The Connected Leadership Podcast
270 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -Speaker and author on professional relationships, Andy Lopata, explores great connections with experts and high achievers worldwide.
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The Connected Leadership Podcast: 'The Nowhere Office' with Julia Hobsbawm OBE
September 12, 2022 00:00 - 49 minutesAndy Lopata's guest on this week's Connected Leadership Podcast is Julia Hobsbawm OBE, speaker, entrepreneur and author of 'The Nowhere Office' book and podcast. A topical subject about changing working patterns and the impact on professional relationships. WFH has existed since the dawn of technology and the internet but the shifts and trends before the pandemic have now become reality. What does this mean for leaders and organisational behaviour? Julia sees it as the most important moment i...
'How to Become British Prime Minister' Simon Kuper
September 05, 2022 00:00 - 55 minutesOn the day a new UK Prime Minister is announced Andy Lopata talks to Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of 'Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK'. A contemporary of Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Michael Gove and others at Oxford in the 1980s, Simon explains the culture that existed especially in the Oxford Union. 12 of the 16 post war PMs (including today's winning candidate) were Oxford graduates. The Union Debating Society in the 80s was dominated by Tori...
Humour in Business: Jeremy Nicholas and Tim Gard
August 29, 2022 00:00 - 58 minutesIn this final episode of the trilogy looking at the effects of humour in business, Andy Lopata's guests are Jeremy Nicholas, world esteemed keynote speaker and news and sports presenter on radio and television, and Tim Gard, US renowned speaker and MC. Jeremy and Tim talk about their own personal journeys and how important humour has always been for them. Both of them see humour as the foundation of everything, looking for the funny in all they do. Within this framework, they factor in the au...
The Connected Leadership Podcast: Andrew Bryant
August 22, 2022 00:00 - 51 minutesAndy Lopata's guest on the Connected Leadership Podcast is Andrew Bryant, expert in Self Leadership and author of 'The New Leadership Playbook'. Andrew teaches that before you can lead others, you must first lead yourself. If you lack self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-learning you will fail to reach your potential. Self-leadership is the solution for developing leaders and leadership teams to communicate, collaborate, use critical thinking, to be creative. Andy and Andrew discuss how ...
The Importance of Improvisation with John Cremer & Neil Mullarkey
August 15, 2022 00:00 - 45 minutesAndy Lopata continues to explore why humour is important in business. This week his guests on The Connected Leadership Podcast are John Cremer from the USA, a specialist in improvisation and Neil Mullarkey who started the Comedy Store Players and like John teaches improv in workshops. Both John and Neil teach using humour in building relationships and getting on in business. Improv is steeped in tradition and it is a high risk occupation depending on some audience participation. The bottom li...
The Connected Leadership Podcast : Charlotte Kemp
August 08, 2022 00:00 - 46 minutesCharlotte Kemp is the Futures Alchemist, a futurist keynote speaker who works with organisations to co-create preferred futures and to get ahead of trends. Andy Lopata asks Charlotte how we can distinguish between long-term trends and short -term fads. They discuss how leaders can prepare for and influence the future of their organisations. Leaders need the mindset for planning and the skills for taking their teams with them. Charlotte highlights four essentials for managing change and examin...
Personal and Professional Relationships: Bernard Savage
August 01, 2022 00:00 - 50 minutesThe subject of this week's podcast is the interconnection of personal and professional relationships. Bernard Savage's company, Size 10½ Boots helps professional service businesses develop skills and strategies. Andy and Bernard explore the resistance and the strict dividing lines that exist to sharing personal information, especially in large companies. Bernard believes a fresh, more authentic approach is needed. There should be a focus on people and being true to yourself. This is easier in...
Taking Your Team With You; Heather Wright
July 25, 2022 00:00 - 44 minutesThis week Andy Lopata discusses leadership styles and how to encourage and inspire teams with Heather Wright. Heather is a neuro-scientist and is well known for her Leadership Programmes. Andy and Heather pick up from last week's podcast about command and control leadership to see if it is still used and do employees expect it? Are leadership styles changing because of hybrid working? Heather argues that effective leaders are promoted because they are good at building relationships, good at b...
