Overtime: Where Leaders Go To Learn

In this podcast I talk to Bud Caddell Founder of NOBL. Bud knows what it takes for teams and leaders to embrace change and we get into the details of how to make that work. Software engineer, graphic designer, digital strategist, management consultant and now founder. Bud started NOBL to help organizations realize their wildest ideas, unencumbered by silos and legacy systems. Bud was named "one of the most creative people under 30" by Business Insider. AdWeek listed Bud among the top 50 industry professionals of 2012, and The Guardian named him as one of ten digital strategists to watch in 2012. Prior to NOBL Collective, Bud was a partner at the management and strategic consultancy, Undercurrent, heading its Los Angeles office. He also served as SVP of Digital Strategy and Innovation at Deutsch LA. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and AdAge.

Melissa Andrada's purpose in life is to empower people to be their best selves at work. Melissa is the COO of Learnerbly, a VC-backed startup that help companies that include IDEO, GoCardless and ustwo accelerate the growth of their people. She co-founded the corporate learning arm of Wolff Olins to scale their impact with clients. While at Wolff Olins, she also helped shape the original strategic vision for FutureLearn, and co-created their first (and one of their mostly highly rated) MOOC on the Secret Power of Brands.When's she not at work, she organises communities for social justice, and teaches classes at General Assembly on how to find your dream job. In this episode we talk about how managers can approach learning for both their teams and themselves.

Victoria is a podcast and event host, community architect and the founder of Glint - a practice dedicated to designing interdisciplinary collaboration systems. After building communities for ten years, she started researching how communities interact and how information and energy flows between them. What if, instead of thinking of communities as small clusters, we started looking at the creative and tech world as a big, super-connected system, a macro-community? In this podcast Victoria shares with us what it takes to curate strong communities. From organizing pan-European start-up festivals to running weekly Creative Mornings events, Victoria knows what it takes to bring people together around a common purpose. Be sure to check out her amazing interviews on her Work We Do podcast: http://www.theworkwedo.co/

Many of us spend too much time in poorly run meetings but how come despite advancements in almost every area of our lives, we still get stuck in the meeting trap! Leaders of today have to start leading by example and put the energy into running great meetings. Our guest Kirsty Lewis runs us through her practical tips on running more effective and energetic meetings! Kirsty is a passionate and motivated person who loves to enable others to create a change within themselves or their businesses. She applies 10 years of expertise in coaching and facilitating across global markets and teams. When not in meeting rooms facilitating change, she can be found working as part of a team racing boats across the Atlantic or in the Caribbean and Europe or up a mountain skiing.

An agilist since 2010 and in product management since the 90s, Georg Fasching helps leaders and leadership teams embrace their potential. Check him out at www.georgfasching.com Georg and I sit down to discuss the impact team dynamics have on getting great work done, the importance of creating a safe space and the role the manager plays. Georg has just launched a Team Dynamics course and has given the OverTime listeners a special deal. Make sure to listen to find out more.

In today’s podcast we talk to Kunjal Tanna, Partner at LT Harper, cybersecurity recruitment experts based in London. Before setting up her business earlier this year Kunjal was in the U.S. building a team from 5 to 450 across the country. Kunjal recounts the challenges that came with and what she would do differently if she could go back. She also shares her expert tips on how to build your team.

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket and author of “A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops”. She is a strategist, trainer and workshop facilitator. With over 15 years’ experience of working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about finding the perfect balance between creativity and productivity. At Bracket she helps teams to use the best of their talents to develop great ideas and collaborate to make them happen. In today's episode we dig into what it takes to turn an average meeting into a productive ideation session by putting on your facilitators hat. Alison shares tips, tricks and learnings every manager can apply!

This week is a podcast week and thrilled to be sharing this one with you. I sit down with Abbie Pugh, Partner @ Multiple, a consulting company that helps tech companies grow through purpose, product and people. Abbie brings a wealth of knowledge to the table! Abbie spent her youth living in different parts of the world, from the US to the UK to Kenya and Egypt, driving her ongoing fascination with what makes people and cultures tick. Her career has spanned public affairs, international development, political risk and technology investment. She has applied her analytical skills on issues as varied as robotics, refugees and ransom negotiations. In 2012, Abbie moved to Facebook EMEA to become Joanna Shields’ Chief of Staff, where she gained insight into how a unique corporate culture can contribute to rapid growth. She subsequently developed her operational, team-building, people and entrepreneurial skills as Chief-of-Staff for serial entrepreneur and investor Shakil Khan. Most recently Abbie was Interim Directo

Listen in on my conversation with Nafisa Bakkar, CEO at Amaliah.com, a platform dedicated to representing Muslim women. Led by a passion to empower individuals through their identity, their work seeks to surface the many different voices and experiences within the muslim women community. It’s never been more important for Muslim women to be heard; with over 80 contributors, named by Forbes as one to watch and featured in CNN, Metro and WIRED Amaliah are rapidly becoming the place that represents Women in Generation M.

We talk to Sally De Rosa, HRBP Diabsolut and Chief HR Officer of HRWize. Sally shares with us how she managed to scale Diabsolut from 10 to 100, the importance a leader has on culture, the role Respect plays in fast growing companies and how to think about succession.

In this episode, we talk to Ross Allmark, Head of Ticketing at music start-up DICE. Ross talks about the challenges that came with the transition from event management at VICE to tech start-up DICE and how he learned the hard way that he needed to adapt his style in order to succeed. If you're about to start leading a new team, this is a must listen! You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/overtime-experiential-leadership-lessons/id1240982648?mt=2

In our first episode of OverTime we sit down with Rob Alderson, VP Content at Wetransfer. Rob started his career in journalism and really 'fell' into his first management role. He shares with us the lessons he's learned from day 1 to managing a one person team to now, where he's responsible for a team over 5. Enjoy, share, comment.

OverTime; Experiential Leadership Lessons was created to help managers reduce the feeling of isolation by hearing from other managers. We will interview managers from a range of disciplines and experience to hear their tales of managing others.