the c-suite podcast

Debbie West speaks with internal communications leaders about the challenges of managing the flow of information inside organisations. They discuss how to enable effective communication processes while minimising noise and distraction. Our guests were: 1/ Keith Berman, Strategic Communications Leader 2/ Natalie Lambracos, Communications Manager, Protiviti 3/ Niamh O'Grady, Head of Marketing - UK, PageGroup

The first in a new season of our Unicorn Leaders series, Russell Goldsmith and Debbie West were joined online from Denver, Colorado by Sami Inkinen, the CEO and co-founder of Virta Health, the leader in type two diabetes reversal and creator of a new standard in medical care for people living with type two diabetes, prediabetes, or obesity. Founded in 2014, the company achieved unicorn status in December 2020, and hit a $2 billion valuation in July 2023

Our fourth and final episode recorded at Shoptalk, Las Vegas, produced in partnership with Bread Financial, a tech-forward financial services company providing simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions. Featuring: 1/ Kevin Miller, CMO, The Fresh Market 2/ Jennifer DiPasquale, President & Co-Founder, Women in Retail 3/ Sophie Marchessou, Chief Customer Officer, Mirakl 4/ Emma McFerran, CEO, Lyst 5/ Christopher Clark, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Grove Collaborative 6/ Arvind Gupta, President & CEO, Jesta I.S.

Our third of four episodes recorded at Shoptalk, Las Vegas, that we produced in partnership with Bread Financial, a tech-forward financial services company providing simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions. Featuring: 1/ Jake Stein, Head of Retail, Uber Direct 2/ Jasmeet Sabharwal, Senior Director, Marketing Strategy Bread Financial 3/ Kimberly Wallengren, VP Marketing, North America, Coach 4/ Riad Hijal, Head of Commerce and Solution Management, SAP 5/ Jesse Goldstine, General Manager, Retail, MoMA Design Store 6/ Gabi Saper, CEO & Co Founder, CMY Cubes 7/ Jenny McLean, Managing Partner & Retail Industry Lead, Clarkston Consulting

Our second of four episodes recorded at Shoptalk, Las Vegas, that we produced in partnership with Bread Financial, a tech-forward financial services company providing simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions. Featuring: 1/ Jessica Calaway, Senior Manager, Market Research, Bread Financial 2/ Joe Laszlo, Vice President, Content, Shoptalk 3/ Andrea Moore, Chief Digital Officer, NEST New York 4/ Melissa Haque, Founder & Chief, Wild Dough 5/ Nikki Mendonça, Global Managing Director, Software & Platforms Practice, Accenture 6/ Kendra Bracken-Ferguson, Founder & CEO, BrainTrust 7/ Matt Dornfeld, Senior Director and Head of Global Partnerships, Feedonomics

Our first of four episodes recorded at Shoptalk, Las Vegas, that we produced in partnership with Bread Financial, a tech-forward financial services company providing simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions. Featuring: 1/ Sophie Wawro, Global President, Shoptalk 2/ Laert Skreli, VP, Head of Fintech BD, Bread Financial 3/ Scott Tannen, Founder & CEO, Boll and Branch 4/ Jasmine Enberg, Principal Analyst, Emarketer 5/ Larry Gray, Sr Mgr, Customer Experience, Kipling USA 6/ Lisa Jones, Founder & CEO, SHE-com

Our fifth and final episode recorded at SXSW in Austin, Texas that we produced in partnership with Remote, the Global HR Platform. Featuring: 1/ Ian Beacraft, CEO, Signal And Cipher 2/ Khalil Vinson, Founder & CEO, Tech Fest Live 3/ Pat Wadors, Chief People Officer, UKG 4/ Melvin Wilson, Founder, Solve Innovation Group 5/ Cam Lawrence, CEO, Newlab 6/ Karl Skoog, CMO, Amuse

Our fourth episode recorded at SXSW in Austin, Texas that we produced in partnership with Remote, the Global HR Platform. Featuring: 1/ Sandy Carter, COO, Unstoppable Domains 2/ Sabrina Sullivan, Foresight Fellow, Ford Motor Company 3/ Janice Omedake, exited tech CEO and Author of 'Mentorship Unlocked' 4/ Dan Cullen-Shute, Worldwide CEO & Founder, Creature London 5/ Jeffrey Edell, CEO & Chairman, MeWe

Our third episode recorded at SXSW in Austin, Texas that we produced in partnership with Remote, the Global HR Platform. Featuring: 1/ Donald Knight, Chief People Officer, Greenhouse Software 2/ Jeanne Ahn, Director of Partnerships, Remote 3/ Bryetta Calloway, VP, Global Marketing & Comms MassChallenge 4/ Chris Appleton, Founder, Art Pharmacy 5/ Bobbie Racette, Founder & CEO, Virtual Gurus 6/ Robbie Cabral, Inventor, CEO, and Founder, Benjilock

Our second episode recorded at SXSW in Austin, Texas that we produced in partnership with Remote, the Global HR Platform. Featuring: 1/ Jeffrey Korzenik, Chief Economist, Fifth Third Bank 2/ Larry Miller, Chairman of the Jordan Brand Advisory Board, Nike 3/ Ken Oliver, VP of Corporate Social Responsibility, Checkr