'Laughing Matters' Athena Kugblenu
July 18, 2022 00:00 - 50 minutesIn an enjoyable 150th edition of The Connected Leadership Podcast, Andy Lopata's guest is comedian Athena Kugblenu. Athena makes regular appearances on the UK circuit and at comedy festivals and has a Radio 4 show Athena's Cancel Culture. Andy and Athena start by discussing the fact that one of the greatest fears is speaking in public, and stand-up comedy is a real challenge. But, Athena believes most important is to be likeable, otherwise you can't make people laugh. Andy asks Athena how sh...
The Connected Leadership Podcast: Command and Control with Myles Downey
July 11, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutesIs 'command and control' management on the way out? Andy Lopata discusses with Myles Downey, business coach for leaders and author of 'The Enabling Manager'. In the week PM Boris Johnson had to give in to pressure to resign, his leadership style is questioned. Is there a need for more vulnerable and inclusive leadership? Millennials and GenZ generations do not respond to command and control, so as leaders they could be changing the culture. The question Andy and Myles ask is, what replaces co...
'Building Great Customer Relationships' with David Avrin
July 04, 2022 00:00 - 51 minutesIn this week's edition of the Connected Leadership Podcast, Andy Lopata's guest is David Avrin, speaker and author of five books on marketing and customer experience. The interesting question,'does convenience trump experience?' leads on to a discussion covering processes, digital automation, transactional relationships and chatbots. Technology, in particular automation has allowed companies to simplify their processes, making life easier for them, but sacrificing the personal touch and conv...
The Connected Leadership Podcast with Jayne Bayler
June 27, 2022 00:00 - 48 minutesJayne Beyler is host of The Smart Connector Podcast and known for her global brand marketing and media career. Jayne and Andy Lopata discuss the question 'how to be the 'go to person' in your organisation or industry'. In a fascinating conversation they cover leadership roles, how to stand out from the crowd by being interesting, relevant, sometimes provoking or challenging and how this is important if you want to take your career to the next level. Just doing your job is not enough. They loo...
Reputation and Crisis Management with Alan Stevens
June 20, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutesAndy Lopata's guest in this week's episode of the Connected Leadership Podcast is Alan Stevens, the Media Coach and expert on reputation management. They examine how a leader's reputation inpacts on their organisation. A topical subject in the light of the recent confidence vote in the Prime Minister. Alan is convinced that dialogue and communication are of the utmost importance in crisis management. But, do we allow politicians to be vulnerable, to own up to mistakes? Is it ever too late to...
The Connected Leadership Podcast with Can Papuccuoglu
June 13, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutesIn this week's Connected Leadership Podcast, Andy Lopata discusses the theory of ONA or Organisational Networking Analysis with Can Papuccuoglu and how important this is for leaders and their organisations. Andy and Can investigate how to use ONA to collect data and map organisations, promoting the use of diversity and collaboration. They look at identifying cognitive diversity and whether leaders are underestimating the importance of hidden gems within their companies. The qualities needed f...
The Connected Leadership Podcast with Luke Ambler and Dion Jensen
June 06, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourIn this week's Connected Leadership Podcast, Andy Lopata discusses the topical and important issue of toxic masculinity with Luke Ambler, founder of Andy's Man Club, a talking group, a place for men to come together in a safe environment to talk about issues and problems they have faced or are currently facing. Andy's other guest is Dion Jensen, a New Zealander former soldier and policeman, now involved in mental health initiatives. The discussion covers several topics including the relations...
Connected Leadership Gold: Geoff McDonald and Perry Burton
May 30, 2022 00:00 - 42 minutesIn the final search into the archives for Connected Leadership Gold, Andy Lopata has an interesting conversation with Geoff McDonald of Unilever and Perry Burton from PWC about diversity and dealing with mental health problems. Both guests have had problems which they have overcome with the help of a caring and supportive culture in the workplace. This experience has made them very aware that it is important leaders recognise that having healthy staff enhances performance. Stigma is still att...
