Be a Better Leader
49 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Be A Better Leader
In these podcasts I talk to leaders from a wide range of backgrounds, about their thought son leadership, what it is , how it works in their worlds and how they use it to try to make progress.
Mike has many years experience working in leadership development and for 3 years was Head of Applied Leadership in the NHS Leadership Academy.
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David Robinson
November 08, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBDave Robinson is the founder and CEO of Vertical Performance Enterprises, a leadership and management consulting company specialising in executive leadership development and organisational performance improvement. A former fighter pilot, TOPGUN instructor, and U.S. Marine Corps colonel with over three decades of experience leading high-performing teams in complex, dynamic, high-stakes operating environments, Dave is a senior advisor to Fortune 1000 companies and an international speaker on t...
Be a Better Leader with Scotty Bell
October 13, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBScot Bell - VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR & CO-PRODUCTION LEAD Having spent the past 7 years in various organisations, the last 5 years at a large Drug and Alcohol Treatment provider in Kirklees, Scott found his way to Simon on the Streets, working in a service providing support for a need close to his heart. With years of Lived Experience alongside lots of professional skills, Scott is now back working to make Simon on the Streets a fertile ground for Co-Production to happen. This is something...
Dr Roshni Beeharry
July 12, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 117 MBDr Roshni Beeharry is a writer, poet, poetry reviewer, former NHS Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and Portfolio Medical Educator. She has an MA in Creative Writing & Personal Development, University of Sussex (2005) and MA Clinical Education, Institute of Education,(2013) and is a Fellow of the HIgher Education Academy. She combines her passions for writing and facilitating and supporting the wellbeing and development of others in her work as a Writing for Wellbeing & Personal Deve...
Simone Kolysh - In Conversation
July 05, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 180 MBDr. Kolysh is a lesbian agender mother of four and a feminist scholar of race, gender, and sexuality. Their background in Biology, Public Health, LGBTQ studies, and Sociology aids their scholar-activism and commitment to revolutionary futures. A culmination of the last ten years, Dr. Kolysh’ first book, Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People, will be published in September 2021 with Rutgers University Press. Their current research project is on transgender and...
Nick Peres in Conversation
June 28, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 155 MBNick is the Head of Digital Technologies at TSDFT and currently leads on multiple VR based initiatives within the NHS including The VR Lab sponsored by Health Education England and is founder of PatientVR. Nick advocates a ‘clinicians as content creators’ approach to creativity in healthcare and believes collaboration and access is key to the adoption and success of new technologies. Nick works and advises on various digital and emerging healthcare technologies panels at a national level...
Steven D. Lavine
June 21, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 147 MBSteven Lavine has for four decades been an artistic, educational, and community leader in the United States and nationally. From 1988 to 2017 he served as President of the California Institute of the Arts, a period of sustained growth in programs, community engagement, enrolment, reputation and financial stability for the progressive multi-disciplinary arts college. Shortly after stepping down, he was recruited as Founding Director and then Chair of the Los Angeles Advisory Council for the T...
In Conversation with Amy MacDonald
June 14, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 188 MBAmy McDonald, Founder and CEO of Headtorch, is dedicated to prioritising mental health at work. With a background in drama, education, business, mediation and coaching, Amy fuses her skills to create dramatic learning & development that reflects delegate experience. “I love breaking stigma; watching the penny drop; reversing injustice; enabling people to steer cultural change; creating organisations where support is everything; and doing nothing is not an option.” Headtorch enables and p...
Veronica Lysaght
May 31, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 158 MBVeronica Lysaght Founder of Leading with Humanity Veronica believes that courageous, compassionate and inspiring leadership is needed to deal with the crises we face in the world at the moment, and that this style of leading is something we can all achieve. Her mission is to play her part in making leading with humanity an everyday reality. She has a background in business, journalism, counselling and association management. She is an ICF certified Integral coach and has more than 20 year...
Gill Crawshaw in Conversation
April 15, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 192 MBGill Crawshaw I draw on my experience of disability activism to organise exhibitions and events which highlight issues affecting disabled people. Exhibitions have addressed representation (Possible All Along, 2020), charity (Piss on Pity, 2019), cuts to welfare and public spending (Shoddy, 2016) and access (The Reality of Small Differences, 2014). I am also interested in the intersection of disabled people’s lives with textile heritage in the north of England, as well as contemporary...
