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Episodes
E155 | Strategic Advice from Appletree Answers Founder & Scaling Up Coaches CEO, John Ratliff
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest knows all about scaling up. Not only is John Ratliff CEO of Scaling Up Coaches, he’s also a seasoned entrepreneur himself. Having s...
E154 | How To Be A Disruptor, Not Disrupted with Eleanor Winton
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is your organisation a disruptor? Or is it being disrupted? Don’t miss Eleanor Winton, a consultant and expert in disruption, innovation and foresig...
E153 | Building a Recruitment Firm Centred Around Care & Respect with Simon La Fosse
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is making sure your company is a great place to work at the core of your recruitment strategy? Are you a fixture on the Sunday Times Best Companies li...
E152 | How to Thrive in a Disruptive World with Gerry Valentine
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re struggling with resilience, if you or your business is going through change, then don’t miss public speaker, executive coach, business a...
E151 | How to Become a Self-Evolved Leader with Dave McKeown
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are you the founder or the leader of a fast paced organisation and you’re wondering why your once high performing team are now sort of bumbling alon...
E150 | Reimagining High Fashion Through Tech with Rod Banner
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re pondering what to do when you exit your current business, or you’re thinking of a retirement project, let serial entrepreneur and self t...
E149 | How To Reach Your Full Potential with Eric Partaker
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you feel like you need a coach to get you into peak performance, look no further than Eric Partaker. Eric was named CEO of the Year in 2019 by Busi...
E148 | How To Improve Customer Relationships By Creating A Connected Strategy with Nicolaj Siggelkow
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nicolaj Siggelkow is a lifelong academic, currently the David M. Knott Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He i...
E147 | The Process Of Change With Greatness U Founder, Gina Mollicone
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to change? If so, don’t miss Greatness U founder, Gina Mollicone, on this week’s episode of The Melting Pot. Gina, based in Whistle...
2020 Summit Special Why People Really Do What They Do with Daryll Scott
05 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Darryl starts his talk by inviting the audience to discuss what motivates them. An unusual but thought-provoking take on work-life - Why are we here?-...
E146 | How To Get Sh*t Done And Tackle Workplace Bias, Bullying & Injustice with Trier Bryant & Kim Scott
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We met Kim Scott last year when she was on the podcast talking about how to give difficult, impactful feedback in the workplace, following the release...
E145 | The Importance Of Employee Experience with Ben Whitter
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is your employee experience like? Would your employees write rave reviews about their experience working at your organisation?Today’s guest, Be...
E144 | How To Hire With The Accidental Recruiter, Lou Adler
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you need help with your recruitment, then you need Lou Adler. At 75, he’s spent the last 50 years in the recruitment game. He knows how to play i...
E143 | Why Your Swagger Is Something You Already Have with Leslie Ehm
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you lack confidence, or you’re faking it ‘til you make it, don’t miss the Queen of Swagger, Leslie Ehm, on this week’s episode of The Melti...
E142 | The Future Of Flexible Working with Juggle Jobs Founder, Romanie Thomas
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If, over the course of the last year, you’ve come to enjoy working from home and don’t want to have to revert to the daily commute into the office...
2020 Summit Special: The Rules for Aggressive Sales Growth with Justin Roff-Marsh
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
2020 Summit Special: The Rules for Aggressives Sales Growth with Justin Roff-MarshToday's Summit Special is Justin Roff-Marsh. On a wet and windy day...
E141 | Reframing, innovation and problem solving with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you solve problems? Are you even trying to solve the actual problem that needs solving? Today’s guest is so good at solving problems they nam...
E140 | How NLP Can Help Us Get Back To Normal with Daryll Scott
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re in conversation with Daryll Scott, author, speaker, consultant and performance coach, and boy did we have a wide ranging conversation co...
E139 | The Art of Making Things Happen with Steve Sims
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know anyone that’s worked with Sir Elton John and Elon Musk, sent people down to see the wreck of the Titanic on the sea bed, closed museums ...
