Talent Smart Podcast
Our intention is to interview inspirational and interesting people from the world of Technology and Business to uncover new ideas and innovations.We want to learn how business and technology can benefit humankind in the future.
Episodes
We were very excited to interview Dennis Akkerman, the founder and managing director of Orbis Business School. He has over two decades of experience in leading major transformations in more than 25 countries. He has worked with multinational companies including; Citibank, HSBC, Shell, and Coca-Cola, as well as entrepreneurs and SMEs.
In his first book, The Naked Leader, Denn...
Ian Pears is the former VP of Information Security at Carnival Cruises (P&O, Cunard..etc).
During 30 years in the Royal Navy, Ian worked extensively in the design, management, and delivery of Information Warfare capability. With two commands served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as supporting Naval operations he also stood up the Royal Navy’s nascent Cyber Defence capa...
Up until very recently, Andy was the New Product Development Director at Dyson. He's a proven senior director with 25+ years of experience driving product development, business transformation, and operational excellence in global technology and innovation-driven organisations. Trusted by the C-suite to lead major transformation initiatives, blending strategic vision with tactical execution to drive proc...
Craig is currently serving as the Group Director of IT at Hotelplan Group, overseeing technology strategy and operations for some of the UK's most respected travel brands. His leadership has been pivotal in enhancing operational efficiency and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Recognised for his strategic vision and ability to lead Global cross-functional teams, Craig has been instrumental in...
Jessica S. Hall is the Chief Growth Officer at OpsCanvas, leading product strategy, market positioning, and go-to-market execution. A seasoned product and design leader, she has extensive experience in guiding companies through digital transformation and building customer-centric products.
A TEDx speaker and Co-author of The Product Mindset, Jessica has led multimillion-doll...
Director of Digital Product and Business Partnering at HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær, Charlotte Bemand is an accomplished executive with extensive experience working across global FTSE 100 corporations, family-owned enterprises, multinational organisations, and the public sector.
She specialises in strategic development, transformation, and scaling delivery, with a focus on new market entry, M&A ...
Gurdeep currently serves as an advisor to several private equity firms and IT services companies around the world. In addition to his advisory roles, he’s also an investor and strategic partner in an AI startup behind two innovative products: ConnectingYouNow.ai (CYN) and Firebreak.ai.
His expertise lies in supporting executive teams to build robust go-to-market strategies and drive consistent business performance—from shaping valu...
In this episode, Brenden shares his experience in transitioning legacy businesses to digital. Including the initial impetus for starting the digital transformation. We discussed some of the biggest challenges when transforming a traditionally analogue business into a digital-first organisation. Brenden shares with us how to assess the digital maturity of a legacy business before creating a transformati...
Russell is an experienced senior leader with a proven track record of successfully building business, managing change, developing individuals and leading global projects. Expert in transforming struggling operations by redesigning and achieving organisational goals. Holder of the Institute of Directors Certificate in Company Direction and full Member of the IoD.
Equipped to ...
Nicola’s career has been within organisations that build or make products; with IT as an enabler and a service. She has worked across multiple sectors including - Oil and Gas, FMCG, Engineering, Utilities and government regulatory bodies. Nicola has been a leader in many types of organisations from the very large enterprises to the very small and a range of sizes and ownership models in between. She foc...
Neil Fenton is a software entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in creating new software products and systems with a particular focus on identity and access management technologies delivered on a SaaS basis.
In this episode, we cover the biggest challenges in managing multi-country teams, and to overcome them, together with discussing t...
Jora Gill is CEO and Co-founder of FireBreak, where they spearhead AI and Graph technologies to improve IT project outcomes and mitigate project risks early. He is also CEO and Co-Founder of ConnectingYouNow, where they lead initiatives to improve organisational productivity through a personalised conversational search and analytics platform, with a focus on accessibility.
J...
Henry is an experienced and successful CxO and change professional, with excellent stakeholder management and inter-personal skills. He has significant years of experience in managing large-scale businesses and technology change programmes (£5m to £800m), especially in the digital space, for a wide variety of UK and European-based Insurance and Media companies and Central Government departments.
In this...
Amol is a Commercial Growth Leader & Managing Director with 20+ years of experience driving digital transformation across global technology firms, including AND Digital, ThoughtWorks, Slalom, Wipro, and Oracle.
He has a passion for leveraging Data and AI to create transformative impact and has consistently built competitive market strategies, executed pioneering go-to-ma...
As founder of 50x, Gary has many years experience of helping scale businesses, and exponentially transform the way organisations do things in seemingly impossible timespans. He is the Ex-CEO of Mator Systems and has driven exponential transformative change in organisations, like Maersk / AP Moller, SHL, Elsevier, Partnership Assurance and Camelot.
Gary is also the co-founde...
It was amazing to have the opportunity to interview Vin Walsh, a Professor of Human Brain Research and Royal Society Industry Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. I could have quite easily chatted with him for hours.
He has published over 300 scientific articles, several books and specialises in the how the brain achieves all the things we take fo...
Asitha Rodrigo (CTO, SAPI) is a renowned innovative CTO, Prior to SAPI, he was the CTO at Seedrs. Previously Asitha was Chief Technology Officer at a number of high growth Private Equity backed businesses in the financial services and media industries. He has a passion for building and maintaining high performing technology teams.
In this episode, Asitha shares with us the k...
In this episode, I talk with Claire about what inspired her to start a company focused on championing women in technology and Claire shares a bit about her journey and background in the tech industry.
We uncover what are some of the biggest challenges women face in the tech industry today and how best to address them. We also explore trends in the tech industry regarding div...
It was amazing to spend some time with Doug Johnson to discuss how innovation and sustainability can transform an entire industry. Doug is Founder of Mesh Energy (a Certified B Corporation), an independent and trusted provider of innovative sustainable energy services to property owners and architects looking for impartial and expert advice.
During our discussion, Doug explained why experience can sometime be counter intuitive to e...
Dileep is a commercially focused, results driven executive level technology leader with nearly 20 years experience: leading strategy development and execution, successful digital transformation and delivering organisational, IT change alongside cost effectiveness (to budget), secure and high availability operational IT
In this podcast we uncover what the main behaviours are ...
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