Guest: Jonathan Bennett: Advisor and Executive Coach

In this episode, Jonathan will discuss how, when implementing major organizational changes such as mergers, leaders should be prepared for a full range of employee reactions–from denial, to excitement, to anger.

For Jonathan, effective leadership through change properly acknowledges these emotions and engages in clear, frequent communication that explains both what will change and what will remain the same in the new organization. It’s a difficult time for many. Including the founders or owners or C Suite team–who are on their own emotional path of change.

For some it’s the closing of a chapter, or the grief of letting go of something they nurtured for many years. For others, it’s a payday and a long-hoped-for ride into the sunset. Still others are about to work under a new regime. Knowing where each person is at, and why, is key for leaders at all levels.

Join us as Jonathan unpacks this with stories and tactics grounded in his experience as a leader, founder who has exited, and sought-after executive coach.

Jonathan Bennett is an advisor and executive coach for purpose-driven leaders who need help solving their organization’s toughest obstacles. With experience in urban, rural, remote, and First Nations communities, His coaching draws on 25 years of creativity and leadership success as a CEO, board member, and founder, and he is known for his deep-listening and his breakthrough solutions that create insights and new strategies.

Join us as we discuss navigating the merger or acquisition of your company.

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Radio Show #572: Navigating the Emotional Journey of a Merger or Acquisition

Guests: Emma Bridger

Despite 20 plus years of focusing on employee engagement, we have seen little improvement – according to some studies employees are actually less engaged today than they have ever been!

Why?

Because we need to focus on intentionally designing experiences that deliver engagement, rather than focusing on engagement as an end in its own right. This starts by asking and understanding what a great EX looks and feels like.

In this session, Emma Bridger and Lee Smith, share the findings of People Lab research spanning more than 15 years which answers that seemingly simple question, along with a simple, practical, but powerful tool that will enable you to discover what will make the difference in your own organisation

Bought to life with real world stories about what makes a great experience at work and informed by robust research and the cutting-edge EX thinking, you’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of the components of great EX and a powerful approach you can deploy to kick-start your organisation’s journey towards it.

The world of work has changed – we’re now in the era of EX and we invite you to come along to this session as we share the tools and insights to transform workplaces into vibrant hubs of excellence.

Join us as we discuss why engagement levels are still struggling—or even declining

Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show 579: Revolutionise Your Workplace

Guest: Aang Lakey: Speaker, coach and advocate

Aang Lakey (they/them) is an internationally recognized speaker, coach, and advocate specializing in the integration of leadership, equity, and consciousness to advance social change. With a background in social work, violence prevention, and organizational development, Aang equips leaders with tools to navigate challenges and foster equitable, collaborative environments. Aang brings a unique blend of lived experience and professional expertise to their work and advocates for integrating consciousness practices—such as reflexivity, intentionality, and congruence—into leadership to create equitable, human-centered workplaces.

Many organizations talk about diversity and inclusion, but when engagement strategies aren’t built on equity, employees from marginalized groups often face invisible barriers to participation, contribution, and leadership. Leaders must go beyond policy-based DEI efforts and focus on everyday practices that foster a culture of inclusion. This includes recognizing the intersectionality of employee experiences and how factors like race, gender, neurodiversity, and socioeconomic background shape engagement. When leaders become conscious of these dynamics, they can create more adaptive and supportive environments where employees feel seen and valued.

Join us as we discuss how factors like race, gender, neurodiversity and socioeconomic background shape engagement.

Host: Jo Moffatt

Radio Show 584 Equity as the Foundation for a Thriving Workplace

Guest: Chris Hood, NeuroBridge

As awareness of neurodiversity continues to grow, so too does the responsibility for organisations to create truly inclusive environments—ones where neurodivergent individuals are not just accommodated, but empowered to thrive.

In this episode of Engage for Success Radio, we’re joined by Chris Hood, Partner at NeuroBridge. Chris is passionate about helping businesses build neuroinclusive cultures that unlock potential, drive innovation, and create a deeper sense of belonging. His work is fuelled by his own personal journey, including a late ADHD diagnosis that has given him firsthand insight into both the challenges and opportunities of being neurodivergent in today’s workplaces.

Together, we’ll explore what neurodiversity really means, why it’s becoming an increasingly important conversation for employers, and the practical steps organisations and line managers can take to foster greater neuroinclusivity. We’ll also unpack the challenges that neurodivergent individuals face—and crucially, the powerful benefits that come when companies get this right.

Join us as we dive into how embracing neurodiversity isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s a strategic advantage for organisations willing to lead the way.

