Listen to my discussion around leadership with Graham Purvis, MD of Robson Laidler, a business who in 2024 were awarded one of the Best Places To Work by the Sunday Times and they were the first organisation in the North East to be awarded B Corp accreditation.

Graham was born in North Northumberland, studying Law at University of Leeds, moving to KPMG as tax manager for 8 years and joined Robson Laidler in 1998, 26 years ago, as Tax manager, then Tax partner and MD for the last 8 years plus.

One of Graham’s primary goals is to deliver real sustainable value for all stakeholders, customers, people and communities. 

Podcast - 27 mins long. 

1. What are the most important characteristics or skills of a leader?  1 min 20 secs
2. In your opinion what is the environment which a good leader should be creating in the workplace?  5 min 30 secs
3. What has been the biggest learning for you as a leader of an organisation, which you are happy to share? 14 min 25 secs
4. Conflict can always be a difficult area to manage. Any practices which you have found which work well here?  17 min 20 secs
5. How do we develop resilience in the next generation of leaders, who are coming out of school and education? Any of your own which have served you well?  20 min 30 secs
6. The phrase the Tax tail wagging the dog I have heard a few times in business. How do you manage this, balancing tax advice versus the leaders individual personal or company goals?   23 mins 40 secs