The Lens – UK Responsible Business Podcast

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Nick Corrigan asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our guest . . . Christopher Gray,...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Nick Corrigan asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest Kerry McNally spent over...

Introducing Season 3 Episode 5 of The Lens: This month our host Oli Barrett MBE is joined by Niall Dunne, CEO of Polymateria and Siobhan Gardiner, Climate Change and Environment Lead at Deloitte Ventures.  In this episode our host Oli Barrett MBE meets a doctor on a mission to bring the value of science to those who need it most and CEO of the Tesla of plastic. Oli and our guests discuss...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Nick Corrigan asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  Dave Parry is Chie...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  John Haynes is t...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  Brad is Managing...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  Fiona Smith-Lait...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  Pip Jamieson is...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  Wayne Close was...

This month our host Oli Barrett MBE is joined by Emma Bell, Co-Chair FinBiz Task Force for One Young World and Sir Richard Lambert, Chairman of The British Museum and Bloomsbury Publishing. Oli and our guests discuss starting points, self belief and what the future might hold for both employers and young creatives. Plus, we drill down on responsible business, covering everything from the models th...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  Paul Broadhead i...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest   Kirsty Gre...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest Mark Smith is the CEO...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  Abbie Morris is...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small. Build back better...  Our Guest  Miguel Veiga Pest...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small. Build back better... Our Guest  Anne Marie Verstraeten is th...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small. Build back better... Our Guest  Luke Bullen is the UK&I...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small.  Build back better...  Our Guest  Angela Lockwood...

The Lens Bitesize is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small. Build back better... In this episode, Oli Barrett is joined by An...

The Lens Bite Size is a series of micro episodes featuring senior leaders from the business community. In each episode our host, Oli Barrett MBE asks his guests about their responses to the COVID crisis and what can be done to future proof businesses, making them more responsible and equipped to deal with challenges, great and small. Build back better... In this episode, Oli Barrett is joined by P...

These are troubling times, both personally and professionally. Now more than ever, support for one another is needed. We hope that this episode and past episodes of The Lens will provide insight, support and a welcome distraction, wherever in the world you are. Stay safe. Let’s get to the conversation...  Introducing Season 3 Episode 3 of The Lens: This month our host Oli Barrett MBE is joine...

In this episode our host Oli Barrett introduces Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy and Deal Crafter at The Craftory, Olivia Cramer to discuss challenger brands, rebellious entrepreneurs, green energy and cause-driven business.  The three discuss how businesses can and should better reflect their customer base, what the future of energy might look like on a global scale and how to invest in g...

Season 3 of The Lens podcast is here and we're returning to work. Ann Pickering, Chief HR Officer and Chief of Staff at communications giant O2 and Ria Johal, a diversity and inclusion consultant with a wealth of wisdom to share, catch up with our host Oli Barrett MBE for our first episode of the season. Let's get to the conversation... In this episode our guests discuss breaks from work and retur...

What a year it's been! Many thanks to all our listeners all over the world, to Fujitsu and McCann for their generous support of this podcast, to One Young World and The Bright Network, to our Business In The Community member companies and of course, to our inspiring guests: the senior and future leaders making the world of business more responsible, illuminating new perspectives and leading by exa...

In the latest episode of The Lens, Unipart Chairman and Group Chief Executive, John Neill CBE and CEO of Spark Inside, Baillie Aaron join our host Oli Barrett MBE for a conversation. Our guests discuss judgement and policy when employing people who’ve been through the criminal justice system, the ways in which the charity and corporate realms intersect and how each can best support, influence and...