Richard Kilgarriff meets another brilliant mind in great company: Former Nike CMO Greg Hoffman shares original, memorable insights from Emotion By Design after his Books for Breakfast members' event at Soho House in London.

This week, Richard is sharing OMI with an angel investor and head-hunter who joined the world of finance and technology just before it crashed in 2008. Thankfully, she survived and ten years' later set up up the Equality Group with a mission to transform society and business by encouraging leaders to embrace diversity. In this episode they discuss privilege and what can be done to change mindsets at work.

Two brilliant minds from the world of sport and business put their heads together for a masterclass in helping yourself and the people around you grow every day.

This week Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with a man who maps the genesis and evolution of literature from clay tablets to digital screens, showing how the science of stories has invented solutions for being human in the same way that the wheel helped us to move forward and the jet engine helped us to fly.

The OMI in Bookomi stands for the Original, Memorable Insights that we find in books by the Most Wanted minds in business, science and culture.

Richard Kilgarriff is sharing OMI with a leading silicon-valley executive and tech entrepreneur Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, whose journey to the billion dollar boardroom has traversed the shoulders of internet giants such as Google, Amazon and the live entertainment ticketing marketplace Stubhub, where she was president until its sale to Viagogo for $4bn in 2020. Currently chairman of The Boardlist, a premium talent market-place , Sukhinder is also a board director at, among others, Urban Outfitters. In Choose Possibility – How to Master Risk and Thrive –she invites you to reassess your relationship with risk – to replace the fear of failure with the fear of missing out and put the “all or nothing” myth of the single choice behind you for good… If you’re currently feel like you’re out of your comfort zone but you want to progress in whatever you’re doing, listen up, this one is for you.

Nova Reid invites white British people to recognise the inherent racism of their national culture and to play a more active role in the anti-racism movement.

The Powerful and The Damned by Lionel Barber has been has been picked by Stuart Ford, the Chairman, CEO and founder of AGC Studios, the TV and film company behind blockbusters such as Midway and documentaries such as Lady Boss : The Jackie Collins Story.

Tim Higgins reports on cars and technology for The Wall Street Journal, where his sights often lock onto Silicon valley titan Elon Musk and Tesla, the electric car business that Musk founded in his own disruptive, daring and divisive image.

James Ashton is the former City Editor and Executive Editor at the London Evening Standard and Independent titles and before that City Editor at The Sunday Times and Chief City Correspondent at the Daily Mail. During this period he covered some of the biggest economic and corporate stories of recent times.

Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with young British activist / entrepreneur Jeremiah Emmanuel on the challenges facing young people today: Gangs, drugs, poverty and racism on a daily basis with a tough future ahead. For example, within days of attending a meeting at No.10 Downing Street with the UK prime minister, Jeremiah was stopped and searched by police, but this only serves to inspire him to work (and dream) harder to battle inequality and find some real solutions that everyone can be a part of.

Publishing phenomenon and Ted Talk sensation Simon Sinek (Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, The Infinite Game) has launched his own imprint called Optimism Press. Through it he hopes to find the people and the ideas to realise his vision of a better world at work. For Simon, Matthew Barzun - who was US Ambassador to the UK for five years - is one of those people: "Matthew doesn't just turn existing ideas of management and leadership upside down, he completely blows them up and starts again." In this episode we hear how the image of America was born, how the Queen misses seeing people's faces and the three expectations you should have for every human interaction. JOIN BOOKOMI HERE - https://bit.ly/MOSTWANTEDsignup

"A compelling account of why digital business transformation is so much bigger than technology alone." Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever Plc. The pandemic has brought the threats and opportunities of digital technology into sharp relief. In this Bookomicast, produced with support form the Marketing Society, Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz shares OMI with Richard Kilgarriff on the winners and losers in digital business transformation and how producers and consumers will work together to shape the future of work.

"I really want to hear what the authors of Framers have to say about machine-learning and human decision-making. Today we have immediate access to more data and more knowledge than ever before. And at Pearson, as the world's leading learning company, I want to know what we can do to make sure that we're always learning, always changing and re-framing the future with people in mind." Andy Bird CEO of Pearson Plc

Allbright Club co-founder Debbie Wosskow OBE picks this week's book to learn more about how friendship affects our health and what we can do to build and maintain real relationships in a post-lockdown, digital age. Plus... Why people in large families have fewer friends. How social media makes friendships last longer but still follows the rule of 150 when it comes to the number fo friends we have online. The difference between male and female friends. Which friends are replaceable and why. How business and religion survives and fails through friendship.

Every new Prime Minister thinks they’ll do it differently, but changing the furniture or your mobile phone number isn’t enough to change The Impossible Office. Is there such a thing as a happy PM? Is ruthlessness more effective than cruelty? How intelligent do you have to be to run the country?

Christian Gladwell, Global CEO at M&C Saatchi Performance, wants to read TARZAN ECONOMICS BY WILL PAGE, the former Chief Economist of music streaming platform Spotify. The book has original, memorable insights (OMI) drawn from the spring of the music industry as we know it today. Twenty years ago, the industry was like a broken record – unable to recognise or exploit the power of data science to get closer to its consumers – a mental block which Will Page helped to break down at PRS in the noughties and then Spotify from 2012.

"In this country, post-Brexit, post-Coronavirus, the workplace is a very chaotic, confused, troubled... sometimes toxic place... the pressures on peoples are immense... and this causes behaviours that can sometimes be perverse and can very often be destructive....For anybody who wants a healthy work environment and puts wellbeing employees at their heart, Clive's book is terrific...straightforward, practical and humane" Dr Anne Limb, Chair of UK Innovation and UK Scouts Association.

Has the BBC become too big, losing sight of its original purpose, to inform, educate and entertain, paying its execs and talent too much for the general public to stomach, losing younger viewers and listeners to new platforms and social media? Or is it just time for us to accept that all great things must come to an end…?

Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with the stand-up comedian, comedy club founder, activist and of the co-host of the Football, Feminism and Everything In-between podcast, which she co-hosts with her dad Alastair Campbell.