The Purposeful Strategist

Does doing the right thing environmentally have to be a tradeoff or can it create financially sustainable investments? Andrew Wordsworth thinks it can.  He’s the Managing Partner of Sustainable Ventures, a business that’s based on this idea.  Hear how they navigate the issues of purpose and strategy, while developing sustainability clusters across the UK.

Claire Clarke, Managing Director of law firm Mills & Reeve, for 20 years one of the UK’s best companies to work for, shares how they moved beyond focusing on what they do to get at the why – and the new challenges that brings. 

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How does the oldest UK law firm in operation make change happen? Sarah Henwood, Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Snell & Passmore, shares their approach to ensuring their strategy doesn’t end up being just a document on a shelf.

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In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome David Frise, CEO of BESA, the Building Engineering Services Association.  David describes how they’ve made their strategy more purposeful, as well as outlining a vision of how construction could become faster, safer, and greener, and less disruptive.

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome back David Hall, CEO now of Peritum Group, which is the holding company of Totalkare. David describes how they have been able to maintain their culture and the high level of customer service their strategy is based on, while growing at almost 50% annually. 

Adrian Bettridge shares how Baringa has grown to become a global consulting business and the leading energy, climate change, net zero consulting firm in the world, while also being a top 10 Great Place to Work for the last 15 years – and recently becoming a B Corp. 

Lorin Gresser of DemDX had an idea.  Turned out it was a bigger idea than she thought.  Join me for an interesting and fun exploration of how they are changing the most important part of the health care system: the point of first contact. And, of course, we get into the “how” of their strategy and purpose – what they are doing to work on both.

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In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Denise Massey, Managing Director of EIC, a platform where great businesses big and small can innovate together to create a safe, affordable, and decarbonised energy system. She shares the first thing a CEO needs to do in developing an effective purpose and describes the role their values played in building the organisation. 

In this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome Steve Ford, CEO of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.  Steve shares how listening was the key to developing their new strategy.  He also talks about the practical steps they have taken to turn the strategy into action – including some of the difficult choices they had to make.  Towards the end of the episode, we touch on why and how professional bodies need to change to remain relevant in the future.    

­­­­Dena McCallum of Eden McCallum shares how they have pursued a core purpose over more than 20 years, using a disruptive business model in a very traditional industry: management consulting.