Expleo Explores: Recent Episodes
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A podcast series on the nine success factors for mastering business transformation. Brought to you by Expleo.
Episode 9: Host Siobhán Smith welcomes Rolando Balcarcel, Executive Technical Director of IT Compliance, FDA at Estée Lauder to the podcast.
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products. With over 25 years of experience, Rolando has led the transformation of key IT initiatives in the areas of Software Quality Assurance as well as the Data Integrity and Compliance space. He initially held the role of Global Executive Director of Testing at Estee Lauder where he stood up a Testing Center of Excellence, to introduce quality testing governance and automation. Rolando builds collaborative relationships with key partners (external and internal) to facilitate the development and deployment of technology systems. Currently, Rolando is leading the Global Compliance team which focuses on FDA requirements to ensure that Estee Lauder products are fit for intended use, and its respective data are properly controlled as per regulatory guidelines. All of this experience and expertise makes Rolando the prime candidate to round off the Expleo Explores podcast series with success factor no. 9 ‘Focus on Quality Assurance’.
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About the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022
Expleo’s annual Business Transformation Index report surveys over 1000 senior decision makers in global organisations of 5000+* about their transformation initiatives. The report provides a holistic overview of the 9 critical success factors underpinning successful transformation. The report is free and available here: expleo.com/bti-2022/
About Expleo
Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. We have a wide range of expertise and over 30 years’ experience in successful transformation. Talk to us today! Expleo.com
*this benchmark was lowered to 1000 in Ireland due to the size of the market
Host Siobhán Smith welcomes Kate Brady, Head of IFDS Europe to the podcast. She is responsible for the IFDS Luxembourg and Ireland Businesses, and is also a Director on the boards of these entities. IFDS, short for International Financial Data Services, is a Joint Venture organization owned equally by State Street and SS&C. It was established in 2007 to deliver Transfer Agency and Investor Servicing solutions within the Investment Funds industry.
In her role, Kate leads the European management team and drives the business from a strategic perspective, working with the shareholders on setting and executing strategy, and with clients to deliver value.
Kate has previously held a number of leadership roles within the European business, including the role of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Administrative Officer.
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Download the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022 report: expleo.com/bti-2022/
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About the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022
Expleo’s annual Business Transformation Index report surveys over 1000 senior decision makers in global organisations of 5000+* about their transformation initiatives. The report provides a holistic overview of the 9 critical success factors underpinning successful transformation. The report is free and available here: expleo.com/bti-2022/
About Expleo
Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. We have a wide range of expertise and over 30 years’ experience in successful transformation. Talk to us today! Expleo.com
*this benchmark was lowered to 1000 in Ireland due to the size of the market
Episode 7: Host Siobhán Smith welcomes Christian Metzner, the experienced Chief Information Officer (UK) at Volkswagen Financial Services, who’ve been providing innovative and market leading car finance solutions since 2008. Christian has a reputation for innovation across IT Strategy, Digital Transformation, Leadership, and Architecture. He’s a determined problem solver and believer in enterprise-wide collaboration, embracing change, and leading improvements in efficiency through technology. Having spent over a decade in senior IT leadership roles, and with a passion for Design Thinking, Christian is a prime candidate to talk about our final success factor: preventing under-utilisation / poor acceptance of new solutions.
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Download the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022 report: expleo.com/bti-2022/
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About the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022
Expleo’s annual Business Transformation Index report surveys over 1000 senior decision makers in global organisations of 5000+* about their transformation initiatives. The report provides a holistic overview of the 9 critical success factors underpinning successful transformation. The report is free and available here: expleo.com/bti-2022/
About Expleo
Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. We have a wide range of expertise and over 30 years’ experience in successful transformation. Talk to us today! Expleo.com
*this benchmark was lowered to 1000 in Ireland due to the size of the market
Do you ever notice that you’re completely clenched up? As in, your neck has gone missing. Your jaw is a vice grip.
What IS it about the neck and jaw area? And I’m curious if this part of the body might be particularly “clenchy” for people with tendencies towards perfectionism and people pleasing.
Is this area a proverbial lint trap for all the things we don’t say, for fear of confrontation or being disliked?
My guest for this exploration is Dominique Antiglio, an acclaimed Sophrologist, best-selling author of “The Life-Changing Power of Sophrology”, and Founder of leading online Sophrology platform, BeSophro. She’s a regular speaker for Amazon, Asics, the World Economic Forum, the UK government, and gives master classes to the Soho House, Lululemon and many others.
You’ll learn why we tend to hold tension in the jaw and neck area, and some brilliant techniques to unclench.
Oh! There’s also a cameo with a special guest.
Punchy, practical and jaw-changing. Join us!
Dominique Antiglio’s website: https://be-sophro.com/about-dominique/
Dominque on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/besophrolondon/
Suzy Reading’s website: https://www.suzyreading.co.uk
Suzy Reading on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suzyreading/
Julie Peters’ article: https://www.spiritualityhealth.com/the-spiritual-meaning-of-jaw-pain
Bessel van der Kolk’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748/ref=sr_1_2?crid=8RQYLPDG2IHJ&keywords=bessel+van+der+kolk%27s+the+body+keeps+the+score&qid=1661101611&sprefix=bessel%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-2
Mandy Lehto on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandylehto/
Host Siobhán Smith welcomes Krish Gopi, Chief Disruption Officer at GEMS education. Krish is recognized as a Technology Thought Leader having regularly featured in keynote speeches, cover stories and articles; won numerous awards for leadership, transformation expertise, product building and implementation services at global & regional events. He is also a member of the prestigious Global Council on Sustainable Development UNESCO. GEMS Education is the largest private Education company in the world. They now own, operate and manage over 250 schools globally.
