An actual-play DND podcast made by actual asexuals and aromantics! Follow our four heroes as they adventure through a fantasy world on the cusp of a technological revolution, augmented by magic. Each character's fate is tied to one of the 22 cards in the “Deck of Many Things”, a DND magical object based on a tarot deck. Support us by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deckofmanyaces/ Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deck-of-many-aces. Hosted ...
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Bringing you business change and technology insights that you won’t get from a book!
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A podcast about loving things in a really very rubbish year
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This podcast brings refreshing insights of the VS Code Python team, with authentic perspectives on the Python ecosystem and how VS Code fits in it, as seen from a software engineer view and a product manager lens.
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Strategic Creativity with an Agile Mindset : Eleanor Winton
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34:36On this episode, Sharon talks to Eleanor Winton. Eleanor is a foresight and innovation specialist whose career has spanned legal policy, money laundering investigations, innovation and future thinking. She designed, built and led KPMG’s Future Institute in the UK and has worked with the senior leadership teams of organisations spanning multiple sec…
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Episode 89 - A Portable Hole Full of Forge-born
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52:54The Tall Girls find out more about Dr Moonerin and the forge-born, and begin to plan… a heist! Raina does dress up. Morgan plans a polymorph. Delphi acts on impulse. Toz plays bodyguard. Check out Fumble Folk's Ritual Spellbook and Witch Class to add a new dimension to your roleplay! Music by Chloe Elliott: A New World Dawns (Main Theme) Secrets Un…
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Fundamentals for Leaders to Build Resilient Organisations : Sohrab Salimi
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41:26On this episode, Nisha Joshi talks to Sohrab Salimi. An entrepreneur by conviction, Sohrab has spent over 20 years helping leaders rethink how companies build products, empower teams, and adapt to a rapidly changing world. His mission: to turn agility into real business impact. As the founder and CEO of Scrum Academy and Agile Academy AG he works w…
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On this episode Sharon Williams speaks with Phil Gadzinski. As a global leader in governance transformation, Phil helps organisations evolve how they work—so they can thrive in complexity, deliver with purpose, and adapt at speed. With deep expertise in organisational design, Agile ways of working, and enterprise transformation, he partners with le…
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The Tall Girls have been invited in... but can they convince the conspirators that they're on their side? Toz attempts small talk. Raina gets a cheeky idea. Delphi shares pruning tips. Morgan has things of importance to present. Check out Fumble Folk's Ritual Spellbook and Witch Class to add a new dimension to your roleplay! Music by Chloe Elliott:…
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Unpack Your Goals, One Prompt at a Time : Joe Swan
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32:14Joe Swan, the founder of Syntessera, an AI start-up focussed on harnessing it for helping society. His first product Unpack is designed to bring coaching and mentoring to everyone, everywhere at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. With over 20 years in technology he's grown from being an engineer to a leader of large organisations. Joe c…
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Rishi is using AI, dedicated to revolutionising Clinical, Medical and Healthcare Productivity, saving people massive amounts of time, eliminating the mundane, and making work a happier place to be! He has lived and breathed the roles of CEO, Chief Product Officer, Transformation Lead, Product Manager, Solutions Architect and Developer, navigating t…
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Episode 87 - The Wizard, the Witch and the Forgeborn
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41:26Tonight, the Tall Girls are gate-crashing a secret meeting in search of answers from Dr. Moonerin. What exactly is he up to? And more importantly, how are they going to get in? Toz gets wordy. Raina is thwarted by a window. Delphi pretends to be a ghost. Morgan has her gun out. Check out Fumble Folk's Ritual Spellbook and Witch Class to add a new d…
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The Disruption Game Plan : Ruth Murray Webster
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26:48Ruth's work helps clients to understand risk and disruption, design solutions and controls, deliver change and achieve their potential performance. She's an ace facilitator and qualified coach. She challenges thinking and seeks to stretch performance. During her conversation with Sharon they talk about the disruption game plan and how it's out to h…
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Mandy Sunner is a passionate advocate for agile and lean principles, helping organisations unlock their full potential. With a blend of business acumen and deep IT expertise, she's driven by human-centred design and a commitment to continuous improvement. Mandy's mission is to foster high-performing teams by cultivating collaboration, innovation, a…
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CW: mention of body horror, disregard/ mistreatment of human life 9:42 - 10:40. Having thoroughly investigated Dr. Moonerin's office, the Tall Girls follow the trail to his home. Will it hold the answers to his strange disappearance? Toz finds traces of an old friend. Raina susses out a spy's message. Delphi wanders the house with some confusing cu…
