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November 12, 2024 66 mins

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Remember, time is finite while the list of things you could do in that time is infinite. It's up to you to choose.

Make decisions based on how you feel, what you enjoy, and what makes you happy.

Say yes to new challenges and embrace opportunities, even if they feel outside your comfort zone.

“The only difference between someone that's written a book and hasn't written a book is that the person that's written a book has written a book” - John Sills

 

John’s life-changing reads:

  • The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey

  • 4,000 Weeks: Time Management for mortals by Oliver Burkeman

  • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

 

 

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

The Human Experience: How to make life better for your customers and create a more successful organization by John Sills

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Experience-customers-successful-organization/dp/1399401734

 

 

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

John Sills is Managing Partner at the customer-led growth consultancy, The Foundation, and author of Leadership Book of the Year 2023, The Human Experience.

25 years ago, he started his career on a market stall in Essex, and since then has worked in and with companies around the world to make things better for customers. He’s been in front-line teams delivering the experience, innovation teams designing the propositions, and global HQ teams creating the strategy.

He now works with companies across industries and around the world, and before joining The Foundation spent twelve years at HSBC, latterly as Head of Customer Innovation. His first book on the topic - The Human Experience - was published by Bloomsbury in February 2023, and his writing has been featured in The Guardian, The FT, and Management Today.

 

 

CONNECT WITH JOHN SILLS:

Email: johnjsills@gmail.com

Website: https://www.the-foundation.com/

Website: https://johnjsills.com/

LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/johnjsills

Instagram: instagram.com/cx_stories

 

 

ABOUT KYM HAMER:

Kym Hamer is an international leadership, visibility and impact coach, a personal branding expert and serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained business value.

In other words, accelerating results by unlocking your greatest asset - YOU!

In 2020, just one year after launching her first business, she was nominated by Thinkers360 as one of the Top 100 Women B2B Leadership influencers and is currently in the Top 25

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