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Featured guest, Katie Durie, Founder & Owner of The Buyer Coach talks to Jeff about how intrinsic Procurement is to the success of Manufacturing & Engineering businesses.

What are the main challenges for SME Buyers?

How does Procurement mitigate risk?

What is Buyer's World?

What makes an elite Buyer?

Featured guest, Sam Baynham, Managing Director of Conex Portal talks to Jeff about how UK Manufacturing companies are sharing ideas, projects and best practice in Conex Portal, the new online interactive community.

What is Conex Portal?

Who is it for?

What are the benefits for Members?

What are the current challenges for UK Manufacturers?

Featured guest, Sarah Farmer, Director of EMR Consulting and Founder & Co-Host of The Business Brunch talks to Jeff about how individual C-Suite and Executives can transform their leadership and mindset to improve the success of their business.

What are the benefits of working with an Executive Coach?

What is Imposter Syndrome?

How can an Executive Coach add value to the onboarding process?

What is The Business Brunch?

Featured guest, Kate Stranks, Director & Owner of Beanstalk Learning, talks to Jeff about how Learning & Development is crucial for individual and business success.

What are the key challenges for businesses when it comes to Learning & Development?

How does L&D help to create and sustain a great Culture?

How important is Emotional Intelligence in Leadership?

What are the benefits of using an external L&D Consultant?

Featured guests, Dr Nike Folayan - MBE, PhD, CEng & Co-Founder of AFBE-UK and Dr Ollie Folayan - PhD, CEng & Co-Founder of AFBE-UK, talk to Jeff about how Diversity is a powerful value that can help UK Manufacturing & Engineering thrive. The Association for Black & Ethnic Minority Engineers had a fantastic team of leaders, who for the last 15 years, have worked to raise the profile of Diversity in the Engineering sector, through Association Membership, dialogue with Government, cross-party Groups, individuals and industry.

What is The Association For Black & Ethnic Minority Engineers?

What are the barriers to getting more BME Engineering Graduates into Engineering jobs?

How does the AFBE influence Government?

What programs are available for AFBE individual Members?

Featured guest, Anita Davenport-Brooks, Chair of Apprenticeships in Manufacturing and Group HR Manager at Lander Automotive, talks to Jeff about the successes, challenges and opportunities posed by Apprenticeships.

Why are Apprenticeships so important to UK Manufacturing?

What are Apprenticeship Ambassadors?

What's working and what's not working with Apprenticeships?

Could large businesses do more to support Apprenticeship training providers?

Featured guest, Rob Dando, Co-Founder of Finally Agency talks to Jeff about the opportunities for UK Manufacturing to boost its image through an effective marketing strategy. Digital, Social Media, Websites and SEO can all play their part for individual businesses and the sector as a whole.

What are the most common challenges Manufacturers are having with Marketing?

How do you build a good Content Output?

How should Manufacturers decide on which Marketing agency to use?

What is The Engine Room?

Featured guest, Prof. Kate Black, CTO of Meta Additive and Professor of Manufacturing at the University of Liverpool, talks to Jeff about the advancement of Materials Science in Additive Manufacturing, the benefit of the AM process and the gap between academia and industry.

What are the biggest benefits of AM to Manufacturers?

What are the current challenges in Additive Manufacturing?

What materials are in high demand for Additive Manufacturing?

Why is there a gap between Academia and Industry?

Featured guest, Chris McDonald, CEO of the Materials Processing Institute, speaks with Jeff about the importance of innovation in Steel & Metals processing to meet the requirements of Decarbonization, the Circular Economy and Digitalization.

Who is the Materials Processing Institute?

How important is Metal processing to the UK economy?

What are the main challenges in Materials Processing?

What does the future of Materials Processing look like in the UK?

Featured guest, Stephen Morley - President at the Confederation of British Metalforming, speaks with Jeff about some of the challenges and opportunities for the UK's 'Metalbashers'.

Who are the CBM?

What services and support do they provide for their Members?

What are the current challenges for UK Metalformers?

What is Steel Safeguarding?