For Mia Drennan, rejection was the nudge she needed to walk away from corporate stability to a build a business spanning four continents.

This week on the delivery space podcast, Sharon and I had the privilege of speaking with Mia, founder of GLAS, a global leader in financial administration.

Working directly with Mia, Sharon and I have both been inspired by her and other senior leaders within GLAS that we couldn’t wait to get her story out there.

Mia had a thriving career, a six-figure salary and promotion that never came.

Rather than ponder over what could’ve been, she made a decision to re-write her own narrative, discovered a gap in the market and built a business to serve and guide clients through complex transactions.

In this episode, Mia shares:

📍How rejection became the catalyst for her entrepreneurial journey

📍Why service and trust are the cornerstones of every client relationship

📍The importance of nurturing the people around you as great businesses are built by empowered teams

About our guest

Mia is one of the Founding Partners of Global Loan Agency Services Limited ("GLAS") an independent, non-bank, conflict free, provider of loan agency and trustee services with a particular niche in restructurings and special situations. GLAS is fast becoming known as a proactive, forward thinking, solutions provider who is readily able to step into "messy" situations and get the job done.

Connect with Mia Drennan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miadrennan/?originalSubdomain=uk

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Daniel is a Delivery Coach based in London. He is interested in helping others to build intelligent teams by taking inspiration from cognitive science.

He hosts the "Agile On The Mind" podcast and a blog where he explores these ideas along and with his star cast of guests.

Daniel's Blog: https://agileonthemind.substack.com/

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Chris is a know-it-all about generative AI and all of the tools around it.

Chris helps teams build capabilities and systems which align them to strategic goals. He believes that growing in-house digital capabilities, with team's easily able to understand their purpose, enables businesses to achieve lasting impact and accelerate the delivery of products.

So which tools will benefit your team?

Connect with Chris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-alderson/?originalSubdomain=uk

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How does being a "Kanban Queen" help Helen and everyone around her?

Helen is an outgoing and driven coach and trainer who is passionate about working with Individuals, teams and organisations on their road to agility. Helen has worked with many varied organisations and teams in many different industries and brings this vast wealth of experience and knowledge to her training and coaching.

Connect with Helen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenjmeek/

The Kanban Edge website: https://kanbanedge.org/

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How will AI impact the world of business, and most importantly, your teams?

Community and Curiosity are Stuart’s core values which have led him through his 20+ year digital career. Starting with pivotal Agile and Digital transformations for major players like ASDA / Walmart and the NHS, he became an agile advocate back in 2004.

Connect with Stuart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartmunton/

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Shahzad is a lead agile coach, he has over 14 years of experience in partnering with organisations to achieve business transformation and customer satisfaction. He holds the Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credentials, and he has extensive knowledge and skills in agile methodologies, training, mentoring, and analytical thinking.

Niall is a seasoned leader with over three decades of experience, transitioning from a software engineer to a dynamic cross-functional leader. His core philosophy centers on empowering individuals to reach their full potential, across various domains, including engineering, product development, data, architecture, user experience, and operations.

Connect with Shahzad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahzad-nawaz727?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app

Connect with Niall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niallhorley?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app

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Haroon Khalil is a Lean-Agile Practitioner and a Professional Coach, working with individuals, teams, managers, and Senior leadership teams to help them deliver results.

His favourite focus areas involve unearthing better ways to help people adapt to the pace of change in business environments, improve overall business performance, grow leadership capabilities at all levels, and support better ways of working to bring the delivery of purposeful outcomes to life.

He's worked with people from a wide variety of sectors, these include: Asset Management, Banking, Insurance, Consultancy, Recruitment, Start Ups, Retail, Sports, and Public Sector institutions.

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For Jord, the best time to play a game, is always!

Jord is a freelance Agile Coach and Senior IT Program Manager. He supports the Agile transformation of companies and the development of the IT teams by putting in place collaboration best practices as communication models, visual facilitation, collective intelligence, meeting facilitation techniques and gamification. He supports company communication by creating posters summarising key points. He also facilitates brainstorming workshops using visual canvas and facilitation techniques such as liberating structures.

Jord's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordrengerve/

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