Beth Terrence in Conversation
March 31, 2021 00:15 - 58 minutes - 107 MBBeth Terrence is a Shaman, Holistic Health & Wellness Facilitator, Recovery Coach, Speaker and Writer. She has been working in the field of Holistic Health & Wellness and Transformation for over 25 years by offering an integrative holistic approach that incorporates education, self-exploration and experiential practices. Major modalities that form the core of her practice include Shamanic Healing, Meditation & Mindfulness, Zero Balancing, Bach Flower Remedies and Restorative Practices. Beth ...
Professor Becky Malby
March 22, 2021 00:15 - 47 minutes - 88.4 MBBecky is Professor in Health Systems Innovation at London South Bank University, and Director of the Health Systems Innovation Lab which provides organisational and leadership development for place-based systems change; leadership programmes for clinical leaders, network leaders and citizen leaders; the Primary Care Quality Academies; and which catalyses spread through an international network. Becky has a track record in systems innovation, the development of asset-based health models, org...
More... Lou Mycroft
March 15, 2021 00:15 - 41 minutes - 77.1 MBLou Mycroft has been working nomadically for several years now, guided by an ethics of joy. She brings people together in community, to think, make decisions and implement plans which change cultures, choosing work based on Nesta UK’s 2018 definition of Good Help: “…enabling people to feel hopeful, identify their own purpose and confidently take action.” She is a Thinking Environment facilitator, writer, public speaker and coach and her work translates well to online spaces. She is co-fo...
Mick Ward in Conversation with Mike Chitty
March 08, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 153 MBMick Ward is a Senior Associate of Nurture Development, an associate of the Health Systems Innovations Lab at London South Bank University and a Trustee of PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers based in Leeds). He retired in June 2020 as Chief Officer, Transformation and Innovation, for the Adults and Health Directorate in Leeds City Council. The role focused on Asset Based Community Development, Digital Health, Arts and Well-Being, Service Transformation, Equality, and ...
Martin Wells in Conversation with Mike Chitty
March 01, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBEver since he was a child, Martin has stimulated real conversation, captured the insights of people and helped people share those insights with others. His innate curiosity led him to study and work in physics, IT, fibre optics, nucleonics, water treatment, project management and many more subjects. His own personal quest to find out who the real Martin Wells is led him to study and work in human psychology, teaching, diversity and equality in health care and personal growth. All of these ...
Tony Piper
February 22, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour - 113 MBTony is a coach based in London. His coaching interests include: leadership for reluctant or inexperienced leaders, how to avoid (and recover from) burnout and mental fitness and self-defence. When he’s not coaching he can be found in the gym (post-pandemic), singing (post-pandemic) or out and about on his bike (especially during a pandemic). I first met Tony nearly 30 years ago and this was our first proper conversation for a very long time. We explore stress and burnout and what...
Shumela Ahmed - Resilience Learning Partnership
February 15, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBAs Co-Founder and Managing Director of a growing social enterprise Resilience Learning Partnership, Shumela Ahmed is a teacher and educator by trade and an activist at heart. As a real life example of the transformation education can bring to someone's life, she has dedicated her academic and professional career to helping others realise this too. As an adult returner to education and as someone who left school at aged 14 she knows first hand the power that education holds in providing the...
Dr David Atkinson
February 04, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBDr David Atkinson is both an award-winning researcher and a practitioner of enterprise and entrepreneurship in their widest sense. His monograph, Thinking the Art of Management, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. With a new book project nearing submission, his interest in applied philosophy accompanies 15+ years commercial, entrepreneurial and organisational leadership experience, built on an extensive career as a communications and IT & systems analyst, consultant project engineer...
Sali Mustafic in Conversation with Mike Chitty
January 13, 2021 00:30 - 1 hour - 144 MBCompassion for all is Sal's guiding principle. She brings literature, particularly poetry, and play to the conversation in order to bypass habitual thinking and allow people to take themselves by surprise with their responses. Experiential learning, where we learn something through experiencing a shift, in our understanding, is more likely to help us find something new in ourselves than any amount of reading textbooks, attending lectures or seminars, and sitting tests or exams. It is also r...
Sal Mustafic in Conversation with Mike Chitty
January 13, 2021 00:30 - 1 hour - 144 MBCompassion for all is Sal's guiding principle. She brings literature, particularly poetry, and play to the conversation in order to bypass habitual thinking and allow people to take themselves by surprise with their responses. Experiential learning, where we learn something through experiencing a shift, in our understanding, is more likely to help us find something new in ourselves than any amount of reading textbooks, attending lectures or seminars, and sitting tests or exams. It is also res...
