Discussions with creatives, leaders and thinkers

Season 25

The Global Interview

 
 

Season 25

The Global Interview season 25 featuring creatives, leaders, and thinkers.

 
 
 


“No one will ever complain that you’ve made things too simple to understand.”

- Anne Handley

Gillian Whitney

Gillian Whitney

Video Marketing Coach, Launch4Life

Gillian Whitney is a Video Marketing Coach specializing in LinkedIn video. She believes every business professional needs to be using video to market themselves. Video boosts your online visibility, increases sales, and promotes your business like no other marketing tool. As a video marketing coach, Gillian helps business professionals make videos in a way that is comfortable for them. She loves sharing easy peasy solutions to help folks get started with video.


 

“Pursue your passion,

and

things will

work out.”

Craig Patterson

Craig Patterson

President, CEO, Editor-in-Chief, Retail Insider Media Ltd.

I'm the President and CEO of Retail Insider Media Ltd. and editor-in-chief of Canada's retail publication Retail Insider.


 

“If you can't

explain it simply, you don't understand it

well enough.”

- Albert Einstein.

Jude Robinson

Jude Robinson

Product Lead, DWP Digital

Strategic, creative, and get 'stuff' done. Passionate about customer-centric products and excellent service. Proud wife and mum. Work to live, love to explore, and travel, but nothing beats walking my dog and riding my horse in the Durham - Northumberland countryside.


 

“Whether you

think you can

or you think you can't, you're right!.”

- Henry Ford

Ariel Lee

Ariel Lee

LinkedIn Coach

After a long, successful, but draining career in the car business, I made a career shift in early 2020. Great timing to go into a business commonly built on face to face prospecting ability, as Covid completely shattered all of those options. I decided to dive headfirst into LinkedIn, sporting a whopping four hundred connections from my previous industry. I did things the icky way. First, cold connection requests, immediate sales spam upon connecting, couldn't figure out why no one wanted to talk to me?!


 

“Who looks

outside, dreams; who looks

inside, awakes.”

- Carl Jung.

Chantal Powell

Chantal Powell

Artist, Curator and Founder, Hogchester Arts

Chantal Powell is a sculptural artist working in the fields of alchemy, symbolic artefacts, and depth psychology. A PhD in social psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory inform her practice. Chantal practice makes processes, materials and images that reflect her research into the alchemical process as a metaphor for the transformation of Self. A "Night Sea Journey" boat is sculpted out of bitumen, plaster and straw. Labyrinthine clay chambers are pit fired out in the elements.


 

“To succeed in business today,

you can't be in

the community.

You must be of

the community.”

Mark Schaefer

Mark Schaefer

Executive Director, Schaefer Marketing Solutions

Mark Schaefer is a globally-acclaimed strategy consultant, keynote speaker, college educator and the author of nine books, including "Marketing Rebellion" and "Cumulative Advantage". Mark teaches at Rutgers University and has been featured in the Wall Street, Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, BBC, and many other media sites. Mark has worked with Adidas, Dell, Microsoft, Pfizer, and dozens of international brands.


 

“Small habits

don't add up,

they compound. Small changes, remarkable results.”

- James Clear.

Kady O Connell

Kady O Connell

Founder and Director, Kady Creative

Kady Creative was founded with a fiery passion for showcasing entrepreneurs in their best light. Sick of seeing promising businesses stunted by lacklustre branding, we set about changing that. Our vision is to turn businesses into iconic brands. Through our tried and tested Iconic brand methodology, we've built over one hundred brands from the ground up.


 

“Choose yourself. You don't need to wait for anyone else to tell you you can do it.”

Sophie Cross

Sophie Cross

Editor, Publisher, Marketer, Freelancer Magazine

Sophie Cross is a freelance marketer and writer at Thoughtfully who came up with the idea of a quarterly business and lifestyle print mag for freelancers at the beginning of 2021. Sophie launched Freelancer Magazine via a Kickstarter campaign in February, which hit 150% of its goal and sold 1000 copies of the magazine before the magazine even existed. It now has a rapidly growing community of B2B and creative freelancers and readers in nineteen countries.