Searching for Elephants - Entrepreneurship and leading from the front
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Looking to be a better leader? Or maybe even thinking about starting your own business? Searching for Elephants is the place for you. Covering a multitude of subjects with tonnes of great leaders!
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Mark Twigg - How do we build the UK to a better future?
December 01, 2021 08:51 - 45 minutes - 83.7 MBMark Twigg is an executive director at Cicero/AMO, he was born in Rotherham before working for the Labour Party in the late 90's. A lifelong diversity and inclusion campaigner he specialises in government relations and lobbying. Tom and him go toe to toe on the why the financial regulator is key to our society going forward and look back at what Britain could have done better in the 70's and 80's and how that might inform us as we approach the future.
Tony Langham - Nuance in the world of PR
November 24, 2021 08:25 - 42 minutes - 49.1 MBTony Langham, CEO of Lansons, joins Tom and Angus and dives into his and Lansons' history, horse racing and why he's happy defending the offshore banking sector.
Katie Crook Davies - Diversity, Inclusion and Everest
November 17, 2021 08:59 - 42 minutes - 48.7 MBJust before she went through the major life change of motherhood, Katie sat down with Tom and Angus Baigrie to discuss her journey through the world of Insurance; a journey so adventurous it has even taken her halfway up Everest. Listen in as Katie talks to Tom and Angus about her past, what brought her into insurance, and her thoughts on how diversity and inclusion has changed recently within the financial services industry.
Johnny Timpson and Peter Hamilton - Making the protection industry more accessible
November 10, 2021 10:14 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBIndustry giants do battle! Well it may not be a battle but it's definitely heavy hitting. Join Johnny Timpson, Peter Hamilton and Tom Baigrie as they talk about how they are attempting to make Protection better for everyone.
Debbie Kennedy and Tom Baigrie; What could possibly go wrong?
November 02, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 35.7 MBThe handover from successful entrepreneur to successor CEO is notoriously fraught with danger. Join Tom Baigrie and LifeSearch's new CEO, Debbie Kennedy, as they look to draw up a map through the whirlpools.
Debbie Kennedy and Tom Baigrie - What could possibly go wrong?
November 02, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 35.7 MBThe handover from successful entrepreneur to successor CEO is notoriously fraught with danger. Join Tom Baigrie and LifeSearch's new CEO, Debbie Kennedy, as they look to draw up a map through the whirlpools.
Melvyn Nwajei - Leadership and Black History Month
October 27, 2021 08:23 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBTom and Angus sit down with a leader from inside LifeSearch, Melvyn Nwajei leads a team of telephone interviewers but also after George Floyd's murder was one of the founding members of LifeSearch's Fairness and Diversity Squad. Hear him talk about a range of issues from his days spent searching people for weapons in Manchester to a massacre in 1920's Oklahoma.
Wasfi Kani - When I'm 80 what would I regret not doing?
October 20, 2021 09:02 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBWasfi Kani is the CEO of Grange Park Opera. Born in the East London she started teaching herself the piano at 9 and was playing Violin in The National Youth Orchestra by 16. She read music at Oxford but was good at Maths so became a computer programmer but soon gave that up to become a conductor. With a story like that how could she be anything but interesting?
Welcome to Searching for Elephants
September 30, 2021 07:47 - 1 minute - 1.52 MBApparently Podcasts require a day of celebration and apparently 30th September 2021 is it. So here's a little trailer to give you an idea of what we do and what's coming up in Season 2. Landing mid October!
Disability with Ste Clark, Fi Rooney and Maddy Gunn
July 12, 2021 11:01 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBAngus talks to Ste Clark, Fi Rooney and Maddy Gunn, 3 highly experienced Searchers who live with disabilities, about disability and how it affects their lives. Covering a wide range of topics this conversation gives great insight into the lives of people who live with a disability.
Luke Ambler on the Health, Wealth and Happiness Report: The Pandemic (3/3)
May 11, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBLifeSearch CEO Tom Baigrie hosts Ally Millar, Baz Moffatt, Davinia Tomlinson, Luke Ambler and Nina Skero in the Health, Wealth and Happiness conversations*. Together with Cebr, LifeSearch compiled three brand new indices to deliver an accurate reading of health, wealth and happiness levels in the UK. In these three conversations, our experts further pull apart the report, exploring its findings and relating them to their own experiences and expertise. This episode, the last of a 3-p...
Davinia Tomlinson on The Health, Wealth and Happiness Report: The Pandemic (2/3)
May 11, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBLifeSearch CEO Tom Baigrie hosts Ally Millar, Baz Moffatt, Davinia Tomlinson, Luke Ambler and Nina Skero in the Health, Wealth and Happiness conversations. Together with Cebr, LifeSearch compiled three brand new indices to deliver an accurate reading of health, wealth and happiness levels in the UK. In these three conversations, our experts further pull apart the report, exploring its findings and relating them to their own experiences and expertise. This episode, the second of a 3-...
