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Jonathan Armes, Corporate Psychologist and Founder of Capital Shift is joined by Jamie Smart to discuss, Transforming Setbacks into Success. Tailored for entrepreneurs, professionals, and leaders, this discussion provides insights to turn challenges into stepping stones for growth.

Jamie discusses reframing setbacks, building resilience, and shifting mindsets to embrace challenges as opportunities.

As businesses gear up for a pivotal shift in workplace dynamics in 2025, understanding how to adapt to hybrid and evolving work environments is crucial. 

Hosted by Capital Shift’s corporate psychologists, Jonathan Armes and Helen Sully, the discussion will feature insights from distinguished guest speakers: Pip Heywood (Managing Director at thortful), Sam Brown (Head of People at thortful), and Carrie Morris (Chief People Officer at Openwork). Together, they will tackle the pressing challenges of managing employee motivation, fostering resilience, and leading high-performance teams amid ongoing changes.

This podcasr is tailored for HR professionals, C-suite executives, and people managers who are eager to future-proof their leadership approaches as offices evolve into collaboration hubs that balance flexibility with in-person engagement.

Jonathan Armes, Chief Psychologist and Founder of Capital Shift is
joined by Dr. Rani Bora, a Holistic Psychiatrist and Coach and Author
of 'How to Turn Stress on Its Head: The simple truth that can change
your relationship with work'. Discover practical ways to understand
stress and cultivate resilience, enhance well-being, and foster a
healthier work culture.

Jonathan and Chantal discuss Uncovering Resilience in Leadership and Business - a crucial attribute for effective leaders and thriving business professionals.  This session will equip you with valuable insights into how resilience can enhance productivity, drive business success and promote overall wellbeing.

In this podcast, Jonathan speaks to Michelle McCartan and Sarah Armitage who together run a company called Pure Potential.  They explore how the mind works and discuss their work in education and in engineering.  They delve deeper into what self-limiting beliefs are and how to not dive down that rabbit hole and have them impact on us.  They also discuss together the topic of whether the mind is simple or complex.

Michelle and Sarah carry out wonderful work with teachers, teaching assistants and governors, themselves all having become learning explorers of the mind.  We discuss as how the teachers learn more about their minds, this translates to the experience of the children and young people they are teaching

In this podcast, Jonathan speaks to Julia who is a fellow coach exploring the world of generative leadership.    Together they look into the topic of making sense of the responsibility of leadership, why understanding how the mind works provides organisations with a competitive edge.  They question whether senior leaders are in fact sociopaths and psychopaths and if following a sports team is good for our health! 

Julia had a varied career before working with leaders to help them understand how the mind works and how this reflects on the way they do business.  She works with business leaders to help create organisations which are in harmony with the world around them through sustainability, responsibility and purpose, true purpose-led businesses. 

Kerry Parker is CEO of Select Science, a digital publisher in the important and fascinating world of Science.  In this podcast we cover face to face vs virtual working and people empowerment; the importance of co-creating with your Leadership Team; the commercial imperative of being able to pivot quickly in an ever changing world and how having a clear mind is central to doing this well.

I talk with Chartered Psychologist Helen Sully about whether we are experiencing the world out there or are we actually experiencing a thought created world?  If you have ever had any questions about why this matters for our lives and our businesses it gets explained here.

Jonathan talks to Liam Richards, Strategic Partner Director at Openwork who discusses how with the right mindset you can achieve anything and when we focus on our strengths the opportunities are limitless

Hannah Carter is the CEO and Founder of OGGS, a business focused on producing plant-based alternatives to eggs, with a mission to remove animal protein from the food chain.  We discuss her decision to leave a successful consultancy job to start a new business and how she dealt with the pressures, changes and shifts in the goal posts all by her getting clear on how the mind works. 

Mike and Jane Saunders, a husband and wife team, talk to me about how their understanding of how the mind works has directly led to a growing commercial performance and a happy balanced life.  And how slowing down to speed up has definitely NOT led to slowing down in business!

Hayley has worked in IT within customer facing roles for many years and joins me to discuss the challenges of working from home during COVID and how it allowed her time to reflect and change her thinking.  Hayley had a moment of clarity during a coaching session which has allowed her to recognise her factory settings and go from “BookSmart to StreetSmart”

Jamie Smart has been in the business of personal and organisational development for a long time.  He has written two bestselling books and is a well known speaker and coach.  We get the chance to talk together about living and working with more humanity and more ease.  It is always great to hear Jamie speak.

