TesseTalks
57 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTesseTalks inspires hope. A unique and powerful podcast where we share with you top leadership and management strategies that encourages leaders, board members and management to take action in today's world through compelling stories and conversations.
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Vulnerability - A Human Gem
April 04, 2024 03:09 - 23 minutes - 14.7 MBSays David Taylor-Klaus , “Vulnerability is a human gem. It's a core part of who we are and it doesn't have to be hard. It just has to be conscious. And when you bring it up to conscious awareness, when you invite it, when you lean into it, it's not hard, it's a practice. Being attentive to your frame and your energy as you're creating something, whether that's your presentation to your board or something other activity”. " Leaders who don't bring themselves and their full selves to their...
Feed Forward Inspires Quality Performance
March 08, 2024 04:19 - 26 minutes - 17.8 MBPeople are less familiar with, feedforward which inspires quality performance. That’s because there really isn't any point pointing out to people what they're really bad at, because they probably already know. The brilliant thing about feedforward is that people at the receiving end of feedforward see aspects of their performance that they are less good at - start becoming better! This is because people feel good and are not trying to undo what they are not good at. In pursuit of excellence ...
Power of Feedback
February 09, 2024 00:46 - 27 minutes - 16.4 MBDebra Allcock Tyler reflects on the power of feedback “What is the point of saying something to somebody that they are not going to do anything about? Instinctively as a human being we assume feedback is going to be bad. As managers and as leaders, we have an enormous amount of power of other people. The biggest power we've got is over their emotional state. “Feedback is about the person who gives it and the person who receives it, and both have got to be in the right space. We can wield fe...
Insights Focusing on Career Change
January 25, 2024 05:08 - 27 minutes - 17.8 MB“Working with a coach is lovely. In that space a coach can really push and prod and poke, just like the journalist would, but in a much more supportive way. You can't think your way into a career change, because at some point you get stuck. So much is shifting. This isn't a kind of one and you're done. It's not like you decide and you're stuck forever”, says Rachel Schofield. Rachel Schofield worked for the BBC for 20 years as a journalist and news presenter before training as career and ....
Boundary Boss Review By Erin Randall and Tesse Akpeki
January 04, 2024 02:27 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBTesseTalks review "Boundary Boss", written by Terri Cole - The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free, with special guest Erin Randall who is all about happy people doing great work. Boundaries really matter. In Boundary Boss, Cole models how people can connect with the appropriateness and benefits of putting boundaries in place and begin to apply this understanding to their individual situations. She gives you exercises and scripts to follow so that you can model it ...
Life Changing - A Map to Happiness
December 15, 2023 01:13 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBLife changing is achieved by a map to happiness. Jane Gunn points to a compass of North, East South and East and West with a link to personal and professional values. N in North, what we're trying to do is to say, what's going on Now? What is the immediate challenge? Essential, even if you're starting up a collaboration. E in East stands for "Explore". Where am I with this? What am I thinking? What am I feeling? What are my own hopes and dreams? You know, we need to really understand our...
Dreams and Triumph
November 22, 2023 10:29 - 7 minutes - 7.25 MBDreams can become a reality. The dream you hold is what bears fruit. Tenacity and patience can make a difference to stay with our intention. Shortlisted three times for the Championship Award , for Tesse Akpeki, it is third time lucky. She has been crowned Champion for Governance 2023 by the Chartered Governance Institute for United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. “I would like to thank everyone who nominated me over the three opportunities to become a champion. I am so glad I can serve ...
Brown Girl In The Ring
October 12, 2023 04:49 - 25 minutes - 19 MB“Brown Girl in the Ring came from a place of desperation” says Olukemi Ogunyemi. “Though my recollections are pretty harsh, the memoirs reflect my reality. All of us were in some kind of pain. People feel judged sometimes when you ask them to change something without any understanding of why they could consider doing so. If we understand things, we are more inclined to make changes” says Olukemi”. “All of the experiences have been a learning, a deepening understanding to myself. The painfu...