2020 Summit Special: An Honest Account of Success and Failure with Jim Bowes
10 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Decline At the original point of writing his presentation, Jim had been struck by the sudden realisation that he was “a man in decline’”. In a ...
E138 | Improving Productivity By Creating A Network Of One Person Businesses with Andrew Holm & Julian Wilson
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re the owner of your business and you’re keen to improve productivity, or you want your business to run 200X better when you’re not there...
E137 | Why Building Trust Will Build Your Organisation with David Horsager
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If there's a problem in your organisation, but you can’t put your finger on what it is, have you considered it might be a trust issue?Today’s gues...
E136 | Badass Your Brand & Show Your Business Who’s Boss with Pia Silva
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re tired of being overworked and underpaid, If you lack the ideal clients, or you don’t know how to find, attract and close clients, If y...
E135 | The CEO Test With Adam Bryant & Kevin Sharer
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do we really need another book on leadership? Well, when it’s been written by two global heavy hitters - Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer, yes we do.Ada...
E134 | People, Culture & Leadership with Anouk Agussol
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If your company is an early stage or scaling startup looking for support to help you hire and attract the best talent when you don’t have a brand. ...
E133 | Discovering Your Top Five Talents with Bert Robinson
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does your team need training and coaching to help people find a fit, alignment, productivity and clarity to exceed their potential? Do you feel like ...
2020 Summit Special: Happiness is a serious business, with Nic Marks
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happiness vs workNic Marks grew Friday Pulse from a career-long passion for work-life happiness. He draws from Daniel Kahneman's 2004 Day Reconstructi...
E132 | Moving House With PerchPeek, the AI powered Relocation Agent
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So many of us are waking up to the fact we no longer have to live where we work. COVID has shown us that we can be just as productive, if not more so,...
E131 | Learning How To Speak Publicly with Joel Weldon
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How is it possible that somebody who (in his own words) literally couldn’t lead a silent prayer, become a Hall of Fame speaker and a speech coach to...
E130 | Normalising Virtual & Hybrid Events with Mike Piddock
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re looking for a virtual, hybrid and in-person meetings software that maximises audience engagement, retention and monetisation, then don’t...
2020 Summit Special Re-Empowering Teams, with Brendan Hall
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode- Decision making against disasters- Growth mindset- Choosing to grow is even more challenging with a team- Lead by example Re Empower...
E129 | In Conversation With The Lean Startup Legend, Steve Blank
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest needs no introduction. Essentially, if you run a startup and you haven’t heard of Steve Blank, can you even call yourself an entrepr...
E128 | Measuring Employee Happiness In 2020 And Beyond with Nic Marks
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re wondering how your team’s happiness is, or how you can support employee wellbeing and sustain team morale, then you don’t want to miss...
E127 | The Importance of Vision, Systems & People with Chris Croft
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Croft is a writer, a keynote speaker and a bit of a guru on Linkedin Learning, with 34 video courses on subjects including Project Management, T...
E126 | How To Improve Customer Experience With Net Promoter Score
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Tudehope is co-founder and CEO of Macquarie Telecom Group in Sydney, Australia, providing telecommunications, phones, data, data connections, da...
E125 | How To Drive Innovation Inside Your Organisation with Pete Newell
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are you wondering how your business can innovate better? Are you confusing methodologies and activities with the process of actually keeping and creat...
E124 | The 721 Challenge: Overcoming Adversity And Setting World Records with Nick Hollis
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What have you done today that pushed you to your limits? For today’s guest, Nick Hollis, getting over COVID is testing him. But it won’t stop him ...
2020 Summit Special: Be More Pirate with Alex Barker
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a podcast treat to be enjoyed by the fire this festive season our second look back at the glorious sunny summit we hosted in September. Our bou...
