Marta is a member of our German business. She talks about her bisexuality, telling her family, and how business can support the LGBTQIA+ community.

Pride 2021 - Marta Matejczyk talks about her bisexuality

Join Samuel Bailey and Kerrie Banaszak for a special 2022 Pride Radio show! Packed with interviews, personal experiences and LGBTQ+ quiz, this will truly complete this years Pride Month! 

We showcase our amazing NashPride members discussing everything from allyship, to first-hand transgender experiences, coming-out stories and workplace inclusion!

Nash Squared presents Pride Radio

Rhona Carmicheal is part of the global leadership team within Harvey Nash. She is working closely with 'Nash Pride', our LGBTQIA+ employee resource group.

She is an ally, and explains why supporting the Queer community matters so much to her.

Thank you Fiona Macleod and Liam Logan for helping create such a wonderful discussion!

Nash Pride welcomes Rhona Carmicheal, and she explains why being an ally matters to her

Alex Kozloff is Director of Marketing and Comms at IAB UK giving her a deep understanding of digital advertise is changing business across a range of sectors. As a member of the Drum Mobile Top 50 and Drum’s Top Women Under 30 in Digital she is a the fore-front of the new digital economy

Alex Kozloff - Interview

Founder and CEO - Babylon Health

Ali is at the forefront of tech disruption in healthcare. Launched in Feb 2015 the service covers 350,000 people. Apple recognised babylon as one of its best apps of the year in 2015. Previously Ali has founded Circle and worked at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse and has vast experience across the sector.

Ali Parsa - Interview

Dominic is an entrepreneur and member of The Maserati 100 (as published in The Sunday Times). As founder of Comtact, a member of the Leap 100 2016, he is a leading light in the field of tech, healthcare and IoT. He is passionate about embracing tech and promoting it's benefits.

TechTalks

Dominic List - Interview

Andrew is a thought leader in the Internet of Things and has had a long career in telematics with experience of fast-growth businesses. He is passionate about of the Internet of Things can transform business and give companies a cutting edge.

Andrew Yeoman - Interview

Creating work-life balance

Sarah has led campaigns for work-life balance and organisational culture change for over twenty years, including the right to request flexible working, maternity and paternity leave and fathers’ rights.

Although there have been many improvements, discrimination still leads to major loss of talent in the workplace. Technology is an enabler, but the blurred boundaries it creates can have a negative impact - particularly if there is little time for rest or quality family time. We need to rethink the dominance that work plays in our lives and how roles are designed.

The utopian image of a 9 to 5 day with increased leisure and family time has not existed for a long time, often leaving the workforce stressed, burnt out and unhappy.

In the UK, this has led to some of the lowest productivity figures in Europe. Some of this is self-imposed, fuelled by our competitive desire to succeed, but it is further exacerbated by today’s competitive, performance-led, corporate culture. If the tone at the top is wrong, this can lead to copied toxic behaviour throughout the organisation.

It takes real courage to put the brakes on and commit to changing - policies can and do play an important role.

There have been three main drivers for change over the last 20 years:

Women – demanding the right to work and have a family
Policymakers - responding through light touch legislation
Leaders – individuals who have committed to leading by example
Change has also been driven by the business case, initially to retain more women in the workforce, but now founded on the powerful evidence that greater flexibility leads to a better performing workforce.

Recent polls suggest the least happy individuals are actually Generation Y dads, who want and need to play a greater role in their children’s lives and find it hard to do so in the current culture. And anecdotal evidence suggests there is a whole generation of women who want to shift up a gear post-childrearing, with another 20 years to contribute before retirement.

The new generation coming into the workforce is also rebelling against the corporate culture formed by the baby boomers. They see the previously longed for perks as shackles and don’t necessarily want to commit for 20 years.

If they don’t like their role or employer, they will be happy to leave and move on to somewhere else.

THE INCLUSION TOOLKIT 

Interview with Sarah Jackson OBE

Ben has worked in leadership and digital marketing strategy roles for over 14 years. Now at Seedrs, the equity crowdfunding platform, he is helping shape the success of ambitious businesses across the UK.

Ben Aronsten - Interview

Christina is a senior exec with experience across the media sector. She's worked in the FT, BBC, ITV and now News UK and is well placed to discuss the evolution of the sector. During our Tech Talk she talked about talent, diversity and how a varied environment is geared to success.

Christina Scott - Interview

Jo has 16 years' experience is digital product management and development, with an expertise in product strategy. Here she talks about how product development changes from environment to environment and what the future of product might be.

Jo Wickremasinghe - Interview

Marc has been at the forefront of telco, M2M and IoT for a number of years. With companies such as EE, First Data, De La Rue and now Cisco Jasper he has worked in a sector that's at the forefront of driverless cars and smart devices.

Marc Overton - Interview

Anthony Thomson is the Founder and Chairman of Atom Bank, a bank that has is built for a digital age with an experience that is totally housed in an app. Offering fixed savers accounts and mortgages they believe that there has been a revolution in consumers attitudes towards banking in recent years, and are offering the type of services designed for those customers. Anthony is the Founder and former-Chairman of Metro Bank, regularly appears on Sky News to discuss finance and paints a fascinating picture of the fintech market during our podcast.

