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Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse

Monkhouse & Company

Wide awake at 3am, wondering how your business turned from a 15-person rocket into an 80-person rollercoaster? Hit play. This show is for founder CEOs who want practical wins, not platitudes. Every fortnight, Dominic Monkhouse - who scaled two UK tech firms to £30m+ in five years (twice) - grills people who’ve actually done it: operators, battle-scarred founders, and experts who cut through noise. You’ll learn techniques that stop fires, speed up decisions, and give you time back. What you’ll get:

business entrepreneurship

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42:20

E42 | FizzPopBANG: Creating an amazing brand by...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/06/04

Today’s guests are Carla Cringle and Imogen Pudduck, co-founders of FizzPopBANG Ltd. Their tagline, “making people whistle on their way to work,” says all you need to know about these two upbeat people. They met 15 years ago when they worked together at Red Bull as Head of Brand and Head of HR. Carla and Imogen realised that to have a truly amazing brand that consumers fall in love with, you need infectiously passionate and loyal people that drive that ethos forward. Today, a strong business “plan”

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E41 | From hacker to neuroscientist: how we make...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/05/28

Today’s guest is Professor Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist and business professor at the Kellogg School of Management and the neuroscience program at Northwestern University. He holds a Ph.D in neuroscience from Caltech, an MA in Philosophy and a B.Sc in Physics from Tel-Aviv University. Moran has had a varied work history, prior to his academic career, he spent nearly a decade in industry, holding positions in computer security (as a hacker), pharmaceutical, telecom, fashion, software development, and

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E40 | Discover the Power of Culture With the Cultural...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/05/21

Today’s guest is Aga Bajer, better known as the Culture Strategist. She helps companies cultivate a better culture in order to bring their vision to life. Aga does this through working with organisations and teams that want to keep evolving to remain at the top of their game. She helps senior leadership teams and individual leaders to cultivate a culture that fuels great work, drives achievement of mission-critical goals and enables positive change. Her overall mission is to help organisations

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E39 | John Housego: The Importance of Employee...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/05/14

Today’s guest on The Melting Pot is John Housego, a proud Cornishman now living in Scotland. John’s background is in engineering and he spent 22 years with W L Gore & Associates. During his time with the company he discovered a passion for developing employee ownership more widely as a business model for the health and welfare of the staff, but also because of the benefits it can bring to company resilience and performance. For John, personal growth at work for all members of the team is

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E38 | Neal Gandhi: On Breaking Moulds and Championing...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/05/07

Today’s guest is Neal Gandhi, CEO of Panoply, a world-class creative technology group. Configured as a lean, fluid and ego-aside family of complementary tech-focused companies, Panoply collaborates with brave organisations, both at home and abroad, to ensure their participation in tomorrow—and beyond. For Neal, collaboration is key to success. It is one of the tenets of Panoply—their team is collaborative to the core. Panoply assembles the right experts from across the group of companies to solve

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E37 | Tristan White on Why Culture is Everything

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/04/30

Today’s guest is Tristan White, CEO of The Physio Co. For 10 consecutive years, The Physio Co has ranked as one of Australia's 50 Best Places to Work. Today we find out how he has achieved that. The Physio Co exists to help Australian seniors stay mobile, safe & happy, and since its inception in 2004, The Physio Co has grown from just one person with a vision to change seniors health care forever, to today where The Physio Co has more than 150 team members and delivers over 300,000 physiotherapy

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E36 | Behind the Scenes of in the Night Garden Live...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/04/23

Today we talk to Andy Fletcher, a chartered accountant with a MBA from London Business School, who is also responsible for making spectacular family theatre events happen in unique spaces. With an eclectic business path behind him, Andy shares his career to date and how he came to be responsible for In the Night Garden Live (amongst others). In the Night Garden Live was his first production with partner Andy Collier, and it has toured the UK in its own inflatable theatre since 2009. Now in its 10th

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E35 | Meet Danielle Chiel: Changing Lives One...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/04/16

Today’s guest is Danielle Chiel, an Australian entrepreneur who founded KOCO (Knit One Change One). Danielle, through KOCO, is seeking to change lives one hand-knitted garment at a time. She currently employs 200 Indian ladies from various villages in India, to hand-knit garments for her; but her dream is to expand the business and employ 10,000 women. KOCO hand-knits garments for global fashion brands - they produce fashions and homewares that customers love, by working with women in the rural

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E34 | Enjoying the Journey: Entrepreneurism and...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/04/09

Husband and wife team Caspar and Nichola Craven are an intrepid pair of entrepreneurs. Caspar is a long-time entrepreneur and former managing director at a technology business, and Nichola was a criminal barrister for 12 years before joining forces with Caspar. Caspar decided that what was holding him back in business was that he wasn’t focusing enough time at home. So, he took what he was learning in his business--having a purpose, having core values, having goals--back into his home life, which

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E33 | A Conversation with Hiut Denim Co CEO, David...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/04/02

