The Leaders Who Care (2026)

28/06/2023

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 : 𝐄𝐏 #118 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐁𝐢𝐣𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐝 💡

Join us LIVE! Tomorrow, 28th June, 11am CET where we look forward to welcoming Mark van Bijsterveld Signify (Phillips) Former CHRO.

Prior to the CHRO role, Mark was Head of Global HR Services at Signify. Before, that he has been co-leading creating Signify as stand-alone organization . He also held several roles as senior HR Business Partner, both at Signify and the Consumer Lifestyle division of Philips.

Mark started his career in Management Consulting at Deloitte Consulting and has worked in several senior HR positions at Microsoft and Orange telecom.

Mark, a Dutch national, holds a master’s degree in Organizational psychology and a PhD in Business Administration at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Advisory Board for their Business Administration faculty.

Join us to unpack what it truly means to belong in the workplace, and how best to create an environment where this can be possible! 🤝

14/06/2023

Join us LIVE!, tomorrow, Wednesday, 14th June 4pm UK Time, 11am Eastern.

We look forward to welcoming Erik Fisher, the producer & host of The Beyond The To-Do List podcast!

For more than a decade, Erik has sat down with productivity experts, authors, and creatives as they share their insights on how to implement productivity strategies in both your professional and personal life.
His mission is to help you gain perspective, practical knowledge, and productivity insights for living a whole life that goes Beyond The To Do List.

The Beyond the To-Do List podcast explores all aspects of productivity and the true end goal of productivity: living a meaningful life.

Join us to explore all of the above as we unpack what productivity means to different people!

Check out the podcast here...
https://www.beyondthetodolist.com/about/

07/06/2023

Join us LIVE, 7th June, Wednesday, 2PM UK Time!

As we welcome the UK'S #15 Most Influential Woman in UK Technology and 21 Most Inspiring Women in Cyber.

Dr. Jacqui Taylor was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science in recognition of her
international web science work on equity for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). As one of the 250 Founders of Tech City in 2016, she pivoted her company FlyingBinary to meet the challenges of Web 3.0, the Metaverse and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with spectacular results.

She is recognised as one of the 100 Global Leaders, is a Top Ten Global IoT innovator, and an independent industry analyst for IIoT.

Globally recognised as the world’s first Smart City Tsar, and a Strategic Advisor to the UK Government, Cities lead on Digital Built Britain, Principal UK Expert lead for BSI international team for Technology, Data, Smart Cities and AI.

She founded the Empathy Economy to share the secrets of her global success plan with entrepreneurs and supported over 10 million entrepreneurs in 172 countries with resources to grow their Profit for Purpose businesses using CyberSafe Web 3.0 technology.

-Her latest initiative is a partnership with LinkedIn to teach 880 million
members the steps to take to create their climate commitments in advance of COP 28.

Wow, what a story!
Join us to find out more...

23/05/2023

Join us LIVE, tomorrow, 23rd May 5:15 UK time/ 9:15am PT Time where we look forward to welcoming Steve Cadigan, LinkedIn's first Chief HR officer and highly sought-after talent advisor to leaders and organizations across the globe.

Steve advises a wide range of innovative organizations that include Airbnb, Intel, Salesforce, The Country Music Association, Manchester United Football Club and the BBC. He is also regularly retained by some of Silicon Valley’s leading VC firms such as Andreesen Horowitz, & Sequoia, as well as top Consulting firms like Deloitte & McKinsey.

Steve speaks at conferences and teaches in major universities around the world. His work in helping shape the culture at LinkedIn led Stanford University to build a graduate-level class around this ground-breaking work. Throughout his career, the teams, cultures, and organizations he has led have been recognized as exceptional, “world-class” performers by the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine.

Before launching his firm, Steve worked as an HR executive for over 25 years at a wide range of companies and industries including ESPRIT, Cisco Systems, Electronic Arts and capped by serving as the first CHRO for LinkedIn from 2009 through 2012, taking the company from a private firm of 400 employees, through an IPO and helping set it up to be the powerhouse that it has become today.

Today Steve serves on the Board of Directors to three companies and also sits on the Advisory Board of several other progressive organizations. In August of 2021 Steve published a ground-breaking book on the Future of Work titled Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of COVID-19 to Create a Better Model of Working. Even before its release it realized #1 on the Amazon list of Hot New Releases.

Tune in to find out more!

19/05/2023

Join us this Friday, 20th May, LIVE! 2pm UK Time/ 9am EDT time where we welcome Ransford Jones.

