Mr Wight is a lifelong entrepreneur, banker, trader, fund manager and private equity investor. With interests in aerospace, construction, electric vehicles, energy, maritime, technology and entertainment.  He was the Keynote Speaker at the World Biofuels Symposium in Beijing China. His first company, Windsports, Inc. was a franchise of Wind Skate products for sailing, skiing and skating. This was started at age 14.  At age 18 Mr. Wight began attending bank board meetings and at 21 was appointed to the Board of Directors of DucoBancshares, the holding company for Bank of Illinois.  Several years latter he participated in the repositioning of the bank and ultimate sale for nearly 4 times book value. This was a very high sale measure as interstate banking was just opening up. During his tenure with Bank of Illinois he expanded the bank’s position in aircraft leasing. As an active pilot he was able to fly the bank’s Chairman to rural banks during the farm crisis and assist in recapitalizing them. During his formal Economics, Business and U.S. History training at Cornell College, Mr. Wight began a career as a standup comedian and club manager. This established his lifelong passion for entertainment and hospitality.  Upon Graduation Mr. Wight went to work for DLJ, Pershing division at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Having worked at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) for Geldermann, Inc., in the summers, he was prepared for his successful floor and office trading career at the Chicago Board of trade.As an “upstairs” trader, Mr. Wight also began working with his families real estate, construction, engineering and private investment business. Mr. Wight developed, managed shopping centers, vacant land for development, class A office buildings and hotels & resorts. During this period Mr. Wight became an investor with Odyssey Marine, Inc. One of the World’s most successful wreck salvage and recovery business. The company was featured in 2 seasons of “Treasure Quest” on Discovery Channel.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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#180 George Wight - Managing General Partner - Legacy Exchange Partnership

Manley was schooled on leadership through a mix of practical and academic. He twice served as an Officer in the Royal Navy, re-joining for the first Gulf War and in between Manley was an Inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Marine Police. In 2000, he was selected as a skipper in the BT Global Challenge round the world yacht race, leading a team of volunteers, including novices, for 9 months in a 32,000 mile journey, the “wrong way”! Manley continued his adventures as part of the 3-man team that won the inaugural race to the Magnetic North Pole. The team faced polar bear attacks, and sub-zero temperatures, learning huge lessons about both surviving and competing in very difficult circumstances. The team’s record time of 10 days and 9 hours still stands. With many more adventures ahead, Manley considers himself to always be a “leader, in learning”. As an acclaimed and admired inspirational speaker Manley understands the impact of stories. Tapping into the power of story and metaphor to accelerate reflection, discovery and revelation, creates moments of deep understanding, breaking down barriers and leading to lasting transformational behavioural change. With the core of his talks revolving around his challenging experiences, Manley develops the personal themes of fulfilling your and your team’s potential and achieving far beyond your own perceived abilities, as well as drawing on the numerous leadership and team development lessons; give a team a real sense of purpose and direction, motivate and inspire them (lead them) and it is incredible what can be achieved. Manley subsequently applies his Leadership experience to great effect designing and delivered successful cultural change programs, and as an active board member of a number of organisations globally, delivering true “high performance cultures”. Rather than forcing “ compliance”, the focus is on gaining “commitment” by raising levels of self and team awareness, then aligning personal and organisational values & purpose leading to more effective business and personal relationships. In 2014, Manley published “Compassionate Leadership: How to Create and Maintain Engaged, Committed and High-Performing Teams”. In this highly acclaimed, entertaining and hugely readable book, Manley combines the two worlds of business and adventure to encourage leaders everywhere – at work, at home, in sports and mid-ocean – to take a new approach to creating teams of developed, self-aware and committed individuals. Having received a copy of Manley’s book, the Dalai Lama has commended Manley for his work on compassion. In 2018 Manley launched the Compassionate Leadership Academy (CLA) as a continuation of all his work designed to transform the way people access leadership and personal development and further spread the impact of compassionate leadership worldwide.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#179 Manley Hopkinson - Leader, Round the World Skipper, Artic Explorer, Royal Navy Officer

