The Purposeful Strategist

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Melissa Quinn, General Manager of Slingshot UK / Seradata.  Melissa wants to make sure space is an asset we can continue to use, even as it becomes more crowded. Join me for an education in the business of space, strategy development in a high-tech global startup, and the components of resilient leadership.  

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Elizabeth Muller, CEO of Deep Isolation.  Liz wants to unlock the potential of nuclear power to address global warming.  Join me for an informative and inspiring discussion about what it takes to bring a breakthrough idea into the world. 

How do you stand out as a service provider and a place to work? Jo Farmer and Rich Miskella, Joint Managing Partners of law firm Lewis Silkin, share their views on how they do that. #lewissilkin

Sara Bailey shares her path to find the real reason Trowers & Hamlins needed to grow.  It wasn’t just for the money…

Does doing the right thing environmentally have to be a tradeoff or can it create financially sustainable investments? Andrew Wordsworth thinks it can.  He’s the Managing Partner of Sustainable Ventures, a business that’s based on this idea.  Hear how they navigate the issues of purpose and strategy, while developing sustainability clusters across the UK.

Claire Clarke, Managing Director of law firm Mills & Reeve, for 20 years one of the UK’s best companies to work for , shares how they moved beyond focusing on what they do to get at the why – and the new challenges that brings.   #AchieveMore. Together  #Purpose   #LegalServices Twitter: @MillsandReeve

How does the oldest UK law firm in operation make change happen? Sarah Henwood, Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Snell & Passmore, shares their approach to ensuring their strategy doesn’t end up being just a document on a shelf. #thomsonsnellpassmore #sarahhenwood #lawcareers #strategy #purpose #socialpurpose #ESG #leadership

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome David Frise, CEO of BESA, the Building Engineering Services Association.  David describes how they’ve made their strategy more purposeful, as well as outlining a vision of how construction could become faster, safer, and greener, and less disruptive.

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome back David Hall, CEO now of Peritum Group, which is the holding company of Totalkare. David describes how they have been able to maintain their culture and the high level of customer service their strategy is based on, while growing at almost 50% annually. 

Adrian Bettridge shares how Baringa has grown to become a global consulting business and the leading energy, climate change, net zero consulting firm in the world, while also being a top 10 Great Place to Work for the last 15 years – and recently becoming a B Corp. 

Lorin Gresser of DemDX had an idea.  Turned out it was a bigger idea than she thought.  Join me for an interesting and fun exploration of how they are changing the most important part of the health care system: the point of first contact. And, of course, we get into the “how” of their strategy and purpose – what they are doing to work on both. https://www.demdx.com/ linkedin.com/in/dr-lo...

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Denise Massey, Managing Director of EIC, a platform where great businesses big and small can innovate together to create a safe, affordable, and decarbonised energy system. She shares the first thing a CEO needs to do in developing an effective purpose and describes the role their values played in building the organisation. 

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Steve Ford, CEO of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.  Steve shares how listening was the key to developing their new strategy.  He also talks about the practical steps they have taken to turn the strategy into action – including some of the difficult choices they had to make.  Towards the end of the episode, we touch on why an...

­­­­ Dena McCallum of Eden McCallum shares how they have pursued a core purpose over more than 20 years, using a disruptive business model in a very traditional industry: management consulting. 

How do you prepare for long term success? Mike Carragher, CEO of VHB, returns to share with us what they have been doing to ensure their “generational” company thrives long into the future.  As someone at the top of his game in an industry that’s pivotal to creating a world we will want to live in, Mike provides a special view of the current CEO challenges and how to address them. 

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Harry Drajpuch, CEO of Amware Fullfilment.   Harry delivers a masterclass on how to identify a company's purpose, create a clear strategy, and build a strong company culture.   He provides memorable examples and simple rules that everyone can understand and use to guide what they do day-to-day.  This episode is a must-listen for...

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Eric Ressler, Founder and Creative Director of Cosmic, a creative agency that is exploring how digital experiences can spark real world change.   They empower social impact organizations by helping them nail their impact story, build brand awareness, and inspire action. Eric shares what it takes to embrace and stick with a new purpose and...

In this episode, I’m joined by Dave Edwards,  Chief Executive of the Royal Aeronautical Society. We explore the challenges of keeping a 157 year-old organisation relevant in a changing digital world, while engaging younger generations and addressing environmental challenges.

In this episode, I’m joined by Philip Goodwin, CEO of VSO, an organisation whose purpose is to create a fair world for everyone.  As you will hear, he’s thought deeply about how to develop and use strategy effectively in very uncertain environments, and about the type of leadership needed when you have big ambitions but it’s not clear how you will achieve them. Join me for this episode full o...

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome 3 innovative CEOs, Helen Rippon, Mark Walley, and Julian Mund, to explore how collaboration helps their relatively small organisations effectively pursue huge ambitions.  There are valuable lessons here for leaders of organisations of all types and sizes. 

Colin Fyfe, CEO of the Hinkley & Rugby Building Society talks about how they serve customers that can be underrepresented by larger organisations, what external support they had in their work on purpose, and how they demonstrate their purpose – not just talk about it. 

Learn why RYA Chief Executive Sara Sutcliffe is putting inclusion and the environment at the heart of their new strategy. She talks about the journey she and her team went on to develop a fundamentally different strategy that shouldn’t come as a big surprise to their staff and key stakeholders.

In this episode, I’m joined by Stephen Mann, CEO of the IFoA, the Institute and Facility of Actuaries. Steven and I explore why they felt they needed to explicitly define their purpose and the role that newly defined purpose has had in creating connection and change. Please join me for an episode full of provocative points of view and practical advice.  https://actuaries.org.uk/ linkedin.com/...

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Sarah Turner, CEO of Angel Academe, the UKs most active and longest-established female-focussed network of angel investors. Sarah describes the problem she wanted to fix, why she chose a business as her platform for doing something with a big philanthropic element, how they contributed to changing the conversation around gender in tech startups and star...