Our first episode recorded at SXSW in Austin, Texas that we produced in partnership with Remote, the Global HR Platform. Featuring: 1/ Daniel Clancy, CEO, Twitch 2/ Marcelo Lebre, President and Co-Founder, Remote 3/ Temitope Sadiku Strategy, Transformation, Agile and Digital Revolution, Kraft Heinz 4/ Eloise Singer, Creative Director & CEO, Singer Studios 5/ Alex Wills, CXO, Disguise 6/ John Scott, Head of Learning Design and Strategy at MasterClass at Work

Russell Goldsmith sits down with the c-suite podcast's newest presenter, Debbie West, Senior Account Director at our producers, Audere Communications. Debbie's background and expertise is in Internal Communications, and so in this episodes she talks about how podcasts can help to unlock employee engagement.

Produced in partnership with Tourettes Action, the leading support and research charity for people with Tourette's syndrome, and their families. Graham Barrett hosts this episode that focuses on how employers can support people with Tourette's and create a truly inclusive and neurodiverse environment. Our guests were: - Ione Georgakis, Therapies and Advocacy Manager, Tourettes Action - Trish McGrath, Chief Executive Officer, Aberystwyth University Students’ Union - Luke Manton, Founder, Manton Executives

In this episode, we focus on the growing use of AI in internal communications. Host Debbie West is joined by guests: 1/ Shalini Gupta, Senior Internal Communications Lead, UKIMEA, Arup 2/ Frank Dias, Internal Comms Manager, Framestore 3/ Melanie Wheeler, Head of Global Internal Communications, Sutherland

The final episode recorded at Slush in Helsinki, that we produced in partnership with Remote, the global HR platform, where we recorded a series of interviews from Remote's booth with a number of the speakers and attendees. Our guests for this episode were: 1/ Vlada Musvydaite, CEO & Founder, Walk15 2/ Fredrik Hanell, Impact Ventures Director, EIT Urban Mobility 3/ Dr Finnur Pind, Co-founder & CEO, Treble Technologies 4/ Daniel Wikberg, CEO & Founder, Upsales 5/ Jakub Korczak, CFO, Proteon Pharmaceuticals

The second of three episodes recorded at Slush in Helsinki, that we produced in partnership with Remote, the global HR platform, where we recorded a series of interviews from Remote's booth with a number of the speakers and attendees. Our guests for this episode were: 1/ Erika Ottela, COO & Founder, eBrands 2/ Marita Markkula, VP Marketing & Communications, ICEYE 3/ Yashar Moradbakhti, CEO, Lingio 4/ Dmitrijus Borisenka, Co-Founder, Coingate 5/ Tero Sarkkinen, CEO, Basemark

The first of three episodes recorded at Slush in Helsinki, that we produced in partnership with Remote, the global HR platform, where we recorded a series of interviews from Remote's booth with a number of the speakers and attendees. Our guests for this episode were: 1/ Marcelo Lebre, President & Co-Founder, Remote 2/ Anna Gullstrand, Chief People & Culture Officer, Mentimeter 3/ Anastasija Plotnikova, CEO & Founder, Fideum Group 4/ Rahul Vohra, CEO, Superhuman 5/ Arūnas Eitutis, CEO, Frontu

Recorded in partnership with SNP, a world leading data transformation company, and on location at GSK's London office, Russell Goldsmith is joined by Shobie Ramakrishnan, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, GSK and Alex Smith, Director of Strategy and Solutions, SNP to explore how companies are embracing innovation, metrics, and data to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. They aim to discuss how businesses are using digital solutions to make sound, strategic decisions in an ever changing complex world. For more information, visit https://www.snpgroup.com/

The third and final episode recorded at Fintech Talents, that we produced in partnership with Andaria, experts in scalable embedded finance solutions. The event took place at The Brewery, London in November where we recorded a series of interviews from Andaria's booth with a number of the speakers and attendees. Our guests for this episode were: 1/ Toyosi Ariyo, Founder and CEO, Diaspora World 2/ David Cox, Payments Lead, Virgin Media 3/ Kevin McAdam, Director of Cards, Andaria 4/ Jit Ng, Payments Industry Interface Manager, Transport for London 5/ Lee Taylor, Chief Financial Officer, OnlyFans 6/ Alex Dorobantu, Senior Director of Global Payments, Delivery Hero

The second of three episodes recorded at Fintech Talents, that we produced in partnership with Andaria, experts in scalable embedded finance solutions. The event took place at The Brewery, London in November where we recorded a series of interviews from Andaria's booth with a number of the speakers and attendees. Our guests for this episode were: 1/ Briony Krikorian-Slade, Payments, Innovation and Resilience, UK Finance 2/ Surash Patel, VP EMEA, TeleSign 3/ Kurt Azzopardi, CTO, Andaria 4/ Valentina Kristensen, Director, Growth and Communications, OakNorth 5/ Victor Mithouard, VP of Growth, Numeral 6/ Dastan Shukanyev, Senior Payments Technology and Strategy, Marks and Spencer