The Independent Minds

Updated: 29 May 2025 • 76 episodes
www.abeceder.co.uk

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. 

Show episodes

David Eriksson is the founder of Eriscale a provider of relationship first outbound sales strategies. As the founder of Eriscale, David Eriksson helps B2B service providers to increase their rate of growth by adopting a relationship first approach to sales. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds,

29 min
00:00
29:10
No file found

Usman Skeikh is the Strategic Leader of Web Worx Labs a digital marketing agency based in Toronto Canada. Usman joins host Michael Millward from a conference in Toronto, to talk about how Web Worx Labs has adopted a build from scratch approach to digital design. Michael Millward discusses his experience of using both b

26 min
00:00
26:55
No file found
Michael Millward & Jim James 22 May 2025 • EN

The Unnoticed Entrepreneur – a conversation with author Jim James

Jim James had his first experience of being an entrepreneur when he needed to raise funds to participate in Operation Raleigh, by doing a parachute jump. Jim then found himself in Singapore looking for a supplier. Unable to locate one he decided to set up as the supplier he could not find. The business grew to several

29 min
00:00
29:28
No file found

Nathan Turner is the founder of Earnest Investing a company that invests in property. Nathan identified that he liked the regular income that being a residential landlord provided. But that was the only aspect of being a landlord that he did like. So, he hit on an approach that would provide the regular income, without

28 min
00:00
28:47
No file found

Erin Craske has built more than forty product brands for large FMCG companies including, L'Oréal, Reckitt Benckiser, British American Tobacco, SSL International, Mars, P&G, and Walgreen Boots Alliance. Yet Erin describes herself as someone who does not fit into the corporate machine. In this episode of the Abeceder pod

26 min
00:00
26:52
No file found

When Jeff Barnes, the author of All Hands-On Deck asked at a networking event how to explain what his business did to potential customers, the advice he received was to focus on what made him unique. Like many people it is Jeff’s experience that brings something special to what he does today. Success in the first stage

30 min
00:00
30:05
No file found