Power Of Transformation
September 07, 2023 02:22 - 28 minutes - 18.4 MBStephen Sidebottom brings a refreshing take on transformations. “ People are actually extraordinarily adaptable. The idea that people don't like change is, I think fundamentally false. What I think is true is that organizations don't like change. The construct people are asked to operate is rigid and fixed, and the mechanism for adapting and changing those constructs, whether they're social constructs or organizational constructs, are much slower than the mechanisms by which people the...
The Great Revitalization
July 19, 2023 22:26 - 27 minutes - 31.8 MB“I asked an audience what they are passionate about just before the pandemic. Then as well as now, they admitted running the hamster wheel so fast that they have lost complete touch as to who they are, what matters to them, and what they want for themselves in the world. When we can create workplaces where people can feel like I'm doing work that enlivens me. I'm learning, I'm growing, I'm reaching. I can feel myself growing toward my potential, that the playground of life where people reall...
Elements Making a Difference
June 22, 2023 16:04 - 27 minutes - 31.3 MBHow can elements make a difference? Erin Randall explains how. “Magnesium" is work each person is going to be doing towards crafting better things. Each voice is a voice of a system. What does this system need now? Ad Meliora means to better things. The catalytic question is “what do I want to create? “. The Quest 1.What is the purpose of a system? Is it to protect or is it to create? “If we want empathy in systems, if we want that connection in people, we need to be able to stand in tho...
Life Without a Tie, Finding Your Path
May 10, 2023 17:41 - 27 minutes - 32.1 MBRay Martin, author of “ Life Without A Tie, Finding Your Path Amidst the Noise, Chaos, and Pressure to Conform “ says - “I won the Daily Telegraph Business Leader of the Year award, so I had public recognition. So I had all the trimmings and trappings of success. But I have to say that honestly, for quite a few of those years, I wasn't feeling like I was really, truly happy. And I felt like it somehow I'd managed to end up in someone else's life. I was living a life that others expected of...
Boundaries and Accountabilities
April 26, 2023 23:13 - 30 minutes - 35.5 MBErin Randall elaborates on The Funky Monkey. Listening to Erin, the key considerations are: “Whose responsibility is it? How can I hold you accountable? What can you hold me accountable for’’? These questions can bring about alignment in our organisations in our teams and in our personal lives. Why do boundaries matter? Boundaries are essential to build and sustain healthy relationships, to make good neighbours and to act as anchor points for conversations and clarity. Erin is passionate abo...
All That Matters
March 28, 2023 17:28 - 33 minutes - 38.9 MBSade Marriott and Max Ekesi share their views in this recording that shines a light on a post covid world. There has been a raised awareness, especially in the last three years - of the importance of mental health. There is a lot of PTSD. People have gone through one of the most shocking experience with the pandemic They have rearranged their lives, becoming detached from a lot of things that they were taking for granted. There has been a change in focus as people are waking up to what t...
Gifted with Grief
March 16, 2023 11:17 - 24 minutes - 27.7 MB“Life cannot exist without death. New life springs up, depending on the time of year. If we all talked about death as much as we talked about birth, the world would be a very different place" says Jane Duncan Rogers, a TEDx speaker , an author and end of life expert. "Life happens and we have a choice to go with it and make the best of it or not".
From Burnout to Best Life
February 16, 2023 05:42 - 19 minutes - 22.6 MB“I was highly paid, but I was miserable and my health was suffering. And as I have gotten older, happiness and health and wellness are so much more important to me. I was just miserable” says Lisa Hammett. “Life had no colour. I like to equate it as being devoid of colour. It's just gray. If you don't have your health, you don't have a whole lot. Happiness helps you to just get up in the morning, and live your life to the best of your ability. When you get near or at burnout, you lose the ca...