Ransford is a multi- sector visionary, eclectic, dynamic leader, an author, entrepreneur, certified executive/ Leadership coach and a relentless community advocate for Justice.

He is also the Pastor of the Destiny Gospel Centre in Markham Ontario, Canada.

He is a multi-sector leader, whose leadership experiences spanned over thirty years in profit and non- profit sectors , he served as a corporate executive in corporate Canada for many years, he served on many boards, national and international, including the Global Jamaica, diaspora council.
He has a College Diploma in Accounting and management, a Bachelors degree in Theology a Masters degree in Counselling and a honorary doctorate degree in divinity.

He has received serval prestigious awards, including the 2009 Weins Canada (Toyota&Lexus) International award, for excellence in Management, in Yokohama Japan
In 2021 he was awarded the prestigious BBPA Harry Jerome award for decade leadership
He is Married to his lovely wife of 24 years and they have two wonderful children.

Ransford's new book is also out, The 'Principles and Practices
of Productive Leadership'
https://ransfordbook.com/ -sec

Join us where we find out more about the above!

02/05/2023

Join us LIVE 2nd of May, Tuesday, 12:30 UK Time where we look forward to welcoming Blanca Baez, HealthTech Entrepreneur and CEO & Founder of DBounce, 'The Spotify for patient data'.

Blanca has specialized in the Pharma, Biotech, Healthcare, and AI for biomedicine sector for the past 18 years, having worked across the drug lifecycle and many disease areas. She has lived and worked across geographies and world regions.

Blanca's expertise and passion is in commercializing scientific breakthroughs and new disruptive technologies with left-field and effective business models.

Most recently, Blanca founded DBounce, which will become the world's complete and unequivocal source of patient self-reported data.

DBounce can also be seen as a social and medical movement to anchor the patient voice and experience to the core of every biomedicine discovery and healthcare decision – to drastically improve people’s lives in the context of disease.

Blanca has worn all DBounce hats: personally, she’s a chronic disease patient herself; and professionally, she has been the seller, user, builder, partner, and buyer of products and services based on patient data.

Blanca’s life journey matches her passion and conviction on the value she’s trying to generate for humans in the context of disease.

Tune into find out more about this amazing mission!

26/04/2023

Tune in LIVE, 26th April, 3PM CET where we welcome Anilkumar Dave!

Following on from last weeks episode where we dived into the future of AI, this week we welcome Anilkumar where we will explore the idea of the new space economy.

Anil started his career as ICT Projects Manager between Italy and India before moving to EU-funded R&D and Tech. Transf. (TT) initiatives representing public and private entities and focusing on the interaction between Res. and Ind.
He has worked in sectors spamming from textile/clothing to footwear, from logistics to households, and from FMCGs to Agrofood. After his assignment as the “SMEs Innovation and TT policies” officer at the Institute for Industrial Promotion (aka Italian Min. of Econ. Dev.) he designed and led the “Research, TT and special projects” department for the largest innovation agency in Italy, thus helping SMEs accessing European and public funds (25+ M€) through collaborative innovation projects.

During his tenure at the Italian Space Agency, Mr. Dave launched and directed the “Innovation and TT” Unit working on New Space Economy themes: start-ups, risk finance, IPR, tech transf., and later appointed Open Innovation advisor to the president. During his role as senior partner for the innovation hub INFINITE AREA he launched the first Italian advisory firm on Space Economy targeting non-Space companies.

At present Anil is a member of the advisory board for the GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK SPACE and senior advisor to policymakers, start-ups, and research centres on Space Economy themes and fundraising.

Tune in!

19/04/2023

Join us LIVE, 19th of April 16:30pm CET Time where we welcome Tim Berce.

Tim is the co-founder of Automatic Content, with a diverse background in marketing, beginning his career in direct response marketing and later serving as the head of email marketing for a large international digital marketing agency. He also worked as the head of content for a leading multinational retailer, where he led content teams and developed B2C and B2B strategies.

As a co-founder of Automatic Content, Tim now focuses on building fine-tuned AI language models paving the way for the future of AI-generated content.

In addition, Tim worked as a marketing consultant with companies across the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

Join us LIVE! where we zoom into AI and the role AI may have in businesses in the short and long term future.

13/04/2023

Join us LIVE TOMORROW, 12th of April, 7PM CET where we look forward to welcoming back Patrick, a leader who truly cares.

