Tough At The Top
Steve Davies was one of the UK’s top fund managers for nearly 15 years, investing billions of pounds on behalf of his clients. A key part of his role was assessing and questioning the CEOs of the businesses he was looking to invest in. In “Tough At The Top” he takes his conversations with the UK’s top executives in a new direction, revealing what really makes them tick and the lessons they can pass on to other aspiring leaders.His guests tell the stories of their paths to the top, their toughest challenges, the people that inspired them and how they developed and learned from experience and mistakes along the way. They also reveal how they look after themselves and sustain their motivation, energy and performance levels over time.Steve is now a performance coach advising CEOs, investors and other senior leaders not just on how to optimise their professional performance but also their resilience and physical & mental wellbeing.If you’d like to get in touch with Steve, whether with any comments on the show or to find out more about his performance coaching, you can email him on info@stevedavies.coach, connect with him on LinkedIn by searching for Steve Davies, Performance Coach or visit his website: www.stevedavies.coach
Episodes
9 episodes
Rachael Blackmore: the Queen of horse racing
Rachael Blackmore is a star of horse racing in Britain & Ireland and one of the world’s highest achieving sportswomen. But it wasn’t always like this - in her own words her amateur career barely got off the ground and she only turned pro at...
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Episode 9
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40:08
Sir Nigel Wilson, CEO of Legal & General
Sir Nigel Wilson has been the CEO of Legal & General since 2012, having joined the company three years earlier as Finance Director. Prior to that, he had a diverse career, spanning academia & technology at MIT, a spell at McKinsey, reta...
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Episode 8
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59:32
How to Sleep Well, with Steve Davies
In this special episode, I focus on the most simple & effective strategies to improve your sleep, based on what I have learned during my training as a Sleep Coach, and also what I have found works in real life with my coaching clients – inv...
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Episode 7
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30:28
Jillian Lavender, Founder of the London Meditation Centre
Following on from a very successful career in the publishing industry, Jillian has been teaching meditation for almost 20 years and founded both the London and New York Meditation Centres back in 2008. She wrote an excellent book called “Why Me...
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Episode 6
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58:50
Tristia Harrison - CEO of TalkTalk
Tristia Harrison is the CEO of TalkTalk, one of the UK’s leading broadband providers with over 4 million consumers and a significant B2B business alongside that. She began her career in PR & marketing before joining Charles Dunstone’s...
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Episode 5
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53:37
Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Founder of Snoop and former CEO of Virgin Money
Dame Jayne-Anne is the Founder and Executive Chair of Snoop. From 2007 to 2018 she was the CEO of Virgin Money. She was one of the original founders of Virgin Direct in 1995 and, three years later, she set up the Virgin One account, which...
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Episode 4
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1:12:45
Daphne Zohar, Founder and CEO of Puretech Health plc
Daphne Zohar is the Founder and CEO of Puretech Health plc. A serial entrepreneur, she has transformed an initial investment of $100,000 into a company now worth £1bn, with stock market listings in both London and New York. She created a unique...
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Episode 3
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1:00:49
Andy Anson, Chief Executive of the British Olympic Association
Andy Anson is Chief Executive of the British Olympic Association and took time out from the intense and complex preparations for the Summer Games in Tokyo to speak with me. He has worked for and led an amazing variety of organisations across sp...
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Episode 2
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1:03:14
Pete Redfern, CEO of Taylor Wimpey
Pete Redfern is one of the longest-serving CEOs in the FTSE 100, having been the boss of housebuilder Taylor Wimpey since 2007. He is one of the best long-term thinkers I came across in my time as an investor - we discuss where this comes...
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Episode 1
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1:02:16