Providing Psychological Safety for schools and in the workplace
Release Date: 04/01/2021
Get out there and engage - Fractional CTO Damien D'Souza
Stories of Success Podcast
I welcome Damien D‘Souza on this episode who is a business and technology transformation leader. His CV states COO, CIO and CCO experience, yet he markets himself as an interim and fractional ‚CTO‘. With his vast years of experience across multiple industries, he has worked in his portfolio career since 2019. Things we discussed: Whilst he started his portfolio career in 2019, he started working for himself in 2012 He left the corporate world after 30 years after taking redundancy and money for a runway to try 'self-employment' Work is all about what you want to do, not why...
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Interim and Fractional CEO and Consultant - Peter Weichsel
Stories of Success Podcast
Peter and I first met when he dealt with various digital marketing start-ups at Deutsche Post many years ago. Most recently, we discussed joint business development but also had a chat about my podcast, as Peter had quite some experience in interim and fractional C-level roles. I am in particular interested to share his experience with start-ups, large corporate and consulting roles. At time of recording Peter assumes an interim Management role within the Vodafone group which he has now left. Things we discussed: Roles of senior executives His role in the top 5 consultancies ...
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Be Confident with Uncertainty - Lena Andican - Fractional CMO
Stories of Success Podcast
Today I welcome Lena Andican who is one of the partners at Kurve - Kurve being the performance marketing agency my guest Oren Greenberg founded. Additionally, similar to Oren, she works as an interim and fractional CMO, advising companies on all things marketing. Things we discussed: Working with scale-ups B2B marketing and sales Positioning, marketing strategy and execution Transition from in-house to interim The need and want for flexibility and variety Confidence needed to be interim and leaping into a business venture Learning curve Advantages for companies to...
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Michel Quazza - Be Ready to Learn Something New!
Stories of Success Podcast
Michel Quazza and I met a few months ago discussing investment and collaboration on projects. He is a seasoned international CEO and has worked as much in Silicon Valley as he has worked across Europe. Michel is scaling his interim work through advisory service, packaging up C-Levels under the ‘Corporate Development as a Service’. Things we talked about: Difference in portfolio, consulting and ‘Corporate Development as a Service’ companies Scaling interim and fractional work Engineering, CPO and CEO Michel’s experience in Silicon Valley, the influence from the US on...
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Stephen Morris - Fractional and Interim CTO
Stories of Success Podcast
This episode is with Stephen Morris. Steve is a fractional CTO with a passion for software development and cyber security. He directs IT strategies, advises on product and technology and helps other CTOs to go to market too. Things we discussed: Companies not needing or being able to afford a full time CTO Helping aspiring CTOs Interim and fractional being a career progression from a full time engagement How he got bored when doing only one job, and the challenges were the same year on year The need for companies to have a CTO Bailey & Associates - a company that helps...
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Paul Edwards - Interim CRO: 'Importance of Networking'
Stories of Success Podcast
I welcome Paul Edwards today who is an interim Chief Revenue Officer. With many years experience in the IT and Telecoms sector, he empowers organisations and teams to win complex high value sales within competitive markets. He is also a mentor to businesses for exit. Paul and I discussed the following: Moving from a corporate career to a portfolio/interim/fractional career Experience in the IT/Cloud/Telecoms sectors Co-founding a business How to build a healthy pipeline and sales business Building a start-up to a functional company Importance of networking How consultants...
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Experience as an asset - Oren Greenberg
Stories of Success Podcast
Oren is the founder of Kurve, a London based, growth marketing consultancy working with corporates and scale-ups for the past 20 years. As an interim and fractional leader, Oren’s digital strategy and commercial expertise are instrumental in the growth of SaaS & Fintech brands. Brands he worked with include Lenovo, Canon, Investec Bank, Wonga, Peakon & Nutmeg. Things we discussed: Part time and interim scalability and positioning Pricing and how you best price your work (very interesting insights!) Kurve and how this fits in with fractional and interim work The Kurve...
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Taking the risk - Interim CDO Ben Rickard
Stories of Success Podcast
I welcome Ben Rickard to my podcast. Ben is an experienced interim and fractional CDO, a NED and advisor with an expert domain knowledge in marketing, digital, data and tech. Ben and I have been discussing the interim and fractional space for a while, and I am glad he found the time to record his ideas around this exciting and growing space. Things we discussed: CDO: data or digital officer Ben being a NED to parliament (not the government) Teams with different super powers His urge to get involved and do things Launching on his own during the pandemic Value proposition ...
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Victoria Rusnac - 'CMO on demand'
Stories of Success Podcast
My new season, season 5, is all about Stories of Success in interim and fractional CxO roles. I am excited to bring you top CxOs in the field discussing their style, pricing, approach and how they started off in their current role. A learning curve for me, but also a learning for anyone aspiring to become a freelance consultant, start a portfolio career or build a business as an interim or fractional leader. Episode one and season starter is with Victoria Rusnac! She is an interim Chief Marketing Officer. Her speciality is in startup growth marketing strategies, including...
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Reflecting on 3.5 years of podcasting - taking a break
Stories of Success Podcast
Hi all,
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- His history of being bullied
- Michael turning his life around by changing schools and becoming head boy
- Psychological Safety
- Tootoot app for schools
- Changes in bullying due to social media
- Building resilience with the school bell
- No barriers through cyber bullying
- Problems of bullying during Covid19 from home
- Success is impact, starting with improving one child’s life
- Mindfulness and mental health
- School and workplace priorities for mental health
- Stribehq.com - the app for psychological safety in the workplace
- How Stribe changes the workplace communication and people’s happiness at work
- We linked to the Happiness Index, and Chris Hyland’s episode
- It’s important to introduce technologies which replace and support face to face conversations
- How mindfulness improves productivity in the workplace
- Health benefits and the impact on productivity, but also on hiring and ‘employees’ benefits’
- The cost of not supporting employees needs to be understood by everyone
- Employer-employee shift
- People as assets of organisations
- Importance of trust
- Contact Michael on LinkedIn
Volker is a sales, strategy and leadership consultant. With a passion for coaching and mindfulness, helping individuals and companies to achieve more. In his podcast he interviews high achievers, entrepreneurs, consultants, visionaries, coaches, and mentors about their secrets and experience. Learn from the best! Find out more on his website or subscribe to his newsletter.