Speaking Business Podcast

This week Maria's guest on the show is Sir Clive Woodward, the World Cup winning head coach who led England's rugby players to World Cup glory in Australia in 2003. He himself is a former England international and British and Irish Lion. During Clive's tenure as head coach, England moved from number 6 in the world to be the number 1 ranked team, winning every trophy an England team could win. Clive was GB's Director of Sport for the British Olympic Association.  He worked in close partnership with key stakeholders to support the national coaches and athletes at the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics. As well as to deliver team Britain's most successful Olympic Games at London 2012. Recorded on: 8th February 2018 Show Notes: In this week's show Sir Clive Woodward talks to us about his career as England Rugby Coach, the Olympic Games, his international ski academy in France and about how he started his path of delivering speeches to businesses.  He also talks about why he won't be doing Strictly Come Dancing anytim

This week Maria's guest on the show is Major General Patrick Marriott, who was a regular soldier for 36 years. During this time he served in approximately 30 countries and deployed in operations to Northern Ireland, Egypt and Israel, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, Iraq and Afghanistan.  Among other appointments, he commanded his regiment, the Queen's Royal Lancers, on operations in Bosnia and the 7th Armoured Brigade known as the Desert Rats in Iraq.  He was Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before retiring in 2012.  Patrick now serves as a Reservist Major General, sharing the highest level of Service Complaints Board for the Army.  Recorded on: 7th February 2018 Show Notes: In this week's show, Major General Patrick Marriott talks to us about his career in the military and how he learned his leadership skills.  Good leadership is still highly important to Patrick and this inspired him along with his love of the countryside to lead a trek for children coast to coast. He also talks about the bo

This week Maria's guest on the show is Kevin Gaskell. Kevin has led the iconic brands, Porsche, Lamborghini, and BMW. After driving the turnaround at Porsche and leading five years of record growth at BMW, he was recognised as one of the UK's top 40 leaders. Kevin founded a dot com, Epyx Limited, which became the market leader in automotive e-commerce. As global CEO of the Eurotax Group, he led his team to integrate 30 companies and to create the world leader in automotive data. During his career of founding start-ups, driving turnarounds and leading major brands, he has built over £3 billion of shareholder value. He has led transformational growth at 14 companies and now acts as chairman of a number of growing businesses. Recorded on: 2nd February 2018 Show Notes: In this week's show, Kevin tells us about why he turned down the opportunity to become a professional cricketer & how this decision helped him set out to help people become successful. He talks about the big corporates he has worked for, the bu

This week Maria's guest on the show is Caspar Craven, entrepreneur and adventurer. Caspar believes in challenging conventional thinking on how leaders and teams become truly effective to create extraordinary results. Caspar has 30 years of experience in building teams to make things happen. Starting as an entrepreneur at the age of 14, he has built and led teams in global corporations, start-ups, struggling and high growth businesses, and on a trophy-winning world racing yacht. But his toughest challenge by far was building his family team to sail around the world with his wife and three children, then aged 9, 7, and 2. Recorded on: 25th January 2018 Show Notes: In this week's show, Casper tells us about his first business at the age of 14 selling crabs by the sea, his amazing adventure sailing around the world with his family. What he discovered about home schooling his children and sharing the lessons he learned on his adventure that apply to the business world. All this and more… NB – no books were thrown

This week Maria's guest on the show is Jamil Qureshi one of today's foremost practitioners of performance psychology and an expert in high performing teams and cultural change. Jamil has worked with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports teams. In business, he has delivered management and leadership programmes at board level for Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, SAP, and Cisco. In sport, he has helped six people get to number one in the world. In 2006, he was appointed as the first ever official psychologist to work with the European Ryder Cup team. They made history in winning by a record-equalling margin. He has also worked successfully with three English Premiership football clubs and the 2009 Ashes-winning cricketers. Jamil is one of the few external psychologists ever to have been allowed access to study astronauts in the 2008 NASA space programme. Recorded on: 18th January 2018 Show Notes: In this week's show, Jamil explains how cricket got him into his passion, psycholog

This week Maria's guest on the show is Penny Mallory who is one of the most successful women rally drivers, and was the first woman in the world to compete in a world rally car, the Formula 1 of rallying. As a motoring expert, she has presented many high-profile TV shows, including the hugely successful Channel 4 show, Driven, World Rally Championship, the Used Car Roadshow, Accident Black Spots, Discovery's Classic Car Club and The Roadshow. Penny is a qualified performance coach and is the author of the book Take Control of Your Life, where she uses her driving successes as analogies of how you can transform your life. Penny is also the creator of the innovative Malory Band, helping wearers to lose weight and keep it off forever. Recorded on: 12th January 2018 Show Notes: In this week's show Penny tells us how from an early age she wanted to become a rally driver, how this lead her into presenting and why speaking is such a passion. She talks about her love for boxing and how techniques used by Muhammad Ali

This week Maria's guest on the show is Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, the world's leading champion of Project Management and Strategy Implementation. Antonio is the creator of concepts such as the Hierarchy of Purpose featured by Harvard Business Review, and the Project Revolution; which argues that Projects are the lingua franca of business and personal worlds from the C-suite to managing your career and relationships. Antonio's research and global impact in modern management have been recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award "Ideas into Practice". He is also part of MG100 - Marshall Goldsmith's 100 coaches. Recorded on 20th December 2017 Show Notes: In this week's show we will find out how a Spaniard has ended up living in Belgium. Why Antonio doesn't consider technology, AI or big data to be the biggest disruptions in business today and all about Antonio's recent award from Thinkers50. All this and more … Significant quotes: "The most successful leaders are the ones who are able to say we're going to