Bee Brilliant People Podcast

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You can connect with Katy on LinkedIn, where she mainly hangs out and visit her Website AnotherWay Coaching to learn more about what her business does and how she can help you thrive.

You can contact and connect with me, Mike Bedford, through LinkedIn or visit the Bee Brilliant People website to learn more about my full range of services in the space of Neurodiversity in the Workplace, Speaking and Coaching.

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Celia has a magnetic personality; you can't help but be energised once you've spoken to her. In the Podcast, Celia shares her journey from a Senior NHS Leader to experiencing stress and burnout, ultimately leading to a complete reset, embracing her inner entrepreneur, where she started transforming a neglected farm into an award-winning wedding venue. She now oversees an Award Winning B-Corp Certified, Events, Conferences and meeting venue with a difference, "The Wellbeing Farm".

Celia wrote a book, Why Put a Bow Tie on a Llama?

Already on quite a journey, she discovered through a chance conversation that she might be an ADHD'er. Something sparked in Celia, and she couldn't just let that go. So Celia embarked on a journey of self-discovery, which led to a formal Diagnosis of ADHD at 52.

Celia is very much focused on her Neurodivergence as a strength and openly attests to her success, determination and entrepreneurial mindset to her ADHD. She recognised there are challenges but believes in strength-focused conversations.

We had a fascinating conversation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed having it.

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We are proud to welcome Major Symon Smith of the British Army to the ND Superstars Podcast 🎧🎙️ Major Symon is a Senior Leader in the Armed Forces 🙏
He is an inspiring Leader and I knew when we met at a talk 💬 I delivered on Neurodiversity 🧠 at the UK Ministry of Defence that I wanted him as a guest 🎯

In the Podcast 🎧🎙️ Major Symon shares 👇

🎯 His insights and experience as a Dyslexic and Neurodivergent Leader 🧠

🎯 The role we as Leaders broadly have to play in creating psychological safety

🎯 Why it matters to Bee 🐝 an Authentic Leader

🎯 How Leaders can build Trust and role model behaviours that enable 🔧 and empower 🚀 people to Bee 🐝 themselves at work

🎯 His lived experience and journey to acceptance, understanding and advocation of Neurodiversity 🧠 at work.

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Useful links:

Symon Smith on LinkedIN

Symon.Smith450@mod.gov.uk – direct MOD email address

Get in touch with us to find out how we can help you empower and enable Neurodiversity in your business 🚀

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• Theo Smith LinkedIN 
• Neurodiversity at Work - Kogan Page (Award Winning Book) 
• Neurodiversity - Eliminating Kryptonite & Enabling Superheroes Podcast

Get in touch with us to find out how we can help you empower and enable Neurodiversity in your business 🚀

Email: beebrilliantpeople@gmail.com

Visit our Website to learn about our range of services ⁠⁠www.beebrilliantpeople.com

If you enjoy the show, be sure to Subscribe and share with others.  You can link over to the Video Podcast version of the show on YouTube by clicking the link and I hope you take something away from listening, and thank you for doing so and helping spread the word that Neurodivergent people are indeed Superstars.

You can, and I would highly recommend, connecting with Nichole on LinkedIn. 

You can, and I would highly recommend, learn more about the amazing and transformative work that Nicole does by visiting her Link Tree page and following the links to her sites, including a link to her International Bestselling Book!!!

This episode is a must not miss! Please share far and wide 📣 and don't forget to rate us on your podcast player of choice, as doing so helps people to find us!

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Episode 19 of the Bee-Brilliant People Podcast with the amazing Suzie Henriques, The CV Bee 🐝 (what she doesn't know about CVs is not worth knowing) 🙅‍♀️

In the episode Suzie shares her HUGE knowledge of how to nail 🔨 a great CV. She shares her top tips and myth busters to help you as a candidate navigate the recruitment minefield 💣

We covered some very common themes to both of us including authenticity, imposter syndrome and goal setting.

