One Question

It is perhaps somewhat unusual to invite the company Chairman, to the podcast to answer our question but, in true One Question style in this episode, Sarah chats to friend, chairman and founder of New Working Class, James Scroggs, to answer our single question, can we rewrite the rules of leadership?  How do we define leadership in 2023? What are the tenants of true leadership? What role do busine...

Episode two of the brand new series invites Joe Twyman, the co-founder of independent public opinion consultancy, Delta Poll, to explore our one question, can we rewrite the rules of leadership?  One of Britain’s best-known political pollsters, Joe previously worked as Head of Political and Social Research at YouGov and was a director at the founding of the company back in 2000. Before leading the...

Series 4 of the One Question podcast returns, asking, can we rewrite the rules of leadership?  Episode one invites the Co-Founder of Word On The Curb, Ndu Uchea, to answer this series one question in conversation with Sarah. Word on the Curb is a youth insight and communications consultancy that specialises in working with ambitious brands to engage with underrepresented Gen-Z and Millennials.  Nd...

In the final episode of this series asking, can business make society better? Sarah is joined by Lucy Stephens, Headteacher of The New School, a new type of school on a mission to positively change the way we educate children in the UK, Sebastian Gray, Headteacher at Laurance Haines School in Watford and Karrelle Dixon, formerly heading up advertising agency, Wieden+Kennedy in Portland, Karrelle i...

In partnership with Bloomberg Media, Sarah is joined by CMO, Anne Kawalerski and Vice President of brand at Audi, Henrik Wenders, to answer our 2020 question, can business make society better? Through the lens of the marketing industry.  An illuminating conversation on the responsibility of marketers in balancing a strategy based on core values and commercial success. The call for new metrics of s...

In Partnership with Bloomberg Media,  Sarah is joined by Adeline Diab and Claire Bergkamp to discuss the responsibility the fashion industry has in making society better.  The fashion industry touches all of us, from high-end to the high street, but how great is the responsibility and is it fair? An honest conversation of the realities of fast fashion and a call to reframe consumerism.  Please sub...

In Partnership with Bloomberg Media,  Sarah is joined by Maia Godemer Research Associate at BloombergNEF and Jane Ambachtsheer, Global Director of Sustainability at BNP Paribas Asset Management in the regulation perspective.  Jane and Maia discuss the impact of regulation on making society better, from the responsibility of business, the rise of ESG frameworks and the urgency of a climate in crisi...

This week, Sarah Parsonage interviews Deborah Al Sayed, One Question Member and Director of Transformation, NHS Bristol, Gregor Henderson, National Lead, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Simon Gunning, CEO of CALM (Campaigning against Living Miserably) Charity to ask our 2020 question through the perspective of healthcare, specifically mental health and the impact of living through a global health...

This week, Sarah chats to Dominic Bianchi, co-founder of Bianchi restaurant group in Bristol, including, Pasta Loca , Pasta Ripiena , Bianchi , La Sorella and Mark Buckle, co-founder of Level Crossing record store in West London in the community perspective.  An inspiring interview from the perspective of small businesses founded on the principles of quality product and community.  Please subscrib...

In partnership with Bloomberg Media, Sarah is joined by Lauren Kiel, General Manager of Bloomberg Green and Silvia Marcon, Head of Women4Climate to answer, can business make society better? In the environmental perspective. Launched in 2020 Bloomberg Green is a global, multiplatform news brand focused on climate change. You can find out more by subscribing to their newsletter Women4Climate empower...

Barrister, Author,  founder of Black Women In Law, Alexandra Wilson joins Sarah Parsonage to answer our 2020 question, can business make society better?  An honest interview the role the legal system has in making society better, starting with equality.  To purchase a copy of Alexandra's book, In Black and White visit https://www.waterstones.com/book/in-black-and-white/alexandra-wilson/978191...

Joel Bakan is an author, filmmaker and a professor of law at the University of British Columbia. Joel joins Sarah Parsonage in interview answering this year's one question, can business make society? Author of The New Corporation: How good Corporation is bad for Democracy, the follow up to the original, The Corporation: The Pathological pursuit for Profit and Power published in 2004. A fascin...

Jess Phillips has served as MP for Birmingham Yardley since the 2015 general election and more recently served in Keir Starmer’s Opposition frontbench as Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding since 2020. Jess is author of Everywoman, One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth and more recently, Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S. published last Autumn. Please subscrib...

Writer and producer, Peter Ettedgui, joins Sarah Parsonage to answer this year's one question from the perspective of the Arts.  Peter is best known for his fashion documentary, McQueen and more recently, Netflix documentary celebrating the Paralympics, Rising Phoenix. This interview explores the role the Arts has both as a business and on society. A fascinating conversation not to be missed....

In the first episode of our two-part podcast series asking our 2020 question, can business make society better? Gail Gallie, Project Everyone and Kate Sandle, B-Corp UK join One Question Chairman, James Scroggs in the Business Perspective.  Please subscribe, rate and review to answer One Question. To find out more about One Question, visit onequestion.live Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our f...

Ella Goldner, Co-Founder of Zinc VC answers this series one question, is short-termism killing industry?  Please subscribe, rate and review to answer One Question. To find out more about One Question, visit onequestion.live Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our fortnightly letter 

Founder of SEO Moz and more recently Spark Toro, author of Lost and Founder, investor and entrepreneur, Rand Fishkin joins Sarah Parsonage to answer this series one question, is short-termism killing industry?  Please subscribe, rate and review to answer One Question. To find out more about One Question, visit onequestion.live Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our fortnightly letter 

Investigative journalist and author James Ball, answers this series one question in an interview with One Question chairman, James Scroggs.  James is Global Editor at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a former journalist at The Guardian and author of The System, out this month.  Please subscribe, rate and review to answer One Question. To find out more about One Question, visit onequestion.l...

David Fuller, Producer, Director and founder of Rebel Wisdom joins Sarah Parsonage to answer, one question, are journalists finally breaking the mould of journalism?  Formerly of the BBC and Channel Four David offers a unique perspective to this series one question.  Please subscribe, rate and review to answer One Question. To find out more about One Question, visit onequestion.live Follow us on I...

Assistant Editor of the Financial Times, former Editor the Guardian US and Editor of Buzzfeed UK, Janine Gibson joins Sarah Parsonage to answer this series, One Question, are journalists finally breaking the mould of journalism?  Real insight into the journalist perspective.  Please subscribe, rate and review to answer One Question. To find out more about One Question, visit onequestion.live Follo...

Series One asks, are journalists finally breaking the mould of journalism?  Sarah Parsonage is joined by Dr Meredith Clark is a journalist and assistant professor in the department of media studies at Virginia University. Meredith's research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power – covering everything from media processes like newsroom hiring and reporting practices to the dig...

One Question asks, are journalists finally breaking the mould of journalism?  Sarah Parsonage is joined by American Journalist and Professor Jeff Jarvis to answer this series One Question.  Jeff Jarvis is the Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journ...