Patrick has been working in private equity, venture capital, and mergers & acquisitions for two decades.
He has invested in and worked with companies throughout the whole of Europe. As an investor, board member, coach, and mentor, he has been passing on his leadership and growth insights to founders, entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, and leadership teams of companies of all sizes.

His knowledge and experience in the realm of scaling businesses have been passionately delivered in his bestselling growth handbook ‘FastScaling: The Smart Path to Building Massively Valuable Businesses’.

Most recently, His leadership expertise is reflected in his leadership story ‘The Leadership House: A Leadership Tale about the Challenging Path to Becoming an Effective Leader’ set to be released later this month.

As an (independent) board member, he brings his growth and leadership related expertise, knowledge, and experience to the boardroom.

Patrick delivers both virtual and in-person workshops and keynotes for leadership teams across the globe. In his keynotes, he wraps all leadership and growth topics into exciting real-life stories that get his audience inspired. The insights and frameworks he shares equip leadership teams to grow their businesses, become highly effective leaders, embrace teamwork, implement change, and reach their biggest goals.

Tune in and check out Patrick's latest book below..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leadership-House-Challenging-Becoming-Effective/dp/1394191138/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FMXMXWQAV9OK&keywords=the+leadership+house+flesner&qid=1680173591&sprefix=%2Caps%2C398&sr=8-1

05/04/2023

Join us LIVE, 5th April 2PM UK Time where we welcome Alison Unsted...

Alison has over 25 years’ experience gained in both operational and specialist global HR leadership roles across professional services, retail and STEM industries working for employers such as law firm Hogan Lovells, the John Lewis Partnership and BAE Systems plc. She is a subject matter expert in the field of diversity, inclusion, and workplace wellbeing.

Alison is UK CEO & Global Strategy Director for the City Mental Health Alliance, a global network of large organisations, predominately in the financial and professional services sector, collaborating together to create mentally healthy workplaces.

In her role, Alison works closely with the Board to set and deliver the CMHA strategy to ensure CMHA is well positioned to deliver to its future vision. Alison leads the Thriving at Work programme, working closely with member organisations, providing workplace assessments and consultancy support in helping them to identify priority areas in terms of mental wellbeing in the workplace, providing practical guidance, and working collaboratively across member organisations to deliver projects that support these priorities.

Looking forward to it!

29/03/2023

Join us LIVE, Tomorrow, 29th March at 9:30 UK Time where we welcome Toot Shani...

As the founder and managing partner at Sarona Partners and a Global Shapers at The World Economic Forum, Toot believes in the power of entrepreneurship to enhance our world.

Walking the talk by identifying and investing in exquisite entrepreneurial talent, building extraordinary businesses...

At Sarona Partners, they have a successful track record with seven of their portfolio companies reaching unicorn status, and five successfully acquired. With a large and diverse portfolio of 96 companies, Sarona provides their investors with broad exposure to a range of innovative businesses and an estimated portfolio value of $45B.

To add on this, Sarona's commitment to their portfolio companies goes beyond investment. Having innovation centers in the north, south and center of Israel, and an active community of 8,000 founders. Offering them global support in multi-channel and GTM strategies, finance, fundraising, and talent acquisition.

Tune in tomorrow to find out more about leadership within the venture capital sphere!

22/03/2023

Join us LIVE, Wednesday 22nd March, 3pm where we welcome Viacheslav, the London School of Economics graduate, who learnt about the challenges banks and other non-bank financial institutions face during his former career at PwC, where he advised banks on developing and implementing digital strategies.

Due to the inability of large financial institutions to implement such strategies, the lack of capital available to businesses in emerging markets, and the abundance of capital seeking sustainable yields in developed markets, he and his co-founder Alex Fenechiu founded Finverity, a supply chain finance platform designed to mitigate all of these issues.

Viacheslav is responsible for the company's strategic direction, managing ex*****on via setting clear objectives, ensuring team alignment, and instilling effective processes. He believes that the long-term success of Finverity is secured due to the quality of our product and the strength of our people and culture. He credits his consistently positive attitude, clarity of vision, and power of his intention to the daily practices he follows, such as yoga and meditation, and his overall simple lifestyle.

Looking forward to hearing more about Finverity's mission, and one of the faces behind it!

08/03/2023

Join us LIVE Wednesday, 8th March 1pm UK Time/ 2pm CET as we continue to celebrate International Women's Day welcoming another strong Female leader.

