenty of other wisdom, Carolyn shares a case study where she needed to help a CFO back-track sending an important but potentially damaging email.
Learn more >> https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast
8 Mar 2023
E5 - Daniel Musson - A Case Study in Digital Transformation
Dan explains the difference between transformation and change, sharing deep experience in helping top brands gain maximum value from their digital transformation efforts.
Learn more here>> https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast
Kerry shares how he engages senior leaders in 'shifting their focus to the left' to prevent problems and smooth out project delivery. It turns out that software testing is a surprisingly creative and fun thing to do.
Learn more here: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast
13 Jan 2023
E3 - Damien Woods - Baking Learning & Growth into BAU
Damien discusses his strategy for engaging 7 Eleven in a new Agile-aligned learning strategy.
He shares his experience in engaging the leadership as well as the organisation in this new approach to learning and growth. This includes
How Agile offers natural opportunities to ‘bake learning in' to the BAU operating rhythm (which you can do even if you are not adopting Agile ways of working)
How to engage up, down and sideways to be confident your idea is ‘sold' before you pitch it
How he demonstrates the business value of learning
For more information, visit https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast (https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast)
29 Nov 2022
E2 - Richard Medcalf - Making time for strategy
In this episode Richard and I talk about cutting through in new ways.
We look at ‘cutting through' with barriers in both our minds and our diaries so we have time for things that matter, including thinking about our communication.
Visit https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast (https://clarityfirstprogram.com/podcast) for more
11 Nov 2022
E0 - Welcome to Cutting Through
If you are an expert who needs to persuade others who do not share your technical background, this podcast is for you.
One of my biggest frustrations is seeing people with great ideas not get the traction they should.
I invite you to meet an incredible group of experts. They share how they have engaged ‘outsiders' in complex ideas. This could be others at the top, their peers, direct reports, anyone who does not share their technical expertise.
11 Nov 2022
E1 - Anthony Wilson - Risk Management
Anthony Wilson shares 30+ years' experience in engaging others in risk management.
His biggest challenge is to encourage leaders and others involved in managing risk to move away from a 'once and done' approach.
He is convinced there is enormous business value in seeing risk management as change management.
For free show notes downloads and extra resources from this Podcast episode, click here >> (https://clarityfirstprogram.com/e1-post)
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