Connected Leadership Gold: Andy Woodfield and Heather Manville
May 23, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutesIn the third glimpse into the Connected Leadership Podcast archives, Andy Lopata talks to Andy Woodfield and Heather Manville of PWC, innovators of building and encouraging diversity in leadership teams. Andy Woodfield was determined to create a truly diverse culture that unlocked potential and identified risks and opportunities. The danger exists that companies concentrate on only one aspect of diversity instead of recognising the pool of talent that exists. Andy, Andy and Heather discuss th...
Connected Leadership Gold: Goldie Sayers
May 16, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutesIn this second episode looking into The Connected Leadership Podcast archives, Andy Lopata talks to Goldie Sayers, Olympic bronze medalist, GB team captain and more recently, business coach. They discuss the issues arising in bringing together a group of exceptional individual talents and making them into a team. Goldie has used her experiences in sport to help business executives inspire their staff. Andy and Goldie also explore the transition from one career to another, highlighting the im...
The Connecteed Leadership Gold
May 09, 2022 00:00 - 48 minutesIn this week's Connected Leadership Podcast, Andy Lopata delves into the archives and talks to Lee Cockerell and David McQueen about the power of storytelling in business. In a fascinating and instructive discussion, they cover presentation skills, storytelling at Disney, using stories to motivate staff, visual elements and the importance of using stories effectively and with relevance. Andy, Lee and David also look at when to use stories to demonstrate things that went wrong and the emotiona...
'Can a small business really compete with the big business giants?'
May 02, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutesKevin Gaskell, popular podcaster, serial entrepreneur and intrepid adventurer returns to The Connected Leadership Podcast to discuss his new book 'Catching Giants' with Andy Lopata. Can a small business successfully compete with big business giants? To illustrate how this can be done, Kevin and Andy discuss Kevin's record breaking Atlantic rowing race. A truly fascinating story of dedication, discipline, hard work and a culture of trust, responsibility and strong relationships. The five man t...
'What is human connection and why is it so important?' with Simone Heng
April 25, 2022 00:00 - 51 minutesA former broadcaster on Virgin Radio Dubai, HBO Asia and CNBC, Simone Heng seeks to inspire others to connect in a meaningful way. Simone’s first book, 'Secret Pandemic: The Search for Connection in a Lonely World', explains how her upbringing impacted on her ability to connect and what she learned on the journey to reconnection. Andy focuses on the importance of connecting at a professional level, Simone examines the need for connection at a personal, human level and social media is an impor...
'How Leaders can embrace social media and why it is so important''
April 18, 2022 00:00 - 51 minutesAndy Lopata talks to his guests Sam Rathling of Pipeline 44 and Phil Jones MD of Brother UK about how leaders can embrace social media and why it is so important. Both Sam and Phil agree that 10-15 minutes per day impacts your talent acquisition, impacts your personal brand and reputation and should be a priority and not ignored. Digital reputation is a tool and not a distraction. They discuss the power and reach of using LinkedIn for business and how your LinkedIn profile should represent yo...
'The Success Factor'
April 11, 2022 00:00 - 49 minutesThis week's podcast sees the return of Dr Ruth Gotian to discuss her new book, 'The Success Factor' with Andy Lopata. Original, with new perspectives on established themes and with new ideas on what goes into becoming a high achiever. The book contain a series of interviews with the most successful high flyers. Interviewees include a Nobel Prize winner, Olympians and an Astronaut. All relied on professional relationships and teams and many of those relationships were retained and became frie...
How Relationships Impact Different Stages of a Leaders Journey
April 04, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutesAlisa Cohn was voted the top start up coach in the world. She is the author of 'From Start-Up to Grown-Up' and is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes Magazine. Alisa discusses with Andy Lopata their use of the terminology of 'Champions' and their importance to your world. They look at the differences in relationship building between leaders of start up, scale up and established businesses and how virtual meetups can be managed, avoiding 'Zoom fatigue'. Also, how ...
