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Conversations on leadership, succession, and the work of preserving what makes a business distinctive as it grows. New episodes released throughout the year.
John is the founder of Anthropy, the national leadership gathering which he describes as Britain's largest crowdsourced agenda on the future quality of life, place and economy.His motivation stems, in many ways, from a deep love of country and a profound gratitude for the part it has played in his colourful and fulfilling life.Join us for a conversation that reaches back into childhood and forward to the potential impact of Anthropy.
Author of The Financial Times Guide to Business Ethics, Pablo has spent a life steeped in values. From his early days in the City to twenty years as an innovator in the education sector, Pablo now advises boards on business ethics. As you'd expect, he's a deep thinker with some remarkable stories to share. An unmissable episode.
Discover Hodmedod and you discover a wonderful collection of seeds and beans: some ancient, thought missing, all diverse, nutritious, flavoursome and interesting. But there's a secret to Hodmedod. It's designed to make its co-founders' philosophy real: good, often forgotten, crops have place on the modern plate and can solve many problems of the modern world at the same time. Josiah tells me all about it in this lovely episode.
Dame Helen describes herself as 'just a teenager from Leigh on Sea' who's happy for her family to keep her firmly down to earth. As former CEO of the Charity Commission, Helen's current areas of focus include the National Lottery Community Fund and the King's Foundation. She's purpose-driven and straightforward: this is an episode to relish.
Max is deploying his business nous for the greater good - not just offering the people of London great coffee at his Redemption Roasters cafes, but also supporting prison leavers back into work, back into society. Find out how and why he's doing this in the latest Slow Values episode.
Like Margaret Thatcher, Katharine Birbalsingh is one of those women about whom every article begins, “Like her or loathe her…” Also like Thatcher, she is driven by duty. And whether or not you agree with her methods or principles, few would deny her colossal impact on British education.In this revealing conversation, Katharine shares the experiences that shaped her conviction that every child deserves a good education. She also talks about Gladiator’s Russell Crowe, visiting Japanese restaurants in her pyjamas, and the joy of being unknown in New York.Wherever Katharine goes, there’s a buzz - but here, you’ll hear a side of “Britain’s Strictest Headmistress” you’ve never heard before.
This is a colourful conversation in which we discuss the balancing act of leadership, the need to follow what really interests you in life, and what kind of King William will be.Next year, Jamie's first novel, 'Beyond the Edge of Light', will be published by Penguin. But in the lead up to this moment he's been Commanding Officer of G Squadron SAS, Private Secretary to Princes William and Harry, and Equerry to the Queen Mother.
Renée is the founder of Planet Organic: the first organic supermarket group in Britain. This November she's celebrating 30 years of Planet. But her journey with the business has not been without its challenges. And what has Renée done? Seized them, grown through them - and come out with a huge smile on her face. This is a heartwarming and inspirational conversation that left me with a spring in my step. Enjoy!
Welcome to Slow Values. It’s the podcast formerly known as REV that brings values to life through the people who live by them.My policy from day one has been only to invite people I really want to chat to. To keep our conversations easy-going. To give my guests the opportunity to open up in a safe space.The result? I think you’ll enjoy it.These podcasts are a pleasure to listen to, full of things you won’t have heard before, offer some great life lessons and have loads of personality.With four more interviews happening in the next month or so - oh, and my goodness, these ones are going to be TERRIFIC - now’s the time to give Slow Values a follow.Be amongst the first to hear these “… very easy and very enjoyable” chats. (Thanks to Roisin Currie for the plaudit!)
Greggs' CEO Roisin Currie talks about her own values and those of the business. How did they come to be, how do they come to life - and how do they underpin the phenomenal growth of this British High Street hero?
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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?
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.
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.
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.
George Vestey is fourth generation at the helm of Vestey Holdings, a large international food business. In this episode you'll discover exactly how they set about creating and seeding values, how their multi-business model co-hosts local and group culture, and George's own career journey from the meat markets of South London to CEO. In recent years the group has delivered a generous and focused philanthropic programme - it's a superb example of the power of business to do good and makes for compelling listening.