Host: Andy Goram

Radio Show #587: Championing Neuroinclusivity in the Workplace

Guest: Valeria Winkworth: EY Director| Technology-led Transformation Expert

Dr. Valeria Winkworth is a recognised change leader with a passion for driving human-centred transformation to create a working world of equitable opportunities open to all. A Doctor in Medicinal Chemistry by background, Valeria has been a STEM professional throughout her career, working closely with Executive Directors from leading global corporations across a spectrum of industries, including pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, and utilities. Her work focuses on technology-led business transformations and workplace of the future strategies, with expertise in Change Leadership and Organisational Design. A lead-author of multiple high-impact scientific papers and thought leadership pieces and a dynamic and passionate presenter, Dr. Winkworth has attended numerous international conferences and has been a featured guest on a variety of podcasts, where she’s shared her experience in delivering successful end-to-end large scale transformations.

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, successful and continuous transformation is imperative for survival. EY’s new research, conducted in collaboration with Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, reveals that the key to transformation success lies in understanding and addressing human emotions. Leaders who prioritise workforce emotions and human behaviours are 2.6 times more likely to achieve success. But what to do when things go wrong? There is a moment in almost every transformation when the programme goes off course and leaders intervene. We refer to these moments as ‘turning points’. How leaders plan for them and respond to them can make or break the entire transformation. Dr Valeria Winkworth shares insights from nearly 1,000 senior leaders, direct reports, and over 1,000 workforce members across 23 countries and 16 industries to reveal how skillfully navigating these turning points by placing humans at the center can increase the chance of a transformation significantly, improving performance by up to 12 times.
Join us as we discuss the key to transformational success.

Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #589: How Leaders Plan for ‘Turning Points’

Special Guests: Matt Tenney, The Generous Group

Matt Tenney envisions a world in which all leaders and workplace cultures consistently make a positive impact on the wellbeing and growth of team members. He is the author of three leadership books, including Inspire Greatness: How to Motivate Employees with a Simple, Repeatable, Scalable Process, and his inspiring TED talk has been viewed over 1 million times. Since 2014, Matt has delivered programs that help develop world-class leaders, who improve engagement, retention, and performance, to hundreds of clients, including companies like Salesforce, T. Rowe Price, Roche, Marriott, Keller Williams, United Airlines, L’Oreal, Canon and Signet Jewelers.

 Join us as we talk about how to hit big organisational goals while still having a great workplace culture with a simple approach to improving performance management.

Host: Andy Goram

Radio Show #591 Hit Big Organisational Goals with a Great Workplace Culture

Guest: Tim Pointer: Operating Partner at Three Hills

Tim Pointer is Operating Partner at Three Hills, working as a portfolio Chief People Officer across Three Hills’ group of investments. Tim creates organisational value through select people strategies covering talent, organisational design, learning & development, performance data, reward and governance. He has held global Chief People Officer roles in a breadth of sectors including brand & talent management (Creative Artists Agency); fashion, sports & retail (Pentland; Diesel); health (Nelsons); technology (Currys); and liquor & wine (Beam Suntory). Tim is fascinated by organisational culture and co-founded the Business Culture Awards & Business Culture Connected community in 2015.

Tim is passionate about accelerating organisational performance by strengthening purpose; clarifying strategy & measurement; designing structure; aligning talent; and enhancing business culture. The work Tim has led has been recognised by the CIPD Awards (Overall Winner) and Great Place to Work (Top 10), and he was recognised by the readers of HR Magazine as the UK’s 3rd most influential HR leader in 2024. Tim is currently recording ‘Powered by People’ a Three Hills business podcast, focussed on people strategies that lead business transformation, that will launch this autumn.

Tim has lived and worked in EMEA; the US; and Asia-Pacific. He studied executive coaching at Hult Ashridge International Business School and is an alumnus of the University of York, Lancaster University and London Business School. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. Tim is an FA football coach and can be found on the touchline most Sunday mornings.

Tim has been a supporter of Engage for Success since attending the launch event in 2012. In this conversation Tim explores how business transformation accelerates organisational performance drawing upon his work at private equity firm Three Hills; the case studies gathered by 10 years of the Business Culture Awards (that he co-founded in 2015); and how he is drawing these experiences together in a new business podcast, ‘Powered by People’. Tim’s experience as Operating Partner, Founder and Chief People Officer covers multiple geographies, sectors and market contexts, but he sees the same playbook consistently delivering business success. Tim explores how intentional and winning business cultures strengthen purpose, clarify strategy & measurement, design structure & accountability, embrace technology, embed governance, build capability and align talent. Tim demonstrated how this requires multi-stakeholder engagement, encompassing colleagues, customers, investors, partners and the community.