Join me as I speak to Ravi Raman who grew up in a deeply spiritual family and now helps others as a coach after a successful career at Microsoft.  After 14 years in a corporate role, he realised he needed to live his life in a different way.  Join us as Ravi discusses this insight and how it changed his life.

LinkedIn: (5) Ravi Raman, Executive Coach | LinkedIn

Join me to hear Guy’s journey from being a 15-year-old boy not keen to go onto further education to the CEO of a large quarrying business at the frontline of the construction and infrastructure industries.

Guy talks about how pushing himself out of his comfort zone coupled with great mentors and coaches led to an amazing life!

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Join me as I talk to Erica Mandryko, a company lawyer who describes how two years after attending a leadership development programme she is still feeling the benefits of a deepening understanding of how the mind works and in both her professional and personal life. 

If you are a in a C-Suite role and wondering whether to commit to personal development and coaching, have a listen to this podcast with Adam Powell, COO for the insurance company Policy Expert.  We talk about his own wake-up call to find a better work life balance led him on his THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® journey.  He describes it as having ‘struck gold’ and more useful than any learning he has had to date including attending a globally recognised management school.’

Adam Powell - Chief Operating Officer, Policy Expert

Adam Powell | LinkedIn

If you ever find yourself in Battersea Park (London) and spot a dad and daughter longboarding duo it is probably my next guest Ian Earnshaw.  In his professional life, Ian sits on the Executive Team as Global Commercial Director for the fashion and luxury brand Mulberry, well known for their beautiful handbags. Ian provides insight into his THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®  journey which has become his passion over the past 8 years and how it has given his mind a “new upgraded operating system”.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianearnshaw/

Jenny joins me in talking about her journey into THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® and understanding how the mind works.  She describes this experiences as having been provided with a tool kit that is permanently available yet not having had to learn anything new! She describes how trying to overthink problems does NOT lead to the best solutions and how this new found quieter mind has made a profound difference to her work and personal life.  Learning how the mind works has allowed her to take a step back and provide her with a calm confidence in her own ability.

 Jenny Close FPFS, BA (hons) | LinkedIn

Ben Scoggins, CEO of the digital marketing agency Organic talks to Jonathan about walking the talk when it comes to his business being only as good as its people.  Ben’s journey started when he wanted to develop a high performing leadership team and the route to achieving this goal was not what he expected.  It turned out to be much easier than he expected and far more useful.

https://theorganicagency.com/

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Eilish Hardiman is the Chief Executive of Children’s Health Ireland which is responsible for a huge country wide healthcare transformation programme valued at over 2 billion euros.  This is the biggest public sector capex spend in the history of the country.  Leading it is a sizeable role with a lot of moving parts.

In our podcast Eilish took time out of her busy schedule to discuss how she approached getting the absolute best performance from her teams.  She notes that the key to making this happen across the organisation is to support people in not getting caught up in the mental noise and interference that so many of us carry around.  With knowing this people can then deliver to their real potential.

Eilish discusses how people need to be in the best mind space to be able to think clearly and actively listen.  She has realised that investing in leadership development and coaching gets the best out of her teams. 

She explains how it is the team at the top who set the tone and the culture of an organisation and therefore how they need to be a well-oiled unit.  And this comes with the right mind set, clarity of thinking and a reduction in the distractions of mental noise. 

On her own journey of learning about THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®, Eilish noticed that having less mental noise or greater clarity of thought allows her to have the capacity for new ideas and creative solutions. Two qualities at the heart of effective innovation and change.”

Web:  www.newchildrenshospital.ie

Eilísh Hardiman | LinkedIn

Twitter:  @CeoHardiman

Experienced Change Director Phil Welsh talks to us from sunny Bahrain where he is transitioning to a new opportunity in healthcare transformation in the region.  Here he talks to us about his previous role at Children’s Health Ireland where he was Director of Strategic HR, Organisational Development and Change Management reporting into the Group CEO.  He managed the Change Programme integrating 3 children’s hospitals across the Dublin area into the new large Children’s Health Ireland. 

