Sparks by Ignium

Updated: 14 Oct 2025 • 108 episodes
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Conversations with business founders, leaders and experts, examining the changing landscape of leadership, purpose, business growth, Scaling Up, resilience and change with business leaders and owners in mind. We cover a mix of topics designed to ignite (or re-ignite) your spark one conversation at a time. Learn More: visit the Ignium https://www.igniumconsult.com/ Subscribe for more exclusive content in the Ignium Spark Tank: https://www.igniumconsult.com/the-spark-tank/ Connect with your host Phil Rose on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachphilrose/

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TLDR:   Leadership, resilience, and letting go of control—lessons from the middle of the Atlantic.   In this powerful episode of Sparks by Ignium, Phil Rose is joined by professional adventurer-turned-executive coach Sally Kettle, the first woman to row the Atlantic Ocean twice from East to West—once with her mum!   Fr

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If times are tough for large organisations, what chance do small businesses have? Surprisingly, not only can they survive, they can thrive. In this episode, we talk to Sri Kaza, author of Unconvention, a book that examines the habits and superpowers of winning small business owners during the most testing of times: the

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Cashflow Is King: Why Every Business Must Tell Its Financial StorySummary:   Don’t grow broke. Safeguard your company’s future and increase its value by understanding the whole picture and making the complicated simple. Do this by measuring, charting and planning how you’re going to get from A to B in a way that everyo

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Verne Harnish joins Phil Rose to unpack Scaling Up, the daily huddle rhythm, BHAGs, and the one metric leaders must protect to scale purpose and profit in 2025. Guest: Verne Harnish — founder of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and creator of the Scaling Up framework Host: Phil Rose, Sparks by Ignium Why this conversat

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 In this episode of Sparks by Ignium, our podcast created to help you scale your business with purpose, Phil Rose talks to author, mindfulness expert and Networking Queen, Helen Nicholson. If the thought of networking finds you heading for the nearest exit, you’ll be surprised to hear that introverts have a distinct ad

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In this episode, Phil Rose digs into the experience vault of veteran leader Mark Fritz. Now an author and speaker across 50 countries, Mark spent 25 years as a leader at Kodak and shares his very unique, tried-and-tested methods. ‘From my bosses, I only wanted two things: freedom and visibility,’ he says about his earl

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