Culture de-cooded

A collaboration between Coode and Culture15, intended to highlight the best in thought leadership and effective implementation on the topic of organisational culture.Culture de-cooded is a series of interviews where prominent leaders, culture practioners and thinkers from a range of fields are asked to reflect on their personal journeys and that of their organisations.Whether you are starting a business, leading a team or organistation, or you are just interested in how organisations succeed or fail, there's something here for you - we hope you enjoy listening.

Culture de-cooded is a business podcast hosted by Charlie Coode, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Charlie Coode hosts Culture de-cooded, a business show with 12 episodes published.

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  Episode #13

  Mark Cuddigan, CEO of THIS

  Sep 22, 20261h 17m

  In this conversation, Charlie Coode speaks with Mark Cuddigan , CEO of THIS and former CEO of Ella’s Kitchen, about building businesses, transforming culture and creating organisations where people can do their best work. Mark shares the leadership lessons he took from Ella’s Kitchen, where he helped grow the business from around £25m turnover and 30 people to almost £100m and 100 people. He reflects on the influence of founder Paul Lindley, including the importance of purpose and a leader’s ability to see potential in people before they see it in themselves. He also explores the challenges that come with growth: changing structures, bringing in new capabilities and recognising that the people who help build a business are not always the people who take it into its next phase. For Mark, every new person should make the business better, bringing different thinking and helping the organisation move forward.

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  Damian Hughes, High-Performance Speaker and Bestselling Author

  Dec 2, 20251h 9mS0

  <p>Damian Hughes is an international speaker, bestselling author and co-host of the High Performance Podcast. From formative years in a Manchester boxing gym shaped by his father’s belief in community and belonging, to a career spanning Unilever, elite sport and academic work as a visiting professor, Damian combines his background in sport, organisational development and change psychology to help leaders and teams create high-performing cultures grounded in behaviour and human connection. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Culture de-cooded, Damian explores the central question he has asked across more than 500 conversations with leaders, athletes and cr...

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  Episode #1

  Dan Strode, Global Culture & Innovation Expert

  Jun 24, 202548 minS2

  <p>Dan Strode, a culture and innovation strategist with a track record of transforming organisations across 32 countries, opens Season 2 of Culture de-cooded with a masterclass on leadership at scale. </p><p>From his formative years as Global Culture Lead at Santander Group to his current role as Principal at Coode, Dan shares a deeply practical, human approach to shifting behaviours and embedding cultural change in global systems.</p><p>In this episode, Dan unpacks what it means to lead with purpose and clarity in fast-moving environments. He reflects on the three guiding questions that shaped his work at Santander, exploring...

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  Episode #10

  Kerem Hasan, Pioneering Global Conductor

  Jan 22, 202550 minS1

  <p>Kerem, a London-born conductor with Cypriot roots, has gained international acclaim from his early win at the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival’s Young Conductors Award in 2017 to serving as Chief Conductor of the Tiroler Symphony Orchestra in Austria and performing globally, Kerem shares invaluable insights into his craft.He emphasises the importance of collaboration, active listening and adaptation to orchestras different styles, as he embarks on an incredible feat this year, in directing sixteendifferent orchestras, across sixteen of the world’s big cities, in just six months.</p><p>Kerem describes orchestras as high-performing teams and discusses how he guide...

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  Episode #9

  Paul Taylor, CEO and founder of Thought Machine

  Nov 25, 202454 minS1

  <p>In this episode Paul shares his experiences of the AI and tech industry and discusses the trials and tribulations of building culture and founding a business.</p><p>Before founding Thought Machine, Paul successfully launched two companies, the second of which was acquired by Google in 2010. At Google, he led the text-to-speech team, which developed the cutting-edge technology that is now found in all of Google's navigation and voice search products. Paul holds a PhD in AI and has held teaching positions at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities.</p><p>Paul highlights how explicit and intentional the team at Thought M...

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