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Management Today's Leadership Lessons podcast is aimed at entertaining, educating and inspiring people to be better leaders. The podcast delves into the world of leadership and management, bringing fresh insights, trends and advice to the ears of busy senior leaders. We interview CEOs, founders, authors, executive coaches, business professors and other experts to discover the real secrets to effective leadership. We also provide crucial insight into some of the biggest business stories of the day to help you stay ahead of the curve.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Why the business of space is everyone’s business

    3D AGO

    Why the business of space is everyone’s business

    As of 2026, the UK space industry is a significant and strategic driver of the national economy, contributing over £19 billion in revenue and supporting tens of thousands of high-skilled jobs. Satellite-based services and data underpin roughly 18% of UK GDP, equivalent to approximately £454 billion of the wider economy. And the sector is growing exponentially. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. For the space industry to fully realise its potential it needs more of the right people to understand what’s happening and get involved. People like policy makers, investors, regulators, planners, communicators, lawyers and consultants. Dr Alice Bunn, the president of UK Space, and her panel of guests, Sam Alden co-CEO of Space Solar, Nick Shave managing director of Astroscale and Anushka Sharma founder of Naaut, discuss the surprising, awe inspiring business of space and make the compelling case for why more companies and investors should get involved.  Contributors: Host: Alice Bunn, President of UKspace  Dr Alice Bunn OBE FIMechE FRAeS CEng | LinkedIn UKspace: Overview | LinkedIn Guests: Nick Shave, Managing Director of Astroscale Nick Shave FRAeS | LinkedIn Astroscale: Overview | LinkedIn Sam Adlen, CEO of Space Solar Sam Adlen | LinkedIn Space Solar: Overview | LinkedIn Anushka Sharma, founder of Naaut Anushka Sharma | LinkedIn Naaut: About | LinkedIn Key topics covered: Impact of Space on Everyday Life Practical ApplicationsEnvironmental MonitoringGlobal Security Sustainability and Innovation in Orbit Space DebrisManufacturing in MicrogravitySpace-Based Solar Power Economic and Regulatory Landscape Cost ReductionInvestment and FinanceRegulation and Policy The Future of Space Exploration New PlatformsAcademic Contribution Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    43 min
  2. Bliss Group CEO: “I’ve reinvented my career about four times”

    12/12/2025

    Bliss Group CEO: “I’ve reinvented my career about four times”

    Cortney Stapleton, CEO of the Bliss Group, outlines her journey from the non-profit sector to leading the 50-year-old marketing and comm firm, emphasizing a leadership philosophy grounded in intellectual curiosity where employees are given an opportunity to innovate and learn from failure.  In this week's episode, she discusses the firm's proactive response to industry disruption, specifically their co-development of a custom, agentic AI tool designed to generate deep B2B insights while maintaining client security. She also covers her strategies for navigating a polarised media landscape and her role as a co-founder of Exponent Women, an organisation dedicated to empowering women in the deal-making profession. Credits: Presenter: Éilis Cronin Producer: Inga Marsden Artwork: Jenny Hardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  3. Dune London founder on affordable luxury, weathering the retail apocalypse and becoming a ‘sole survivor’

    12/04/2025

    Dune London founder on affordable luxury, weathering the retail apocalypse and becoming a ‘sole survivor’

    Self confessed "shoe obsessive" Daniel Rubin launched fashion brand Dune London more than 30 years ago. Since then the brand has expanded from a shop on Oxford Street to locations across more than 130 countries. In this week's episode, Rubin discusses his new book - Sole Survivor: How I Built a Global Shoe Brand, which documents the brand's journey and the leadership lessons he learned along the way. He also dives into the challenges facing the modern day fashion industry. Credits: Presenter: Éilis Cronin Producer: Inga Marsden Artwork: Jenny Hardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    24 min
  4. Steph Edusei on tackling ‘imposter phenomenon’ and ‘taking up space’ as a Black leader

    10/30/2025

    Steph Edusei on tackling ‘imposter phenomenon’ and ‘taking up space’ as a Black leader

    Steph Edusei’s leadership strategy can be encapsulated in two philosophies: “be a little bit naughty” and “push the boundaries”.  This mindset of challenging the status quo, paired with a commitment to compassionate, human-centred leadership, defines her career trajectory from the rigid NHS structure to the caring culture of the charitable hospice sector. Edusei spent almost 20 years in the NHS, where she experienced a culture of immense pressure, constant reorganisation and a sense of being a “small cog in a huge machine”. Her appointment in 2020 as CEO of St Oswald’s Hospice – a charitable hospice based in the north east – presented a stark contrast. Credits: Presenter: Éilis Cronin Producer: Inga Marsden Artwork: Jenny Hardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    37 min
  5. How Inchcape’s CEO is navigating the ‘polycrisis’

