Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation

In part two of this series in collaboration with Mr & Mrs Smith, we continue to explore the travel industry’s role in delivering a more sustainable future in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the growing climate emergency.  This week Michael travels to Ostuni, a fairy-tale Italian city known for its labyrinth of historical white-washed buildings, as he visits Pascale Lauber and Ulrike Baus...

Michael welcomes Peter Flavel, the CEO of Coutts – the private bank and wealth manager that describes its clients as the trailblazers, pioneers, disruptors and challengers, who help to shape the fabric of UK society. And alongside that spirit of challenge is over three centuries of tradition, which provide Coutts with a unique perspective on the character of success, and the springboard of Peter’s...

Michael welcomes Jeroo Billimoria, the social entrepreneur, and founder of the One Family Foundation and co-founder of Catalyst 2030. Jeroo’s commitment to family is one that runs deep. After tragically losing her father at a young age, she made a career changing decision to create Childline India Foundation, and devote herself to a life driven by belief in the best of human nature, and the missio...

“To control the past they edited history, and to control the future they edited literature." The words of Michael’s guest today, the author Jane Thynne. While they belong to the setting of Jane’s brilliant thriller, Widowland , for many these words have unsettlingly felt closer to the world of facts than they do to fiction. Little wonder that Widowland was chosen by The Times as its 'Book of the M...

Host Michael Hayman welcomes Meg Mason, the author of Sorrow and Bliss, the best-selling novel acclaimed as "remarkable," "extraordinary" and containing a "brutal, hilarious and compassionate truth". With fans including The Times, The New York Times and the likes of Gillian Anderson, Pandora Sykes and Sophie Dahl, its protagonist has been compared to Phoebe Waller Bridge's Fleabag. With an option...

Joining Michael today is the polar explorer and campaigner, Ben Saunders, whose goal is to restore the very Earth he has explored from head to tail. Having skied for more than 6000km on polar expeditions over the last 20 years, including a solo skiing expedition to the North Pole in 2001, Ben holds the record for the longest human-powered Polar journey in history, and the longest solo Arctic journ...

We’re delighted to welcome Christina Bengtsson, the author and global thought leader on a mission to put society’s focus on the art of focus itself. She has been described as “the female version of James Bond. Moving on purpose with precision, charisma and grace." And for good reason. As a world champion in precision shooting and a former military officer, Christina knows just what it takes to lev...

Joining Change Makers today is Guy Schanschieff, co-founder and managing director of the reusable nappy company, Bambino Mio. With 90 billion disposable nappies thrown away worldwide each year, this is an urgent environmental challenge that Guy, and his wife and co-founder Jo have used their entrepreneurial talents and flair to address, with a mission to create reusables that are better for your p...

Michael is joined by Justine Roberts, the CEO and founder of Mumsnet – the website launched to help parents find and share information and advice. The site has gone on to become a popular forum, hosting over 10 million unique users per month. contributors have included Jamie Oliver, Dawn French, Gok Wan, Clare Balding and even Hillary Clinton. Little wonder then that former Prime Minister Gordon B...

The Change Makers collaborative series with University of London brings you Roly Keating, Chief Executive, British Library. Roly shares how the iconic institution has developed in a decade – from maintaining a safe space for gaining knowledge to digitising archives in the pandemic.

Thea Maria Carlson is an earth steward, farmer, facilitator, community weaver, speaker, writer, and co-creator. Thea collaborates with organisations, individuals, and communities at the intersections of food and agriculture, environmental stewardship, social justice, and economies of care. Thea offers skilled and multifaceted consulting, advising, facilitation, organisational development, speaking...

Credited as the new face of American fashion by Vogue at the start of her career, Arizona Muse first gained exposure in 2010 when she was chosen to open and close Prada’s Spring-Summer 2011 catwalk show in Milan. She has since fronted advertising campaigns for the likes of Chloé, Karl Lagerfeld and Louis Vuitton, and has been in cast in shows for Burberry, Chanel and Dior. She was signed as the fa...

Joining Michael today is Joseph Foster, co-founder of Reebok, to tell us the story of how the brand he co-founded with his brother started with a brilliant idea and turned into a billion-dollar sportswear legend and global icon. The entrepreneur who describes himself simply as “the shoe maker”, also the title of his new book about his role as co-founder, opens up on how a small family shoe making...

