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The One-Eyed Man with Mike Stopforth

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

Welcome to The One-Eyed Man with Mike Stopforth

It's a messy, complicated world out there. We need better solutions to the problems around us, and better leaders to them. No one person has it all figured out, but in a quest to discover a more impactful brand of leadership, I'm having conversations with people who have at least some part of it figured out, and specifically in the fields of business, entrepreneurship, impact and technology.
Occasionally English South Africa Management · Personal Journals
65 Episodes
44 – 64

#020 Building platform businesses that drive social change — Dr Aisha Pandor

Dr Aisha Pandor — SweepSouth | Co-founder In this episode I speak to Aisha Pandor about the tech start-up and funding ecosystem in South Africa, about the unique challenges of running highly scalable platform businesses, and about how her partners and team have navigated some of the unpredictability of the…
20 Jul 2020 39 min

#019 Exporting African innovation to solve global challenges — Duke Malan

Duke Malan — Africa Works Ventures | Partner In this episode I talk to Duke Malan about his broad ranging experience in the South African corporate world, his decision to move to Hong Kong, and the lessons he's learned along the way. We cover his worldview around innovation and social…
30 Jun 2020 55 min

#018 Bridging the continent's digital divide — Gavin Weale

Gavin Weale — Digify Africa | Founder and CEO I speak to Gavin Weale about how critical practical experience is in fast-tracking new digital talent into the workplace, and how they've solved this massive challenge with Digify Africa and its partners. Digify Africa has its roots in publishing and has…
22 Jun 2020 32 min

#016 Amplifying impact through focus and mindfulness — Max Pichulik

Max Pichulik — Impact Amplifier | Co-founder In this episode I talk to impact pioneer, mindfulness expert and social entrepreneurship thought leader Maximilian Pichulik. Max has decades worth of experience navigating the scale and complexity of the social impact space in South Africa and beyond our borders. He has a…
12 Jun 2020 38 min

#014 Moving purpose beyond a branding exercise — Tom Fels

Tom Fels — Animarem | CEO I talk to Tom Fels, branding expert and conscious capitalism advocate about his mission to create a new movement of business leadership in South Africa and beyond. Tom is the founder and CEO of Animarem, a boutique impact advisory that powers visionary, purpose-driven growth…
2 Jun 2020 42 min

#013 Pivoting the publishing industry toward purpose — Arthur Attwell

Arthur Attwell — Electric Book Works | MD I talk to entrepreneur and innovator Arthur Attwell about the publishing industry and the social impact of better access to information, lessons learned from the successes and failures of his entrepreneurship journey, and a range of other topics. Arthur is the co-founder…
28 May 2020 41 min

#011 Equipping our children for their digital lives — Dean McCoubrey

Dean McCoubrey — MySociaLife.com | Founder Expert lessons in parenting digitally enabled tweens and teens In this episode I talk to Dean McCoubrey about how to be a better parent to digitally connected children. Dean is a successful media entrepreneur and the founder of MySociaLife (www.mysocialife.com), an education company that…
16 Apr 2020 55 min

#010 Into the unknown — Andrew Blades

Andrew Blades — EPA Victoria | Manager, Risk and Compliance A deep dive into complexity with a leading 'uncertainty navigator' Can you tell from the title of this episode that I've been watching a LOT of Frozen 2 while on lock down? In this episode I talk to Andrew Blades,…
13 Apr 2020 47 min

#009 Inequality will get us long before AI does — Rapelang Rabana

Rapelang Rabana — Rekindle Learning | Founder and Chair How technology is leading the learning and personal development revolution "In this episode I talk to Rapelang Rabana about the education and edtech revolution, digital transformation, and how crises can be an opportunity to radically re-calibrate corporate vision and strategy. Rapelang…
9 Apr 2020 34 min

#008 Are your values a pathway or a poster? — Richard Mulholland

Richard Mulholland — Missing Link | CEO Why some companies (and leaders) thrive in a crisis, and why many don't Why do some companies thrive in a crisis, and others fail? Why does uncertainty bring the best out of some leaders, and leave others completely ineffective? In this episode of…
2 Apr 2020 59 min

#006 Nobody said it would be easy (2/3) — Richard Wright

Richard Wright — Speaker, Author, Endurance Athlete Strong. Feeling good. Strong. Powerful. A mantra that beat cancer. Episode two of our three-part series takes us further into Richard's first cancer diagnosis, using the metaphor of an Ironman triathlon. We hit our first transition, and embark on a grueling 180 km…
28 Mar 2020 37 min

#005 Leading in deep water (1/3) — Richard Wright

Richard Wright — Speaker, Author, Endurance Athlete Lessons in how to survive and thrive uncertainty and adversity Imagine what it takes to run 42 km. A full marathon. Now, imagine doing so after cycling non-stop for 180 km. Now, imagine doing both after a 3.8 km swim. This is the…
26 Mar 2020 33 min

#004 Myths, money and misinformation — Simon Dingle

Simon Dingle — Inves Capital | CEO A deep(er) dive into Bitcoin and blockchain technology In this episode I talk to Simon Dingle, CEO of Inves Capital and Lettuce, about the philosophy of money, incentives, the dysfunction of the central banking system, the pros and cons of cryptocurrencies and more…
23 Mar 2020 39 min

#003 A new brand of leadership — Sam Rockey

Sam Rockey — Thompson Harrison | Co-founder Lessons and learnings from the bleeding edge of leadership development. In this episode I talk to Sam Rockey, co-founder of Thompson Harrison, a London-based leadership and organisational development consulting business. We talk about the questions modern leaders are being forced to ask to…
13 Mar 2020 32 min

#002 Data, diversity and Hunters Gold — Lerato Semenya

Lerato Semenya — Chromatic | Managing Director How effective leaders are turning heaps of data into insight and wisdom. In this episode I talk to Lerato Semenya, a data and transformation evangelist, and the founder of Chromatic Consulting, about how leaders can extract better insights out of data and analytics…
13 Mar 2020 46 min

#001 Leading through critical thinking — Jacques Rousseau

Jacques Rousseau — UCT | Lecturer If there was a gym for your brain, would you pay a subscription? In this episode I talk to Jacques Rousseau, lecturer at the University of Cape Town, author, and secular activist about critical thinking and ethics. We explore the benefits of applying rational…
13 Mar 2020 40 min
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