Inspired Live: Navigating Publishing Excellence

Our podcast today is on metadata, the meaning and the impact this has on the publishing industry. We are delighted to welcome our guest, Merlin Fox, Senior Commissioning Editor at World Scientific Publishing.

Our podcast today is on spotting the latest trend in publishing and keeping ahead of the market, with particular focus on the Trade sector. We are delighted to welcome our guest, Mark Searle, Publisher at The Bright Press, of the Quarto Publishing Group.

Our podcast today is on being disability confident in the workplace and how to break down the barriers. We are delighted to welcome our guest, Simon Holt, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Elsevier and Chair of Elsevier Enabled, a group representing Elsevier employees with disabilities, working together to increase inclusion across the publishing industry.

Our podcast today is on audiobook publishing, and we are delighted to welcome our guest, Jo Forshaw, Audiobook Publishing Consultant to hear about her work with audiobook publishing from her prior successes at HarperCollins' to helping publishers transform audio into a core digital asset and revenue generator, as well as her thoughts on audiobook publishing in the industry today.

In this episode we speak with Aki Schilz, Director at The Literary Consultancy, where we'll be discussing entry-level publishing roles and job transparency.

Our podcast today is focussing on the changing workforce and how publishers are adapting to this. During the week we attended the Publisher's Association's annual AGM, so we are delighted to welcome our guest, Emma House, Deputy CEO at The Publisher's Association to share with us her thoughts on what the year ahead, and beyond, may hold for the publishing industry.

As part of our 20th Anniversary celebrations, we sponsored the People Development Stream at London Book Fair, and organised a couple of seminars which our CEO, Suzy Astbury, chaired Women in Leadership and Building an Inclusive and Diverse Workforce for the Future. In case you missed it, here's a quick roundup of our Diversity & Inclusion seminar, which had some fantastic speakers on the panel. John Athanasiou, Director of People at HarperCollins, has rolled out an industry-leading strategy on diversity and inclusion at HarperCollins, for which the company was recognised at the 2016 Race Equality Awards, as well as this it was also the first Publisher to launch a BAME Traineeship which is now in its third year running. Rachael Wilson, MD of the EW Group, heads up one of the UK's leading diversity consultancies, working across the UK and internationally to increase workplace inclusion. Finally, Caroline Porter who, since becoming a Journals Publisher in 2010 and Senior Publisher in 2016 at SAGE Publications, has played a key role in executing their strategic objectives around the management, development and growth of its journals business.

After a successful week at London Book Fair, our podcast today is focussing on Publishing priorities and the focus for the industry this year, as well as looking ahead to hear what the future might hold, with Nigel Roby, Owner and Chief Executive of The Bookseller.

In this episode we hear about the crucial role played by Rights in publishing, and with the London Book Fair fast approaching we discuss how best to prepare for the biggest event of the year, with Amy Joyner, Head of Rights & Licensing at Kogan Page!

During a campaign at London Book Fair 2019 we had the opportunity to sponsor the People Development Seminar stream. Whilst we covered many subjects in the stream, one of the most notable, and sell out events was our Women in Leadership seminar which was standing room only! We had a fantastic panel chaired by Suzy Astbury, CEO, Inspired featuring Lis Tribe, MD, Hodder Education; Rebecca Smart, MD, DK; Samantha Burridge, Director of Strategy and Transformation, Web of Science, a Clarivate Analytics company; and Perminder Mann, CEO, Bonnier Books UK. These inspirational women started by giving us a background on their journeys and how they got to where they are today, including the challenges of juggling their career, home life and motherhood. What was clearly apparent from all of these women was the sheer drive, and tenacity they have harnessed to get them to these very senior, influential positions and you can have a listen here