Lead To Succeed

Inspirational conversations with today‘s business leaders. Hear their challenges and how they overcame them, their tips to be an inspiring leader and tough lessons learnt along the way. Whether you‘re a manager leading a team, a business owner, or stepping into a leadership role, you‘ll hear practical advice and experiences that will inspire your own approach to leadership. Topics include: leading change, wellbeing in the workplace, self-leadership, authentic leadership, overcoming big challenges, emotional intelligence, crisis leadership, engaging millennials, and leading remote teams. The hosts, Callum and Rebecca Jenkins share their own experiences of leadership. This includes growing a business in the B2B sector, to experiencing different leadership styles. The podcast style is conversational, always leaving the listener with practical steps that they can implement in the workplace. Https://RJEN.co.uk
Episodes
Episodes



Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Nick is the founder of Sempre and he shares openly the challenges of leadership, from recognising that despite being the founder, he was part of the problem of developing the business and learning to leave your ego out of the equation.
We discuss
Always be defining what good looks like.
What to do when the data and your gut feeling are giving 2 different messages.
Why he regrets not investing in himself and have a mentor earlier in his career.
His recruitment criteria, to hire on high culture over high talent.
What to do when a member of your team isn’t behaving in alignment with the company values.
The big challenge of client communication and being relevant as we emerge from a global pandemic.
Engaging the team to be innovative in ideas to challenges.
Why he likes failing fast.
Having a culture where the team feel completely at ease in telling leadership that their idea is rubbish.
Two areas to never lose focus on when growing a business.
Find out more
Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, leadership development to growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.



Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Our guests, Leigh and Paula are leaders of a global digital business.
Their mission is to put to bed the myth that you can't have a successful business as an artist. They want everyone who has a creative passion and artistic talent to step into it and grow a hugely successful company.
We discuss:
✔️Why customer-centricity is at the heart of their business
✔️Helping their clients to see and value their self-worth
✔️Why leadership is to inspire action and why leading with joy is crucial
✔️Taking responsibility for reflecting the mirror back on their customers
✔️Why hiding your talent is doing yourself a disservice
✔️Changing your narrative for success
✔️The universal tipping point to success across all aspects of life
✔️Why adapting is crucial
✔️Always be curious and learn more
✔️Why all business owners should fall in love with marketing
You can connect with Leigh and Paula here.
Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, leadership development to support in growing a business.
If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review and share so we inspire leaders for the future.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
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Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.



Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Episode 60 | Experiments matter, not failure - With guest Anuj Agarwal
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
'We don't use the word failure' - explains Anuj, CEO and founder of I8Labs.
Instead, Anuj's focus is on experiments and having a good number of them. We kick off by asking Anuj what complex leadership problems he has faced, and how he has learnt to hand over control to others as the business grows.
With 15 minutes of daily self-reflection, Anuj shares his leadership principles, we discuss:
✔️Asking if you are worthy of being followed?
✔️ Why everyone in his business is a leader
✔️ Practical steps for growing your leadership skills
✔️ Why every action should have a positive impact
✔️ How to be forthright and authentic in difficult conversations
✔️ How to increase resilience when embracing challenging times
You can connect with Anuj Agarwal here.
Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast to leadership development and growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, passionate about collaborating with businesses to unlock business growth potential.
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.



Friday Jul 02, 2021
Episode 59 | Is Leadership about Mindset? With guest Kieren Windsor
Friday Jul 02, 2021
Friday Jul 02, 2021
The importance of humbleness and encouraging your team to flourish.
These are just two of the leadership topics we cover with guest Kieren Windsor.
We discuss:
* What makes a great leader
* Is leadership a mindset?
* Taking responsibility for the company vision
* The importance of introspection
* Learning from leaders you admire
* Lessons learnt from starting a new business in challenging times
Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, to leadership development and growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Instagram
LinkedIn
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.



Friday Jun 25, 2021
Episode 58 | People, Product , Passion before Profit with Tim O‘Brien
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
A big dose of leadership inspiration from guest Tim O'Brien. Tim has faced many challenges in growing his family business to $8m in revenues since 2010 when he opened his first store, The Healthy Place.
We discuss:
✔️Tim's biggest leadership lesson
✔️Setting his business apart from your competitors
✔️How he stayed true to his vision even when the numbers were pointing in the wrong direction
✔️How to overcome the challenge of having every employee as passionate about the business as the founder
✔️Why it's people first
✔️The importance of renewing yourself daily to be the best you can be
✔️Rethinking the business model as a result of the Covid pandemic
✔️What to do when it feels as if everything is conspiring against you
Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, leadership success to growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Instagram
LinkedIn
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.



Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Episode 57 | As a leader, how open should you be with your team? With Nikki HIll
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Guest Nikki Hill shares her views on leadership, defining great leadership as seeing the potential in others that they don't see in themselves.
"Leadership is a constant evolvement, it's like a first date," and Nikki is an advocate of sharing vulnerabilities and being authentic as it brings the human dimension to leadership.
We discuss
✔️Keeping yourself re-energised to be able to lead
✔️Being both self-aware and aware of others
✔️The importance of delegation and doing what you do best
✔️Why men are more likely than women to push through imposter syndrome
✔️Charisma in leadership
✔️Having the confidence not to conform
Connect with Nikki on LinkedIn
Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, sales leadership to growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
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Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.



Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Episode 56 | Creative, compassionate and heartfelt leadership - With guest Tii Ricks
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Creativity is an aspect of leadership that is often overlooked. Our guest Tii Ricks shares her views on this and explains why it matters, along with other leadership insights.
Tii has evolved her career from directing films to leading sales teams at a variety of companies and we discuss how creativity can make a difference to people and outcomes. We talk about imposter syndrome and why it's completely acceptable as a leader not to have all the answers, as well as the importance of kindness in leadership.
We discuss
✔️Finding a way to be the best you can be
✔️ What makes a great leader
✔️ How to encourage creativity within your team
✔️ Why tomorrow doesn't matter
✔️ 3 practical tips and traits for better leadership
✔️ A new way to optimise the 1-2-1 meeting
Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, leadership development to growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Instagram
LinkedIn
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.



Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Episode 55 | Tom Peters - Why we need Extreme Humanism in Leadership today
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tom Peters is a world-renowned author of 19 books including In Search of Excellence, and an international speaker on leadership and management.
He shares his experiences, wisdom and views on what is needed to be a leader during tumultuous times.
His latest book, Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism is packed with practical actionable steps, a checklist for leading both teams and businesses.
We discuss
✔️ Why on average, women are better leaders than men
✔️ Why kindness, caring and forgiving are essential leadership traits
✔️ How kindness = repeat business = PROFIT
✔️ The reason for 50-75% of front line workers being disengaged with their work
✔️ Putting people first
✔️ Why intimacy is key in leadership
✔️ How essential it is to walk in the other person's shoes
Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast to questions about leadership development and growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, successfully helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Instagram
LinkedIn
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.