Aston means business

In this latest episode looking at the impact of COVID-19 on SMEs Steve talks to La’Toyah Lewis founder of Rising Stars Property Solutions CIC a third sector property management company and Paula Whitehouse Director of the Aston Centre for Growth about balancing financial and social sustainability.

In this latest episode looking at the impact of COVID-19 on SMEs Steve talks to Peter Monks co-founder of Shakespeare Distillery and Mark Hart Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business about how businesses are adapting in the short term and the long term.

In this special episode Steve talks to Rosie Ginday of Miss Macaroon a social enterprise business about how she is supporting the mental health and wellbeing of her staff during this crisis and Dr Wladislaw Rivkin an expert in leadership, wellbeing and employee resilience.

With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening to shut down the economy, we’re working with Aston Centre for Growth to turn the podcast’s attention towards how SMEs are dealing with the crisis. This special series is called ‘Aston means business: SMEs dealing with COVID-19’. In each episode, we’ll be talking to current and previous business participants in Aston Centre for Growth’s programmes. We’ll be pr...

  With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening to shut down the economy, we’re working with Aston Centre for Growth to turn the podcast’s attention towards how SMEs are dealing with the crisis. This special series is called ‘Aston means business: SMEs dealing with COVID-19’. In each episode, we’ll be talking to current and previous business participants in Aston Centre for Growth’s programmes. We’ll be...

With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening to shut down the economy, we’re working with Aston Centre for Growth to turn the podcast’s attention towards how SMEs are dealing with the crisis. This special series is called ‘Aston means business: SMEs dealing with COVID-19’. In each episode, we’ll be talking to current and previous business participants in Aston Centre for Growth’s programmes. We’ll be pr...

With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening to shut down the economy, we’re working with Aston Centre for Growth to turn the podcast’s attention towards how SMEs are dealing with the crisis. This special series is called ‘Aston means business: SMEs dealing with COVID-19’. In each episode, we’ll be talking to current and previous business participants in Aston Centre for Growth’s programmes. We’ll be pr...

This week Steve sits down with Ali Bigdeli a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Service Innovation in The Advanced Services Group at Aston Business School. His interests lie in the operational and organisational change brought about when businesses intend to introduce technological innovations to the market. His research at the Centre focuses on how servitization helps a business to bring its products...

This week Steve sits down with Wladislaw Rivkin a lecturer in work & organisational psychology. Wladislaw's research focuses on the interplay of work-related stressors, employee resilience, and leadership in predicting health, well-being, and performance at work. He also has vast experience as a practitioner who delivered several individual employee and leadership development programmes focusing o...

This week Steve sits down with Kathy Daniels an expert with a long history in Human Resources. They discuss the process of dismissing bad staff with a view to how dismissal should often only be on the table when you've exhausted a number of other options.

In our first episode Steve sits down with Chris Umfreville an expert in the area of corporate insolvency. Chris is the contributing editor for Palmer's Company law and before joining Aston Chris practised as a solicitor with an international law firm, specialising in insolvency related advice to major UK and international clearing banks and multinational accountancy practices.

A podcast from Aston Business School hosted by Journalist Steve Dyson. Steve will be interviewing some of the UK's top business academics every month at Aston around. In this pilot episode, Steve introduces the series and gives a brief overview of the first two episodes in this initial series of ten episodes.