Rodney Flowers is a best-selling author, speaker, entrepreneur, thought leader and resilience trainer. Flowers leverages his unique life experience and business acumen to help individuals, teams and companies cultivate resilience, crush their goals, and achieve peak performance. The game changer mindset was born in 1993 when Flowers was a star football player determined to reach the NFL. But one night, a bad tackle left him paralyzed from the neck down. Doctors told Flowers he’d never walk again. But Flowers rejected the prognosis. He pursued his goal to walk again relentlessly. Failure was not an option. Today, Flowers is no longer wheelchair bound. Since his traumatic injury, Flowers graduated college, earned his MBA, and enjoyed a productive career with the U.S. Department of Defense. Through his Game Changer Mentality resilience training program, Flowers teaches others how to develop the mindset that conquers any obstacle, to overcome limiting beliefs and achieve personal and professional goals. He combines expertise and charisma to encourage audiences to take courageous action and change the game altogether.   His Leadership tip – Every adversity comes with the seed of opportunity.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#178 Rodney C Flowers

A group of CEO Level executives get together to share their wisdom and experience and the best tips. This episode includes:Brian Hayworth: Co-Managing Partner of Lansdowne Partners, Mark Fleiner: President of Malvern Panalytical, David Harney: President and COO - Europe at Canada Life Group,Emma Kane: CEO SEC Newgate, (remotely)Leigh Bowman-Perks: CEO Inspiring Leadership TrustTop Tips :Never have AOB on an agenda - best way to get ambushed in a meeting - circulate agenda in advance and ask for all items to go on or if not covered will be picked up in next meeting.Never ask a question you don't want to hear the answer toNever say I'll give you a call or let's do lunch if you don't intend to do so. Always focus on the red lines on any transaction at the beginning and not the end of a deal - it saves a lot of time and money. If certain things are deal breakers and you will never get over them find out fast. Hire for attitude not for ability to purely pass exams - job or career. you can train people but you can't change their soul. Pick your battles - you don't have to win every point. Never be late for a meeting - it is rude and you are saying I am much more important than you are.Focus on the things where you add value and hire people to do the things you are not good at and invest in the very best people you can affordListen to the podcast for more great tips and practical hard fought lessons learnt See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#176 CEOs Inspiring Leadership Forum #5

Sophie Neary is Group Director for Facebook UK & Ireland. Sophie joined Facebook in August 2020 from Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), where she was the Managing Director of eCommerce and Digital Retail Transformation and member of the executive committee for Boots UK & Ireland.    Sophie has over 25 years leadership experience spanning Marketing, E-Commerce, Strategy and Digital Transformation roles for companies including; Reuters, Netscape/Sun Microsystems, Tesco, Asda, Jack Wills and WBA. Her start up experience includes JCP, sold to Sun Microsystems 2000 and aggregator BeatThatQuote.com, acquired by Google in 2011.    Sophie is a passionate advocator and champion of women’s health in the workplace. As someone who is single and childfree, who divides her time between London and Chamonix, France, Sophie regularly speaks about embracing a life outside of the traditional expectations of society and helping to build a future where everyone has the greatest freedom of all – the choice to lead a life of their own choosing.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#177 Sophie Neary - Facebook Group Director UK & Ireland

