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E57 - Guests: Professor Michael Mainelli, Lord Mayor of London
It was a great privilege this week to have Professor Michael Mainelli, the 695th and current Lord Mayor of London, as my guest on Leading 4 Life "Stories". Michael has had the most fascinating career, with a host of executive and non-executive roles on his CV, as well as his journey through the ranks of the City of London Corporation as an Alderman, Sheriff and now Lord Mayor.
We had a really interesting and diverse conversation, and listeners will learn a great deal about the historic City of London Corporation, and the role of the Lord Mayor. We talk about Christ's Hospital school, where we both have a long relationship and a great deal of personal passion, and we also cover a great deal of the leadership points coming from Michael's long experience and very diverse portfolio career.
The focus of Michael's mayoralty, which runs from 10 November 2023 to 8 November 2024 is on a theme called Connect To Prosper and he and his wife Elizabeth are seeking to use the role to deliver benefits for the City, London, the UK and beyond for those with whom they connect. You can find out a great deal more detail using the links below:
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Leading 4 Life "Stories" makes a return to guest interviews this episode with a fascinating session with Rob Pepper, internationally renowned artist and Principal of Art Academy London, a leading higher education art school based in the heart of the city.
Rob is the first guest I have had from the creative industry world, and we had a great conversation about a wide range of issues including the obvious personal challenge Rob faces balancing continuing to produce his own art whilst running a major institution and raising his two young children. He is quick to emphasize that he has had no formal leadership training and is very open about the areas of leadership that challenge him.
It really was a fabulous interview and I very much hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it!
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This week's episode is a double first. It is the first time I have interviewed two guests at the same time, and those two guests happen to be father and son with two amazing life stories to share.
Ralph Arundell is a former British Army officer with a distinguished career in the infantry, and who is now the Director of Operations at Harrow School.
Henry Arundell is an elite level rugby player coming to the end of his third year as a professional, and who has already made an amazing start to his rugby career both at club and international level.
We cover a lot of ground in this episode and it will give you a lot of fascinating insights into the world of professional sport, as well as a wide range of leadership perspectives and experiences. I really hope you enjoy what I thought was a terrific conversation and, as ever, I would love your feedback when you have a chance.
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In a slight break from normal procedure, I've recorded this episode on video whilst I was on the road with Deloitte University this week. It's shorter than many of my episodes but the content will hopefully resonate with you as it is an important topic.
Lifelong learning and taking the time to invest in yourself are incredibly important for anyone's development, especially those that are in leadership roles. Making space in your busy diary to upskill yourself, or simply to refresh your existing skills will reap dividends well in excess of the time investment required and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I really hope you enjoy this slightly different format although I apologise in advance for the garden machinery noises that you will hear in the background throughout this episode! Please do send me feedback when you've either watched or listened. I will be extremely interested to hear what you think and, if you like it, I will potentially do more of these shorter format, on screen sessions.
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As the UK celebrates Pride month, my guest this week is Matt Lindley. Matt is a former RAF pilot who spent the majority of his military time on 32 (The Royal) Squadron at RAF Northolt near London, where he was an instructor pilot and captain on the HS125 VIP transport aircraft. In that role, he routinely flew the UK's most senior VIPs including HM The Late Queen Elizabeth II, the Prime Minister and many others from the Royal Family and the UK Government.
Matt was gay in a military where for a good part of his military service being gay was not just frowned upon, it was actually illegal. The law changed during Matt's time in the RAF but this issue was a dominant factor in his early years as an RAF pilot. Despite these challenges, Matt speaks incredibly fondly of his time in the military and of the great leadership he experienced in the period after he was unexpectedly "outed".
He subsequently transitioned to the world of commercial aviation as in now a part time pilot with a major airline. He is also the founder of his own company, Propel Performance, and a highly regarded motivational and TedX speaker. He has a huge amount to say on the topic of leadership and there is much for any current or aspiring leader to learn from this episode of the podcast.
This was a great discussion with a man who has had an incredibly challenging career journey but who is rightly incredibly positive and upbeat about what he has achieved along that journey. It is a fabulous interview and I really hope you enjoy it.
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In this episode, I return to my personal RAF journey and share my experience of living in the Saudi Arabian desert whilst commanding the RAF detachment on Operation Southern Watch (to mission to police the southern Iraqi no-fly zone) in 1998.
Life in a tented encampment during the Saudi Arabian summer was extreme to say the least and I had a huge amount of very valuable experiences, some funny, some challenging, that really marked out this 5 month deployment for me as a time I have never forgotten.