Join us as we discuss how intentional and winning business cultures strengthen purpose.


Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #592 How Business Transformation Accelerates Organisational Performance

Special Guests: Dr Sarah Pass and James Court-Smith Join us to hear the initial findings from the Engage for Success Employee Engagement 2025 survey.

This is the third Engage for Success national survey, established to examine the current state of employee engagement in the UK. We will be discussing the EFS Employee Engagement Index and the 2025 UK engagement benchmark.

Listen as we reflect on variations in engagement levels according to organisational size, sector, and the level of action (or inaction) in organisational practice.

We will be discussing how stagnant engagement levels are starting to improve, but are still significantly below pre-pandemic levels; Engagement levels are significantly affected by an organisation’s actions – or inaction; and how there are significant variations in engagement, particularly among individuals with long-term health conditions, neurodivergence and protected characteristics.

Dr Sarah Pass is a senior lecturer undertaking research related to employee experience and engagement and teaching at a postgraduate and executive level. Sarah is a member of the Engage for Success Advisory Board, sits on the steering group, chairs the East Midlands Area Network, the Line Managers TAG, the Engagement Champion TAG, and co-project lead for the EFS annual survey.

In 2023, Sarah was ranked by HR Magazine as an Influential Thinker in HR. She is a Fellow of the RSA, an Academic Associate of the CIPD, and a member of the British Academy of Management.

James Court-Smith leads Stillae Ltd – helping companies make sense of the data they collect, and put it to profitable use, across multiple industries in Europe.

He chairs the Engage for Success Steering Group and is a member of the Advisory Board. James is the co-project lead for the EFS annual survey and is a Visting Fellow at Nottingham Business School.

Join us as we discuss the variations in engagement levels according to organisational size, sector, and the level of action (or inaction) in organisational practice.

Host: Jo Moffatt

Radio Show #593 The Latest EFS Engagement Survey 2025

Guest: Sophie Allington, Head of People Operational Excellence, Ocado Group

Sophie leads a team of HR Product Experts focused on HR tooling and global HR and Finance processes, as well as governance, compliance, and risk.

With a background in Talent Acquisition and HR transformation, Sophie has led large teams across the public and private sectors. She is passionate about workplace equity and chairs Ocado’s Parents and Carers Community.

Join us as we discuss the vital role that parents and carers communities play within corporate environments, not just as support networks, but as influential voices in shaping policies and workplace culture.

Sophie will share her experience of negotiating the balance between influencing formal policy change and simply “doing the right thing.” Drawing from her experience chairing Ocado’s Parents and Carers Committee, she’ll discuss where they have seen the most impact from events, what they have heard from the voices in their community, and where they have seen challenges.

Host: Jo Moffatt

Radio Show #595: The Vital Role of Parents and Carers Communities

When you become a manager you are expected to motivate people, but no-one tells you how to do it. In this show, we discuss the practical actions you can take to motivate the individuals in your team. You’ll find out how to meet their needs for autonomy, competence and connection at work, and how this makes a positive difference to their well-being too. You’ll pick up tips on how to build their persistence and resilience. We’ll also delve into leadership style, and the impact of different styles on other people.   You’ll discover how to flex your style to build more effective connections.

As a Leadership Coach, Team Consultant and Type Practitioner, Catherine has coached hundreds of managers to develop their leadership skills, facilitated many teams to develop high performance ways of working and enabled clients to improve their relationships through understanding personality type.

She lived overseas for several years and this was a life-enhancing experience and really opened her eyes to human behaviour and cultural differences. Her work has continued with this underlying theme of behavioural change and personal development ever since.

Join us as we discuss how to motivate people.

Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #596: How to Motivate and Connect with Others

Guest: Shell Mendelson: Career Coach

Shell Mendelson is a seasoned career coach with over 30 years of experience, specializing in supporting adults with ADHD. She helps individuals navigate career transitions, uncover their true strengths, and build fulfilling careers without forcing themselves into neurotypical molds. Shell’s approach is deeply personal, rooted in her own journey with ADHD, and is designed to empower clients to work with their brains—not against them.

In addition to her individual coaching, Shell leverages her expertise to guide businesses in effectively supporting ADHD employees, aiming to prevent the need for PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) programs. By offering practical insights on creating supportive work environments, Shell helps organizations save time and money while boosting the resilience and productivity of their workforce. She encourages businesses to take a proactive, inclusive approach that better aligns with the strengths of neurodivergent individuals, ultimately fostering a more motivated and engaged team.

