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Simon Kingston

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552 total appearances

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Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

What's the best advice you've ever been given?

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

Can I ask one bonus question, Hoda, with your permission? Yes, of course. And Lisa, with yours. How do I persuade my daughter that she doesn't really want a Syrian hamster from pets at home?

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

Can I ask one bonus question, Hoda, with your permission? Yes, of course. And Lisa, with yours. How do I persuade my daughter that she doesn't really want a Syrian hamster from pets at home?

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

Can I ask one bonus question, Hoda, with your permission? Yes, of course. And Lisa, with yours. How do I persuade my daughter that she doesn't really want a Syrian hamster from pets at home?

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

I had a horrible feeling you were going to say something. Lisa, thank you for that incredibly engaging description of a very successful career, but one that also sounds like it's a lot of fun, and one where at Pets at Home you combine a real sense of purpose and commitment to the communities you serve as well as profit.

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

I had a horrible feeling you were going to say something. Lisa, thank you for that incredibly engaging description of a very successful career, but one that also sounds like it's a lot of fun, and one where at Pets at Home you combine a real sense of purpose and commitment to the communities you serve as well as profit.

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

I had a horrible feeling you were going to say something. Lisa, thank you for that incredibly engaging description of a very successful career, but one that also sounds like it's a lot of fun, and one where at Pets at Home you combine a real sense of purpose and commitment to the communities you serve as well as profit.

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

The idea of balance seems to run as a vein through all of it, from the decision to do geography with that mix of the human and the scientific, to that point where having survived an MBA and a first child, you decide that you wanted to do as well as to advise. The

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

The idea of balance seems to run as a vein through all of it, from the decision to do geography with that mix of the human and the scientific, to that point where having survived an MBA and a first child, you decide that you wanted to do as well as to advise. The

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

The idea of balance seems to run as a vein through all of it, from the decision to do geography with that mix of the human and the scientific, to that point where having survived an MBA and a first child, you decide that you wanted to do as well as to advise. The

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

customer centricity of the time at telewest and at sky comes through and then that need to take what was not a burning platform but a highly successful business at pets at home and help it become the broader platform to support uh people who care for pets was really compelling the

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

customer centricity of the time at telewest and at sky comes through and then that need to take what was not a burning platform but a highly successful business at pets at home and help it become the broader platform to support uh people who care for pets was really compelling the

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

customer centricity of the time at telewest and at sky comes through and then that need to take what was not a burning platform but a highly successful business at pets at home and help it become the broader platform to support uh people who care for pets was really compelling the

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

advice that you gave new CEOs that it's not a quantum step as an executive, it's a completely different job with a completely different set of stakeholders and a sense that you're on and being observed all the time, I'm sure will resonate. As was that sense that you came back to a couple of times that you need to be just a step ahead of your customers, even while you listen to them.

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

advice that you gave new CEOs that it's not a quantum step as an executive, it's a completely different job with a completely different set of stakeholders and a sense that you're on and being observed all the time, I'm sure will resonate. As was that sense that you came back to a couple of times that you need to be just a step ahead of your customers, even while you listen to them.

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

advice that you gave new CEOs that it's not a quantum step as an executive, it's a completely different job with a completely different set of stakeholders and a sense that you're on and being observed all the time, I'm sure will resonate. As was that sense that you came back to a couple of times that you need to be just a step ahead of your customers, even while you listen to them.

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

They can't necessarily tell you they want something they haven't seen yet. That comes through and it comes through also that openness and that continuing communication in the description you have of the dialogue with your board and the art of staying non-defensive. Something I'm going to try and do when I talk to my daughter about the Syrian hamster.

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

They can't necessarily tell you they want something they haven't seen yet. That comes through and it comes through also that openness and that continuing communication in the description you have of the dialogue with your board and the art of staying non-defensive. Something I'm going to try and do when I talk to my daughter about the Syrian hamster.

Redefiners
Paws, Purpose & Profit: A Conversation with Pets at Home CEO Lyssa McGowan

They can't necessarily tell you they want something they haven't seen yet. That comes through and it comes through also that openness and that continuing communication in the description you have of the dialogue with your board and the art of staying non-defensive. Something I'm going to try and do when I talk to my daughter about the Syrian hamster.

Redefiners
AI or Die: A Conversation with Coveo Chairman and CEO Louis Têtu

Hi, equally phenomenal, Hoda. Great to be with you.