The Suite Spot Series

Personal career stories and leadership lessons from across the Board

How to Reach, Lead and Deliver the C-Suite

The route to achieving a boardroom position is not always clear. Sometimes getting started is a challenge, often there are twists and turns along the way. What can the leaders of tomorrow learn from the experiences of today’s leaders?

In this series of 20 minute leadership interviews Winmark CEO John Jeffcock invites a selection of Executive and Non-Executive Directors to share their story. Based on his book ‘The Suite Spot’, John explores how people build the knowledge, skills and connections to enable them to take on a Executive leadership role. He investigates the influence of mentors and how styles and behaviours have to change once you move from management to the boardroom.

These interviews provide valuable insights for those who already have a seat at the boardroom table as well as those aspiring to do so.

The Suite Spot book 2

‘The Suite Spot’ written by Winmark CEO John Jeffcock and published in Jan 2022 by Bloomsbury.

LESLEY KNOX
Senior Independent Director at 3i 
and Genus PLC, and Chair of Legal and General Investment Management

PATRICK BUTCHER
Chief Finance Officer at Headlam Group plc and previously Capita, Go Ahead Group and Network Rail

DANIELLE HARMER
Chief People Officer at Aviva,
 formerly at Metro Bank & Lloyds Banking Group

DAX GRANT

 CIO Global 100 list, Forbes Technology Council, CEO Global Transform

JUSTINE CAMPBELL
Group General Counsel & Company Secretary at National Grid

ATIF HASSAN

Group CFO at August Leadership

GLORIA YANG

Deputy CEO at Origin Housing and Non-Executive Director at MORHomes PLC

If you enjoyed the interviews why not read the book! 

‘The Suite Spot’, by Winmark founder and Chief Executive Officer John Jeffcock, explains what today’s C-Suite looks like and how it is evolving. It provides unique guidance on how to break into the C-Suite, and then how to be successful in the space through a unique combination of models, case studies, tables and images which illustrate the key points in a practical and meaningful way. Available at Bloomsbury

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