David Hieatt, CEO of Hiut Denim, is best known for giving purpose (and their jobs) back to the jeans makers in Cardigan, Wales. 400 Grandmasters (as David calls them) lost their jobs in 2002 when the jeans factory they were working in closed down. David felt a huge responsibility to give these skilled workers an opportunity to put their skills to use again as he had first hand experience, from growing up in the Welsh Valleys, of the devastating impact that huge job loss has on a community. The town

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E32 | Experimenting with Energy: A Conversation with...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/03/26

Chris Baréz-Brown is the Founder of Upping Your Elvis, trainer, speaker, and author of such books as “Wake Up” and “Shine”. In his work, Chris helps people find and channel their energy by helping them understand what it is and how to increase it, and how to deploy it in a useful way. Chris works with diverse types of businesses to break down dysfunctions, and inefficiencies, to help bring more humanity into the workplace. Chris emphasises the importance of creating friendships at work, which builds

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E31 | Daring to Dream Bigger with Guy Rigby

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/03/19

Guy Rigby has been working with entrepreneurs for decades. He’s an accountant who takes a unique approach to the service by working directly with the founder at owner-managed business as the Chair of Entrepreneurial Services at Smith and Williamson. Guy is also the author of Vision to Exit, a book that tackles the very similar challenges most entrepreneurs face. Over the course of the conversation we talk about the common pitfalls many entrepreneurs face, what it means when you become risk averse in

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E30 | Dispelling Myths Around Growth: A Conversation...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/03/12

Spencer Gallagher and Pete Hoole work with the next generation of independent Agencies to help them scale as co-founders of Cactus. In the past eight years they’ve worked with more than 1,000 Agencies globally, all the while collecting notes about what was and was not working. They recently converted those notes into a book, Agencynomics, an Amazon five-star rated best selling book and Audiobook, aimed to help all types of Agencies scale from Start-up to the first £3-5M in revenue by setting the

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E29 | [Rebroadcast] Henry Stewart - Be Happy

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/03/05

Henry Stewart believes people should find joy at work. And it’s not just a nice idea, it’s good business. And as the Chief Happiness Officer at Happy Ltd and author of Happy Manifesto, Henry has made happiness his business. Happy workplaces are more profitable, and have increased share growth. Employees are naturally more engaged with their work, and staff retention improves. During our conversation we explore a few of the core principles of the Happy Manifesto and talk about what it really what it

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E28 | Powering Technology with the Human Element:...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/02/26

Today I am talking to Barnaby Lashbrooke, founder and CEO of Time etc, an award winning virtual assistant service that helps entrepreneurs and leaders achieve more, without working harder. Through Time etc., Barnaby simultaneously provides a resources to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses, while providing an opportunity for stay at home moms to find meaningful work on their own terms. While Time etc. is primarily a workforce of virtual employees (around 700 employees across the UK and USA,

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E27 | [Rebroadcast] Alexandra Eavis - Harnessing Tech...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/02/19

Alexandra (Alex) Eavis is the co-founder of three distinct businesses that are tied by a common theme: harnessing technology to make life better, in a meaningful way. In 2017 Alex co-founded two companies. In January she took on the role of Director as Co-Founder of How Do I?, a social enterprise for a special needs school that uses NFC technology in vocational learning. By the end of the year she helped launch a blockchain platform to drive better information sharing in healthcare as Co-Founder and

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E26 | The Incredible Power of Clear, Heartfelt...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/02/12

Adam Fairhead is an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded the Fairhead Group which serves cause-driven companies with the mission of helping difference makers make a difference. Today I’m talking to Adam about why it’s so important for companies to have a purpose. He works for and has the biggest impact on businesses that are seeking to change the world. We talk about how he does that, what his process is, the coaches that he has on staff and what they do with clients to help them get

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E25 | A Marxist-Capitalist Approach To Business: Meet...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/02/05

Today’s guest is Simon Biltcliffe, CEO of Webmart, a print management business in Bicester. Simon’s on a mission to make print more affordable for everybody. He’s built an amazing business with some impressive specs! They’ve capped the number of people, they share profit share with employees, Simon’s capped his salary and the business is owned by a trust so he couldn’t sell it even if he wanted to. Simon declares himself a “marxist-capitalist”, because without capitalism there’s no wealth, and

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E24 | Let’s Meet Better: Elise Keith

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/01/29

For the last 10 years, Elise Keith has been on a mission to fix the thing that most people spend the most time doing at work: meetings. Who hasn’t been in a terrible meeting? Elise witnessed people who should have been in conflict come together and have a great meeting. She has worked out what types of meetings there are, how to approach these meetings and how to get the best out of everybody. Today’s episode is all about getting things done by using well-structured, well-designed meetings. Don’t

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E23 | [Rebroadcast] Jedi Mind Tricks To Turn A...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2019/01/22

Peter Czapp loves what he does. He’s the co-founder of The Wow Company, an accountancy firm that helps you grow your business, not just fill in your tax return. He’s got a fascinating story and a lot of interesting thoughts on business, which I talk to him about for my podcast this week. Peter explains why he felt driven to launch his own company, despite not having a background in accounting. And why he’s so passionate about delivering that ‘Wow’ to clients. Lots of great advice included here. On

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