The Business Simplicity Podcast

Mick is a passionate entrepreneur in heart and soul. Creativity and the Dutch art of flip-thinking is his nature. After more than 25 years of entrepreneurship, he is sharing his knowledge and experience with his environment.   In our conversation, Mick talks about how creativity and flip-thinking are the fuel to move forward, binding people,  empowering them and staying simpatico as a brand.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/more-love/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.  Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds.  We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #business #simplicity #podcast

Jyotish Patel is a regenerative health care practitioner, facilitator of transformation and a wholeness guide, inspired by the emergence of new approaches for expanding consciousness that integrate ancient wisdom with modern insights for growth and transformation. He has pioneered the application of Energy Medicine into the world of business to complement organizational learning and development programs. Today he facilitates on programs at all levels of organizations across a broad variety of sectors. His approach places people at the heart of the learning experience to create a new embodied awareness of their personal energy and body–mind connection to support wholeness. He is dedicated to empowering people, teams and organisations to widen leadership capacities that reflects body wisdom, heart connection and energetic awareness; To awaken the essence of our specific life purpose, embody our soul and make it visible in the world so that we can truly lead and live the life that we came to experience and wholeheartedly belong to the world. We discuss how people in organisations, at all levels, can contribute to their individual and collective success through the journey of self-reflection and healing. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/shaping-great-teams/ The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits. Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries. Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business! #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Jonas Tornquist is a leader, innovator and agent for change. He enjoys coaching teams to overcome complex issues and growing through continuous improvement. He particularly likes businesses that need growing, changing or restructuring and likes to make sure that work is also fun. He is an all-rounder with a natural ability to create and lead diverse teams through a low-ego servant leadership approach. He loves learning, challenges and achieving real progress on the ground. On our conversation, we speak about teams and how to build great teams. How to attract and search for great leadership within those teams to make a great work experience. We touch on the impact of geographic culture and what to look for in new talent - the balance between mindset and skillset. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/shaping-great-teams/ The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits. Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries. Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business! #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Mark van den Brom is an engineering manager at DASH. In this role he supports the growth, learning and improvement of development teams and individuals.   In a previous step in his career, Mark was an Agile management consultant and helped many organisations in adopting agile ways of working, often by applying kanban principles and practices. Mark loves to figure out why things are working the way they are, mainly by reducing the complexity of situations. Next to that he is inspired by continuous improvement.   In this podcast we’ve talked about the preparation of new work, strategic initiatives or other chunks of work. Whilst often the focus of an Agile transformation is on (groups of) individual teams, a lot of gain can be achieved by optimzing the flow of work towards these teams. By negligencting this opportunity, many organisations only optimize a part of the whole delivery process, overload teams with new initiatives and in the end, don’t really improve.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/increase-flow/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.   Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Karen De Boeck is agile coach and organization coach, supporting people, teams and organizations to maximise their impact and deliver results in a human way.  Her passion is to help them actively realize their ambitions, positively define feasible steps, find balance between a guiding structure and space for selforganisation. To collectively and humanly deliver results they are proud of. During the conversation, Karen shares three area’s of focus she combines to grow organizations to deliver successfully in a humanly sustainable way: Use frameworks with focus on value creation according your own purpose, your ‘why’. As examples she mentions Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile, DevOps,… Dare to adapt your organization structure and governance to enable a healthy balance between structure and selforganisation. Examples here are Sociocracy 3.0 and Team Topologies. Whatever you focus on, grows. Actively build learning teams and a learning organization, adaptive for continuous change and increasing results. Start where you are, two feet on earth, with respect and recognition of what works well. She shares examples based on positive psychology. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/achieving-ambitions/ The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits. Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries. Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business! #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Mohammad Hassan is a software engineer with 13 years of experience, delivering enterprise grade products to Fortune 100 customers.  Living in Cairo, Hassan leads engineering at Tactful AI, building its AI-Powered, Omnichannel Customer experience platform.  His passion is building software that improves users productivity and simplifies their workflow.   Mohammad will discuss his experience with Peopleware (building software development teams), supporting the Lean methodology, and some traps and misconceptions about building software that many leaders fall to.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/peopleware/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Michael Chang Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that has helped thousands of aspiring leaders ethically leverage power and politics to breakthrough – and ascend. His contrarian views have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and he is the author of Get Promoted: What You’re Really Missing at Work That’s Holding You Back. Prior to becoming an executive coach, Michael served 20 years bringing blockbuster innovations to life in China, the U.S., and Europe.  Michael holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University.  His focus is on building POWER, a word with negative connotations – and a topic most people mistakenly shy away from. He believes understanding power is THE key to success if you want to move up, get big things done, or become a better leader.   Michael will talk about Power Mapping — a highly effective but vastly underutilized tool – that he uses with aspiring leaders and executives to help them advance their careers and make more impact in their organizations. Diagnosing organizational power is fundamental. It helps you become more strategic and intentional about how you spend your time. If you are frustrated or feel like you are spinning your wheels at work, a Power Map, done well, will accelerate your path to getting promoted or propel your initiatives so you make more impact.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/power-mapping/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Mohamed is an engineer and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience building technology products that made their way into hundreds of millions of people’s lives. In previous posts, Mohamed managed world-class teams and complex technology programs across multiple continents.   Mohamed’s latest role with the CEO and co-founder of Tactful AI which is a UK technology startup specialising in customer experience software that is user-centric and powered by advanced AI and data engines. Tactful has been recently acquired by Dstny Group, a European leader in business communications.   Mohamed is an impact-driven entrepreneur, he believes that the primary purpose of leaders should be empowering their teams by creating the best environment and lean processes to help them achieve their jobs. By doing so these teams will be able to innovate and produce solutions and products that positively impact people’s lives.   In this episode, Mohamed will share with us his journey in building Tactful AI and tips on how this could be applied to other innovation-driven businesses.  Learn more:  https://ebullient.com/podcast/people-driven-products/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Marco Visser is a managing director who uses authenticity and passion for people to help teams use their drive to accomplish their goals. He thinks that goals are more than just KPI's. What is it that makes people tick? He has experience in running a staffing business and was managing director for a data engineering company.   Through his years of experience, he has learned that passion and fun are the key factors in becoming successful. If you are really interested in the person(s) you work with It will make it easier to find their purpose. The (only) KPI driven managers are a thing of the past. If you really like what you are doing and are having fun then your job as a manager is only to channel those around you.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/channeling-passion/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Michelle Seiler Tucker shares the ‘GPS Exit Model’ to help business owners prepare for a successful sale of their company.     Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. She holds the M&AMI (Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary) title, as well as Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Professional (CM&AP) and Certified Senior Business Analyst (CSBA). Michelle also owns many other businesses in several different industries. As a 20-year veteran in the M&A industry, she is regarded as the leading authority on buying, selling, fixing, and growing businesses. She and her firm have sold businesses in almost every vertical and have a remarkable track record of success.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/sell-your-business/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Laurent Silvestri shares his winning approach to creating long-term, empathetic, partnerships based on his 20+ years of being a successful entrepreneur. Laurent Silvestri has been an entrepreneur in the telecom industry for the last 25 years. He has founded multiple companies, surfing on the different waves since the deregulation of the French telecom industry. In 2005, he founded a French telecom service provider called OpenIP that merged with our Belgian counterpart, Destiny in 2020. Today he is a co-founder of the Dstny Group and holds the position of Chief Strategy Alliance Officer, working on sharing our vision and strategy and creating long-term links and partnerships between Dstny and its ecosystem. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/empathetic-partnerships/ The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.   Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries. Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business! #ebullient #simplicity  #podcast

