Business Episodes

The traditional view of a leader is serious, stoic and humourless, but are humour, laughter and storytelling the new leadership traits?Joining me this week is Neil Mullarkey, Comedian, author and business coach Neil discusses...

We talked many times on the podcast about how communities have become more and more important for brand building, but what if that's not the aim and it is simply to create a community of like-minded professionals? Joining me ...

As marketers in an SME or larger business, we will probably have dealings with the head of operations, but what exactly do they do? Joining me this week is Si Bor, Founder at Embedded Ops.Si talks me through his years …

AI has touch points with lots of our marketing activity but how could it support the way we build, design and interact with websites? Talking to me this week is Peter Guirguis, CEO at SwiftPress Support. Peter discusses how h...

Running remote marketing teams is a challenge at the best of times, but doing that across different time zones is even trickier. Joining me this week is Laura Brown, Marketing Director at Engtal. Laura discusses managing remo...

The key to building and maintaining a diverse workplace is rich, consistent and accurate data, but how do you even start measuring this data? Joining me this week is Dan Cohen Co-founder at MixxylDan talks me through his back...

Building an engaged community around your brand and business is the goal for many marketers, but what are the issues you might face and what does success look like? Joining me this week is Lloyed Lobo, author and cofounder at...

Many businesses want to attract early career jobseekers, but what are their drivers and do they play by the usual recruitment rules? Joining me this week is Steven Rothberg, founder of The College Recruiter job siteSteven dis...

RecFest has become one of the tentpole events in the talent attraction events calendar, but how did it start and what were the drivers to make it distinctly different from many other events on the calendar? In December 2023 I...

This is a special episode recorded in December 2023 at The Three Tuns Pub in London with Matt Alder, Hung Lee, Chad Sowash, Julie Sowash, Chris Murdoch and of course yours truly. As we are all podcasters we discuss the …

Talent intelligence is a fairly new term for assessing potential hires, trends in the job market and internal performance benchmarks all aimed at improving hiring success. Joining me this week is Toby Culsaw Global Head of Ta...

Like many outsourced functions for business, Learning and Development can be seen as a luxury, suffering in a downturn. Last in first out mentality. Joining me this week is Ben Socken, Founder and MD at West Peak. Ben discuss...

Every business wants their teams to perform as best as possible, with everyone pushing in the same direction and team leaders who are respected and followed. Joining James this week is Steve Sallis, author and executive minds...

It's always interesting to understand what other parts of the world are doing better, or worse when it comes to recruitment marketing and employer branding. Joining me this week is Serge Boudreau, Vice president of business d...

For those of us that present on a regular basis, whether it's online or face to face how do we know how effective we are as a presenter and if our content is hitting the right mark? Joining James this …