Ben Thomas, Founder All Things Business Magazine and MD of Giant Digital Marketing Agency talks about his motivation for doing the Great North Run for charity and his many various community initiatives. See https://allthingsbusiness.co.uk/

He talks about multi-stakeholder collaboration between local authorities, charities and business to create special places for 9-19 year olds. Phil is a guest speaker at the next ICRS Northants Hub meeting on 13th October by the UON's Centre for Sustainable Business Practices - free, all welcome!

Robert talks about the upcoming charity ride, now in its 9th year, having raised £250k since inception. See https://www.northamptonhopecentre.org.uk/event/ride-for-hope-2023/

Making a difference and changing the world! Barry Crisp, a lecturer in entrepreneurship and marketing at the University of Northampton is also the Marketing Director for the Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces.

In this podcast talks about his career, his work and family connections to Japan where he has lived, and the background, history, ambitions and highlights of the recent successful Global Healthy Workplace summit held at the University of Northampton.

Originally broadcast Tuesday 12th September 2023 on Open4Business on NLive Radio

For a thoughtful and clear view on how business should assess its wider social impacts, hear Global Healthy Workplace panellist Vincent Siegerink talk about his work as an Economist & Policy Analyst in the OECD's WISE (Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity) Centre.

Vincent is responsible for work on the measurement of the non-financial performance of firms, to align official statistics of stakeholder well-being with business measures. He supports the Business 4 Inclusive Growth (B4IG) Coalition and acts as the OECD lead on the Impact Management Platform, which is dedicated to standardising social impact measurement.  See https://www.oecd.org/wise/ and https://www.oecd.org/inclusive-growth/businessforinclusivegrowth/

Originally broadcast Tuesday 12th September 2023 on Open4Business on NLive Radio

Listen to insights into the challenges of mental health in the workplace with Amy Browne, a speaker at the Global Health Workplace Summit held at the University of Northampton.

Amy is the Stewardship Lead at CCLA Investment Management, leading the development of the CCLA Corporate Mental Health Benchmark. This fascinating work assesses and ranks more than 200 listed companies on their mental health disclosure, thus drawing attention to the issues. Amy is a passionate and articulate champion for best practice. See https://www.ccla.co.uk/mental-health

Originally Broadcast 12th September 2023 on Open4Business on NLive Radio

Healthy workplaces is something of interest to us all. Northants-based entrepreneur and lecturer Tommy Hutchinson is the founder of the Global Healthy Workplace Summit, which is now in its 11th year. Having travelled around the world via the US, Italy, Brazil and China, this year's Summit is being held on 31st Aug-1st September at the University of Northampton, addressing issues such as working from home, the 4-day week and best practice in taking care of employees for a better work life balance as well as productivity.

Originally broadcast on 27th June on Open4Business on NLive Radio

Finance people do have a heart! Listen to Cameron Waldron, founder and partner of successful New England Financial Solutions Ltd, independent financial advisers, talking about his business model, philosophy and management approach - and how he is also passionate about promoting financial wellbeing for all through his Financial Wellbeing Foundation, with a rigorous evidence-based approach to building control, resilience and confidence no matter how wealthy you are.

Originally broadcast 27th June 2023 on Open4Business on NLive Radio

Listen again to the EOA Employee Ownership Association's CEO, James de la Vingne, talking about the fast-growing and fascinating EO sector, its benefits and how it is attracting politicians of both left and right as it addresses all the weaknesses of short term shareholder capitalism through a long term stakeholder focus that gives employees voice, engagement and a real, stake in their business.

Repeat broadcast on the 20th June 2023 on Open4Business on NLive Radio

Hear about one of the UK's leading employee-owned businesses and the benefits of EO from Michael Hodgson, Chair of GLIDE, the employee ownership board representing shareholders at Sheffield based the Gripple, Loadhog & GoTools group, and learn how their governance structure helps drive productivity, innovation and success.

Originally broadcast 20th June 2023 on Open4Business on NLive Radio