There were some powerful leadership lessons in amongst everything else and I bring those out as part of this episode. I hope you enjoy it. As ever, please do subscribe and give me your feedback - it matters a lot to me.
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My guest this week is Reuben Keith Green, a former US Navy surface warfare officer and the published author of "Black Officer, White Navy". As the book title suggests, Keith's life in the US Navy was a challenging one and, since leaving the Navy in 1997, he has devoted the majority of his time to trying to improve the situation that black members of the US Navy face on a routine basis.
This interview discusses Keith's personal journey at length, including the discrimination he faced throughout his time as an enlisted rank, and then subsequently as an officer. It is not a wholly negative story. As Keith makes very clear, he worked with many excellent white officers, and many of the key influencers in his life have been white. However, there are plenty of seriously challenging issues as well, and Keith does not hold back when it comes to describing the difficulties he faced and the lasting impact they have had on him.
This is a hard hitting story but one that absolutely must be told as Keith's experiences carry lessons for all leaders in the private sector as well as the military and wider public sector. Although Keith's focus is clearly within the US, the examples he quotes are regularly cited much more widely and that is why I think what Keith has to say is so important. His book was originally self-published but is now being republished in a much more mainstream way. It is already available in the US and will be available in the UK from June 2024 - I for one will certainly be reading it as, having spoken at such length with Keith, I am really interested to get to that next level of detail in his memoir.
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Back in Episode 33 I started giving a full description of some of the aspects of military flying that dominated the flying part of my RAF career. As I got into the episode I realised that I had rather more to say about this than I originally thought and so I didn't get through all the things that I originally planned to cover.
This episode is consequently the next chapter of very flying specific personal stories, and I talk in some detail about aspects of the tactical employment of military aircraft, including the use of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons and air combat training.
With apologies to some, I suspect this episode will be very much marmite (i.e. you will either love it or you will hate it), so if details about flying operations are not your thing, this might not be one for you, although I'd love to convert you to being a big fan of flying stories obviously!!
All feedback welcome, especially from those who have direct experience in the RAF or other militaries.
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Trigger Warning! Whilst it doesn't go into detail, this episodes touches on the death of work colleagues and family members including children.
With this, my first thematic episode in a while, I address the difficult topic of "Dealing with Adversity!"
Whether personal or professional, really challenging situations, especially those involving the injury or death of family members or work colleagues, can be extremely hard to deal with. The problem can be even more acute if you are in a leadership role and have few obvious outlets for support, advice and help.
Through the medium of some of my own experiences (and I've certainly had a few!), I offer some thoughts and advice that will hopefully help to pre-arm the listener with some coping strategies both for self-help and for providing support and help to others around them.
As ever, please let me have your feedback, and please do subscribe and review the podcast on your preferred channel.
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My guest this week is Mary Walter, a TV and radio broadcast personality, and a podcast host, based in New Jersey, USA.
Mary and I have known each other for many years and I was really keen to tap into her Talk Radio experience to get some new perspectives not only on her own career and journey, but also on the US more generally. As I anticipated, this is an episode with plenty of laughs but also a wide range of serious perspectives that I certainly hope you find both useful and interesting.
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In some respects ground tours or "flying a desk" are the things that aircrew are conditioned to dislike the most; however, as you will hear in this episode, that wasn't really the case for me and, although I always loved flying, I also thoroughly enjoyed my time on the ground.
This episode covers my ground tours as a squadron leader, starting with my first tour in the UK Ministry of Defence, then on to the Joint Service Defence College at Greenwich, and concluding with a short tour in Operational Requirements, once again in the Ministry of Defence.
As ever with such roles, there are some really useful leadership experiences that I reflect on and I hope you find them useful.
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I am delighted to be joined this week by Juliet Kennedy. Juliet very recently completed more than 8 years as the Operations Director at National Air Traffic Services, the capstone of an entire 43 year career within the world of Air Traffic Control.
Juliet speaks very candidly about her love of a job that many would consider extraordinarily stressful but which she simply thrived on. She is very clear that it is the outstanding people within the air traffic world that make it what it is, and she offers some fascinating perspectives on leadership and life in general.
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So it was once again on to bigger and better things! This week's episode sees me move to the role of Group Captain Typhoon, a new job, in a new rank, in a new RAF Headquarters. I was now part of Number 1 Group, which was at that point located in "Bomber Harris' former headquarters building at RAF High Wycombe.
