The Morgan James Consulting Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lily Newman
Morgan James Consulting was launched in 2001 with the intention of creating highly effective leaders who have the ability to build successful businesses and develop their best assets – the people that work with them and for them.The Morgan James Consulting Podcast features interviews with business directors at the top of their industry. Join us as we learn what it means to be an effective leader.
Jess is a communications professional with extensive experience in journalism, broadcasting, live events, film-making, production, and training.
Jess has had an international career, including several years in Hong Kong, where she was a reporter for the South China Morning Post, and in the US, where she reported and produced for radio and television at NBC and ABC in California.
Returning to the UK, she worked for GMTV as a senior producer and live output editor, until the BBC poached her to work on Breakfast. She went to Thailand after the Boxing Day Tsunami and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and enjoyed a memorable road trip in America for the US elections with the legendary presenter Bill Turnbull.
Jess became an assistant editor for Breakfast, managing a team of producers, reporters and presenters and outputting the three hour live daily show. She also produced live events for the BBC on themes including leadership, sustainability and digital shortform, and lead classroom-based learning to journalists transitioning to a new broadcast system. After working in marketing and comms for a year, Jess became a communications consultant to help people and businesses tell the stories that journalists and their audiences really want to hear.
Have you found your Flow? That’s the name we give to that place where individuals and teams are ‘in the zone’, ‘in the groove’, ‘on top of their game’. That place where you are so engaged in what you’re doing, that you completely lose track of time.
In my latest ‘In the Hotseat’ interview I am joined by @Richard Barnes, MD of @Buffalo 7 and an enthusiastic practitioner of the Theory of Flow.
Richard explains why Flow is so important to his organisation, and the steps Buffalo 7 take to nurture and increase Flow.
How many of you would love to add a zero to your company's turnover, and significantly grow your profit margin, even in the age of recession?
It's the final day of series two of our Rebuilding Business interviews with exceptional leaders and entrepreneurs. Our guest, Jay Allen is a 2 x Global Entrepreneur Big Impact to Business Award Winning SCALE mentor, listed in the UK on the Clear Business Thinking Power 100.
Today Jay introduces his #AddaZero Programme and provides top tips for business owners, sharing key lessons on how to grow your business during challenging times.
If you feel held back by dyslexia, this is the In the Hot Seat interview for you! My special guest, Roy Newey, is a torchbearer for the poor, a trailblazer in the field of global education, an exceptional keynote speaker and an author who has served on the board of over 100 high growth companies and government advisory groups.
Roy is profoundly dyslexic & left school with no qualifications. He started his first business at the age of 22, built it to £5 million and sold it. He has invested in small businesses (£3 million T/O) grown them into big businesses (£180 million T/O) that have operated around the globe. He was appointed by the Prime Minister to chair the UK India bi-lateral trade talks between 2010 and 2015. Roy was selected as strategic advisor to Tata Consultancy Service which brought £16.5 billion to the UK economy.
He is passionate about creating the opportunity for people from all walks of life to grow, develop and become the best version of themselves. His business book, Ready Set Grow, is out now and a second David Walliams style book for children about overcoming bullying, will be out shortly.
It's series two of our Rebuilding Business interviews. We're thrilled to be speaking with Jay Allen, 2 x Global Entrepreneur Big Impact to Business Award Winning SCALE mentor, listed in the UK on the Clear Business Thinking Power 100.
Having served as a rapid deployment soldier within the British Army, Jay has subsequently gone on to work at the highest levels of business within the FSNG space, helping to generate more than £480M. Jay has also set up 4 of his own businesses, scaling and exiting twice before founding the ADD A ZERO Business Challenge.
Today we find out about the 3 critical lessons that, if they's not given attention, will cause your business to fail!
It's day three and series two of our Rebuilding Business interviews with exceptional leaders and entrepreneurs. Our guest, Jay Allen is a 2 x Global Entrepreneur Big Impact to Business Award Winning SCALE mentor, listed in the UK on the Clear Business Thinking Power 100.
Today Jay asks the question, "is your business going broke or growing broke?" and shares with you his findings from studying thousands of national companies and the 3 critical lessons you need to apply to ensure that your company succeeds.
Today we find out why our guest, Jay Allen, believes that 80% of SME business owners are wrong about EVERYTHING!
