Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse

E255 | Theory of Constraints: Maximising Performance and Profitability with Dr Alan Barnard

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know what your main constraint is? What’s holding your business performance back? Our guest this week is an optimisation expert, and he’ll ...

E254 | Building And Leading Resilient Teams with Bradley Kirkman and Adam Stoverink

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is a resilient team the result of putting resilient individuals together? Does everyone in the team need to have the same level of resilience? What ma...

E253 | Harnessing The Power of Storytelling To Drive Change with Greg Orme

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Melting Pot, we learned from speaker and award-winning author, Greg Orme. Greg was the founding CEO of London Business School’s Cen...

E252 | The Science of Engagement and Successful Management with Jim Harter

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

 This week we learned from the Chief Workplace Scientist at Gallup, Jim Harter. Jim is also the co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Wellb...

E251 | Unleashing the Power of Innovation Tournaments with Dr Christian Terwiesch

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can we generate thousands of ideas in your organisation? Feel overwhelmed just by thinking about it? Our guest on the podcast this week thinks tha...

E250 | From Failure To Success: Getting Innovation Right with Alex Osterwalder

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage your metrics around innovation? How much investment do you need to put into innovation as a mature business? How do you give people ...

E249 | Redefining Market Success: Tony Ulwick's Jobs to Be Done Theory

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we learned from the inventor of the Outcome-Driven-Innovation (ODI) process, Tony Ulwick. Tony developed this process and, in 1999, he descr...

E248 | Fixing Fractured Relationships To Build Trust Within Teams with Doug Bouey

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is there any fractured relationship in your team? Many teams have people with dysfunctional relationships that show up in different ways. Often people...

E247 | Understanding Why We Do What We Do with Dr Helena Boschi

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why do we do the things we do? How did COVID truly affect our behaviour? Will our ability to empathise and connect with others ever fully recover? In ...

E246 | From Navy to Industry 4.0: Marty Groover's Journey to Innovation

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you struggling to achieve successful digital transformation despite continuous training and collaboration? Find out how to unlock agile decision-m...

E245 | How to Thrive as a Smart and Creative Individual with Eric Maisel

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Melting Pot, we learned from Eric Maisel, creativity coach and trainer of creativity coaches. He writes the ‘Rethinking The Mental ...

E244 | Simplifying How We Work To Drive Innovation And Growth with Lisa Bodell

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How would you define meaningful work? And your team? If you're struggling to find the right words, our guest on The Melting Pot this week has various ...

E243 | Playing To Your Unique Ability To Thrive At Work with Shannon Waller

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know what’s your Unique Ability? Every entrepreneur has theirs and is only able to succeed if they're supported by a team. Because you can’...

E242 | Dealing with Risk In A World of Uncertainty with Michele Wucker

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Does everyone in your team look at risk in the same way? When we make decisions on whether to take a risk or not, we all have our biases. Our guest on...

E241 | Delivering Outstanding Customer Service with Gene Browne

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Melting Pot, we learned from Gene Browne, founder of The City Bin Co. Gene has led this company to be a five-time winner of the ‘De...

E240 | Creating Effective and Engaging Meetings with Mamie K. Stewart

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever felt that you were wasting your time in a meeting? When we ask clients this question, all hands go up. Yet, everybody seems clear on wha...

E239 | Winning The Wealth Game by Knowing Your Tax Law with Tom Wheelwright

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you really understand how taxes work in your country? Our guest this week believes that 80% to 90% of people pay taxes and complain about the rich ...

E238 | Building a Better and More Efficient Onboarding Process with Brad Giles

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Does your organisation suffer from onboarding debt? It’s the difference between what people should understand and what they actually understand abou...

E237 | Exploring the Power of Emotions To Boost Your Marketing with Anthony Butler

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

 How do you want people to feel when they buy from you? How do you want people to feel when your sales team shows up? What fears might they have that...

E236 | Driving Growth And Generational Change In Family Businesses with Jonathan Goldhill

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What are the differences and similarities between regular businesses and family businesses? Can family businesses be as successful? Our guest on The M...

