Ben Rickard's guest appearances

Ben Rickard

Connected Podcast

Stories of Success Podcast

Gurman Hundal

Bruce Daisley

Laura Thomas

Tim Drake

Rob Norman

John Grant

Stephen Morris

Emily Penn

Vikki Ross

Murray Calder

Paul Edwards

Brian Fitzpatrick

Edwina Dunn

Brian Lavery

Josh Krichefski

OwlTail

I welcome Ben Rickard to my podcast. Ben is an experienced interim and fractional CDO, a NED and advisor with an expert domain knowledge in marketing, digital, data and tech. Ben and I have been discussing the interim and fractional space for a while, and I am glad he found the time to record his ideas around this exciting and growing space.   Things we discussed:   CDO: data or digital officer   Ben being a NED to parliament (not the government)   Teams with different super powers   His urge to get involved and do things   Launching on his own during the pandemic   Value proposition   Taking the risk of going out on your own   Confidence   Networking with people and selling yourself   Delivering a proof of concept before getting paid   How to overcome the hurdle of selling oneself (as a non sales guy)   How to utilise LinkedIn for winning business   The learning of going through the process of setting up on your own   Variety and lifestyle choice of being an interim and fractional CxO   Being able to choose: from interim to full time to consultant - a career is fluid   Portfolio Career and labelling of services   The Portfolio Collective: https://portfolio-collective.com   The value add of an interim / fractional leader to start- and scale-ups   Expert networks   Smart people who hire (people like) us😉   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrickard/   Website: https://www.benrickard.com  

I welcome Ben Rickard to my podcast. Ben is an experienced interim and fractional CDO, a NED and advisor with an expert domain knowledge in marketing, digital, data and tech. Ben and I have been discussing the interim and fractional space for a while, and I am glad he found the time to record his ideas around this exciting and growing space.   Things we discussed: <ul> <li> CDO: data or digital officer </li> <li> Ben being a NED to parliament (not the government) </li> <li> Teams with different super powers </li> <li> His urge to get involved and do things </li> <li> Launching on his own during the pandemic </li> <li> Value proposition </li> <li> Taking the risk of going out on your own </li> <li> Confidence </li> <li> Networking with people and selling yourself </li> <li> Delivering a proof of concept before getting paid </li> <li> How to overcome the hurdle of selling oneself (as a non sales guy) </li> <li> How to utilise LinkedIn for winning business </li> <li> The learning of going through the process of setting up on your own </li> <li> Variety and lifestyle choice of being an interim and fractional CxO </li> <li> Being able to choose: from interim to full time to consultant - a career is fluid </li> <li> Portfolio Career and labelling of services </li> <li> The Portfolio Collective: <a href="https://portfolio-collective.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://portfolio-collective.com</a> </li> <li> The value add of an interim / fractional leader to start- and scale-ups </li> <li> Expert networks </li> <li> Smart people who hire (people like) us😉 </li> <li> LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrickard/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrickard/</a> </li> <li> Website: <a href="https://www.benrickard.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.benrickard.com</a> </li> </ul>

Taking the risk - Interim CDO Ben Rickard

This week Sue and ASD talk to Ben Rickard about his first year in the job, what we need to do at MediaCom to take us to the next level, the biggest fallacy he wants to bust in 2019 and what he would do differently if he went back to start up is mobile agency again.

Ben Rickard, Chief Digital and Data officer, MediaCom UK