    10/09/2025

    How Inchcape’s CEO is navigating the ‘polycrisis’

    As the world grapples with an ongoing wave of global disruptions, which many have dubbed the “supply chain polycrisis”, automotive distributor Inchcape has been forced to adapt quickly. CEO Duncan Tait, who took the helm during the Covid pandemic, is putting his more than 30 years of tech experience to good use, steering the almost 180-year-old company through this turbulent period. On the latest episode of Leadership Lessons, Tait talks leveraging technology, understanding emerging markets, and driving long-term growth for Inchcape. Credits: Presenter: Éilis Cronin Producer: Inga Marsden Artwork: Jenny Hardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25 min
  6. Grayling PR’s CEO on leadership, agency growth, and the importance of DEI

    10/02/2025

    Grayling PR’s CEO on leadership, agency growth, and the importance of DEI

    Visa, Birmingham City Football Club, and Grindr. What do these companies have in common? They're all clients of PR firm Grayling, headed up by CEO Heather Blundell, who will grace the stage as a speaker at this years' Women in Work Summit. In this week's episode, Blundell reflects on her career trajectory; from a rigorous start at Edelman, which she describes as SAS training, to taking on a managing director role at Weber Shandwick at age 29. Now leading Grayling, Blundell explains the strategic shifts she's driving, including the launch of Grayling Media, and discusses how the agency’s diverse client base serves as the perfect business case for why DEI is a business necessity, not just a 'tick box exercise'." Credits: Presenter: Éilis Cronin Producer: Inga Marsden Artwork: Jenny Hardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31 min
  7. McKinsey’s head of business building on why all leaders need to be innovators

    09/25/2025

    McKinsey’s head of business building on why all leaders need to be innovators

    New ideas are the engine of corporate growth, but all too often established businesses find innovation too cumbersome and too distracting from the day job – which means it’s the preserve of nimbler start-ups. Daniel Aminetzah is a McKinsey consultant on a mission to change that. The global co-leader of McKinsey Business Building wants companies to pursue new revenue streams and act more like start-ups, even in deeply traditional industries.  As he puts it: “We can allow ourselves to unleash our entrepreneurial muscle in many more contexts, including traditional corporates or professional firms. You don’t have to go to a garage and do it with another founder.” On the latest episode of MT’s Leadership Lessons podcast, Aminetzah explained how he helps firms upgrade their business building capacity. And despite the current macroeconomic uncertainty, he said many are ready to take the plunge. Credits: Presenter: Antonia Garrett Peel Producer: Inga Marsden Artwork: Jenny Hardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25 min
  8. Julian Birkinshaw: 'Established companies are way more resilient than people give them credit for'

    09/05/2025

    Julian Birkinshaw: 'Established companies are way more resilient than people give them credit for'

    American author F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” This is also, according to dean of Ivey Business School Julian Birkinshaw and ex-Pearson CEO John Fallon, who have co-authored a new book on established companies in an age of digital change, a good definition of the mindset needed to navigate this kind of disruption. You can think of it, Birkinshaw told MT’s Leadership Lessons, as “being paranoid and pragmatic at the same time”. “So you have to have a certain level of paranoia that any new technology could be something that will make your life very difficult, that will be a threat. The pragmatic bit says, ‘we've lived through many, many rounds of digital changes…Most of our big organisations are still with us’.” To be more precise, as of 2020, only 35 of the Fortune 500 cohort from 1995 - when the internet revolution was really getting underway - had gone bankrupt. Today, its constituents that didn’t exist in 1995 number only 27. The prevailing narrative about established firms, Birkinshaw says, casts them as “relics of a bygone era” - dinosaurs pitted against the unicorns and other fleet-footed disruptors of the digital era. But this narrative, he and Fallon argue in Resurgent: How established organisations can fight back and thrive in an age of digital transformation, ignores many of the inherent strengths that have made these companies market leaders. For many organisations, haunted by the fear of falling victim to their own ‘Kodak moment’, the temptation when faced with a new technology might be to react quickly to counter the perceived threat. Not only, however, are the firms that fail to adapt to digital disruption “the absolute exception” that proves the general rule (namely that “big companies are way more resilient than people give them credit for”), but it’s important to recognise that people tend to overestimate the speed of change and executives therefore often have more time than they might think to work out whether, when and how much to invest in a new technology. Credits: Presenter: Antonia Garrett Peel Producer: Inga Marsden Artwork: Jenny Hardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min
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Management Today's Leadership Lessons podcast is aimed at entertaining, educating and inspiring people to be better leaders. The podcast delves into the world of leadership and management, bringing fresh insights, trends and advice to the ears of busy senior leaders. We interview CEOs, founders, authors, executive coaches, business professors and other experts to discover the real secrets to effective leadership. We also provide crucial insight into some of the biggest business stories of the day to help you stay ahead of the curve.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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