Gary C. Laney, Founder – CEO Success Masters LLC – Previous Co-Founder of Trustegrity Professional Business CommunityGary is a best-selling author, speaker, sales and process management trainer, global connector, business coach, start-up investor, and serial entrepreneur of 20 businesses. Industries include business networking, online media, e-commerce, training, and high-tech intellectual property.Gary has been recognized as a top presenter, motivating tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, professionals, and salespeople. Prior to his entrepreneurial run, Gary spent 25 years as an executive in corporate high-tech and commercial publishing primarily in sales, business development and marketing (e.g., Folio/Mead Data Central, OpenText Software, Eloquent/OpenText, Upshot/Oracle, Sendia/Salesforce, etc.). He is known for his ability to turn around businesses and create dramatic revenue growth. Gary has a triple major MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management in finance, marketing, and policy, with a minor in Information Technology.In Gary’s new best seller book, The Power of Strategic Influence, he details 6 Spheres of Influence: Perspective, Accountability, Relationships, Leadership, Opportunity, and Strategic Influence. Within those spheres are 10 easy-to-follow steps called success factors of highly influential leaders, which will teach you how to access, utilize, develop, expand, and ultimately use your influence to help make the world a better place. These success factors act as a guide for anyone who wants to achieve success within any organization or industry. Top Leadership Tip: You cannot proclaim yourself to be influential. This is a position that others bestow upon you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#175: Gary C Laney - CEO & Founder of Success Masters LLC

Ranked among the world’s Top 10 CEOs for 2020 in The World CEO Rankings Awards by Adria Management, LLC, Brian J. Esposito is the founder and CEO of Esposito Intellectual Enterprises, LLC, (EIE). An award-winning serial entrepreneur and business leader, he is recently renowned for being a core part of an innovative team to build Nodle—the world’s largest wireless network and ecosystem of connected devices. In addition, also being a core part of team TurnCoin and the launch of VirtualStax through TheXchange. TheXchange is the company behind VirtualStaX & the VirtualStaX App: A people-driven platform that empowers individuals to achieve their dreams, while giving their fans a vehicle to support them, share in their journey, and participate in their success. TheXchange currently has the public support of Drew Brews, Patrick Mahomes, Randy Jackson, and Jean de Villiers—and for one of his early businesses, which ranked among The Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for six consecutive years. In December 2019, he was featured in The Corporate Investment Times, the next-gen investment magazine in the Middle East. With over 20 years of experience in high-profile executive roles involving complex business challenges and high-stakes decisions, Brian founded Esposito Intellectual Enterprises (EIE) in New York in 2013. Wholly owned by Brian, EIE currently has 75+ entities within it and over 150 joint ventures that have been accumulated around the world over the last 20 years. To date, there are over 25 industry focuses and just one degree separating any industry or market that Brian may want to enter into and do business in. With a technique that he spent years perfecting, Brian connects not only the right people but the right people at the right time. “Integrity is at the core of who we are and what we do at EIE. We strive to do good business with good people,” he says. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#174: Brian J Esposito - Founder & CEO Esposito Intellectual Enterprises

Emilio started his business career selling door-to-door in the Beauty Industry at the age of 19.  At 22 he was the National Sales Trainer for an national beauty brand.  At 24 he became Regional Sales Manager for over 30 distributors in 6 States in the Northeast corridor of the United States responsible for millions in revenues. By the age of 29 he started his first business.Has been an entrepreneur for over 25 years and credits his success to hard work, perseverance, persistence, determination, faith and a positive attitude.  His desire is to help others succeed by embracing and participating in the Free Enterprise system to innovate and create by using the GREATEST gift that he believes we have, the gift of imagination.He currently serves as the Founder & CEO of GLOBALBUSINESSLIVE, a company that produces virtual and live conferences such as the GFES (Global Founders Entrepreneurship Summit) as well as multiple city tours with some of the most successful business leaders in the world.  He also serves as  President & CEO of Capitalists Conversations Inc., an organization devoted to espousing the virtues of capitalism by providing entrepreneurs and business leaders the opportunity to connect, network and have two-way dialogue with other businessmen and businesswomen that have succeeded in business in an intimate format.His Leadership Tip – Don’t Add Loss to Loss#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#173: Emilio Antonio Guevara - CEO & President, promoting free enterprise & capitalism

