What is your mission? Is your business purpose-driven? Can purpose-driven business creates value commercially as well as social impact? Sara Lawton, Managing Director of Rise Construction Framework, is convinced that you can, so she went and did it.

Rise Construction Framework was born out of a strong conviction that a construction framework could deliver exceptional service to its clients while positively impacting the communities within its operating areas. Showing the sector, quite simply, that commerciality and social value can co-exist, and can create an innovative and purposeful new model for doing business.

Key takeaways from this podcast:

- Using your pain as motivation

- Causes of modern poverty in the UK

- The power of empathy to make change

- The importance of good peers

- Balancing commerciality with purpose

- Leadership lessons.

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This podcast is created by Phil Birss and produced by Elephant Digital.