Through her Your Next Career Move MasterClass and one-on-one coaching, Shell provides ADHD-friendly strategies that go beyond surface-level advice, equipping individuals with tools to build confidence, clarity, and direction in their careers. Shell is on a mission to transform the way career coaching and workplace policies are approached for the ADHD community, advocating for more supportive practices that prioritize empowerment over punitive measures.

Shelley distinguishes herself by not just coaching career strategies but also advising on how to create ADHD-friendly work environments. She understands that external factors, such as workspace design and daily routines, can significantly impact ADHD professionals. On this podcast, Shelley will share practical insights on how to arrange physical spaces and incorporate tools like digital reminders and focus-enhancing techniques to improve productivity. Her goal is to help clients optimize their surroundings and routines to reduce distractions, improve focus, and foster creativity, making work a place of flow rather than frustration.

Join us as we discuss ADHD friendly work environments

Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #599 Designing ADHD-Friendly Work Environments

Guest: Erika Wasser: CEO and Founder of Prospr

Erika Wasser is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prospr, a workforce management platform built specifically for deskless workers in industries like retail, hospitality, and franchises. With a background in operational efficiency and employee engagement, Erika is passionate about leveraging technology to streamline workforce management and improve retention in high-turnover industries.

In this episode, Erika will dive into:
How franchises can improve employee retention through better workforce management strategies.

The role of technology in streamlining operations for brick-and-mortar businesses.

Strategies to engage and empower deskless employees in industries facing high turnover.

Join us as we discuss employee retention strategies

Host: Andy Goram

Radio Show #602 Employee Retention Strategies

Guest: Marina Bezuglova: Expert in Customer and Employee Experience

The biggest threat to business success isn’t market volatility or economic downturns—it’s the employee disengagement and mental health crisis happening inside organisations right now. With global employee engagement at just 23% and burnout affecting nearly half of workers worldwide, Gallup estimates that $9.6 trillion in productivity could be added to the global economy if workplaces were fully engaged—equivalent to 9% of global GDP. Yet most leaders continue to look externally for growth opportunities whilst ignoring the untapped potential within their own organisations. As Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

In this episode, we’ll explore:
From External to Internal Growth: How my journey from market research to human psychology revealed that the biggest growth opportunities lie within your existing team
The Hidden Impact of Mental Health on Business Performance: How employee wellbeing directly affects strategy implementation and bottom-line results
The Six Organisational Factors of Burnout: Understanding workload, reward, community, fairness, values, and control—plus the individual factors that leaders must address
From Burnout to Purpose: Moving employees through the hierarchy of needs—from basic security to self-actualisation and finding meaning in work
Why Empathetic Managers Prevent Burnout: The contagious nature of burnout and how coaching-based leadership creates resilient teams
Three Pillars of Human-Centric Culture: Teaching empathy as a core skill, building recognition systems, and amplifying employee voice

Dr. Marina Bezuglova is a PhD in Medicine, certified coach, and expert in Customer and Employee Experience (CX/EX). With over 20 years in senior leadership roles at global research companies GfK and Ipsos, she has witnessed firsthand how organisational crises—from M&A disruptions to pandemic challenges—reveal the critical link between employee wellbeing and business performance.

Marina coaches leaders and organisations internationally to build wellbeing-focused, human-centred cultures that drive sustainable success. Author of “Balancing on the Edge” (published June 2025) and “Finding Serenity Amid the Chaos,” Marina’s work bridges neuroscience, psychology, and practical leadership strategy. She serves on the judging panel for the International Customer Experience Awards (ICXA) and was longlisted for a national mental health book prize in Russia.

Her mission is simple: helping organisations understand that when you take care of people, they take care of business—and when business thrives, everyone wins.

Join us as we discuss employee disengagement and the mental health crisis happening inside organisations

Host: Andy Goram

Radio Show #603 Why Human-Centric Business is the Future of Sustainable Success

Guest: Jennifer Sproul: Chief Executive: Institute of Internal Communication

Jennifer Sproul is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC), the only independent professional body solely dedicated to internal communication. She leads IoIC’s efforts in setting standards and advancing the profession through qualifications, career development, thought leadership, and best practices.

A passionate advocate for the value of internal communication, Jennifer is a regular speaker and co-hosts the podcast ‘The Future of Internal Communication’.

With over 20 years of experience in professional associations, Jennifer has led strategic efforts across marketing, communications (internal and external), membership, professional development, and publishing.