Minter Dial in Conversation with Mike Chitty
December 31, 2020 00:30 - 1 hour - 174 MBMinter Dial is an international professional and energetic speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and changed country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He’s author of the award-w...
John Preston in Conversation with Mike Chitty
December 17, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBJohn Preston joined The Conservation Volunteers (then BTCV) whilst still at school, after a degree (geography and statistics) at St Andrews. He came to Leeds as a live-in Long Term Volunteer at Hollybush Conservation Centre. After 18 months in Doncaster with BTCV on Community Programme he came back to Leeds as a Project Officer. For 20 years he was the “Centre Manager” of Hollybush, leading its evolution into the busy inclusive environmental volunteering centre it is today. In 2018 he mo...
Aaron Cummins in Conversation with Mike Chitty
December 07, 2020 00:15 - 57 minutes - 107 MBAaron was appointed Chief Executive of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust in March 2018 after first joining in January 2014 as Director of Finance / Deputy Chief Executive. An experienced and motivated professional, Aaron’s previous roles include Director of Finance / Deputy Chief Executive of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, and Director of Finance at Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust. Aaron began his career in the NHS as a National Graduate Tra...
Chris Jones In Conversation with Mike Chitty
November 30, 2020 00:15 - 1 hour - 165 MBChris Jones Chris is a qualified accountant with previous experience in public and private sectors, including the NHS. He spent 7 years as the principal and chief executive of Calderdale College, and is a former member of the Calderdale Safeguarding Children Board. He has a particular interest in leadership and governance, and the impact this has on service standards and organisational performance. He is a non executive director at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS FT and Director at C...
Professor Rachel Pilling and Dan Wadsworth In Conversation
November 23, 2020 00:15 - 1 hour - 157 MBRachel and Dan are the founders of 15s30m. 15s30m (15 seconds 30 minutes) is a social movement to reduce frustration and increase joy in work. Co-founders Rachel Pilling & Dan Wadsworth encourage all staff, from chief exec to porter, to spend a few seconds on a task now, to save SOMEONE ELSE time and hassle later. It doesn’t take any set up costs, meetings or resources, just something you know will help other people, and patients. By doing one little thing, you can feel that you have made ...
Charlie Jones in Conversation with Mike Chitty
November 16, 2020 00:15 - 2 hours - 231 MBCharlie is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS. In previous roles, he has worked in Older People’s Mental Health services, dementia services, and Employee Wellbeing services. He currently works in an Acute Hospital, where his role is to lead a clinical psychology service to support the quality of life of people with various long term health conditions. He is a dad to identical twin boys.
Dr Calvin Moorley in conversation with Mike Chitty
November 11, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBDr Calvin Moorley RN, PhD is an Associate Professor in Nursing Research and Diversity in Care, Adult Nursing Department at London South Bank University, with a background in public health and diversity in care. His research focuses on the interplay of gender, culture ethnicity and health. Since graduating from the University of Essex as an adult registered nurse, Calvin has followed a clinical/academic career, remaining close to clinical nursing, particularly in the critical care environment,...
Professor Calvin Moorley in conversation with Mike Chitty
November 11, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBProfessor Calvin Moorley RN, PhD is a Professor in Nursing Research and Diversity in Care, Adult Nursing Department at London South Bank University, with a background in public health and diversity in care. His research focuses on the interplay of gender, culture ethnicity and health. Since graduating from the University of Essex as an adult registered nurse, Calvin has followed a clinical/academic career, remaining close to clinical nursing, particularly in the critical care environment, an...
Paul Jebb - In Conversation with Mike Chitty
November 04, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBPaul Jebb OStJ MA BSc(Hons) DipHE RN Paul qualified as a nurse in 1996 and worked in numerous posts within nursing, as well as a period in operational management, then in 2010 returned to nurse, then in October 2014, Paul undertook a secondment to the National Patient Experience team at NHS England as Experience of Care Professional Lead, leading on developing Always Events, aspects of the carers work stream and toolkit development to enhance experience of care. In December 2016 Paul return...
David Williams in Conversation with Mike Chitty
October 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 179 MBDavid is a rotational physiotherapist at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Professional Committee at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. He has a passion for healthcare after his previous career in the Royal Marines was cut short due to serious injury. A thread that has run through his life is self-development and making a difference. He balances being an early career physiotherapist with being a member of the Chartered Society of Phys...