E235 | Creating Joy At Work with Chief Happiness Officer, Henry Stewart

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you believe in the power of building a happy workplace to grow your business? We definitely do, and this week we bring proof. This week’s guest i...

E234 | Changing Lives Through Excellent Teaching with Hazel Pulley & Jonathan Smart

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if you had to radically transform your business, change the culture, improve the percentage of A-players, drive staff engagement, and roll out a ...

E233 | From Professional Rugby Player to Innovation Consultant with Aidan McCullen

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What comes to mind when you think about innovation? Creating something new from nothing. But does the word innovation push people away from doing it, ...

E232 | Leading the Twice Microsoft UK Partner of The Year with Neil Marley

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you find enough qualified people to deliver on the revenue opportunities that your business comes across? This is a problem that might be famil...

E231 | Bringing Transparency And Honesty Into The Recruitment Process with Ross Lauder

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hiring top talent –the right talent– is crucial to growing a business. Yet, so many companies get their recruitment process wrong. Clarity on what...

E230 | Building A Culture of Trust Through Vulnerability with Ronan Harrington

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Building trust is at the heart of a high-performing team and a great culture. Sometimes, that trust comes from allowing vulnerability and honesty into...

E229 | The Secrets Behind Building Value-Based Businesses and How to Sustain Interest For Investors

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The definition of value creation is giving something valuable to receive something else that’s more valuable to you. In today’s fast-paced economy...

E228 | Rebroadcast: What it Takes to Become a Great CEO with Scott Keller

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Having travelled to every country in the world, Scott Keller, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, New York Times best selling author of Beyond perfo...

E227 | Rebroadcast: The Jobs Only the CEO Should Do with Anthony Rose

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If your business is struggling to innovate, or is in fact resisting innovation all together, then don’t miss Anthony Rose, founder and CEO of SeedLe...

E226 | The science behind forecasting liabilities and the art of letting them go with Annie Duke, author of “Quit”.

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hard decisions are part of every aspect of our human life. In business, these are what shape the future of a company and what define its success if do...

E225 | Invest In Your Leaders With Cameron Herold, The CEO Whisperer

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leadership development is not about studying leadership, but about practising leadership in an intentional way, in a culture and environment that enab...

E224 | How To Better Prepare To Combat Inflation, with Hermann Simon

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

According to important voices in the economics sphere, inflation is back and here to stay. For companies, this “new normal” means that the world i...

E223 | How Human Connection Can Help A Business Achieve Excellence With Tom Peters, Co-author Of “In Search Of Excellence”

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A company’s success is measured by the happiness of its employees, and that goes for any industry we can think of. This sounds like basic knowledge,...

E222 | When Unconventional Co-Leadership Turns Out To Be The Recipe For Success- Robert Chapman on Firebrand’s 21 Years As A Market Leader In Accelerated Learning

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to leadership, we normally think of one person that is in charge of holding the reins and steering the direction of a company. While it ...

E221 | Change Your Organisational DNA and Bring Back Innovation Into Your Business with Ben M. Bensaou

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no secret that, in today’s business climate, innovation is the only way companies can maintain an advantage over their competitors. No mat...

E220 | Refreshing the World of Work with Hoxby Co-Founders, Alex Hirst & Lizzie Penny

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Like most good ideas, the idea for Hoxby, the purpose-led organisation that exists to create a happier, more fulfilled society through a world of work...

E219 | Creating Businesses that Bring Joy to Work with Jay Radia

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever felt that you’re in a job that doesn’t fit your genius, but you’re not sure how to find your real purpose? Then don’t miss Jay R...

E218 | Why the World is so Full of Rubbish Leaders with Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that the 80:20 principle also works in reverse? Whilst 80% of your output will come from 20% of your people, the same is true of your pro...

E217 | Rowing the Atlantic with The Entrepreneurs’ Adviser, Guy Rigby

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you looking for your next big adventure? How does rowing across the Atlantic sound? Think you’re not fit enough? Too old? Think again. Guy Rigb...

E216 | Uncertainty: The Portal to Possibility with Nathan and Susannah Furr

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you deal with uncertainty? Do you avoid it at all costs or do you embrace the unknown excitedly?To discuss the upside of uncertainty is husband...

