In this Talk with Sally, Jo Wallace, Global ECD of Media.Monks and Founder of Good Girls Eat Dinner, brings her unique agency perspective on what will help leaders flourish in their senior role as they balance creativity and relevance with effectiveness.

In this Talk with Sally, Vlad Komanicky, CEO & Founding Partner at Alchemists, and I discuss the need for agency leaders to balance budget with opportunity, learning with action - and their people's emotional needs with commercial demands.

The first guest in our ‘Do or Die’ theme for Q4 is Margaret Jobling, Chief Marketing Officer at NatWest Group. She talks about how marketing can be used as a force for positive change and whether a leadership passion for doing good in the world is a sustainable bedfellow to growth, especially in more traditional industries.

In a month of national leadership change, Jo shared her insights and advice for senior leaders during times of global uncertainty and flux.

In this Talk with Sally, I discuss the importance of finding and deceloping your leadership voice with Public Speaking and Presentation Coach, Alex Merry.

In this Talk with Sally, I had the pleasure of exploring ways to overcome the barriers to strategic creative leadership with Fernando Desouches, Managing Director of New Macho, the strategic unit of BBD Perfect Storm.

In my Talk with Sally, I’m joined by Jennie Child, founder of Balance, a consultancy that enables companies to become intentionally and measurably inclusive and bias-free when hiring.

SH: How did your management style and leadership style evolve to really be effective in that situation?

JW: In terms of my leadership style. I would say one is adaptive.

Jane Aldridge, Leads Coffee UK & Ireland at Nestlé,

The best decision is the one you make. Because quite often it's to my mind, it's the hesitancy from making decisions, it's the equivocation, it's the procrastination that actually costs you the opportunity.

Kirsty shares her unique experience of moving to a new company and taking on a new leadership role at the outset of the pandemic - and what she's doing to retain her best people.

Jonny Tooze, Founder & CEO at Lab Group talks to Sally Henderson, High-Stakes Leadership Mentor, for The Leadership Series Podcast on having ambition from a young age and how he’s channelled that ambition into running a successful agency.

Phil Burgess Chief People and Operations Officer at C Space, talks to Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, for The Leadership Series Podcast on his experience of growing his leadership within a dynamic ambitious company. What has this taught him about the difference between the mindset of doing and cultivating, to becoming comfortable with the mindset of leading?

Gemma Greaves, former CEO of The Marketing Society, talks to Sally Henderson, High-Stakes Leaderhip Mentor, for The Leadership Series Podcast, on the joys, and let’s be honest, the pains, that can form part of being a senior leader.

How do you define success as a CEO?

The son of a successful entrepreneur himself, Atif founded businessfourzero four years ago, supported by the advice of a coach who helped Atif keep his ambitions (and impatience) in check, along with the realisation that he had a strong network of potential clients and employees that would endorse him in a new venture.

A marketer by trade, with experience at Proctor & Gamble and Boston Consulting Group, Clare joined Zopa in 2018 as Chief Customer Officer, encompassing brand, HR and operations. Having spent time building up a strong team within the brand and comms area, she’s in the process of stepping away from the day-to-day and developing her role as a leader.

Having previously worked for PWC, Wolff Olins and Space NK as well as nurturing her own successful premium denim brand from start-up to buy-out, Suzy saw a market need she wanted to solve within the retail sector, and also joined the well-established Accenture to support the development and implementation of this new commercial venture.

Amelia, founder of The Fawnbrake Collective, shares her thoughts on isolation within a company formed of a collective of independent workers, whether isolation differs between businesses and how companies can work together to overcome this hindering emotion.   

With an eclectic career already under her belt, most recently Head of UK at Fintech group Square and Chief Operating Officer for Tough Mudder, Sarah Harvey is perfectly placed to give valuable insight into her experience of the realities of having a lack of clarity in leadership roles and the importance of clear job descriptions being determined at the very start of the recruitment process.

Phil, a proud father of two boys, has worked in healthcare advertising for nearly twenty years. With previous experience at McCann and Saatchi, Phil now runs CDM London, the advertising agency with a healthcare focus, part of Omnicom