Scotland’s recovery and how we re-open the economy with a fairer, more sustainable, focus is high on the agenda for many business leaders.

In this Clear Talking podcast our Brexit and Business Resilience Lead, Neil Amner, talks to Stuart Patrick CBE, Chief Executive of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, about the challenges and opportunities for businesses now. Stuart discusses the future of City Centre and wider economies in Scotland’s recovery and the importance of building business resilience. The podcast includes discussion on the development of digitisation and productivity and how we support the hospitality and culture sector. Scotlands ambitious net-zero plans and Glasgow’s Circular Economy underpin the discussion alongside the huge opportunities across the city’s Innovation Districts, which are fundamental to this.

Scotland’s dance, opera and theatre sector has been described as the ‘heart and soul of the nation’. In this Clear Talking podcast episode Barry Nichol talks to Jude Henderson, Director of the Federation of Scottish Theatre, about how essential the sector is to Scotland’s economy, how its members have been adapting through lockdown and what the future may look like for theatre, dance and the arts.    

CodeClan is Scotland’s digital skills and coding academy and Douglas McLachlan, Anderson Strathern’s Data & Technology Partner talks to CodeClan’s Sara Dodds and Stephanie Boyle, about how important data analysis skills and data driven innovation will be, as businesses adapt and develop through our new normal and beyond. CodeClan is working with the Scottish Government to provide accessible and affordable courses to upskill our workforce and provide the data skills which all businesses will need to analyse their markets and develop their offering. If you’re interested in the emerging data industry in Scotland, or if you’re interested in upskilling or making a career change then tune in to find out more.  

Liz McAreavey, Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce talks to our Chair Bruce Farquhar about business resilience in the current crisis and whether there is a need to re-think how we do business post lockdown, will this create sustainability, fair work and innovation? Liz has some re-assuring advice for our local businesses and optimism that our innovative city will continue to thrive post lockdown.  

What are the challenges of looking for a new home during lockdown and beyond? How is the property industry responding to this, how will house buying and selling change as we come out of lockdown? Just a few of the questions answered by Edwina de Klee, an Edinburgh based Property Finder at Garrington. Our Partner, Sara Jalicy, and Director, Jemma Richardson, from Anderson Strathern's residential property team, ask the questions.

Thanks to Kevin MacLeod for the intro music - 'Inspired'. Link

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Scottish Business Woman of the Year, Dr Marie Macklin is executive chair and founder of The HALO Urban Regeneration Company and Macklin Enterprise Partnerships.

An urban regeneration initiative, The HALO revitalises vacant land in communities experiencing economic challenges. Marie is founder and director of The HALO Kilmarnock, a redevelopment of the former Diageo bottling plant, which is expected to generate £53m in GDP for Kilmarnock and £65m for Scotland. She is founder and director of HALO Belfast.

Committed to the development of young people,

Marie supports entrepreneurship by advising, investing in, sponsoring and supporting schools, colleges and arts and community organisations. With the Association of Scottish Business Women, she developed Women in Enterprise, which supports entrepreneurs with sponsorship, mentoring and building networks. Before establishing Macklin Enterprise Partnerships, Marie overhauled Klin Group, a construction business founded by her father, into a property development company specialising in economic and social transformation. After acquiring Klin Group in 2003, she was the first developer to bring a Morrison’s supermarket to Scotland as part of an £85m regeneration development.

Thanks to Kevin MacLeod for the intro music - 'Inspired'. Link

License:  Creative Commons License 4.0