Stories of Success Podcast

The podcast Stories of Success is a listening experience for your personal development. Volker Ballueder regularly interviews high achievers, entrepreneurs, consultants, visionaries, coaches, and mentors about their secrets and experience. Learn from the best! Enjoy!

Leadership Development from a Brand Perspective 02/18/2021

Leadership Development from a Brand Perspective In this week’s episode I welcome Cheryl Smith to my podcast. Cheryl leads talent management for Xerox, a public company with over 25,000 employees globally. She is a seasoned talent professional with over 25 years of success in talent assessment, succession planning, leadership development, employee engagement, organisational surveys and change programs for world-class, global organisations including Gartner, Legrand, Diageo, MetLife and AIG. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/17914181

A chat about leadership 01/28/2021

A chat about leadership For 20 years, Tim Spiker, founder of The Aperio and writer of The Only Leaders Worth Following has been helping individuals and organisations lead better, and find better leaders. He delivers keynote speeches and creates customised learning experiences to change the way people look at leadership, and he guides long-term developmental journeys as well. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/17632976

Let's talk uncommon sense 01/07/2021

Let's talk uncommon sense In this first episode of 2021, it took me a while to understand what Csaba Toth was talking about. However, once I understood his ‘Uncommon Sense’ approach, I was sold! /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/17204732

Life is about Impact, not likes. 12/03/2020

Life is about Impact, not likes. This week's guest is Simon Squibb: a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, mentor, podcast host, founder and Chief Purpose Officer at the Purposeful Project. He retired at 40 but is now back. We recorded this episode a while back, with some friendly dogs barking in the background. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/16966997

Thursday, 9 am and October are all the same thing now 11/12/2020

Thursday, 9 am and October are all the same thing now I am very honoured to have Pascal Finette back for a second round. Pascal and I got introduced when I first launched my podcast in early 2018, and we recorded an episode then, which has been downloaded almost 300 times. He since has launched more things, became more famous, and I feel honoured he took some time to answer more of my questions. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/16683536

Thank you, Andy. 10/29/2020

Thank you, Andy. I interviewed Andy last year, just before Christmas 2019. He openly spoke to me about his illness, and his life limiting cancer. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/16507256

A reflection with friends on the global pandemic 10/15/2020

A reflection with friends on the global pandemic This week’s podcast is a panel discussion with four former guests. We took a long time to manage all our diaries and I was glad when we finally got together to discuss Covid19, personal development, and how it seems the positive things that came from lock down. A episode going deep. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/16303451

Mind Body Leadership 09/24/2020

Mind Body Leadership In this episode of season 4 I welcome Marcel Daane. I am super excited to welcome Marcel as he has been prominent on my social media feeds for a long time. I admire the work he does as an executive and leadership coach, and his concept about body mind connection in a business world. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/16061246

Consulting Success - Season Starter! 09/03/2020

Consulting Success - Season Starter! This season is all about personal development, and about how you can improve as a person. I have some amazing guests lined up. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/15718979

The story of a professional speaker in times of Covid19. 07/16/2020

The story of a professional speaker in times of Covid19. For the last but not least episode of season 3 of my podcast, I welcome Lisa Ryan who is the Chief Appreciation Strategist at Grategy. As a Certified Speaking Professional, a Certified Virtual Speaker and the best-selling author of ten books including “The Upside of Down Times: Discovering the Power of Gratitude”, she shares a lot of information on how to become a professional speaker and what gratitude means in day to day life. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/15155882

Success and Happiness - it's down to listening 07/02/2020

Success and Happiness - it's down to listening Chris is a tech entrepreneur that believes technology can be used for good and can dramatically impact the world in a positive way. He is lucky enough that his personal vision matches up with his company's vision at The Happiness Index. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/14964950

Understanding who you are is a difficult journey! 06/18/2020

Understanding who you are is a difficult journey! This week’s podcast is with Lizzy Hodcroft. She is an inspiration to talk to, on how to overcome mental health issues and becoming successful, selling a business and now launching a new business called Myndr. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/14797163

Stress Management & Burnout Prevention 06/04/2020

Stress Management & Burnout Prevention This week’s podcast is with a fellow German coach Stephanie Schaffner. After a corporate career in sales and business development, she changed direction to become a trainer for stress management and a coach for burnout prevention. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/14613875

Chasing Black Unicorns - Doing Business in Africa 05/21/2020

Chasing Black Unicorns - Doing Business in Africa On this episode I welcome Marek Zmysłowski. Marek is a Polish-born entrepreneur and executive, focused on online businesses in Frontier and Emerging Markets. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/14430851

Burn-Out, Depression and Anxiety 05/07/2020

Burn-Out, Depression and Anxiety This was a great recording with an industry friend around various topics. Not only did we discuss media, but we more-though spoke about what it means to have a burn-out and to live with anxiety, not only during the Covid19 crisis. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/14127248

