Engaged in Conversation

We had the pleasure of chatting to Will Lankston - Managing Director of Timpson Direct, with over 12 years of experience across the Timpson Group. He and our CEO Phil Wedgwood discuss the differentiating factors which make the Timpson Group culture so unique and how they've maintained engagement with dispersed colleagues across 2100 shops in the UK. The meaning of upside-down management. Ex-offender resettlement and doing the right thing for the community, ethically and commercially. How to s...

Part 2 of #EngagedInConversation with Advita Patel, Jürgen Maier, and Phil Wedgwood.We continue the conversation on building inclusive cultures in business, asking why it is that business leaders often don't use their voices. How can we encourage current and future generations to speak up, inspiring courageous and inclusive conversations in team building, and the power of 'productive disagreement' - Advita Patel.If you enjoyed this episode - please click subscribe for our future episodes!If y...

In this episode of Season 2's #EngagedInConversation, we talk with Advita Patel and Jürgen Maier.Advita Patel is the director of CommsRebel, co-founder of A Leader Like Me, a membership for underrepresented women looking to progress in their careers, and a co-host for an award-winning podcast, CalmEdgedRebels.Jürgen Maier is Chair of the Digital Catapult, Vice-Chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and the co-founder of vocL – a platform empowering responsible business voices powered by...

Welcome to another episode in Season 2 of 'Engaged in Conversation'. This time Phil Wedgwood, CEO of Engage Solutions Group, sits down with Andrew Thorp to discuss the importance of storytelling in today's business world and how creating an effective narrative across your business, customers and community can have a positive impact both internally and externally.Andrew Thorp is a consultant, coach, storyteller, and Ted Talk speaker who's clients have included PwC, KPMG, Swiss Re, World Health...

For another episode of Season 2's 'Engaged in Conversation', we have Phil Wild, CEO of James Cropper PLC in the studio.As a leading manufacturer of advanced paper products we discuss how a business with over 200 years of industry experience has managed to sustain and remain relevant.

Filmed in our purpose-built studio, Season 2 of 'Engaged in Conversation' begins with a visit from Richard Fraser, CEO of the Frenkel Topping Group - an independent financial adviser who offers essential services and support to those with life-changing injuries.From digital and personal transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic to challenges in engagement across an ever-growing business, our very own CEO, Phil Wedgwood discusses the reasons why the Frenkel Topping Group do what they do, and...

It's the moment you’ve all been waiting for – the second season of our podcast series, 'Engaged in Conversation'. For the opening episode of season two, we’ve turned the tables and put Engage CEO Phil Wedgwood in the hot seat to find out about his new book 'Destination Engage', and how his brush with death pushed him to put pen to paper.It’s a fascinating and personal story and really demonstrates the passion that Phil has both for engagement and for Engage. From a young age, Phil was a ...

In this episode we speak to Sharon Ashcroft, TrustFord’s HR Director. Sharon is actually the first HR director we’ve had on the series and as TrustFord is a regular in the Sunday Times Top 25 Best Companies to Work For list we were very keen to learn what it takes to keep performing internally at such a high level. We also wanted to understand just how engagement was viewed within the organisation, both at board and colleague level, and the impact digital enablement – through TrustFord’s...

In this episode Engage CEO Phil Wedgwood talks to Rod Bulmer, formerly an investor in Engage, an executive in retail banking, and now co-founder of Hedgehog Strategy.They discuss why Rod invested in Engage, why he thinks engagement is so important for businesses, and how the pandemic affected organisations' relationships with their employees.

In this episode, Engage's CEO Phil Wedgwood talks to Juergen Maier CBE, Co-Founder of business social platform vocL, Vice Chair of The Northern Powerhouse Partnership, and formerly CEO of Siemens UK.Phil and Juergen discuss the ideas driving vocL and how Engage have provided the platform to enable it.