The Leaders LIVE Podcast - with Helen Neal: Recent Episodes
Helen Neal
Leaders LIVE is a new podcast for thought leaders. Want to hear the inside story behind net-zero? Fascinated by the transformation going on in business and society? This is the podcast for you. The Leaders LIVE podcast is about the future of living, mobility, and energy. We know that to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 the way we live, work and travel needs to change. And that change needs to work better for everyone. Join me, Helen Neal, to hear from leaders in business, government and the third sector, who are driving the decarbonisation of our economy.
This week, Helen speaks to Dr Niamh Shaw. Niamh is an award-winning communicator, scientist, engineer, and performer who has a life mission to get to space. Niamh devotes her time and her life to putting a human lens on space communications to reach more everyday people.
Niamh explains the power of seeing earth from a distance in space and the perspective it offers on what it means to be human on earth.
Listen now for a unique perspective on what it’s like to live an unconventional and powerfully authentic life in pursuit of one of the biggest goals on planet earth.
Find out more about Dr Niamh Shaw.
This week, Helen has a very different guest on the podcast. Dan Turner is a yoga teacher and a personal trainer and is committed to encouraging others to try yoga and experience more movement in their lives.
During the episode, Dan and Helen talk about the setting intentions and staying true to ourselves. Listening to your gut instinct can be easily forgotten in the busyness of our lives but is so important for your overall health and wellbeing and connection to your purpose.
Dan has plenty of quick and simple tips for introducing more movement into your life which is so critical to good health. As he says, motion is lotion. Dan is open and encouraging and shares his ideas for helping to set an achievable ‘near daily routine’.
Listen now for a positive, wellbeing boost.
5 Minute Meditation Book
Dan Turner’s website
This week, Helen chats to Luke Herbert, International Director of Communications at the Climate Group.
Luke has had a varied career from Shell in the Netherlands to the British Embassy in Egypt to Jaguar Land Rover in the heart of the UK. Luke has always been passionate about activism, making change for good and protecting the environment. Working with business and government at Climate Group to accelerate climate action, Luke is positive about the changes being made but talks openly about the huge scale of the challenge and the speed that we need to go at to halve emissions by 2030. Listen now for an inside view of what business and government need to do to address the climate crisis.
Look out for Climate Week NYC which is taking place globally between September 20-26.
Anila Noor is a refugee-activist based in the Netherlands. In this fascinating interview, Anila unpacks what it means to be a migrant, a refugee and an activist in Europe. Anila describes in detail what it was like to come to Europe as a refugee, and how difficult it was to accept the label of ‘refugee’ due to the stigma around the word. Anila explains the importance of sharing her story, and stories like hers so that people understand the facts and the reality of what it is like for refugees, rather than the statistics.
Anila founded New Women Connectors, a movement striving for mainstreaming the unheard voices of migrant and refugee women living across Europe. New Women Connectors is a perspective-shift to the refugee agenda and advocates inclusion than integration as a policy choice.
An inspiring and enlightening listen for everyone
In this podcast Helen meets Philippa Oldham, Stakeholder Engagement Director at the Advanced Propulsion Centre.
From Formula 1 to stakeholder engagement, via silver service waitressing, Philippa’s heart has always been with engineering. Philippa became an engineer to make a difference and now she does that by working in communications, helping to champion the work of engineers more widely amongst policymakers, the media and the public. Philippa’s relentless passion for engineering and her hope for a better world are infectious.
Listen now especially if you’re curious about working in engineering for some great advice and interesting perspectives.
In this episode, Helen meets Sam Cockerill, CEO and Founder of Libertine FPE. Sam describes himself as one third natural scientist, two thirds engineer and has spent his career using this unique combination to solve problems and contribute towards the bright future he believes is possible. Although he recognises climate change as the defining challenge of our generation, Sam is hopeful and believes that not only can we reach net-zero, but we can move beyond that to energy and resource abundance. This is an informative and compelling listen, and you can’t help come away with an injection of some of Sam’s positive, solution-oriented energy.
Welcome to the first ever episode of the Leaders LIVE podcast! In this preview episode, Helen chats to Eman Martin-Vignerte from Bosch about how the Leaders LIVE brand was born out a conversation they had in March 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic hit. From the early days, Leaders LIVE set out to be a destination for thought leadership and engaging debate and has quickly become a success. Eman and Helen recount some of their favourite topics that Leaders LIVE has covered from diversity to closing the skills gap to healthcare technology and the future of electric mobility. Now the Leaders LIVE podcast is here to take to conversation 1-1 and to dive into the personal stories behind the leaders driving these changes.
In this week’s episode, Helen meets Anne-Claire Howard, CEO at Responsible Steel. This fascinating interview charts Anne-Claire’s life and career from growing up in France with a thirst for travel and culture to leading organisations with big ambitions to change the world. After a pivotal period leading a big volunteer project with Médecins Sans Frontières in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Anne-Claire decided to dedicate her career to making as much of a positive impact as she could in the world. Tackling big issues or working in dangerous places isn’t something that seems to intimidate Anne-Claire, and instead she explains how she is driven by the level of impact she can make in the world- the bigger the better! Listen for an alternative perspective on tackling the big problems and a satisfying look back on how a story makes sense over time.
From a childhood in Madagascar to becoming Managing Director of Robert Bosch UK, Vonjy Rajakoba has a great career story to tell. In this episode, Helen and Vonjy cover career advice, entrepreneurship and the future of business and its role in our changing world. Vonjy stresses the importance of celebrating differences in an organisation and shares his predictions for the future and the impact that new technology will have on our world. As a relatively new leader at Robert Bosch UK, Vonjy is open about the challenges he’s faced in taking on a new leadership position during a pandemic. Listen for some sound advice and perspectives on careers from a compelling leader.
Ahead of our co-hosted live event - Under the bonnet - How do Electric Vehicles's work? with Bosch, Autocar and Automotive EV
Leaders LIVE's Helen Neal catches up with Matt to get his perspective on what EVs will mean to how we will all travel in the near future.
Join us on 19 May at 10am BST for the interactive show Under the bonnet - How do Electric Vehicles work? on our Leaders LIVE YouTube channel