160: Leadership Reflections | Carol Day & Mitchell Feldman

07/24/23 • 57 min

Carol Day is the Business Operations Manager for Stuart Pearce (former England Captain) and also spent over 14 years with the Football Association working with the England Men's Teams throughout a number of European and World Cup Competitions including Team GB during the London Olympics.
Mitchell Feldman is the co-founder and CMO of the award winning technology company Xrai Glass who are continuing to improve the lives of those with impaired hearing by subtitling life!
This episode is a wonderful example of how The Leadership Enigma can combine guests and contributors to enhance and pressure test the leadership lessons we experience throughout life.
Carol outlines how she has been involved in elite football for years, including personally communicating with the England players when they were selected for international duties. Carol is married to Stuart Pearce and works with him on a daily basis combining his experiences on the pitch with her own personal business experiences to create a compelling perspective on the leadership challenges of those working within a corporate environment.
Mitchell continues to strive to be a force for good for the hearing impaired community by leveraging a technology enabled product to subtitle life. He has also been working with England's deaf football team to try and improve their ability to prepare and train for competition as they are not allowed any use of technology on the field of play.
The connection between my guests is based not only on sport but on the fact that Carol has suffered hearing difficulties including tinnitus since birth and volunteers within the deaf community herself.
This is a wonderful episode of two leaders from two very different sectors reflecting on what leadership means to them, their teams and the very personal lessons they have benefited from.
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159: Recent Highlights | Adam Pacifico

This week LaunchPod Studios pulled together a highlights episode featuring Stuart Pearce, former England Captain, World Cup hero, manager, coach and pundit. Jack Sullivan, Director of West Ham United who have just won the Europa Conference League Trophy, Caroline Pill, Partner at Heidrick & Struggles and Mitchell Feldman who is a co-founder of Xrai Glass.
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161: The Courage of Vulnerability | Tim Creswick

Tim Creswick is the founder and CEO of Vorboss, a telecommunications company which he set up 17 years ago and now employs over 400 people. He is also the newly appointed Chair of the Board of Directors at the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals.
This is a courageous, vulnerable and inspiring episode of success, challenge , divorce, therapy, mental health and never stopping in the pursuit of personal growth.
All leaders must understand that success comes at a price and self awareness and self care are non-negotiable.
Tim completed his high school education but decided to drop out of Oxford University before completing his degree in order to pursue his entrepreneurial spirit.
Tim describes himself as an outsider, and only felt a sense of home when in his 30's. He appreciates the contrasting experience he has of anonymity in his commute and everyday life and the weight of responsibility and accountability of being the CEO to over 400 people.
Tim truly believes that good leadership means not being invincible. He tells me about his experience of going through a divorce when Vorboss was only about 15 people and the process could have seen the closure of the business. He felt he could not talk about this at work as he didn't want to worry anyone. This is now in stark contrast to running a thriving business that has received over £250-300 million in investment.
Tim has made a deliberate decision as an introvert to be authentic, open and deeply human as a leader in order to experience personal growth. He has a tattoo 'Never Stop' when at end of 2019 he was at very low point and his mental health declined significantly following his prolonged divorce proceedings. Tim got to the point that his depression was leaving him feeling hollow and numb. Just getting out of bed and functioning would be an effort each day. This difficult period was also one of the most empowering times for Tim in the business as people knew something was wrong but they also saw an incredible drive to push the business even harder. For Tim, overcoming the challenge of getting out of bed in the morning left him feeling invincible for the rest of the day. Being a leader is a deeply personal journey but you have a choice of the experience (shadow) that you provide to those you lead and interact with each and every day.
They say 'it's lonely at the top', so check out next week's episode focused on 'Executive Loneliness' with Nick Jonsson.

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