This isn’t about best practice. It’s about being the best leader you can be. Just straight talk on power, leadership, and making the hard calls at the top. Power. Pressure. Presence. Strategy that cuts through. Hosted by Mr Joe Leech — coach to the boldest CEOs in tech and beyond — this podcast helps you reinvent what it means to lead in the 2020s.
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The CEO’s Guide to Success (Execution-First Leadership)
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32:44The Modern CEO Podcast, Episode 3: The CEO’s Guide to Success (Execution-First Leadership) What separates good CEOs from great ones? In this episode of The Modern CEO, Joe is joined by Professor Steven Kaplan of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, one of the world’s leading voices on CEO performance, hiring, and boards. About the gu…
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The CEOs Guide to Being Punched in the Face
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33:05Episode 2 — The CEO’s Guide to Being Punched in the Face (Metaphorically, Mostly) What does it really feel like to lead when the stakes are high, the spotlight’s on you, and everything’s breaking at once? In this episode of The Modern CEO, Joe sits down with Roan Lavery, CEO and co-founder of FreeAgent — a UK-based accounting software platform for …
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The CEO’s Guide to Telling Your Investor to F** ck Off
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31:06What really happens when the CEO–investor relationship breaks down? In this bold first episode of The Modern CEO, Joe Leech and guest Paul Traynor (veteran VC and author) unpack the unspoken dynamics between CEOs and private equity investors. Expect sharp insight, real stories, and the kind of candor that never makes it into investor decks. From br…
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The Rules Have Changed. Welcome to The Modern CEO. This new season of the podcast is for leaders who aren’t following the old rules, they’re rewriting them. In this short kickoff, Joe Leech shares what to expect this season: unfiltered conversations, bold insights, and real talk about power, pressure, presence, and the hard calls every CEO has to m…
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Online Eye Tests, Innovation vs Risk with Carole Egerton from Clear Eye Tests
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33:48Today I’m joined by Carole Egerton. Carole is founder and Chief Product Officer for Clear Eye Test and formerly of Glasses Direct. Clear is bringing the eye test into the home and building an ecosystem for virtual global eyecare. We talk culture, unshipping and of course making better decisions. Clear Eye Test. https://www.cleareyetest.com Carole o…
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Instagram: Culture, process & unshipping with Tin Kadoic S1 E11
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40:38This time I’m joined by Tin Kadoic from Instagram. Tin leads the design management team for Reels at Instagram and was previously at Airbnb. We talk culture, unshipping and of course making better decisions. * [Tin’s website](https://blackduke.com/) * [Tin on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/blackduke/) * [Tin on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ti…
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Optimising for Decision Making with Selena Hadzibabic S1 E10
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33:59I’m joined by Selena Hadzibabic. Selena is VP of product for the global wedding company the Knot Worldwide. You might know them as Hitched in the UK, Wedingwire in North America and India. We talk optimising decision making, decisions now or later and how to asses the competitions' decisions. - Selena on Twitter https://twitter.com/dzishn - Selena …
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Meri Williams CTO of AI healthcare startup Healx, former CTO of Monzo S1 E9
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35:42Joe Leech talks to Meri Williams. CTO of AI healthcare startup Healx, former CTO of Monzo, Print on demand Moo and Marks and Spencer. Chair of the fantastic lead developer conference. We talk collaboration with Product & Tech, overlap of disciplines, inputs to decision making and more.By Joe Leech
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Jeff Gothelf, Author of Lean UX, Sense & Respond S1 E8
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35:35Jeff is the co-author of Lean UX as well as the Harvard Business Review Published Sense and Respond. He coaches organisations to create a better culture that creates better products. We talk retraining execs to trust the team and what do when your competitor offers a product for free. - Jeff's website https://jeffgothelf.com - Jeff on Linkedin http…
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Sally Lait from Farewill (Helping people deal with death) S1 E7
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31:02Sally is Head of Engineering at Farewill, a company who helps people deal with death, think wills and funerals. Before that Sally was acting Engineering Director / web discipline lead at UK challenger bank Monzo. Sally's website https://sallylait.com Sally on Twitter https://twitter.com/sallylait Farewill (They are hiring!) https://farewill.com/car…
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Mr Joe Leech talks to Christian Gonzalez from YouTube. Christian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-gonzalez-yt/ Christian lead’s a team of quantitative and qualitative User Experience Researchers at YouTube and has worked with various product teams at Google. He has a PHD in Human Factors and Applied Cognition and together we talk …
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Martin Eriksson Product Leadership Author S1 E5
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32:14Mr Joe Leech talks to Martin Eriksson. Martin has helped shape the product management industry as we know it. As the co-Founder of both ProductTank and Mind the Product – together, the world’s largest product community that brings together people in more than 200 cities across the world. He’s also co-author of the best-selling book, Product Leaders…
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Curtis Stanier, Delivery Hero: 4 million food orders a day across in 600 cities. S1-E4
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37:50Mr Joe Leech talks to Curtis from Delivery Hero; the largest global food network outside of China, with more than 4 million food orders a day operating in 600 cities across the world. With brands like Food Panda they are a food global powerhouse you probably haven’t heard of as they don’t have a US or UK presence. Curtis talks about planning produc…
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Harpal Singh AI ML Chief Product Officer and 2019 Best Product Visionary Award Winner S1-E3
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30:34Mr Joe Leech talks to Harpal Singh. Harpal has taken three AI / ML products from zero to $20M+ in revenue and scaled two products to $100M and $300M+ He’s also winner of the 2019 Product visionary award. - Harpal Singh’s Website https://www.harpalsingh.com/ - Harpal on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpalcpo/…
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Booking.com / Rentalcars.com Sarvesh Govindappa Making Better Decisions S1- E2
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28:41Mr Joe Leech talks to Booking.com / Rentalcars.com Global Head of Product Sarvesh Govindappa Sarvesh talks high level decision making, roadmap planning and large scale re-platforming.By Joe Leech
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Wordpress / Automattic's Erin-Folletto Casali Making Better Decisions S1-E1
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44:52Mr Joe Leech talks to Erin Casali from Wordpress / Automattic. Erin is Head of Design for Jetpack at Automattic, the creators of WordPress·com. WordPress powers one third of website on the internet today.By Joe Leech
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