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Practical PivotsEverything Changes, But Nothing Changes: Why Brand Still Rules with Rachel ShayneOn this episode of Practical Pivots, marketing veteran Rachel Shayne, of B2B R&D, unpacks why “brand is your moat” and how the real challenge isn’t besting your competitors, but cutting through marketplace confusion. From her insights working with technical founders, Shayne lays out her playbook for building resilient, memorable brands in complex industries. Whether you’re leading a high-growth tech venture or steering strategy in a legacy sector, this interview offers the candid perspective and actionable inspiration today’s business decision-makers crave.About Rachel Rachel Shayne is a fractional CMO and brand s...
2025-11-1942 min
Bass Generator RecordsIn My House With Valley Houser 131 Feat. Sqreur & Dawidow B2B Valley HouserIn My House 131 With Valley Houser
Feat. Sqreur & Dawidow B2B Valley Houser
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01 - Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400
- RAGE2 aka Ed E.T & McBunn Bootleg - Hard Edit
02 - DJ Oskar Angel Garcia DJ - Fine Day
- Original Mix
Dawidow B2B Valley Houser (Formally Sionic)
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03 - Demi Kanon - Cosmos - Original Mix
04 - DJ Isaac - Feel So Good - Original Mix
05 - THE DSOH - TNT Bootleg
06 - Francesco Zeta - What is What
07 - TNT - Reverse The Bass
08...
2024-05-182h 14
Bass Generator RecordsIn My House 118 With Valley Houser Feat. SionicIn My House 118 With Valley Houser Feat. Sionic
On https://soundcloud.com/bass-generator-records
& https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-20FpY_LyNm0gLkTJJb5pA
01 - Mario Piu - The Vision - Vision 1 On Air Mix
02 - Tukan - Light A Rainbow - Quinny Mix
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03 - The Lynch Effect ft Gary Welsh - Chip Butty Splash - Extended Mix - **Exclusive**
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04 - D-block & S-te-Fan - Loop Machine - Emoticon's Hard Techno Remix
05 - TNT - Boom Boom Boom - Extended Mix
06 - Safri Duo - Played A Life - Cassa Cristano Reverse Bass...
2023-04-291h 56
Bass Generator RecordsIn My House 117 With Valley Houser Feat. D.T.R & Jamie BrownIn My House 117 With Valley Houser Feat. D.T.R & Jamie Brown
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01 - York - The Awakening - Quake Remix
02 - Meteor Seven - Universal Music - DJ Scot Project Remix
Jamie Brown (Guest Mix)
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03 - Neals Van Gogh - Pulverturm (Code2 Rework)
04 - Y.O.M.C - Oasis (Forza Duo Rework)
05 - Maddix - Different State
06 - Thomas Rubin - Cold Night (Renegade System Remix)
07 - Sam Jones - U Ready
08 - Project 8 - Reset
09 - David Forbes - Splice
10 - Project 8 - Trouble
11 - Jamie Walker - Unde...
2023-03-252h 10
Bankadelic: The colorful side of financeEPISODE 108: THE THIRD ANNUAL BANKADELIC VALENTINE'S DAY LOVEFESTLove is in the air. It's everywhere. Bankers care ... and fintechs dare. Here it is, the Third Annual Bankadelic Valentine's Day Lovefest, with seven guests discussing what they love about financial services in 2023, and why they adore what they do. An episode not to be missed, sweetheart.
Our V-Day A-Team:
Douglas Brown, President, Digital Banking, NCR
Lee Farabaugh, President, Core10
Ronald Herman, CEO, Sionic
Preetha Pulusani, CEO, Deep Target
Brad Tompkins, CIO, Vergent
Nina Vellayan, CEO, Engageware
Amy Winkelman, Product Specialist and Counsel at Compliance Systems
2023-02-1441 min
Consulting ConversationsConversations on AgileA pilot episode of our new Sionic Vodcast series – A Conversation With. Paul Butler and George Holman discuss Agile and DevOps transformations.
2022-10-1407 min
Merchant Sales PodcastReal-Time Payments Are Getting RealReal-time payments are coming to checkouts, are you ready to sell? This week Ron Herman describes the Real Time Pay-by-Bank POS solution his firm, Sionic, has built, and the opportunities this creates for ISOs and agents. Plus, James explains the psychology of generating questions and curiosity from your openings, and Patti reports on legislation that would require more transparency in surcharging and cash discount programs.
2022-07-291h 01
Powered by DaviesThe Learning Noodle ep. 13: The pressure of the decision makerHow do great leaders know how to make the right decisions?Ben Hurrell, Head of Learning Experiences returns with Deborah Challinor, Expert in Leadership development & Partner at Sionic to discuss the difficulties leaders have in making tough calls, and how many times they have to choose a path with imperfect or incomplete information. These decisions tend to involve large budgets or affect operations or employees.
