Finding your North Star
hgkc in conversation with prominent business people about their experiences and challenges of strategy, innovation, leadership, employee engagement, and building a thriving business - even during difficult times.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Reframing the future - reflections on hgkc research
Kim Jones shares insights into the research that she's been doing into how business owners are approaching the need to innovate in a world that's changed not only by technology, but also by these ext…
Planning in uncertain times
We are living in complex times. People are becoming comfortable with digital communication and collaboration platforms; remote working and reduced social interaction are becoming the norm. In this we…
Opportunity out of adversity
Experiencing more than a 90% drop in turnover overnight would be daunting for any business owner. Graham Preston of SFL Group talks candidly about their experience as an events production company fac…
Championing the employee ownership revolution
Chris founded financial planning company Ovation Finance in 2000, selling a majority to an Employee Ownership Trust in March 2018. For entrepreneurs like Chris, employee ownership is a new and innova…
People-centred design for the business of the future
As a founding Director of a digital creative agency Gavin Jones shares his insights from the early days of a graduate start-up to a fully-fledged firm. Elixel has a highly collaborative way of worki…
Technology propelled and hyper-relevant, delivering success for their clients and their agency
Modern have only ever known digital disruption and embrace the twin drivers of being technology-propelled and hyper-relevant to deliver success for their clients and their agency.
How Modern is run is…
A start-up's pivot to the future
Brent Oldfield, co-founder and Head of Operations at Voltric Electric Vehicles shares with hgkc's Kim Jones his vision for transport of the future and how their business’s customer centric strategy h…
Building value for customers reaped benefits during the lockdown
John Dray, founder of Cloud Genius shares his insights on running a remote business during the lockdown and the opportunity this created for developing new products and services. John has a uniquely…
A builder of businesses in tech
Kim Jones talks to John Rees, Head of New Technologies at Novel Engineering, who shares a personal reflection on scaling a robotics start-up and his take on how it can apply to any business.
A strong …
Virtual Leadership - 212 Radio Mini Podcast interview with James Short
Ed Palmer of 212 Radio interviews James Short, Director of hgkc about the key to virtual, but not remote, leadership - courage, confidence and communication.
Innovating through a crisis
Investing in data and technology to help clients optimise building performance - Phil Warren of ETS talks about improving building connectivity, healthy buildings, employee productivity and customer …
It's all about the people
Leading an SME, managing people in difficult times, staying legal, keeping people safe and staying in business are the topics in our latest Risk Management in a Crisis series of podcasts for leaders …
Managing your finances during the Covid 19 Crisis
The Government has announced a range of measures to support businesses during this very challenging period, but the rules are evolving, and new announcements are regularly being made. James Short of …
Risk Management in a Crisis
James Short, an expert in strategic planning, leadership and change management, talks from his experience about successful risk management and leadership in times of a crisis. James joined hgkc after…
Leadership in a Crisis
In this second presentation in response to the Covid 19 pandemic, James Short of hgkc talks about leadership and how important it is to differentiate between leadership and management. Leadership is …
Crisis Management in Challenging Times
James Short of hgkc offers practical advice and guidance on how to survive the next few months with your business intact. Every business must find a way of continuing to do business, and vital to thi…
Genuinely caring, ensuring clients are properly informed and properly protected
Emily Kenna, founder of Sense Risk Solutions, talks about her passion for all things insurance, the mindset and attitude that drives her to deliver a level of care that is unusual in a complex and hi…
Helping entrepreneurs achieve success, and changing the face of capitalism
Zak Daud, founder and CEO of Eazi-Apps, talks about his mission to help entrepreneurs establish and build their mobile app businesses using an innovative drag and drop, ‘business in a box’ platform a…
A shining North Star that gives real purpose and makes anything possible
Jeremy Hymans, CEO of the Claims Consortium Group talks about how empowering people, with the right training tools and innovative technology, can disrupt the household claims sector and establish a n…
Helping us understand how similar we are to each other
David Nicholson, founder and Director of DNA Worldwide Group with his partner Hannah Nicholson, talks about his driving purpose, the science of DNA, living the potential of what you do, and how throu…