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.

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Claire Clarke, Managing Partner of Mills & Reeve. She shares how they moved beyond focusing on what they do to get at the why – and the new challenges that brings. 

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.

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 of Peritum Group, which is the holding company of Totalkare, where he was CEO when we last spoke. 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. 

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Adrian Bettridge, Managing Partner of Baringa.  Adrian 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.  Please join me for this rich, insightful, and inspiring episode. 

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Dr Lorin Gresser of DemDX who talks about an idea she had during med school.  Turned out it was a bigger idea than she first thought.  Join me for an interesting and fun exploration of how DemDX is changing the highest leverage part of the health care system: the point of first clinical contact.  And, of course, we get into the “how” of their strategy and purpose – what they are doing to develop both.

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.