This was an amazing tour on both a personal and professional level. Bringing a brand new aircraft into RAF service would have been busy and fascinating enough on any level, but I had the added facet of being a key part of the Typhoon export campaign to try and sell the aircraft to Singapore, who were running a campaign to select their new fighter at the time. That generated a wide range of opportunities and challenges and you will hear all about them in this episode, and I really hope you enjoy it.
As ever, please review, like and rate the episode on your podcast platform and please do send me some direct feedback if you have the time. I am always fascinated to hear your views.
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My guest this week is Nick Anderson. Nick is one of my original flying instructors from my own time in the Royal Air Force's flying training system, and spent his whole working life in the world of aviation.
He spent 19 years in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot and advanced flying instructor, followed by an outstanding and longer 25 year career in Virgin Atlantic, eventually becoming one of Virgin's most senior captains on the Airbus A340.
Nick is also one of the hosts on the highly regarded Airline Pilot Guy Show podcast (https://airlinepilotguy.com/), which is really worth listening to even if you only have a passing interest in all things aviation.
We had a very enjoyable conversation and, amongst a range of humorous moments, and aviation stories, there are some fantastic tips on leadership and also managing your own mental health.
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It was an absolute pleasure to interview the effervescent and award winning Liz McConaghy for this week's episode. Author of the outstanding autobiographical book "Chinook Crew Chick", Liz is the longest serving female Chinook crewman, and during her 17 year RAF career, she completed an unbelievable 2 flying tours in Iraq and 10 in Afghanistan. She accrued some 3000 hours in the Chinook and flew in some incredibly tough roles, including a lot of Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) work, recovering injured and sometimes dead soldiers from the battlefield.
Liz's story really only starts with her time in the RAF though. Once she left, she suffered very significantly from post traumatic stress and ultimately attempted to take her own life in 2020. She talks extensively about this dark chapter of her life in the podcast and provides a huge amount of great advice for dealing with mental health challenges both personally and with those around you. It is an incredibly inspirational story and Liz's work now focused on helping others to understand and handle mental health challenges in all walks of life.
Without doubt, this is one of the most important podcasts I have done and I am sure you will find what Liz has to say, valuable, emotional and inspirational in equal measure. I cannot recommend her book highly enough - it is a really great read!
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This episode is being published on Easter Sunday 2024 so an interview with a senior figure in the Church of England seemed highly appropriate, and I am delighted that my guest for this episode is Bishop Graham James, the former Bishop of Norwich.
Bishop Graham and I first met back in 2001 when I had the privilege of flying him in a Jaguar from RAF Coltishall, where I was the Officer Commanding Number 6 Squadron at the time. He is a really lovely and very inspirational man who has had a fascinating life journey and I am sure you will find his story extremely interesting. Not only does he describe his own journey as a leader with great candour, but he also offers some terrific insights on a wide range of issues along the way. Enjoy!
In this interview we cover the following topics (starting time in brackets):
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I feel immensely privileged to have had the opportunity to interview John Volanthen for Leading 4 Life "Stories". His name might not be immediately familiar to you but I am sure that the cave rescue of the 12 children and their football coach from a flooded cave in Northern Thailand in 2018 might ring some louder bells.
John, together with his dive partner Rick Stanton, were the first to find the children and their coach, when hope was fading that they would survive, and both men were subsequently instrumental in the successful rescue of all 13 a few days later. It is a remarkable story and John is a remarkable man. Incredibly modest and self effacing, he makes light of his extraordinary achievements but is also incredibly honest about some of the challenges he has faced when he discusses the highs and lows of his life so far.
There are a plethora of great pieces of leadership advice in this interview and I really hope you enjoy it. If you have not already done so, I would also urge you to watch the documentary made about the Thai cave rescue entitled "The Rescue". I found it to be a gripping watch and it sheds yet more light on the remarkable achievements of John and the very large team that collectively worked to rescue the "Wild Boars" football team and their coach.
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Flying has been a huge part of my life and career and in this personal stories episode I do my best bring some elements of that to life for those that have never had the good fortune to experience military flying in any form.
It's very much my personal recollections of what I have flown, where I have flown and some of the specific flying disciplines that I think are of particular interest. I talk about low flying, supersonic flying and formation flying in some detail and, because I got a bit carried away with those elements, some of the things I mentioned up front in the episode, didn't actually get covered due to time - sorry!! Consequently, I will cover the more tactical aspects of military flying (including air combat, evasion training and weapons employment), and flying the historic aircraft of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in future episodes.
I'll be really interested in your feedback on this episode please. Specifically, if this is something you want more of, please let me know and I will happily oblige - after all, military pilots never get bored with talking about flying! :-)
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This week's episode was a real joy for me as it is an interview with fellow fast-jet pilot and former RAF Officer, Mandy Hickson.