Bob Smith shares his insights in how to use OKR’s (Objectives & Key Results) to create the ‘Countability Culture’ instead of a culture of frustration based on accountability.   Bob’s passion is helping companies scale the implementation of OKRs for fast growth.  He uses Objectives and Key Results to keep the company and teams inspired, focused and aligned on great outcomes.  He is an expert in demonstrating the relevance and value and integration of OKR’s.  The approach he takes is very straight-forward. He meets with people and teams to understand desired outcomes, current obstacles, pressure points and understand the core company Vision with the current Strategy.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/create-the-countability-culture/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Michael Smits shares how a global community of inspired doers has created the Purpose Manifesto and how this can inspire everyday actions to make the world a better place.   We talk about the Purpose Manifesto. Why 50+ authors and 100+ collaborators from around the world felt the need to come together now from all corners of the world to write the guidelines to inspire everyday actions for a better future for all.   Born and raised in The Netherlands, Michael’s worked and lived in over a dozen countries across all continents and travelled to 60+. He has committed his life to work with people to improve the state of the world. From conflict resolution and social innovation in remote and conflict-affected regions to strategy, executive leadership and exponential scaling of startups, NGOs and corporates. He’s always purposefully embraced a role that bridges between the grassroots, policymakers and boardrooms.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/discover-the-purpose-manifesto/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Jen Dumitrescu shares some tactics on how to simplify your life for self-employed people and real-estate agents in particular.   After 15 years of experience as a real estate agent, she wanted to simplify the process for other agents. We all got into business with a dream to work less. Be your own boss and make unlimited sums of money. For most, the reality has been different, but there’s no time like the present to change the direction of your business and your happiness. She now consults with Agents and offers an online course to support agents in getting efficient, finding the “missing” money and leveraging systems and processes to simplify their business.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/simplify-your-life/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #ebullient #simplicity #podcast

Nick McRoberts shares how choosing what not to do has enabled him to succeed throughout his life as a composer and coach.   Nick studied piano, composition and conducting at the Melbourne Conservatory, the Victorian College of Arts, the CNSM in Paris and the Ecole Normale. He studied conducting with Robert Rosen, Jorma Panula and Dejan Savić. Today he is based in France. His works include operas, symphonies, ballets, voice, piano and chamber works. In 2018 he was named Artistic Director of Opéra Montmartre in Paris.   Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/choose-what-not-to-do/  The Business Simplicity Podcast is where leaders share their most successful strategies and the failures that inspired them so you can avoid the suffering and reap the benefits.     Guests have a wide diversity of backgrounds. We highlight people from around the world working in the environment, education, entertainment, and many other industries.   Simplify your thinking to accelerate your business!   #simplicity #ebullient #podcast