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Elena Lavezzi discusses growing the world's first truly global bank
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Elena Lavezzi is the Head of southern Europe for Revolut.
She is Leading the growth of Southern Europe at the company. The goal of Revolut, is to become the world’s first truly global bank.
Revolut is valued at over 5.5 billion, and they are on a mission to create the first fully global financial platform.
She is also a Unicef NextGen Founder and made the list of Forbes 100 Top Women in 2020.
We discuss:
Scale-ups - she’s helped grow UBER, Circle and now Revolut, the first global fintech super app.
Seeing UBER grow from 100 people when she joined to 15,000 4 years later
Startups vs corporates
Her approach to increasing the customer base
Growing Revolut in southern Europe, where they rely more on cash than western Europe
We also talk about Revolut’s goal to become the first fully global financial platform
Female diversity in tech and finance
We also discuss books, mentors, mistakes and sport
Enjoy the chat.
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9 Sept 2020
Fraser Ingram discusses transformation in banking, purpose & covid 19
This week we speak with Fraser Ingram the Group Chief Opperarating officer at Virgin Money.
We discuss:
The recent merger of CYBG and Virgin Money
His approach to helping to run now, the 6th largest bank in the uk with 4000 employees, 6 million customers
How their purpose helps unify both brands.
Covid 19 and the speed of digital transformation
How the consumer has changed
Where innovation should happen
Diversity and inclusion in financial services
His favourite books, mistakes, mentors and some surprising facts about sheep.
enjoy the chat.
31 Aug 2020
Eva Appelbaum on digital transformation in large complex organisations
Eva Appelbaum is an award-winning digital and transformation leader, keynote speaker and consultant, who mentors organisations through change and teaches future leadership skills.
She was Amnesty International’s first global digital director, the social and digital director for WPP’s media agencies in Asia Pacific and later a digital transformation director at the BBC.
20 Aug 2020
Martin Palethorpe on using the mind to unleash your creative potential
This week we speak with Martin Palethorpe, he is an Executive Coach, Mentor and Founder at The Pragma Group.
This is one of the most fascinating and emotionally difficult interviews I’ve done. It’s one that i’m not really proud of. I totally messed up the interview and Martin rightly pulled me up on it mid recording.
Martin talks about the flow state being critical to accessing your potential in all of life (including your creativity).
I wasn’t in flow in the first part of the interview. I was following a script I had prepared as a result, i wasn’t being present to the conversation as i should have been.
To my embarrassment, Martin noticed it and stopped the interview. The second half was then an entirely different experience. You will feel and hear the difference in the podcast.
Martin’s challenge to me was to publish the whole interview which obviously terrified me!
I’m being very very vulnerable here in publishing it all! But this is a great example of flow (and 'not flow') in action.
The more we get out of our own heads, let go our own structures & planning, and quieten the ego - the more we have access to flow in life and to unleash our true potential. I hope this recording inspires you to do the same.
I’m gonna play our reflections after the interview first, were martin challenges me to publish it all, unedited, then the full interview will follow.
Don't judge me too harshly! enjoy the chat.
13 Aug 2020
Marieke Flament on the new challenger banks for SMEs
This week we speak with Marieke Flament, the CEO of Mettle
Mettle is the free business account by NatWest that helps small businesses start, run and grow. built for startups, limited companies and sole traders.
We discuss:
-How she thinks about building high performing teams
-Mettle’s growth strategy
-How the consumer has changed as a result of covid 19
-Getting he mix right between Mettle and Natwest/RBS
-Where innovation should happen
-Online security
-Race, Diversity and inclusion in banking and finance
-Her favourite books, mentors, mistakes and much much more.
Enjoy the chat.
27 Jul 2020
David Brear discusses the next era of digital financial services
This week we speak with David Brear, Group CEO at 11:FS who are focussed on changing the fabric of financial services. He believes digital financial services is only 1% finished.
We discuss
-His start in financial services
-Being the CEO of Mettle Natwest’s response to challenger banks
-The factors that have shaped the UK into the global leaders in the financial services it is today
-Growing fintech start-up brands
-Building 11:FS into a leading challenger consultancy for the biggest financial services companies in the world
15 Jul 2020
Lee Sankey discusses business evolution
This week we speak with Lee Sankey the founder at Door.
They create and build new propositions, products, services and ventures that create the next era for you and your customers.
clients include Volvo, Sky, Virgin Money just go down the list of some of the biggest companies in the world.
