Thoughtful Creatives: Recent Episodes
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Exploring the weird, wonderful and important elements in the world of creativity. We will be talking to people from a range of industries to hear about how they’re doing business, what we can learn from them, and how we can take these learnings to improve our own creativity. Every month we will hear from someone new and every month we will hear new ideas that help us to expand our creative minds. This podcast is about stepping back, hearing new perspectives, and hopefully learning something that will help our ‘creative process’, whatever that may be.
We talk to Neil Ashcroft, St Johns Centre Director, on how commercial organisations can give back to the communities they operate within using their environmental, social and governance initiatives. We talk about how St Johns shopping centre uses the set of ESG standards to create a measurable impact for Liverpool and the people that live and work in the city and surrounding areas.
In this episode of Thoughtful Creatives, we meet Stuart Lawrence, Group Managing Director of Rhino Engineering Group, to find out how the company has grown over the years and how innovative thinking has earned it a reputation as one of the UK's leading industrial manufacturers.
As the foremost designer, manufacturer, and installer of industrial doors, as well as explosion relief products for the global hydrogen market, the Group consistently innovates to provide its clients across transport, defence and critical national infrastructure with the capabilities to protect their people and assets.
We talk to Lisa Hawkes, Unilever's Sustainable Behaviour Change Manager, about how their TRANSFORM programme empowers entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. By supporting life changing projects for communities, the company’s environmental footprint is reduced its positive social impact increased. This inspiring episode highlights some of the fantastic projects that have been supported that are truly making a difference and how businesses can use their expertise to make positive outcomes.
There’s good coffee and there’s coffee that does good. Speciality coffee importers, The Coffee Quest, believe you should be able to get your hands on coffee that tastes good and does good too.
They work across the globe, collaboratively and transparently, to help improve ecosystems and ensure producers receive a fair share. You can hear more about the different tastes of coffee depending on where they’re sourced from, and the ways they’re growing a sustainable, ethical coffee network.
How do we achieve better business for a better world? We talk to Merryn Chilcott about how businesses can flourish whilst protecting the world we live in. Merryn is the Technical Manager at Bam Clothing, a leading eco-friendly and ethical business producing active and leisure wear from bamboo. Find out about their answer to environmentally-damaging jeans and the lesser-known characteristics that make bamboo such a great choice for producing clothing, but most importantly – hear about how you can understand your environmental impact and take positive steps.