Dance of Co-Leadership
January 26, 2023 03:23 - 24 minutes - 28.3 MBSara Ramsey defines co-leadership as” leaders coming together to make joint decision making and taking shared responsibilities”. Co-leaders may be co-founders, co-CEOs or leaders who jointly support self-managing and self-organizing organizations. “ I get to work with all sorts of inspiring people, you know, wanting to do positive things in the world. They want to try and do things differently as well”, says Sara.
Get On The Bull-Unavoidable Failure
December 15, 2022 09:10 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBFailure's not just unavoidable, it's necessary, important and an unavoidable part of life. This is a common theme of the book, "Get On The Bull” - a giant leadership analogy based on bull riders. They fall a lot. They get thrown off bulls in dramatic and painful fashion. When you’re going to do stuff, you’re going to get it wrong and you're going to mess it up. If you aren't failing, you probably aren't trying enough new things. The statistic for the absolute best bull riders in the world, i...
Forward Facing Podcast Planning Ahead
December 08, 2022 05:02 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MB“We are keeping things real by leaning into the context out guests are operating in. We are curious about their situations while encouraging them to find solutions and approaches tailored to them. We are holding this open safe space for them as a mirror where they are arriving at their own solutions.” “We are going online as much as possible because even though we are podcasting, podcasting in itself has changed. Podcasting has gone from just being the audio file that you can take anywhere...
Fresh Solutions New Challenges
November 11, 2022 12:02 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBMax Ekesi’s favourite phrase is, "I never made the mistake of taking life too seriously". Max’s diverse multicultural and multiethnic background and experiences are proving to be core assets to his highly adaptable nature. “ I grew up in Nigeria, but my first language was Italian with a Roman accent. My adaptive mindset is my super power. I am fluid, respectful, able to connect with various cultures and have an ability to help people to feel at home. Integration helps the collaboration.” say...
The Lens That Make A Difference
September 01, 2022 07:57 - 26 minutes - 30.9 MBOur guest Mick Rogers a consultant at Client Centred Consulting spoke passionately about the lens that make a difference. As Mick explains, “ Client Centred Consulting leans away from being prescriptive. Instead of asking the question, how can we help and be useful when we're not the expert in the problem or in the subject? Client centeredness is a way of maintaining, respecting and working with the rights of other people. This lens recognises that for us to survive and thrive we need othe...
Connecting my Different Worlds
July 29, 2022 10:12 - 27 minutes - 31.1 MB“A Beautiful mind connecting her different worlds “are some of the words that can be used to describe Marta Maretich. Marta seamlessly combines her creativity with problem- solving. In many ways her approach shapes order out of messiness. She likens this to coding and building websites. “Behind a perfect website, there's a messy code. “You have to be able to face complexity and know what to do about it.” Marta talks about her work with governing boards, “They're made up of human beings and yo...
Mastery: Ego Coaching Transitions
June 24, 2022 04:30 - 29 minutes - 33.4 MB“In order to be okay in the world and to belong I need to be certain things. The ego tends to protect ourselves. We want to prove we are extraordinary, and we have to hide our weaknesses. Exploring ego touches on our sole identities and being able to speak about our identities.” Carole’s personal mastery journey helped her to reclaim my voice, her agency, her creativity, and her sense of confidence. Her cartoons and creative writing help her to share her thoughts. “I love helping people. I fe...
From Acting to Leading
June 02, 2022 13:20 - 25 minutes - 28.8 MB“It's about how can we come together to do really good important things in this world " says Sharon Newport. Sharon has authored content, and provided consultation, expertise and facilitation across four continents supporting and inspiring cultural and strategic transformation. Through the experience of being in sync with each other, I am curious and passionate about what are we getting done together. It can be very simple, but quite broad such as Dignity and Love - how that does or does not ...
