Welcome to Episode Sixty Nine (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! This week’s podcast features James Mitra, a fellow LinkedIn Top Voice for Careers.    James is the Founder of JBM, an award-winning executive search firm working with some of the fastest-growing Tech Startups & Scale-ups in the world.  He also hosts one of the UK’s most popular business and career podcasts ‘40 Minute Mentor’ which has had hundreds of thousands of downloads to...

Welcome to Episode Sixty Eight (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! This week’s podcast features Sarah Farmer, an executive coach and leadership mentor who helps Leaders & Business Owners build their confidence & skills to enable them to lead with phenomenal personal & business results. In this episode, Sarah shares her story and how she has got to where she is now.  She talks about how we could all do with a software reset of our...

Welcome to Episode Sixty Seven (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! This week’s podcast features Nick Raeburn, a creator with a passion for helping you tell your story.  With years of experience in video production and storytelling Nick is now sharing how to enhance and build social selling skills through his consultancy and an epic training course that flips your company's viewpoint on what social media really means.  In this episode, we talk...

Welcome to Episode Sixty Six (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! This week’s podcast features Neal Mankey, a Director for the Healthcare Practice at Veredus, and recently part of the Capita project team who worked with the NHS on the COVID-19 Bring back Staff Campaign.  In 2020 Neal by chance was watching the ‘One Show’ and a guest with ADHD triggered him to explore his own issues and was as a subsequence diagnosed with ADHD combined with a...

Welcome to Episode Sixty Five (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! This week’s podcast features Mike Richards who owns and runs the Treasury Recruitment Company, a highly successful niche global recruitment business. He regularly speaks at global conferences on topics such as the power of personal branding and how to attract, manage and retain talent, as well as hosting the popular podcast where he interviews treasury professionals about their...

Welcome to Episode Sixty Four (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Mark Adamoulas is a top performance coach and psychologist who strongly believes in having a work-life “blend” as opposed to balance. The episode looks at culture, habits, and what a good leader looks like in terms of presence and empathy and how if your people thrive then your business will thrive.  Having worked with some high-profile sporting teams such as Manchester...

Welcome to Episode Sixty Three (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Darren Ledger believes that recruitment is broken - that it's not working for clients, job seekers, or candidates and frankly it's not working for recruitment companies - so he's very opinionated on where the industry needs to go and how it needs to evolve.  In today’s straight-talking episode we delve further into that topic as well as what Darren’s predicting is going to...

Welcome to Episode Sixty Two (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Liz Hamlet. Liz is a Coach, Strategist, Speaker & Communication expert helping leaders lead better, get laser-focused & leverage their success to spark possibility, motivation & momentum. After an extensive career in the corporate world of financial services and housing, she pivoted and launched her own business, Spark Succeed...

Welcome to Episode Sixty One (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Caitlin Rozario, who with her Co-founder Will have founded an organisation ‘Interlude’, that helps with productivity by monitoring and it is a really fascinating conversation around why they have set up the business, what they are hoping to achieve, why breaks are so important, and why we are experiencing so many challenges with people’s...

Welcome to Episode Sixty (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Cheryl Thompson.   Cheryl is a ‘Courage Coach’ and we all need more courage to battle back the internal critic, the imposter syndrome, and to be able to step through the fear. In this episode, we cover some fantastic stuff around her own career journey, how leadership intervention really matters and some of the challenges she has faced.  Her journey...

Welcome to Episode Fifty Nine (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Tj Power.  In this content-packed episode, Tj shares how his studies into neuroscience and technology have led him to some powerful insights and strategies that have a tremendous impact on your energy levels, drive, motivation, mood, focus, connection, and mental health - all essential elements when job seeking or starting a business!  Tj began...

Welcome to Episode Fifty Eight  (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Mhorag Doig, a leading career coach who is passionate about productivity and workplace wellness. Mhorag currently heads up the team at the London Business School developing the Alumni Career Centre strategy to support their community of 47,000 Alumni with their continuous personal and professional development. She is a trained Coach, a...

