The Impact Multiplier CEO
As a CEO, you’ve demonstrated your ability to solve complex problems and achieve extraordinary results. You've skills, resources and experience. But you have the potential for even greater impact and a more satisfying legacy. What will it take to multiply your positive impact - in the business, for your people, and in the world at large? Join Richard Medcalf, Founder of Xquadrant, and high-impact CEOs from some of the world’s most exciting firms - for a perspective-shifting conversation at the intersection of strategy, leadership and purpose. Welcome to the Impact Multiplier CEO podcast.
Episodes
What if the solution to global poverty wasn’t more aid, but more entrepreneurs?
In this episode, Richard Medcalf speaks with Etienne Salborn, founder of the Social Innovation Academy (SINA), a transformative movement turning refugees, orphans, and disadvantaged youth into social entrepreneurs. From a single project in Uganda to 19 communities across Africa, Etienne’s work is redefining education, leadership, and impact—by...
What if your biggest leadership challenge wasn’t strategy, but self-doubt?
In this episode, Richard Medcalf speaks with Mike Ettling, who recently stepped down as CEO of Unit4 after a transformative six-year tenure. Mike led the company through a complete business model overhaul—from a fragmented, on-premise software provider to a unified, cloud-first organisation. Along the way, he navigated culture shifts, private equit...
What if your boldest vision is years ahead of its time—so far ahead that the world laughs you out of the room?
In this deeply personal and provocative conversation, Richard Medcalf speaks with Benjamin Rubin, serial entrepreneur and founder of both Sirenum and Insectika. Benjamin has a rare gift: creating businesses that challenge entrenched paradigms—from transforming the invisible workforce to reinventing how we feed the worl...
Why would an entrepreneur decide that hiring C-grade students is the way forward?
Today Richard speaks with Aditya Siripragada, founder of Fountane. Fountane is digital product studio and venture lab changing the traditional consulting model, with 125 people across US and India. The company doubled revenue annually for 6 years and won the Inc. Top 5000 award in 2024.
In this conversation, you’ll learn:
- The mindset advantage that ...
Do you need to have a super power to be an effective CEO? What happens if you don't? How can you build a pan-continental business with zero experience? And how can you empower your managers to lead effectively?
In this episode Richard speaks with Rebecca Harrison, who has spent the last decade building the African Management Institute (AMI), Africa’s leading provider of business and management learning, supporting 37,000 businesses ...
How can you build a business that is genuinely global on day one? How do you set up marketing, sales, delivery, recruitment and operations when your local market is not going to be your largest market, and where you want customers to come from anywhere?
Today Richard speaks with Fred Plais, co-founder and CEO of Platform.sh, a leading, VC funded Platform-as-a-service for building, running, scaling web applications.
In this conve...
How can you keep lean and efficient despite hyper growth?
Welcome to The Impact Multiplier CEO, helping you to 10X your financials, 10X your positive impact and 10X the fun you have along the way! Today Richard Medcalf is speaking with Toms Jurjevs, Founder and CEO of Sun Finance, a 1200-person strong business that was recently recognised as the No.1 fastest-growing fintech in Europe by The Financial Times.
Toms shares the story of S...
How can you avoid the common mistakes CEOs make as they scale from £0M to £15M?
Today we find out. Richard speaks to Peter Busby, founder of professional services company Grayce that he scaled scaled to £15M in 7 years with 240 people. Peter shares his insights on building a successful business. We’ll explore everything from the lean startup approach and scaling challenges to maintaining growth and the critical need for self-awarene...
How do you grow a business that is so innovative it changes how your entire ecosystem needs to work?
Today Richard speaks with Karl Andersson, Founder of Matsmart-Motatos, one of Europe's fastest-growing companies according to the Financial Times with a consistent annual growth of some 70%.
Matsmart-Motatos is aiding the sustainable reform of the food system by allowing customers to buy products that would otherwise be discarded ...
What are the skills you'll need to develop in your business, in an AI world?
This is the question Richard explores with today's guest. Tim Smeaton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kubrick Group, a company that helps organizations realise the value of data, AI, and cloud technology.
In this conversation, you’ll learn:
Why Tim recommends you "ignore amazing opportunities."
How Tim identified a structural problem to solve with h...
- The story of how they acquired 17 businesses in 4 years
- The 'business model epiphany' that led to a dr...
How Logan (and Richard) relate business and faith
How to 'wow' people and build a powerful network of 6000 people (it's simple, but not always easy)
The three big decisions everybody needs to address
How Logan has built a culture of excellence that resulted in a Net Promoter Score "so high its almost unbelievable" (according to the consultancy who measured it!)
How to inve...
- How Björn identified the potential of the pharmaceut...
In this conversation, you’ll lear...
In this conversation, you’ll learn:
Why even successful CEOs might not be playing ...
Elisa Farri is vice president and co-lead of Capgemini Invent’s Management Lab. She is listed in the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2023. She is a frequent contributor to leading management magazines, including the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Rotman Management. She has recently published the "Management GPT" white paper in collabor...
In this conversation, you’ll learn:
The do's and don'ts of selling and closing businesses, are based on Andy's experience with RBS in the MEA region.
How Andy got independent and headstrong CEOs to coalesce and deliver on a vision none of them originally wanted.
How Andy navig...
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