In this episode, Jennifer unpacks the latest findings from the IC Index 2025, revealing key trends, challenges, and opportunities straight from employees themselves. What’s working, what’s not, and how can organisations adapt to build trust, boost engagement, retain talent and garner advocacy?

Tune in to discover the insights that could transform your internal communication strategy.
Join us as we discuss how organisations can adapt to boost engagement.

Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #604 How do employees really feel about internal communication in 2025

Guest: Gary Geogh: Leadership Coach

Gary Keogh holds an MBA from the University of Bath and a Masters (MSc) in Coaching and Behavioural Change from Henley Business School. His 27-year career in two FTSE100 and two family-owned businesses includes 11 years on various boards. His Masters dissertation explored six decades of empirical evidence on psychological safety in the context of the workplace, alongside his own research. Today he dedicates his efforts to supporting leaders build psychological safety, unlocking the potential within individuals, teams and organisations. He is currently working with FMCG, creative industry, professional services and elite sporting businesses.

2 in 5 colleagues in a meeting are not speaking up about ideas, risks, or asking questions & talking about mistakes to learn. This means organisations are missing out on insights, opportunities and colleagues. And colleagues in unsafe environments become demotivated and excluded leading to higher staff turnover. Psychological Safety is the ability to express oneself without fear of reprisal – we worry less about losing face/status and focus on the task in hand. It brings diverse perspectives, better decision making, higher engagement and performance. Countless studies provide irrefutable evidence teams with psychological safety are 60% more likely to turn today’s complex business challenges into growth opportunities (PWC).

Psychological safety is not about guaranteed applause for all ideas or everyone being nice – it’s about creating a candid energising environment where debate, vulnerability, diverse thinking, and contributions are welcomed for better decision-making, higher performance, and increased engagement. Challenge: 70% of leaders overestimate how psychologically safe their teams are and only 26% of leaders have the skills to create psychological safety (McKinsey)

Good news: leaders do not need to guess – you can measure psychological safety, in minutes and start the work on the behaviour changes required to reap the rewards. And there is no civil war between psychological safety and accountability – you can have both.

Join us as we discuss psychological safety.

Host: Jo Moffatt

Radio Show #605 Psychological Safety

Guest: Leando Herrero: Psychiatrist, Author and Organisational Architect

While countless ‘fads’ have come and gone over the past 25 years, culture has always been there… neglected and misunderstood due to its commercialisation. Over the years, culture has been carved up and served to organisations – usually via tech and/or training firms – via a platter of ‘labels’ (from DEI, ESG and Wellbeing, to Employee Engagement and Experience). These labels only serve to place a border on a ‘part’ of culture, effectively creating an entity; something segregated from the whole so effectively that interdependencies and underpinnings become lost. In turn, large-scale change simply doesn’t happen. Nothing moves on. A case of failure of management? Potentially. A sad state of affairs? Definitely.

In this interview, Dr Leandro Herrero – psychiatrist, author and organisational architect, says all these things are important, but it’s time to stop the labels and start focusing on the whole – the real oil in the engine: namely people and their behaviour. This year represents 25 years since Dr Herrero pioneered Viral Change™️. In doing so, he bridged behavioural science with hands-on strategies to create lasting, real-world impact for organisations. He’s seen lots of ‘fads’ come and go over those 25 years, but he’s also overseen real change for organisations worldwide.

Join us as we discuss stopping the labels.

Host: Jo Moffatt

Radio Show #606 25 Years of Cultural Change & Transformation

Guest: Sergey Gorbatov: Talent & Leadership Strategist

Sergey Gorbatov is a professor at IE University, an academic, author, and consultant specializing in talent management, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness. With a PhD from VU Amsterdam, Sergey has spent over 18 years in corporate HR roles with global companies like Shell, Philip Morris International, and AbbVie, living and working across Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA. His thought leadership combines cutting-edge research with real-world application, making complex concepts accessible to general audiences. Sergey’s books, including Move Up or Move On and Fair Talk: Three Steps to Powerful Feedback, aim to empower individuals and organizations to thrive through meaningful and practical insights.

In this episode, we will be discussing insights from our latest book, Move Up or Move On: 10 Secrets to Develop Your Career, which offers a clear blueprint for career development and intentional career planning. The book is designed to help individuals take control of their professional growth, pursue a career on their own terms, and master the ten essential behaviors for success at work. The conversation will center around empowering listeners to reflect on their personal definition of success and how to achieve it, grounded in science and brought to life with practical advice and memorable examples.