Mandy was one of the very first women to go through RAF flying training and was the second female Tornado GR4 pilot. She had an extremely active 17 year RAF career, and is now the bestselling author of "An Officer, not a Gentleman", and a highly acclaimed motivational speaker whose talents are in demand all over the world.
Unsurprisingly, Many and I have a great deal in common given our shared RAF flying experiences, and this was a hugely enjoyable conversation which covered a lot of ground, but which also touched on a wide range of important areas of leadership. I really hope you enjoy listening to it as we did making it.
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In this thematic episode I address the vitally important topic of "Hearts & Minds"! This is such a crucial element of leadership, as without the support of, and proper engagement with your team, you will always struggle to succeed as a leader.
I cover a wide range of topics that I believe are important to the establishment and maintenance of great relationships with the members of your team. These range from the simple act of saying "thank you" for a job well done, through to examples of how you can really inspire loyalty with those that work for you.
The phase "hearts & minds" is often used but, in my experience, not as often properly considered in respect of overall team cohesion. It's vitally important for leaders to walk the walk as well as talking the talk in this area and, in this episode, I hope I help to shed some light on ways you can do this.
I really hope you enjoy it; please subscribe and review if you can and I'm always open to direct feedback as well!
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During both my first command tour as a flight commander on Number 54 (Fighter) Squadron (covered in Episode 27), and subsequently during my squadron command tour as the Officer Commanding Number 6 Squadron, I spent a good deal of time flying on operational reconnaissance missions in the No-Fly Zone north of the 36th parallel in Iraq.
This episode is very much a personal account of that operational flying and consequently contains rather less leadership tips than many of my previous episodes. However, I hope it is of interest to many, as the flying we did over that time was without any doubt the most exhilarating and challenging that I did during my whole career.
I cover a lot of ground in the episode and so it is a little longer than all of my previous individual podcasts, but I make no apology as I don't think making it shorter would have done justice to the task! I seek to cover some of the training we did to prepare for operations as well as giving a fair amount of detail about the nature and the flying missions, and providing some background to life at Incirlik Air Force Base where we were all based. I really hope you enjoy it!
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This week, Leading 4 Life Stories goes international and my guest is Steven Moore, a former US Congressional Chief of Staff, and now President of the Ukraine Freedom Project.
Steven is a highly experienced political strategist, international social entrepreneur and public opinion researcher, who has a wide range of really interesting perspectives on both the US political situation and the wider world of geopolitics.
Given the very current challenges facing the world at large and the US in particular, this was an interview that I really enjoyed and from which I learned a great deal. Steven has a great vantage point both from his past experience and from his current political activity and connections, and he really brings this to life with the discussion. I very much hope you enjoy it and find it useful.
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My guest this week is Chief Constable Jo Shiner, the ninth Chief Constable of Sussex Police and the first female officer to hold the role. Jo is a career police officer having served for over 30 years initially in Norfolk and Kent before moving to Sussex as the Deputy Chief Constable in late 2018. She was subsequently selected to be the Chief Constable in July 2020.
During her long career, Jo has carried out a very wide range of policing roles and has also held a number of national responsibilities. She is currently the national lead for roads policing, an issue very close to her own heart as she explains in the interview.
This was a fascinating interview as we cover not only a wide range of Jo's personal leadership experiences, but also touch on a lot of wider policing topics that I suspect you will find extremely interesting. I really hope you enjoy the session.
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Motivation is critical to success both for you personally and for any teams you may lead. In this thematic episode I share my thoughts on how I think about motivating myself and the teams I have been fortunate enough to lead.
What works for you will probably be different to many around you and, in my experience, learning to recognise the key motivational elements in yourself and in your people is key to setting yourself and your team up for success.
I hope you find my thoughts helpful; please let me know what you think - it's always great to get your feedback.
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Having returned to the RAF after my exchange tour with the German Air Force, this personal stories episode reflects on some of the aspects of my first command tour as a Flight Commander on Number 54 (Fighter) Squadron at RAF Coltishall.
Returning to the Jaguar in this more senior role was an absolute delight and I relished the challenges it brought both in flying terms (with a number of new skills to learn), and in respect of the leadership responsibilities I now had.
In this episode I focus on some of those leadership aspects and I aim to provide some broad tips that I believe are applicable in a wide range of leadership roles across the civilian world as well. There's a lot more to come on the flying specifics from this tour, especially in regard to operations over Iraq and Bosnia so keep listening if that's what you want to hear about!
