The Independent Minds

Updated: 27 Nov 2025 • 128 episodes
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On the Independent Minds, podcast, you will meet independent thought leaders and learn about the ideas they have developed to help employers and their employees address the challenges that organisations of any type or size, in any location have must address if they are to achieve their business objectives and attain sustainable growth. You will be able to read more about all of the independent minds thought leaders on the Work Place Learning Centre blog. The independent minds thought leaders will be based all over the world. Some will discuss a new way of doing, whilst others will be discussing new ways of thinking. Each will have a practical solution which you will be able to access at Work Place Learning Centre.co.uk. Independent minds solutions are also available as part of Abeceder H2R the comprehensive  employee management solution that covers every aspect of every stage of the employer employee relationship from hiring to retiring. 

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Discover how to use the principles of physics to power your small business to maximum momentum Chip Higgins is lifelong banker. When he heard business owners talk about wanting their business to have some momentum, he wondered why the entrepreneurs had decided to use momentum to describe their business objectives. Whil

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Reflections on the process of using franchising to grow a business Carson Wagner was a teenager when she founded Lifetime of Love Nannies. Just six years later she is using franchising to expand her business across all fifty states in the USA. Lifetime of Love Nannies provides a range of home best care services for chi

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Leadership the calm, peaceful and untroubled way creating time to absorb a situation and think. Thom Dennis is a former Royal Marines officer who became a cultural change consultant and executive coach. Thom developed Serenity in Leadership, an approach to leadership that aims to provide leaders with a greater understa

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An Operator’s Guide to a Performance Culture Dr James Chitwood is an Army Veteran, former university president, and sales operations expert who helps organizations build systems that drive measurable performance. In this episode of The Independent Minds James Chitwood and host Michael Millward explore the role of leade

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Exploring the secret to effective time management Ann Carden was a happy but cash-strapped stay-home mom who became a successful serial entrepreneur, author and business coach. Ann has successfully built and sold at several businesses, that were built around her passions and now spends time supporting other entrepreneu

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Explore the connection between transformational leadership and the motivation of employees Stephen Walker is an engineer who became frustrated when people failed to share his enthusiasm for the work tools he created. That frustration became a fascination for discovering what motivates people at work to engage in new ac

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