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With over 18 years of technical expertise and strong commercial and operational skills, Dileep focuses on delivering measurable business results. He sets strategic vision and effectively communicates across all levels to build consensus and achieve corporate goals. As a leader, he cultivates teams based on trust, empowerment, and continuous learnin…
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Tammy wrote the bestselling and business book awards finalist ‘The Change Ninja Handbook – an interactive ‘choose your own’ adventure’ for change. The follow up book in the series ‘The Change Ninja Returns’ delves deeper into big, unwanted and emotional change and how to move forwards when it all seems impossible. During her conversation with Sharo…
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The Quiet Revolution in Leadership : Edmund Monk
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44:40Edmund Monk is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), a global organisation transforming the learning and development (L&D) landscape. With over 25 years of experience in organisational learning, performance improvement, and professional development, he has focused on making learning more impactf…
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CW: racism 15:15 - 26:47, 35:14 - 39:56. See the bottom of the description for a synopsis. Let's go sightseeing in Brore! But would we be the Tall Girls if everything wasn't quite as it seems? Toz pays a student's rent. Raina analyses academic social cues. Delphi is mystified by protesting. Morgan meal preps (her networking companions). Music by Ch…
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Julie is a Professor of Organisational Change at Durham University Business. Prior to joining academia she had 20 years of experience in the global business world, as a consultant, coach, and facilitator of change and transformation initiatives. She holds several prestigious credentials and knows how important human centric change is in the workpla…
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This episode features a deep dive with Jeff Anderson. Jeff partners with executives and organisations to build, motivate, and scale happy teams. Here's his bullet point fact file: CEO and founder of a boutique consultancy, Agile by Design Facilitated 30+ change initiatives over 2 decades Stood up the first agile consultancy of its kind in a Big 5 C…
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The Annual Spacetime Conference is underway! What mysteries will it hold for the party? Toz receives a gift. Raina reminisces on an invented friend. Delphi goes sightseeing. Morgan plans an impromptu presentation. Music by Chloe Elliott: A New World Dawns (Main Theme) The Heath's Reveille (Tohsya's Theme) A Temporary Setback (Morgan's Theme) Spectr…
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Olina is driven by a passion for Agile methodologies and coaching leadership, she brings creativity, structure, and a focus on business value to every project. Ben is an experienced Change and Transformation Leader with a strong track record of delivery in the Financial Services industry - Banking, Asset Management and FinTech. Together they love t…
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Inner Kaizen for Agile Coaches : Ceri Newton-Sargunar
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30:55Ceri is a brains-and-words nerd! She uses behavioural science and her background in strategic language and teaching to help technical leaders and teams learn more about what we think, what we say and how we think and say it... She's a big advocate for inner kaizen for agile coaches! Connect with Ceri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceri-newton-sarguna…
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After a tense run in with the boss, our heroes finish up their business in Gairmarus before heading to the Annual Spacetime Conference in Brore. Except everything doesn't quite go as planned... Toz takes a step towards invincibility. Raina calls a doctor (but calls a wizard first). Delphi explores an old safe space. Morgan is no help whatsoever. Mu…
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In this episode of The Delivery Space Podcast, mental performance coach Paula Naeff shares her journey from ballet to coaching high-performing athletes and entrepreneurs. She opens up about resilience, overcoming self-doubt, and the power of mental training. Packed with insights on mindset, success, and daily habits for growth—this is a must-listen…
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Roller Skating to Bold Leadership : Melissa Boggs
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28:14Melissa Boggs is a keynote speaker with a deep love for creating connection through impactful events. She is most recognised for her talk, “From Cautious to Courageous: A Live Rollerskating Journey (that Will Move You!)”, a message she delivers through storytelling and roller-dance. She is host of the “Wild Hearts at Work'' podcast, an emcee, panel…
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We're back from hiatus! The Tall Girls are back together and it's time to decide their next steps. But Bastet has a little something to say about it... Toz falls fowl of some sea birds. Raina gets confused. Delphi walks into the desert (again). Morgan definitely doesn't enjoy destroying things. Music by Chloe Elliott: A New World Dawns (Main Theme)…
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Penny works with individuals and groups who are grappling with virtual/hybrid situations or projects, or when they need to run crucial but difficult meetings/workshops. When they work with her, they find they collaborate better, communication becomes smoother, creativity is enhanced, competence is obvious, confidence flows and generally things impr…
