CEO Corner by Sarah McGrath
Each month, we deconstruct world-class industry leaders, asking them about their leadership style, the psychological drivers behind their success and how they became who they are today. This platform is for those who want to gain tips and insights from the best of the best and for those who enjoy hearing other success stories. Sarah McGrath is a Partner and Co-Owner at 360 Search Recruitment Service in Ireland and the UK and a Co-Owner of Vy Nutrition. Sarah helps ensure senior professionals get access to their employer of choice and obtain their desired objectives while building their careers. She works with some of the most prolific entrepreneurs within Financial Services. Sarah holds a Degree in Business, a Four-Year Diploma in Nutrition and a Degree in Psychology. She is passionate about organisational psychology and corporate well-being, advising and speaking at many industry associations.
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Episodes
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
In this episode, Sarah speaks with Dr Dylan Colbert is an intelligence researcher and performance and behavioural psychologist.
“To improve team performance, you must clearly show what performance looks like.”
An educational interview is not to be missed! We discuss the power of harnessing emotion when in the workplace. Dylan gives his insights on the recipe for success and how to avoid the pitfall of accepting mediocrity within your teams or for yourself.
We unpack the thought that when the “mind retires, the body follows” and how you can spend your whole life leveraging your intelligence even after retirement.
Dylan breaks down the science behind what constitutes an excellent leader and explains why those with charisma have an advantage.
Dylan’s research, which demonstrates that intellectual performance can be improved via intervention, has challenged the century-old notion that intelligence cannot be trained. Given his academic success, Dylan began applying his precise, meticulous, pragmatic approach to peak performance. Dylan's extensive research has allowed him to identify the psychological, emotional, and behavioural skills essential for elite achievement for any performer and activity.
01:07 What interested Dylan in the area of Psychology, personality, high performers, intelligence and how he ended up in the area of performance psychology
04:11 Dylan discusses a recipe to success and what it is. Understating objective and subjective success
06:11 Dylan explains how the different forms of motivation, mindset, action, emotion and their role in success
07:52 How discipline and commitment play a role in achieving success
09:40 Can we apply sports psychology principles to leaders in business – the miss conception of always being motivated
11:12 The ingredients of being great at what you do
12:52 Creating an environment to cater to those with little or much ambition
14:36 Optimise individual efforts for the company target
16:50 The benefit of empowering employees
18:21 Working into your 50s and 60s and how we perform cognitively at this age versus the youth entering into the market
22:28 Staying cognitively active in your later years, understanding brain health
24:15 How are we programmed to make decisions fast decision makers and slower decision makers? How are our decisions framed
30:20 Emotion is a tool. Learn how to harness it. How do we apply emotional regulations strategy during stress
35:33 – Inspiring action in teams, how great leaders inspire action. Understanding charisma.
40:17 – Three fun questions to finish the interview
Dylan's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdylancolbert/
Sarah's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mcgrath/
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Thank you for being a loyal listener, and we hope you find our interview with Dylan useful. If you enjoy the episode, please consider sharing it with your network and leaving a review. Your support means the world to us.
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Danny McCoy, CEO of IBEC, named among Ireland’s 50 most influential people, has built a public and respected career with sheer determination. In this interview, we have the unique opportunity to listen to Danny’s advice on how to build a prolific career and his view on characteristics that form the best leaders in Ireland.
Danny shares insights and offers advice on how to lead a business through organisational and financial transformation, from his first-hand experience.
IBEC is Ireland’s largest Lobbying organisation, with a turnover of 45 million and 39 brands in 9 locations, including Europe.
Time Stamps:
01:15 Danny’s start in life, he discusses being from Galway and his upbringing
02: 37 Challenges for Danny joining the corporate ladder, what he experienced, and role models that influenced him
03:45 Danny turning down a role to be an adviser to a Taoiseach
05:02 Danny named Irish Times 50 influential people, what challenges he faces daily
07:45 How Danny led IBEC through organisational and financial transformation
10:08 Danny discusses thought leadership and how he handles the pressures from the government, the businesses he represents, and the economy.
13:05 Danny discusses leadership skills that really work from working with Irelands top CEOs
14:15 How does a person train resilience to be a strong leader and the problem with working from home, we can not learn from each other
16:09 The change in working society an how AI will play a role for the better, and human-to-human interaction will never be redundant
17:50 How Danny handles situations where he can not always be so analytical and prepared
19:34 Danny dealt with controversy from his role in FAS and during Covid, how the negative spotlight affected his career.
