Action, Impact, Growth Luke Nihill

Ian Povey is Mr Payments, with an illustrious career spanning leading global banks, Silicon Valley and now a board member of both SWIFT and The Payments Association, his understanding of this complex landscape is unsurpassed.



In this episode Ian talks through the importance of distilling information into stories, analogies and headlines in order to achieve the big goals.


00:00, Intro

01:00, Bringing authenticity and context

02:48, Followership

03:46, Storytelling

08:05, Success = empowerment + accountability

11:32, Career Planning

15:02, Recall, preparation and simplification

18:47, The importance of headlines

21:29, The flagpole on the hill

23:28, When covid hit..

26:38, The three week trust test

29:28, Listening when problems occur

31:23, Injecting agitation, while supporting the team

35:00, The Change Dragon

36:55, The future of the CIO role

38:57, Investing your time wisely

40:56, Accountability and measuring the shift

44:50, The power of storytelling

Andrew Pearce, experienced C Suite Executive and global operations and technology leader sits down with Luke to discuss his approach to leading and inspiring large teams around a clear mission.

Coming from a business background into a technology leadership role, Andrew has some actionable advice on how to maximise performance, whether turning around an underperforming team, or leading high performers to incremental gains.

00:00 Intro
00:30 What is leadership?
02:11 Learning to listen
03:15 Principles
05:23 Transparency and sharing
07:12 Growth and the importance of a successor
12:02 Say yes to opportunities
13:19 Communicating goals
16:27 When to listen and when to dictate
20:11 Overcoming obstacles and not taking things personally
24:35 Development points
25:42 The devil’s in the detail
29:44 Cycling mindset
31:46 Transitioning into technology
34:20 If you know then what you know now
34:51 Closing thoughts

Luke sits down with Greg Horton from Fairstone, a fast growing and highly acquisitive PE backed Wealth Manager.

A thoroughly modern CTO, Greg talks through his perspective on how to ensure technology drive the business.



This episode includes:

- Open and collaborative leadership

- When to shield the team

- How do you know when you’ve made it?

- The modern technology operating model

- Keeping the customer at the centre of tech decisions

- Investing in people

- Embracing Chat GPT and AI

- Embracing opportunity in the knocks & nudges

Luke sits down with Billy Ferguson, CTO at Thincats to discuss his unique take on how to build and lead a team. 

Having worked at larger businesses previously, Billy talks about the increased importance of culture, peer networks and hiring right when in a smaller environment. He openly discusses the tech choices he has made, the opportunity / cost associated with them and why you don't have to be at the bleeding edge to gain a competitive advantage.


Topics:

Leadership style - Everybody is a leader

Culture - Run, change, transform

Talent - Hiring right

Growth mindset - Why growth matters

Getting things done - Small company speed

Peer network - Building for success

Tech choices - Neo tech & a lack of debt

The competition - Opportunity / cost

Balance - The mental health triangle

Luke sits down with Anna Moore and Jennifer Longden lead people and culture at Pollinate, a fast growing London based fintech. They sit down to discuss all things culture and their ideas on how to drive collaboration across the fintech space.

Here’s a snapshot of the discussion.

– Who Are Pollinate

– The War For Talent “you can’t compete”

– Learning Month

– Award Winning HR

– Values

– Knowledge Sharing

– The People Network

– Say Yes!