2022-07-2136 min
WealthChat Presented by CGIWealthChat Episode 5 - Gilly Green and Alain EgreIn this episode, Lubna speaks with Gilly Green and Alain Egre from Sionic. Gilly and Alain are both located in the UK, and are wealth management experts for that market. They discuss trends affecting the UK market, the digitization journey firms are on, and how blockchain and gamification can improve firm offerings and create a better client experience. It was a very insightful conversation, and we would like to give a big thank you to Gilly and Alain for joining us.
2022-01-0445 min
The Leaders Council PodcastLeadership Matters: Peter Stone Peter Stone is a Managing Partner at Sionic, a global consulting firm that focuses on change and specialises in a unique blend of business and people performance.
2021-02-1835 min
Fund Finance Friday | Industry ConversationsVolume Up In today's video version of Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Pratap Dasgupta of Macquarie provides an update on the secondaries and greater NAV financing markets, Rich Young of Cadwalader discusses his next career chapter, Michelle Bolingbroke announces her more formal role with the Fund Finance Association, and Ken Bigelow, Managing Partner at Sionic, introduces his firm's software solution for banks that is specifically customized and designed for subscription finance. Cadwalader's Mike Mascia hosts. Visit fundfinancefriday.com for more.
2020-06-2622 min
Consulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 14. Begin with the end in mind...This is the series finale of Consulting Conversations with Sionic Partner Chris Cooke.
Not so much a climatic cliff edge closing, but rather an exhortation not to enter into any change situation or campaign without a clear exit strategy.
There is encouragement not to move on too fast and leave a legacy of loose ends and incomplete relationships but rather to focus on satisfaction, learning and acknowledgement.
On which subject, thank you the listener for your interest and thank you to all of our colleagues at Sionic who have contributed their expertise to o...
2020-05-2611 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 13. Feedforward!We often spend so much of our time 'doing' that we have no energy or appetite left for having conversations about how we are 'being', or how we could be doing better.
If 'feedback is the breakfast of champions', are we skipping the most important meal of the day? Many, or most, of us do.
As a consequence, individuals live with their 'blind spots' unrecognised, teams get stuck in low performance modes, and change initiatives run into the rocks through avoidable 'plan continuation error'.
In this podcast Sionic Partner Chris Cooke shares some...
2020-05-2619 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 12. Enrol and EngageWhen we are helping to lead and bring about change, we rule by consent not by command. We need the support of key influencers, early adopters, our colleagues and team members. Achieving their buy-in to the change or adoption of our product is clearly critical to success.
Too often however, we can find that the world does not beat a path to our door. It is said that ideas are like children: there are none a beautiful as our own. If our default style of communicating our ideas and pitching our proposals is to 'describe and defend...
2020-05-2620 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 11. Sustaining Conditions for SuccessHow as a change expert or consultant can you create and influence the conditions for project success?
In this episode Sionic Partner Chris Cooke shares some critical insights from Sionic's research into project success factors, and his own experience.
The core message is that relentless focus on outcomes, degree of collaboration and clarity of vision are found to be present in over 90% of the projects we have analysed that were considered successful.
The assertion is that sustained attention to these factors can make all the difference between being on the failure path or...
2020-05-2618 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 10. Think Big. Start Small!As change leaders and project managers we only tend to see as risks the problems that we have seen before and solved in the past.
In Sionic Partner Chris Cooke's earlier days as a project and programme manager, he believed that as PM he was responsible for and owned the plan, therefore he should be its sole author. After all, Chris was the expert with the knowledge and experience to succeed. This belief did not always serve him well...particularly when coupled with inappropriate self-belief and optimism bias...
In this episode Chris shares a few...
2020-05-2615 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 9. Collaborative Intelligence'Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.' - Michael Jordan.
Following from conversations for possibility we need to be able to manage effective conversations for opportunity, making the critical decisions that create the strategy for change. It is clearly important to make the right calls at this point: the cost of change inexorably climbs as we progress through implementation. Although we may be experts in our field, we should not believe that we have a monopoly of good ideas. We need to be inclusive and collaborative in our approach. Rather than having to sell...
2020-05-2615 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 8. Systemic Design'Every system is perfectly designed...to get the results it gets'.
As consultants, we aim to change results towards desired outcomes. This requires us to think at the level of changing complex systems. Not merely information systems, but wider enterprise ecosystems. We need to see organisations not as simple machine bureaucracies but as complex social systems - and the larger the organisation, the more complex the system. In Sionic, we have for more than twenty years now, developed and used a powerful systemic design approach to create visions and strategies for change that modify the key dimensions o...
