Welcome to the NXTGEN SHOW, my name is Benjamin Brain – performance and leadership coach to next generation leaders in family businesses - and it’s my mission to share with you the stories, experiences and lessons learned of other accomplished next generation leaders from across the UK. On today’s show, I was joined by Gavin Howarth of Howarths. Howarths, a successful HR and Employment law firm in West Yorkshire, was launched by Gavin’s parents back in 2003, after his father retired from a su...
Welcome to the NXTGEN show, my name is Benjamin Brain, Performance & Leadership coach, and it’s my mission to share with you the stories and experiences of accomplished, "next generation" leaders in family run businesses from across the UK. In this episode, and in a first for the show, I was joined by father and son duo, Adam and Kevin Pritchard of Linford Grey Associates in Coalville, Leicestershire. Adam, the Founder and Managing Director of Linford Grey Associates, began his career in ...
Welcome to The NXTGEN Show. My name is Benjamin Brain and it’s my mission to share with you the stories, experiences and insights of accomplished "next generation" leaders in family businesses from across the UK. On today’s episode I was joined by Ben Wilson, Managing Director of MPM - an award-winning, Leeds based manufacturer and supplier of composite and fiberglass tooling and products. The business was launched by Ben’s dad back in 1978. He retired in 2010 when, alongside his two brothers...
Welcome to The NXTGEN Show, where it's usually my mission to share the stories and experiences of next generation leaders in family run businesses from around the world. This week’s episode of The NXTGEN Show is a slightly different format to the usual. For regular listeners, you’ll know that this show is all about great conversations with the next generation leaders of family businesses – and that’s going to continue. I’ve got some AMAZING guests lined up ready to share their own story, insi...
Welcome to the NXTGEN show where it’s my mission to share the stories of next-generation, business owners, CEOs and leaders from family run businesses of all shapes and sizes around the world. In this episode of the NXTGEN show I get to pick the brains of Chris Black. Chris is the managing Director of Sound Leisure who hand-make the most incredible 60’s and 70’s style jukeboxes that you’ve ever seen and they’re on of only two businesses on the planet that make them. Chris’ father, Alan, firs...
Welcome to the NXTGEN show where it’s my mission to share the stories of next-generation, business owners, CEOs and leaders from family run businesses of all shapes and sizes around the world. In today’s episode, I was joined by Chloe Wright. Chloe started out by almost reluctantly helping out in a number of the family businesses after she finished up at university whilst she figured out her own direction. She ended up sticking around and since then has gone on to launch a number of her own b...
Welcome to The NXTGEN Show, this is Benjamin Brain and it's my mission to share the stories of next generation, family business owners, leaders and entrepreneurs from businesses of all shapes and sizes around the world. On today’s show, I had the pleasure of being joined by Helen Wathall MBE. So, a quick introduction to Helen. She’s the fifth generation of her family to run Wathall’s which was established in 1858 by her great great grandfather, over 164 years ago, and today are Derby’s ...
Welcome to the NXTGEN Show where it’s my mission to share the stories of 2nd and 3rd generation family-business owners, leaders and entrepreneurs from businesses of all shapes and sizes. Today’s guest on the show is Jonathan Morgan. At 33 years old, Jonathan is a Partner and Director of Sales, Lettings & Financial Services at Peter Morgan Estates - A successful property business in South Wales that’s now been operating for over forty years. Jonathan walked into the family busines...
In this roundtable discussion episode of Adversity To Prosperity, Neale Lewis and I were joined by systems and processes experts from manufacturing and construction to talk about how they use effective systems and processes to build highly efficient, productive and lean businesses... For this mini-series I've teamed up with business coach extraordinaire and scaleup expert, Neale Lewis and we'll be tackling the many challenges for business owners and entrepreneurs brought about by the Coronav...
Welcome to episode 43 and in this week’s brilliant business interview you’ll discover the following three business insights; 1) Which famous Rocky quote is just of true of business as it is of boxing. 2) Why a trade like bricklaying can literally take you anywhere in the world if you want it. 3) And why it’s not always about what a successful business can do for you, but what it enables you to do for others. In today’s episode, I talk business with Ian Hodgkinson. After being inspired ...
