Jazz Shapers

We kick off a brand new season of Jazz Shapers with 40 years of craft and creativity, through Dame Anya Hindmarch, founder of the eponymous luxury bags and accessories brand, Anya Hindmarch. Anya shares the brilliant advice that's helped her navigate the creative dip and build a culture of kindness.

Michelle Feeney is the Founder and CEO of Floral Street, a British fragrance brand. In the last episode of the current series, Michelle joins Elliot to chat about leading MAC cosmetics to become the world’s biggest make-up brand and how Floral Street's aiming to do everything differently, from making recyclability and sustainability the core of their brand and challenging the use of sexuality to sell scents. 

Hidde Hoogcarspel is the Founding and Managing Partner at early-stage venture capital fund DFF Ventures, and the co-founder of SpaceBuzz Foundation, giving children a virtual ‘space travel’ experience. Hidde joins Elliot to talk about how his friendship with a Dutch astronaut shaped his vision and business ethos to make our life on Earth more sustainable

John Ramsay is the founder of Social Ability, a health-tech company dedicated to revolutionising care through joyful, interactive, light-based activities. John joins Elliot to talk about how the experience, aged 12,  of caring for his father when he was diagnosed with early-onset dementia, led him to transform the way we think about dementia care - not as something clinical and routine, but human, joyful, and deeply creative. 

As the music world pays tribute to Kanya King following her death at the age of 57, this is another chance to hear the founder and "visionary" of the Mobo Awards taking with Elliot Moss on Jazz Shapers with Mishcon de Reya in 2014.

Abigail Tan is the CEO of St Giles Hotel Group and founder of the Hotels with Heart Foundation, a charity giving back to local communities. Abigail joins Elliot to talk about how her childhood obsession with hotels grew into a drive to have a positive impact on the communities surrounding them, by housing rough sleepers in her hotels and offering training and support finding employment in the industry.

Amelia Miller is the co-founder of ivee, an AI upskilling and talent network.  Amelia joins Elliot to talk about how her mother's struggle to regain her old position on the career ladder (after leaving work to raise 3 children) inspired her to create ivee and build an AI fluent network.

Mahdi Yahya is the founder and CEO of Ori Industries, an AI compute company and he's the President of Radiant, the first fully integrated AI infrastructure platform. Mahdi joins Elliot to talk about building the invisible layer between artificial intelligence and the physical world, and what it takes to flourish in a business operating 'on the edge of chaos.'

Emily Lui is the co- founder of Cutter & Squidge, the bakery and gifting brand. Emily joins Elliot to talk about her and her sister's drive to build something bigger than them, and why, (having been dropped by Selfridges and Harrods) they put their last savings into the business and kept going. 

Author and Baptist Minister Steve Chalke MBE is founder of the Oasis Trust, a UK charity dedicated to building inclusive local communities. Steve joins Elliot to share why - aged 14 - he told his mum he was going to become a minister and set up a school, a hostel and a hospital.   And what happened when he set out to make that a reality.