As Chief Disruption officer, Krishnan is also responsible to ensure new ventures are as successful as possible and that’s why we’re thrilled he can join us today to talk all about ‘hitting solution reliability targets’
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Download the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022 report: expleo.com/bti-2022/
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About the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022
Expleo’s annual Business Transformation Index report surveys over 1000 senior decision makers in global organisations of 5000+* about their transformation initiatives. The report provides a holistic overview of the 9 critical success factors underpinning successful transformation. The report is free and available here: expleo.com/bti-2022/
About Expleo
Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. We have a wide range of expertise and over 30 years’ experience in successful transformation. Talk to us today! Expleo.com
*this benchmark was lowered to 1000 in Ireland due to the size of the market
Host Siobhán Smith welcomes Ro Crawford, Chief Transformation officer at the Data Communications Company (DCC) in the UK. The (DCC) is a subsidiary of Capita and has the responsibility of managing the UK's smart meter infrastructure and roll out. Ro’s role is to accelerate business improvements via a partnership model of using third party suppliers to build, mature and run key capabilities for DCC. She’s just been appointed to head up a major transformation project in DCC. Her task will be to help define their strategy, and how they set themselves up for success.
Ro has extensive experience in the Energy Sector. She was Portfolio Governance Director at British Gas, where she was responsible and accountable for overseeing and reporting on the performance of the UK Energy Supply and Service Business. There, she played a key role enabling a saving of £300m annually which I think you’ll agree makes her a perfect candidate to join us today to talk about the next success factor ‘Successfully keeping to budget’..
Join the conversation online using the hashtag #ExpleoExplores
Download the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022 report: expleo.com/bti-2022/
Send us your feedback: info@expleogroup.com
About the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022
Expleo’s annual Business Transformation Index report surveys over 1000 senior decision makers in global organisations of 5000+* about their transformation initiatives. The report provides a holistic overview of the 9 critical success factors underpinning successful transformation. The report is free and available here: expleo.com/bti-2022/
About Expleo
Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. We have a wide range of expertise and over 30 years’ experience in successful transformation. Talk to us today! Expleo.com
*this benchmark was lowered to 1000 in Ireland due to the size of the market
Host Siobhán Smith welcomes Brian Chapman, CIO at eir to the podcast this week, taking on the often challenging success factor to business transformation – “Keeping to Deadlines”. Eir is Ireland’s number one broadband provider and delivers a comprehensive range of advanced voice, data, broadband and TV services to the residential, small business, enterprise and government markets. Brian’s role as CIO encompasses IT Strategy, Transformation, Architecture, Development and IT Operations functions. A key focus for Brian’s team is on transformation of both the IT technology and processes used to deliver solutions on time for the business.
Join the conversation online using the hashtag #ExpleoExplores
Download the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022 report: expleo.com/bti-2022/
Send us your feedback: info@expleogroup.com
About the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022
Expleo’s annual Business Transformation Index report surveys over 1000 senior decision makers in global organisations of 5000+* about their transformation initiatives. The report provides a holistic overview of the 9 critical success factors underpinning successful transformation. The report is free and available here: expleo.com/bti-2022/
About Expleo
Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. We have a wide range of expertise and over 30 years’ experience in successful transformation. Talk to us today! Expleo.com
*this benchmark was lowered to 1000 in Ireland due to the size of the market
Host Siobhán Smith welcomes CXO advisor Fin Goulding to the podcast to talk about success factor number two “Greater board level support for IT strategies”. Fin has earned a reputation as one of the top global CTO/CIO’s. He’s worked as a business agility expert for organisations such as Visa USA, RBS, NatWest, HSBC, Aviva and digital start-ups such as lastminute.com and paddypower.com
Fin has the advantage of being involved in Boards for both large global companies and start-up organisations. This perspective informs a unique and unapologetic approach to this success factor and Fin is not short on ideas and insights to help listeners to become better at garnering Board level support for IT strategies and innovations.
Join the conversation online using the hashtag #ExpleoExplores
Download the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022 report: expleo.com/bti-2022/
Send us your feedback: info@expleogroup.com
About the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022
Expleo’s annual Business Transformation Index report surveys over 1000 senior decision makers in global organisations of 5000+* about their transformation initiatives. The report provides a holistic overview of the 9 critical success factors underpinning successful transformation. The report is free and available here: expleo.com/bti-2022/
About Expleo
Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. We have a wide range of expertise and over 30 years’ experience in successful transformation. Talk to us today! Expleo.com
*this benchmark was lowered to 1000 in Ireland due to the size of the market
Host Siobhán Smith welcomes CIO of ESB Mary O’Connor to the podcast to talk about success factor no.1 “Embracing a digital-first mindset”. Mary has over 35 years’ experience in transformation and shares rich insights for our listeners around how to achieve a culture that embraces data, and decides as a whole, that the firm will do everything digitally first. Consequently, they will have to justify staying with the status quo. This is extremely complex as you’ll learn in our conversation, it requires more than just a ‘change-mindset’ and can be a risk if the right communications and people strategy is not incorporated.
Join the conversation online using the hashtag #ExpleoExplores
Download the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022 report: expleo.com/bti-2022/
Send us your feedback: podcasts@expleogroup.com
About the Business Transformation Index (BTI) 2022
Expleo’s annual Business Transformation Index report surveys over 1000 senior decision makers in organisations of 5000+* about their transformation initiatives. The report provides a holistic overview of the 9 critical success factors underpinning successful transformation. The report is free and available here: expleo.com/bti-2022/
About Expleo
Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. We have a wide range of expertise and over 30 years’ experience in successful transformation. Talk to us today! Expleo.com
*this benchmark was lowered to 1000 in Ireland due to the size of the market