In Conversation With: David Segel | Founder of the Mako Group

05/09/24 • 42 min

Founder. Investor. Philanthropist. Adventurer and Movie-Producer. Meet David Segel.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to lead a fulfilling, impactful, and inspiring career in business - and life, in general.
David is the Founder of the Mako Group, a leading options market maker with a global trading footprint. He’s also a passionate philanthropist, investor, mentor and adventurer.
Business should be creative and playful; generous and rewarding; and so full of meaning.
Ultimately, businesses should, and absolutely must be, fundamentally human.
David achieves this so incredibly well.
In this episode, David and Jonny explore:

The importance of finding meaning in what we do
The space and necessity for generosity and service whilst making money
⁠How business is fundamentally a creative game and we're fundamentally creative beings: Why finding a way to keep scratching that itch and staying off the conveyor belt of busy doing is crucial to success.

Tune in now and get ready to be inspired. This is one not to miss.

About David Segel: David is the Founder of the Mako Group, a leading options market maker with a global trading footprint. David also operates Segel Group Limited, as the platform for overseeing a business portfolio in entertainment, tech and media activities, as well as philanthropy. He is also Co-Founder and Chairman of the independent motion picture producer Mpower Pictures.
David is an avid outdoorsman and a competitive sailor in Nautor Swan class. He's a qualified airplane pilot and focuses primarily on backcountry and aerobatic flight. He has explored much of the unvisited world, including a trip on skis to the true North Pole in 2004, and a shorthanded journey on a Rigid Inflatable Boat through the Northwest Passage from Greenland to upper Alaska in 2010.
About Mako: Mako is a leading options market maker with a global trading footprint. They have been at the evolutionary forefront of options market making since 1999, from the open outcry of traditional trading pits to the screen trading and automated algorithmic execution strategies that form the future of the industry. Mako offers best in class liquidity solutions across Equities, Fixed income, Commodities and FX derivatives markets. From offices in London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane and Chengdu, their culture of entrepreneurship, collaboration, and philanthropy underscores their commitment to excellence. Learn more at www.mako.com

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The importance of finding meaning in what we do
The space and necessity for generosity and service whilst making money
⁠How business is fundamentally a creative game and we're fundamentally creative beings: Why finding a way to keep scratching that itch and staying off the conveyor belt of busy doing is crucial to success.

Tune in now and get ready to be inspired. This is one not to miss.

Get in touch with your thoughts and comments.

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Why No Survey Will Solve Your Engagement Problem

No Survey will solve your engagement problem.
Certainly not alone.
After all, only 8% of employees really believe that their organisation will actually do anything as a result of engagement surveys. And only 1 in 4 employees feel that their opinion matters in their organisation.
If leaders aren’t engaging with their teams in a meaningful way on a day to day basis, why would we expect those teams to engage in a survey in any meaningful way? - however well it might be positioned.
In this week’s episode of with INTENT: we delve further into what it takes to have the all important high performance conversations with your team, every day - keeping them engaged - keeping you productive.

With INTENT: our 5 minute deconstructions of the current trends to inspire healthy rethinking and reconstructive action.
by Chris Wickenden, Chief Creative Officer at FROM:TODAY

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It's Not Your Managers: It's Your Culture

Whilst 87% of employees believe that they’re being productive, only 12% of employers would say the same thing about them.

Using a little conjecture, it’s not hard to see that some key conversations around performance are not happening.

Whilst it’s easy to point the finger at our managers, especially with the observable behaviours around “quiet firing” or “silent sacking”, we need to take a more curious, supportive approach.

Avoiding “crunchy” potentially uncomfortable conversations - which conversations around performance represent - is a very human trait.

Organisations need to provide absolute clarity on purpose and strategic direction to support their managers, who in turn need to create this for their teams.

That way we lay the foundations of collective responsibility for high performance conversations to happen organically.
With INTENT: our 5 minute deconstructions of the current trends to inspire healthy rethinking and reconstructive action.
by Chris Wickenden, Chief Creative Officer at FROM:TODAY

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