Dr Darren Moorcroft: Chief Executive – Woodland Trust In 2017, Darren joined the Woodland Trust as its Director of Estates & Woodland Outreach before becoming its Chief Executive in September 2019. Prior to this, Darren gained his PhD from Oxford University before joining the RSPB, where he held a variety of roles including responsibility for their UK Conservation Programmes. At the Trust, Darren has been responsible for: the Trust’s acquisition strategy – growing the estate to c29,000 hectares across the UK; expanding our woodland creation with schools, local communities and partners to over 4 million trees/annum; and our restoration of over 2,000 ha/year of ancient woodlands. He now leads the UK’s largest woodland nature conservation charity, with over 500,000 members and supporters.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#172: Darren Moorcroft - CEO of Woodlant Trust

Mohammed. A. Khan – Founder Nueheights (Biotechnology Co), Former Global CTO for New Technology at Netcracker (NEC company). Over a 25yr career Mohammed has learned some key skills to help others as an educator, advisor, consultant, mentor, scientist and athletics coach – trained some of the world’s elite athletes. Mohammed’s goal in life was not to have a “proper” job until he was thirty years old, Hence from 16-29 and 7 months, he played football, university , military and charity work. At 29 yrs. 7 months Mohammed walked into BT Research Labs(the first researcher ever without an under graduate degree in science), from there he joined Cisco, Sr Dir at Tellabs and finally CTO at Netcracker. In 2017 Mohammed had an epiphany moment and set up Nueheights (Biotech), since then he has delivered workshops globally around his unique process to make nutrients better absorbed. He is a board member at Medical Kiwi(medicinal Cannabis New Zealand), Medicaleaf UK(Medicinal Cannabis), Advisor to Sibelius (Oxford University), NASA and DoD US, Premier league football teams and individual players, editorial expert for The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT). “Resilience is a learned skill and perfected during adversity,” Mohammed suffered huge disappointment with the UK military, which didn’t have a place for an ethnic, he also suffered racism playing football. However, Mohammed believes this made the person he is now - very focused and driven. For years Mohammed was constantly told” you cannot do this, you’re not qualified to do that.” However, he took no. notice of it and once you get over one hurdle there’s a blue print to work by. Having left school at 16 with one O Level, Mohammed received his BA(Business Studies Erasmus) 1994, MSc 1998( Telecommunications Aston University) . Currently studying a Biochemistry PhD(Birmingham). Outside of work he worked closely with the Global Scouting Association as the Chair of the Muslim Scouts Fellowship, under his tenure scouting became acceptable for Muslims in the UK. Mohammed has been Involved in UK Athletics as a coach and mentor. We are asked “what advice can the older me give the younger me?” Maybe, just maybe it could be reciprocal, the younger me wound say to me now“ lives a risk, crack-on, get it done!” It was this advice that set-up Nueheights. The Why? for Mohammed is really simple, everything we do is for a greater good, hence by helping others you help yourself. Nueheights was established to leave a legacy for others to prosper from.  Top Tip Hard work, honesty and copious amounts of compassion. And never give the reigns of leadership to someone who states they want it, give it to the one who doesn’t want to be a leader – they make great leaders.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#171: Mohammed Khan – CEO of Neuheights

