The Alternative Leader Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Ken Okoroafar achieved financial freedom by 34, and alongside his wife Mary runs the Humble Penny. In this episode, Ken discusses his childhood, how his mother's entrepreneur spirit inspired him, and how he achieved financial independence and helps others achieve the same.  

Find Ken Okoroafor here:  

The Humble Penny: https://thehumblepenny.com/about/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-okoroafor/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehumblepenny/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHumblePenny 

Corey Gaidzionis Founder, Big Emotions Academy Corey is a passionate, heart-centred entrepreneur on a mission, and it's all about:  "Creating positive change using simple tools to teach Emotional Intelligence to equip our next generation of leaders to have their own motional superpowers."  With a background as a personal trainer and coach, Corey recognised the need for a personal development program that reached young people in a way that made sense to THEM, rather than the usual, more adult-like perspective. As a result, Corey has recently published his first book, "The Little Book of Big Emotions" and is in the process of getting it out to the world.
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigEmotionsAcademy
Linkedin: https:/www.linkedin.com/in/corey-gaidzionis/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigemotionsacademy/ 
 

Michelle grew up as an army kid travelling all over, she found this a struggle and asked to be sent to boarding school. She thrived at boarding school with structure and routine. However, she feels she fell into the good girl behaviour model, not speaking unless spoken to and not standing up for herself. As an adult and having gone through relationship breakdowns Michelle started to understand herself differently and realised that she may have ADHD. Having gone all, ‘Hermione Granger’ in gathering the information, she was diagnosed with combined ADHD.  

Michelle wants to help others -especially women (as it’s much rarer for women to be diagnosed) to think about ADHD.  She also wants to stop women from being silent and is in the middle of writing a book, ‘Good Girl deprogramming’ which is out in the autumn. Michelle and James are also releasing their new podcast ‘How to unfu*k work in early summer.  

Links:  

Website - https://www.workpirates.com/ 

LinkedIn –  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mminnikin/  

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/workpirates/?hl=en  

Michelle chatting about ADHD on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-ever-feel-like-youre-just-normal-michelle-minnikin/  

Terry is a senior leader who believes passionately that leaders need to be aware of the impact of their behaviour on others. He finds it hard to watch poor leadership. He feels that a leader needs to create psychological safety for their team so they are happy to be fully open with any problems or issues.  

Phil Jones is MD of Brother Ltd. Phil talks here about his journey from council house kid to MD, bypassing university on the way. Phil is passionate about leadership having learned that you have to look after yourself as a leader before you can meet the needs of your team. He shares his learnings around how to build strong relationships and how to view a non-academic route as a strength.  

Phil Jones can be found on Linkedin:  www.linkedin.com/in/philjones40/ 

And on Twitter: @philjones40 

With a background in aeronautics, avionics and optoelectronics, Michelle Child has been choosing to challenge assumptions, stereotypes and boundaries her whole career.  

After a 20-year career in the Royal Air Force as an Engineer Officer, and a 4-year stint in the Defence Electronics Industry, Michelle took on the challenge of moving to a completely different industry, Education. Despite once having been told in basic training that she was “too small to command respect or authority”, she led a 200 strong team to the successful delivery of hundreds of thousands of qualifications for students around the world during the COVID 19 Pandemic. 

Michelle chose to leave the world of high stakes assessment behind and is now the Operations Director in a medical devices company. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, crafting and writing articles on her experiences in leadership and management, as well as long walks with her husband and 3 dogs Rocky, Lily and Daisy 

You can find Michelle here: 
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-child-1965074/

Lucy Barkas founded 3WH, a leadership and team development consultancy in 2013 after working as a leader in the energy industry. She works with leaders and their teams to build organisations they are proud of.

Author, Podcast host and regular BBC Radio contributor, her clients include private clients to international conglomerates.

She was the archetypal good girl, and followed the traditional path – head girl, uni, job, married, kids, career – all ticked off the list by the time she was 30. She was living the dream, except it wasn’t bliss, nor a nightmare.

She was coasting. By 35 she was divorced, left her job and sold her house and started again, and that’s when she started living.

Since then, she has worked with hundreds of leaders to coach them to lead authentically, build high performing cultures and make an impact. Author of the bestselling book, LeaderX, she presents a rallying cry to the next generation of leaders to step up, take control and start leading with impact.

Her initial curiosity was why do people behave the way they do and this led her to discover what shapes a leader, teams and high performance.

You can find more from Lucy here: 

Website: www.3wh.uk.com/ 
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lucybarkas/
Podcast: www.3wh.uk.com/
Book: www.amazon.co.uk/LeaderX-steps-GenerationX-control-impact-ebook/dp/B0867V7Q1F/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=leaderx&qid=1596454477&s=books&sr=1-1

Tammy came out of an abusive childhood determined to enable others to do the same. Homeless at 15, she sought out education and turned her life around. A brilliant mother, partner and leader, she shines with passion about her mission to change training, so it is powerful, effective and creates lasting impact.  After working in a variety of roles from hostels to forensic psychology she was then the CEO of a charity. She is now the founder of Taye Training.  

Listen to Tammy’s story of how she went from surviving to thriving whilst changing the world.  
Warning: Themes of abuse and suicide (although no details) are included.  

To connect with Tammy :

Watch Tammy’s origin story in her TEDx talk here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_aXK-MfZDQ&t=1s

Join her Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2319831878105722/ 

Linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayetraining/ 

Twitter @tammybanksy 

For more information visit 

www.tayetraining.org.uk 

www.training4influence.co.uk  

After a heart attack at 45, Esther reviews her workaholic personality. Did it start when her father died when she was 5 or does she just love her work?  

Known as the ‘Impact Guru,’ Esther is a former “Live” BBC producer.  She’s worked with Hollywood stars and other ‘big’ personalities and knows exactly how to get the best performance out of talent.  She’s interviewed celebrities including Madonna and George Clooney and has produced shows with world-class authors, business leaders and politicians – including Boris Johnson. 

She now uses her 28 years of ‘personal impact’ expertise to help firms and individuals from all over the world communicate better in business, win pitches, conferences, raise their profile, increase their presence and get promoted. 

She’s also a busy mum of 2.  

www.estherstanhope.com 

From California to London, Sophie is the Co-Founder of Roleshare, a company that matches skilled people to job roles and enables companies to build a sustainable diverse workforce. Sophie shares her career journey, and how she's has managed to balance parenting with professional life as a leader. We reflect on how COVID has impacted the way we work, the changes we hope to see and the future of remote working as well as the importance of staying connected even online.   

www.linkedin.com/in/sophiegonin