Corine Jansen 'Listening WITH a Human is an Ethical Choice'
March 28, 2022 00:00 - 7 minutesCorine Jansen is listening WITH and not TO the persons' story. She received the Hall of Fame award in 2021 from the International Listening Association and is a speaker, trainer and assessor in Listening. An interesting conversation with Andy Lopata about listening effectively covers a variety of topics including listening in early years, the influence of social media on listening behaviour and paying attention and focusing on the person you are listening to. They also examine the role of our...
'The Accidental Footballer' Pat Nevin
March 21, 2022 01:00 - 1 hourAndy Lopata's guest on the Connected Leadership podcast this week is Pat Nevin, pro footballer with Clyde, Chelsea, Everton, Tranmere, Kilmarnock Motherwell and Scotland, with a total of almost 850 first team appearances. He was also Chairman of the Professional Footballers Association for 5 years. Pat and Andy discuss a range of topics including racial issues and homophobia in football. They talk about the different attitudes of media, the fans and the owners/managers. Not the usual footbal...
Nurturing Future Leaders & Equipping Them with the Connections to Forge a Career
March 14, 2022 01:00 - 48 minutesAndy Lopata's guest Rebecca Robins, is the Global Chief Learning and Culture Officer at Interbrand. Her role is developing and inspiring leaders and giving them the skills to reach top levels. The Horizon Board at Interbrand consists of aspiring young talent who shadow the main board on an eighteen month tenure. This gives a younger, newer perspective and members of the Horizon Board get connections, mentoring support and the experience to become senior leaders. Emphasis is on the professiona...
Why Would People Recommend You?
March 07, 2022 01:00 - 52 minutesMichael Roderick is the CEO of Small Pond Enterprises and hosts the podcast 'Access to Anyone’. His unique methodology teaching the dynamics behind relationship building and messaging comes from his own experience as a High school English teacher and a Broadway Producer. Andy Lopata discusses with Michael the dynamics of referral and the idea of reciprocity. To make a meaningful referral; relationships, communication and adaptation are key. What people say about you when you are not in the ro...
The Move Into Remote and Hybrid Teams with Graeme Codrington
February 28, 2022 01:00 - 1 hourGraeme Codrington is a South African author, futurist and strategy consultant. The experience of the past two years is leading to a re-appraisal of the workplace. Leaders need to re-think and unlearn traditional ways and plan for the future. Andy Lopata and Graeme Codrington have an interesting conversation on the move to a hybrid workplace and flexible working. How can leaders adapt and get the best from their teams? Graeme emphasises using time in the office more creatively and more effecti...
Entrepreneurial Leadership with Lesley Everett
February 21, 2022 01:00 - 49 minutesAndy Lopata discusses Entrepreneurial Leadership with Lesley Everett, author of 'Walking Tall' the book that established personal branding as a concept. Lesley answers the questions of how and why we should project the best of who we are, being visible, well connected and innovative. They talk about corporate, team and individual personality. Lesley also emphasises the importance of values and the use of personal stories that help to highlight your brand. People are interested in the person r...
How Much of Your Personal Life Do You Share With Your Professional Network?
February 14, 2022 01:00 - 49 minutesMost listeners would be nervous about being completely themselves on social media. Many are very wary of sharing anything from their personal life, particularly on a professional site like LinkedIn. Andy Lopata's guests on this week's Connected Leadership Podcast have both been very open online. Kelly Molson, the co-founder and Managing Director of Rubber Cheese, a user focused web design and development agency, shared the traumas of IVF and losing her babies, believing that it is a subject n...
'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm': Dr Bob Lefkowitz
February 07, 2022 01:00 - 1 hourIn a highly entertaining and informative podcast, Andy Lopata talks to Nobel Laureate, Bob Lefkowitz. Author of 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm'. In his varied and successful career, Bob extensively uses stories, anecdotes and humour to get his message across effectively . He illustrates all his answers to Andy's questions in the same way including describing the amazing experience of receiving his Nobel Prize for Chemistry. They discuss mentoring, using data effectively, the ...
Professional Relationships
December 02, 2021 01:00 - 17 minutesLookng at the professional relationships that impacted his career, Dan explains that arriving in the UK from Australia knowing nobody, he owes everything to the connections he made initially through Thomas and Penny Powers and their Ecademy community. Later it was Adams Street Members Club where he met his wife among others. For Dan professional and personal relationships merged in a community of mutual support. For Mindy, it started with breakfast meetings but she wanted something more orga...
