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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation

Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation

Seven Hills

This is Change Makers – the podcast bringing you ideas, life lessons and amazing stories from those making a difference in extraordinary times. Powered by campaigns firm Seven Hills and hosted by Michael Hayman, this interview series delves into what makes leaders tick and looks at the contribution this empowers them to bring to the world. This is the podcast for those who want to hear the optimism that comes from challenging the status quo. Find your mission.
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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 159: Journeys of Discovery: Freedom and Redemption with Katy Emck OBE

159: Journeys of Discovery: Freedom and Redemption with Katy Emck OBE

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03/17/23 • 32 min

We are excited to bring you the second episode of Journeys of Discovery – Change Makers’ collaborative series with the Royal Philharmonic Orchesta. Over the course of these interviews, Michael explores fundamental questions about what it means to be human that accompany nine incredible concerts.
This week, the themes are Freedom and Redemption, and our guest Katy Emck OBE, knows a thing or two about both of those.
As Founding Director of Fine Cell Work, Katy speaks to Michael about how she is helping to transform the lives of prisoners and ex-prisoners through needlework. Prisons can be “places of soul, spirit and connection”, says Katy. Rather than carrying out their sentences “full of rage and self hate”, prisoners should be permitted to embark on a journey of “self understanding and self acceptance”.
Craftwork in prisons is common, but Katy feels there is something about the intense focus of needlework that provides a much needed “release from the here and now”. Whilst momentarily being transported out of their cell’s confinement, prisoners are also developing a skill, creating something they can be proud of, and generating income. This positions them with the self belief to rebuild meaningful, independent, crime free lives once they have finished their sentences.
There is no better depiction of Katy’s belief in the power of freedom and redemption than her favourite song by Nina Simone, ‘I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free’, which she describes as the ultimate song about freedom, release and the longing we all have to break free of inhibition and to be connected.
Through needlework, Fine Cell Work is opening one of the few doors of opportunity available to prisoners – allowing them both a glimpse of freedom, and a chance for redemption.
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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 104: Wilbert Das and Bob Shevlin, Uxua Casa – Set your mind to it: paving the way for sustainable tourism
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10/13/21 • 24 min

In this Change Makers series in collaboration with Mr & Mrs Smith, we explore the travel industry’s role in delivering a more sustainable future in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the growing climate emergency.
This week Michael Hayman is joined by Wilbert Das and Bob Shevlin, Founders of Uxua Casa. The hotel and spa is set right on the Unesco-protected Quadrado, making it an easy stroll to the artisans’ workshops and restaurants lining the grassy town square. But the Unesco site isn’t the only one under protection: the clutch of casas were born in 2006, carved out of a collection of original fishermen’s houses and inspired by authentic craftsmanship which the founders strive to preserve.
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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 135: Gina Badenoch – Being an explorer in life: how to see and listen to new perspectives

135: Gina Badenoch – Being an explorer in life: how to see and listen to new perspectives

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04/08/22 • 27 min

Joining Michael Hayman on Change Makers is Gina Badenoch, the social entrepreneur with a dream to enable social and economic mobility, to build a more inclusive society.
With a primary focus on fostering equality for the visually impaired, through the companies she has founded – Capaxia and Ojos Que Sienten (Sight of Emotion – she creates experiences that change mindsets, to overcome the prejudices that exist between talent, potential and companies.
It is an approach that has seen Gina recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and an Ashoka Fellow, with a changemaking ethic inspired by her quote for life: “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 96: Gavin Esler – Lessons from the storyteller: a blueprint for better

96: Gavin Esler – Lessons from the storyteller: a blueprint for better

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09/10/21 • 30 min

Gavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, journalist and author. His 40-year career at the BBC included a decade as one of the anchors of its flagship news and current affairs programme Newsnight, prompting the Financial Times to note that Gavin “understands the political beast better than anyone.” It is an understanding that has focused his thinking on the power of storytelling in public life: the who we are and the where are we going. And it is his ability to tell these stories and provide answers to these questions that has seen him interview the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Bill Clinton, address challenges of Brexit and the USA’s political discontent, and more recently turn his abilities to a successful collection of novels, focusing on world leaders’ tips for getting to the top.
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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 39: Lucy Cleland, Country & Town House – A life in balance: why we can live it mindfully