Danielle Rainha joins us, A Human Resources executive with more than 25 years of experience of generalist HR positions in different industries.
Current CHRO and Board member at SHV Energy. A strategic leader with broad management and track record in a global organizational environment. International experience with deep understanding of cultural diversity.
Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English. MBA in business administration, graduated Social Work and Marketing.

03/03/2023

Join us LIVE this Friday, 3rd March,2PM UK Time in celebration of Bulgaria’s Liberation Day where we welcome Christo Popov, born and raised in Communist Bulgaria.

Christo is the Founder and CEO of Fast Track – applying the Fast Track system to over 500 companies in 27 countries - Numerous publications in Forbes, Fortune, Business times of India, Manila times, Human Resource Management, and others - Member of YPO for 17 years, Education Chair for Europe, Chapter Chair -and Father of three amazing daughters.

Christo spent 2 years in Bulgaria/Russia Special forces before going on to achieve the following… MSc in International Economics – Sofia and Moscow - MBA – Cambridge University - Ph.D. – Harvard Business School - Joint Diploma in Management - Instead, London Business School. Chirsto also spent one year in an ashram in India to study Vedanta, Buddhism, and Zen.
Started over 25 companies in 10 countries - 2 bankruptcies, 2 IPOs, and two exits and completed over 12 M&A transactions to the total value of 1 B.

What an incredibly diverse background, tune in to find out more!

21/02/2023

Join us LIVE Tuesday, 21st Feburary, 5pm UK time where we welcome Shely Aronov!

Shely is the CEO/co-founder of InnerPlant, a company creating crops that communicate via optical signals when they’re thirsty or sick to increase yields and reduce chemical use. InnerPlant's mission is to develop tools that will help feed the world sustainably.

Born in Israel, she is a Tel Aviv University graduate and holds an MBA from Standford, we cant wait to meet you Shely!

15/02/2023

Join us LIVE, tomorrow, 2pm UK Time, 15th February where we welcome Gene Bernier.

As a Life Coach, LiveCast Host, Husband, and Father, Gene spent over 20 years in the world of tech as a leader building high performing teams and delivering predictable results for clients across multiple industries.

This gave me him a front row seat to watch people in business drive themselves into the ground and I believed there was a better way.

Now my mission is to influence people to discover what it would take for them to live their life with direction, presence, courage, boldness and to chart their path through the fog.

As a Coach Gene works with clients to step beyond their comfort zone to face their challenges, and to find one thing daily that can bring them closer to the life they desire. Gene is also the host of the show LiveCast Conversation With and I interview guests to "peal" back the curtain on the bumps and triumphs of their story.

Tune in to discover what it truly means to live beyond the fog...

09/02/2023

The Leaders Who Care Episode #102

Join us LIVE tomorrow, 9th February 2pm UK time where we welcome Adja Ba!

"If a single secret to organizational success existed, it would be this: recruiting, empowering, and retaining top-of-the-line talent"

Adja has more than 23 years’ of energy industry experience.

Ba held several HR leadership positions more recently as the Chief Human Resources Officer at Franklin Energy and worked for 20 years for the French multi-national Electricite de France.

Mrs Ba has created strong alliances among executives, peers, and stakeholders. She is an accomplished executive who excels at analyzing lucrative global business needs, identifying growth opportunities, and attaining leverage in competitive markets.

She is an influential strategist who develops processes and procedures to address workforce design and positively impact company change, and who aligns awareness of cultural, economic, and social matters to deliver effective policies. Her dedication to maximizing bottom-line performance and delivering service excellence can be key for any project.

As an HR Leader, she also has an extensive experience in managing safety and establishing a safety culture for our employees.

Tune in!

25/01/2023

Join us LIVE, Wednesday 25th January 2pm UK time where we welcome Sheena Yap Chan!

After a truly inspiring 100th episode, we look forward to continue dedicating January to inspiring female leaders.

Sheena is a keynote speaker, podcaster, consultant, and author on building self-confidence. She currently inspires women through her award-winning podcast called The Tao of Self-Confidence where she interviews Asian women about their inner journey to self-confidence. A book under the same name will be launching on May 2023.
Her mission is to help Asian Women boost their confidence to live their authentic selves, help Asian Women create a voice in the world, and create a stronger representation for Asian women.
Sheena has been featured on MindValley, slice.ca, Marketing in Asia, Manila Times and more. She is also the TOP 100 Filipinos to follow on LinkedIn for inspiration and learning in 2020. She is also the co-author of the International bestselling book Asian Women Who Boss Up.

The Leaders Who Care