He talks about how he

• Established an organisational design to allow all three organisations to integrate
• Managed the change programme to aid a smooth transition

Phil discusses:

• why Change Management, OD and winning the hearts and minds is so important to help to take people along the journey
• how you can never do enough comms when you are involved in large change programmes
• how regardless of the change programme, that everyone wants to know what it means for them personally, so organisations need to develop excellent change leaders within their Executive Team
• how he helps people to understand how to see what the change means for them and how to be present which can reduce any anxieties
• how the more you take staff along the journey by involving them it helps people to adjust to periods of uncertainty
• how psychological safety is key to allow employees to grow
• how he loves a challenge!

www.LinkedIn.com/in/Philwelsh

In this episode I speak with Jim Coleman who is UK CEO of we are social a global agency focussed on using the power of social media to support business growth.  They have brands on their books including Adidas, Google, Netflix, Aldi, Disney and many  others. 

In this podcast

• Jim provides an insight into his role as the UK CEO of we are social and about being lonely at the top
• He talks about how he relies on a team he can really trust
• Jim talks about how developing his understanding of how the mind works has helped him not get so caught up in the dramas of work life and has allowed him to take a step away from the day to day and provide a helicopter view
• Plus how not overthinking or trying to predict what others may be thinking releases him to trust his own judgement and to being more present and listen better, less critical and more compassionate

We also cover

• How to remain clear headed by keeping priorities in perspective and compartmentalise work and home life
• How self-doubt and over thinking limits so much human potential
• What the organisation would be like if self-doubt was removed
• How he has seen more demand within the business for personal coaching during the past 12 months

If you are thinking of developing yourself, Jim would urge you to take the time to start the journey of how the mind works as it will help you to take a step outside of the work rhythm and look at it and understand it in a different way.  It will give you a difference perspective on life which has got to be positive!

Jim Coleman

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jicoleman/

Billy is the Global Chief of Staff for an IT and digital organisation of over 4000 people.  He has a team of 350 working across 15 countries.  In this podcast, we explore how understanding how the mind works (THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®) has helped Billy lead his fragmented global team through a period of great uncertainty and ambiguity.

After trying many of the leadership techniques out there which just weren’t sticking, the THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® journey was the standout approach which he describes as simple, logical and has had a lasting impact.

Billy talks about:

• How the THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® journey has been so profoundly effective

• How he has been able to put a whole new context around the life he lives

• The sense of empowerment he now experiences knowing the ‘noise’ in his head no longer needs to always take centre stage

• Having seen the positive effects THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® has had on his own life, Billy invited his Global Leadership Team on the THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® journey as well which provided huge value for the company

• The advantages of having his whole team speaking the same language and with the same understanding

• How it has helped him to guide his team

Have fun listening to this podcast and check out the others on the site.

William (Billy) Campbell | LinkedIn

Claire described herself as having been a headless chicken with a family and a house to run, along with the responsibilities of a big job.  Due to attending a leadership development programme and learning more about how the mind works she has found an inner peace, she takes things in her stride and is able to achieve more in her work and personal life due to the reduction in mental noise. 

Claire talks about her THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®  journey and how different this experience of learning has been compared to the traditional Leadership training tools and techniques. 

As a significant learner and provider of learning, Claire tells us how learning about THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® results in having the right mind set to do the job at hand.  She also shares with us how she has benefitted:

• how it has given her a sense of freedom, composure and weightlessness
  
  
• that she is now able to speed up by slowing down which has been a revelation, sharing “I feel like I have greater lung capacity and I am floating.  My whole pace has slowed down whereas my delivery has increased”. 
  
  
• how she has got rid of a lot of the mental noise which was weighing her down and reducing her effectiveness at work and enjoyment
  
  
• that decision making has become so much easier
  
  
• how this has allowed Claire to drop preconceptions of other people she saw as ‘challenging’ and how this has directly led to these relationship profoundly changing for the better, along with performance improvement and engagement levels rising
  
  
• And perhaps most importantly, as a result of her increasing awareness, people around her commenting on how well she is looking!

Claire Limon
Wealth Director - Openwork
Mobile: 07767 311069
Claire Limon | LinkedIn