By invitation · A Front&Centre® podcast

The
Guest List

The front row of customer growth. One guest, one real conversation, properly produced. The Spotlight is yours.

One seat · The right people · Your work, made visible

What it is

One guest. The floor is yours

The Guest List is a conversation series about the people winning the right customers, and how they actually do it. One guest per episode. This time, you.

This is the launch of a brand new Spotlight series from Front&Centre®, with one purpose: to give the stage to the best leaders in customer growth. One of them is you.

A real conversation, properly produced, with the floor and the Spotlight yours, so you sound like the sharpest version of yourself. Which, usually, you are.

See it in action

A few from the list

Real conversations, properly produced. Press play.

The Power of Narrative with Erika Clegg
Radical Honesty with Ife Thomas
Unboxing Neurodivergent Talent with Stewart Desson

Who hosts it

Hosted the way he consults

David Ventura. The Front Man and CEO at Front&Centre®, with more than two decades working alongside sales, leadership and customer teams.

Curious, direct, more interested in the useful answer than the easy one.

His only job in the room is to make you sound like the sharpest version of yourself.

Your host
David Ventura

The Front Man and CEO at Front&Centre®. Two decades alongside the teams who win, keep and grow the customers who matter.

The company you'll keep

You're in good company

Founders, CEOs and customer leaders who are genuinely winning the right customers, and keeping them. The kind of operator the rest of the room quietly wants to learn from. If you're reading this, you're one of them.

Founders

Building something the right customers keep choosing.

CEOs

Running businesses that win and keep the customers who matter.

Customer leaders

The people quietly winning the room, and growing it.

Why it's worth your morning

Your work, made visible

Your customers don't buy because of a brochure. They buy because of evidence: when they can see, hear and feel that someone understands them and has done good work for people like them. This is where you put that evidence on record, in your own words.

The floor is yours

One guest, one real conversation. The Spotlight is yours, and the host's only job is to make you sound like the sharpest version of yourself. Which, usually, you are.

Your best work, on record

This is you, out loud, showing exactly how you win, keep and grow the customers who matter. The kind of proof a brochure could never carry.

You're on it because you earned it

Being asked is the point. The Guest List is exactly that, a list. You are on it because the work speaks, and the right people already know your name.

What you get

The red-carpet treatment

You give one morning. You leave with the experience, and an asset that keeps working for months.

In the room

Treated like the talent

  • Treated like the talent: briefed, prepped and looked after from arrival to wrap.
  • Studio production, multicam, lighting and sound, all handled. You turn up and talk.
  • A relaxed, private studio. Just you, the host and the cameras.
  • The Spotlight on a show built to flatter the work, not the ego.
What you keep

An asset with your name on it

  • A long-form episode with your name on it.
  • Social-ready clips you can share across your own socials.
  • A finished asset that makes your trust visible, with none of the production headache.
  • One morning in the studio, turned into content you can keep using.

How it runs

Three steps, the same every time

  1. 01

    The invite

    A short call to agree your angle, the story worth telling, and what you want to be known for.

  2. 02

    The conversation

    A studio session, no script and no autocue. Just you, on form, in a real conversation that happens to be properly produced.

  3. 03

    The content

    Your episode goes out on the show. You get it back too, along with a set of clips, yours to keep and share on your own channels if you want.

If you can have a real conversation for an hour, you can do this.

The signature segment

The Ugly Mirror

The honest reflection most leaders avoid. The blindspot. The thing nobody puts in the LinkedIn post. We hand it to you, on camera, and ask you to look.

Brutal honesty, handled with respect. You are never made to look small.

The opposite: looking in the ugly mirror is the flex. Self-awareness reads as confidence, and the leaders brave enough to face their blindspots are the ones the audience remembers. That is you.

  • Your delivery is better than your reputation. Where is the gap, and why has nobody seen it?

  • Who keeps choosing the competitor, and what do they know that you wish they didn't?

  • What is the deal you keep losing, and what is the real reason underneath the polite one?

  • Which customer should you have kept, and what did you miss?

  • Your happiest customer. Why aren't they your loudest?

  • What would your team tell me that they wouldn't tell you?

It comes late, once the trust is there, and you are in good hands the whole way. You leave with the blindspot turned into your next move.

Questions

Good to know

Do I need to prepare anything?

No. If you can have a real conversation for an hour, you can do this. We agree your angle beforehand, then we talk. No script, no autocue, no homework.

What do I walk away with?

Your episode airs on the show, and you get it back along with a set of clips, all produced for you. Yours to keep and share on your own channels.

What is the Ugly Mirror?

The signature segment. Late in the conversation, once the trust is built, we hand you the honest reflection most leaders avoid, on camera. Brutal honesty, handled with respect. Looking in it is the flex, and it is the part the audience remembers you for.

How do I get on the list?

Being asked is the point, so most guests are invited. If you already know you belong on it, start the conversation and we will take it from there.

How long does it take?

A short invite call, then a single studio session. We handle the rest, from production to your finished clips. Your time is one morning.

Take your seat

The Guest List is exactly that, a list. You are on it because the work speaks. If you already know you belong on it, start the conversation. One morning, and the Spotlight is yours.