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A prisoner of the past. An uncertain heir. A child of utopia. An outsider disgraced. Moon. Comet. Euryale. Ruin. What could the fates have in store? Cover Art by Eiriol Evans. Music: A New World Dawns by Chloe Elliott. Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deck-of-many-aces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy…
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Richard Samela is a visionary product leader, sought-after speaker, motivator, and product consultant, as well as the creator of the AI Interview Coaching Tool—a ground breaking resource born from his personal journey of resilience. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Richard faced challenges that tested his confidence and adaptability. …
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AI in the Project Management Office : Lloyd Skinner
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25:40Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of greyfly.ai, an experienced AI in Project Management, international speaker and a non-executive director at 3 companies. For over 6 years he and his team have been investigating the use of AI in project management and developing a suite of Intelligent Project Predictions (IPP) tools. Connect with Lloyd: https://www.li…
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The Art of Storytelling for Product Managers : Jeff Callan
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31:15Jeff Callan has a proven track record of taking innovative new ideas and building them into products. Over the past decade, he's generated 100’s of millions of dollars in new bottom line value for his employers and partners through a variety of cost savings, strategic partnerships and revenue growth activities. Most importantly, storytelling. Conne…
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LIVE at Dragonmeet 2024 - RWDOMA Presents Hostile Christmas Party
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1:21:51CW: violence, threat, firearms in the workplace/office. Joining forces live at Dragonmeet 2024, Deck of Many Aces and A Rendezvous With Destiny present Hostile Christmas Party! Mags, Harriet, Delphi and Vega Camarius are ordinary office workers waiting for their Christmas bonus - but they didn't know it was going to include running for their lives.…
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Transformation - More Scars Than Medals : James Allen
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25:02James Allen is empowering businesses to develop and deliver strategies that stimulate ambitious growth through international expansion, M&A, and launch of new products, services and customer propositions. He's driving large-scale transformation, having delivered £1.5BN in financial benefits to companies through major programmes of change to operati…
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S2 Episode 6 - Denny Perez on her journey into the Python community
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30:02🎙️ Welcome to the final episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast for 2024! ✨ In this special episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Denny Perez, a Software QA Analyst and PSF Board Member. Denny shares her remarkable journey from the world of accounting to the realm of IT, and eventually into the Python community. Her story is one of tra…
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Am's on a quest to win D&D - by playing silly games. It's time to d-d-d-duel! Check out Hamilton on Youtube at Fueled by Chaos and on Bluesky (@fueledchaos) and Instagram (@fueled_chaos). You can also find Fiona on social media @fkth, Chris @papaglitch and Mark on Instagram @markdmitri. Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporte…
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The Art of Effective Storytelling : Jamie Mackenzie
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41:39After years of many different personal and professional experiences, feedback from colleagues, customers, friends and family, Jamie believes that he has a very real superpower – storytelling with impact. His mission is to help unlock this superpower within other people, so that they too can enjoy the impact and the benefits that it will bring. Conn…
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Community in Leadership : Nicola Benjamin
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36:52Nicola lives for that spark in the "aha moment" when people realise that their moment to succeed and achieve greatness is now.... she understands the value of leaders being able to build an authentic community organically and has some great tips to share. She has a different journey to most people, get ready to hear it! Connect with Nicola: https:/…
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Join Chloe and the RPGeeks as they play through a game written by actual NASA (yes, really!) and fight to restore one of the biggest scientific instruments in the world! NASA went and made a TTRPG so we thought we'd get some nerdy friends together to play through it! The RPGeeks go live every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. / rpgeeksdnd Huge thanks to ou…
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For Mia Drennan, rejection was the nudge she needed to walk away from corporate stability to a build a business spanning four continents. This week on the delivery space podcast, Sharon and I had the privilege of speaking with Mia, founder of GLAS, a global leader in financial administration. Working directly with Mia, Sharon and I have both been i…
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Building High Performing Teams with the Help of Cognitive Science : Daniel Susser