John Walsh - In conversation with Mike Chitty
October 19, 2020 00:30 - 1 hour - 167 MBJohn Walsh is the Organisational Development; and 'Freedom to speak up' Lead for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. John has spent the last 20 years working on the streets of Leeds trying to offer support to homeless people. He was Leeds Community Healthcare's clinician of the year in 2013 and the Yorkshire and Humber NHS Leadership Academy Community Leader of the Year in the same year. John currently works with Manraj Khela and Steve Keyes to grow a city wide systems leadership commun...
Cormac Russell in Conversation with Mike Chitty
October 12, 2020 00:15 - 1 hour - 163 MBOver the last 20 years Cormac has worked in over 30 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other strengths based approaches in Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, South Africa, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia. He is passionate about the proliferation of community-driven change and citizen-centred democracy, and has supported hundreds of communities to make ABCD visible through what he calls ABCD Neighbourh...
In Conversation with Chris Kenworthy - Be A Better Leader
October 05, 2020 01:00 - 2 hours - 258 MBChris is a coach who helps green changemakers get clear and focused. So they realise their true potential. Some run their own business, others are freelancers, or employed. What they all have in common is an appetite for change. They’re ready to try something radical to put more soul in their livelihood, and finally bring that big unrealised dream to life. In this conversation we explore a plate of smashed crabs - ideas that Chris wanted to explore as part of a conversation with me. But we...
Anj Handa in Conversation with Mike Chitty
September 28, 2020 00:15 - 1 hour - 122 MBAnj is along standing friend and the Founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers (IWC), a global, inclusive movement of people who want to see the world become a safer, fairer place for women, wherever they live and whatever they do. She is dedicated to promoting the rights of women at all levels of business and society. She is also a lobbyist who has undertaken diplomatic assignments in employment and skills policy. She is multilingual (German, Punjabi, French, Hindi), speaker, writer and NE...
Tom Bell - In Conversation with Mike Chitty
September 21, 2020 00:15 - 1 hour - 144 MBTom tells the story of his sister, Alison Bell, and her family's uncovering of the truth about what happened to her in the care of an NHS Trust. He describes the nature of the various investigations that were held into Alison's death and the role of the prevailing cultures within the public sector organisations they have dealt with; the NHS, Police, CPS and Regulatory Bodies. This true and ongoing story shines a light on the personal, emotional and financially costly impact that public sect...
David Lumb - Leeds Sustainable Development Group in Conversation with Mike Chitty
September 14, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBDavid Lumb - is an Independent Urbanist seeking redemption for having been an architect for most of his life. David moved to Chapel Allerton in 1969 and founded the Leeds Sustainable Development Group based on the Freiburg Charter. Having heard the episode with Tom Riordan, David was keen to have a natter. He talks about his activism around transport and pollution, his role in developing the Leeds South Bank including getting £23m from a certain Michael Gove to build a Free School in South ...
Professor Emeritus John Diamond in Conversation with Mike Chitty
September 07, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 174 MBJohn works as an independent consultant / critical friend to individuals and groups working across all sectors but primarily with NGOs and public sector organisations. He has over 40 years of experience working in post 16 education. His particular passion is understanding and learning about collaboration from individuals learning together to organisations wanting to work in 'partnership'. He is attached to three UK universities and sits on the Global Advisory Board of the TELLAL Institute ba...
Mo Cohen in Conversation with Mike Chitty
September 02, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 175 MBMo originally trained as a clinical psychologist. He has a BA in Psychology, an MSc in Clinical Psychology and a second Masters degree in Creative Conflict Transformation through the Arts. For 25 years, Mo has worked with organisations to deliver innovative and professionally-rooted leadership development and coaching programmes. His main area of expertise is Organisational and Personal Transformation, with a particular focus on authentic leadership and narrative approaches to communication ...
Tom Riordan In Conversation with Mike Chitty
August 31, 2020 00:15 - 48 minutes - 89.9 MBTom Riordan talks about leadership and his career as a public servant including 5 years as CEO of Yorkshire Forward and 10 years as CEO of Leeds City Council. Mistakes? Proudest achievements - and why they are not on his official Council Bio, Mayors and why they are good and bad, climate, inequalities and what on earth do we do...? Can Kindness really be the answer?