21:25 Danny sharing his outlook for Ireland over the next couple of years form a positive perspective
Danny's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-mccoy-0508239/
Sarah's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mcgrath/
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
In this episode, we interview Enda McNulty, global Performance Coach, ex Footballer, and Author of Commit2Lead. We bring you a leadership masterclass covering the topics in Enda’s book, such as Self-awareness, Resilience, Well-being, Optimism, Ego, and Empathy, and how each trait plays a role in the day-to-day leadership of your company, teams, and most importantly, yourself. We get an insight into the formula for the greatest CEO type.
Enda shares his experience of living with regret during his football years, career, and personal life and how facing this spurred him to strive for more. Enda shares tools and tactics from his years of coaching CEOs to be the best high-performing version of themselves.
We hope you take as much away from Enda’s interview as we did.
Thank you for being a loyal listener, and we hope you find our interview with Enda useful. If you enjoy the episode, please consider sharing it with your network and leaving a review. Your support means the world to us.
Enda’s Book List:
Commit – Make your mind and body stronger
Commit 2 Lead – Unlock your true leadership potential https://mcnultyperformance.com/resources/books/
Time stamps
0:46:55 Enda’s start in life, early years growing up in the troubles and influences in his life.
0:41:21 What it means to call yourself an Entrepreneur. Attributes and characteristics
09:15 Enda discusses humbling experiences in his childhood and, most recently 10:30 Dealing with regret in Enda’s business career, sporting career and personal life
13:55 Enda’s Book Commit to Lead masterclass on Leading Self. Self-awareness, Resilience, Well-being, Optimism, Ego, and Empathy
14:45 Enda discusses Self-awareness and how it plays a role in achieving more
18:35 How can a CEO know their real strengths
21:45 Discussing optimism as a superpower and how grounded optimism is crucial
23:00 Changing the view of the career ladder
27:07 Understanding resilience and perception of why resilience is important as a leader
27:20 The intel resilience training project
30:01 Understanding well-being and what is the fundamental message in Enda’s book about well-being in your career
36:57 Understanding Ego and how understanding your ego will drive your leadership skills
40:24 What is empathy in leadership, and how to harness emotional intelligence in your career
44:05 Three fun questions to wrap up the interview
Enda's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/enda-mcnulty-18302524/
Sarah's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mcgrath/
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Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
“The barrier of success is you; it’s the lack of belief and lack of conviction” James Caan CBE, Dragon and Entrepreneur.
In episode two, we travelled to London to interview James Caan. In this episode, we discuss limiting beliefs, embracing failure, and how to overcome the complications of earning seven figures. James, a multi-millionaire several times over, advises us on how to break down barriers to success and tap into the capability within us.
James, a former Dragon and serial entrepreneur, sold his first business in 2013 for £260 million and has dominated the recruitment industry for over 30 years. His second recruitment venture, Humana International, grew to 140 offices across 30 countries. With 3 million followers, James was named LinkedIn’s second most influential voice of 2017. James shares with us some of the recipes for success he has learned over the years.
We hope you take as much away from James’ experience and clarity as we did.
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01:00 How have the last few years been for your businesses, and what successes have you seen?
01:57 Was there a time in your career that was a defining moment
03:00 What James has learned as an entrepreneur
04:00 James discusses AI in leadership
04:49 Influential people in James’ life – early years
05:44 What would James say to his younger self – taking on adversity, mistakes, what drives success
07:10 Behaviours around money – what does James do with his money
07:43 How to go from 5k a month to 100k to earning seven figures
08:21 Barriers to success
09:24 The goals in the early years and first business
11:20 Risk assessment involved in setting up a company
12:48 Fear and fear of failure
14:50 Three non-negotiables in business
16:10 How important is understanding a person in business to drive success
17:10 Compassionate leadership
18:10 What part of James’ identity is he proud of
19:15 What is holding CEOs back from reaching their potential
20:40 Practical advice to increase your earnings
22:13 Fun questions to wrap up the interview
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
“If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Joanie Hughes, CEO of FNZ.
In this episode, Joanie shares the story of her younger years coming from a large ambitious farming family and her journey to becoming CEO of FNZ. Joanie discusses the challenges of moving from colleague to CEO and what it takes to continuously strive for more.