Baz Moffat and The Health, Wealth and Happiness Report: The Pandemic (1/3)
May 11, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBLifeSearch CEO Tom Baigrie hosts Ally Millar, Baz Moffatt, Davinia Tomlinson, Luke Ambler and Nina Skero in the Health, Wealth and Happiness conversations. Together with Cebr, LifeSearch compiled three brand new indices to deliver an accurate reading of health, wealth and happiness levels in the UK. In these three conversations, our experts further pull apart the report, exploring its findings and relating them to their own experiences and expertise. This episode, the first of a 3-p...
Mental Health with The Listening Ears
April 16, 2021 08:03 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBJoin Angus as he talks to 4 members of LifeSearch's Listening Ears team - Sarah Martin, Matthew Grantham, Bethan Jones, and Maxine Austin as they talk all things Mental Health, LifeSearch and how the two fit together. In this in-depth conversation, they dive into how to better get a grasp of your thoughts, their personal history with the subject and why it is that LifeSearch needs The Listening Ears. Please be aware some people may find some of the things that come up triggering if ...
The Adviser Edition
March 30, 2021 07:52 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBBen Burgess, Poonam Khan and Tom Baigrie discuss what it's like to be a top adviser at LifeSearch, how nervous they were on their first day and how long it took them to get up to that A+ standard. They are open with Tom on how they view the business and protection industry as a whole and even delve into why the job they do works, and sometimes doesn't work, for them
The LifeSearch Awards Winner's Podcast
March 19, 2021 08:17 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBAll the winners of the LifeSearch Awards 2021 tell us what it feels like to win and why they think they won, and the Searchers that did vote for them tell us why they actually did win. Think of it as a cheat sheet for how to win an award next year!
LGBTQ+ History Month
February 26, 2021 15:44 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBThis week we talk LGBTQ+ History Month. Angus is joined by Shaukat Ali, Maddy Gunn and Andrew Parker and they talk about everything from Queer as Folk and It's a Sin creator Russel T. Davies to eating Cake in the Garden centre.
LifeSearch's Fairness and Diversity Squad
January 18, 2021 08:29 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBAfter the death of George Floyd and the subsequent BLM protests, LifeSearch felt it wasn't doing enough. So The Fairness and Diversity Squad was born. They meet twice a month to talk about a massive variety of things and have already made many changes to the way LifeSearch operates. Tune in to hear about the experiences of LifeSearch's fairness and diversity squad and the changes they are helping to bring to LifeSearch today.
Racial Inequality with Darren Sturdy and Tom Baigrie
January 10, 2021 19:20 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBThis podcast was first released inside LifeSearch in the late Summer of 2020, we feel it's right to start off 2021 by putting this conversation between Darren Sturdy and Tom Baigrie out into the world. Darren talks openly and honestly about what it's been like growing up as a black man in Britain and how the death of George Floyd and the BLM movement has and are changing things.
Retirement and looking back at LifeSearch with Shaun Barker and Tom Baigrie
December 29, 2020 12:08 - 32 minutes - 30 MBShaun Barker is retiring after 14 brilliant years with LifeSearch, he and Tom Baigrie have a conversation that covers all areas. From the early days of LifeSearch's Leeds branch to more recent memories of Cape Town. Shaun reveals why he was scared the first time he and Tom met and gets to ask Tom a question that he's had on his mind for 12 years.
Shaun Barker
December 29, 2020 12:08 - 32 minutes - 30 MBShaun Barker is retiring after 14 brilliant years with LifeSearch, he and Tom Baigrie have a conversation that covers all areas. From the early days of LifeSearch's Leeds branch to more recent memories both positive and negative, no holds barred.
How are you spending your Christmas break?
December 22, 2020 17:36 - 28 minutes - 66.1 MBThis week Angus is talking to Emily Kate Brewer, John Hurd, Naz Patel, Beth Jones and Melvyn Nwajei about how they celebrate. In a weird and wonderful conversation, we talk Fasting, Nut Roasts and the computer game, Football Manager.
Festive Plans
December 22, 2020 17:36 - 28 minutes - 66.1 MB6 Searchers tell us all about their festive plans. A wonderful and weird selection of things are chatted about including everyone's thoughts on parsnips, Hawaiian Pizza and eco-friendly Christmas lights!
End of Year Winner's Speeches
December 15, 2020 11:22 - 8 minutes - 8.28 MBEvery year we have an End of Year Celebration, this year's was online but no less epic than any other. Our award winners recorded their thoughts post-winning and let's just say that we had to grab a tissue or two. Thank you so much winner's, this podcast would literally be nothing without you!
Income Protection 2 - Tom Baigrie and Roy McLoughlin
December 01, 2020 09:19 - 16 minutes - 37.4 MBTom Baigrie and Roy McLoughlin make a lot of noise about income protection and we presume the industry wants to sell more of it. But are we totally aligned? Are there parts of the market that don't want to sell more IP?
Income Protection - Tom Baigrie and Roy McLoughlin
November 26, 2020 08:23 - 29 minutes - 67.9 MBTom and Roy discuss how the IP landscape has completely changed in the last year, and that it's now a whole new ball game with more people than ever before thinking about how they themselves must protect their income.
Income Protection with Tom Baigrie and Roy McLoughlin
November 26, 2020 08:23 - 29 minutes - 67.9 MBTom and Roy discuss how the IP landscape has completely changed in the last year, and that it's now a whole new ball game with more people than ever before thinking about how they themselves must protect their income.