In part two, Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology and Public Sector Management, Dr Ali Budjanovcanin is joined by Jules Munns. Jules is a co-founder and Creative Director of The Nursery, a performing arts educational charity, which promotes participation, education, and engagement through improvisation.

They discuss how Jules discovered his talent and later established his profession in improvisation and how businesses and leaders can unite staff and deliver a single purpose through techniques learned from improv.

From snake oil salespeople to dodgy labelling, fake medicine has been around for 100s of years. But how do we fight an evolving threat now that people inform themselves about and buy pharmaceuticals online ?

Dr. Prokriti Mukherji, Senior Lecturer at King’s Business School, recently had the opportunity to converse with Dr. Bahijja Raimi-Abraham, Lecturer in Pharamaceutics at King’s College London. Bahijja is on the frontline of solving pharmaceutical challenges in infector diseases with a focus on malaria and latent and asymptomatic infections. As the founder of ‘Fight the Fakes’ she’s perfectly equipped to tell us about her experiences on the digital frontline.

Listen for insights on tackling malaria, fighting fake medicine, and communicating with consumers directly.

In this episode of Purpose Conversations, Anna Lelia is joined by Claire Mason, Founder and CEO of award-winning strategic marketing and thought leadership firm ‘Man Bites Dog’. The two discuss how Claire leverages purpose as an entrepreneur in her own firm, as well as externally in her work with clients. Claire shares insights from her business-to-business marketing experiences and explains how purpose helps companies strategically position themselves to mobilise change on the world’s most pressing issues, from environmental sustainability to the future of work.

In part one, Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology and Public Sector Management, Dr Ali Budjanovcanin is joined by Robert Kirby. Rob is Director of People, People, which provides workshops, courses and coaching using the ‘People, People Way’. It combines psychology, acting tools and coaching principles to improve productivity, performance, and employee engagement for businesses.

They discuss his transition from the world of theatre and how its skills and principles – from tone of voice and resonation through to navigating nerves and ensuring correct balance – have helped his clients including the NHS, Money Supermarket Group, and the Crown Prosecution Service.

The Health and Wellbeing Coach is a new role in the NHS. The aim of the role is to support the self-management agenda and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people experiencing a wide range of issues. They include: diabetes, weight management, poor mental health, pain management and social isolation.

North East London Health & Care Partnership and Shoreditch Trust commissioned King’s Business School Professor of Healthcare Management, Richard Griffin to evaluate the impact of Health and Wellbeing coaches and their effectiveness in addressing health inequalities and delivering better outcomes for patients in North East London. The evaluation was undertaken in 2022.

In this episode of Connections Richard spoke to Bruna Silva Fonseca, Health and Wellbeing Coach at Havering Crest Primary Care Network and Dr Narinderjit Kullar, St Edwards Medical Centre in Romford to hear first hand from frontline NHS professionals about how this new approach to healthcare is working.

You can also listen to an earlier episode of Connections in which Professor Griffin discusses his findings with the Jacqui Henry from Shoreditch Trust and Gita Malhotra from North East London Health & Care Partnership here.

Anna Lelia Sandoghdar is joined by Victoria Soormally, People and Culture Director at Gallagher and recent nominee on People Management’s HR 30 under 30 list. They discuss Gallagher’s HR transformation and the role purpose played in this process.

Victoria shares how she transformed her department by developing a personal development plan for all staff and responding to new data to ensure a happier, enabled and engaged workforce.

In this episode of connections, Dr Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O, Lecturer in International Management is joined by Anne Hayes, Interim Group Director Knowledge Solutions at the British Standards Institution to discuss their new standard BS25700 on organisational responses to modern slavery.

It was Dr Gutierrez-Huerter O’s research into the construction sector, which led her to be appointed to the technical committee on modern slavery established by the British Standards Institute (BSI) and then advised them on their new standard. Ms Hayes’ current role is Interim Group Director Knowledge Solutions at BSI and has spent the last 20 years working within the standardisation world following an extensive career in publishing.

To download the standard and the guide, or get in touch with BSI: https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/standards/bs-25700/

Professor of Entrepreneurship, Ute Stephan in conversation with King’s Entrepreneur in Residence David Walsh and Janos Barberis, co-founder of the SuperCharger Ventures EdTech accelerator and the mind behind the Founders Taboo learning community. They discussed navigating burn out and why it is so important for entrepreneurs to find their path to wellbeing.

The Health and Wellbeing Coach is a new role in the NHS. The aim of the role is to support the self-management agenda and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people experiencing a wide range of issues. They include: diabetes, weight management, poor mental health, pain management and social isolation.

North East London Health & Care Partnership and Shoreditch Trust commissioned Professor of Healthcare Management, Richard Griffin to evaluate the impact of Health and Wellbeing coaches and their effectiveness in addressing health inequalities and better outcomes for patients in North East London. The evaluation was undertaken in 2022.

In this episode, Richard spoke to Jacqui Henry, Director of Wellbeing Practice & Partnerships at the wellbeing and equality charity, Shoreditch Trust alongside Gita Malhotra, Strategic Workforce Lead for Personalised Care from the North East London Health & Care Partnership (NELHCP) about the evaluation findings and the wider context of personalised care to support the local populations.

Find out more about Richard’s research here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/health-and-wellbeing-coaches-inspire-patients-and-reduce-gp-workloads-with-person-centred-approach

In this episode, Senior Careers Consultant, Leslie Parsons talks to graduate Andras Regel (Business Management 2022), now studying a Masters in Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics alongside third-year Business and Management Sophia Sarkassian about how they decided the next steps in their career, post undergraduate degree.

Links for Resources:

• King’s Careers & Employability – Learning about Applying for Further Study https://keats.kcl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=41567§ion=34

• Find a Masters – resource for exploring global master’s programmes https://www.findamasters.com/

• UniCompare – resource for exploring graduate/post-graduate study options with examples of personal statements https://universitycompare.com/personal-statement-examples/business-management/statement-1/

• Want to have a chat? Book a career guidance or application advice appointment at King’s Career Connect