Chris Moon helps people and organisations around the world grow and improve personal and team performance. He’s been a keynote speaker and run change and leadership programs for over twenty years working with the public and private sector and international business schools. He’s one of the most fortunate people to be alive you’re likely to meet. His exploits have been covered in a Discovery documentary I Shouldn’t Be Alive. Chris is a former British Army Officer with three year’s operational experience who left to work for a charity clearing landmines. He’s survived being taken prisoner in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge (one of the most brutal terror groups in history) and negotiated his release and that of two colleagues from threatened execution. In 1995 he was blown up in a supposedly safe area of a minefield in remote East Africa losing an arm and a leg (ironically doing one of the least dangerous things he did). He survived initially because he treated himself. About fourteen hours after injury he arrived in South Africa where doctors say they’d never seen anyone live with such a small amount of blood. He recovered four times faster than expected and in 1996; within a year of leaving hospital ran the London Marathon, raised significant sums to help disabled people in the developing world and successfully completed a full time Master’s-Degree in human behaviour. Chris taught himself to run and is thought to be the world’s first amputee ultra-distance runner after completing the Marathon De Sables in 1997. He’s run the world’s toughest ultra-marathons and most recently the Badwater Death Valley 135 mile ultra. He’s led numerous teams to complete rigorous challenges ranging from climbing mountains to cycling the length of Cambodia.  Chris has a passion for the process of achievement and uses his unique experiences to help people do what they do better. He speaks with enthusiasm and humour on resilience, change, personal and strategic leadership and all aspects of behavioural choices. His interactive presentations and workshops are tailored to deliver desired outcomes and actions.  #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#170: Chris Moon MBE - Keynote and After Dinner Speaker, Workshops and Program Director

A great collection of CEOs discuss leaving a Legacy in your lifetime hosted by Jonathan: 1. Emma Kane - CEO SEC Newgate and Chair of Target Ovarian Cancer plus Board Member Elton John's AIDS Foundation 2. Lieutenant General James Bashall CB CBE - Former Army Commander & President Royal British Legion 3. Sir Peter Wanless - CEO of NSPCC and board member at Somerset County Cricket Club 4. Leigh Bowman-Perks - CEO of the Inspiring Leadership Trust charity 5. Darren Moorcroft - CEO of The Woodland Trust 6. Paul Howarth - CEO National Nuclear Laboratories 4 key Questions: 1. What do you feel is important about leaving a legacy in your own lifetime? 2. What is your view on organisations leaving a legacy? 3. What does stewardship mean for you and leaving things better than you found them? 4. Your Top Legacy Tip? themes: - Leave a legacy and being remembered without being selfish and over focus on your CV to make you look better - Are you focussing on the right things ? - Wellbeing and happiness - Long Term look rather than short term gains - where is the Positive Impact Needed? - Play to your special skills and what you bring to you workplace and charity? - Long term goes rather than Knee Jerk reactions - Childhood ambitions vs what we really end up doing.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#169: CEO Club Forum #4 - Leaving a Legacy in Your Lifetime

Graeme Newell is a behavioral finance speaker and brain science researcher. He takes twisted pleasure in putting business leaders, employees and customers inside of brain scanners then mapping the parts of their brain that light up as they make money decisions. He is an expert in how our subconscious brain tempts us to misstep. He shows business leaders the situations when they’re most vulnerable to impulsive decision making.  Graeme began is career as a television producer, working with companies like CNN, CNBC and CBS News. This is what led to his habit of creating an incessant stream of online videos. He produces about 100 videos each year. In his spare time, he mentors online content creators in how to build studios and use the latest video tools. Graeme started his company, 602 Communications, in the late 90s. He did consulting and training work, showing companies how to increase engagement on promotion and marketing. He worked with companies like Disney, Sony, GE, Madison Square Garden and other businesses in 21 different countries around the world. Next, he moved on to the advertising and marketing world doing research testing of commercials and marketing materials for large media companies. This is where he was introduced to the world of neuroscience testing and just how wickedly effective it could be at spotting bad marketing. Graeme put people inside of brain scanners, then showed them ads. The neuroscience testing clearly showed just how engage people really were with specific marketing materials. What was amazing was that people often professed to love an ad, but the brain scanners clearly showed they were not into it. What he found is that oftentimes, people wanted to believe they liked something, even if their subconscious beliefs disagreed. There is a saying in the world of brain science - If you want to know how someone really feels about something, one of the worst things you can do is ask them.  While doing neuro-testing of financial services ads, he noticed a very peculiar result. Even the mention of this threatening topic caused people’s brains to light up like a Christmas tree. Money decisions were so incredibly threatening, that most people tended to make really bad choices. These days, Graeme is primarily a professional speaker on behavioral finance. Everyone can make smarter money decisions but we’ve got to learn the most common ways that our very flawed brains tend to misstep. He shows audiences the moments when they’re most vulnerable and how to break the pattern of impulsive decision-making before it costs them money. Graeme lives in Portland Oregon where most of his closest family live just a few minutes away. He is an avid hiker and gym rat. #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#168: Graeme Newell - Behavioral Finance Speaker & Brain Science Researcher

