Welcome to the Performance Leader podcast. I'm Ray D'Cruz, CEO of Performance Leader, a software and consulting company that helps professional services firms build vibrant feedback cultures. In this podcast series, I talk to leading thinkers in the professional services industry about how to be a high performance firm and leader.
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David Kearney is co-founder and managing partner of Wotton Kearney, Australia's leading insurance law firm. Starting with two lawyers in 2002, WK has grown to 94 partners and 850 staff across 11 offices through strategic recruitment, clear values, and ambitious vision. His leadership emphasizes culture-first growth and collaborative excellence. In this podcast, David discusses Wotton Kearney's…
In this episode Paul Eagland , former Managing Partner at BDO in the UK shares his leadership journey, from his early career in accounting to leading a major professional services firm. The conversation covers leadership, decision-making, high-performance cultures, and the role of purpose in firms.
Our guest on the Performance Leaders podcast is Dr Robert Millard. Rob is a director of the Cambridge Strategy Group, an international advisory firm that helps professional firms build competitive advantage through strategy, mergers and sustainability. With nearly three decades of experience in strategy and management for law and professional firms, Rob's clients range from elite global firms to…
Our guest on the Performance Leader podcast is Carole O'Neil, ManagingPartner at Cundall, a global multi-disciplinary engineering practice delivering sustainable design projects in the built environment from 26 offices in locations across the UK and Ireland, EMENA and Asia Pacific. Carole embarked on a career in Human Resources quite by chance, having completed a law degree at Oxford University…
Our guest on the Performance Leader's podcast is Lewis Iwu, co-founder and CEO of Purpose Union, a social purpose strategy firm united by the belief that the world is better off when companies and organisations think, act and communicate with a defined social purpose. Lewis advises organisations on how to devise and execute winning arguments and campaigns on social and environmental issues. Over…
Our guest on the Performance Leader podcast is Neville Eisenberg. Neville grew up in South Africa, where he qualified as a lawyer. After gaining his Masters in Law from the LSE, je joined the London Corporate Finance Department at Berwin Leighton in 1989. He was made partner in 1995, joined the board in 1996 and was elected managing partner in 1999. Neville oversaw Berwin Leighton's successful…
Our guest on the Performance Leader's podcast is Dr. Heidi K. Gardner, author of the best selling book Smart Collaboration, and the newly released Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work. Dr. Gardner is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School and previously a professor at Harvard Business School. Named by Thinkers50 as Next Generation Business…
My guest on S3 Ep 3 of the Performance Leaders podcast is David Patient from Travers Smith. David trained at Travers Smith and became a partner in 1999, specialising in UK and international M&A. He established the firm's Paris office in the same year. In this episode David reflects on his time as Managing Partner, building a talented leadership team, the firm's strategic goals and change agenda,…
My guest on S3 Ep 2 of the Performance Leaders podcast is Leadership Expert, William Johnson. In this conversation, William draws on 30 years' experience developing leaders in the world's leading consulting and professional services firms. He distills the three key leadership tasks for every equity partner: exemplifying the brand embodying the culture ensuring the legacy. The discussion takes…
Welcome to series 3 of the Performance Leader podcast series. In this episode, Ray D'Cruz and guest Patrick St John discuss Patrick's recent white paper on Measuring and Rewarding Partner Collaboration in professional services firms. Patrick, a former law firm leader, lays out a simple model for recognising and rewarding the best collaborators. He also reflects on this experience as a Remuneration…