E215 | From Coaching Habit to How to Begin with Michael Bungay Stanier

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to be a force for change in the world? Of course you do, but how to begin? That's actually the title of Michael Bungay Stanier’s latest ...

E214 | How to Think Differently About Compensation with Verne Harnish

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you think about compensation in your organisation? In this episode of The Melting Pot, Verne Harnish, a world-leading expert, speaker, author, ...

E213 | How to Attract & Capture the Attention of A-Players on LinkedIn with Donna Serdula

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this incredibly tight labour market where the power well and truly sits in the job seekers’ hands, how can you optimise your LinkedIn profile so ...

E212 | How to Transition your Culture as you Scale your Organisation with Darrin Jahnel

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve grown your organisation and you’re now at the point where you don’t quite remember everyone’s name, and the coffee cups aren’t bei...

E211 | Why Your Organisation Needs Systemic Change, Not Individual Change with Michael Cahill

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have a problem with the free flow of energy in your organisation? Perhaps you’ve been replacing individuals who aren’t performing only to f...

E210 | Why Leading from the Heart is Better for Business with Mark C Crowley

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leading from the heart is the secret to high performing teams and financial success, says leadership speaker, consultant, change agent for workplace e...

E209 | How to Hack Growth Marketing with Kurve Founder & CEO, Oren Greenberg

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re struggling with your marketing efforts, or you’re concerned that what you’re doing isn’t working, or is a waste of time and money, t...

E208 | How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way with Rasmus Hougaard

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you struggle to have difficult conversations then you aren’t alone. According to Rasmus Hougaard, founder and CEO of global research, leadership ...

E207 | Why Positive Psychology is for Everyone with Dr Vikki Barnes

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get people to bring their authentic selves to work? By building a culture of psychological safety in the workplace, says clinical psycholog...

E206 | How to Design a Conducive Culture for the Modern Workplace with Gustavo Razzetti

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can you help your team to do the best work of their lives? By building a conducive culture that allows them to thrive. Gustavo Razzetti is a soug...

E205 | How to Become a Hidden Champion with Hermann Simon

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you aspire for your company to become a Hidden Champion? Hidden champions are what businessman and bestselling author, Hermann Simon, describes as...

E204 | How to Launch into the US as a European Tech Business with Daniel Glazer

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re thinking about targeting the US market with your startup or to scale up business, do you have a US expansion plan? Don’t miss Daniel Gla...

E203 | Smart Growth Leadership and Personal Disruption with Whitney Johnson

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The fundamental unit of growth in any organisation is the individual. The more you understand about how to respond to your own deep longing to grow, ...

E202 | What Do You Need to Do Your Best Work? with David Lancefield

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What do you need to do your best work? That is the question David Lancefield strives to find the answer for with his clients in his role as CEO cataly...

E201 | How to Change Brains, Minds and Culture with David McRaney

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can you change someone’s mind? Don’t miss David McRaney, a science journalist fascinated with brains, minds, and culture, explain all in this ...

E200 | The Impact of Hybrid Work on Employees and Employers with Peter Cappelli

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does the future of your office look like? Are all of your employees back to work yet? Or do you have a hybrid approach to working? That’s the ...

E199 | How to Create Value Based Strategy with Felix Oberholzer-Gee

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you struggling to create a simple strategy for your business? Then don’t miss Felix Oberholzer-Gee, faculty member at Harvard Business School in...

E198 | The Jobs Only the CEO Should Do, with Anthony Rose

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If your business is struggling to innovate, or is in fact resisting innovation all together, then don’t miss Anthony Rose, founder and CEO of SeedLe...

E197 | Why Redesigning your Business Structure will Help you Scale with Lex Sisney

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a mid to late ‘nail it’ stage business, trying to scale your company? Then you don’t want to miss Lex Sisney, business coach and author ...

E196 | How to Scale your Business with booking.com Founder, Jeff Hoffman

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re looking for advice on how to grow and scale your startup or business, then don’t miss Jeff Hoffman, founder of booking.com, award-winnin...

