“Once you get over yourself,” says Matt King, headmaster of Great Ballard School, you can have “the joy of appointing people who are so much better than you.”

And it's that view that permeates his approach to colleagues, students and family – of every type. He is a headteacher who has an open door policy, celebrates fun, encourages brave thinking, even finds himself proud of a pupil protest. His values are legacies from his parents with an extra one on top, and are things he treasures, nurtures and consciously refers to in times of uncertainty.

We spoke about the values that have helped him take some quite radical steps in education of children from ages 2-16, balancing the necessary disciplines of the curriculum with some quite unusual approaches to lifelong learning.

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Simon describes his mission as mentoring, supporting and shaping an optimistic future for the design industry. He uses the global branding agency, DixonBaxi, of which he is co-founder as the platform for this, creating a group of people who make beautiful, original brands that change the world for the better. We spoke about colleagues, clients, creativity and childhood.

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The visonary behind the English football training centre, St George’s Park, and former chair of Ipswich Town Football Club, David Sheepshanks is now a business leadership coach. It was a joy to find out more about what powers him.

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Pia Sinha, now CEO of the Prison Reform Trust, is famed for her 18-month turnaround of ‘Britain’s worst prison’. But I found out there’s a lot more to know about this abundantly positive woman.

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Agetech entrepreneur Hannah is founder and CEO of The Joy Club, an online activity based community for people in later life. The business has values stitched through it, and we explore how these relate to her own personal values. Her account of how The Joy Club’s values and edge factors were created is fascinating and she shares fantastic insights to talent attraction.

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CEO of the Design Council Minnie Moll has always spoken of her own values, and built corporate values into strategies throughout her career. And now her focus is ‘Design for Planet’. We dig deeper to see where her values come from, and what the challenges and wins are as she progresses this ambitious and essential vision.

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Barrister turned farmer, Sunday Times best-selling author and mother: Sarah Langford is brimming with firefly energy, vehemently purpose driven and a fascinating topic for this episode of REV. We discuss story telling, the importance and practicality of regenerative farming, and what comes next – all in the context of a very powerful values set.

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Former shipbroker James Tweed’s career took a huge pivot when he found himself studying the impact of isolation on the prison population.

Now his company, Coracle, provides non-networked laptops to 90% of the prison estate. This is giving people access to skills, knowledge and experience that will allow them to make a positive contribution to society when they leave prison. In 2023, they won the King’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of their work.

I wanted to find out more about the man behind this mission – just what was it about James’s own values that inspired him to solve the problem he saw in his prison studies?

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High Sheriff of Greater London for 2024-2025, the irrepressible Millie Grant brings to life aspects of the capital you may not have known: from a child’s eye view of Princess Margaret’s wedding, to Knights Youth Centre that’s been doing good work in Streatham for nearly a century. And you’ll love the story of *that* cloak …

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