Join us as we discuss empowering listeners to reflect on success.

Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #607 Move Up or Move On

Radio Show #608 Redefining Engagement Through Freedom

Guest: Ryne Sherman: Chief Science Officer at Hogan Assessments

Ryne is the chief science officer at Hogan Assessments. In this role, he is responsible for managing the primary functions within Hogan’s industry-leading data science department, including talent analytics, product innovation, business intelligence, and Hogan’s research archive and infrastructure.

Ryne’s research in personality has examined the role of personality in daily life, career pursuits and workplace performance, and the assessment and measurement of personality and individual differences. Ryne is also an expert on modern approaches to personality assessment, including unobtrusive assessment, such as voice prosody, word use, and affective responses to stimuli. He is also in an expert in data analytics, including the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in conjunction with personality assessment.

Prior to joining Hogan, Ryne was a professor of psychology at Texas Tech University and Florida Atlantic University, where he was recognized as the FAU College of Science Distinguished Teacher of the Year in 2013. His research on the psychological properties of situations and their interaction with personality was awarded federal support from the National Science Foundation, and in 2016 he was named an APS Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. In addition, he received the SAGE Young Scholars Award in 2018 for his research concerning person-situation transactions and how people navigate their social worlds on a daily basis.

In this episode, he’ll discuss the decline of ‘quiet quitting’. We’ve entered a new era of bold exits, where frustrated employees aren’t just handing in their notice—they’re making sure it’s heard loud and clear. According to a survey by Software Finder, 17% of employees have revenge quit in the past and 4% of employees plan to do so in 2025. Welcome to the world of revenge quitting, where top talent walks away not in silence, but with impact.

While nearly half of all employees are frustrated with their salary, revenge quitting isn’t only about pay. It’s also about broken promises, toxic leadership, and a chronic lack of genuine engagement. The traditional methods of dangling perks and performance reviews are falling flat. Why? Because today’s workforce is driven by purpose, flexibility, and psychological safety—none of which can be solved by a ping-pong table or free snacks.

Join us as we discuss exiting with a bang

Host: TBC

Radio Show #609 Revenge Quitting The Workplace Wake-Up Call No One Saw Coming

Guest: Adrian Kelly: Author

Irish author Adrian Kelly originally trained and practised as a Criminal Solicitor. Since then, he has had a number of careers from entrepreneurial work in the renewable energy industry to business training and consultancy services with big law firms and governmental agencies.

He has lectured and been an external examiner at the Law Society of Ireland and is currently undertaking a Master’s Degree in Performance Psychology (University in Wales). He regularly speaks at business conferences and wellness events on the subjects ranging from motivation, performance to life direction. He also works closely with a number of secondary schools, pioneering Dragon’s Den programs competitions for students and overseeing a college scholarship program. In other voluntary work is also the Chairperson of the Peace Link Sports Complex, Clones.

More recently he has authored a non-fiction book on behavioural science and performance psychology called The Success Complex which became an Amazon best seller in October 2024.

Join us as we discuss the building blocks of life and the path to sustained success

Host: Andy Goram

Radio Show #611 The Success Complex

Guest: Zena Everett: Business Speaker and Executive Coach

Zena Everett is an international business speaker and executive coach, helping people to elevate their careers in a crazy busy, noisy world. She has published three books: Mind Flip: Take the Fear out of Your Career, the award-winning Crazy Busy Cure and Badly Behaved People, WH Smith’s Travel Business Book of the Month.

Originally a recruitment entrepreneur, Zena exited her business and then studied an MSc in Organisational Psychology and Career Management and other post graduate qualifications in psychological coaching and leadership, including at MIT’s Sloan Business School in Boston. She has coached on the Executive MBA Programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, is a member of the Associate Faculty at Henley Business School and a regular speaker for the prestigious London Business Forum. Zena divides her time between her homes in London and West Cork and wherever her work takes her.

We are going to talk about Zena’s latest book, ‘Badly Behaved People’. This book is a series of case studies from Zena’s coaching practice. It dissects familiar tricky workplace relationships, such as the ‘mother hen manager’ who is overly protective to their team and won’t give feedback, the hotshot colleague who only does ‘wow’ pieces of work leaving his colleagues to pick up the slack and the underperforming high performer who has become overwhelmed because they can’t say no. Apart from one classic toxic manager, none of these people are badly behaved, they are just struggling in the context they find themselves in. Zena blends theory and practice in the case studies that we can draw on if we find ourselves in similar scenarios. (We might even be the cause of them.)

