This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Andrew Troup, Chief Impact Officer, YourCause from Blackbaud - part of a global software company that builds technology specifically for organisations working for social good.

Our second guest is Ali Mehdi, Senior Director, Heritage Lab - a social enterprise developing AI-powered tools to preserve and promote Indigenous languages.

They explore tech for good in a changing world and how they are harnessing digital platforms to create a better world.

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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Michael Herron, Head of Atos UK&I, Atos Group – a global AI-powered digital transformation provider and European leader in agentic AI, digital sovereignty and cybersecurity; and Giselle Gonzales, Founder and CEO of EqualReach - a social enterprise that connects teams of displaced and host community tech talent with dignified digital work.

In this episode, we will discuss digital skills in an AI world – an ever-changing and fast-paced arena that presents challenges and opportunities, and one every company is interested in.

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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Malcolm Gomersall, CEO of Grant Thornton UK - one of the country's leading multidisciplinary professional services firms, with more than 5,500 partners and professionals providing assurance and financial advice to organisations across the public and private sectors; and May Asagba, Founder of CAIN Educational Foundation, an organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria dedicated to empowering underprivileged Africans.​

In this episode, we discuss the role of business in education and the need to inspire people from a young age about the world of work in a world of opportunities, thus creating great social mobility. ​

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In a special episode of The Lens, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Ndidi Okezie OBE, CEO of Business in the Community.

In Ndidi’s first month as Chief Executive Officer of Business in the Community, we find out who our new CEO is, what she’s achieved so far in her career, and where her passion lies in taking Business in the Community and all of our members forward on the responsible business journey.

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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Iain Mansfield, CEO of Principality Building Society, Wales’ largest mutual building society, headquartered in Cardiff, providing mortgages and savings products and owned by its members rather than shareholders; and Ronald Mugaiga, Managing Director of Ecomak Recyclers, Uganda, a climate tech Africa-based startup that transforms plastic waste into low-carbon construction materials.

In this episode, we discuss Responsible transformation with people, planet and place at the heart of change. 

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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Peter Harrison, a leading figure in the business world and Chair of Business in the Community.​

In this episode, we discuss how responsible business is a key driver for economic growth, the current challenges businesses are facing and how the 3 Ps – that’s People, Planet and Place, can help organisations shape their business strategies with responsible actions at their heart.​

Reading/Listening recommendations:

• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
• Prioritise People: unlock the value of a thriving workforce
• Diary of a CEO podcast: with Tristan Harris

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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Simon Fitzpatrick, General Manager of Coca-Cola HBC Ireland and Northern Ireland; and Ahmed Ramy Mebrouk, Chief Executive, Nrecycli – a start-up that encourages recycling by rewarding people who recycle.

In this episode, they discuss Environmental Sustainability: Risks, Rewards and Recycling.

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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Rob Heron, Northern Ireland Managing Partner of EY – a global professional services firm providing Assurance, Consulting, Strategy and Transactions, and Tax services to businesses; and Bruna Amaral, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Toti – a platform that promotes the inclusion of refugees and migrants in the tech sector and helps organisations grow their ESG performances through their social impact projects.​

In this episode, they discuss the impact equation and ask, does social value add up for business?

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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Richard Sykes, SVP and President of one of the UK and Ireland’s largest integrated facility, engineering, and infrastructure solutions firms – ABM UK and Ireland; and Manuella Appiah, Environment, Social and Governance Manager for Sunrock, a leading European developer of integrated clean energy systems, servicing valued customers across the logistical and industrial sectors.​

In this episode, we discuss how businesses are acting responsibly across key areas of People, Planet and Place​.

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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Ben Pritchard, CEO of AVK-SEG LTD – a leading provider of innovative power solutions for data centres and major organisations; and Harshit Poddar, Co-Founder of SafEarth - a platform designed to simplify and optimise the solar adoption process.

In this episode, we discuss environmental sustainability and how data can make a sustainable world go round.

Reading list:

• Data Centres: Heroes or Villains?
• IPCC Summary
• Bill Gates: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
• Peter Thiel: Zero to One

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