I really hope you enjoy this episode and, as ever, all feedback is welcome!
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In this thematic episode I tackle a set of topics that crop up a lot when I do leadership development training with groups and individuals.
Using some examples of what I have learnt along my own journey, I provide a range of thoughts, tips and techniques that should help leaders to develop their team members better and, in the process, create more headspace and thinking time for themselves.
Too often I have seen leaders fail to delegate or empower their team members and, as a result lose their trust and confidence over time. I hope that the content of this episode provides a number of ideas that will help you to avoid falling into any of those traps.
As ever, I would be delighted to hear your feedback and please do subscribe and review if you are enjoying what you hear on these podcasts.
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This week is a little different to normal as I combine a thematic issue with a guest interview and discuss the whole topic of Artificial Intelligence with Steve Brown.
Steve is a leading expert on generative AI, autonomous AI assistants, digital transformation, the future of work, and how advances in AI will shape the future of education, business and society. He is a published author and speaks globally to a very wide range of corporates and media outlets on all things AI and, importantly, has a rare ability to explain a very complex issue in ways that normal mortals like me can understand!
As you will discover if you listen to the podcast, Steve generously offered access to a range of free resources (not discoverable by normal search) on his website and having taken a look, this is a veritable gold mine of material to help you learn more about this vitally important topic. The web URL you need to go to is at 00.45.50 on the podcast
I really hope you enjoy this session; given that it's very different to my normal podcasts, I would really value your feedback please!
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This week's guest is Jonathan Bowman-Perks, a fellow podcast host and coach with a long and extremely successful track record in both. Jonathan is a former Army officer who had a long and distinguished career before moving to the private sector. Since he made that jump, his career has gone from strength to strength, with time at PWC, IBM and Penna before setting up his own leadership development and coaching business.
Jonathan's "Inspiring Leadership" podcast has a significant global following and I was privileged to be a guest on it towards the end of last year. We had an immediate connection, not only because of our professional backgrounds but also because we both lost our fathers at a very similar age. It was unsurprising therefore that we had a great conversation on both podcasts and this episode contains a wealth of advice, thoughts and tips from our collective experience of leadership development.
I very much hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it!
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With this first episode of Season 2 of the podcast, I return to the personal stories and give an account of my time on an exchange posting flying the RF4E Phantom with the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe.
It was a fascinating time not least because of the political changes that occurred during my 2 1/4 years with the Germans. In that time, the Berlin Wall fell, German reunification became a reality, and the Cold War ended. As a direct consequence, the tour was punctuated with a wide range of fascinating experiences as well as serious challenges.
I do my best to give a short summary of what was a really busy couple of years and so I apologise if it feels like I touch too lightly on the issues but, if there is appetite for me to do so, I would be delighted to add more detail in later episodes so please keep the feedback coming.
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Given that I strongly suspect you will have better things to do than listen to me on New Year's Eve when this podcast becomes available, I have made it a reasonably short episode and focused on providing a review of 2023 and this first season of Leading 4 Life "Stories".
The episode provides a short summary of the episodes so far as well as my own thoughts on the high points and plans for the future. If you are new to the podcast, it will give you a decent overview of what the previous episodes contain and signpost a few of my personal highlights that you might wish to dip into if you haven't already.
Season 2 of the podcast will launch at the start of 2024 and I would really welcome your thoughts and input as to what you would like to see as I develop the podcast further into next year and beyond.
Whether or not you are a regular listener, I am extremely grateful for you giving up some of your valuable time to listen to what I have to say and I am even more grateful if you have subscribed, reviewed and / or provided me with direct feedback. Please keep that coming as it means the world to me and I read it all!
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As this episode goes live on Christmas Eve 2023, I thought I would keep it very short and to the point.
I have had a good deal of time to personally reflect over the past couple of weeks and that thinking time has allowed me to focus on some things that are hugely important at this time of year. Speaking for myself, I know that I should say "thank you" a great deal more and that I should also make much more time to keep in touch and "check in" with my circle of friends.
Far too often, we all take things for granted and don't fully appreciate those that support us or help us along the way. Equally, most of us make optimistic statements such as "we must get together soon" without ever actually following through and actually keeping in touch properly.
This podcast is very much a stream of consciousness but, if nothing else, I hope it gives you pause for thought, and is the catalyst for you not only to thank those that you should, but also to check in on some of those friends and colleagues who you've left on the "to do list" for far too long.
