Join Keith Grint, Professor Emeritus at Warwick University, and myself as we discuss the specific Wicked Problems of Covid-19, Brexit, and Leadership. Drawing on the work of Thompson’s Messy Solutions, Professor Grint introduced the concepts of Tame and Critical problems, thus contextualising the problem-scape. Keith spent 12 years at Oxford University and was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School.

After nearly 3 decades of building Fortune 500 brands and serving as a 3x CMO, Stephanie founded Mindfire Mastery to show leaders the secret power of using disruption to their advantage to catapult from functional to optimal. Her approach blends business and brand leadership with cutting edge insights and tools from the disciplines of neuroscience, psychology, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and core energy coaching.

Marcus Kirsch has worked as a transformation, service design and innovation specialist for over 20 years. Today he helps organisations be better problem-solvers and be more resilient. He has led projects for British Telecom, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft, McDonald’s, Nationwide, Nissan, Science Museum, P&G & Telekom Italia. Marcus is the author of ’The Wicked Company’ and co-host of ’The Wicked Podcast’. In his off-time, he is a mediocre indoor-climber, movie nerd, maker and likes his whiskies n

Andy is the Founder of the Transparency Task Force (TTF) the collaborative, campaigning community dedicated to driving positive, progressive and purposeful reform of the world’s financial services industry, through harnessing the transformational power of transparency. He lives in the UK but frequently speaks about the need for greater transparency and finance reform at conferences and symposia around the world.

Royston A Cumberbatch is an expert in Finance, Business and Investing. With a career spanning 30 years. Royston is was abandoned by his father as a child. He turned his life around in his late 20's, working up through the Insurance and Finance industries, transforming his life such that he now has a property portfolio and a net worth in excess of £2MM He hasn’t forgotten his roots or the path to success. He now makes it his mission to share his knowledge supporting others in growing their business.

Today I’m with Anuka Gazara-Anthony. Anuka is a Mindfulness teacher and Leadership & Wellness Coach who combines organizational leadership, programme management and hypnobirthing in her work. She has supported and advised executives in a diverse range of organizations, including the United Nations and the International Labour Organization, with work taking her across Europe and Africa.

Martin cut his teeth as an early AWS pioneer leading two of the largest migrations in the world in the early naughties. He now has 15 years’ experience in Digital Strategy, Cloud Architecture and Digital Operating models and has provided best practice cloud usage, DevOps/Agile operating models and technical leadership to some of the world’s largest companies.

Jannah is a subject matter expert and consultant in the financial markets sector, specialing in financial markets innovation, and helping firms define, develop and execute commercial strategies in a highly regulated environment. Her passion is for market structure and finding creative solutions to the challenges surrounding access to markets and liquidity for both traditional financial markets and asset classes, and the emerging field of digital asset market structure and regulation.

Risk! There’s definitely some going around at the moment, whether it’s markets, business continuity, or popping to the corner shop – risk is everywhere. My guest today is Jan-Peter Onstwedder who has over 25 years experience in risk management across a wide variety of asset classes and global trading markets, both in a banking and a corporate environment. Jan-Peter has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a degree in mechanical engineering from Delft Universi

Michael Mainelli is the executive chairman of ZYen group. A qualified accountant, a securities professional, a computer specialist and a management consultant. Educated at Harvard Universisty and Trinity College, Dublin and gained his PhD at the London School of Economics, where he was also a visiting professor of innovation and IT. His career spans aerospace and cartography science, accountancy firm partner and director of Ministry of Defence research.