All Episodes
Business Leader — 209 episodes
Using AI to fight cyber risk
The art of the possible: Scaling to £240M
Can BT beat the odds?
How the UK was Omazed
'Value people - especially those closest to the customer'
From £500 To Millions: The Mindset That Changed Everything
"I can't quit" - Olivia Jenkins built a jewellery brand in honour of her mum
"I don't like being switched off" - Stuart Machin, CEO of M&S, on work-life balance
'From €200m to €24bn - How I built a global glass empire'
Rentokil CEO: ‘This industry is unglamorous but gets in your blood’
Dash Drinks: The challenger brand scaling patiently
The Beauty Tech Group: From start-up to IPO
Ben Askins of Gaia: Scaling and exiting with a healthy company culture
Sam Stoffel and Outplayed: Betting against yourself to make millions
Tenzing: How to scale a challenger energy drink
Caspar Lee: ‘How I turned attention into business leverage’
Rory Sutherland: The advertising guru's tips to scale your business
Rohan Blacker: Learning the lessons from Sofa.com
Skin + Me: James Mishreki on scaling a UK skincare phenomenon
The FlightStory ‘sisters’ helping Steven Bartlett scale Diary of a CEO
The banking CEO helping 'extraordinary' people afford homes
The AA
Sanjay Poonen: Getting fired was the best thing to happen in my career
From elite sport to elite business: Bob Skinstad’s journey
The revival of Debenhams
Alibaba.com's president explains how AI tools let SMEs access global supply chains
Katharine Viner: The editor taking the Guardian into the TikTok age
Viral video to viral brand
Mountain Warehouse and Mark Neale
Thea Green: The beauty entrepreneur behind Nails.INC
The business funding SMEs
The truth about personal branding and what leaders get wrong
Airwallex: The founder explains the incredible story behind his fintech unicorn
The mindset behind a World Cup winner
James Reed on building a family business and why capitalism needs to change
Bloom & Wild: The business that blossomed with feedback
Zygi Kamasa: How to build a movie business
From pop star to founder: Rochelle Humes on reinvention and resilience
The transformation of Autotrader
Beyond the Game: Francesca Brown on leadership, sport & social impact
British Land: Making big strategic calls
John Amaechi: It’s not magic, it’s leadership
Saul Klein: The top investor in promising businesses
Plusnet boss Joanna Carman on modern leadership
PocDoc: A son's quest to tackle heart disease with tech
Hilton Hotels
How Thierry Garnier turned around Kingfisher, owner of B&Q and Screwfix
The 100-day blueprint for business turnarounds
OakNorth and Rishi Khosla
The secret to building a truly innovative culture
Coffee Nation, Costa Express and the UK's coffee revolution
What AI can really do for your business today
The British CEO behind WD-40
The real power of emotional intelligence in business
Vue cinemas and Tim Richards
CLASSIC EPISODE: Wizz Air
The Turnaround episode 5 - Success, succession and starting again
CLASSIC EPISODE: Castore
The Turnaround episode 4 - How culture can beat complacency
CLASSIC EPISODE: Gordon Sanghera and Oxford Nanopore
The Turnaround episode 3 - The final they had to lose
CLASSIC EPISODE: Monzo
How to Make a Billion episode 4: Simon Sinek
The Turnaround episode 2 - The night everything changed
Nike
The Turnaround episode 1 - First bold steps
The CEO burn-out clinic
How to Make a Billion episode 2: Steve Hewitt on Gymshark
The investor who wants to scale-up your business
How to Make a Billion in 9 Steps with Richard Harpin: Episode 1 with Touker Suleyman
Sir John Hegarty: Why brands still matter in the social media age
How GoFundMe raises money and makes money
How Kenny Wilson grew Dr Martens
Bookshelf: The best business books
Growth 500: The surprising stories behind Britain's fastest-growing businesses
Victoria Price meets Imran Hakim
Gtech: The window-fitter who became an inventor
Great British Billion-Pound Businesses
Yotel: How to scale-up with small hotel rooms
The wasteful entrepreneur: How Bruce Bratley built First Mile
How a student accommodation start-up became a £4bn FTSE 100 company
Three tech unicorn CEOs on how they scaled-up
The venture capital firm helping UK businesses take on the US (and what it looks for in founders)
How do you build a nuclear power plant? (and not be Mr Burns)
The story of Thomson Reuters
Neil Mullarkey: How comedy skills can help you in business
The FTSE 100 director who quit and built a new FTSE 100 company
Jake Humphrey on why high achievers aren't that different
How John Roberts built AO.com, with Graham Ruddick
Victoria Price meets Henrietta Rix of Rixo
Ordnance Survey with Dougal Shaw: Inside Britain’s digital brain
Victoria Price meets Clare Roberts of Kids Planet
How Professor Sir Peter Donnelly went from brilliant statistician to entrepreneur
How Kiki McDonough built a jewellery brand fit for the Royals
NEW SERIES: Victoria Price meets Tom Ryder of Applied Nutrition
Tariff special with Times political editor Steven Swinford
The strategic genius of Taylor Swift
Pip & Nut: Passion project to supermarket hit
How Udemy and AI will revolutionise how we learn
Bonus content: Greggs on the high street
The glory of Greggs with Roisin Currie
How to build a personal brand that drives business success with Amelia Sordell
How the Geek Way helped Allica Bank become Britain's fastest-growing company
Bonus episode: How to fix UK Plc?