Finding Your Voice
April 27, 2022 19:39 - 24 minutes - 28.7 MB“Unlock Your Chains And Unleash Your Greatness. Let's share our voices together”. invites Renee. “You don't have to wait for a new year or a new day. How about the next minute and the next minute and the next minute to do different and be and become different, to who you aspire to be. When you're present in the moment you are stepping into the future, and that very next moment to build the momentum to the next moments.” “Encourage is courage in courage.” What would you do if you lost your voi...
An Assured Unitary Governance Model
April 20, 2022 14:22 - 23 minutes - 27.4 MBPhilip Kirkpatrick, deputy managing partner of Bates Wells London LLP offers hope to strengthen governance and balance in expectations of trustees. He feels that an assured unitary governance model offers assurance for boards and organisations they governance. “We all love change as long as it's happening to someone else. No one is very keen to change themselves.” There's not one only one way of doing this, you know. There is a broad structure, and there will be different ways in which people...
Our Entrepreneurship Spirit
April 07, 2022 10:13 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBWorking on or in the business? Offering hacks for entrepreneurs, Deborah Barker FRSA, Director at Field and Folk is a natural dyer and works on regenerative Fibre Projects. Deborah makes a useful distinction between working in the business and working on the business. She explains “Working on the business includes anything strategic. It is when you take a step back and look at the bigger picture. What is the vision? What are the decisions you are making and how do these decisions align with t...
The Light in Your Eyes
March 18, 2022 13:32 - 28 minutes - 33.3 MBBalancing Act: Teach, Coach, Mentor, Inspire reminds us that success without balance is often more disastrous than failure with balance. “I'd rather see a fail and learn something from it. Then I can pick myself back up and do better next time rather than build a huge ego that is going to lead to some future disaster that I don't know yet. So opened Dr Andrew Temte CFA. Andrew likes to coach the younger generation, those that are coming after us. “People are watching that light in your eye. B...
Lost In Wonder
March 08, 2022 06:21 - 31 minutes - 36.4 MBSteve Morris says “If you want a bit of wonder then think about the people who've loved you and who love you. Be kind because your kindness might be the only book people read today. Hollywood might be able to find something that's a bit more sustainable and that might mean having the camera closer in rather than further out”. During the COVID lockdown it was possible to feel more wonder that lasts beyond fleeting experiences. This informs your whole life. Whatever goes on or goes wrong, there...
How Leaders and Teams can avoid Burnout
February 09, 2022 05:59 - 26 minutes - 30.4 MBDesiree Anderson helps others find their purpose in life and their purpose in work and she specializes in business relationships and burnout.
How I landed my dream job
January 12, 2022 03:25 - 19 minutes - 22.2 MBTomide Awe landed her dream job with Twitter. We invited her to share her journey. “My motto is always believing yourself. Always, regardless of the circumstance. I believe in myself, I believe that I can get to an answer. Believe in yourself, whatever comes your way, you can do it. “ Tomide seeks out projects to let her employers see her value quickly and then picks up more challenging things and learns more. She thinks about quick wins and works really hard as she proves herself. People wh...
Agile Transformations
December 23, 2021 06:32 - 31 minutes - 36.2 MBWe close 2021 with a podcast that made Paula and I laugh so much and learn so much. The amazing Max Ekesi, a superstar, shares with us the importance and impact of agile transformations. Agile Transformations Max Ekesi is an Agile Transformational Leader at Paypal. Max is a problem solver and leads agile transformations. He is pragmatic, energetic, energising, bags of fun and a magnificent Chair. He leads transformations by working with agile mindsets. Changing mindsets is the hardest thin...
Celebrating Tony
December 17, 2021 02:34 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBA year ago my beloved brother Tony suffered serious injuries in Dover following a suspected hit and run . He had gone to the Care Home to collect Covid Samples for testing and was walking to his car when the incident occurred. Tony has joked and smiled with the staff and wished them a Merry Christmas. It was the Care Staff who found him. He leaves behind four children, the youngest who was eight years old at the time. Always a man of duty, loyalty and kindness, Tony served his country to t...