Suzie's energy, passion and expertise for delivering the best person centred CV service for her clients shines ✨️ through throughout the conversation and as a fun challenge, can you count the number of Bee 🐝 references throughout the show - answers on a postcard! 

You can contact Suzie through LinkedIn (link above) and please do swing by her fabulous Website TheCVBee.co.uk where you can find a heap of other great resources, customer testimonials, services and much more.  If you're looking to make you CV stand out from the crowd then don't mess about, get in touch with Suzie and get noticed.

Get in touch with us to find out how we can help you empower and enable Neurodiversity in your business 🚀

Email: beebrilliantpeople@gmail.com

Visit our Website to learn about our range of services ⁠⁠www.beebrilliantpeople.com  

You can connect with George - The ND Coach, through LinkedIn or Instagram @thendcoach_ and learn more about the amazing transformational work he can help you achieve. 

Get in touch with us to find out how we can help you empower and enable Neurodiversity in your business 🚀

Email: beebrilliantpeople@gmail.com

Visit our Website to learn about our range of services www.beebrilliantpeople.com

In a first for the Bee-Brilliant People Podcast (always seeking out new ways to innovate) we mashed it up with Rob Moors and the Leadership Untitled Podcast. 

We had an absolute blast recording this show in a totally free-flowing and unscripted way.  We got into talking about work, hybrid work, ways of working, coaching, leadership and lots more besides.   We joked this could have been the two blokes in a pub podcast, but let's face it, the best type of conversations are authentic ones.

We hope you enjoy the mash-up as much as we enjoyed recording it.

We were delighted to be joined by the absolutely 100% authentically authentic quirky coaching and people development sensation that is Katherine (Katy) Baggott.  

Katy is proud to be one of the weird ones and and embraces this to the max, she's sung with flashmobs, rock choirs and volunteered as a speaker coach with Ted X.  We have joking but not joking played with the idea of creating a new Podcast "Embracing the Weirdness", watch this space on that one. 

Katy is multi-talented and is a DJ for local radio station where she goes by the DJ name of Katy B and her show 'the Sunday Underbelly' can be found on Lincoln's LCR Radio (link below to Katy's Mixcloud profile and all episodes) Tune in she's amazing!

Katy B's Stream | Mixcloud

Katy is an Executive Coach, and a bloody good and well respected one at that.  She's worked for some massive international corporate organisations in the past such as Mars and Coke-a-Cola. She is person-centred and believes that 'quirky' experiences have helped shape her as a person and how she experiences the World. She is a generous, kind and wonderful Human Being and we were honoured to have her give up some time to talk on the Podcast.   

"who you are is how you coach" 

This week marked International Neurodiversity Celebration Week, which is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. 

"coaching with Neurodivergent clients keeps my coaching skills as stretchy as their timeline" 

We covered a diverse range of topics ranging from:

• Coaching - beyond neuro normative approaches  
• Working with marginalised voices 
• The value of labels - the paradox between helpful v destructive 
• Feedback - constructive approaches   
• Strengths-based feedback "feedback is a gift" 
• Psychological safety
• Creating squishy environments for great conversations
• Visual tools in coaching
• Authenticity and masking     

"Every entrepreneur I know who has gone on to great success has capitalised on their strengths"   

The timing of the Podcast was perfect as other golden thread running throughout the show was difference and different ways of thinking, which led us to talk about Neurodiversity.  Katy is an ally in this space and relates to ND people given some of her own experiences.

I hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we enjoyed recording it.  If you do enjoy please don't forget to rate the show in your player of choice so others can find us and share the podcast with your network - thanks for listening and tune in again soon for more bee-rilliant guests and content.  

Useful links:

• Katy's LinkedIn profile 
• https://www.3-degrees.uk 
• https://www.tedxbrayfordpool.com
• https://lcrlincoln.com/how-to-listen.html 
• Katy B's Stream | Mixcloud

We were delighted to be joined by HR Hero Shakil Butt.  We've been trying to bring Shakil to the Bee-Brilliant Podcast for some time but he is in very high demand, so when we nailed this date down we were over the moon.  