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This week's guest is General Sir Richard Barrons, the former Commander of Joint Forces Command (one of the 6 UK Chiefs of Staff) and now the Co-Chairman of Universal Defence & Security Solutions, alongside a portfolio of other private sector roles.
Richard commanded at every level in the British Army and saw a huge amount of operational service in just about everything from the Cold War to Afghanistan. He has a huge amount of leadership and historical knowledge, and some strongly held views about today's geopolitics and the prospects for the future.
A regular commentator on both TV and radio, Richard's views are thought provoking and sobering, and this is one episode you really don't want to miss.
I really hope you enjoy listening to this fascinating interview - it really was great to be on the other side of the microphone for this one!
In this interview we cover the following subjects (starting time in brackets):
Richard's career journey (00.02.22)
Early motivations (00.07.25)
Thoughts on career transition timing (00.11.40)
Adjustments to leadership style (00.16.55)
Role models (00.29.29)
Leadership traits and values (00.35.03)
Advice to a school age Richard! (00.43.24)
What would Richard have done differently? (00.46.51)
Most important achievement (00.58.15)
Career low point (01.01.12)
Work / life balance (01.07.14)
Thoughts on current conflicts and geopolitics (01.11.33)
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This might just be the most important episode of this podcast I have released to date because it tackles the vitally important topic of "work / life balance". In my experience this is something that is very regularly talked about, especially by very busy people but also much too often either ignored or given too little priority, often by those same very busy people.
In this episode I make no secret of my own personal challenge with handling this, but I also share some personal experiences and some reasons why you really should focus more on getting the balance right, not only for your own health and wellbeing, but also for the benefit of those that you lead.
As we approach a major holiday period, it is the perfect time for you to really try and delegate well, ensure you do prioritise life over work, and to give yourself a proper opportunity to recharge your batteries. However, uncomfortable it may feel, stretch yourself and step back from the work coalface just for a while and see how much more efficient and capable it makes you when you return!
I really hope you find this useful. As always, I would love your thoughts and feedback so please do let me know what you think.
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At the conclusion of a short first operational flying tour at RAF Brüggen in Germany, this episode discusses my move to RAF Laarbruch, another Germany base, and my transition to the reconnaissance role.
As a now "experienced" Jaguar pilot, this was a pivotal point in my career since reconnaissance was a role that would dominate a significant proportion of my remaining time in the cockpit. I aim to give the listener a sense of the challenge, complexity, but also fun we all had flying the Jaguar in this role. It was without doubt demanding but we thrived on the competition and absolutely loved the fact that we got to be seriously good at what we did.
Towards the end of the tour (and this podcast) I outline some of the challenges that occurred not only as we transitioned the squadron to flying the Tornado, but also for me personally as I faced a tricky choice that would have a significant impact on the next direction of my flying career.
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This week’s episode covers the first part of my post squadron command journey and my first (and only!) tour at RAF Strike Command.
Being the Head of Briefing & Coordination was a fascinating 18 months that gave me a huge amount of insight into the workings of the highest levels of the RAF. It really sharpened my focus on the need for attention to detail and it was a great privilege to be able to be present at a huge range of very senior meetings.
Whilst it was a ground tour, when I reflect on it now I realise that it was one of my most formative experiences and I feel very fortunate to have had such a great opportunity.
I hope you enjoy the story - please let me know what you think!
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My guest this week is Komeil Alibai, founder and CEO of MYKA Holdings, a private equity and venture capital business focusing on clients from a variety of industries.
Komeil has a fascinating personal and business background and shares some terrific insights during the interview. He and I first met during our coaching qualification training with The Coaching Academy. I subsequently had the pleasure of coaching Komeil, and he is kind enough to allow us to discuss the value of that coaching during the session.
It was lovely to catch up with Komeil again for such an in depth conversation, and I really hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording the podcast.
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My guest this week is Howard Wheeldon, who is best known as a political / defence commentator and analyst in recent years, but who had a fascinating and long career prior to moving into that realm. It was a really interesting and wide ranging discussion, which highlights Howards extremely impressive breadth and depth of business experience; I very much hope you enjoy it.
As you will hear from the introduction to this edition this is a particularly poignant episode for me because, at the time that I recorded the interview, I was aware that Howard was seriously ill.
Tragically he passed away on 21 September, much more suddenly than expected and, having consulted his widow Joanna, this interview is being released the day prior to Howard's memorial service in London on Monday 20 November, and will hopefully serve as an ongoing tribute to a great man and a good friend who will be much missed.
My heartfelt condolences remain with Joanna as well as Howard's children, Ellie and Giles.