Leadership through a Creative Lens
December 08, 2021 01:10 - 30 minutes - 35.3 MBLeadership through a Creative lens can be defined as when you're in a leadership role and you feel that the whole team is pushing in the same direction. It's a very rewarding feeling. Rob McCrea reminds us that understanding that in a leadership role, you have to serve the people who work with you. You have to make sure that they have everything that they need in order to be able to do their jobs properly. But also for them to feel fulfilled, to feel part of something that's important to fee...
Soaring through Analytic Coaching
October 13, 2021 13:59 - 30 minutes - 35.5 MB“Find the rooms and the conversations and the friendships and the love affairs, where that intuition can blossom into inquiry. You can deliberately choose the risks you want to face and that you're resourced when life blind sides. Dr. Kate Hamer touches on the importance of dialogue and reflects on questions the world is asking of us. How can we respond? Each of us wakes up and rises from our beds. “We take ourselves; we throw ourselves; we trip and stumble into the wider world”. Existential ...
Compassionate Accountability
October 05, 2021 22:45 - 29 minutes - 33.7 MBCompassionate accountability means that feelings matter, thoughts matter and behaviour matters. The associated tools are helping physicians and surgeons deliver bad news to patients in a compassionate way, helping boards of directors lead their CEO's more effectively, supporting negotiators do a better job, turning regrets into commitments for the future. The applications are really infinite. Compassion is my passion admits Dr Nate Regier. Compassion isn't about what we do to other people, it...
Self-care is not weakness - it is being human.
September 15, 2021 04:18 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBSelf-care is not weakness. It is being human says our guest Nancy White, an entrepreneur of 35 years. It is being accountable to ourselves first and foremost. Not yo-yo diets, but more of the sustainable, healthy lifestyle with choices will keep you well as you age, mature and weather each season. Everybody needs to be lifted and acknowledged for the good things they're doing. The power of negativity should not ever go unnoticed or taken for granted. This matters because it takes seven posit...
The Space Between Black And White
September 01, 2021 05:08 - 37 minutes - 52.3 MBEsua Goldsmith has always been a writer. Her memoir "The Space between Black and White" Illustrates the painful, lonely existence of a mixed race child growing up in Britain as an “only “. That child was Esua. Life can seem like a whole series of random events that don't make any sense, but it's only when you write them down that you can see that they form a pattern. It was almost to tell her story to herself that Esua wrote her memoirs. As a child she was lonely and felt a need to to expl...
Design Thinking - Melody Song
August 16, 2021 04:02 - 28 minutes - 39 MBDesign thinking helps you to understand people’s needs to look holistically at interactions and constantly iterate the way forward. Focusing your efforts on the most impactful design moments creates new and sticky experiences. Imagine meeting and exceeding your customers' needs and expectations. Imagine what you can achieve by understanding the interactions people have, surfacing problem areas, exploring opportunities through designing a more accurate, updated and relevant customer ...
When Standing Out is About Standing In!
August 04, 2021 01:17 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBAccording to Sade Marriott host of the Banana Island Podcast, standing out is about standing in! Sade's personal take on life and wellbeing is thus " I'm happy about being comfortable in my own skin now and being a bit more self-aware and a bit more conscious of other people's emotions and less careless of other people's emotions. Yeah not tangible material stuff, I mean those are transient. But I want to be able to look in the mirror and not be embarrassed at what I've become. I don't w...
Our Capsule Environment
July 21, 2021 00:08 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBCapsule environments are environments that are isolated and confined – a challenge to leadership. The external conditions of capsule environments are harsh and dangerous. Our guest Binna Kandola talks about this. The typical features of a capsule environment are social isolation with the same group of people with sensory restrictions. Star Trek, Voyager, Dr Who, the Big Brother House and Space Travel demonstrate the features of capsule environments. This becomes relevant to leadership who ...
