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Welcome to Stratospheric Leaders - the podcast that brings you unfiltered, inspiring conversations with the visionaries shaping capital markets. I'm Georgie Dickins and each episode, I sit down with leaders who don’t just redefine industries - they create them. You’ll hear game-changing strategies, personal stories, and powerful insights from those who have achieved stratospheric success. These are the lessons they don’t teach you at business school. If you’re ready to elevate your game and those around you - you’re in the right place. And if you enjoy hearing from these titans, hit follow.
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Chris Willcox has spent his career at the center of global capital markets. From fifteen years at Citigroup to running Rates at JPMorgan, then CEO of JPM Asset Management, one of the largest asset managers in the world, overseeing two trillion dollars. Today, he's Executive Officer and Head of Wholesale at Nomura - the first non-Japanese executive to hold that role, and Deputy President. He's led trading floors through crises, built businesses from scratch, and done it across three very diff...
In this episode of Stratospheric Leaders, Georgie welcomes back one of the show’s most popular guests, Lance Uggla, for a deep dive into the leadership lessons behind the book Raise The Bar. Together, Georgie and Lance explore what leadership looks like in practice, moving beyond theory into the habits, behaviours and decisions that separate good leaders from great ones. Drawing from decades of building and leading global businesses, Lance shares why work ethic, manners and awareness r...
In this episode of Stratospheric Leaders, Georgie sits down with David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Group a global cross-asset marketplace, powering the fusion of traditional and digital finance through regulated market infrastructure and trusted technology.David is one of the most compelling voices at the intersection of institutional finance and digital assets. And his story is anything but standard. School leaver at 18, training accountant by day, doing paper rounds before school since he was 14, D...
In this high-energy episode of Stratospheric Leaders, Georgie sits down with Jessica Jensen, CMO of LinkedIn - the world's largest professional network with over a billion members across more than 200 countries for a conversation that is as practical as it is inspiring. We often think of LinkedIn as a platform. Jessica reminds us it is something far more powerful – it’s your living, breathing CV, your external brand, and the place where the world decides what it thinks of you before you have ...
In this powerful episode of Stratospheric Leaders, Georgie sits down with Sara Furber, CFO and Executive Committee member at Tradeweb - a company valued at close to $27 billion at the time of recording - for a conversation rich with wisdom, clarity, and the kind of career-defining insights we rarely talk about. We often look at successful leaders and assume their path has been linear. We see the visible tip of the iceberg and miss the invisible layers underneath - the pivots, the doubts, the ...
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