E195 | The Importance of Business Continuity with Smartsourcing CEO & founder, Mike Selfe

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Think your organisation is too small to outsource processes? Think again, says CEO and founder of Smartsourcing, Mike Selfe. If you feel like your tea...

E194 | The Evolution of the Professional Services Sector with Ray D’Cruz

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re in the legal, accounting or professional services sector and you’re looking to harness the intelligence and creativity of your partners ...

E193 | What it Takes to Build an Organisation’s Culture with James L Heskett

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do your employees love your business? asks James L Heskett, UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School and author of Win from Within...

E192 | How to Try a New Way of Thinking with Roger Martin

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve found that the way your organisation does things isn’t working for you any more, rather than flogging a dead horse, why not try a new wa...

E191 | What it Takes to Become a Great CEO with Scott Keller

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Having travelled to every country in the world, Scott Keller, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, New York Times best selling author of Beyond perfo...

E190 | The Five Principles to Bring Out Your Best Self with CEO & Leadership Coach, Amy Jen Su

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can you be the leader you want to be, every day? The answer, says Amy Jen Su, lies in focusing on five key leadership elements - Purpose, Process,...

E189 | How to Innovate Inside Large Corporations with Jim A Euchner

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

To stay ahead of the curve, organisations need to innovate. But how do you structure innovation if you run a large corporation? Where do you put the m...

E188 | How to Set Up your Business to be Acquired with Robert Belgrave

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re thinking of selling your business, or you’re wanting to create value to make your business more attractive to potential acquirers, then ...

E187 | How a Germ-Zapping Robot Company Became a 10 Year Overnight Success with Morris Miller

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you worried your business hasn’t hit the big time yet? Don’t be, says Morris Miller, former managing director at Rackspace, now the managing p...

E186 | How to Maximise Sales Growth in a Post-Pandemic World with Aaron Ross

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can you maximise sales growth while minimising the workload and stress on both you and your executive teams? This is what Aaron Ross, dad of 10 k...

E185 | How purpose can help you understand and overcome your struggle with Bobby Herrera

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is your business founded on a clear purpose? Bobby Herrara, author of The Gift of Struggle, founded Populus Group in 2002, a company set up to help or...

E184 | How to Create a Culture of Accountability with Mark Green

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re the CEO and you think people should get to meetings on time, yet you don’t, that’s never going to create a culture of accountability.L...

E183 | How to Plan for and Execute Blitzscaling with Chris Yeh

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why do some organisations grow really quickly? How do they reach the scale that they do? If you’re looking for the secret sauce to make your company...

E182 | Growing Your Organisation through a Digital Transformation with Paul Leinwand & Matt Mani

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is your organisation looking for a new growth strategy? Are you about to undergo a digital transformation? Perhaps you already have but you’re not s...

E181 | How to Deliver Outstanding Customer Service with Jeff Toister

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What do your customers say about you? What sort of customer experience do you deliver? Today’s guest, Jeff Toister, has quite literally written the ...

E180 | Scaling Up Your business with The Scale Up Leader Author, Stuart Ross

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you scaling up to exit your business or are you focused on scaling up to build a more sustainable business? Either way, don’t miss Stuart Ross, ...

E179 | Why Referrals are Essential for Business Growth and Reputation with NPS creator, Fred Reichheld

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How loyal are your customers and employees? How likely are they to refer your organisation to their colleagues and friends? This is the basis of the ...

E178 | Why Being Purpose Led Can Change the World with The Conduit Co-Founder, Paul van Zyl

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever wondered how to be more purpose led in both business and your personal life, don’t miss this incredible episode of The Melting Pot ...

E177 | Buying and Selling Companies with Arrowpoint Advisory MD, Daniel Domberger

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re an entrepreneur thinking of selling your business and want to maximize the return on your life’s work, or you’re going through the pro...

E176 | How to do Better Business Faster with Artesian:DueDil CEO, Andrew Yates

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fintech company Artesian:DueDil  - a London/Reading based business helps B2B customers do better business faster with a focus on using data science a...