Becoming Recognised as a Thought Leader
November 29, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesAndy Lopata talks to Daniel Priestley, publisher and author of four best-selling books including 'Key Person of Influence' and Mindy Gibbins-Klein, publisher and author of '24 Carat BOLD'. How important is thought leadership when you have a business to run? It is having the courage to share exciting new ideas and be recognised by peers and the market. Dan sees this as being a KPI, a key person of influence. Social media has broken the geographical barriers limiting the spread of ideas. It is ...
Professional Relationships with Dr Lynda Shaw
November 25, 2021 01:00 - 16 minutesDr Lynda Shaw tells Andy Lopata about the two inspirational teachers who impacted her career. The first, the Biology teacher in school who through using stories of the body set her on the path of a love of science. The professor who mentored her during her PHD studies. They cared enough to give Lynda their time, focus and passion which helped to map out her career. She believes that where relationships fail it is usually caused by misunderstanding intentions, poor communications and assumptio...
The Neuroscience of Connected Leadership with Lynda Shaw
November 22, 2021 01:00 - 40 minutesAndy Lopata's guest this week is Dr Lynda Shaw, a cognitive neuroscientist. Andy was particularly interested in how neuroscience helps us to understand our relationships with other people and manage them more effectively. Lynda emphasised that we can never know how someone else feels and that empathy is very important in building relationships. Leaders need to understand the impact of their decisions on other people and theirs on us. Our brains are about networks that influence our decisions....
Professional Relationships: Dr Beam Maue
November 18, 2021 01:00 - 16 minutesAndy Lopata and Beam Maue follow up their earlier conversation about the formation of the innovation mission AFWERX, by looking at the professional relationships both positive and negative, that impacted the experiment. The US Airforce General who gave him the opportunity to lead the mission and a leader and role model who had vision and belief in him. They gave him the support to overcome obstacles and resistance from a military bureaucracy. Beam and his team did initially encounter negativi...
Managing Bureaucracy at Scale: Dr Beam Maue
November 15, 2021 01:00 - 43 minutesDr Beam Maue is the co-founder of AFWERX, an innovation mission within the US Airforce. He and his team have created an innovative and forward thinking community within a military hierarchy. AFWERX now collaborates with hundreds of innovation tech groups and small businesses. Andy and Beam discuss the ideas of democracy versus dictatorships that are the basis of the mission, overcoming problems of bureaucracy and red tape, and the importance of teams and relationships. The mission was exterem...
Professional Relationships with Laura Ash and Kul Muhay
November 11, 2021 01:00 - 19 minutesFollowing his discussion about conflict with two former police officers, Laura Ash and Kul Muhay, Andy Lopata asks more personal questions about the professional relationships that impacted their careers. Kul, a natural introvert found he has a tendency to develop deep relationships based on a values first perspective. He has a small connected world. For Laura relationships are the core of business and level three listening is paramount in developing those connections. She believes that peopl...
The Role of Strong Relationships in Managing Conflict
November 08, 2021 01:00 - 1 hourIn an inspiring discussion with guests Laura Ash and Kul Muhay, Andy Lopata looks at the role of strong relationships in managing conflict situations. Laura Ash is a former police and counter terrorism officer turned health and well-being coach. Kul served for many years in the UK police service. He is a leadership and emotional intelligence specialist, who has spoken widely across private and public sectors on developing emotionally-intelligent leaders and cultures. Emotional intelligence is...
Navigating the Gotiansphere with Ruth Gotian
November 01, 2021 01:00 - 42 minutesIn the last regular podcast with Ruth Gotian, Andy Lopata and Ruth talk about the levels of trust that enable you to open up your network to other people. The 'Gotiansphere' is Andy's description of a world created by Ruth where her networks in New York and London overlap with many becoming close friends who she knows, likes and trusts. These three steps in a relationship are discussed in detail. Ruth and Andy look at the ideas of associated trust, intuition and vulnerable leadership as well ...