In this episode of Advertsity To Prosperity, Neale and I continue our conversation around how businesses and entrepreneurs can make the most of the lockdown. This week we talk all things systems and processes as Neale and I talk about the benefits of having your business running off the back of a series of slick, efficient and well crafted systems and processes to bring about extraordinary results and super consistency.... For this mini-series I've teamed up with business coach extraordinair...
Welcome to episode 41 and in this week’s brilliant business interview you’ll discover the following three leadership and success insights; 1) A veteran tip that will lead to more productive and engaged 1-2-1’s with your team 2) Why businesses should talk regularly to their teams about their professional, personal and financial goals. 3) Why hiring from within the business isn’t always the right thing to do when you’re in growth mode. So, stay tuned for all of that and so much more on th...
For this special episode of Adversity To Prosperity, and a real highlight of my podcasting journey so far, once again I team up with scale-up expert and high growth business coach Neale Lewis to provide great content and thought provoking ideas to help entrepreneurs, leaders and business owners to successfully make it through the lockdown. This week, I was truly humbled to also be joined by seven briliant entrepreneurs who have all featured as guests on "The Truth About Business" and they onc...
In this week’s episode of The Truth About Business, I was joined by Neale Lewis and a panel of outstanding charity experts from seven brilliant organisations to discuss the challenges and opportunities that are faced by non-profit enterprises across the UK and beyond... This is the first time I've published a "charity" episode having focused so far on traditional "for-profit" businesses. But as you'll discover from this brilliant interview with a panel of passionate representatives, they are ...
In this episode of Advertsity To Prosperity, Neale and I continue our conversation around how businesses and entrepreneurs can make the most of the lockdown. This week we talk about what businesses and entrepreneurs can be doing right now to give themselves the best possible chance of coming out of this situation stronger than ever by really taking a deep dive in to the marketing materials and sales processes you have (or don't!) For this mini-series I've teamed up with business coach...
Welcome to episode #37 and in this week’s brilliant business interview you’ll discover the following three golden entrepreneurial insights; 1) Why daring to dream and believing that nothing is impossible unlocks a whole new level of possibility and opportunity. 2) The importance of making calculated, data backed decisions and not just going with your gut. 3) The downsides of working with the wrong venture capital partners and the devastating effect it can have on your business... In to...
In this episode of Advertsity To Prosperity, Neale and I continue our conversation around how businesses and entrepreneurs can make the most of the lockdown. This week we cover Neale's SWT exercise, we share some brilliant examples of companies that have pivoted and how we all have a great opportunity to "Spring Clean" our businesses - from marketing strategy to sales scripts. For this mini-series I've teamed up with business coach extraordinaire and scaleup expert, Neale Lewis and we'...
Welcome to episode #35 and in this week’s brilliant business interview you’ll discover the following three golden entrepreneurial insights; 1) How to break into a fiercely competitive global market as a newcomer even with all the odds seemingly stacked against you. 2) Why taking a risk and hiring people for the business you want to become can be a total game changer and spark exponential growth. 3) The dangers of spreading yourself too thin and why you should always play to your strengt...
For this mini-series I've teamed up with business coach extraordinaire and scaleup expert, Neale Lewis and we'll be tackling the many challenges for business owners and entrepreneurs brought about by the Coronavirus. Neale has vast business experience, working alongside some of the top business minds in the world such as Verne Harnish, working with a variety of high performance business leaders, executives and entrepreneurs and going in deep behind the scenes of multi-million pound businesses...
Welcome to episode #34 and in this week’s brilliant business interview you’ll discover the following three entrepreneurial insights; 1) Why having strong competition for a new product or service can be a benefit. 2) How using the power of FOMO (fear of missing out) can help to drive sales. 3) The importance of working on the right thing at the right time in your business and how to find it. So, stay tuned for all of that and so much more on this week’s episode of the truth about business! &nb...