E175 | Rebroadcast: Why Branding Is Sex and Creating Irrational Loyalty with Deb Gabor

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s your business aim? To achieve growth? To create a winning corporate culture? Deb Gabor, keynote speaker and bestselling author is on a missio...

E174 | The Habit of Excellence with Lieutenant Colonel Langley Sharp MBE

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The British Army is renowned for its outstanding leadership, and command and control. But what do they know about psychological safety? These are jus...

E173 | There’s a hole in your Bucket with Bryony Thomas

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of The Melting Pot is actually a recorded webinar we held called ‘There’s a hole in your Bucket’ with Watertight marketing methodol...

E172 | Leadership, Growth Mindset and Learning from a Peer Organisation with Ian Windle

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re a leader and you don’t have a coach, then you’re missing a trick. Ian Windle is group chairman at Vistage, a global peer board organi...

E171 | How To Become Replaceable with Ari Meisel

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you worry about being irreplaceable in your business, then don’t miss Ari Meisel, the productivity coach entrepreneur, founder of Less Doing, and...

E170 | The Power of Staying Curious with Michael Bungay Stanier

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to improve the managers in your business, says Michael Bungay Stanier, do more coaching. You might think coaching equals being soft, but y...

E169 | How to Build Psychological Safety in Your Workplace with The Fearless Organization Author, Amy C. Edmondson

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to be better at leading a team. If you want to know how to lead a good decision making process. Or how to engage and inspire people to bri...

E168 | Understanding Cash Flow and the Power of One with Alan Miltz

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you understand cash flow? As in, do you really understand your cash flow, or are you just saying yes because you know you ought to?Alan Miltz, co-f...

E167 | Finding Your Super North Star with Floyd Woodrow

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re looking for some inspiration to help you find your Super North Star, let Floyd Woodrow DCM MBE be your guide. Floyd is Managing Director a...

E166 | How Metronomics can Help Grow your Business with Shannon Byrne Susko

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re wondering if there’s a silver bullet to help you grow your company and get you there with speed, ease and confidence, then don’t miss ...

E165 | How The Rescue & Recovery Experts Can Save Your Business with Rick Smith & Ben Westoby

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is your company in trouble? Is your business on the verge of going bust? Then don’t miss this week’s episode of The Melting Pot with business resc...

E164 | Finding a life rhythm with Nigel Bennett

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wanted to just put a pin in your life, upsticks and travel the world with your family before it’s too late? Well, that’s just what N...

E163 | Solving The World’s Consumer Goods Distribution Problem with Justin Floyd

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever suffered with your supply chain, then don’t miss Justin Floyd, founder and CEO of RedCloud, the startup looking to solve the distri...

E162 | How to Build an Effective Commercial Sales Team in the Information Age with Steve Schrier

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re wondering what you can do to improve your sales function, but you’re not a salesperson yourself, then don’t miss Steve Schrier on this...

E161 | Why A Contrarian Could Help Your Business Grow with Alastair Dryburg

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is everything you know about business wrong? Alastair Dryburgh is a contrarian who taught himself to think differently so that he can help businesses...

E160 | Innovating Your Business Model with Alex Osterwalder

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“We bring all of the tools and methods into everything we do for the companies we work with. We call it technology enabled services. We help large c...

E159 | How to Improve your Sales Organisation with Justin Roff Marsh, David Davis & Jamal Reimer

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dom has spent most of his life in sales. He was a good sales guy, a terrible sales manager, a better sales director. When he got to the point where he...

E158 | The Melting Pot Webinar: Simple Numbers with Greg Crabtree

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re bringing you a special episode: a recording of one of our live webinars with Greg Crabtree, founder of accountancy firm, Crabtree, R...

E157 | How Adolescent Businesses Can Get Out of the Success Trap with Nick Cramp

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Cramp is a transformation coach and author. He challenges leaders to consider Better Before Bigger. In the past he’s been an e-myth coach, out...

E156 | Scaling Up Expert Dominic Monkhouse on Sparks by Ignium Podcast

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, the shoe is on the other foot as our illustrious host, Dominic Monkhouse, finds himself on the other side of the microphone, ...