Join us as we discuss how to deal with badly behaved people at work.

Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #612 Badly Behaved People

Guest: Antonio Weiss: AI Digital and Technology Expert

Antonio Weiss is an AI, digital and technology expert. He has advised leading UK and international institutions on major technology transformation including the NHS, Office for Artificial Intelligence, UK Government Digital Service and UK Space Agency via his role as a Senior Partner at The PSC.

His written work has been shortlisted for the CMI Book of the Year Award, a #1 UK WHSmith Business Bestseller, won the Business Book of the Month award, and been translated into several languages across the globe. He has a PhD from the University of London and holds a research post at the Bennett School of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, focusing on digitisation.

Antonio is regularly featured in the media discussing his work, having appeared on the BBC, ABC News, The Guardian and others. Antonio is a three-times elected councillor in London, serving as a Cabinet Member and Group Chair. He was a Governor at a leading FE college for ten years. Antonio served as Senior Advisor on digital, data and technology to the Office of the incoming UK Prime Minister. He is also the co-founder of Thomas Clipper, a GQ-award winning UK fragrance company.

Join us as we discuss what AI means for business and society.

Host: Jo Moffatt

Radio Show #613 Demystifying AI

Guest: Clare Kenny: Leadership and Culture Consultant

Neurodivergent individuals are not a problem to be solved. They are often powerful assets that too often go untapped in the workplace. In this episode, leadership and culture consultant Clare Kenny joins us to explore what true neuro-inclusion looks like, drawing on her work with organisations including Channel 4, KPMG and Burberry along with her own lived experience of ADHD.

Through honest conversation and practical insight, Clare unpacks how leaders can build environments where neurodivergent individuals feel safe, seen and supported.
We will also explore how inclusive leadership benefits everyone, why psychological safety matters more than ever, and how workplaces can better support parents and carers of neurodivergent children.

Join us as we discuss neurodiversity in the workplace.

Host: Andy Goram

Radio Show #614 Why Neurodivergent Brains Are Good for Business

Guest: Louisa Hogarty- Group HR Director and Non Executive Director

What does it take to transform workplace culture in one of Britain’s toughest sectors? Louisa will share how Noble Foods, a fourth-generation family business achieved something remarkable: consistent improvement across all eight pillars of employee engagement while navigating the agrifood industry’s perfect storm of skills shortages, an ageing workforce, and mounting pressure for sustainability.

Noble Foods reduced colleague turnover from 62% to 35%, increased their Best Companies Index score by over 20 points, and returned to profitability—all while their people reported higher engagement than ever before. But this isn’t a story about quick fixes or expensive programs.

It’s about systematic cultural change built on listening, investing in people at every level, and ensuring that purpose and performance go hand in hand. Louisa will share how Noble Foods embedded their TO CARE values across every site, developed leaders from within, created genuine belonging, and proved that in challenging times, culture becomes your greatest competitive advantage.

Join us as we discuss Cultural Transformation.

Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #615 – From 62% Turnover to Award-Winning Culture

Guest: David Frost: Group People & Organisational Development Director at Dole Plc

David’s career started in automotive component manufacturing after he graduated with a degree in manufacturing engineering. After a period specialising in quality management and continuous improvement he became a Chartered Engineer and then went on to complete a master’s degree at Loughborough University in quality and human resource management. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

He is passionate about building highly-engaged organisations and he decided to move his career into human resources, organisation development, people strategy and talent development. He has held executive and board-level HR roles in international businesses such as Carlsberg and Norbert Dentressangle (now XPO Logistics).

David is currently People and Organisational Development Director at Dole plc, the world’s largest fresh produce supplier with 40,000 people operating out of 30 countries. He reports to the CEO and is responsible for group people strategy, organisation design, succession planning and talent development. Since joining the company in early 2017, David has been involved with several strategic initiatives including designing and implementing a group people strategy in addition to being part of the process of listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange.

David has been designing and establishing global talent development programmes. At Dole, David has been fortunate in having the opportunity to lead the strategy to establish their global programme (called the Key Talent Programme or KTP). This has been running since 2018, with 7 cohorts and 120 participants taking part. Dole partners with Cranfield University and other providers and the KTP has now won 2 awards. David will talk about how these programmes add value to the organisation and how you gain buy-in.

Join us as we discuss the design and implementation of global development programmes

Host: Andy Goram

Radio Show #616 Designing and Establishing Global Talent Development Programmes

Special Guest: Lei Wang :🎙️Leadership Speaker

A former corporate professional turned adventurer, Lei now works as a leadership speaker and executive coach helping individuals and teams unlock bold ambition and resilience in the face of uncertainty.