In the Podcast Shakil shares his thoughts about: 

• His journey from senior corporate HRD to working as a freelancer and why the 'free' of freelancer matters to him
• What working flexible means and why he values this  
• The HR profession and some of the challenges of the modern HR professional 
• How HR practitioners can operate in a way that is aligned to their values and ethics - what to do when this isn't happening  
• Avoiding stagnation in your career and how to own your journey 
• His ABC USP
• Breaking down barriers
• The evolution of D&I in the workplace and the work still to do
• How HR practitioners can play an active role in creating a more diverse workforce 
• Authenticity and how that helped him create his business 'HR Hero', despite the pushback and naysayers

To quote Shakil "it's not about the number of breaths you take, it's about the number of breaths you takeaway".  Make a difference! 

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If you'd like to find out more about how Bee-Brilliant People Development LTD can help you then visit our website and get in touch. 

You can connect with Tim on LinkedIn and find out more about his business ENTHUSE Coaching & Training by visiting his website.

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Unlucky for some, not us, for episode #13 of the Podcast we were joined by the amazing Michelle Parry-Slater FCIPD FRSA FLPI and we had a fantastic conversation.  Michelle is the Founder and Director of Kairos Modern Learning.

Author of 'The Learning & Development Handbook', a Fellow of the CIPD and LPI, not to mention an award-winning forward-thinking Learning & Development Professional. 

In her spare time, Michelle is a busy Wife, Mum and volunteer Girlguiding Leader who is instrumental in supporting Girlguiding to modernise their own L&D offer.  

Michelle is such a wonderful and authentic human being and is a human-centred, kind, compassionate and generous leader.  It was an absolute privilege and pleasure to welcome Michelle to the Podcast. 

Joining the Podcast for episode 12 are two of my Coaching fave's Jo Wright and Amie Nazaruk-Wheeler.

Jo is the co-founder and CEO of Coaching Culture LTD.  Amie is the Founder and Managing Director of GROW Development Solutions. 

Both Jo and Amie are highly skilled and very experienced coaches in their own right and it was an absolute pleasure to get them in the same space to discuss coaching more broadly, why it matters and the transformational impact coaching can have on people and business.

I can honestly say I was transfixed in the conversation between these two giants of coaching, the chemistry was awesome and I was privileged to facilitate. I think new friendships were formed today - the Bee-Brilliant People Podcast, bringing people together! 

I hope you enjoy the show as much as I enjoyed facilitating and being part of the conversation.

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In this episode, we're joined by Ruth Gawthorpe.  Ruth is a people-focused leader in the world of smart working and is the CEO of the Smart Working Revolution.  Ruth has years of people experience as a respected senior leader and driver of change.  Ruth is at the forefront of enabling smart ways of working that unlocks talent and helps create a more sustainable, inclusive and diverse workforce.  

In this episode, we explore smart working, discuss the new World Order of work as a result of the Pandemic and how people's expectations have changed as many have re-evaluated their purpose.  We talk about the "great resignation" and how smart leaders are already ahead of the curve on this.  We touch on Climate Change and the impact of "going back" to how we just did things before.  It was a fascinating conversation and I'm sure you will enjoy it as much as we did.  

Perry is the Founder & Chief Energy Officer of PTHR, with 30+ yrs of experience in people, learning, technology, organisation change & transformation. Global and TEDx Speaker, Adviser and Conference Chair on the Future of Work and HR, and member of the Be The Ripple movement to promote kindness and eradicate bullying in workplaces. He is a visiting Fellow at Cranfield Management School and Sheffield Hallam University, a Fellow of the RSA, was a Guest Professor at GEA College in Slovenia, and am part of the Adjunct Faculty at Ashridge Executive Education and Guest Professor at Hult International Business School – as well as an Associate at the Work Foundation – helping create the principles of Good Work in an uncertain world.

