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Ep. 04

Nick Leeson- former trader of Barings Bank

Learnings and Insights about People and Business from ‘The Ultimate Rogue Trader’.

Nick Leeson is an English former derivatives trader notorious for bankrupting Barings Bank, the United Kingdom’s oldest merchant bank. He was a rogue trader who made fraudulent, unauthorised and speculative trades, and his actions led directly to 1995 collapse of the bank, for which he was sentenced to prison. The error account’s losses exceeded £208 million. Leeson followed a “doubling strategy: every time he lost money, he would double the amount that was lost in order to recoup the amount.  It worked several times, Nick gained credibility and power within the organisation, his team and clients. However, the Kobe earthquake hit early on the 17 of January sending markets and Lesson, into a tailspin.  In this episode Leeson shares his life story and his perspective about how business culture, leadership, resilience, systems and controls can all lead to the success or failure of a person and an organisation.

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Jorge Obregón- Priest

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Ep. 05

Lauro Gonzalez- former Satmex CEO

The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, brings new challenges but also opportunities to business leaders and CEO's. The actions of executives and their teams now, in the midst of this crisis, will significantly determine their fate. Crisis, replaced with both complexity and change, requires executives to both lead and manage effectively.
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Samie Al-Achrafi - Conscious Leadership Speaker and author of 9 and #TIME4HUMANITY

Samie is recognised as one of the world’s leading voices on values and culture change. He has won a host of accolades including Most Visionary Business Transformation CEO, Game Changer of the Year and Most Influential CEO of the Year. In 2019, he presented a Ted Talk on Why Business Needs Our Humanity, which brought the subject to the forefront of leader’s hearts and minds.

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