Success is being happy and content along the journey 04/23/2020

Success is being happy and content along the journey I enjoyed meeting Gian Power ACA on my podcast who set up his first business aged 13 and later worked at Deutsche Bank and PwC and witnessed first-hand some of the wellbeing & inclusion issues that need to be tackled in the corporate world. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/13980683

Solo Episode - my thoughts in uncertain times 04/16/2020

Solo Episode - my thoughts in uncertain times This is a solo episode. First time I record on my iPad, and I hope the quality is ok. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/13934498

Supply Chain and Returns in uncertain times 04/02/2020

Supply Chain and Returns in uncertain times In this week’s podcast I welcome Al Gerrie who is the Founder and CEO of ZigZag Global, a software solution to help e-commerce retailers manage returns domestically and globally. We recorded this at the peak internet time during the first week of national office closures due to the Corona virus, and unfortunately the connection dropped a few time. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/13727564

Leadership in unprecedented times 03/19/2020

Leadership in unprecedented times My podcast this week is with a former colleague and friend Luis Esteban. Not often do I ask colleagues to be on the podcast, but after meeting Luis Esteban last year, we just hit it off and have so many things in common. Luis is now CEO of Initiative Spain, and I moved on too. His Twitter handle is @lesteban /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/13555172

Retaining Talent 03/05/2020

Retaining Talent Meeting Wasim opened my eyes to Learning and Development in organisations and the role it plays for retaining the right talent. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/13338758

Trust your gut or not - all about executive decision making 02/20/2020

Trust your gut or not - all about executive decision making In this week’s episode I welcome Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. We recorded it on a Friday night without having had a chance to talk about his topic in great detail before. What attracted me to Gleb's profile is that he is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgement errors - widely known as cognitive biases. So his expertise is around decision making and gut instinct, and actually not relying on your gut instinct. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/13151411

Start Being Yourself - Turn fear into confidence 02/06/2020

Start Being Yourself - Turn fear into confidence Barbara is a coach, spiritual mentor, thought leader and public speaker. After facing several challenges in life and surviving stage 4 skin cancer at the age of 32, she decided to live her second life at the fullest. In this episode she shares her story of success. She also wrote a book, founded an online school, gives talks and inspires people to deeply transform their lives. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/12973550

Compassionate Leadership 01/23/2020

Compassionate Leadership This anniversary episode is with Manley Hopkinson who has a number of strings to his bow; as an internationally acclaimed and admired inspirational speaker, as a mentor, coach and catalyst for personal, team & organisational transformation, as an accomplished author and as an Executive Board member. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/12807824

Let go of that fear of letting go 01/09/2020

Let go of that fear of letting go I interviewed Sidar Ok, an executive coach and renowned independent management consultant in IT strategy, and founder of IQoach. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/12592439

Living with Cancer 12/12/2019

Living with Cancer Interviewing Andy Nobbs was an honour. Andy and I worked together, and I always enjoyed his management style. Down to earth, a very active person, a family man and full of life. I am not only saying this. He used to go sailing and running, and his whole family was involved. On the other hand we went for long media lunches, had fun in Cannes and at dmexco. He was razor sharp from a business perspective, the prize always in mind. We had so much in common, and we still do, and shared so many experiences. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/12295817

Success through Health 11/28/2019

Success through Health The conversation is with Payal Mehta who was a GP for over 9 years! She has now founded her own business, a health clinic, called Nirmana Life. She is guiding her patients in understanding the root causes of chronic illnesses. This conversation is not all about ‘business success’ but about success and looking at it in a more holistic way of health. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/12075323

How to win clients on LinkedIn as a coach 11/14/2019

How to win clients on LinkedIn as a coach I hardly laughed as much as with Catherine B. Roy in my latest episode of Stories of Success. She is just so much fun, I think I need to have her back for another chat sometime very soon. So we started with a great laugh (literally, if you tune in). We talk about coaching, personal change, and social media strategies! /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/11961413

I am a hard working executive coach - lessons for CEOs 10/31/2019

I am a hard working executive coach - lessons for CEOs Stephen Gribben joined me in this podcast episode to discuss his career of over 30 years as an executive coach. He has coached numerous C-Level executives and explains how, as a new coach, you can win new clients; how do you position yourself and of course, how do you become more successful as a person and C-Level executive. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/11789537

If you can’t fully recover, you cannot fully adapt. 10/17/2019

If you can’t fully recover, you cannot fully adapt. Claire’s definition about success is about being able to build a life that brings her closer to her family and being healthy; she believes that the rat race of going up and up and up a career ladder, will eventually lead to burnout if it lacks meaning, and things might suddenly change; we discuss her view on the classic career and how subjective the view on success really is. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/11603093

Find your why in life, and laugh along the way! 10/03/2019

Find your why in life, and laugh along the way! I have known James Briscoe for many years, and I am delighted he joined me for this episode. We recorded this episode at the height of summer, and it turned into an amazing fun chat with a friend; which I am certain brings value and joy to you as you listen along. /episode/index/show/storiesofsuccess/id/11428802

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