WhatComesNext.Live: Recent Episodes
Tom McCallum
WhatComesNext.Live is a podcast recorded and broadcast live. On each show our guest first shares a little about themselves and their thoughts on WhatComesNext, then together we seek to draw out those thoughts into actionable insights for you. I’m your host, Tom McCallum.
Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and multiple award-winning author. His core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, where he was on the Executive Committee Worldwide of the Professional Products Division. He wrote and produced a WWII documentary for PBS (The Last Ring Home) and authored 3 other award-winning books: Futureproof, You Lead and Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence (DigitalProof Press 2023). All his work, books and podcasts can be found on minterdial.com
Petter Björkebäck is the founder and CEO of Village Organizational Development, a People & Culture Partner that helps organizations grow sustainably and a community of practice. This follows his long experience from IKEA, latterly with a focus on People, Culture, Organization and Sustainability, with the sustainability area focusing primarily on inclusive design and social impact.
He also serves in Jönköping International Business School Board of Advisors, and in this capacity, he has been working with the Inner Development Goals framework to support the school in the sustainable transformation.
Petter is also a musician and choir leader, and curiously exploring how music could be an enabler to develop organizations.
Ben Read is a former sergeant in the British Army and is now the Founder & CEO of Redeployable, a business focused on building a community of career-driven, high-performance veterans.
Lena Robinson’s a straight-talking, non-conformist Kiwi. Her background is varied across multiple global and SME industries, but in the UK her background was mainly heading up new business for corporate global ad agencies. Leaving corporate life in 2014 she set up her own branding/marketing agency for agencies, selling it to her business partner in 2018 to launch FTSQ (‘F*** The Status Quo’), which pretty much sums up what Lena’s about. A maverick to the core.
FTSQ was originally created to support non-conformist business owners, but unfortunately, just a few months after launch Lena fell chronically ill and had to stop working. It’s taken her years to recover and never one to do things the ‘easy way’, she’s fought to get her health back on track and relaunch FTSQ Consultancy and launch an additional business, The FTSQ Gallery where ‘art is legacy’.
I met Lena briefly at a workshop on Meaningful Communications recently and just had to get her on the podcast, her brilliant contributions that evening were always meaningful!
Sean McGrath is Chief Executive of the Entrepreneurial Scotland Foundation, which is dedicated to building the belief and connections current and future leaders need to create prosperity in and for Scotland. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurial thinking, Sean firmly believes that Scotland’s future will be shaped by those who think, act and lead in an entrepreneurial way.
23 Years a Royal Air Force Engineer, Adie Holt was selected to help establish one of the MOD's most radical innovation units in 2017. The Strategic Command jHub was charged with delivering innovative capabilities into the hands of users faster. By learning from leading tech giants and world-class start-ups rather than following Defence policy and process, the unit delivered 18 capabilities in its first 18 months, unheard of in traditional defense procurement cycles. Adie left the military in 2020 to carve a niche at the intersection of public sector, industry, and the start-up/scale-up ecosystems, first establishing a Defence practice for Capita’s tech and digital-focused consultancy and later working with their corporate venturing arm Scaling partner. He is currently an advisor at Form1 Partners, a new scale-up growth engine, and co-founder of Author Insights, a novel forum for engineered serendipity.
Adie and I first connected over the idea of Dunbar's number, which may well come up in our conversation!
Ryan Jansen is a Feldenkrais Practitioner whom I have worked with to support my movement and general physical health through Functional Integration sessions for over five years now, as I wrote about in Feldenkrais: What I Learned from a Master Practitioner.
I greatly look forward to listening to Ryan's thoughts as a master in his field.
Dave Stewart is the founder and chief executive at The Fresh Air Leadership Company, specialising in helping business leaders build highly effective teams.
Core to his approach is the facilitation of inquiry into what it means to lead well in clients’ specific contexts. Place is also important. It impacts the way people think and engage with one another, and locations are carefully chosen to support clients’ needs.
Dave’s passion for this work stems from earlier experiences and careers in a rock band, mountain rescue team, and the British Army (including battalion command and leadership of multi-disciplinary business units delivering £1bn portfolios of projects and services).
Dave is a repeat guest on the show and I look forward to talking to him specifically about context-specific leadership of teams of different sizes and types.
Julie Smith is an executive coach who works with leaders to grow their impact and supports teams to grow their effectiveness. She is the author of Coach Yourself Confident.
I enjoyed listening to Julie and hearing her thoughts on confidence.
Johnnie Moore is the author of the book Unhurried at Work and a co-founder of Creative Facilitation.