Welcome to Episode Fifty Seven (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Lea Turner. Lea crashed onto LinkedIn in October 2019 with no prior knowledge of the platform, but her vibrant, personable, and uplifting posts quickly drove countless leads and over 10,000 followers in her direction. She has gone on to grow a massive network of more than 100,000 people in under two years, and 18 months ago started her own...

Welcome to Episode Fifty Six (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Paul Holbrook. Paul is an author and leadership-disrupter who, after 20 years managing rapid technology growth in the City of London, decided he'd simply had enough of watching the effects of toxic management.  From that moment, he decided to spend his time creating a world of better-led people. In creating the Diary Detox® he allowed managers...

Welcome to Episode Fifty Five (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Jeri Williams, founder of Smooth Accountancy. Tired of boring, old-fashioned financial firms who still correspond via pigeon, Jeri wanted to disrupt the sector and bring a modern approach to one of the world’s oldest professions.   Fast forward five years and Smooth has gone on to win several business awards and works with over 500 clients,...

Welcome to Episode Fifty Four (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Tony Shafar. Tony is an Executive Coach, working mainly with Finance leaders. His background as a Finance Director and CFO makes him well placed to understand many of the challenges that finance leaders face, and believes that much of what prevents people from achieving their goals is their mindset. Tony now coaches finance leaders to help them...

Welcome to Episode Fifty Three (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Gabi Preston-Phypers, who is someone who doesn’t colour between the lines. She is a proud dyslexic, mother, wife, and owner of multiple businesses. Gabi loves empowering people to get in the driving seat of their lives, believing that no one should ever be a passenger in their life journey.  From a very young age, she wanted to make a...

Welcome to Episode Fifty Two (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Lee McQueen. Lee is probably recognised most as the Winner of the BBC’s The Apprentice 2008 and was the first candidate to set up a business from scratch with Sir Alan Sugar. He has gone on to be a successful entrepreneur and is Founder and CEO of  Raw Talent and more recently of Phoenix51, a powerful employee technology platform that enables...

Welcome to Episode Fifty One (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Taqdees Shah. Taq is an ex-legal eagle who jumped ship to become a Recruiter 5 years ago. In that time, she’s explored the world of agency life and internal recruitment.  Being made redundant during Covid-19 gave her the inspiration to start her own business, Centric Consultancy Ltd, specialising in Recruitment Strategy. She now helps businesses...

Welcome to Episode Fifty (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Ben Khosravi Ben is one of the Co-Founders of The Niche Partnership – a recruitment agency doing things a little differently. With almost a decade of recruitment experience and several years’ specialising in the accountancy and finance sector, Ben is on a mission to humanise the hiring process. He’s all about busting myths of the recruitment...

Welcome to Episode Forty Nine (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! This week’s episode is a little different as it was a “live” with two of my fellow LinkedIn Changemakers Neil Laybourn and Sonya Barlow discussing how the world of work is changing like never before and what does version 2.0 looks and feel like. It was great to welcome lots of people from the ECJ community and discuss their questions with my fellow Changemakers. Neil started his...

Welcome to Episode Forty-Eight (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Thomas Dove. Thomas is one of the Co-Founders of Fraser Dove International who are a talent consultancy operating across the life science industry.  Thomas has a background in Executive Search but he is proud to provide more than a traditional recruitment service.  Frazer Dove has been providing cutting-edge talent solutions and insight to...

Welcome to Episode Forty-Seven (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Dr. Chris Walton PhD. Chris is a Doctor of Integrative Medicine and a Performance Psychologist who Specialises in Personal Change and Peak Performance. Chris has trained 6 x World Champions, Olympic and Elite Athletes, and 100’s of Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders to Peak Performance.  He is also  Best-Selling author of: The Gamma Mindset –...

Welcome to Episode Forty-Six (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill! Our guest in the hot seat today is Jules Eustance. Jules is the Founder of The Corporate Success Co. She creates leaders worth following, teams people want to be part of, and businesses people want to work for. Jules works hard to UNLEASH THE POTENTIAL in PEOPLE. In this episode you will discover: The type of leader you are and the type of leader you want to be How to become a...