E123 | The Similarities Between Being In A Rock Band And Heading Up A Startup with Brian Coburn
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When was the last time you met somebody who’d spent 30 years in the same company? Meet Brian Coburn. Brian started at Stagecoach as a 16 year old t...
E122 | The Issue of Sales with Justin Roff-Marsh
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“If your business isn't growing without sales, it may not be a sales problem, it may be a design problem with your product or a problem with your de...
E121 | The Smarter Way To Job Search with Sam Franklin
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you struggle with recruitment, either as a recruiter or a job hunter, then don’t miss this week’s episode with Sam Franklin. Sam is co-founder ...
E120 | Being A Black Woman In Tech With Flavilla Fongang
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re struggling to get customers for your business, then Flavilla Fongang, the effervescent managing director and founder of 3 Colours Rule, an...
2020 Summit Special: Positive leadership for post covid strength with Verne Harnish
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It was an absolute pleasure to have, world-renowned business growth guru and author of best-selling books, The Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up: How ...
E119 | The Theory Of Constraints with Andy Watt
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Goldratt wrote a book called The Goal, which Verne Harnish has described as one of the most important business books ever written. With such an ac...
E118 | The Mechanics of Employee Ownership Trusts with Chris Budd
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do if you want to keep your business going after you exit? What processes can you put in place to ensure your business survives without yo...
E117 | How To Do Disruptive Innovation with Tendayi Viki
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re wondering how you can find time from everyday business operations to do innovation, today’s guest, Tendayi Viki, is the guy you want to ...
E116 | Creating A Category With The Godfather of Category, Christopher Lochhead
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you want a point of difference with your company, if you want to be more Apple than Blackberry, then don’t miss this week’s episode of The Melt...
E115 | Making Business More Human with Hilary Corna
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know what your company’s nine touch points are? The things that are the most important to your clients? Could you say, off the top of your he...
E114 | Overcoming Adversity And Learning To Think Differently with Alex Lewis
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2013, Alex Lewis was rushed to hospital with just 30 minutes to live. He was 33 years old. Leading up to his hospital admittance, he’d b...
E113 | Amplifying Your Content with Beck Power
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you have bucket loads of content that you regularly share with your audience across your social media platforms, but it’s not getting any tractio...
E112 | How WD 40 Company Is Making Life Better with Garry Ridge
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone’s heard of WD 40 company, it’s been a dependable staple of every garage and DIYer for over 50 years. The distinctive blue can with its ye...
E111 | How To Be More Pirate with Sam Conniff and Alex Barker
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What did Steve Jobs and Blackbeard have in common? According to Sam Conniff, they were both pirates. Why would Sam know this? Because he wrote the bes...
E110 | How To Change Your Company Culture with Siobhán McHale
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If your company culture could do with an overhaul, then who better to impart advice on this very topic than the culture transformer guru with a track ...
E109 | How To Use Open Innovation In The Corporate World with Jonty Slater
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if you’ve sold your company for enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life - sail the Caribbean? Or start over. T...
E108 | The Power of Staying Curious with Michael Bungay Stanier
08 Sep 2020
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...
E107 | Taking Charge By Letting Go with L. David Marquet
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The journey of leadership is a journey to irrelevance. It has to be. Otherwise you're just a do-er, you're an individual contributor like everybody...
E106 | How To Be Radically Candid with Kim Scott
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you give difficult, impactful feedback in your workplace without offending anyone or being misconstrued?“Pause, right now, and think about th...
E105 | Modernising The Death Industry with Dan Garrett
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Death is such an unusual, fascinating, and emotional area to work in, however the industry hasn’t evolved much since the 1850s. But today’s guest,...
E104 | Unleashed, Hiring Diversely And The Truth About Leadership with Frances Frei
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership isn’t about you, says Frances Frei, co-author of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Leadersh...
E103 | Why Branding Is Sex and Creating Irrational Loyalty with Deb Gabor
04 Aug 2020
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...
