Lead Out Loud

When he’s not spending time with his grandchildren, Mel Morris is fully focused on his role as CEO and Co-Founder of Corpora.ai. But his life story is one of a serial entrepreneur (with a stint of football ownership thrown in).

Mel is perhaps best known for helping set up King, the company behind the mobile gaming phenomenon, Candy Crush Saga. Before that, he was at the frontier of the internet dating space with uDate (which he went on to sell for £100 million) and owned online security company, Prevx. 

So, on this month’s episode of the Lead Out Loud podcast, host Bron Mills sat Mel down with Stephen Roper, Professor of Enterprise and Director of the ERC Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, to talk start-ups, investment and entrepreneurship.

In this episode:
• How Candy Crush became a worldwide PHENOMENON.
• Is there a better time than NOW to start a business?
• Does investment trump IDEAS and GOOD PEOPLE?

---

Lead Out Loud is the podcast from Warwick Business School where industry and academic expertise collide head-on in conversation.
Discover more on Leadership at the Warwick Business School website.

Follow us on LinkedIn for our Core Insights newsletter here.

Help make the podcast even better. Click here to share your feedback.

AI is a topic on every business leader’s lips right now. How’s it going to change the way we work? What tasks will it automate? And what are the ethical considerations leaders need to be aware of when it comes to Artificial Intelligence in the workplace?

For the rest of us, the big question we're asking is: Will AI take our job?

So, to kick off 2026, the Lead Out Loud podcast is tackling these questions head on. To do that, we invited Executive MBA alum and VP of Marketing (EMEA) at Proofpoint, Archana Dhankar, and Associate Professor Jochem Hummel on to have a chat with host Bron Mills about all things AI.

Also in this episode:
• Should we be using AI to write emails at work?
• The dangers of not using AI properly.
• Why university students should be using AI. But not to CHEAT.

---

Lead Out Loud is the podcast from Warwick Business School that brings academia and industry together in conversation.
Discover more on Leadership at the Warwick Business School website.

Follow us on LinkedIn for our Core Insights newsletter here.

Help make the podcast even better. Click here to share your feedback.

Alex Horne is the brains behind global smash-hit, Taskmaster. But what can we learn about leadership from five competitive comedians being set a series of strange, surreal challenges?

Quite a lot, according to Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Tamara Friedrich. Which is why we invited Alex and Tamara onto the Lead Out Loud podcast to discuss creativity, leadership styles and why you should never 'kill the frog'...

Also in this episode: 
• Why Alex thinks Greg Davies is ALPHA to his BETA.
• How Taskmaster initially FLOPPED in America.
• Does someone always need to WIN and LOSE in business?
Find out more about School Tasking at the University of Warwick here.
---

Lead Out Loud is the podcast from Warwick Business School that brings academia and industry together in conversation.
Discover more on Leadership at the Warwick Business School website.

Follow us on LinkedIn for our Core Insights newsletter here.

Help make the podcast even better. Click here to share your feedback.

As the last England men's cricket captain to win an away Ashes in Australia in 2010-11, Sir Andrew Strauss knows a thing or two about leading a high-performance team and handling big personalities. 
So, on this episode of the Lead Out Loud podcast, host Bron Mills gets Andrew in conversation with Dr Mark Bawden - who previously worked as a sports psychologist with the England Cricket Team and is now CEO and Co-Founder of Mindflick - a partner on the LeadershipPlus module at Warwick Business School for our Full-Time MBA. 
Also in this episode: 
• Can England REALLY win The Ashes in Australia? 
• How WATER BOTTLES signalled the end of a high-performance team. 
• The LEADERSHIP LESSONS we can learn from elite sport. 
Discover more about our LeadershipPlus module: https://www.wbs.ac.uk/courses/mba/full-time/structure/?tab=leadershipplus 
--- 
Lead Out Loud is the podcast from Warwick Business School that brings academia and industry together in conversation. 
Discover more on Leadership at the Warwick Business School website.

Follow us on LinkedIn for our Core Insights newsletter here.

Help make the podcast even better. Click here to share your feedback.

BOXRAW Founder and CEO, Ben Amanna, wants to own the boxing ecosystem - and he’s well on the way to achieving that goal.
His journey from first visiting a boxing gym at the age of 12 to help him stand up to bullies at school has taken him through ‘multiple failed businesses’ (his words) and selling everything from sweets in the playground to white goods and cars.  
One thing Ben has demonstrated in spades is RESILIENCE – which is why we sat him down on this episode of the Lead Out Loud podcast with Professor of Marketing (and author of the book, Brilliantly Bouncy), Laura Chamberlain.
Also in this episode: 
• The MISCONCEPTIONS around boxing. 
• Can ANYONE start a business? 
• What does resilience in business ACTUALLY MEAN.
---
Lead Out Loud is the podcast from Warwick Business School that brings academia and industry together in conversation.
Discover more on Leadership at the Warwick Business School website.

Follow us on LinkedIn for our Core Insights newsletter here.

Help make the podcast even better. Click here to share your feedback.