In early 2022, Joanie received some life-changing news regarding her health. She had cancer. Joanie discusses the impact this new reality had on her mental health, family, and career. Joanie inspires us about the impact of a positive and strong mindset in the face of adversity, not even cancer was going to stop Joanie from reaching her goals.
It was only 6 months ago that Joanie received her cancer-free diagnosis. Having gone through such a life-changing experience, Joanie will share with us, some valuable and learned perspectives on life and career.
01:16 Joanie’s upbringing and family life in her younger years – what created her ambition
04:21 Changes that happened when Joanie from a colleague to the CEO of her company
07:10 How does Joanie keep developing and upskilling
09:40 Challenges in the CEO role
12:14 Life-changing health news – cancer diagnosis and how she handled it
15:58 Joanie’s range of emotions on the journey and her family
17:24 Joanie’s confidence growing during her chemo
18:39 How did Joanie change during this – how Janie discovered the power of mindset
20:22 Interviewing for the CEO role 3 weeks after chemo how her confidence grew during chemo
22:29 Perspectives gained going through her treatment
26:28 Joanie discusses success in the face of adversity and shares advice on how to strive for more
28:17 Joanie shares her advice to those going through their own struggles, physical and mental
30:30 Fun questions to wrap up the interview
Joanie's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanie-hughes-b999b622/
Sarah's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mcgrath/
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Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
🎙 CEO Corner Rewind: Season One Finale with Susan McQuaid O’Dwyer! 🌟
Join us for the grand finale of Season One as we dive into an inspiring conversation with Susan McQuaid O’Dwyer, the visionary CEO of Make-A-Wish Foundation. 🚀👩💼
In this episode, Susan candidly discusses her journey, conquering CEO role doubts and fears. Susan also explores leadership differences between private and charity sectors, demystifies charity salary stigma, and highlights the joy brought by granting wishes to terminally ill children and their families.
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Join us in celebrating this remarkable journey of leadership as we wrap up Season One, with Season Two launching soon! 🌠
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Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
🎙 CEO Corner Rewind: Episode 9 with Ruth Bailey! 🌟
Join us as we dive deep into an inspiring conversation with Ruth Bailey, the CEO of Vigo Health, as she candidly discusses the doubts and fears that come with taking on the CEO role and how she triumphantly overcame them. 🚀👩💼
Ruth, a remarkable and accomplished leader, shares her journey of resilience, having navigated through three maternity leaves while continuing to excel in her career. She passionately encourages career-driven women to embrace this aspect of life, proving that it's possible to achieve a harmonious balance between family, happiness, and a thriving career. 💪👶
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Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
🎙 CEO Corner Rewind: Episode 8 with Dónal Clancy! 🌟
Join us on a trip down memory lane as we revisit this engaging conversation featuring Dónal Clancy, CEO of LAYA Healthcare. In this episode, Dónal delves into the future of work, the evolution of online healthcare, crisis management, and the essential skills for effective leadership. 🚀💼
Discover how LAYA Healthcare is shaping the healthcare landscape and gain insights from Dónal's expertise in navigating the challenges of today's dynamic world. 💪 Don't miss this enlightening discussion on the changing face of leadership and healthcare.
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Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
🎙 Exciting Revisit: CEO Corner Episode 7 with Rena Maycock! 🌟
Join us as we revisit this insightful conversation with Rena Maycock, CEO of Cilter Technology, as she discusses her journey in setting up Intro Matchmaking, Ireland's leading dating site, and Cilter Technology. Discover how Rena is pioneering a solution to protect children from bullying, grooming, and cyberbullying through innovative mobile phone software. 🚀💼
In this episode, Rena shares her remarkable story and delves into the unique challenges and triumphs she's faced in both the dating and tech industries. 💪 Don't miss this empowering discussion that showcases the intersection of entrepreneurship and child safety.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
🎙 Exciting Revisit: CEO Corner Episode 6 with Jamie Heaslip! 🌟
Join us as we revisit this insightful conversation with Jamie Heaslip, CEO of Sabra Management, as he explores the intriguing parallels between leadership in sports and business. 🚀💼
In this episode, Jamie shares his remarkable journey and delves into the unique dynamics of leadership on and off the field. 💪 Don't miss this empowering discussion that bridges the worlds of sports and business.
Tune in for a dose of inspiration and wisdom! 🔥
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