Tessa Murray is a Director of Tortoise Media, also Non-Executive Chair, Gather London., Co-founder of the The Schools Triathlon Series, and Advisory Board Member, The…
Dr Carrie Goucher works in the enormous white space for improvement that is...meetings!
Tom Ahmad was a guest in January 2022. He is coming back on the show as so much has changed in the economy, as well…
Martin Perry was born without hands or the bottom half of his left leg. He has won over 55 medals and is very grateful for…
I met Annikki Hill some years ago early in her Coaching journey. Now one of Cayman's most experienced coaches, I look forward to hearing her…
Gordon Bull and I have been friends and colleagues for over a decade and I value his wisdom, sagacity, and humour greatly!
Susanette Mansour is a catalyst for transformation, laser-focused on people living with intent and purpose.
Sam Roots solves problems at the intersection of technology, people and business. He helps organisations innovate and become more customer-led.
Colin Newlyn is a recovering corporate executive who is on a mission to ‘Decrapify Work’.
Katie Tew is the Founder and Managing Director of Katie-VA. Since 2012 Katie has been providing virtual assistant services to entrepreneurs, C level executives and…
Kate Kandiah is the Founder and Executive Director of Cayman Connection, a not-for-profit diaspora community network for Caymanians living overseas.
Gib Bulloch is an award-winning social intrapreneur who consults, writes and speaks on a range of topics relating to the role of business in society.
The future of online learning and training has changed radically through the pandemic, but Jo Cook has been leading into this future for years.
I have learned more about Economics from Rory Sutherland than almost anyone else. Just as "Leadership is about People, end of story", so much of…
Julie Drybrough and I met a few years ago in London when I discovered her wonderful Facilitation Shindig.
Lee Robertson is a veteran of financial planning having founded and led a highly regarded wealth manager based in the City of London.
Christine Esson is co-founder of Scottish Business Network, which proactively assists and supports Scottish based companies to expand internationally.
Mike Joseph is the owner and leader of Property Cayman. He is excited by innovation and motivated to do things differently.
Philippa White is the Founder and CEO of TIE, a comfort zone disruptor. She exposes people to global challenges that ignite their purpose.
Sacha Romanovitch is CEO of Fair4All Finance, which has been founded to increase the financial wellbeing of people in vulnerable circumstances.
Marc Winn is a speaker, mentor and adviser on community-led innovation and the role of small island states in unlocking human potential at scale.
Ian Yeoman is an advocate for the future of tourism. Ian was the Scenario Planner for VisitScotland where he established the process of scenario thinking.
Described by WIRED magazine as "the most connected man in Britain", Oli Barrett MBE is a serial co-founder who enjoys connecting people and ideas.
Roland Harwood | Compulsive Connector | Founder - Liminal | Co-founder - 100% Open | Trustee - Participatory Cities Foundation | Trustee - Holis |…
Ben Ford has been a technologist and team builder for 15 years across multiple technologies, industries, and organisational sizes.
Jonas Altman is a workologist, facilitator, and coach on a mission to make the world of work more human. He is the founder of Social…
Alasdair McGill is co-founder of Ashton McGill. As an Accountant, Designer, and Educator, he helps people build better businesses.
Fiona Buckland is a leadership coach and facilitator with clients including the Wall Street Journal, Women into Leadership, Everywoman, Dow Jones, Soho House, American Express,…
Justine Clement is CEO of wellbeing agency The Life Adventure and of B Corp agency The Happy Prize Company. She's also a certified breath and…
Sophie Wisbrun-Overakker is a positive change catalyst, a sustainable business and leadership transformation coach.
Tom Nixon is the author of a new book: Work with Source: Realise big ideas, organise for emergence and work artfully with money.
Kathryn Chapman is a portrait photographer and mental health advocate based in Surrey, UK. She specialises in using the power of photography to help women…
I've known Emree Siaroff for over 7 years now. From moments into our first meeting, I realised he was one of a rare breed, senior…
Gina Sanchez does many things at a high level, but to focus on her characteristics as a leader, she takes her brilliance and allies that…
If you need one word to describe Ali Arslan it would be techpreneur. If you need two words to describe Ali then it would be…
David is a former Royal Marine turned psychotherapist and business leader. With the mission of his company to ‘facilitate lasting positive change within 100 million…
Playful with not knowing Artist, writer and speaker, Steve is deeply interested in creativity and the human condition. He works with individuals and organisations interested…
Athlete, Broadcaster & Ambassador Our very first guest is a specialist in “firsts”, including being the first cyclist to ride around the world in under…