Victoria Snowden and Gordon Watchorn continue to explore what it means to be a CEO with Georgia Stewart, co-founder and CEO of Tumelo. Tumelo provides enterprise-grade software to help asset owners to align their voting with their stated values. Georgia recounts the dramatic journey of a start-up, from its birth in 2018 to today.

In this episode, Victoria Snowden and Gordon Watchorn talk to Helen Dickinson OBE, CEO of the British Retail Consortium, about how the role found her, and she shares her insights on the retail sector.

Camilla Nichol joined the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust as CEO in 2014, taking on a role unlike any other, preserving the history of the last great unspoiled continent.

This week’s podcast is the story of Helen Dean CBE, the CEO of NEST, the National Employment Savings Trust. Helen is one of the architects of auto-enrolment, helping to bring 9 million UK workers into pension saving. Helen recounts the detail of the challenge, from defining the concept through to seeing the first £19 invested, to the multi-billion pound national pension scheme that exists today.

In this episode Victoria Snowden and Gordon Watchorn talk to Caron Bradshaw OBE, CEO at Charity Finance Group (CFG). 

We explore Caron’s journey from being a trained barrister to CEO of a non-profit organisation, and all the learnings in between. We also discuss how CFG has evolved over her 13 years as CEO. 

Key takeaways:

- Be intentional.

- Listen to understand and not reply.

- “Fill up your bath” – do more of the things that replenish your energy levels.

In this episode Victoria and Gordon meet Matthew Charlton, CEO of London-based creative advertising agency Brothers and Sisters.

Highlights include:

- The role of the CEO pre, post and through lockdowns.

- Being in the memory game.

- The importance of seeing projects through to completion.

- The vital skill of learning from failure.

- His experience navigating the change from profit-driven to social enterprise.

Recorded live at the annual PLSA conference in Manchester! In part two of this bumper episode, we talk to Helen Miles of NHS Pensions Board and Louise Davey of TPR.

Recorded live at the annual PLSA conference in Manchester! In part one of this bumper episode, we talk to LCP’s Clive Wellsteed and John Towner of Legal and General, Richard Law Deeks of Royal Mail Pension Plan, LCP's Michelle Wright, and Lizzy Holliday of NOW: Pensions.

Today we’re covering day two of the PLSA conference, including interviews with Tegs Harding of Independent Governance Group, Fiona Frobisher of DWP, Sarah Smart of TPR, and Julian Barker of DWP.

We discuss sustainability, the DB funding code, CDC, and more.

Recorded live at the annual Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) conference in Manchester! We talk to Gregg McClymont of IFM Investors, Stuart White of HSBC Global Asset Management UK, and Fiona Brown of Rolls Royce.