In this episode Rupert talks to Tom Mundy, Co-founder and CCO of award-winning lettings platform, Goodlord. They discuss how the business has overcome the challenges that the C-19 pandemic has presented for their culture, operations, and growth, and what piece of advice turned out to be invaluable in turning their business around. 

Rupert talks to Chief Purpose and Vision Officer at Virgin about the challenges of the past 12 months, covering Holly’s experiences of the pandemic period, what it means for the future of work, and why putting people, purpose and culture at the heart of your business is a killer strategy for success.

In this episode Rupert speaks to x+why member, Digby Vollrath, CEO of the UK's leading event planning platform, Feast-It.  With the events industry hit harder than any other by the COVID-19 pandemic, Feast-It have faced a set of unexpected challenges and opportunities over the past year. Listen as Digby discusses the motivations, mental battles, and important pivots that the business navigated in order to come out the other side in a surprisingly positive and exciting place. 

In this episode Rupert talks to Lord Verjee - a businessman and philanthropist who founded Domino's pizza in the UK and oversaw the development of the Brompton Hospital site. In addition, Lord Verjee founded the Rumi Foundation to support humanitarian work through education, innovation and knowledge building.  Lord Verjee is also a member of the House of Lords where his political activity includes support for the party’s leadership programme to improve representation from under-represented groups.

They talk about the impact that COVID-19 has had personally and professionally for start-ups, what advice Lord Verjee has for fledging founders, and what the future for businesses might look like. 

Today Rupert talks to education powerhouse, Ed Fidoe, about what is possible when you treat education as a blank piece of paper. 

There is other stuff of course – he has advised leaders at Cambridge University, the London School of Economics and worked with organisations specialised in working directly with disadvantaged students such as ARK Schools and Teach First.

He has also set up Voice 21 which is a speaking curriculum design to influence 21% of the teachers in this country to create speaking skills schools and make sure that speaking has the same status as reading and writing in schools.

In this episode Rupert talks to Chris Turner, Executive Director of B Lab, a non-profit that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good.

It’s probably no coincidence that the last 12 months have been record breaking for B Lab. Record subscriptions, record certifications, record exposure and marketing. At the B Inspired conference in October 600 people filled the Bridge Theatre on Tower Bridge to explore the future of business in society.

In this episode Rupert talks to Rob Wilson, Chief Toaster at Toast Ale, a planet saving beer designed to tackle food waste by using fresh surplus bread that would otherwise go to waste.

Rob wrote the book, 'On The Up' documenting the amazing social entrepreneurs he encountered with his wife Nikki on their journey from Cape Town to Cairo and how they were transforming Africa.

Rob then ran the UK arm of Ashoka, a global community building, cultivating and supporting social entrepreneurs and their mission to change systems for the better. At Ashoka Rob met Ashoka fellow Tristram Stuart who had an idea to tackle waste - through beer…

After a period spent advising Tristram, Rob couldn’t resist the lure better brewing and became a full time change-maker co-founding Toast Ale, where he is now Chief Toaster. All profits go to charity principally to fight food waste. As he says, Toast is the best thing since well, you know what, and the mission statement is to change the world by throwing a better party than those destroying it.

In our launch podcast, Rupert speaks to award-winning activist Sarah Corbett, founder of The Craftivist Collective, in front of a live studio audience (recorded in October).