Professional Relationships: Mark Herschberg
October 28, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutesIn this discussion about the impact of professional relationships on his career, Mark Herschberg is certain that all the relationships he has had have influenced him in some way. Different relationships both positive and negative helped form the people skills critical in management. For Mark, ethics really matter and he did come across unethical managers. He recognised that there may be no right or wrong but there is a line that must not be crossed. Private communities are safer places where ...
Building Careers Through Relationships: Mark Herschberg
October 25, 2021 00:00 - 51 minutesAndy Lopata's guest on this week's Connected Leadership Podcast is Mark Herschberg the author of The Career Toolkit. Mark has had a varied career from cyber security to creating marketplaces and new authentication systems and teaching at MIT. In this podcast Andy and Mark take a practical view of how relationships play a key role in a successful career, including both internal relationships in an organisation and widening your network with a diverse external network. Internal professional re...
Professional Relationships: Neil Wilkie
October 21, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutesFrom a traditional Scots background and strongly influenced by his father's expectations, Neil Wilkie talks about the relationships that impacted his career. Successful but unhappy, Neil eventually gave up his business where he had never felt comfortable with the ultimate goal of profit. He moved to Vistage acting as a mentor in mastermind groups. For the first time he felt equal in the community of Vistage Chairs, the collegiate nature of the groups which emphasised a shared purpose, opennes...
The Relationship Paradigm with Neil Wilkie
October 18, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutesAndy Lopata's guest on this week's Connected Leadership Podcast is Neil Wilkie, author, coach and psychotherapist. Andy and Neil discuss how the way you engage with both personal and professional relationships impacts the success you enjoy in your career. Neil left a thriving business because it made him unhappy, he wanted to focus on relationships and help successful but unhappy businessmen. He developed a Relationship Paradigm for personal relationships and the discussion looks at how it im...
Professional Relationships with Jon Baker and Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
October 14, 2021 00:00 - 17 minutesAndy Lopata discusses the positive and negative aspects of professional relationships during their careers with Jon Baker and Jenn Kahnweiler. For Jon, an introvert, he was most influenced by extroverts who were people oriented, while he found introverts more task focused. He recalled poor leaders who didn't recognise different personalities and wrongly denigrated those who didn't match their perspective. Jenn had both good and bad managers in the early stages of her career, but there were al...
The Introverts Guide to Building Professional Relationships
October 11, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes'It's useful to have the introvert/extrovert spectrum as a guide, as a way of understanding people are different, behave differently in different circumstances by what energises them. Use it as a guide but still focus on the individual.' Andy Lopata hosts an interesting discussion with Jennifer Kahnweiler from New York and Jon Baker, introvert. They discuss the differences in building relationships, networking, working in teams and understanding people who may be a different personality type....
The Connected Leadership Podcast with Luca Signoretti
October 04, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutesAndy Lopata welcomes back Connected Leadership Podcast regular contributor Luca Signoretti and they talk about the need for change and re-visiting where you are in your career and your goals. The pandemic has brought a time of change. Companies are re-structuring and there is a rise in redundancies. Andy and Luca discuss the problems of moving to new areas of business and how good research and a diverse network can help. The value of feedback and a trusted mentor help to negotiate an unfamili...
The Connected Leadership Podcast with Zena Everett
September 30, 2021 00:00 - 15 minutesZena Everett's entire career is based on professional relationships and she discusses with Andy Lopata how important this has been. All opportunities have come from her network and she includes the pivotal effect of feedback from trusted sources, however tough. Relationships could go wrong when she was too opinionated, giving unwanted advice. Zena learned that sometimes people just want someone to listen. She shares some of her favourite books.
Are We Too Busy to Build Relationships? Zena Everett
September 27, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutesAndy lopata's guest this week is Zena Everett, a leadership coach and speaker on career strategy and productivity. She is the author of Amazon #1 best-seller 'The Crazy Busy Cure'. Andy and Zena discuss the challenge most clients share of a lack of time to focus on relationship building, particularly true in professional services where people are often judged on billable hours. How do we strike the right balance and find the time? The importance of building relationships outside the business...