Grind: How to build a coffee empire
LinkedIn's UK strategy
The story behind Gousto recipe boxes: "Al Gore mentored me, Tony Blair hasn’t replied yet"
Quantum and AI: What the future holds for British business
How Justin King rescued Sainsbury's
How Disney is creative
Beauty Pie founder: From facials with Madonna to consumer hits at Boots
Bonus episode: The working from home v office debate
Melanie Smith on running the UK's biggest events, Ocado/M&S and the benefits of walking hundreds of miles
Jordan Schwarzenberger: The opportunity on LinkedIn is staggering
Zenobe: The British unicorn leading the energy revolution
How Stuart Machin turned around Marks & Spencer (part two)
How Stuart Machin turned around Marks & Spencer (part one)
John Cleese on creativity: Lessons from a Monty Python mind for business leaders
Paul McKenna masterclass: The science behind strategic thinking
Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on the AI revolution
2025 predictions with the Business Leader team
Will Shu on building Deliveroo, founder mode v manager mode and what he wishes he had done differently
What to expect in 2025? A roundtable with top investors
SPECIAL EPISODE: Best of 2024 with Graham Ruddick, Sarah Vizard and Dougal Shaw
Ikea part two
Ikea part one
MorphCostumes: From side-hustle to multi-million Scottish success story
How to run a sport
How to sustain success and relevance by the owner of Andrex and Kleenex
Masterclass: Why you need to be purpose-led to get the best out of yourself
The company that launched the air fryer
Monday.com: How to build a global software giant with Dougal Shaw
The rise of Huel: How to recruit Hueligans, market your product and succeed in the US
CEO roundtable: Why housing associations can solve the housing crisis and how to lead a not-for-profit organisation
Dr Mark Slack and CMR Surgical: The world-leading robot
How to build a unique whisky brand with Dougal Shaw
Alex Depledge: How to build a business for the second time
James Daunt masterclass: How to run successful shops
How Monzo became a £4bn business
Marketing masterclass: How Serie A is taking on the Premier League
How Sir Rocco Forte built another billion-pound company after losing the family business
Dougal Shaw on how Hims & Hers is trying to revolutionise healthcare
Bruntwood: How the Oglesby family built one of the biggest and most important businesses in northern England
The business that changed nights out
How Joanna Knight went from failed start-up to CEO of Moneypenny, one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK
Hawksmoor: How to build an award-winning restaurant chain from scratch
Airbus
Sage and Steve Hare: The story behind a UK tech success
How the UK became a world-leading hub for motorsport and advanced manufacturing
Eventbrite with Dougal Shaw: A new way to buy tickets
Mark Beaumont: The record-breaking cyclist who became a venture capital investor
Motorway with Dougal Shaw: The story behind a British unicorn
Lord Mark Price: Waitrose, working in government and happiness at work
Travel Counsellors: The best reviewed company in Britain?
IWG and Mark Dixon: Highs, lows and the future of work
Virgin: How do you manage one of the most famous brands in the world?
From property to the Premier League
Tide: How to grow a business after replacing the founder
Wizz Air
The 250-year-old business
From the SAS to building a business
The former journalist at centre of $40 billion tech giant
Robinhood and launching in the UK
Learning from failure
The woman who raised $1 billion
Simon Arora and B&M, part two
Simon Arora and B&M, part one
Marc Allera and EE
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and easyJet
CEO to VC
How Castore took on Nike and Adidas
How to steer a business through a crisis
Peloton and how to build a community
Seedrs, crowdfunding and how to succeed a founder as CEO
Self-driving cars and Wayve
SSE, Alistair Phillips-Davies and being one of the longest-serving FTSE 100 chief executives
The Metro newspaper and DMGT
The Crown Estate and Dan Labbad
Why a business fails (and what we can learn from it)
The rise and future of Uber
Why private equity is a friend and not a foe
How to turn a promising start-up into a tech giant
How to wake up a sleeping giant
How to build a £4 billion company
Arm
Brett Wigdortz, Teach First and childcare
Gordon Sanghera and Oxford Nanopore
What business can learn from sport
Will Shu and Deliveroo
Skydiving through the glass ceiling
Lessons from the Dot-com crash
DS Smith: Thinking outside the box
OakNorth: Trying to buy Silicon Valley Bank UK
Waitrose and employee ownership
The FTSE 100 chief executive who wrote a book
A Northern Powerhouse at last?
Erik Fairbairn: The electric car revolution
James Daunt: The boss who saved the bookshop
Oxford, innovation and the future of the UK economy?
Roger Madelin: King's Cross, Canada Water and how to transform an area
The founder who has promised never to sell
Tom Hayes, Libor and prison...
Ed Smith, England cricket and making decisions
Inside 10 Downing Street
Doing a Ratner
Ocado and Tim Steiner
PureGym: Back from the brink
Philip Morris, Vectura and the end of cigarettes?
Archie Norman