Lane Belone is a curious explorer, harmonious creator and enjoyer of the good stuff in life. He is the co-author of Unleash Your Humble Alpha, a Special Forces (Green Beret) Veteran and co-founder of the Humble Alpha Veteran Empowerment Movement. Lane is also a spiritual advisor and focuses much of his time on Veteran healing. Lane grew up in a small town in Oklahoma and joined the military at the age of 17. Shortly after joining the Army, he tried out for the elite Special Forces. After successfully completion of the Special Forces Qualification Course, he spent 8 years as a Green Beret.  He conducted missions and deployments all over the world. During the course of his military career, he also traveled on his own and has visited over 40 countries in total. Lane now focuses much of his effort on the Humble Alpha leadership movement and the Veteran healing space with his business partner (and co-author) Steven Kuhn.  He also advises CEO’s and business leaders with their premier program, Humble Alpha Leadership Paradigm Upgrade Advisory Program. The program has a strong foundation rooted from the book, and takes it to the next level. The Humble Alpha Veteran Empowerment (HAVE) Movement aims to elevate our Veteran and local civilian communities around the world. Military Veterans have a heart of service and fully appreciate being part of a mission bigger than themselves.  Veterans follow the Humble Alpha leadership method by working from the inside, out. Understanding their true identity, purpose and moving forward in life with certainty. Veterans gather fellow Veterans and civilians in their local communities to elevate those who need it most, called HAVE Missions. HAVE Missions spark hope within those who may have lost it and inspire others to step into their greatness. The heart of this movement is the in-person connection and elevation, yet it’s part of an even bigger picture. The HAVE Movement is an entire ecosystem aimed to elevate humanity at nearly every facet of society.  The HAVE Investment Fund plays a critical role to inject big capital into a movement that has perfected the balance of “heart of service” and effective application. Also included are Veteran healing programs aimed at letting go of the trauma once and for all.  Everything Lane does in life has the intention to elevate humanity and inspire the most Quality of Life in everyone he meets.  Top Leadership Tip: Figure out and articulate your preferred day, week, month and year. Then make every decision that aligns with each.﻿#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#167: Lane Belone - Author of Unleash Your Humble Alpha

Huw joined Ark in November 2012 as Chief Executive to lead a new Management Team following the recapitalisation of the company. He has held key roles at a number of organisations, including President, BT Global Services and Regional Vice President, HP Defence and Security. Other roles in his extensive career include Chief Executive of the Atlas Consortium. A qualified lawyer, Huw also worked for the Asia Foundation, formulating and driving national reform programmes in Cambodia, as well as advising the United Nations on their efforts in Central Asia. Before this, he served with the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, latterly as a Detective Inspector Theme and the value they will get from listening  - An approach to avoiding victim and living a bold and effective life.       Top Tip: Time is your most value commodity - prioritise everything you do by Must | Should | Could | Don’t  #InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#166: Huw Owen - CEO at Ark Data Centres

Show summary.  Each week former British Army Officer, CEOs coach, Top Team coach and motivational speaker Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE brings inspiring leadership themes and guest interviews to you. Jonathan’s wide cross-section of guests vary from Generals to distinguished SAS Officers, CEOs and business leaders. This podcast appeals to the full cross-section of leaders: from younger aspiring leaders, Entrepreneurs, experience managers to CEOs, Partners, MDs and Chairs of businesses. Stories of inspiration, failures, hard won lessons, top tips and practical leadership advice for you.

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