David Scott - In Conversation
August 26, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBGlasgow born and educated, David was the Chief Executive of GTG Training from 2004 until 2014 and a specialist adviser on Youth Training and Development to the Board of Arnold Clark Automobiles, the parent company of GTG Training, where he originally started work in staff development in 1999. Previous roles with Arnold Clark included Direct Marketing Manager and Sales Development Manager. Immediately prior to assuming his appointment at GTG Training he headed the project team responsible for...
Ruby Ubhi – In conversation with Mike Chitty
August 19, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes - 98.9 MBI met Ruby at the NHS Leadership Academy in Leeds where we both work on various programmes. Ruby is a talent and leadership developer an executive coach, facilitator speaker and pracademic - practitioner and an academic! We come from different generations, different backgrounds, different cultures, and different cities. In this podcast we explore what has shaped us and what continues to shape us in our leadership practice. We talk about doing and being, collusion, Born to Run, race, gender...
Ruby Ubhi - In conversation with Mike Chitty
August 19, 2020 08:00 - 53 minutes - 98.9 MBI met Ruby at the NHS Leadership Academy in Leeds where we both work on various programmes. Ruby is a talent and leadership developer an executive coach, facilitator speaker and pracademic - practitioner and an academic! We come from different generations, different backgrounds, different cultures, and different cities. In this podcast we explore what has shaped us and what continues to shape us in our leadership practice. We talk about doing and being, collusion, Born to Run, race, gender an...
Brigid Russell in Conversation about Spaces for Listening
August 15, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes - 43 MBMike Chitty and Brigid Russell in conversation about #spacesfolistening.
In Conversation with Rebecca Carr - and her mum, Liz
August 14, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBRebecca is part of Kaizen Arts Agency based in York. Rebecca's mum has been a nurse in the NHS for 40 years. Kaizen say of themselves: "We are design activists. Everything is both learned and designed. Dogmatic assumptions inhibit enquiry. We are the in between. We are an ecosystem that spans planning, measuring, mapping + acting. We won’t stop improving things, and we won’t ask permission or apologise. We design space and time. We are designers of the past, and of the future. Art ...
In Conversation with Brigid Russell
August 12, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 173 MBWe talk about the importance of listening, reading the room and Kantor's Dialogue model, grief, vulnerability and boldness and much more. We talked for over two hours... Brigid says of herself I have been a self-employed coach and leadership consultant for the past five years or so. Before that I worked in the public sector in leadership and team development, as well as working as a management consultant within an international consultancy for over ten years. I have lived and worked in Sco...
Mike Chitty in Conversation with Kay Sidebottom
August 08, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBKay Sidebottom is a lecturer in Education and Childhood at the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. Her specialism is teacher education (lifelong learning) and her background is in community and further education, where she has taught a range of subjects. In addition to teaching on Childhood Studies, Kay is involved in the delivery of the new Post Graduate Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring. Kay's current area of focus in research is the application of critical pos...
Mike Chitty In Conversation With Anne Cooper
July 29, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 92.6 MBAnne Cooper had had a long and distinguished career as a nurse in the NHS and is now a non-executive Director at Yorkshire Ambulance Service and Clinical Director of Ethical Healthcare. Until recently Chief Nurse at NHS Digital, Anne is immensely experienced and highly regarded figure within healthcare informatics. A national leader in driving the digital nursing agenda, she has experience in strategy and leadership development, requirements and design, clinical safety and deployment. As ...
In Conversation with Lou Mycroft
July 23, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 81.7 MBLou Mycroft has been working nomadically for several years now, guided by an ethics of joy. She brings people together in community, to think, make efficient decisions and implement plans which change cultures. She is a Thinking Environment facilitator, writer, public speaker and coach and translating this work to online spaces has been a revelation. She is co-founder of the #JoyFEL movement and its influential ‘Ideas Rooms’. She has particular strengths around creating spaces to think and...
In Conversation with Emma Bearman
July 23, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 74.3 MBIn conversation with Emma Bearman of Playful Anywhere we talk about play, Leadership, being side by side rather than following someone who is in front. We talk about the power of provocation and discomfort, innovation and novelty. Playful Anywhere CIC is a Leeds-based social enterprise with a mission to catalyse creativity, inventiveness and playfulness, where we work, live and travel. They have a proven track record of delivering high-quality fun participatory events, programmes and activ...
Be A Better Leader Trailer
April 10, 2020 08:00 - 52 seconds - 1.61 MBJust a quick trailer for my podcast series helping you to become a better leader. You can find it at https://be-a-better-leader.captivate.fm/listen Mike Chitty @mikechitty