Career Success Podcast

In our latest podcast, we had the privilege of hosting Satish Jayakumar, a seasoned entrepreneur with over 24 years of diverse experience in strategic online business development. Currently serving as the COO at Increasingly, board director at Kavida.ai, and the visionary behind Future Anthem Consulting, Satish shared insights into the effectiveness of video selling. He delved into the reasons behind companies resisting its adoption, providing valuable perspectives on common misconceptions and missed opportunities. Tune in for a deeper understanding of the dynamic landscape of online businesses through Satish's wealth of experience. To contact Satish, kindly connect with him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/satish/

This podcast episode features Dr. Mark Young and Justin Girouard, hosts of the CPG Insiders podcast and leaders at Jekyll and Hyde Advertising and Marketing. They share their insights on navigating the US market compared to other markets and discuss the challenges and reasons why many brands that have succeeded in other countries often fail when trying to launch in the US. The conversation explores the reasons behind these failures, common misconceptions, and frequent mistakes made by businesses, while offering valuable advice for companies considering entry into the US market. If you're looking for more information about the CPG industry in the US, you can visit their website at cpginsiders.com or listen to their podcast, CPG Insiders. For those of you interested in getting in touch with Mark and Justin, you can check out their agency at JandHlabs.com

Join us in this engaging discussion as we sit down with Tim Moore, Chief Technology Officer, EVP of SharkNinja, to explore the fascinating realm of innovation scalability. Discover how a multibillion-dollar powerhouse can harness the agility of a startup, delving into the lifecycle of new ideas and the pivotal factors that drive their scalability. Tim Moore provides invaluable insights into maintaining innovation within large corporations, navigating potential bureaucratic hurdles, and the crucial role of seamless inter-team communication.

Florence Rollet, Independent Board Member for Anorla Group and Arla Foods, shares insights on pursuing board work and navigating the process effectively. Emphasizing diverse skills and a strong network, she advises considering board roles at different career stages. Florence offers guidance for public and private board opportunities, highlighting the complexity of the role, requiring deep understanding and collaborative skills with fellow board members To get in touch with Florence, please reach out to her on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/florence-rollet-201b041/

Megan Giannini, the Global Head of Talent, Development and Organizational Effectiveness at Philips, shares her practical experience in connecting business performance and culture, exploring how culture can be made tangible and effectively supported with tools and methodologies. Megan also shares how to integrate culture with talent strategy and leverage data to reinforce and optimize your strategic approach. For those of you interested in getting in touch with Megan, please reach out here on linked in - https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-giannini-400189/

Delphine Donné, the VP General Manager of Logitech Personal Workspace Solutions shares her experience of working in the consumer electronics industry for over three decades and reflects on how the industry has evolved during this time. She specifically highlights Logitech's success in creating a highly inclusive work environment, and provides insights into effective strategies for promoting diversity within the tech world. To connect with Delphine, contact her via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/delphinedonne/

On this episode of the career success podcast, David Clutterbuck, professor, author and serial entrepreneur shares his secret behind increasing the success of retaining talent, recruitment, succession planning, and diversity management.

Elaine Bowers Coventry, Chief Customer and Commercial Officer at The Coca-Cola Company explains how we can use inclusion as a powerful tool to get better business outcomes and fully exploit the power of people. In legacy organizations, Elaine explains how can we enable new skills and capabilities to integrate and thrive.

Social responsibility is high on most company’s agendas and on this interview with Douglas Lamont, you will hear how he has been able to balance social responsibility and performance as the former CEO of Innocent Drinks and soon to be CEO of Tony's Chocoloney.

With the ever changing and unpredictable business landscape, how can managers make sure their teams are being developed in the right way with the right skill sets? Dietmar Knoess, Global Director People & Organization at Puma, highlights the importance of constant upskilling and on the job learning. Dietmar shares with us a few details about the 70-20-10 rule implemented by Puma for training their teams. He will share which leadership skills are the most relevant in the retail industry and how analytics can help within talent development. If you would like to speak with LS International about your next career step or the best ways to develop your team, please choose a time to speak with our team here - https://ls-international.com/contact/

With ever improving technology, integration of Artificial Intelligence into processes in business has increased a lot. But at the same time should professionals completely depend on AI and forego their instincts and gut feelings?  Manos Spanos, President at L-Nutra Consumer tells us how Artificial Intelligence can be integrated and used with Human intelligence. He also highlights the importance of Continuous Learning for professionals and what are the skill sets required for marketeers for working alongside machines.