In the interview we cover the following subjects (starting time in brackets):
Howard's career journey (00.03.48)
Early motivations (00.17.41)
Leadership styles and priorities (00.22.33)
Role models & modern day business challenges (00.31.57)
What would Howard have done differently? (00.53.00)
Career high point (01.02.15)
Career low point (01.08.08)
Managing work:life balance (01.11.41)
Views on defence expenditure and relationships with key allies (01.18.11)
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My guest this week is Baroness Dido Harding, who is probably best known for her role as the Executive Chair of NHS Test & Trace during the Covid-19 pandemic, and for her role as the CEO of Talk Talk when they went through a significant cyber attack.
However, there is much more to Dido than those two roles. She has a fascinating business, public service and personal background and, in this really interesting interview, she openly shares a great deal about her highs, lows and overall leadership and personal journey. I really enjoyed this conversation and I very much hope you do too.
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I am conscious that in last week's episode I covered a lot of ground and didn't always provide a lot of detail. As such, in this episode I blend some personal flying stories with the theme of "Attention to Detail".
I talk through the challenge of mastering the detail required to safely and effectively operate a single-seat Jaguar on a typical front-line ground attack sortie and, where appropriate, I link this to what I have seen in the business world, especially in my more senior roles.
The more senior you become, the harder it is to stay across all the detail. The mistake that many leaders make is that they still try to do this and it has two negative impacts:
Firstly, it makes it harder for the leader to stay focused on the big issues whilst they are mired in the detail.
Secondly, it often makes their subordinates feel micromanaged and disempowered.
There are of course plenty of occasions when a leader still has to be all over the detail and I highlight those as well.
I try to offer some example based thoughts and ideas that have worked for me when I've been in senior, complex roles. I hope they are useful for you too!
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With this episode I continue the personal story of my flying career and discuss the completion of my training on the Jaguar Operational Conversion Unit and the move to the RAF front-line on 17(F) and then 14 Squadron at RAF Brüggen in Germany.
As you will hear, this was a really pivotal time in my flying career and I absolutely loved the excitement, challenge and pressure of being on a front-line Jaguar squadron when the Cold War with the Warsaw Pact was still a very big concern for NATO and the West.
There are perhaps less top tips in this episode but I hope you enjoy the journey along with me. Being a 21 year old pilot in the nuclear strike and attack roles was certainly really special for me and I suspect you will pick up my enthusiasm as you listen.
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My guest this week is Lord Mark Sedwill, former Cabinet Secretary, Head of the UK Civil Service and National Security Advisor.
Mark had an amazing public sector career in the UK Diplomatic and Civil Service and is now on his next chapter with a portfolio of big private sector roles. His huge experience made him a great subject for this podcast and this is a fascinating interview with an absolute wealth of terrific leadership insights that I am sure you will enjoy listening to.
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My guest for this episode is Rear Admiral James Morse RN(Retd), the President and CEO of the Rabdan Academy in the United Arab Emirates.
James and I know each other well from our military days having been at the Royal College of Defence Studies together back in 2007. He subsequently commanded the UK's Joint Service Command and Staff College and that undoubtedly positioned him extremely well for his current role, which he has held since 2016.
Raban Academy is a fascinating institution in an equally interesting part of the world and James has some terrific perspectives on leadership that I know will be of interest and value to you all.
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My guest for this episode is Jenna Littler, former Senior Vice President at Burberry and now an independent consultant and advisor to the fashion, beauty and luxury goods industries.
Jenna has had already had an amazingly diverse and highly successful career and, by the time she left Burberry, she was one of the most senior women in the business.
She spoke to me at length about the opportunities and challenges she has faced and this was a fascinating and really enjoyable interview that I think you will find equally interesting and valuable.
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My guest for this episode is Philipp Nattermann, a Senior Partner and CFO at McKinsey & Company.
Having originally been born in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Philipp started his working life as an academic in the USA, Philipp joined McKinsey in 1999 and has been there ever since.
He speaks very candidly on a whole range of issues and offers some terrific leadership insights that I am sure you will find both interesting and valuable.
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With this episode I return to thematic issues and focus on personal resilience and self care.
I chose to cover this theme now partly because of the recent World Suicide Prevention Day, but also because I recently delivered a workshop on this topic to a client and it landed really well, so I thought it would also be useful to those that listen to this podcast.
Personal resilience is a critical attribute for any leader, and a good leader also needs to be very conscious of the resilience of individual members of his / her / their team.