We discuss:
His legacy as group design director at Barclays when entrepreneurial banking was really taking off
Rising complexity in corporates and how that stops innovation
why he doesn’t like the term innovation, he prefers evolution
what businesses need to do themselves and where they should partner
Seizing new opportunities
Enjoy the chat.
11 Jun 2020
Marcus Lambert discusses moving business operations to the cloud
Marcus Lambert is an entrepreneurial CTO and software architect for Omobono, the digital agency for business brands.
He measures success by delivering exactly what the user needs wrapped in a compelling UX on time and on budget.
We discussed:
How have their business continuity plans changed
What does that look like with an agency with 100 people?
How should we be thinking about scenario planning?
How his role has changed as CTO
How Omobono are thinking about sales and new business?
How do B2B salespeople sell in this environment?
Pitching/workshops
Digital transformation
Marcus’ silver linings
I started by asking him to explain his comment:
‘Most agency business continuity plans are not fit for purpose’.
Enjoy the chat.
11 Jun 2020
Shazia Ginai on supply chain innovation at P&G
My special guest this week is Shazia Ginai, she is the CEO of Neuro Insight.
They are a neuromarketing and neuroanalytics company that uses unique brain-imaging technology to measure how the brain responds to communications.
This allows them to deliver unique consumer insight, and reveal how a piece of design or advertising is affecting people at both a rational and an emotional level.
Enjoy the chat.
11 Jun 2020
Joe Hine on delivering intelligent supply chain
Joe Hine is a Partner at SI Partners. He provides M&A advice on high value, cross-border deals. He has worked on over 50 transactions throughout his career. Joe manages the sale process end-to-end, including buyer identification, offer negotiation and completion.
His M&A work includes:
Sale of ?What If! to Accenture
Sale of Friday to PA Consulting (2018)
Sale of Market Gravity to Deloitte (2018)
We discuss:
We discuss why the M&A world is so hot right now
The factors driving agency M&A and who the key players are that agencies should be aware of
How to prepare your agency for sale one day
When to start planning for it
What a typical sale process looks like
Enjoy the chat.
18 May 2020
Brent Adamson discusses innovation in the enterprise B2B technology sale
Brent Adamson is a sought-after speaker, researcher, author, and facilitator. He leads Gartner’s sales and marketing practice.
He is the co-author of the best-selling The Challenger Sale and The Challenger Customer and a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes.
14 May 2020
Greg McKeown discusses how to become an Essentialist
Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism, tells us how to take control, learn to say no and be much happier
Having read his award-winning book from cover to cover, we had to have a conversation with Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
He’s a leading light when it comes to innovation, focus, leadership, simplicity and execution. Firms like Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Pixar and Salesforce invite him to speak to their teams, not to mention his appearances at SXSW and the World Economic Forum.
Our chat with Greg uncovered some priceless perspectives that agency leaders can apply in their own lives and work, covering:
How a change of direction can be the secret to success
The pressing need for simplification in a world of endless distraction and complexity
Why it’s so hard to say no – and how to reprogramme your thinking so you can do it
How one agency super-specialised its offering, with stellar results
Digital minimalism and the importance of being bored
Enjoy the chat.
14 May 2020
Rory Sutherland on empowering a diverse workforce to drive innovation
Rory was previously a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988.
He has been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global.
14 May 2020
Guy Wieynk discusses growing a global innovation agency
Guy Wieynk is the global CEO of AnalogFolk, a 300 person digital creative agency with offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney. Clients include Nike, Diageo, BT, Tommy, Unilever and more.
He was the former Managing director of AKQA New York then VP of International. He joined the agency when they had just 20 people, opened 10 offices and worked with some of the most iconic brands of the last 20 years. They sold the agency to WPP for only about 500 million.
He then became CEO of Publicis UK where he had his toughest test to date, working with a portfolio of 5 different brands who had their own way of doing things, didn’t want to play nice, Publicis was losing a lot of money at the time, he says, if it was a private company it would have closed ages ago. How he turned it around it really a remarkable achievement.
This is really a masterclass in getting people to align around a common vision and using EQ, emotional intelligence, not IQ to turn around a failing company.
If you are remotely interested in:
How to turn around a failing business
How to win new business
The crisis of innovation in marketing
Running small agencies to much much larger ones
You will find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating.
Enjoy the chat
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