E102 | Why Pricing Is Not Primarily About Price with Hermann Simon
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you have a fear of pricing, or if you’re worried that if you put your prices up you’ll lose customers, then you need to listen to the Pricing M...
E101 | Inspiring More Workplaces To Become Progressive with Pim de Morree
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever sat in the pub and dreamed of quitting your job to go in search of a better life, then this week’s guest, one half of Corporate Reb...
E100 | Innovating Your Business Model with Alex Osterwalder
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation, according to entrepreneur, author and co-founder of Strategyzer.com, Alex Osterwalder, is what your business needs for longevity and succe...
E99 | Swarming To Innovate with Dennis Hahn
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re looking for a new way to innovate your business, don’t miss this latest episode of The Melting Pot with Dennis Hahn, Chief Strategy Offi...
E98 | Why You Need To Put Profit First with Mike Michalowicz
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you’re an entrepreneur and your first two businesses go swimmingly well, so much so, you start a third and end up bankrupt?Do yo...
E97 | How To Use The Culture Canvas with Gustavo Razzetti
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
These are uncertain times, and now more than ever, the success of your organisation can literally come down to its culture. But what if you don’t h...
E96 | How To Build A Culture Of Excellence with Horst Schulze
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While you will have heard of the Ritz Carlton hotel group, you may not necessarily know who founded it - meet Horst Schulze, the man, the myth, the le...
E95 | Running A Business In A Recession with Shannon Byrne Susko
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve probably shifted your thinking from ‘how to survive the pandemic’ to ‘how to survive the upcoming recession’. In which case, you don’...
E94 | Navigating High Uncertainty Environments with Rita McGrath
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you wondering how your business is going to survive not just the remainder of the pandemic, but the looming recession too? Perhaps you’ve reali...
E93 | Identifying The Accidental Diminisher with Liz Wiseman
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you drain your team or engage them? Are you wondering how to make your leadership team even greater? You need to listen to Liz Wiseman, author of N...
E92 | Why You Shouldn’t Hire For Culture Fit with Brett Putter
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you recruit for ‘culture fit’? If you do, then you’re wasting your time, says Bretton Putter, author and CEO of CultureGene, a culture deve...
E91 | Cultivating Company Culture in a Crisis with Melissa Daimler
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How is your company culture looking? Worried that it’s taken a hit during the ongoing pandemic? What can you do to stop your best employees leaving?...
E90 | Reshaping Fulfilment With Actual Humans with Martin Bysh
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In an otherwise bleak world, today’s guest is a success story who just keeps going from strength to strength. Martin Bysh is CEO of Huboo Technolog...
E89 | Covid-19: The Great Business Accelerator
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you bored of hearing about the negatives of a recession? Well, if you listened to last week’s episode with Jack Stack, you’ll have heard him s...
E88 | Surviving A Black Swan with Jack Stack
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re struggling to see how your business is going to survive the current Black Swan, then you should listen to Jack Stack, CEO of SRC Holdings ...
E87 | Developing Your Entrepreneurial Business with Daniel Priestley
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you an entrepreneur looking to scale up your business? Or perhaps you’re still figuring out your company’s purpose. Then you need to listen to...
E86 | Responding To Disruptive Change with Julian Birkinshaw
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should you as a business leader, respond to disruptive change in a decisive way? As the current global crisis gathers momentum, ensuring your org...
E85 | Patty McCord: Queen of the Good Goodbye
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You may not have heard of Patty McCord directly, but if you’re in HR or recruitment, you’ll have likely heard of her work. Patty was Chief Talent ...
E84 | How To Sell More Things At A Higher Profit With Marty Neumeier
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How is your branding? Do you have a branding strategy in place? Who is in charge of your branding, or have you passed it to the marketing department t...
E83 | Elevate Performance and Working Remotely with Robert Glazer
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With more people opting to work remotely, particularly in light of the current health issues surrounding Coronavirus, today’s guest couldn’t be be...
