Flex and the City Podcast and Blog

FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 18: Leadership Wisdom and bringing true diversity into financial services.

Oct 5, 2020

FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 18: Leadership Wisdom and bringing true diversity into financial services.

Rachel Treece is an Executive and Leadership Coach, and a training expert. She is passionate about learning and making financial services better through sustainable transformation and engagement. She is CEO of fts global and WELLBUSINESS™ and interviews leaders from all over the world on Flex and the City from her base in Luxembourg. This week on Flex and the City, we interview Jim Fitzpatrick, President and CEO of NICSA I know when I am interviewing a leader who has wisdom.

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FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 17 With Yvonne Connelly - Importance of Connection in engaging employees

Rachel Treece

Oct 5, 2020

FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 17 With Yvonne Connelly - Importance of Connection in engaging employees

Rachel Treece is an Executive and Leadership Coach, and a training expert. She is passionate about learning and making financial services better through sustainable transformation and engagement. She is CEO of fts global and WELLBUSINESS™ and interviews leaders from all over the world on Flex and the City from her base in Luxembourg. This week on Flex and the City, interview Yvonne Connolly, Country Head, Ireland for Carne Group. Yvonne brings enormous energy, positivity and

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FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 15: Financial Services Through the Lens of a Spacegeek with James Gatoff

Rachel Treece

Aug 4, 2020

FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 15: Financial Services Through the Lens of a Spacegeek with James Gatoff

Rachel Treece is an Executive and Leadership Coach, and a training expert. She is passionate about learning and making financial services better through sustainable transformation and engagement. She is CEO of fts global and WELLBUSINESS™ and interviews leaders from all over the world on Flex and the City from her base in Luxembourg. Visionary, unruffled, passionate and wise are words that I would use to describe James Gatoff. A reminder that Flex and the City is not about a

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FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 14: From Hockey to Holacracy and the Power of Connection with Lee Godfrey

Rachel Treece

Aug 4, 2020

FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 14: From Hockey to Holacracy and the Power of Connection with Lee Godfrey

Rachel Treece is an Executive and Leadership Coach, and a training expert. She is passionate about learning and making financial services better through sustainable transformation and engagement. She is CEO of fts global and WELLBUSINESS™ and interviews leaders from all over the world on Flex and the City from her base in Luxembourg. Flex And The City is about leadership in financial services. Real leadership. I love talking to great leaders and exploring their different styl

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FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 13: The Importance of Curiosity, Clarity and Rituals w/ Robert McKillop

Rachel Treece

Jun 21, 2020

FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 13: The Importance of Curiosity, Clarity and Rituals w/ Robert McKillop

Rachel Treece is an Executive and Leadership Coach, and a training expert. She is passionate about learning and making financial services better through sustainable transformation and engagement. She is CEO of fts global and WELLBUSINESS™ and interviews leaders from all over the world on Flex and the City from her base in Luxembourg. « I always ask myself, have I been a decent human being, have I managed to help Rachel in some small way” These words are ones which will stay w

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FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 12: How the Surfer Girl Can Teach FS How to Ride the Waves w/ Karym Murphy

Rachel Treece

May 31, 2020

FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 12: How the Surfer Girl Can Teach FS How to Ride the Waves w/ Karym Murphy

Rachel Treece is an Executive and Leadership Coach, and a training expert. She is passionate about learning and making financial services better through sustainable transformation and engagement. She is CEO of fts global and WELLBUSINESS™ and interviews leaders from all over the world on Flex and the City from her base in Luxembourg. It’s time for Karym Murphy to take the stage and to show the world who she is. She shines, shines so bright it is dazzling – Sunshine at its bes

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Why and What Financial Services Companies Need to Learn From Michelin Starred Restaurants

Rachel Treece

Mar 17, 2020

Why and What Financial Services Companies Need to Learn From Michelin Starred Restaurants

Last week, only two days after moving to working remotely, a financial services company suffered their biggest operational loss in their history. Millions were wiped out as a result of lack of clarity around expectations, ownership, responsibilities, priorities and communication rules in this new world for the vast majority of them. So, what can financial services leaders do at this critical time? We believe that they can learn from the great Michelin Starred Chefs who operat

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Rachel Treece

Mar 15, 2020

This Post Might Save You

I was feeling frazzled 3 weeks ago. More than. After two days of break I decided I truly needed to invest in self care. I went to the gym and the lessons started to come… Lesson 1: I met S- in the gym - had not seen her for a long time. “How are you S-” I said? She told me she’d been ill – turns out with a severe burn out to the point she could not talk and had been in hospital. She always looked SO serene with everything under control. Like a swan where the legs were clearly

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The 5 skills needed by progressive Leaders in Financial Services today

Rachel Treece

Oct 17, 2019

The 5 skills needed by progressive Leaders in Financial Services today

The financial services industry has been compelled over recent years to look at new ways to innovate and adapt, in order to meet the everchanging requirements of modern times. The current discussions on the “Amazonisation” of financial services make a thought-provoking reflection. But the industry is more than just about transactions – clients must be at the heart of everything. Most importantly, a culture of client-focus is something that every leader in this industry has n

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What do Lobsters and Corporate Transformation have in Common?

Rachel Treece

Oct 17, 2019

What do Lobsters and Corporate Transformation have in Common?

We all know that the lobster is a soft mushy animal that lives inside of a rigid shell. That rigid shell does not expand. So, you might well ask, how do lobsters grow? Well, as the lobster grows, that shell becomes very confining, and the lobster feels itself under pressure and is deeply uncomfortable. It goes to look for a rock formation to protect itself from predatory fish, casts off the shell, and produces a new one. Eventually that new shell becomes very uncomfortable as

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FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 1: REVELing In Fund Governance With Revel Wood

Rachel Treece

Oct 17, 2019

FLEX AND THE CITY Episode 1: REVELing In Fund Governance With Revel Wood

Rachel Treece is an Executive and Leadership Coach, and a training expert. She is passionate about learning and making financial services better through sustainable transformation and engagement. She is CEO of fts global and WELLBUSINESS™ and interviews leaders from all over the world on Flex and the City from her base in Luxembourg. We are delighted to launch the first episode of our podcast called « FLEX AND THE CITY »! This podcast presented by Rachel Treece FCIM CPCC is d

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