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37:58Daniel is a Delivery Coach based in London. He is interested in helping others to build intelligent teams by taking inspiration from cognitive science. He hosts the "Agile On The Mind" podcast and a blog where he explores these ideas along and with his star cast of guests. Daniel's Blog: https://agileonthemind.substack.com/ ************ Follow Nish…
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This week we bring you our special guest episode over at Penance RPG! Join Ellie, Chloe and Eiriol as they make their way through a special Halloween story. To listen to the rest of the series and the other awesome things Penance RPG make, head to penancerpg.com. Welcome to our Sixth episode from this year's annual #OpenTheDungeon Halloween series.…
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The Impact of AI on Delivery Teams : Chris Alderson
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32:55Chris is a know-it-all about generative AI and all of the tools around it. Chris helps teams build capabilities and systems which align them to strategic goals. He believes that growing in-house digital capabilities, with team's easily able to understand their purpose, enables businesses to achieve lasting impact and accelerate the delivery of prod…
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How Did Helen Become Kanban Queen? : Helen Meek
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24:25How does being a "Kanban Queen" help Helen and everyone around her? Helen is an outgoing and driven coach and trainer who is passionate about working with Individuals, teams and organisations on their road to agility. Helen has worked with many varied organisations and teams in many different industries and brings this vast wealth of experience and…
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We may be on hiatus but no need to miss us! Enjoy this episode of What Am I Rolling? - An RPG One Shot Podcast by Fiona Howatt. Fiona takes Am, Chloe, Ellie and Katie through a creepy game of SHIVER, and a more than slightly haunted farmstead. Check out the WAIR linktree to find out where you can hear the rest of this adventure and more awesome one…
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The Convergence, How AI is Going to Impact Agile Teams : Stuart Munton
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34:25How will AI impact the world of business, and most importantly, your teams? Community and Curiosity are Stuart’s core values which have led him through his 20+ year digital career. Starting with pivotal Agile and Digital transformations for major players like ASDA / Walmart and the NHS, he became an agile advocate back in 2004. Connect with Stuart:…
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Shell Business Transformation : Shahzad and Niall
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34:01Shahzad is a lead agile coach, he has over 14 years of experience in partnering with organisations to achieve business transformation and customer satisfaction. He holds the Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credentials, and he has extensive knowledge and skills in agile methodologies, training, mentoring, and an…
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The battle in Gairmarus may be over, but the siblings still have the fallout to deal with. Fallout that might reach further than their own rivalry... Toz makes a promise. Tor hears voices. Delphi makes a mistake. Follow our special guest Will (@will_byford) on Twitter! Music by Chloe Elliott: A New World Dawns (Main Theme) Fine Red Lines The Heath'…
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Leadership Impact in the Delivery Space : Haroon Kahlil
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35:59Haroon Khalil is a Lean-Agile Practitioner and a Professional Coach, working with individuals, teams, managers, and Senior leadership teams to help them deliver results. His favourite focus areas involve unearthing better ways to help people adapt to the pace of change in business environments, improve overall business performance, grow leadership …
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For Jord, the best time to play a game, is always! Jord is a freelance Agile Coach and Senior IT Program Manager. He supports the Agile transformation of companies and the development of the IT teams by putting in place collaboration best practices as communication models, visual facilitation, collective intelligence, meeting facilitation technique…
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Every battle has an end. One half of our team fights an aboleth deep below the lake of Antaburgh, while Toz is locked in ritual combat against her own brother. Who will emerge triumphant? Raina sees a ghost. Morgan channels her inner Magneto. Equilibrium walks the eldritch dog. Delphi blunks (again). Toz makes a last stand. Tor makes a surprising c…
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Roadmaps - A Challenge of Communication : Paddy Corry
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29:39Today you'll meet Paddy Corry, an expert in product roadmapping. Paddy is an Agile Coach, most recently at SS&C, a global financial services and consulting business. With more than 20 years experience in software development, Paddy has previously worked as a Scrum Master, a Teacher, and a programmer for many years. As an agile coach, he is experien…
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The Happiness Blueprint : Antoni Tzavelas
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33:14Today you're going to meet Antoni Tzavelas, he might just be the happiest human on earth! Antoni is a keynote speaker and leadership coach who has found his true vocation in igniting the spark of inspiration in others. After successfully navigating the vibrant fields of fashion design, systems engineering, cloud engineering, cloud training, and tea…
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