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 Personal Branding and Top 12 Marketing Influencers in the world. For 4 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023, was recognised as one of their Top Voices for 2023 globally.

Kym is the Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East, and co-founder of CXSA Group Ltd. She has been part of the faculty with Homeward Bound Projects, a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people, equipping women and non-binary people with a STEMM background to lead conversations for a sustainable future. She voyaged to Antarctica in 2023 for 19 nights delivering the immersive component of the HB programme for more than 170 women, and is currently Faculty Lead for Homeward Bound’s 8th leadership cohort.

In between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book.

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HOSTED BY: Kym Hamer

DISCLAIMER:

The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Building Brand You™ podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved. They do not necessarily represent any other entities, agencies, organisations, or companies. Building Brand You™ is not responsible and does not verify the accuracy of any of the information in the podcast available for listening on this site. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This podcast does not constitute legal advice or services.

BBY Show S9 Ep8: The only difference with John Sills