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Articles by Leanne Spencer
AI has reduced the barriers to bootstrapping - will VCs now get the boot?
Venture capital (VC) has served as the lifeblood of the startup ecosystem, providing the necessary funds for young companies to grow and scale. Unlike institutional investors, VCs are often more willing to take on high-risk investments, such as tech startups, providing the vital funds these companies need to hire staff, develop products, and market to customers. Temps de lecture : 5 minutes Of course, financial support always comes with a price.
What it's like being a first-time female founder at fifty
Chairing meetings in the latter stages of my NHS career, I remember being exasperated that more and more people would mutter and mumble their way through meetings. I had no idea the problem was actually mine. Temps de lecture : 4 minutes Before becoming a founder, I worked in the NHS for nearly thirty years. This is a world defined by preventing ill health and finding new ways to make people better.
From investor to tenant: The role of AI in transforming the real estate experience
A stubborn sector reliant on manual processes has contributed to Europe’s housing market disarray. However, the real estate industry is finally recognising the opportunities that powerful new technologies, like AI, Machine Learning (ML), and automation, bring to the entire industry, from investors all the way down to the tenants themselves.
How to Prepare Your Team for Crunch Periods
Extreme stress affects employee performance. Crunch periods are the busiest and so they could pile stress on if it's not managed properly. Leanne Spencer, Founder of Bodyshot Performance, awarding-winning keynote speaker, and Author of Cadence how to prepare individuals and teams, so that they can excel while managing their stress during the busiest of times. I believe many aspects of business are very predictable.
Prepare your team for crunch periods
Recently, someone asked me where wellbeing sits within a high-performance culture. My answer was that it’s an integral part of it; wellbeing and high performance are mutually inclusive. However, high performance isn’t about prolonged and sustained periods of relentless effort. Whilst many of us can operate at these very high levels in the short term, for most people it isn’t sustainable in the medium to long term.
What Business Leaders Can Learn from Top Sporting Event Athletes
I’ve yet to speak to a business leader who didn’t think their business was a high-performance environment, but what is often underappreciated is the understanding that high-performance isn’t continually performing at the highest level all the time. Whilst many of us can operate at these very high levels in the short term, for most people it isn’t sustainable in the medium to long term.
How To Hack Your Hotel Room
and get a better nights sleep! I’m currently in a hotel room up in Aberdeen, and there are a few things that I do to hack the hotel room and to try and guarantee myself the best night’s sleep. Because one of the things that can be disruptive about travel is the implication on sleep – you’re in a strange bed, in a hotel, preparing for something the next day or just unwinding from the day.
The Human Charger
How can it help get natural light onto the brain? This week’s blog is about the incredibly named Human Charger – it was devised by a Finnish company called Valkee. In Finland they have incredible hellishly long winters, so they were desperate to find a way they could try and get the equivalent of natural light into their days. They discovered there were photo receptors in the ear canal that help get light through to the brain.
A DOSE Of Happiness
What are the happy chemicals that make you feel good? This week’s blog is about the neurotransmitters that are significant for wellbeing, and there are four of them. The acronym is DOSE – like a dose of happiness and a dose of wellbeing. D is dopamine O is oxytocin S is serotonin E is endorphins There’s lots of different ways that you can generate dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins.
Sleep, DNA and your health - how are they linked?
...how are they linked? Did you know that sleep deprivation profoundly affects your genes, and your gene expression? Let me explain how a recent study was conducted amongst a group of healthy doctors, and they noticed that in those doctors who worked the night shift – so their sleep pattern was very disrupted and they were frequently having to flip their circadian rhythm on its head and stay awake in the night and perform critical jobs and critical functions, and then try and sleep in the day.
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