In this episode I focus on:
Why resilience is important
Why personal resilience is linked to, but different from corporate resilience
Some ways to self check your own resilience
Ideas to help improve your own self care
Resilience through crisis and change
The value of optimism
Knowing when to quit!
The benefit of assertiveness
Why happiness helps
The importance of practice!
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At the start of the week in which this episode was recorded, the world suffered what was arguably one of the most serious and significant cyber failures yet seen, when a poor quality Crowdstrike software patch caused mayhem in a wide range of industries right across the globe.
By pure coincidence (at least I think it was coincidence!!), this same week saw my own personal iMac fail permanently and irrecoverably. Luckily my files are all stored in various cloud locations and I also have a laptop computer to use as a fallback option; however, these two events caused me to think that technology would be a great topic for this week's thematic episode of Leading 4 Life "Stories". We are all incredibly reliant on technology in today's world and that generates real risks that we as leaders need to think about and mitigate as far as possible.
Leveraging my own personal experience and thinking, I offer you some thoughts about areas to focus on and also some solutions that might just prompt you to do some serious self reflection on your own use of technology, and how you might mitigate the technological risks in your own life!
I hope you enjoy it; all feedback welcome as always!
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Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of aircraft accidents and fatalities.
In this episode I continue my personal story as I finish officer training and move into the Royal Air Force's flying training system.
I'm extremely conscious that I could easily have filled an episode or more with each segment of the flying training system, since I learned so much about myself as I was going through it so, depending on the feedback this episode generates, it may well be that I return to cover some more specific elements in future episodes. However, I reined myself in and Episode 7 will give you a c.30 minute overview of everything up to my move to the front-line Jaguar Operational Conversion Unit.
It hits the high and low points of my time at RAF Linton-on-Ouse (Basic Flying Training at No 1 Flying Training School), RAF Valley (Advanced Flying Training at No 4 Flying Training School), and RAF Brawdy (No 234 Squadron, Tactical Weapons Unit).
As normal, I try to pick out some useful tips and personal learning points along the way and there are plenty to choose from during this formative and fast-paced early stage of my military career.
I really hope you enjoy this return to personal stories - do please give me your feedback; I really do value it a lot!
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My guest for this episode is Phil Crossman, a friend of mine for nearly 20 years and the former Managing Director of Honda UK.
Phil spent his entire career in the motor trade, and has huge experience with a number of manufacturers, culminating with some 17 years at Honda. He has a vast amount of leadership experience and the interview covers a range of topics that I'm sure you will find interesting.
There are some great and amusing car stories, and Phil also provides some fascinating insights into his perspectives on the future of the motor industry.
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This episode I am delighted to be able to introduce and interview Susie Ballentyne, my co-founder and partner within Leading 4 Life.
Susie and I have known each other since 2011, when we worked together in the UK Ministry of Defence. She is a social psychologist / behavioural scientist, and has a long background in working with the government as well as in the private sector. She is in the final stages of completing a PhD and has huge research experience and academic knowledge of leadership issues and, consequently, brings a very complimentary skill set to my own as we work together in this space.
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This episode I was very privileged to be able to host General David Petraeus US Army (Retired) as my very first guest on the podcast.
It is the first of what will be many interviews in the future and, in every case, I will seek to get the best leadership thoughts, tips and advice from those that are generous enough to give me their time for an interview.
Even a cursory glance at General Petraeus’ career history will reveal what an amazing life he has had and why his views on leadership are so relevant to anyone with an interest in leadership issues.
A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1974, General Petraeus served for 37 years in the US Army, rising to 4* rank and completed 6 consecutive commands as a general officer, five of which were on combat operations, including command of the Surge in Iraq, command of US Central Command, and command of all coalition forces in Afghanistan.
He subsequently served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2011/12 and is now very active in business as a Partner at KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute.
General Petraeus' academic credentials are also incredibly impressive. He is the only person in US Army history to be the top graduate of both the US Army Ranger School and the year-long Command and General Staff College. He has a PhD in international relations and academics from Princeton University and, from the 1980s to the present day he has been actively involved in senior roles with a range of prestigious academic institutions.
Over the years, he has been named as one of America's 25 Best Leaders, a runner up for Time Magazine's Person of the Year, the Daily Telegraph Man of the Year and numerous other accolades.
For more on his background and current activities please see:
General Petraeus’ new book “Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine”, co-authored with Andrew Roberts is published in October and is available for pre-order on Amazon at this link.
In the interview we cover a wide range of issues including (starting time in brackets):
Adjustments to his leadership style across the course of his career (2:18).
His early motivation to join the Army, and a model for strategic leadership (13:58).
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