E82 | Why Joining The Mask-Free Movement Will Make You A Better Leader
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I believe that it's not just that we are masked, it's that we are addicted to them. And so what that requires is a solution that is similar to what...
E81 | How to Use Talk Triggers with Jay Baer
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re trying to deliver remarkable customer experiences that will get customers talking, then you’re trying to create Talk Triggers. And that...
E80 | Finding The Joy of Work with Bruce Daisley
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“We're not really evolving, the way that we work… it's no wonder that a lot of us are finding work exhausting, repetitive, wears us down.”Is you...
E79 | [Rebroadcast] Nic Marks: Measuring the Population’s Happiness
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Nic Marks, CEO and Founder of Friday, the company Nic set up to track employee happiness, in order to help businesses build a more ...
E78 | The Secrets Of The Mega Deal with Jamal Reimer
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
By day, this week’s guest on The Melting Pot, Jamal Reimer, works for Oracle as an enterprise SaaS rep, helping pharma R&D squeeze every drop of val...
E77 | Leveraging LinkedIn: The Riches Are In The Niches
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know how to use LinkedIn? As in really know how to use LinkedIn? As in to generate leads, make sales, connect with meaningful prospects and mak...
E76 | Owning The Ink in Your Industry with Andy Buyting
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when the banks foreclose on your $6.5m loans, just as you’re trying to scale your business? And then you endure a very public bankrup...
E75 | Getting the Most When You Sell Your Life’s Work
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re looking to sell your business, then you will be wanting to get the most out of what is effectively the sale of your life’s worth. But ho...
E74 | [Rebroadcast] Shannon Byrne Susko - The Accidental CEO Turned Reluctant Bestselling Novelist
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shannon Byrne Susko isn’t just a CEO, she’s a serial entrepreneur, business coach, keynote speaker and the reluctant author of two best selling bo...
E73 | Creating Powerful Human Connections with David Meerman Scott
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you looking for ways to fire up your marketing efforts in 2020? Then listen to David Meerman Scott, author, public speaker and advisor to emerging...
E72 | The Ten Point Plan for Scaling Any Business with Dom Monkhouse
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally broadcast by Startup Grind Bournemouth (UK) as an interactive and intimate fireside chat with experienced technology busin...
E71 | Scaling Up and Creating Culture with Dominic Monkhouse
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are turning the spotlight on… Dom himself. A couple of months ago Dom interviewed Carla and Imogen from FizzPopBANG - The Culture Consultan...
E70 | Gideon Joseph - Helping The Next Generation of Founders Become Famous
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Do you need to notch your marketing up another level? Do you run a tech start up but your story is failing to get any traction with the press? Then yo...
E69 | Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as an Entrepreneur with Todd Palmer
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Palmer is the president and CEO of Extraordinary Advisors, a business that works with entrepreneurs to help them work on themselves as leaders, i...
E68 | Steering your ship through uncertain times with Brendan Hall
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the difference between skippering a yacht around the world and leading a multinational organisation? Well, according to Brendan Hall, inspira...
E67 | Learn the Art of Public Speaking with the Accidental Orator, Graham Davies
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you want (or need) to be a great public speaker, if you want to enthral your audience and be remembered, then don’t miss this episode of The Melt...
E66 | It All Began With Coining the Phrase ‘Conversion Rate Optimisation’
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What’s your biggest claim to fame? Is it that you coined one of the most prolific phrases in modern web lexicon? Because that’s what it is for thi...
E65 | Rethinking The Sales Process with Justin Roff-Marsh
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re wondering why your sales team isn’t converting, maybe it isn’t time to double the size of the team; maybe it’s time to rethink your ...
E64 | Getting a Grip on Your Business with EOS Implementer Mike Paton
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re looking for a complete set of simple concepts and practical tools that will help the leadership team of your entrepreneurial company make ...
E63 | Finding a life rhythm with Nigel Bennett
29 Oct 2019
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...