The Eluminas Podcast: Recent Episodes
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We specialise in leadership development, executive and team coaching. In each edition of our podcast, we hear from successful individuals from a variety of business backgrounds. They share their learning and experience about leadership, high performance teams, communication and personal achievement.
Professor Sir Cary Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the ALLIANCE Manchester Business School. He is also the Chair of the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Work.
He was President of the CIPD, the British Academy of Management, RELATE and the Institute of Welfare. He has been voted the Most Influential HR Thinker by HR Magazine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Management.
His latest book, published in 2022 and co-authored with Sean O’Meara is Remote Workplace Culture: How to Bring Energy and Focus to Remote Teams. In this podcast he discusses the main themes of the book.
In this edition, we talk to well-known entrepreneur Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of the UK’s first coffee shop chain, Coffee Republic, and author of Startup Forever – How To Build a Startup Culture in a Big Company. Sahar speaks to corporations in every sector all over the world about how they can adopt the mindset and culture of a startup. She shares her thinking on the behaviours which corporations need to survive in the unpredictable world we now live in, and to successfully attract Generation Z employees. Challenging bureaucracy and accepted wisdom, and encouraging agility, curiosity, and resilience, as well as embracing flexible working are just some of the topics we discuss