In this episode, Lei will share actionable strategies for building mental strength, shifting perspective in adversity, and reigniting motivation when challenges seem overwhelming.

Drawing from both high-altitude extremes and boardroom dynamics, Lei will deliver powerful insights on how to reframe discomfort, find meaning in effort, and lead with courage when the path ahead feels unclear.

Join us as we discuss Lei’s experience climbing the highest peak on each continent and skiing to both the North and South Poles.

Host: Jo Moffatt

Radio Show #618 Finding Excitement in Adversity – Practical Tools to Embrace Challenge and Build Mental Strength

Giles Miskin, MD of The Colour Works and Speaker of the Year 2013 at the Academy of Chief Executives

Although investing in improving staff engagement levels makes obvious sense, and the 4 enablers signpost a way to achieving them, we can’t ignore the fact that we’re all different and, even within our own team, may have a very different understanding of what it means to be engaging and to feel engaged.

Diversity within teams is of course part of what makes them successful – different skills, perspectives, experiences and opinions all make decision-making more robust – but it can also cause misunderstanding, frustration and stress.

Giles is MD of The Colour Works, a learning and development company specialising in engagement and the largest UK distributor of the Insights Discovery profiling system, and he shares with us some of the trials and tribulations of turning behavioural diversity from a potential engagement blocker to a core team strength.

Show #130: How Engaging Are You?!

Special Guests: Lindsay McGhie, Managing Director of 3P & Trevor Norman, Customer Relationship Director of 3P

One of the four enablers of engagement is Engaging Managers. This role is pivotal in driving employee engagement; according to Gallup “The line manager relationship is the most important work-based relationship for all of us and has been found to effect up to 70% variability in engagement levels”.

Front line managers, who typically account for 5% of the whole organisation, have an influence on the other 95%. This is why, at 3P, we consider the impact of this group of key influencers the ‘Power of 95’.

Engagement is relevant at all levels of the organisation; from leadership, to management, to the workforce.

As a business leader, do your key influencers have the required competencies to manage and influence effectively?

As a manager, do you understand the key drivers to engage your teams?

As an employee, does your manager have the awareness and understanding to meet your expectations to engage you in the business?

Based on the 4 Key Drivers of Engagement; Growth, Recognition, Communication and Trust, from New York Times best-selling author Kevin Kruse’s Employee Engagement 2.0, we have developed an Engaging Manager framework to benchmark 10 essential behavioural traits.

Join us as we discuss the 10 essential traits, the Power of 95 and the impact on employee engagement.

Host:Jo Moffatt

Show #206: The Power of 95 and the 10 Essential Traits of an Engaging Manager

Special Guest: Sian Jones, Head of Internal Communications, Bank of England

Sian has been Head of Internal Communications at the Bank of England for just over three years. Prior to that, she worked in a variety of internal and external communications roles in central Government and the voluntary sector. She juggles full time work with her role as an adult bench magistrate in East London.

Join us as we share the story of how the Bank of England implemented their internal social media platform to drive adoption and engagement. They worked in close partnership with their technology team to ensure the project worked well. We’ll also be talking about their Digital Ninjas network and the power of advocacy in driving change.

Host: Jo Moffatt

Show #305: How the Bank of England Engages Their People through Social Media

Special Guest: Joe España – Executive Consultant and Coach at Performance Equations

Despite much effort and energy devoted to employee engagement, the level of fully engaged employees remains relatively flat globally.  This is despite evidence to show how employee engagement affects turnover, productivity, absenteeism, customer satisfaction, business growth and profitability. Traditionally it’s been seen as a top-down approach, typically instigated by HR professionals through an annual employee survey of some kind.  Despite the data, not much has shifted in the last 10 years.  More recent focus has started to ask what can team leaders and managers throughout an organisation actually do to create the circumstances for great employee engagement. In this conversation, we’ll explore the practical things managers can do to boost engagement and affect a more successful and psychologically satisfying workplace.

Joe Espana is an executive consultant and coach as well as a student of employee engagement.  He’s worked internationally with global brands focusing on culture shaping, leadership transformation and employee experience.  He has a particular interest in employee engagement as the most significant contributor to business success.

Join us as we discuss what managers can actually do about employee engagement.

Host:  Jo Moffatt

Radio Show #340: Employee Engagement: What Can a Manager Actually Do About It?

We are a growing, dynamic, voluntary movement promoting employee engagement as a better way to work that benefits individual employees, teams and whole organisations.

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