The Inspiring Leaders Podcast

Episode 1 of our "High Impact Leadership" Podcast Series

Exploring what it means to be a high performing executive in today's challenging environment, this podcast is part of our High Impact Leadership series. Featuring Criticaleye’s CEO Matthew Blagg and Director of Content Marc Barber, this episode kicks off our new series, including:

• What does it mean to be a high impact leader? How do you achieve the best with what you've got
• What mindset do leaders need as inflation and high interest rates take their toll? How do you ensure the ExCo, the Board and the workforce are aligned?
• Inspiring followership in your teams - and why honesty is important in a recessionary climate
• Challenges for new CEOs and ensuring you have the right team around you
• The contribution of the Chair and the Board - the role of NEDs in inspiring high impact leadership and performance

Episode 6: Criticaleye Asia Podcast - Rebuilding leadership capability

Featuring Criticaleye's General Manager, Michael Crompton, plus guests Benny H. Goh, Non-executive Director at Cyber Data Centre, Innovation Advisor at IPI Singapore, Non-executive Director at TaqTik Health and a Criticaleye Board Mentor, and Margaret Rumpf, Vice President, Global Marketing Head at GSK. Talking points include:

• Challenges faced by leaders in APAC over the last three years, what has and hasn't changed
• The mindset needed by senior executives to build a diverse and effective team
• How to help executives moving into new locations to have cultural awareness? How can they adjust/adapt to their new environment
• Succession planning and whether big corporates are able to optimise talent in Asia 
• Business model transformation and what leadership capabilities are needed to drive success

Episode 4: Criticaleye Asia Podcast - Managing complexity as a leader

Featuring Criticaleye's Managing Director Charlie Wagstaff, plus Min Yih Tan, SVP Global Mobility Network, Shell and Bhawna Gandhi, HR Director, Corporate Service, APAC, Sodexo. Talking points include:

• What does it mean to be a high performing leader in APAC, what are the main challenges
• Customer trends, use of data and the rebirth of conscious consumerism   
• Adapting your leadership approach between global and local leadership roles - small global vs. strong local
• The responsibility of leadership and how to inspire those around you 
• Dreaming big as a team, removing constraints so you and your people can outperform

Episode 5: Criticaleye Asia Podcast - Stepping Up with William Lo

Featuring Criticaleye's Managing Director Charlie Wagstaff and Dr William Lo, Chair of Captcha Media Ltd and a Criticaleye Board Mentor. Talking points include:

• An overview of William Lo's career, his time as an executive, progression up the leadership ladder and non-executive roles
• What leaders should be doing in the current climate and the impact political and social pressures are having on organisations
• Stepping up into a regional leadership role - what this means and William's own journey to a senior position
• The importance of the right leadership team - how to get the right people around you and develop the next generation of leaders 
• What the new landscape of remote working and relationships means for leaders

Episode 8 of our "Leadership with New Horizons" Podcast Series

Offering an outlook for leadership in 2021, this podcast is part of our Leadership with New Horizons series. Featuring Criticaleye’s CEO Matthew Blagg and Managing Editor Emma Carroll, it covers some of the key outtakes from our recent CFO Retreat, including:

• A poll taken at our CFO Retreat where 65% said burnout is having a negative impact on performance
• Why culture and people are the biggest barriers to collaboration, according the CFOs 
• Changing business models and how they are driving new partnerships and innovation
• The focus of shareholders going into 2022, including growth and ESG
• The CFOs role as a leader, and importance of focusing on the longer-term strategy as we go into next year

Episode 2: Criticaleye Asia Podcast - The Upside of Risk for a Board

Featuring Criticaleye Managing Director Charlie Wagstaff, plus Board Mentor Venkataramanan Anantharaman, this podcast was recorded following a roundtable looking at creating an effective risk management framework, including:

• The dynamic nature of risk in the current environment, and why leaders need to shift their thinking 
• The opportunity that risk management can present, plus how Boards and leadership teams can harness these   
• What questions should Boards and Non-executives be asking on risk, and what approach to Exec teams need to take when putting plans in place
• The role of the Board in defining a risk culture 
• The risk posed by data overload, how does the risk register need to shift in today's data driven environment

Episode 1: Criticaleye Asia Podcast - Innovation in the Boardroom

Featuring Criticaleye Asia’s General Manager Michael Crompton, plus two Criticaleye Board Mentors Karen Fawcett and Mui Hoon Poh, this podcast was recorded following an event with Singapore Institute of Directors on the topic of innovation in the boardroom, including:

• The Board's role in creating and maintaining a culture of innovation for an organisation
• The importance of being able to have challenging conversations at board levels so innovation can thrive  
• Whether the culture of a board is influenced more by location or what type of organisation it oversees
• Diversity at board level and the impact this has on innovation
• Having Non-executives who are willing to learn, and processes which do not limit a board and what it can achieve

Episode 7 of our "Leadership with New Horizons" Podcast Series

Offering an outlook for leadership in 2021, this podcast is part of our Leadership with New Horizons series. Featuring Criticaleye’s CEO Matthew Blagg and Director of Content Marc Barber, it covers some of the key outtakes from our recent CEO Research, including:

• The landscape for leadership drawing upon our recent Criticaleye CEO Research 2021
• Why agility is the top area of change for leaders - what this means in practice and how to get internal processes and teams to keep up with an agile strategy 
• The relationship between Boards and executives, and how the drive for new tech is creating a need for a new type of leadership
• Followership over leadership, and why this is becoming more important
• The role of the CEO to inject energy, to give people confidence and to make sure they have the right team around them

Episode 6 of our "Leadership with New Horizons" Podcast Series

Offering an outlook for leadership in 2021, this podcast is part of our Leadership with New Horizons series. Featuring Criticaleye’s CEO Matthew Blagg and Director of Content Marc Barber, it covers some of the key outtakes from our recent CEO Retreat, including:

• Topics raised during our flagship event including board dynamics, customer focus, agility and purpose
• Where the CEO and top team need to align in 2021, including hybrid working, the pace of decision-making and future strategic direction 
• What the return of greater travel and movement for executives will mean for leadership energy and motivation
• Shifting mindsets of leaders from internal to external, and why CEOs need to be externally focused more than ever
• The learning process for first-time CEOs and how most Boards are now exerting greater pressure on leadership teams

Episode 5 of our "Leadership with New Horizons" Podcast Series

Offering an outlook for leadership in 2021, this podcast is part of our Leadership with New Horizons series. Featuring Criticaleye’s CEO Matthew Blagg and Managing Editor Emma Carroll, it covers some of the key outtakes from our recent HR Director Retreat, including:

• Reviewing the role of the HR Director and how it has evolved as a result of the pandemic
• The future challenges of hybrid working - how can organisations break the 'virtual-working' cycle and ensure focus on the customer 
• Relationships in the top team including how the CEO should be leveraging the CHRO going forward
• Are HRDs rethinking their career path after Covid-19? A poll taken at the Retreat reveals that many are.
• Visibility at Board level for HR leaders and whether a return to in-person interactions will impact on this