It's All About Love - Nadine Robson
July 13, 2021 17:50 - 24 minutes - 33.5 MB“My mum was all about love and loving” says Nadine Robson. We learn from an early age that what helps is being open and comfortable with energising conversations. Energising is about not getting stuck in that place of feeling in despair or feeling overwhelmed, having a glimmer of hope. Nadine learnt the importance of mental health and getting alongside people, understanding those experiences and deepening the empathy for ourselves and others. Supporting people with their mental health en...
TesseTalks Meets TesseLeads
June 18, 2021 09:29 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this episode of “TesseTalks Meets TesseLeads”, Tesse and Paula want to say “A big thanks to our social media community that gathered family gathered around TesseTalks and Tesse Leads showing their support . I was touched by the thousands... and there were thousands of people who showed their care and empathy through their messages, their prayers. Tony’s death is a very sad moment for the Akpeki family and friends. The love shown proves that diversity and inclusion are alive. People care f...
Sarah Giles - Awesome You
June 04, 2021 05:58 - 20 minutes - 14 MBAwesome You, Stepping out of the shadows is Sarah Giles’ nudge for us to stop standing on the sidelines and step out of the shadows, confidently, owning who we truly are and taking our place in the world. This starts with understanding ourselves a bit better enabling us to better support others. Pace matters. We may need to stop, take the moment to pause and be still. How about the fear we face? Fear starts to disappear when we are so focused on our purpose, and our journey. We naturally s...
Future Focus-Wellbeing and Resilience
May 20, 2021 21:26 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBFuture Focus is all about remembering that life is not always negative even though it may seem like that. It is worth remembering that when we are in a hard place. The dark tunnel is like being in a valley, it's tough, it's dark, it's painful. But it will not always be like that. It is not a permanent state.
Not Done Yet - the Value Of Aging
May 05, 2021 11:31 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBThe value of aging is a topic Bonnie Marcus touches on frequently. Paula. and I talk with her about “Not done yet - the value of aging". Bonnie reminds us that we need to be mindful of our own bias and our beliefs that may sabotage the life that we want to have. “Age-ism happens, it’s not just about getting older. A lot of young people face age-ism”. Entrepreneurs need to understand how they may be holding themselves back thinking they don’t bring as much value as somebody younger and th...
Perfectly Imperfect - It Starts with Action
April 21, 2021 08:48 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBFellow podcaster Presence Plumb whose podcast , “It starts with Action”, draws on The acronym for ACTION - Awareness, Confidence, Tenacity, Intention, Openness and Now (Presence) . Being Perfectly Imperfect, Presence admits that fear of failure and fear of success has held her back. Her proudest moments have been showing vulnerability and being open . “This just whom I am”.
Creative Thinking That Transforms
April 02, 2021 21:48 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBTesse and Paula talk with serial entrepreneur David Taylor-Klaus about Creative Leadership and the Thinking that Transforms. We can see creative thinking that transforms in this statement - “I celebrate even the harshest critiques and I hold and support people with amazing strength as they walk through their darkest night. My strength and my power come from fully embracing my humanity – my messiness – in all of its glory”.
The Value of Knowledge - Jason J Briggs.
March 18, 2021 04:52 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBJason J Briggs tells #TesseTalks the value of knowledge and the importance of robust debate, having alternative ways of listening to views you don’t agree with and keeping an open mind that can strengthen decision making. “Vulnerability and authenticity make for a successful and authentic organization. Board members excel when they are transparent about the process they followed in how they arrived at the course of action. The organisation I served on as a board member raised £1.2m for ...
Keeping momentum In an Ever Changing Environment
March 03, 2021 16:32 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBAndy Martin builds on his thoughts on Achieving Results in Unpredictable Times. Andy encourages us to show up as our best self every day to set up a winnable and compellable game. A habit of renewal is crucial combined with a positive mindset and intent. The three buckets or the real issues leaders confront, the evidence that is presented and the impact of actions and companion behaviours for success.