Stratospheric Leaders
Stratospheric Leaders
Podcast Description
Welcome to Stratospheric Leaders - the podcast that brings you unfiltered, inspiring conversations with the visionaries shaping capital markets.
I'm Georgie Dickins and each episode, I sit down with leaders who don’t just redefine industries - they create them. You’ll hear game-changing strategies, personal stories, and powerful insights from those who have achieved stratospheric success. These are the lessons they don’t teach you at business school.
If you’re ready to elevate your game and those around you - you’re in the right place. And if you enjoy hearing from these titans, hit follow.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes related to transformative leadership, personal growth, and strategic decision-making, exemplified through episodes discussing topics like risk-taking in leadership, the power of long-term vision, and the importance of transparency in crisis situations. Specific episodes explore different leadership styles and real-life stories from notable figures like Henry Fernandez and Carlos Hernandez.
Welcome to Stratospheric Leaders – the podcast that brings you unfiltered, inspiring conversations with the visionaries shaping capital markets. I’m Georgie Dickins and each episode, I sit down with leaders who don’t just redefine industries – they create them. You’ll hear game-changing strategies, personal stories, and powerful insights from those who have achieved stratospheric success. These are the lessons they don’t teach you at business school. If you’re ready to elevate your game and those around you – you’re in the right place. And if you enjoy hearing from these titans, hit follow.
Chris Willcox has spent his career at the center of global capital markets. From fifteen years at Citigroup to running Rates at JPMorgan, then CEO of JPM Asset Management, one of the largest asset managers in the world, overseeing two trillion dollars.
Today, he's Executive Officer and Head of Wholesale at Nomura – the first non-Japanese executive to hold that role, and Deputy President. He's led trading floors through crises, built businesses from scratch, and done it across three very different corporate cultures.
This is a remarkably open conversation, packed with valuable lessons. Chris explains why the most junior person in the room may know something you don't. Why attention to detail is what separates good from great. And why character and integrity matter more than almost anything else in building a career.
What emerges is a masterclass in the unglamorous fundamentals – character, honesty about mistakes, and the discipline of saying the same thing again and again until people actually hear it.
Chris also reflects on one of the hardest transitions in senior leadership: the moment you stop being the subject matter expert and start leading people who know more than you do. Entering a business as the outsider. Building credibility. Respecting what came before you. Earning the permission to change it. This is a practical, honest and excellent look at leadership from someone who's done it across very different businesses and cultures.
Show Links
Website – https://www.georgiedickins.com
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiedickins
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