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On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns and Ben Gathercole speak with Mike DeNoma, getting a fascinating insight into a driven leader, someone with a huge amount of resilience who is inspired to take on the world’s toughest endurance challenges to raise funds for very important charities. We delve into ambition, flying a plane through clouds, the difference between a written and a presentation culture, leading in different cultures, creating a higher purpose, understanding that your strengths are what energise you, and what drives Mike DeNoma to get out of bed every day.
Mike DeNoma
We have the pleasure of bringing you a highly motivated, exceptionally organised and a passionate leader. Mike DeNoma has held senior executive roles across the globe, including managing multinational teams across North America, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Over the past 20 years he has led large teams in the emerging markets banking sector with CEO and Leadership roles in CitiBank Singapore, Taiwan’s Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, and his current role at KBZ Bank in Myanmar. Awarded Global Retail Banker of the Year in 2008, he has also held senior roles in well-respected companies such as GLH Hotels, PepsiCo, Proctor and Gamble, and Asia Foods Limited. It is a highly entertaining, thought-provoking and insightful chat. Enjoy listening to the show.
Mike talks about:
- Writing a letter that led to working in the Amazon jungle with Billionaire Daniel Ludwig
- Having three careers at Proctor & Gamble
- Taking a leave of absence from the Wharton Business School
- Ambition – “the spark that makes you challenge your destiny at any point in your life”
- Why he thought business world was like altitude when he first started
- The differences between the working cultures at Proctor & Gamble and Pepsi Co.
- The pro’s and con’s of a written versus a presentation culture.
- A brilliant concept during a performance review at Pepsi Co.
- Most employees are much tougher on their own performance than you are as a CEO
- Cultures are more similar, than different, across the world
- The need to work for a company that has a heart, that I believe in and generally has good intentions.
- Making Grandma dance at Standard Chartered bank
- The dynamics of transformation when working with wealthy family owned businesses.
- Once the organisation has transformed, then you need to realise that the family is the CEO.
- Why Mike likes to mobilise thousands of people
- Why sponsoring the Singapore Marathon and Ironman events was important
- Your strengths are what energise you
- The power of the Gallup Cliftonstrengths finder to mobilise your team, understand what each others strengths are, and how they compliment each other and determine where the gaps are.
- Powerful way to use it, is to take the team and you do the profile of all the strengths and then figure out where are the gaps
- What Mike’s strengths are and how he uses them to lead every day
- Why Mike likes challenges that require 10,000 people to step to the left and create an earthquake
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Resources Mentioned in this show:
Mike DeNoma LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/ceo-corporate-wellness-perform
Recommended Reading:
Better Than Winning – Ben’s best selling book
www.nrg2perform.com/portfolio/book
Previous active CEO Podcast Episodes:
#7 – Trina Gordon (Boyden World Corporation) – Recruiting World Leaders link
#6 – Indiran Padayachee (RentCorp) – Winning Only Matters link
#5 – Suzie Hoitink (Clear Complexions) – Enemy of a Great Life is a Good One link
#4 – Rene Zondag (PBI) – People Are Our Greatest Asset link
#3 – Anne Gripper (NSW Office of Sport) – 6 C’s of Leadership link
#2 – active CEO Intro (NRG2Perform) Part 2 link
#1 – active CEO Intro (NRG2Perform) Part 1 link