Spike Chats #6 – Hayley Mulenda

Rene chats to Hayley, an international keynote speaker. She comes from humble origins and through [...]

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Spike Chats #5 – Elham Fardad

Rene chats to Elham Fardad, the founder of Migrant Leaders, a charity designed to elevate [...]

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Spike Chats #4 – Steph Wicken

Steph is a young ambitious women who’s journey has taken many twists all at the [...]

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Spike Chats #3 – Shalimar Adorno

Rene talks to Shalimar, one of his mentees, who has such an inspirational story. She [...]

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Spike Chats #2 – Ashley Theophane

Rene talks to Ashley about his journey from London poverty stricken backstreets to a World [...]

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Spike Chats #1 – Paul Kearney

Rene chats to Paul Kearney in our first Spike Chats Episode. Paul was a former [...]

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Spike Stories Episode 23 – Young, Gifted and Blocked

As an early morning ‘icebreaker’ for our Leadership Retreats, we run quite a straightforward exercise [...]

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Spike Stories Episode 22 – Do the Right Thing

It was another typical winter morning in Johannesburg. The sun was beaming overhead despite the [...]

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Spike Stories Episode 21 – Women and Leadership

Khanyi Makwala had been amazing to work with. No task was too small and no [...]

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Spike Stories Episode 20 – Engagement Trump Does It His Way

Listen to how in his short stay, the President of the United States of America [...]

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Spike Stories Episode 19 – Engagement The 2018 World Cup

Listen to my podcast about how Gareth Southgate has reinvented his role as England manager [...]

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Spike Stories Episode 16 – Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

Listen to my podcast about how politicians and media have used the FUD Factor to [...]

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Spike Stories – Empowering Engagement [Episode 18]

This podcast is about empowering engagement. 

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Spike Stories – The Chief Engagement Officer [Episode 17]

The days of the aloof but brilliant CEO, spending most of their time in long [...]

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Spike Stories – Collaboration is the New Leadership [Episode 15]

Business has become far too fast moving and markets are so much more unforgiving that [...]

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Spike Stories – Reputations Don’t Die [Episode 14]

People Destroy Them The Falling Of Oxfam? Oxfam has fought hard to make so many [...]

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Spike Stories – Nothing Beats a Warm Reception [Episode 13]

The Home Advantage Before accepting any assignment, we always endeavour to spend 30 minutes in [...]

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Spike Stories – Work Smarter, Not Harder [Podcast Episode 12]

During a recent heated debate about annual leave with the executives of one of France’s [...]

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Spike Stories – Leadership is an Art Not a Skill [Podcast Episode 11]

Despite it being 20 years ago, the sudden and tragic death of Princess Diana came [...]

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Spike Stories – Leaders Never Stop Practicing [Podcast Episode 10]

For someone who had won everything and more that Formula One had to offer, there [...]

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Spike Stories – What does Britain Want in a Political Leader [Podcast Episode 09]

Today we are going to answer that perennial question – what does Britain want in [...]

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The Nasty Leader – Podcast (Episode 08)

This week I’m talking about teams. The recently published book, Betting The House: The Inside [...]

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The Sack Race – Podcast (Episode 07)

Getting Sacked. Frank De Boer was sacked as the coach of Premier League football club, [...]

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The Only Way is Ethics [Podcast Episode 06]

We were always taught that Public Relations (PR) was the “the truth told well”. The [...]

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I’m Getting Myself Out of My Way [Podcast Episode 05]

My daughter and I were looking forward to watching the climax of the World Athletics [...]

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Survivor [Podcast Episode 04]

“How bad have sales got to get before you consider resigning?” was the sharpest of [...]

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Get Emotional – Get Engaged [Podcast Episode 03]

I’m answering the question ‘how do our leaders communicate better’ and more effectively with their [...]

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Girls Get Spike Best [Podcast Episode 02]

I had agreed to deliver a ten-minute address taken from my new book, Spike, to [...]

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Why Mothers are Today’s Best Leaders Podcast [Episode 01]

This podcast is about the best contemporary leaders today. Beyond any research, beyond any data. [...]

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