Bold, frank and honest conversations about building financial services businesses people love.

Elevator Pitch

Advertising executive and strategist Kevin Chesters joins Olga Koch to talk about how financial services can solve some of its biggest challenges by thinking more creatively.

That's a problem for future Olga

Behavioural economist Mark Pittaccio joins Olga Koch to talk about how we can get more people to understand the impact of financial planning.

No doubt about it

Imposter syndrome expert and confidence coach Alison Shamir joins Olga Koch to talk about the problem of imposter syndrome in high-performance cultures like financial services and ways to defeat it.

Chicken Little

Ex-hacker and founder of The Future Crime Agency Skeeve Stevens joins Olga Koch to talk about how financial services can fight back against AI-powered cybercrime.

Why so serious?

Fellow stand-up comedian and consumer champion Vix Leyton joins Olga Koch to talk about finding the funny in finance.

How can we get more people to understand the importance of financial planning?

What would Don Draper do to sell financial advice?

How do we stop imposter syndrome getting in the way of success?

How can financial services fight AI-powered cybercrime?

How to be a forward-thinking financial services business

Vital statistics

How to be a financial services business that does great things with data

Data is boring. What's interesting is the stories you build on that data

Alexa, help!

How to build a financial services business that’s more inclusive

Financial services have so many possibilities to do so many good things.

How to be a financial services business that delivers more

My vision for the future? Everything to be called Superhero.

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How to be a forward-thinking financial services business

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