2020-05-2616 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 7. Creating New Possibilities"If you want to have a good idea, have a lot of them" (Mark Twain)
In the final podcast in this series, Sionic Partner Chris Cooke shares ideas on how an expert advisor, facilitator or coach can add value through generating new possibilities for action with their clients. If we only have one idea on the table, or at worst, no ideas, then our ability to arrive at the optimum solution will be severely limited.
Consider the possibility that a great skill to develop to be an effective change agent is the ability to lead...
2020-05-1820 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 6. Communicating Business ValueA good idea goes nowhere if it is not communicated well. In this episode Sionic Partner Chris Cooke share the communications principles and patterns that allow you to tell a compelling business value story of your proposed change. An effective story will have powerful numbers and evidence but also a compelling emotional call to action. We need to learn to appeal to hearts as well as minds.
If you take the time to craft these stories with care, you will generate positive impact and influence as a consultant or change leader. This is a 'write once: read o...
2020-05-1820 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 5. The Outcome Distinction"If you do not know where you are going, any road will get you there...If only you walk long enough"
Unlike Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, as expert consultants and advisors, we will always seek to start with the end in mind - defining the desired future state to move towards.
It turns out that this is another one of those 'common sense' skills that is not that common in reality. All too often, we see change programmes focused entirely on the deliverables, or measurement scorecards focusing on the benefits. Both of these, although laudable...
2020-05-1813 minConsulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 4. Clarifying the Problem"Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem"
Russell L Ackoff words here say it all. Our clients, managers and ourselves can all press us into actioning solutions to undefined or ill-defined problems, and we do this at our peril.
One of the key skills of any expert advisor is to take care to clarify and validate the problem before setting sail on the voyage to solution.
In t...
2020-05-1814 min
Consulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 3. Being in RapportIn this episode Sionic Partner Chris Cooke delves into the secrets of rapport, a critical consulting skill that is often dismissed as 'chit chat'.
Rapport is a core aspect of how we interact with others and is a perhaps surprisingly rich, interesting and complex topic.
2020-05-1815 min
Consulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 2. Expert ListeningThe first of the 7Cs in our consulting cycle is "Client".
In this episode Sionic Partner Chris Cooke reveals techniques and skills to initiate the client consulting partnership.
You will learn to hold consulting conversations that are better prepared, better structured and in which you can use 'expert listening' to build understanding and trust. Our aim is to create a first and lasting impression of you as a trusted expert advisor.
2020-05-1812 min
Consulting ConversationsConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingWelcome to our Consulting Conversations series hosted by Sionic Partner Chris Cooke.
The goal throughout the series is to help you lead more effective conversations, whether you are a consulting professional, or any one who can benefit from consulting skills, whatever your role.
2020-05-1512 min
Consulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations 14: Begin with the end in mind...This is my series finale!
Not so much a climatic cliff edge closing, but rather an exhortation not to enter into any change situation or campaign without a clear exit strategy.
There is encouragement not to move on too fast and leave a legacy of loose ends and incompleted relationships but rather to focus on satisfaction, learning and acknowledgement.
On which subject, thank you the listener for your interest and thank you to all my colleagues at Catalyst, now Sionic who have contributed their expertise to our joint endeavours. You will recognise your...
2020-04-2411 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations 11: Sustaining Conditions for SuccessHow as a change expert or consultant can you create and influence the conditions for project success?
In this episode I share some critical insights from Sionic's research into project success factors, and my own experience.
The core message is that relentless focus on outcomes, degree of collaboration and clarity of vision are found to be present in over 90% of the projects we have analysed that were considered successful.
The assertion is that sustained attention to these factors can make all the difference between being on the failure path or the success path.
2020-03-3118 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations 10: Think Big. Start Small!As change leaders and project managers we only tend to see as risks the problems that we have seen before and solved in the past.
In my earlier days as a project and programme manager, I believed that as PM I was responsible for and owned the plan, therefore I should be its sole author. After all, I was the expert with the knowledge and experience to succeed. This belief did not always serve me well...particularly when coupled with inappropriate self-belief and optimism bias...
In this episode I share a few of the more...
2020-03-2315 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations 9: Collaborative Intelligence'Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.' - Michael Jordan.
Following from conversations for possibility we need to be able to manage effective conversations for opportunity, making the critical decisons that create the strategy for change. It is clearly important to make the right calls at this point: the cost of change inexorably climbs as we progress through implementation.
Although we may be experts in our field, we should not believe that we have a monopoly of good ideas. We need to be inclusive and collaborative in our approach. Rather than having...
2020-03-1615 min
Websuasion ConversationSionic Mobile ULink Technology with Bob BurroughsBob led Bellsouth Mobility (now AT&T) in the launch of several consumer products including voice connect and one-number service. He headed product planning and marketing for IntelliOne and launched the company’s ioVector application for iPhone and Blackberry – a traffic navigation and trip planning app marketed through Rogers Communications throughout Canada. He has been head of EVP Products for Sionic Mobile since 2010.