Joining Michael is Galahad Clark, from the family who brought us Clarks, the British shoe retailer founded in 1825. Galahad shares why he founded Vivobarefoot, the shoe brand that allows wearers the freedom and flexibility to move as if they were indeed barefoot. As the seventh generation of the Clark shoemaking dynasty, Galahad looks to live up to his family legacy not only in the products that h...

At a time when “trusted, impartial news has never been more vital,” Kamal Ahmed says he is taking lessons from almost 30 years in the newsroom to the News Movement, where he is on a mission to address a “global crisis of information”, aiming to deliver objective and trustworthy information for a digital generation. As editor-in-chief of the News Movement, the former editorial director of BBC News...

Michael is joined by Anil Sebastian, the artist, musician and creative director of specialist sonic branding agency DLMDD. As co-founder of the world-leading alternative choir London Contemporary Voices, Anil has fostered a creative, safe space for transgender and gender non-conforming singers to use their voices and spread the joy of music. And it is the act of spreading joy that drives Anil in t...

Michael is joined by Maryam Meddin, founder of The Soke: a new mental health concept integrating mental healthcare, wellbeing, support and performance coaching. Launched last year at the height of the pandemic, Maryam has seen first-hand the impact of COVID disruption on workplace well-being: both the good and the bad. From the isolation of lockdown to the new-found flexibility of remote working,...

In this Change Makers series in collaboration with Mr & Mrs Smith, we explore the travel industry’s role in delivering a more sustainable future in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the growing climate emergency. This week Michael Hayman is joined by Wilbert Das and Bob Shevlin, Founders of Uxua Casa. The hotel and spa is set right on the Unesco-protected Quadrado, making it an easy stroll...

Bob Wigley spent his banking career with Morgan Grenfell and Merrill Lynch and was EMEA Chairman of Merrill Lynch between 2003 and 2009. Between 2006 and 2009 he was a member of the Court of the Bank of England. He is a past member of the Takeover Panel, the FSA’s Senior Practitioners Panel and was the FSA’s nominated representative on the Council of European Securities Regulators Market Consultat...

In this Change Makers series in collaboration with Mr & Mrs Smith, we explore the travel industry’s role in delivering a more sustainable future in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the growing climate emergency.  This week Michael Hayman is joined by Sonu Shivdasani and Eva Malmström Shivdasani, founders of Soneva. A connection to the Maldives that started with a trip in 1995 for Eva, whe...

This week, Michael pays a virtual visit to Count Benedikt and Donna Nencia Bolza, founders of Hotel Castello di Reschio. A castello that once lay in ruin, Reschio is a passion project that defies convention to bring history to life. The couple share how their devotion to restoring the grounds, and acute attention to detail, has created architecturally awesome sights inside the castle and out. Alon...

Thanks to all our listeners for all of your support throughout our first 100 episodes. It has been an absolute pleasure for us to provide a platform for people with a passion to share their inspirational ideas and insights, in 100 interviews that we hope have provoked thoughts about the world and how we can all make a difference within it. This week, we’ll be sharing a special playlist in collabor...

Magnify Impact's aim is to focus the world’s abundant resources for good. It puts the power of purpose to work in companies, transforming cultures and the community. Since 2018, it has helped create social impact to supercharge profitability, guiding business leaders to put purpose into action, creating real, life-changing benefits for the company and society.  'Chief Troublemakers' Maggie Miller...

This week Michael Hayman is joined by Robin and Judy Hutson, founders of the Pig hotels. What began with a charmingly revamped estate in the New Forest in 2011 has grown into a litter of the UK’s most sought-after stays, each characterised by unique and eclectic interiors and sprawling kitchen-gardens, where most things on the now-famous 25-mile menu are grown.     Situated in some of England’s mo...

This week Change Makers in collaboration with the University of London brings you Dr Eliza Filby, Generations Expert & Historian of Contemporary Values. In this special series with global leaders, writers, and campaigners, we will be reflecting on more than a year of challenge and change as we ask the question: how has COVID changed us? A generations expert and historian in contemporary values...