It's series two of our Rebuilding Business interviews with exceptional leaders and entrepreneurs. Jay is a 2 x Global Entrepreneur Big Impact to Business Award Winning SCALE mentor, listed in the UK on the Clear Business Thinking Power 100.
Having served as a rapid deployment soldier within the British Army, Jay has subsequently gone on to work at the highest levels of business within the FSNG space, helping to generate more than £480M. Jay has also set up 4 of his own businesses, scaling and exiting twice before founding the #ADDAZERO Business Challenge.
Today Jay challenges business owners to compare, not with their direct competition but with the best in the world and also shares the results of his research into over 300K small businesses to find out what defines the best of them.
It's series two of our Rebuilding Business interviews. We're thrilled to be speaking with Jay Allen, 2 x Global Entrepreneur Big Impact to Business Award Winning SCALE mentor, listed in the UK on the Clear Business Thinking Power 100.
Having served as a rapid deployment soldier within the British Army, Jay has subsequently gone on to work at the highest levels of business within the FSNG space, helping to generate more than £480M. Jay has also set up 4 of his own businesses, scaling and exiting twice before founding the ADD A ZERO Business Challenge.
Today Jay answers the question of 'how do you build a sustainable business' and gives you 4 crucial questions to help you plan your exit.
The first episode features our Financial Expert Nik Hynes from Tree Accountancy in the hot seat with Lily. Nik shares his experience of helping delegates on the Strategic Leaders Programme to know their numbers, how crafting the culture of your business is even more critical now and 3 top tips for growing your business in a recession.
Welcome to Rebuilding Business, a series of interviews with exceptional entrepreneurs who have broken the mould and repeatedly built exceptional businesses.
For those of you that have been following the series, you will know that my guest has been Kevin Gaskell who has turned around the fortunes of global brands Fairline Yachts and Porsche and taking BMW to record sales. He has also trekked to the North and South Poles and this year, smashed the record for rowing across the Atlantic at his first attempt.
Today Kevin shares some of the lessons from his book Inspired Leadership and his hope to help other young entrepreneurs to forge their way in business. One thing that I am certain of is this - wherever you are on your business journey, you will be inspired.
It's part 4 of our Rebuilding Business series of interviews with corporate trailblazer, serial entrepreneur and best selling author Kevin Gaskell. Today Kevin is talking about the need for agility and how to engage your people in the delivery of your plan!
Here we are on part 3 of Rebuilding Business with corporate trailblazer Kevin Gaskell. Kevin has generated more than £3 billion in shareholder value through the international brands that he has led and the start ups he has nurtured and sold so he knows a thing or two about business!
Today Kevin talks about getting the vision off the paper and into action and the importance of "commit, connect and create" to build stronger businesses!
It's the next episode of our rebuilding business series of interviews with serial entrepreneur and global adventurer Kevin Gaskell.
Today Kevin draws on his experience of re-building Porsche's failing reputation from being the worst brand to the best brand for customer service in the UK. He says it's not about selling cars or widgets or houses or professional services, you are selling an experience and, aligning your staff behind a vision of what exceptional looks like, is critical.
We hope you enjoy this series of interviews and that they give you some food for thought to help you on your own leadership journey.
We're proud to present the first of a series of interviews with serial entrepreneur and global adventurer Kevin Gaskell. This week Kevin draws on his experience of turning around global brands Porsche, FairlineYachts and taking BMW to record sales. He also shares critical lessons for riding through recessive times. We will be posting an interview with Kevin every day this week covering topics including:
Overcoming Covid
Finding your purpose
Building your team
The importance of agility
Creating the next generation of leaders
We hope you enjoy this interview and that it gives you some food for thought to help you on your own leadership journey.
Today sees our Behavioural Specialist, Elizabeth Soehren ‘in the Hot Seat’ with Lily to talk about women in leadership, overcoming imposter syndrome and how women benefit businesses when they bring their natural strengths and traits to the top table.
In the second episode of the MJC Podcast we hear from Marketing Expert, Mark Vigil, from Big Sound Marketing. Mark shares his experience of helping delegates on the ‘Unlocking Creativity and Building a Successful Sales and Marketing Strategy’ workshop to Ignite their creative brain and breakdown any self-imposed barriers that are stopping them from being more successful in their approach to sales and marketing.