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2020-03-0927 minPodcast Archives - The Websuasion Group LLCSionic Mobile ULink Technology with Bob BurroughsBob led Bellsouth Mobility (now AT&T) in the launch of several consumer products including voice connect and one-number service. He headed product planning and marketing for IntelliOne and launched the company’s ioVector application for iPhone and Blackberry – a traffic navigation and trip planning app marketed through Rogers Communications throughout Canada. He has been head of EVP Products for Sionic Mobile since 2010.
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2020-03-0927 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations 8: Systemic Design'Every system is perfectly designed...to get the results it gets'.
As consultants, we aim to change results towards desired outcomes. This requires us to think at the level of changing complex systems. Not merely information systems, but wider enterprise ecosytems. We need to see organisations not as simple machine bureaucracies but as complex social systems - and the larger the organisation, the more complex the system.
In Sionic, we have for more than twenty years now, developed and used a powerful systemic design approach to create Visons and strategies for change that modify the key dimensions of organisational performance...
2020-03-0616 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations: 5 The Outcome Distinction"If you do not know where you are going, any road will get you there...If only you walk long enough"
Unlike Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, as expert consultants and advisors, we will always seek to start with the end in mind - defining the desired future state to move towards.
It turns out that this is another one of those 'common sense' skills that is not that common in reality. All too often, we see change programmes focussed entirely on the deliverables, or measurement scorecards focussing on the benefits. Both of these, although laudable, c...
2020-02-1313 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations: 4 Clarifying the Problem"Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem"
Russell L Ackoff words here say it all. Our clients, managers and ourselves can all press us into actioning solutions to undefined or ill-defined problems, and we do this at our peril.
One of the key skills of any expert advisor is to take care to clarify and validate the problem before setting sail on the voyage to solution.
In th...
2020-02-0514 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations: 3. Being in RapportIn this episode I delve into the secrets of rapport. In my experience this is a critical consulting skill that is often dismissed as 'chit chat'.
In fact it goes to the core of how we interact with others and is a perhaps surprisingly rich, interesting and complex topic.
Hopefully you will find some useful tips and tools to take away and apply with your clients, stakeholders and teams.
Chris Cooke. Partner, Sionic.
2020-01-2415 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations: 2 Expert ListeningThe first of the 7Cs in our consulting cycle is Client.
In this episode I unpack techniques and skills to initiate the client consulting partnership..
You will learn to hold consulting conversations that are better prepared, better structured and in which you can use 'expert listening' to build understanding and trust.
Creating a first and lasting impression of you as a trusted expert advisor.
If you would like to know more about me, please check me out on Linked In. Chris Cooke, Partner, Sionic.
2020-01-1312 minConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingConsulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of ConsultingWelcome to my Consulting Conversations series. The goal throughout is to help you lead more effective conversations, whether you are a consulting professional like myself, or any one who can benefit from consulting skills, whatever your role. Hopefully you will find some value here. In this first episode, we are starting with an overarching framework. A client/consulting lifecycle model. Called the 7Cs, the cycle takes us throught considerations of Client, Clarify, Create, Change, Confirm, Continue, and Close. We will be expanding all of these elements in later episodes. If you would like to know more about me. please...
2020-01-0612 min
Thinking aloud with BNP Paribas - Securities ServicesOutsourcing: a new dawn for dealing desksIn this special edition we turn our focus to the buy side as Clare Vincent-Silk, Partner at management consultancy firm @Sionic is joined by our Head of Dealing Services, Thomas Castiel to discuss our research on the growth of outsourced dealing.
2019-09-0500 min
Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FSEp. 139. Interview: Ron Herman, Sionic Mobile & Michael Crawford, Fifth Third
First up on this week's episode, Sam talks to Ron Herman, founder and CEO at Sionic Mobile, an Atlanta cloud-based connected commerce platform company. Sam explores their work on a connected in-car gateway, beacons and how brands can leverage their presence.
Next, Sam talks to Michael Crawford from Fifth Third Bank. Michael explains Momentum, Fifth Third's new app to tackle student loan debt, and why the regional bank chose to get into fintech. They also explore Fifth Third's 'skateboard' approach to building out a product and why they set up a project team of millennials.
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2017-10-1142 min
Midtown Business RadioION Loyalty Rewards and Small Business SaturdayION Loyalty Rewards and Small Business Saturday This week I got to sit down with another pair of movers and shakers in the technology and payment processing/ merchant services space in Atlanta. William Mills of William Mills Agency introduced us to Ronald Herman, founder of Sionic Mobile. We talked about the cool app the […]
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2014-11-1900 min