Exit via the Gift Shop with Jonathan Pooley

Welcome to Get Serious; Our new series of podcasts where we talk to a wide variety of interesting people about leadership and the world of work. Today we are delighted to speak to Jonathan Pooley. In 1989 Jonathan co-founded the business that became Natural Products Worldwide (NPW) a global market leader in the contemporary giftware market. NPW designs, sources and sells giftware products to retailers in the UK, Europe and North America. It is almost impossible to “Exit via the gift shop” without been offered some of NPWs products. Its largest UK clients include John Lewis, and WH Smiths and some of the largest American clients are Old Navy and Urban Outfitters. NPW is also the UK’s non-bookstore distributor of the iconic Moleskine notebooks. Jonathan shares the up and downs of being an overnight success after 20 years, his approach to Work/Life balance, the critical importance of Innovation & Creativity and Perseverance & Resilience.

Welcome to Get Serious; #2 in our series of podcasts where we speak to a wide variety of interesting people about leadership and work.   We are privileged to speak with Daniel Camilleri senior user experience researcher at Afterpay. Daniel is a behavioural scientist. After completing his masters degree in psychology at the University of Adelaide he went on to work for Uber in San Francisco where he worked with the behavioral finance guru Professor Dan Ariely from Duke University. Daniel talks to us about his background, life and culture in Silicon Valley and working with Dan Ariely.

Welcome to Get Serious; Our new series of podcasts where we talk to a wide variety of interesting people about leadership. Today in our inaugural podcast we are privileged to speak with the Managing Director of world leading hifi company Linn Products Limited - Gilad Tiefenbrun (@linngilad). In 1973 Linn produced the iconic LP12 otherwise known as the Linn Sondek turntable. Up until the LP12 the conventional wisdom was that speakers were the key to sound quality. Ivor Tiefenbrun, founder of Linn turned that idea on its head, proving that it was the source that was the most important component and that information lost there could never be recovered. Ivor’s son Gilad joined the company in 2003 and led it into the digital age where it is now leading the field in music streaming. Gilad talks about his background, early career and how it influenced his management philosophy. He also discusses challenges and crises he has experienced over the last 17 years and why resilience is very important in troubled times.