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Katherine Bond talks with Ross Davidson and Reshentha Beeby from the Aztec Group about how to create and sustain high performance in your team. Full of practical tips, the podcasts also focuses on how leaders from Aztec have implemented the tools from a leadership and team development programme with Mezzana with their teams.

The most recent podcast from Mezzana Partners features Paralympic canoeist Emma Wiggs MBE. Emma talks about high performance but also her work in the corporate world – the parallels, her learning and the transferable knowledge, skills and attitudinal aspects.

Emma Wiggs, 9 times world champion, 3 times Paralympian, double Paralympic gold medal winner, talks to us about how she’s learned to cope psychologically, prepare for upcoming challenges, use comparisons and maintain her motivation even now.

Gary speaks with two founder entrepreneurs, Jackie Salvidge, CEO of Innovate Healthcare and Alice Bagnall, MD of The Apprentice Academy to consider questions of how we emerge from covid, attract and retain great staff all whilst also keeping one eye on the future.

Top business CEO, Simon Grosse discusses leadership in a hybrid world. "We aim to have a true feedback culture that enables us to listen- to adapt quickly, but that no matter what we do by way of comms the chances are we could be doing more".

Listen to the full podcast to find out how Simon leads this culture at FSP, that has just been voted #1 medium business in U.K. ranked by Best Companies.

The sixth episode is with Mezzana Partners' Katherine Bond, who reflects on her role working with ParalympicsGB in the build up to and at the Tokyo Paralympics Games.

The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games were like no other Games in history - the uncertainty, complexity and challenge created by covid in the build up to and during the Games created a set of very unique conditions for all involved. Katherine, from her position working with the ParalympicsGB staff and leadership team in the build up to the Games, and then as part of the core team at the Games, reflects on what we can learn from the extraordinary Tokyo Games.

The fifth episode in our podcast series focuses on complexity and collaboration.

We talk to Hamish Wilson, director of Wasifiri, a consultancy, institute an inucabator which aims to help tackle some of the world’s most complex problems, from conflict to climate change. Hamish’s has a fascinate and diverse background, and we really enjoyed hearing how he brings his knowledge and skills to working in high challenge, conflict and complex environments. He has a practical perspective which can be applied to problem solving in any sector and situation.

Whats the secret to Essex's phenomenal success over the past 5 years? Mezzana Founding Partner and Essex Performance Psychologist William Winstone is interviewed by Essex TV  William explains how he tries to give the players that extra edge whilst they’re on the field, as well as how the structure of the Club has changed and why he feels this Essex side is so successful.

The Covid Pandemic has changed how we work and live, and will make an indelible imprint on the workplace.  What will the workplace of the future look like? And how should leaders approach creating a post-Covid workplace strategy?

In this podcast, we’re joined by Jean Michel Orieux, an experienced senior leader in the hospitality, leisure and workplace sectors. He shares his thoughts about how the pandemic has changed how organisations think and approach not just how they work, but what they fundamentally do, and what the workplace of the future is likely to look like.

A conversation with Duncan Law, Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has over 30-years’ experience working in applied psychology across elite sporting environments, including premier league football, rugby, and Olympic sports as well as the NHS, Social Care, higher education, and third sectors. Duncan and William are colleagues with the British Rowing Team’s Olympic and Paralympic programmes, where Duncan provides a systemic and clinical psychology perspective, and William is the Paralympic performance psychologist.

A conversation with Darren Fergus, MD of Sintetica UK. Sintetica are a Swiss pharmaceutical company specialising in regional anaesthetics. Darren has led the launch of Sintetica’s UK operations for the last 3 years and he shares his experience of leading and adapting to the massive changes brought about by COVID.  He also talks about what he’s takes into leadership from his experience as a whitewater kayaker, and the new technological innovations he feels will be game changers in the next two years.

On this podcast, we’re joined by John Anderson MBE and Gary Buxton MBE, two of the Mezzana team, both with an illustrious and varied background in a range of sectors, from Olympic sport to non-profit organisations. We talk with them about their experiences as leaders and coaches, the role - and importance - of coaching for leaders and what leadership in the 2020s might look like.