In the Podcast, we talk about human-centred leadership, trust and the future of work. We delve into some of the hot topics of conversation right now including the “return to the office”, empowering people to be able to do their best work and how a Culture of Trust underpins that.  We also discuss the importance of Well-being with the context of the emerging Mental Health crisis that’s been talked about as we emerge from the Pandemic and begin to look ahead to a forever changing world of work.

In today's podcast I'm joined by Paul Matthews.   Paul is considered a leader in the people development world.  He is an L&D expert,  international speaker, accomplished author and strategist.  Paul knows his stuff and it was a pleasure to talk to him from a professional and personal perspective and share some of his fascinating insights, knowledge and expertise and get to explore a little the person behind the professional as Paul has had quite a squiggly journey around the globe to the people development profession.   I hope you enjoy the show as much as I enjoyed the conversation. 

In today's podcast, we're joined from the US by the L&D Detective - Kevin M. Yates. 

Kevin has been around in the world of L&D for over 25 years and held down senior roles at huge global organisations such as McDonalds and Facebook.  He is a active and very generous member of the global L&D community, openly sharing his knowledge, insights and experience.

In the Podcast we discuss amongst many topics of conversation: 

• some of the personal challenges Kevin has faced during the global pandemic, 
• how that's impacted his outlook on life,
• career journey highs and lows
• measuring the impact of L&D 
• what L&D professionals should be focusing on right now and why 
• we discuss the thorny issue of 'learning styles' 
• we close out on gratitude 

I really enjoyed the conversation and I'm sure you will too.  You can visit Kevin's website for a complimentary copy of the his L&D Detective Kit and start solving impact mysteries yourself like a pro.  

Guy is a passionate champion of L&D as a performance consultant and using data and analysis to drive performance improvements.  We get into this and a whole lot more in the conversation.   You can connect with Guy on LinkedIn and find out more about what he does by visiting the EPPIC website. 

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In today's podcast we welcome to the show Team 'Be The Ripple' who are Joanna Suvarna, Asli Derya, Debbie Watt and Jennifer Sullivan.  In a what is a first for the Podcast, we have a multiple guestlist. In the show we get into the founding philosophy of 'Be The Ripple', which is of course kindness and embedding kindness into the workplace.  We unpack what 'Be The Ripple' is all about, why it matters and how each of the team focuses on kindness to themselves.  We get into human centred leadership and kindness etiquette, particularly now more than ever as we all "struggle with the juggle" of life and work.  It's a fascinating and insightful conversation.  I enjoyed it and I'm sure you will too.

You can find out more about the 'Be The Ripple' movement on their Website and as mentioned in the show by Joanna, there is a new book from the Ripplers called "The Little Book of Kindness" available for free as a digital download on the Website or you buy a hard copy of the book online from all good online delivery services.    

In today's podcast, we welcome Paul Lockwood from Bellingham IT services.  Paul is a passionate people person and an enthusiastic champion of developing people to reach their true potential.  He is a leader in his industry, an IT specialist, coach, mentor and black belt martial arts instructor at Sengoku Martial Arts Academy. Paul is a values-driven leader who sees the opportunities rather than the barriers, and his positive attitude to work, life and helping others is infectious; he embodies a growth mindset and is a pleasure to be around.  We get into a whole raft of topics ranging from IT, Cyber Security, Coaching, and L&D to Well-being, Values and much more.  It's a fascinating conversation. In true 2021 Pandemic style, we're also joined later in the show by my 2-year-old boy who decided to crash the party.   I hope you enjoy the conversation.   

You can find out more about Liggy and her amazing work by click here Liggy Webb – Award-winning presenter and author.  There's a free resources section on Liggy's website which I'd highly recommend signing up to join Free resources for members (liggywebb.com)

You can follow or connect with Liggy on LinkedIn Liggy Webb | LinkedIn or Twitter Liggy Webb (@liggyw) / Twitter

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Thanks for listening and stay tuned for more great conversations! 

Here's the link to David's L&D Podcast and a link to his company Looop. 

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