39: Lucy Cleland, Country & Town House – A life in balance: why we can live it mindfully

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10/16/20 • 24 min

Founding editor of Country & Town House, Lucy Cleland has been in the glossy magazine business for around 20 years, and divides her time between the glamour of Acton and the mud and wellies of the New Forest with her husband and two children. She founded Country & Town House with her husband back in 2007, a year before the huge financial crash – originally launched as Country House, before rebranding. Sustainability is also a passion of Lucy's and this summer, she pledged that 25% of the magazine's content would reflect the ways we should learn to live – whether that's the brands we buy, how we consume things or the way we travel.
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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 75: Beatie Wolfe – Create, don't conform: how to break out of the box

75: Beatie Wolfe – Create, don't conform: how to break out of the box

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05/14/21 • 39 min

”Musical weirdo and visionary" Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation, and held an acclaimed solo exhibition of her ‘world first’ album designs at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Named by WIRED Magazine as one of "22 people changing the world,” Beatie is at the forefront of pioneering new formats for music that bridge the physical and digital, which include: a 3D theatre for the palm of your hand; a wearable record jacket - cut by Bowie/Hendrix’s tailor out of fabric woven with Wolfe’s music - and most recently an ‘anti-stream’ from the quietest room on earth and space beam via the Big Bang horn. Wolfe is also the co-founder of a “profound” (The Times) research project looking at the power of music for people living with dementia. The Barbican recently commissioned a documentary about Beatie's pioneering work and her latest innovation is an environmental protest piece built using 800,000 years of historic data that will be premiered at the London Design Biennale in 2021.
Watch Beatie's performance at the Nobel Prize Summit here.
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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 80: Lord William Waldegrave – Following your own path: why resilience and luck matter

80: Lord William Waldegrave – Following your own path: why resilience and luck matter

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05/28/21 • 29 min

Lord William Waldegrave of North Hill is the Provost of Eton College, a post he has held since 2009. He is a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Lord Waldegrave served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1979 to 1997 (representing the Bristol West constituency) including 16 years service as a Minister, of which seven years were as a Cabinet Minister. Educated at Oxford University and Harvard (a Kennedy Scholar), before entering Parliament he worked in the Cabinet Office in Whitehall; as Political Secretary to Prime Minister Edward Heath; and for GEC Ltd. From 1998-2008 he worked in the City, first at Deutsche Kleinwort Benson and then UBS. Lord Waldegrave was appointed Chairman of Coutts in January 2014 and is the Director of a number of companies. He is Chairman of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, former Chairman of the Rhodes Trust, a Founder Trustee of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, a former Trustee and Chairman of the National Museum of Science and Industry and a Trustee of Cumberland Lodge.
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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 3: Lord Bilimoria, President, CBI; Founder and Chairman, Cobra Beer

3: Lord Bilimoria, President, CBI; Founder and Chairman, Cobra Beer

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05/01/20 • 22 min

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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 75: Beatie Wolfe, Musician

75: Beatie Wolfe, Musician

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05/14/21 • 39 min

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Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation - 62: Richard Walker, Managing Director, Iceland Foods

62: Richard Walker, Managing Director, Iceland Foods

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03/05/21 • 28 min

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How many episodes does Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation have?

Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation currently has 270 episodes available.

What topics does Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation cover?

The podcast is about News, Business News, Podcasts and Business.

What is the most popular episode on Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation?

The episode title '39: Lucy Cleland, Editorial Director, Country & Town House' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation?

The average episode length on Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation is 28 minutes.

When was the first episode of Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation?

The first episode of Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation was released on Apr 30, 2020.

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