Tech Talks

Anthony Thomson - Interview

Paul is the Co-Founder of Cybercroissant, a consultancy to bring people together and talk about issues related to cybersecurity. Given he’s a member of Google Campus he often finds himself consulting startups, a group often more concerned with generating sales than security. However that attitude is changing!

Paul Dubourg - Interview

Shachar Bialick is Founder and CEO of Curve, a business aiming to simplify how we spend our money. Shacher has over a decade of working in startup business, developing ideas into concrete businesses. Here he shares that experience, commenting on how the wider economic environment might affect the sector, and how he plans to influence fintech.

Shachar Bialick - Interview

Tamara Lohan, MBE, is an entrepreneur and technology strategist. She started Mr & Mrs Smith as a travel publishing organisation in 2002 with her husband James. As CTO she’s led the transformation into a technology organisation at the forefront of the travel sector. In this podcast she describes that journey and where she thinks tech will take us next!

Tamara Lohan, MBE - Interview

Kevin has spent his entire career in Recruitment and Talent Acquisition. He has extensive Global experience, building and re-building teams and process to drive effective delivery across many regions and organisational structures.

In his current role he is responsible for in the region of 8,000 hire per annum covering multiple functions, lines of business and over 100 countries.

Kevin Blair - Interview

Lloyd is an entrepreneur with over 20 years building digital businesses. He is the co-founder of Zesty. Zesty was formed in 2012 and provides software to NHS trusts and hospitals. They have been nominated as "Tech Business of the Year" by PWC.

Lloyd Price - Interview

Alex is a "Venture Creation" professional at The Bakery. His role is to help mentor and scaleup start-ups, finding businesses that need help coming to market and then finding corporate partners that can help make that happen. The breadth of his role gives him a great understanding of the start-up scene here in the UK, and how it is being funded.

Alex Potter - Interview

Flock is a London-based startup using Big Data to quantify the risks of drone flights. Their platform aggregates and analyses real-time data to make drones safe in cities and provides pay-as-you-flight insurance. They have also recently secured partnership with Allianz.

Ed Klinger - Interview

Chris is responsible for technology at the Telegraph Media Group. From strategy, to product and engineering and operations. His mission is to align tech and the business to ensure TMG is at the forefront of digital innovation and trends.

Chris Taylor - Interview

Cat leads Product development and management for the Telegraph. In this podcast she discusses product 'hygiene' and getting the best out of her team, as well as her path into technology and encouraging more girls to follow in that path.

Cat Wildman - Interview

Tom is the leader of of 350 software engineers split across more than 30 agile development teams. His organisations remit covers development, data science, machine learning and testing. Here we chat about his role helping Sainsbury's Argos provide a better experience for customers via technology.

Tom Tang - Interview

Olga settled in London with an ambitious idea to disrupt the content search and licensing field forever. Joining forces with two co-founders, Lobster was created and is an AI-powered platform which enables brands, agencies and the media to licence visual content directly from social media users and cloud archives.

Olga Egorsheva - Interview

This podcast episode talks to both Rainbird, an AI-powered cognitive reasoning engine, and Aigen, an AI-consultancy delivering technology-agnostic solutions and thought leadership. Both James' provide a view on what AI actually can do for businesses here and now.

James Duez and James Loft - Interview

On this episode of Walk The Tech Talk, Anna interviews Hagen Wenzek, co-founder of Corporate Health, a global healthcare services company with the mission to bring medical device innovation to scale. Hagen is currently a tech entrepreneur, but he previously held c-level roles at corporate powerhouses such as IBM and IPG. Hagen shares what has been different between being in corporate America vs. an entrepreneur as well as his advice to others thinking about taking the plunge to entrepreneurship. Hagen walks his path through perusing innovation within different industries and explains what opportunities and issues he thinks today's business leaders need to consider when they start exploring digital transformations for their organizations. Join Anna and learn from the strategies and accomplishments of this episode’s tech trailblazer.

Ep 2: Hagen Wenzek, CorporateHealth

On this episode of Walk The Tech Talk podcast, Anna interviews Catherine Devine, Chief Digital Officer of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Anna and Catherine focus on the topic of data and how data plays a role in technology’s disruptive influence. Catherine shares her struggle in becoming a STEM professional in her early career and the question she recommends individuals asks themselves before they dive into a profession in tech. Catherine fills us in on why she made the decision to go back to school to get her masters in data science, how the use of data has impacted the American Museum of Natural History and so much more. Join Anna to learn from the strategies and accomplishments of this episode’s tech trail blazer.

Ep 3: Catherine Devine, American Museum of Natural History

On this episode of Walk The Tech Talk podcast, Anna interviews Tongtong Gong, Chief Operating Officer of Amberdata, a SaaS platform that provides insight for blockchain infrastructure. Tongtong shares what it’s like being involved in the development and innovation of the blockchain space, why blockchain is here to stay, common blockchain questions she receives from IT leaders and so much more. Join Anna and learn from the strategies and accomplishments of this episode’s tech trailblazer.

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