Season 31
The Global Interview Season 31 featuring creatives, leaders, and thinkers.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”
- Seneca's ‘On The Shortness of Life’
Richard Moore
Richard Moore
Founder, LinkedIn Client Accelerator
Richard Moore originally worked a 60 hour week in the city of London before deciding to build his own businesses and help others do the same. After building companies from the trenches up, by taking ownership of sales teams, coaching leadership roles and consulting with multi-hundred million-pound organisations, Richard created his own company to help others get massive traction as they launched their businesses. As he did this, Richard invested in many of the companies he helped to create and shared his views on business with the world through the weekly live Q&As he runs online, to university lectures and speaking gigs in front of business owners in his space.
“People won't always remember what you said, and they won't always remember what you do, but they will always remember how you made them feel.”
Jac Phillips
Jac Phillips
Chief Creative Officer, JacPhillips.com
Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Jac Phillips Executive and Leadership Coaching, I recently stepped away from a 25-year corporate career across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. As well as coaching 'Rockstars' in business, marketing is my jam! As a long-term leader, I elevate the customer experience and personally amplify the company brands I represent. With many years of marketing and communications expertise in both traditional and online environments, I am a highly effective senior marketing communications and channel advisor to a broad range of stakeholders locally, regionally and globally.
“Day by day, work on yourself that leads to the reward of excellence; that is where the learning is; it's what you do every day that is important.”
Lisa Regan
Lisa Regan
Managing Director, Lisa Regan Public Relations
Lisa Regan is the managing director of niche communications firm called Lisa Regan Public Relations LTD. This company was established in 2011and has a strong focus on traditional public relation strategies, but combines this with innovative social media voice and vision. In 2020 she was awarded the Most Influential Woman in Public Relations: for her contribution to society 2020 by Europe Business News.
A personal note as a father: “Much more than worrying about the world I will hand over to my children, I worry about the children I will hand over to the world.”
Ricardo Santos
Ricardo Santos
Programme Manager, Irish Rail
Ricardo Santos is a husband, a father of three, and an expert on delivering large-scale multidisciplinary infrastructure projects, with over 25 years of experience in Ireland, Canada, Indonesia, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Algeria. Currently working for Irish Rail as a programme manager on the DART+ programme, Ricardo's family moved to Ireland 15 years ago, when he was first engaged by a series of recognised projects such as the LUAS extensions and OpenHydro's tidal turbines.
“One for
the meal,
one for
the reel.”
Elliot Ruddy
Elliot Ruddy
Motion Designer and Independent Creative Director, Motion Design ltd.
Hey, I'm Elliot 👋, a Motion Designer, Director and Animator from Sligo based in Dublin. I am currently working full-time as an independent Motion Designer and Creative Director.
“I love being part of a larger team and working together to create something that's a combined result of the passion of many.”
Joe Loftus
Joe Loftus
Animation Director
Joe Loftus is a filmmaker, writer and director with over nine years of experience in the Animation Industry. He has worked as an animator and director on shows for Disney, BBC, Hasbro and RTE. Although he is serious about creating personal stories and original, high-quality animation, he always works on a personal short film project. One of his recent short films, ' Girl and Robot', has played at many festivals and won worldwide awards. He is now working on his latest horror short, 'Still Up There'.
“Success is not something that comes overnight - it takes months, if not years, of discipline, self-motivation, dedication and passion for doing what you want to do.”
Josh Morrison
Josh Morrison
Project Manager, Paramex and Bentley Motors
An avid explorer, futurist and researcher, I enjoy disrupting and innovating systems and seeing things from multiple perspectives in order to solve problems and solutions that are long-lasting and thought-provoking. Currently researching the future of smart regenerative and sustainable organic farming. After obtaining a Bachelor of Honours in Digital Media from the University of Salford, I have completed a wide range of digital media projects. I was previously part of the Virtual Media Team at Bentley motors, where I produced the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality user experience for Bentley Showrooms.
“I've learned that success comes about through planning and also through taking sensible, calculated risks.”
Nana Fifield
Nana Fifield
VP Engineering, Author
Nana Ampomah Fifield is a technology leader, Vice president of Engineering at Depop, and the author of the book, Beyond Digital Transformation. As a seasoned transformational leader, she has led engineering and product teams at scale and through change within global enterprises, mid-sized and fast-growing businesses. Nana's career has taken her into numerous industries, including Telecommunications, Aviation, Education, Banking, SAAS businesses and more recently, fashion tech.