Pandemic has led to people reevaluating their lives, their lifestyles, and their careers. Its sequels are also lugged in the business world as leaders are realizing that it is more challenging now to keep their teams engaged given the pandemic aftermath on everyone’s mindset. Various perks like gym memberships, dogs in the office, and stylish decorations, were once perks that could retain employees and contribute to their satisfaction and thus productivity but seem not to be anymore. Dr. Carol Parker Walsh, CEO, Chief Career Strategist, and Mindset & Confidence Coach describes to us how priorities have changed and what enterprises and team leaders should have in mind to keep their teams committed and involved.

We invited Roy Wentzel, the Business Lead Strategic Growth Markets Global Ecommerce at PUMA Group, and Mary Palmieri, the Director of Client Development at Tall Ridge, to discuss with us how to successfully define and execute a D2C strategy. Online D2C has experienced exponential growth over the past couple of years. Last year’s events have accelerated this even more, and in 2021 the D2C market is projected to grow by a staggering 19.2%! 2020 was life changing in many aspects, from one day to the next, everything became remote, and consumer behavior changed dramatically. It is within this context that companies are finding new ways to interact with consumers and D2C is entering a new era. A study by Shopify shows that the D2C movement accounts for 40% of the sales growth in the sector.  In this podcast, May and Roy debate with us about customer buying behaviour and businesses' strategies to approach it in the most effective way, with great examples of big retailers like Amazon. You can also check out the

Inclusion and diversity, two topics in the business world that often get discussed about, but lack noticeable outcomes for the companies. How to address them without jeopardising performance? In this video, Leendert den Hollander, the current Vice President & General Manager Northern Europe at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, shares with us how they tackled and managed I&D, addressing them as a philosophy, and not a strategy. Discover how a multinational company as Coca-Cola put the I before the D to allocate inclusion and diversity values across all functions and levels in their organization.

Myriam Riedel Kienzi is currently the Marketing Director Yoplait and Head of yogurt Business Unit France at General Mills. Myriam is joining us today to share with us how Yoplait renewed its model to a new, mainly digital, brand. Topics covered: - The need for the digital transformation - Biggest challenges in this FMCG category - Launching this product during Covid - The future for the brand; digital versus traditional Marketing If you are looking for top marketing talent for your team, you can book a session with our founder, Lauren Stiebing, here - https://calendly.com/laurenls-interna...

Olivier Gianina and his team was able to embed digital into traditional sales force, driving a culture and business model shift, to create the conditions to win online. Olivier has been developing an interesting career with adidas through Sales, SCM, Tech and Business Development in Germany, France and last 6 years in Latin America. Olivier is passionate about exploring new business models and shaping high performing teams on the back of a strong collective culture. He brings that passion to his current role as VP Sales for adidas Latin America. Olivier, thank you for joining me today.

Today we have invited Amit Singhal to discuss with us how he and his team were able to Successfully Set Up a Subscription E-commerce Business. Amit is a Digital Commerce leader experienced in developing and driving revenue opportunities in Fortune 500 Consumer goods companies with expertise in all things digital – eCommerce, Direct-to-Consumer, B2B & Commercial Analytics. He led the creation of the highly successful Subscription-based Direct-to-Consumer business ‘Hill’s to Home’ in the USA for Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a division of Colgate Palmolive. Topics Covered: - The three key things to consider before trying to start a subscription business. - The road to a successful subscription business may not be what you think. - Starting a company inside is a large corporate isn’t easy, what’s the trick?

The way individuals are forming their careers and their expectations of companies are changing. On this episode of the career success podcast I have invited Jonathan Reeves the Corporate Vice President of New Business at Henkel and Maya Berna who graduated from her under grad in 2017 and masters in 2020 to discuss how new generations are coming into the workforce and how companies and the leaders within them can be successful through this change.

On this episode of the career success podcast we will be joined by Luisa Franzone the Head of Global Supply Chain at Bayer Consumer Health. Luisa is an experienced leader within the FMCG industry with a track record of consistent delivery of business targets through a number of diversified technical and business roles which in this occasion will be sharing with us her insight on how senior leader can create the right balance between data and intuition. She has complementary experiences in Research & Development, Supply Chain and Supply Management giving her a broader perspective on the whole Innovation and Production process.

Megan Berry is currently the VP of Octane AI, an all-in-one platform for data collection, personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation targeted towards retail and eCommerce brands. She is a guest blogger at Mashable and The Huffington Post and is an expert managing remote teams, especially global ones, having worked with remote teams for more than 9 years of her career. Today she is joining us on the podcast to discuss how to set up a successful and engaging culture and the working environment when having a remote set up.