Steffan Lemke-Elms is a serial social entrepreneur, chef and co-director of Glasbren a non-profit social enterprise farm reimaging our local food systems in Wales. His work as a social and sustainable entrepreneur has included auctioning celebrities’ shoes to raise money for children in Africa, work for the Eden project, recycling discarded wellies left behind at Glastonbury through his charity ‘Reboot’ and he established The Warren, the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s ‘Best Local Restaurant’ in Wales in 2019-20. 

Vadim Grinevich is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Innovation and the Head of the Research Cluster on Transformative Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses here at the University of Bradford School of Management. Vadim’s key expertise is in the field of academic entrepreneurship and innovation and in digitally enabled sustainable entrepreneurship. His research develops an inclusive approach which helps shed light on the nature and extent of entrepreneurial activities by academics with different intersectional profiles.

Dr George Madine is an Assistant Professor in Leadership and Management at the School of Management. In addition to experience in higher education he has extensive industry experience having set up half a dozen businesses and directed half a dozen more in both the public and private sectors. He has also been a business consultant with a particular interest in stress management and psychological responses to stress in the workplace.

Raj Soren is an entrepreneur, life and martial arts coach and consultant who was awarded Stress and Adversity Coaching Provider of the Year 2023 at the Corporate Coaching and Recruitment Awards. He is the other of "Coping with Stress and Adversity" which provides practical examples and help for anyone seeking to better understand stress today.

In this episode Professor David Spicer is joined by Dr Jack López and Dr Paul Taylor-Pitt as they explore Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the modern world. Jack and Paul explore EDI by discussing the complexities that businesses of all sizes face, the best way to take the next step forward in your organisation and some of the challenges they've face during their careers. Explore how you can implement new strategies whilst staying honest, open and transparent and how you need to be the culture you want to see in your work environment. 

Dr. Paul Taylor-Pitt is an award winning organisation development practitioner, activist and writer with decades of experience supporting complex change. He hosts the HOPECAST podcast on spirituality and sexuality and is featured in HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinkers List. He is the founder of Metamorphosish Ltd who are a specialist consulting practice offering organisation development, coaching, mentoring and research.

Dr Jack Lopez is the Associate Dean for Equality Diversity and Inclusion in the Faculty of Management and Law at the University. He’s a social and medical anthropologist and his research is concerned with barriers to healthcare and social justice. Outside of the University he sits on the health strategy working group for Trans Actual UK, an organisation set up in 2017 as a response to increasing press hostility, transphobia and misinformation.

In this episode Dave is joined by three guests as Esther Mallowah and Oliver Nelson-Smith from ICAEW join Dr Marizah Minhat from the University of Bradford. The conversation covers how businesses can apply responsible financial practices to their day to day business activities. The conversation provides a current perspective on financial expectations and management for SMEs in the current business climate.

In this episode David discusses what it means to be an authentic leader with Ian and Banita, who share their insights on the roles and responsibilities of leaders in this regard, the relationship between responsibility and authenticity and the challenges of developing and maintaining this for leaders in organisations of all types. 

Ian Adams graduated from the University of Bradford’s School of Management in 2002, with a Distinction in his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA). This spring-boarded a broad career in communications, at the BBC, BECTA, The Pensions Regulator, and now promoting patient safety in the NHS as a Director of NHS Resolution (the legal arm of the health service).

Dr. Banita Lal is an Associate Professor in Responsible Management, Director of the Masters in Management Portfolio and Programme Leader for the MSc Management programme. She gained her PhD from the Department of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University, UK before moving on to work at Nottingham Trent University and the University of Bedfordshire. 

In this episode alumnus Merel Olgers (Director of People and Culture, Universal Music Group) and Dr David Spicer as they focus conversation on responsible human resource management and how people are the core to responsible management. Merel and Dave explore Human Resource Management and how it needs to be considered and prioritised for a company to enact responsible management practices. The conversation includes focus on the difficult conversations and decisions that take place, what 'good practice' can be and frustrations around the term human 'resources'. Merel graduated from the School of Management in 2010 and has been invited back to deliver the inaugural Annual Management Lecture as a part of the 60th Anniversary celebrations for the School. Using her experience she discusses how you can connect people, inspire an organisation and lead whether you are part of a large organisation or SME.

In this episode David discusses diversity and inclusion in firms with Nicky and Eva and the importance and challenges of ensuring representation and diversity in our marketing as well. Both our contributors are Women in Marketing award winners and have a wealth of insight and experience that they share about the business.

Responsible Management is a podcast from the University of Bradford’s award-winning School of Management. It is hosted by David Spicer, Professor of Small Business Development and Organisational Studies and Director of Business and Community Engagement in the school.

In this podcast we bring together our academic experts and leaders from industry to debate and discuss issues concerning ethics, sustainability and responsibility in organisations today.

This is part of the offer provided for SMEs as part of the school’s Knowledge Transfer Network. For more information please contact [email protected]