The Change Society Podcast

If you’re looking for the benchmark in empathetic leaders, look no further than Phil Anderson. Our guest today is COO of Legal and General who chats with our host Pat Lynes on a wide set of topics across transformation, agile and innovation. While we try not to talk about covid too much, but the way Phil and his team navigated an incredible flurry of changes both digitally and personally is to...

Amidst a crippling pandemic for many industries, Marshall Motors managed to have a very strong financial year. While the market went up 8.4%, MArshall eclipsed it with 19.5%. We are lucky enough to have their CEO Daksh Gupta along with our own Strategy and Transformation Advisor Chris Hafner on the show to discuss some of the traits of leadership that helped them to achieve that.

“Unless you address the budgeting process, all the talk about radical change are just nice words”. There probably isn’t a better way to introduce this show than the words of our guest Bjarte Bognses.  (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjarte-bogsnes-41557910/) Bjarte, winner of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award, is the undisputed leader of the Beyond Budgeting movem...

Being customer-centric in 2021 is no longer a choice. But what are the nuances and tips that can differentiate you from the pack? Joining host Jacob Perring on the show was our very own Chief Customer Experience Officer Emma Dark (previously ASOS, The White Company & Soho House) and Mark Baxter (Tesco, P&G). In 50-odd minutes they cover the latest trends they’ve seen the past few years, why y...

As the UK prepares to emerge from the shadows of lockdown, Host Pat Lynes catches up with Chief People Officer Paul Cutler on what is next for individuals and organisations. They discuss how the scale and simultaneous shock of the pandemic have levelled the playing field amongst organisations globally, but also why their return to work strategies are very different. Can organisations offer pe...

Fed Kuzel is Tesco’s Head of Group Engineering for Central Europe and this podcast is chock full of value. They discuss Tesco’s history of innovation, how the pandemic has sped up changes in consumer behaviours, how to get product working with technology and finally how to put customer at the heart of development.

It’s a pretty damning statistic and one that is trending in the wrong direction (for those that remember the old McKinsey stat of 70% of transformation programmes fail). To unpack why this is the case, we brought together two leading minds in the world of change - Jacqueline Shakespeare and Martin McPhee

Servant leadership has never been more important than it has in 2020. And whilst it has been around for a long time, it is certainly having its day in the sun. But what exactly is it? Along with S&S Chief Strategic Coach Adrian Stalham (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-stalham-97a6513/) and host Pat Lynes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricklynes/) , the panel debunk the myth that servant le...

The art of change hasn’t changed in thousands of years. The tools have changed, but humanity hasn’t.

In the latest episode of CxO 4.0, Pat Lynes chats with retail CIO Phil Greenwood. At the time of recording, Phil was exiting Selfridges after a successful two-year tenure before he embarked on a new venture in Saudi Arabia. Phil discusses how to get the board onside when they rarely have a tech background (9% of FTSE 350 board members) and gives his two pennies worth on the future of the retai...

In the latest episode of CxO 4.0 - a podcast for the fourth industrial era - Ken chats with former CFO of Argos and CEO of Tesco Direct on the growing pains of business. There are a lot of challenges when starting a business, from sourcing funding, spending your time wisely, building that crucial early team around you, the power of data and of course planning an exit. It’s all here from Ken...

In this episode of CxO 4.0, Ken chats with CIO and former Maritime Captain Mike Sturrock on introducing a startup culture in a corporate. They cover off the pitfalls when converting an in-house team to an incubator, the massive role of leadership throughout and how to distil goals into objectives whilst innovating. We hope you enjoy the show.

Host Ken Towning chats with executive leader Nigel Lemmon on corporate social responsibility and the key work he's done in the space with British American Tobacco (yes really) and Nandos as their Global CTO.

4.24 Intro to Adrian 7.13 The accidental interim 12.07 The process 13.13 Networking approach 15.15 Intro to CS 15.52 Understanding your value 17.58 Utilising your network while in a role 25.19 Challenges faced and first gig (admin/marketing) 28.27 How my first two pieces of work came about 30.24 Using Spider Diagrams for valuable connections 32.14 Embracing all avenues and being proactive 34.15...

Host Pat Lynes chats with former Brigade Commander and change expert Rufus McNeil on a new style of leadership that needs to emerge during this crisis.

Host Matt Bradley sits down with Simon Hamblin, former Chief Technology Officer at ASOS and currently with Emirates Group. Simon has had an interesting journey working for some big names like ASOS and Emirates whilst also founding his own company in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

Host Matt Bradley sits down with Craig Strong, A Chief Technology and Product Officer specialising in growth and innovation. Craig is a Forbes Technology Council Member, a global speaker at lean, agile and technology conferences and has recently co-authored a book 'The Lean Product Lifecycle'.

S&S Founder Pat Lynes catches up with CxO and fintech transformer Mark Allcock on delivering largescale programmes, entrepreneurship and digital transformation.

Founder Pat Lynes chats with portfolio executives Malcolm Lambell and Christian McMahon about how to take the leap into the executive gig economy.

Our very first podcast show on International Women's Day 2017, where we discuss Jacqueline Shakespeare's journey from a corporate career, to starting a family and using interim management to get back into a challenging leadership position.

Matt Bradley sits down with Mik Quinlan and Ahmed Syed to discuss the Agile mindset as well as tips for building purposeful and passionate teams.